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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. ...