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Postmigrantische Literaturgeschichte
(2024)
Which role does literature play in the process of social change through migration? Postmigrant literary history establishes a new field-theoretical approach and considers migrants as an integral part of literary fields ...
The Management of Opera (1861-1918)
(2023)
This study offers a glance into the dense network of relationships between impresarios, theatre managers, singers, musicians and publishers who populated the multicultural territory of the Eastern Adriatic theatres in the ...
Der junge Carnap in historischem Kontext: 1918–1935 / Young Carnap in an Historical Context: 1918–1935
(2021)
This open access volume is based on the 'Early Carnap in Context’ workshop that took place in Konstanz in 2017 and looks at Rudolf Carnap’s philosophy, documented in his recently released diaries, from a combination of ...
Tell el-Dab’a XXII. „Der Mund der beiden Wege“. Teil I:Text
(2015)
The final and comprehensive publication of the archaeological results of excavations by the Austrian Archaeological Institute at the site of Ezbet Rushdi (area “R/I”) within the broader archaeological region of Tell el-Daba ...
Ethik und Moral im Wiener Kreis
(2014)
This monograph undertakes a long-overdue revision of the prevailing view on the role and conception of ethics and morality in the Vienna Circle. This view is rejected as being too partial and undifferentiated.
Mitteleuropäische Schulen IV (ca. 1380–1400); Tafel- und Registerband
(2014-10)
The catalog is dedicated to those manuscripts of the Austrian National Library which were commissioned by King Wenceslas IV (1361–1419) and the Prague court. It forms a unit together with the catalog “Central European ...
Germans and Hungarians in Southeast Europe
(2016)
Der zeiltiche Fokus liegt vor allem auf der postsozialistischen Zeit ab 1989/90 bis etwa 2012; die räumliche Ausdehnung der Forschungen schliesst Ungarn (Herberge- Patronagestaat), Slowenien, Kroatien (Slawonien), Serbien ...
Die Siegel der Erzbischöfe und Bischöfe in der Salzburger Metropole : Beschreibung, Abbildungen, Fotos und Zeichnungen
(2021)
In historical sciences and in local history research, seal images of the bishops and archbishops of the dioceses in the Salzburg metropolis are repeatedly included. The photographic documentation of examples of all hitherto ...
Bilderbuch-Heimkehr? Remigration im Kontext
(2017)
This publication addresses the topic of remigration – focussing on the return of exiles to Germany and Austria after 1945. The articles of this book explore the multidiscipli-nary field primarily from the point of view of ...
Ein Fürstenleben zwischen Alltag und Aufruhr: Die französische Korrespondenz (1772–1801) des letzten Salzburger Fürsterzbischofs Hieronymus Colloredo mit seinem Bruder Gundaker
(2021)
Hieronymus Colloredo (1732–1812) was Salzburg's Prince Archbishop between 1772 and 1803. He corresponded with his brother, the imperial vice-chancellor Gundaker Collordo (1731–1807). A total of 655 letters have been ...
Die mykenische Akropolis. Grabungen 1975–1980: Stratigraphie und Bebauung
(2020-10)
The second volume on the Austrian excavations of the years 1975-1980 on the acropolis of Aigeira aims at a reconstruction of the post-palatial Mycenaean settlement, based on stratigraphy and findings. Spatial analyses were ...
Zum jüdischen Erbe in der Wiener Architektur
(2016)
A survey of the role played by jewish architects working in Vienna in the period between 1868-1938.
European Voices II
(2011)
Although the fundamental meaning of basic terminology is well established for every scholarly discipline, many concepts are often questioned and redefined. In the case of ethnomusicology, this process is all too familiar, ...
Erica Tietze-Conrat, Tagebücher (1923-1926)
(2015)
In her early diaries the art historian Erica Tietze-Conrat discribes her eventfull life in Vienna in the 1920ies, were she had been in touch with all the important art circles of the time..
A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento
(2023)
‘Anticlassicisms’ react to the various forms of ‘classicisms.’ This volume discusses the history and possible implications of the label in Renaissance studies and analyzes such ‘anticlassicisms.’ It distinguishes the various ...
Schmerzengeld für Schock- und Trauerschäden
(2009)
The doctoral thesis is a comparing study of the Austrian, German, Swiss, England and French tort law,
also contains the Principles of the European Group of tort law and handle four major questions:
(1) Who are the close ...
Bithynien und Hellespont, Band 2
(2020-04)
The book contains detailed introductory chapters regarding the borders of the area in question, its history and church history, communications and economy in the Byzantine period. The body of the book consists of an ...
Address in Portuguese and Spanish
(2020)
The volume provides the first systematic comparative approach to the history of forms of address in Portuguese and Spanish—two intimately related languages sharing historical, political and geographic contexts. Including ...
WeXel oder Die Musik einer Landschaft Teil 2.3 Register – Das Weltliche Lied : Jodler, Jodler-Lied, Gstanzl und Tanz
(2021)
Melodic Incipits; dictionary of local dialect; list of yodel-, yodel-song and quatrain strophes;
Index of places and names in the Wechsel region.
General index of places / names of other regions and subjects.
• WeXel ...
Ödön von Horváth, Ein Sklavenball/ Pompej, Band 2
(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 ...
Joseph Lanner
(2012)
Joseph Lanner (1801-18439 is one of the most important and outstanding composers of dance music in the so called "Biedermeier" (the period after the "Wiener Kongress", 1st half of the 19th century). He invented the form ...
Kaiser Sigismund
(2012)
The present conference proceedings consist of 18 articles based on papers presented on 6th and 7th December 2007 at the international conference "Emperor Sigismund (†1437). Rulership in Practice, Charters and Rituals" at ...
Kollektivität
(2022)
The paradigm of individual authorship becomes dominant around 1800. It gives way to the notion that literature can be regarded as ‘art’. Although this contributes to the success of literature since, it also tends to decrease ...
Die Südbahn
(2006)
The present manuscript is intended to be part I of a publication in two volumes, which deals with the historic architecture in the region of "Semmering" in southern Lower Austria from the point of view of art history, ...
Archaische Siedlungsbefunde in Ephesos, Textband
(2019-12)
The study deals in a holistic manner with the archaic settlement residuals (stratigraphy, architectural remains, pottery and small finds) from excavations underneath the Tetragonos-Agora at Ephesos. The findings from other ...
Beyond »Ethnic Chick Lit« – Labelingpraktiken neuer Welt-Frauen*-Literaturen im transkontinentalen Vergleich
(2022)
Chick lit has steadily been changing since its beginnings, crossing gender and genre lines as well as cultural, geographical, and linguistic boundaries. The genre’s global popularity paved its way into research and the ...
Von PISA nach Wien: Historische und politische Kompetenzen in der Unterrichtspraxis. Empirische Befunde aus qualitativen Interviews mit Lehrkräften
(2021-02)
How has the competence orientation influenced the practice of teaching and in the beliefs of teachers in the subject History/Social Studies and Citizenship Education? The author conducted and evaluated 50 qualitative ...
The First World War and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914-1918
(2014)
The origins of World War I were different and varied. But it was Austria-Hungary which unleashed the war. After more than four years the Habsburg Monarchy was defeated and ended as a failed state.
Unfree Lives
(2024)
This first detailed study of slavery in medieval Yemen examines the lives of women and men who were enslaved as children and then placed in various subaltern positions - from domestic servant to royal concubine, from ...
Hier und Anderswo. Palästina-Israel im essayistischen Film (1960-2010)
(2020-12)
Peter Grabher questions how French, Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers between 1960 and 2010 have dealt with the Middle East conflict and with audiovisual representations concerning Israel-Palestine. He examines the ...
Existentialismus in Österreich: Kultureller Transfer und literarische Resonanz
(2021-01)
The book centers on the Austrian reception of French existentialism, a philosophical-literary movement that had an international impact after the Second World War. It examines how the writing, thinking, and lifestyle of ...
Rationes decoris
(2012)
The core of the book consists in the coherent typological analysis of more than 200 Doric friezes from hellenistic Central Italy. By means of this data a typologically induced dating and historical evaluation for each ...
Opfernarrative in transnationalen Kontexten
(2020-09)
This edited volume examines the representation of victims beyond the categories of the “victim cult,” self-victimization, and the victim–perpetrator dichotomy. Adopting a transnational perspective, it mainly considers ...
European Voices III
(2017)
Local multipart music practices are based on the intentionally distinct and coordinated participation of music makers in the performing act. Following the rules of interaction while promoting at the same time their personal ...
Psalterium Demetrii Sinaitici et Folia Medicinalia (Monasterii sanctae Catharinae codex slavicus NF 3): NF3_Dokumentation
(2021)
After the 2012 facsimile edition this volume contains critical editions of Demetrius’ Psalter and the Medical Folia preserved in it in Cyrillic transliteration. Besides treatises on textual criticism and the lexical ...
Beiträge zur Theaterwissenschaft Südosteuropas und des mediterranen Raums
This is a volume of 12 studies on specific topics of theatre and drama history in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean. The scientific interest in the culture of this area during the unification process of Europe is ...
agency@?
(2005)
Considering the abundant promises and euphoric expectations (as well as apocalyptic visions of technology) that still dominate discourses on media and technology my analysis focuses on their cultural and social condition, ...
Archäologische Forschungen in Teurnia
(2000)
The Claudian-era Municipium Teurnia, today's St. Peter in Holz, is situated four kilometers west of Spittal an der Drau (Carinthia, Austria). Along with Virunum, Celeia, luvavum and Aguntum, Teurnia counts as one of the ...
Im Dienste einer Staatsidee
(2013)
Until today, the death of Charles VI and Maria Theresia’s ascending the throne 1740 is seen as a major turning point in Austrian history. But now is the question of whether in different “layers” and “rooms” without doubt ...
Trauma und Terror
(2007)
Although small and not particularly peoples both Chechens and Palestinians became famous for suicide bomber attacks in recent years. This can - partly - be explained by the unrecognised collective traumas of the past.
Both ...
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 ...