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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 ...
Chapter What melos for Troy? Blending of Lyric Genres in the First Stasimon of Euripides’ Trojan Women
(2018)
This volume locates ancient tragic drama within a larger map of Greek lyric activity, stressing that Athenian tragedy was a vital participant in a wider song-and-performance culture. The collected essays examine the density ...
Forensic cultures in modern Europe
(2023)
This edited volume examines the performance of physicians, psychiatrists and other scientists as expert witnesses in modern European courts of law and police investigations. Its chapters discuss cases from criminal, civil ...
Chapter Significant Geographies in The Shadow Lines
(2020)
Approaches to world literature often think through binaries of local/global,
major/minor, provincial/cosmopolitan, taking them as given positions on a single world map.
To an extent, this is true of Amitav Ghosh’s ...
Minor Universality / Universalité mineure
(2023)
In times of relativism – marked by the critique of Western universalism on the one hand, and resurgent identitarian and neo-nationalistic claims to identity on the other, this volume tracks the development and relevance ...
Situating Scandinavian Poetry in the Computational Network Environment
(2023)
This book investigates how Scandinavian poetry works in the context of digital media from a historical and theoretical perspective. How do digital media intervene in poetic form? How do they remediate older forms of poetry? ...
Decor-Räume in pompejanischen Stadthäusern
(2020)
The book examines the decorative principles taking effect in the houses of Pompeii between the end of the 2nd century BCE and the early Imperial period. For the first time, individual decor phenomena are not only considered ...
Chapter Toward a Migratory Turn
(2019)
How can we think of art history as a discipline that moves process-based, performative, and cultural migratory movement to the center of its theoretical and methodical analyses? With contributions from internationally ...
Chapter 6 Dilemmas of humanitarian negotiations with the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan
(2024)
This book examines authoritarian practices in relation to humanitarian negotiations. Utilising a wide variety of perspectives and examining a range of contexts, the book considers how humanitarians assess and engage with ...
Chapter 6 Dilemmas of humanitarian negotiations with the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan
(2024)
This book examines authoritarian practices in relation to humanitarian negotiations. Utilising a wide variety of perspectives and examining a range of contexts, the book considers how humanitarians assess and engage with ...