Funded publications
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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 ...