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Materialität, Inschriftlichkeit und schrifttragende Artefakte im mittelalterlichen Rom
(2023)
Like ancient Rome, the medieval metropolis on the Tiber is also a landscape of transmission due to the diversity of its epigraphic legacy. This legacy had a lasting impact on the municipal area of the urbs and provides ...
Understanding the Generality of Mathematical Statements
(2023)
In this open access book Milena Damrau investigates the understanding of generality of mathematical statements in first-year university students and its relation to other proof-related activities. Through an experimental ...
Tied and Bound: A Comparative View on Manuscript Binding
(2023)
Every book form – from China to West Africa, from Europe to Mesopotamia – requires a way to secure cohesion of its constituent elements and keep them together. Whereas codex binding, as it still appears in modern printed ...
Comparative and Global Framing of Enslavement
(2023)
Over the last two decades, social scientists, legal scholars, human rights activists, and historians, have sought common conceptual grounds in the study of enslavement, thus forging a new perspective that comprises historical ...
Between Manuscript and Print
(2023)
A cross-cultural, comparative view on the transition from a predominant ‘culture of handwriting’ to a predominant ‘culture of print’ in the late medieval and early modern periods is provided here, combining research on ...
Leben machen
(2023)
Innovations in Journalism
(2024)
This volume explores innovations in journalism: the goals and expectations associated with them, promoting and hindering framework conditions, and their social and industrial impact.
Drawing on an international research ...
Mediale Teilhabe
(2023)
Material Trajectories
(2023)
Material Trajectories: Designing With Care? turns towards material-driven design processes with the aim of relocating technoscientific trajectories. Concerned with new forms of caretaking, it combines positions from the ...
Accidental Archivism
(2023)
In the digital media ecology, archives are changing. Artists, curators, critics and scholars assume the role of accidental archivists. They shape cinema’s futures by salvaging precarious repositories and making them matter ...
Serge Daney and Queer Cinephilia
(2024)
French critic Serge Daney was a central figure in film, television and media criticism of the second half of the twentieth century. He died of AIDS in 1992, just as the concept of queer cinema entered international film ...
Who Owns the Images?
(2021)
Digitization carries the utopian promise of archival access unlimited by constraints of space and time, and with it, of new forms of research and historiographies. In reality, digital image archives pose a complex set of ...
Differential Geometry
(2024)
This open access book covers the main topics for a course on the differential geometry of curves and surfaces. Unlike the common approach in existing textbooks, there is a strong focus on variational problems, ranging from ...
Perspectives on Socio-environmental Transformations in Ancient Europe
(2024)
This open access book brings together key issues from transformative processes and events across Europe (and in some cases beyond) from 15,000 to 1 BCE. This volume covers the research output produced by the Collaborative ...
Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 3, 2024
(2024)
The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles that seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines ...
Exploring Corporate Human Rights Responsibilities in OECD Case Law
(2025)
This open access book consolidates a collection of scholarly papers presented at the academic conference titled "Corporate Human Rights Responsibility in OECD Case Law: Actors, Issues, Responsibilities, and Remedies", held ...
Signaturen der Vielfalt
(2024)
Historische Grundlagen der mobilen Gesellschaft
(2023)
Modern Europeans are mobile. Cars in particular have made European societies mobile since the 1960s, but, at the same time, mobile Europeans experience their immobility every day when they get stuck in one of countless ...
The Financial Constitution of European Integration
(2023)
This open access book delivers a much-needed analysis of the interplay between the EU’s financial constitution and European integration.
The economic rescue package NextGenerationEU has multiplied the EU’s financial ...
Rest in Plastic
(2024)
In Peki, an Ewe town in the Ghanaian Volta Region, death is a matter of public concern. By means of funeral banners printed with synthetic ink on PVC, public lyings in state, cemented graves and wreaths made from plastic, ...
Becoming Vigilant Subjects
(2023)
Becoming Vigilant Subjects argues that practices of vigilance are key to forming individual subjectivity. The book emerged from a multi-disciplinary working group at the Collaborative Research Center for ›Cultures of ...
Auf der Suche nach Zukunft
(2023)
In the fifty years since the publication of ‘The Limits to Growth’, an inconceivably endless pool of ideas on how to respond to our ecological crisis has emerged. This book provides guidance by offering a comprehensive and ...
Haus – Geschlecht – Sicherheit
(2023)
In the early modern period, security was perceived much more broadly than it is today. Security was closely linked to social order and stability. The heteronormative gender order played a central role in this and was ...
The Afterlife of Avestan Manuscripts
(2024)
This study investigates the role of paratext in Zoroastrian scribal tradition, with a focus on the Avesta manuscripts. It examines how paratexts, such as colophons and marginal notes, contribute to organizing and interpreting ...
Der Islam als akademische Praxis
(2023)
The subject Islamic theology, which was founded eleven years ago, was politically expected to train imams who promote integration. The author empirically investigates how students of Islamic theology deal with these ...
Data Management for Social Scientists
(2023)
The 'data revolution' offers many new opportunities for research in the social sciences. Increasingly, social and political interactions can be recorded digitally, leading to vast amounts of new data available for research. ...
On the Way in Upper Mesopotamia
(2023)
Cultural Studies > Department of Ancient and Modern Cultures > Middle Eastern Archeology
Sumerisch: Eine Einführung in Sprache, Schrift und Texte
(2023)
Cultural Studies > Department of Ancient and Modern Cultures > Assyriology and Hethitology
Jaina Culture in Medieval Karnataka
(2025)
Jaina culture in Karnataka flourished from the early centuries CE, and by the eighth century had achieved a predominance which lasted nearly four centuries. Subsequently, however, the Jainas’ influence waned and they became ...
Das Habitat-Diorama um 1900
(2025)
Justice and Righteousness in the Old Testament
(2025)
This book combines two closely related research interests that have not yet received sufficient recognition: The investigation of justice in the Hebrew Bible and the position of male and female slaves within it. Justice ...
Rassismus im Norden?
(2025)
Religionswissenschaft
(2025)
Norms of Dependency in Late Antique and Early Medieval Societies
(2025)
Late antique and early medieval normative sources frequently employ Roman legal terminology to denote a person’s legal inferiority, and thus suggest the continued relevance of the concepts associated with these terms. ...
Skandale um die Zensur
(2025)
Eighteenth-Century Indian Muraqqaʿs
(2024)
Fourteen essays and one appendix discuss numerous eighteenth-century Indo-Persianate albums ( muraqqaʿs) consisting of folios with paintings, calligraphic pieces, and elaborate decorative margins. These albums – now in ...
Translating Technology in Africa. Volume 2: Technicisation
(2024)
This volume revisits one of the great challenges of our time - the global circulation of technology and the resulting technicisation. Together, the introductory essay and six case studies argue that while circulation ...
Recht und Gerechtigkeit?
(2024)
Knowing - Unknowing
(2024)
This book emerges at a time when critical race studies, postcolonial thought, and decolonial theory are under enormous pressure as part of a global conservative backlash. However, this is also an exciting moment, where new ...
Assessing Feasibility with Value-laden Models
(2025)
In this Open-Access-book, the author investigates the value dimension of Integrated Assessment Models and their application to questions of feasibility. Integrated models provide a quantified representation of the interaction ...
Atlas of Spatial Figures
(2025)
Globalization, as it is conceptualized in the early twenty-first century, is undergoing significant transformations. While we continue to live in a globalized world where markets, technologies, and cultures remain deeply ...
The Grammar of Maltese Prepositions
(2025)
The book provides the first comprehensive synchronic description (in English) of Maltese prepositions and their phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties. The size of the prepositional inventory is ...
Early Modern Translation and the Digital Humanities
(2025)
This open-access volume explores how digital resources and methods can be usefully employed for research on early modern translation. The volume focuses mainly on digital resources, and features a number of chapters on ...
Intentional Invisibilization in Modern Asian History: Concealing and Self-Concealed Agents
(2025)
Concealing Agents addresses the invisibilization and concealment of people, knowledge and ideas in history and historiography. With studies ranging from modern to contemporary history, language and translation studies, and ...
Gestaltungsmetrik
(2025)
This treatise introduces Gestaltungsmetrik as a con¬ceptual framework for studying and designing infor¬mal spaces, from image and Gestaltung to anatomy and materials. In mathematics and physics, the nexus between movement ...
Transforming Spirit Bodies
(2025)
This edited volume is a comprehensive exploration of the bodies and embodiments of spirits, their (im-)materialities, and their bodily transformations. It focuses on the embodied experiences of asymmetrical dependencies ...
Filtern
(2025)