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The Handle Core Concept
(2024)
This work deals with topics related to mobility, contacts and transmission of knowledge. The study of these topics regarding the past can promote an understanding of the social implications of migration, communication and ...
Elementare Ekstasen
(2024)
Elementare Ekstasen überschwemmen, erodieren und evaporieren die wohlsortierten Grenzziehungen zwischen Technik, Umwelt und Mensch. Als Neuverortung im Spannungsfeld medienökologischer, neomaterialistischer und ...
Sustainable Urban Development in the European Arctic
(2025)
Focusing on cities in the European Arctic, this book consolidates research on sustainable development, local and urban governance, and transnational cooperation in the region. It examines to what extent there is transnational ...
The Making of Les Immatériaux
(2025)
The exhibition Les Immatériaux was presented at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1985. Curated by the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard and design theoretician Thierry Chaput, it is widely regarded as a landmark in the ...
Fragile Evidenz
(2024)
Pushbacks finden systematisch an den EU-Außengrenzen statt. Von offizieller Seite wird ihr Einsatz geheim gehalten oder geleugnet. Fragile Evidenz stellt die Frage, wie aus einem gescheiterten Fluchtversuch eine aussagekräftige ...
Machiavelli und Dantes „Commedia“
(2024)
Machiavelli is considered to have been an "admirer" of Dante, but his Asino is also read as satire on Dante. So what is the position of the Commedia in Machiavelli’s poetry? This volume provides a nuanced answer that ...
Wann beginnt die Papierzeit?
(2024)
Parchment or paper? The choice between these two writing materials was available to people in Italy from 1100, to those north of the Alps from the thirteenth century. If we take them by their word, they preferred the ...
Politics of Pasts and Futures in (Post-)Imperial Contexts
(2024)
This volume brings together approaches that deal with the instrumentalization and lasting impacts of perspectives on empire and their place in time. The diachronic cut through all time periods from antiquity to modern times ...
The Prosimetrum of the Íslendingasögur
(2024)
The chapters in this volume analyse the Íslendingasögur as prosimetrum – that is, they treat the combination of verse and prose as a salient generic feature of this body of sagas. Their innovative approaches will enable a ...
Der Tumult der Anfänge und das Versickern am Ende
(2024)
Is it really necessary to explain what is new in literary history by breaking with established genre traditions? Do norm-breaking innovations in literature and the normative structure of a literary genre necessarily form ...
Elitesklavereien und Profifußball
(2024)
The concept of elite slavery describes the practice of abducting and then spending years training and disciplining children, who were then placed in high-level positions, sometimes amassing huge wealth. These features can ...
Writing the Heavens
(2024)
In the Middle Ages and early modernity, celestial observation was frequently a subject for verbal rather than numerical and geometrical recording. These records can now be difficult to decode, since what they address is ...
Control, Coercion, and Constraint
(2024)
The equality of all human beings before the divine is deeply rooted in religious thought. Yet religious discourse has also been used to explain, justify, and establish structures of strong asymmetrical dependency that may ...
Craftful Minds
(2024)
The aim of the thesis was to provide a framework for the identification and analysis of individual craftspeople in bifacial flint production. Flint production flakes from replications of South Scandinavian Late Neolithic ...
Praktiken des Plausibilisierens
(2024)
This monograph examines the practice of argumentation in literary studies. The central question is: How do interpreters make their claims about literary texts plausible? The aim is to comprehensively reconstruct, describe ...
Unter Hügeln
(2023)
During the Bronze Age the new, eponymous, highly-desired metal spread widely across Europe. It changed labour sectors, networks, worldviews and societies, and brought with it different transformations in diverse areas of ...
Dokumentarische Schulforschung
(2023)
Documentary school research establishes a research direction in which the interrelationship of subject-related knowledge acquisition and methodological-methodological aspects is reflexively examined.
This volume is the ...
Dokumentarische Schulforschung
(2023)
Documentary school research establishes a research direction in which the interrelationship of subject-related knowledge acquisition and methodological-methodological aspects is reflexively examined.
This volume is the ...
City of Caesar, City of God
(2022)
This volume explores the entangled history of Constantinople and Jerusalem in Late Antiquity. The two cities were powerful symbols of Empire and Church, interconnected and interdependent in multiple ways. Covering the ...
City of Caesar, City of God
(2022)
This volume explores the entangled history of Constantinople and Jerusalem in Late Antiquity. The two cities were powerful symbols of Empire and Church, interconnected and interdependent in multiple ways. Covering the ...
Schlüsselwerke der sozialwissenschaftlichen Klimaforschung
(2022)
Während Klimaforschung lange als rein naturwissenschaftliches Unterfangen galt, wird sie zunehmend auch in den Sozialwissenschaften betrieben. Die Popularisierung in und außerhalb der Wissenschaft hat dabei nicht nur zu ...
Neu (im) Land – erste Bäuer:innen in der Peripherie
(2024)
This publication presents research on the first peasants of the Linear Pottery group in Brandenburg, northern Germany. The region is of particular interest because it is situated in the absolute periphery of the Linear ...
Schlüsselwerke der sozialwissenschaftlichen Klimaforschung
(2022)
Während Klimaforschung lange als rein naturwissenschaftliches Unterfangen galt, wird sie zunehmend auch in den Sozialwissenschaften betrieben. Die Popularisierung in und außerhalb der Wissenschaft hat dabei nicht nur zu ...
Epistemology, Economics, and Ethics
(2023)
This book is intended to be a groundwork of how to theorise prehistory and archaeology and how to make connectivities between the past and the present. It is divided into four parts. The first part is epistemological. It ...
Die Wissenschaftlichkeit der Theologie (Band 3)
(2019)
Die Frage nach der Wissenschaftlichkeit der Theologie entzündet sich aus systematisch-theologischer Perspektive ganz speziell an einer Frage: In welchem Verhältnis stehen Theologie und Metaphysik zu einander? Je nachdem ...
Die Wissenschaftlichkeit der Theologie (Band 3)
(2019)
Die Frage nach der Wissenschaftlichkeit der Theologie entzündet sich aus systematisch-theologischer Perspektive ganz speziell an einer Frage: In welchem Verhältnis stehen Theologie und Metaphysik zu einander? Je nachdem ...
Imagining Unequals, Imagining Equals
(2022)
Why did »equality« become prominent in European societies based on hierarchy during the Enlightenment? What does »equality« imply for societies, politics, or legal systems? The contributors to this volume draw on various ...
Imagining Unequals, Imagining Equals
(2022)
Why did »equality« become prominent in European societies based on hierarchy during the Enlightenment? What does »equality« imply for societies, politics, or legal systems? The contributors to this volume draw on various ...
Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism
(2023)
Film festivals around the world are in the business of making experiences for audiences, elites, industry, professionals, and even future cultural workers. Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism explains why these ...
Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism
(2023)
Film festivals around the world are in the business of making experiences for audiences, elites, industry, professionals, and even future cultural workers. Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism explains why these ...
Offene-Welt-Strukturen
(2023)
What role do algorithms play in the construction of images and the representation of the world and weather in computer games? How does the design of rooms, levels and topographies influence the decisions and behavior of ...
Unter Hügeln
(2023)
During the Bronze Age the new, eponymous, highly-desired metal spread widely across Europe. It changed labour sectors, networks, worldviews and societies, and brought with it different transformations in diverse areas of ...
Theatre in Handwriting
(2024)
In German spoken theatre, prompt books used to be written by multiple participants engaging in diverse manuscript practices which continually revise the unfixed literary text within its theatrical context. Based on examples ...
Millet and What Else?
(2022)
Broomcorn/common/proso millet (Panicum miliaceum) is a cereal crop that originated in East Asia and was transferred westward to Europe, where it was introduced in the mid-2nd millennium BCE, at the height of the Bronze ...
Being There, but How?
(2024)
In phenomenological tradition, presence has been understood as fundamental for human experience: I experience the world as my lifeworld because I am present in this world. Even more, I experience myself as »I« only in the ...
Architectures of Colonialism
(2024)
The question of what heritage is and how we deal with it is not a neutral one. Recent events such as the Black Lives Matter movement and the toppling of monuments have made evident how much the colonial past is inscribed ...
Separation, hybridisation, and networks
(2023)
Around 3000 BCE, a turning point occurred in Europe: Long-existing regional societies entered into a process of transformation. The result is a world in which new global communication networks brought different regions ...
Selbstversklavung im klassischen römischen Recht
(2024)
Aside from being born as a slave or being enslaved during war, classical legal sources recognize other cases in which it was no longer possible to regain at least freedom. One of these cases was sale for the purpose of ...
Interwar Crossroads
(2022)
Studying the entangled histories of the areas conceptualized as Middle Eastern and North Atlantic World in the interwar years is crucial to understanding the two areas' respective and common histories until today. However, ...
Post-Cinematic Bodies
(2023)
How is human embodiment transformed in an age of algorithms? How do post-cinematic media technologies such as AI, VR, and robotics target and re-shape our bodies? Post-Cinematic Bodies grapples with these questions by ...
Der Türken- und Türkeidiskurs in Schulbüchern 1919–1945
(2023)
The much-vaunted interwar period after World War I and before World War II was also a phase of in-between for German-Turkish relations: It ranged from the founding of nation-state republics in Germany and Turkey together ...
Weil ich ich bin
(2024)
Selbstachtung heißt, Verantwortung für sich selbst zu übernehmen. Doch obwohl sie elementar für ein gelingendes Leben und unsere moralische Praxis ist, sind wir nicht zur Selbstachtung verpflichtet. Gegenüber anderen ...
Practicing Interdisciplinarity
(2024)
A representation of the experiences and yields of the interdisciplinary work of a humanities and social science research training group with disciplinary breadth as well as historical depth. The disciplines range among ...
Im Schatten des Schweigens
(2024)
Das Geheime ist ein Ort mannigfaltiger Beziehungen. An diesem Ort begegnen sich nicht nur Menschen, sondern zeigen sich auch ihre Verstrickungen in Macht-, Begehrens- und Wissensfelder. Lotte Warnsholdt legt einen Schwerpunkt ...
Auf dem Weg ins Türkische Reich
(2022)
"Lese-Buch - a strange name; what does it mean?" asks Elberfeld seminary teacher Hermann Wendt in 1909 in the "Deutsche Blätter für erziehenden Unterricht. ""A book in which one reads?" But to be read is the purpose of all ...
Wahrheit und Revolution
(2020)
Dass Marx' Gesellschaftskritik den wissenschaftlichen Anspruch hat, wahr zu sein, scheint selbstverständlich. Doch was für ein Wahrheitsverständnis liegt einem Denken zugrunde, das die gesellschaftlichen und politischen ...
Digitalisierung als Distributivkraft
(2021)
Nehmen uns Roboter die Arbeit weg? Wer diese Frage stellt, missversteht die Digitalisierung - sie ist keine industrielle Revolution mit anderen Mitteln. Sabine Pfeiffer sucht nach dem wirklich Neuen hinter der Digitalisierung ...
Grüne Öffentlichkeiten
(2024)
Während Urban Gardening in Gesellschaft und sozialwissenschaftlicher Stadtforschung viel Aufmerksamkeit erhält, bleiben die historisch etablierteren und größeren Kleingärten bisher merkwürdig blass. Nina Schuster ändert ...
Entanglements of the Maghreb
(2021)
The impulse for the recent transformations in the Arab world came from the Maghreb. Research on the region has been on the rise since, yet much remains to be done when it comes to interdisciplinary comparative research. ...
Competition in World Politics
(2021)
The »return of great power competition« between (among others) the US, China, Russia and the EU is a major topic in contemporary public debate. But why do we think of world politics in terms of »competition«? Which information ...
Grundgesetz und Rassismus
(2022)
The term »racism« is currently experiencing a renaissance in Germany. In parts of academia, a broad understanding dominates, which also covers culturalised distinctions as well as institutional manifestations that are not ...
Ein regulatives Vertragsrecht für die Datenwirtschaft
(2022)
The Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Bayreuth
accepted the present work as a dissertation in March 2022.
Case law and literature are up to date as of October 2021.
For the printed version, the recently ...
Mediterranean Connections
(2023)
The present publication constitutes the Proceedings of Session 7 of the ‘Creation of landscapes VI’ workshop, hosted by the CAU Kiel in 2019. The session was entitled ‘Mediterranean Connections – how the sea links people ...
Die Taufe des Leviathan
(2021)
Politik steht zunehmend unter dem Einfluss von Religion, insbesondere in Nord- und Südamerika. Führer der evangelikal-pfingstlichen Bewegung verschaffen sich dort immer mehr politische Macht und bilden eine religiöse Rechte. ...
Literarische Organotechnik
(2024)
The volume assumes that literature and its science are transdisciplinary and are fed by figures of thought, metaphors or models from other disciplines and, conversely, become a central place for innovative conceptualization. ...
Literarische Organotechnik
(2024)
The volume assumes that literature and its science are transdisciplinary and are fed by figures of thought, metaphors or models from other disciplines and, conversely, become a central place for innovative conceptualization. ...
Kontingenz und Bildung
(2024)
Migration ist eines der zentralen Themen der Gegenwart. Migrationsphänomene spiegeln dabei nicht nur die machtvolle Bestimmtheit der sozialen Welt, sondern auch ihre grundlegende Unbestimmtheit. Matthias Rangger geht der ...
Kontingenz und Bildung
(2024)
Migration ist eines der zentralen Themen der Gegenwart. Migrationsphänomene spiegeln dabei nicht nur die machtvolle Bestimmtheit der sozialen Welt, sondern auch ihre grundlegende Unbestimmtheit. Matthias Rangger geht der ...
Soziologie der Nachhaltigkeit
(2021)
Nachhaltigkeit ist eines der gesellschaftlichen Transformationsprojekte unserer Zeit. Dennoch sind soziologische Analysen im Diskurs der damit verknüpften Grundfragen bislang wenig präsent. Die »Soziologie der Nachhaltigkeit« ...
Das Spießerverdikt
(2022)
Die Verspottung von Personen und Gruppen als »Spießer« ist in der (deutschsprachigen) Lebenswelt ein weitverbreitetes Phänomen - umso erstaunlicher ist es, dass diese Alltagspraxis bisher kaum erforscht wurde. Sonja Engel ...
Connectivity Matters!
(2022)
This book is a presentation of the basic concept of social, environmental and cultural connectivity in past societies, as embodied in a diversity of disciplines in the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS. Thus, rather pragmatically ...
The Carolingian Sacramentaries of Saint-Amand
(2024)
The monastery of Saint-Amand made, in the late ninth century, a series of deluxe manuscripts for celebration of Mass (sacramentaries). Such a corpus is unique so early. This book shows how the monks continually worked at ...
Affectedness at the Morphosyntax-Semantics Interface
(2024)
The book explores the semantic and morphosyntactic representation of affectedness in transitive predicates. It provides a first in-depth investigation of how the properties of undergoing change, functioning as a path to ...
Soziologie der Nachhaltigkeit
(2021)
Nachhaltigkeit ist eines der gesellschaftlichen Transformationsprojekte unserer Zeit. Dennoch sind soziologische Analysen im Diskurs der damit verknüpften Grundfragen bislang wenig präsent. Die »Soziologie der Nachhaltigkeit« ...
The Carolingian Sacramentaries of Saint-Amand
(2024)
The monastery of Saint-Amand made, in the late ninth century, a series of deluxe manuscripts for celebration of Mass (sacramentaries). Such a corpus is unique so early. This book shows how the monks continually worked at ...
Connectivity Matters!
(2022)
This book is a presentation of the basic concept of social, environmental and cultural connectivity in past societies, as embodied in a diversity of disciplines in the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS. Thus, rather pragmatically ...
Affectedness at the Morphosyntax-Semantics Interface
(2024)
The book explores the semantic and morphosyntactic representation of affectedness in transitive predicates. It provides a first in-depth investigation of how the properties of undergoing change, functioning as a path to ...
Das Spießerverdikt
(2022)
Die Verspottung von Personen und Gruppen als »Spießer« ist in der (deutschsprachigen) Lebenswelt ein weitverbreitetes Phänomen - umso erstaunlicher ist es, dass diese Alltagspraxis bisher kaum erforscht wurde. Sonja Engel ...
Die Wissenschaftlichkeit der Theologie (Band 2)
(2019)
Die Wissenschaftlichkeit katholischer Theologie wird häufig kritisch hinterfragt, da sie nicht die notwendigen und hinreichenden Bedingungen einer wissenschaftlichen Disziplin erfülle. Der vorliegende Band nimmt diese ...
Die Wissenschaftlichkeit der Theologie (Band 2)
(2019)
Die Wissenschaftlichkeit katholischer Theologie wird häufig kritisch hinterfragt, da sie nicht die notwendigen und hinreichenden Bedingungen einer wissenschaftlichen Disziplin erfülle. Der vorliegende Band nimmt diese ...
Magie-Theater im 17. Jahrhundert
(2024)
This volume examines the previously overlooked connections between historical manifestations of magic and their performance in the theater between 1600 and 1685. A comparison of Spanish and French theater culture reveals ...
Gegen\Dokumentation
(2020)
Das Gegen\\Dokumentarische ist eine Antwort auf die Provokation des Dokumentarischen. Diese Provokation liegt im Anspruch oder Begehren, »Wirklichkeit« zu erfassen, darzustellen und zu kontrollieren. Der Begriff des ...
Pädagogische Wissenschaft in der DDR
(2022)
With their analyses, the Berlin historians of education provide for the first time a historiographically well-founded and systematically grounded history of the development and status of scientific pedagogy in the GDR. It ...
Pädagogische Wissenschaft in der DDR
(2022)
With their analyses, the Berlin historians of education provide for the first time a historiographically well-founded and systematically grounded history of the development and status of scientific pedagogy in the GDR. It ...
Gegen\Dokumentation
(2020)
Das Gegen\\Dokumentarische ist eine Antwort auf die Provokation des Dokumentarischen. Diese Provokation liegt im Anspruch oder Begehren, »Wirklichkeit« zu erfassen, darzustellen und zu kontrollieren. Der Begriff des ...
Magie-Theater im 17. Jahrhundert
(2024)
This volume examines the previously overlooked connections between historical manifestations of magic and their performance in the theater between 1600 and 1685. A comparison of Spanish and French theater culture reveals ...
Of Worlds and Artworks
(2024)
The present volume brings together contributions which explore artworks – including literature, visual arts, film and performances – as dynamic sites of worlding. It puts emphasis on the processes of creating or doing ...
Of Worlds and Artworks
(2024)
The present volume brings together contributions which explore artworks – including literature, visual arts, film and performances – as dynamic sites of worlding. It puts emphasis on the processes of creating or doing ...
Geschlecht als Erfahrung
(2024)
Wie gestaltet sich der Zusammenhang von (ver-)geschlechtlichter Erfahrung, Differenz, Alterität und Anderssein? Wie sind (ver-)geschlechtliches Erleben und der körperliche Leib miteinander verschränkt? Und welche Bedeutung ...
Das Audioviduum
(2021)
Die medienwissenschaftliche Debatte um das Verhältnis und die Verschränkung von Mensch und Medium bekommt eine neue theoriehistorische Analytik: Mit dem »audiovisuellen Individuum« - dem Audioviduum - rückt Julia Eckel ...
Das Audioviduum
(2021)
Die medienwissenschaftliche Debatte um das Verhältnis und die Verschränkung von Mensch und Medium bekommt eine neue theoriehistorische Analytik: Mit dem »audiovisuellen Individuum« - dem Audioviduum - rückt Julia Eckel ...
Geschlecht als Erfahrung
(2024)
Wie gestaltet sich der Zusammenhang von (ver-)geschlechtlichter Erfahrung, Differenz, Alterität und Anderssein? Wie sind (ver-)geschlechtliches Erleben und der körperliche Leib miteinander verschränkt? Und welche Bedeutung ...
Chapter 18 Youth Activism and Political Parties
(2020)
Youth activism, political parties, political generations, social change, Middle East, North Africa
Urban Heritage Planning in Tehran and Beyond
(2023)
Despite the impact of ideological rigidity, the primary challenge of heritage planning in Tehran and beyond lies not in the dominance of an inflexible Authorized Heritage Discourse, but rather in the absence of stable ...
Alles kann, nichts muss?!
(2020)
Can God do what He wants or does God want what is in accordance with His very own nature? Is God bound by necessary principles or is necessary what God decrees? Such questions about the relationship between modalities and ...
Digitale Autor:innenschaft
(2023)
Im digitalen Zeitalter rücken Autor:innen auf neue Weise in den Fokus der literarischen Öffentlichkeit: Wollen sie erfolgreich sein, müssen sie auch (sich selbst) performen. Die Beiträger:innen fragen nach den Funktionen ...
Alles kann, nichts muss?!
(2020)
Can God do what He wants or does God want what is in accordance with His very own nature? Is God bound by necessary principles or is necessary what God decrees? Such questions about the relationship between modalities and ...
Urban Heritage Planning in Tehran and Beyond
(2023)
Despite the impact of ideological rigidity, the primary challenge of heritage planning in Tehran and beyond lies not in the dominance of an inflexible Authorized Heritage Discourse, but rather in the absence of stable ...
Digitale Autor:innenschaft
(2023)
Im digitalen Zeitalter rücken Autor:innen auf neue Weise in den Fokus der literarischen Öffentlichkeit: Wollen sie erfolgreich sein, müssen sie auch (sich selbst) performen. Die Beiträger:innen fragen nach den Funktionen ...
Chapter 18 Youth Activism and Political Parties
(2020)
Youth activism, political parties, political generations, social change, Middle East, North Africa
Vom Kollektiv zum Individuum
(2022)
This book deals with the question of whether and how social identities changed in the German Lower Mountain Range at the end of the 3rd mill. BCE. It is stated that the transition from Late to Final Neolithic is accompanied ...
Mentale Konzepte der Stadt
(2023)
Der Band versammelt Beiträge aus verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen, die sich mentalen Konzepten, d.h. Vorstellungen oder Imaginationen der westeuropäischen mittelalterlichen Stadt widmen, die epochenübergreifend ...
Mentale Konzepte der Stadt
(2023)
Der Band versammelt Beiträge aus verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen, die sich mentalen Konzepten, d.h. Vorstellungen oder Imaginationen der westeuropäischen mittelalterlichen Stadt widmen, die epochenübergreifend ...