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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)