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Chapter 26 Whose Transition?
(2023)
Writing in the late 1980s, Jon Fiske describes reality as “always encoded [and most especially] by the codes of our culture”. The energy transition is one of the latest sets of realities that comes with its own encoded ...
Segni, sogni, materie e scrittura dall’Egitto tardoantico all’Europa carolingia
(2023)
Segni e visioni nella letteratura di età costantiniana; un problematico compendio di ‘nome sacro’ attestato nei manoscritti copti; le funzioni intratestuali dei simboli cristiani nei papiri documentari di epoca bizantina ...
Chapter Die ‚Privaturkunde‘ im persisch-islamischen Kultur- und Rechtsbereich. Herausforderungen einer komparatistischen Diplomatik
(2019)
The European Middle Ages are generally considered to be the “age of the charter,” but there are also charters of various types handed down from other pre-modern cultures. These documents are now no longer seen as mere ...
Universality after Universalism
(2023)
The idea of universalism inherited from the French Revolution has been strongly discredited by its colonial history; today, it is also the target of nationalist attacks. What remains of it? Now available in English, Markus ...
Roma Portraits in History
(2022)
The book presents the life, visions and activities of the nascent Roma civic elite who initiated the movement for Roma civic emancipation. The book Roma Portraits in History, in the form of individual portraits, presents ...
Chapter The use of initial h- in the writing-tablets from Roman Britain
(2020)
These volumes assemble contributions presented at the XIX International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics in Munich (2017). They embrace essential topics of Latin linguistics with different theoretical and methodological ...
Chapter Predicting universal phonological contrasts
(2018)
Despite earlier work by Trubetzkoy, Jakobson and Greenberg, phonological typology is often underrepresented in typology textbooks. At the same time, most phonologists do not see a difference between phonological typology ...
Chapter Die Übersetzungen des Mönchs von Salzburg als Lieder
(2019)
The volume assembles case studies on the vernacular adaptation of Latin hymns, sequences, and antiphons in the German Middle Ages. Through selected examples, it investigates the forms and purposes for which liturgical songs ...
Chapter Analogy-Based Inference Patterns in Pharmacological Research
(2020)
Analogical arguments are ubiquitous vehicles of knowledge transfer in science and medicine. This paper outlines a Bayesian evidence-amalgamation framework for the purpose of formally exploring different analogy-based ...