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Die orientalischen Knüpfteppiche im MAK
(2001)
On account of its focus on unique 16th- and 17th-century Safavid (Persia, Iran) and Mamluk (Egypt, Kairo) carpets and their specific provenances, the collection of Oriental carpets of the MAK—Austrian Museum of Applied ...
Regesten Kaiser Friedrichs III. (1440-1493) nach Archiven und Bibliotheken geordnet
(2014)
This volume of abstracts of charters Emperor Frederick´s III in the series Regesta Imperii focusses on the last decade of his rule, in particular on the years between 1483 and 1488. They are based on the original charters ...
“Cultures of Airborne Diseases”, Special Issue of Open Cultural Studies
(2024)
Examining airborne diseases from the perspectives of literary studies, cultural studies, environmental humanities, and health humanities, among other fields, “Cultures of Airborne Diseases” platforms significant discourse ...
Forschungen im südostnorischen Vicus am Saazkogel (Steiermark)
(2006)
The roman vicus at the Saazkogel represents with an expansion of about 9 ha one of the largest so far well-known Roman settlements in eastern Styria, beside the vici of Gleisdorf and Kalsdorf it can however be designated ...
Sakralmöbel aus Österreich: Von Tischlern und ihren Arbeiten im Zeitalter des Absolutismus. I: Östliche Landesteile
(2017)
The study includes picture sources and written records to fully discuss the history of ecclesiastical interiors as well as the stylistic development of the furnishings in the early modern period. In addition, the study ...
Forschungen im südostnorischen Vicus am Saazkogel (Steiermark)
(2006)
The roman vicus at the Saazkogel represents with an expansion of about 9 ha one of the largest so far well-known Roman settlements in eastern Styria, beside the vici of Gleisdorf and Kalsdorf it can however be designated ...
Gestaltungsprinzipien spätantiker Grabräume
(2023)
The book deals with the pictorial design principles of late antique burial chambers, such as those created in the Roman catacombs between the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. in the form of private cubicula. With the help of an ...
Urkunden und Memorialquellen zur älteren Geschichte des Klosters Rosazzo
(2018-01)
The edition of the documentary sources comprises the list of donations which contains reports from (allegedly) 1060 to 1341, also charters from 1135 to 1249 and supplementary sources especially from the later Middle Ages, ...
Kooperation und Geheimnisschutz bei Beweisschwierigkeiten im Zivilprozess
(2020-02)
The work shows the connection between the duties of cooperation and the interest in secrecy. The concept of trade secrets is examined in more detail and discussed as the limit of the civil procedural obligation to cooperate. ...
Крах Просвещения?
(2024)
This introduction to the philosophy of the Enlightenment examines and critiques concepts, clichés, distortions, or simply assumptions about this intellectual movement. The aim of the book is to distinguish between different ...
Material Aspects of Building and Craft Traditions: A Himalayan Case Study
(2022-08)
Due to its diverse natural conditions, the Himalayas are particularly suitable for research on craft traditions. The book clearly shows connections between natural and cultural parameters and regional building and craft ...
Else Feldmann: Schreiben vom Rand: Journalistin und Schriftstellerin im Wien der Zwischenkriegszeit
(2021)
The work deals with the life and work of the Jewish journalist and writer Else Feldmann, who herslf coming from a poor background, describes the life of the marginalized in Vienna during the interwar period. She has written ...
Sprachatlas des Dolomitenladinischen und angrenzender Gebiete
(2012)
The fourth volume contains 215 dialect maps which embrace dialectal terminologies from the seasons to the domestic animals.
biografiA. Lexikon österreichischer Frauen, Band 4
(2016)
biografiA gives on the basis of selected 6.367 biographies an overview over many centuries of austrian female history and various insights into the cultural and social contexts of the concerned eras both for experts and ...
Die Donau ist die Form
(2017)
The monography traces the complex relationships between political discourses on the Danube and the aestheticization of the river landscape. It shows the making of the idea of a united Danube region paralleled by the ...
Ödön von Horváth, Ein Sklavenball/ Pompej, Band 1
(2015-11)
The farce Ein Sklavenball mit Gesang und Tanz [A Slave Ball with song and dance] and the comedy that was developed out of it Pompeji [Pompei] (both 1937) are the last two dramas completed by Ödön von Horváth. The present ...
Der gerettete Retter: Exodus 1–2 in patristischer und rabbinischer Interpretation
(2021-04)
The book deals with patristic and rabbinic interpretations of the birth story of Moses in Exodus 1-2. The Christian and Jewish exegetes of late antiquity interpreted the text as part of their Bible, in dialogue with each ...
Chapter 21 The Pandemic as we know it
(2023)
"Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance has now become a highly influential and rapidly growing topic in its own right. This new edition of the seminal text in the field is fully revised and includes new and ...
Die Regesten des Kaiserreiches unter Friedrich I. 1152 (1122)-1190
(2011)
The present publication includes the historical tradition being relevant for the history of the Western medieval empire under the reign of Frederick Barbarossa from 1181 to 1190. Highlights of this decade were the deposition ...
The Habsburg Monarchy’s Many-Languaged Soul
(2015)
This book traces translation and interpreting practices in the Habsburg Empire’s (1848-1918) administration, courts and diplomatic service, and takes account of the “habitualised” translation carried out in everyday life. ...
Globalisierung und Integrales Bewusstsein
(2008)
Heinrich Leopold´s study of the relationship between globalisation and integral thinking forges a link between Jean Gebser´s structural model of intellectual thought and current arenas of globalisation. It takes a carefully ...
The Vienna Genesis: Material analysis and conservation of a Late Antique illuminated manuscript on purple parchment
(2020)
Parchment, inks, dyes and pigments of the Vienna Genesis were investigated. The results formed the basis for conservation and storage of the illuminated manuscript
Byzantinische Kleinfunde aus Ephesos, Textband
(2020-02)
The material legacy of Byzantine period from Ephesos includes, in addition to jewellery and dress accessories, liturgical artefacts, various instruments, tools and weapons, as well as small-scale implements including ...
Franz Brentano und sein philosophischer Nachlass
(2019-10)
The monograph tries to throw new light on Franz Brentanos (1838–1917) conspicuous reluctance to publish his philosophical findings based on his biography, personality and the development of his scientific theories. In ...
Sexuelle Bildung ermöglichen: Sprachlosigkeit, Lust, Verletzbarkeit und Emanzipation als Herausforderungen pädagogischer Professionalisierung
(2022-03)
How does teacher education prepare teachers for pedagogical challenges around sexuality in school? In her ethnographic research Marion Thuswald examines sex education courses in pre- and in-service teacher training. In her ...
Werner Kofler
(2023)
Volumes I to III of the Annotated Edition of Werner Koflers Works gather radio plays, poetry (exemplary), short prose, and dramatic texts. A detailed commentary on passages and a comprehensive bibliography complete the two ...
Land der Verheißung – Ort der Zuflucht
(2016)
The publication “Land of promise – place of refuge” addresses the emigration and flight of Austrian Jewish women and men to Palestine by embedding it in the history of the overall Palestine migration since the beginning ...
Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Österreich
(2022)
The remarkably high number of medieval sources on the history of Austrian Jews provide insights into the economic, legal, and social standing of the Jews as well as into how the Christian environment treated them. The ...
Studium als Balanceakt
(2023)
Diese Open-Access-Publikation untersucht studienbezogene Erfahrungen von First-in-Family Studierenden in Österreich und zeigt auf, wie diese ihren studentischen Alltag bewältigen. Formen der Bewältigung und Kriterien des ...
How Generations Remember
(2016)
This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how ...
Kulturraum Österreich
(2008)
While the first volume of the overalll work, which was published as "The historical Area of Austria" ("Geschichtsraum Österreich") in 2006, focused on the Hapsburgian "whole state" from the perspective of the most important ...
Die Thun-Hohenstein’sche Universitätsreformen 1849–1860
(2017)
The book gathers 14 articles on the reforms of the Austrian University system from 1848 to 1860 named after Leo Thun Hohenstein. The reforms mark a turning point in the history of the Austrian educational landscape. The ...
Risiko und Unsicherheit in der modernen islamischen Praxis
(2024)
The principle of insurance as a calculable assumption of risk emerged in Europe as early as the late Middle Ages. Despite their high economic relevance, however, they were not fully institutionalized in law until the 19th ...
Adaptive Reuse
(2017)
The present volume explores a specific aspect of creativity in South Asian systems of knowledge, literature and rituals. Under the heading of “adaptive reuse,” it discusses the relationship between innovation and perpetuation ...
Arthur Schnitzler: Blumen
(2017-12)
Historical-critical edition of Arthur Schnitzler’s novella Blumen. The volume presents all bequeathed manuscripts as full-size facsimiles with transcriptions and a print text with a display of textual variants. It is ...
Die Este und das Heilige Römische Reich im langen 16. Jahrhundert
(2020)
As one of the eldest Italian dynasties, the Este used not only their feudal bonding but also their cultural power, their network and relationship with Catholic and Protestant princes expressed in gifts, marriage projects ...
„Fischen und Fischergespräch und Anderes von Petar Hektorović aus Hvar“: Humanität und Humanismus in der kroatischen Renaissance
(2021-11)
Petar Hektorović and his production, both material and
Immaterial are here considered as a complex unity. His trilingual „Fishing and fishermen’s conversation and other things“ consists of sixteen differing texts. These ...
Das neue Volk Gottes in Hispanien
(2023)
This book investigates for the first time the role of the Bible in the Christian-Iberian chronicles from 8th to 12th centuries against the background of of the Arab/Berber foreign rule over major parts of the medieval ...
Geschichtsunterricht vor der Frage nach dem Sinn: Geschichts(unter)bewusstsein und die Optionen eines sinnzentrierten Unterrichts
(2022-04)
The study investigates the historical-psychological anchor points of historical meaning generation as well as the universal unconscious motives by which people shape historical narratives. A distinction is made between ...
Schlachtfelder
(2016)
Taking the province of Niederdonau as an example, this pioneer study highlights everyday fields-of-force between National Socialism and agrarian society in which rural actors competed for resources among themselves and ...