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Nikolaus II. Esterházy und die Kunst
(2013)
Prince Nikolaus II Esterházy (1765–1833) is known as one of the greatest collectors and patrons of the arts of his time. Based on an ideological, historical and psychological framework, the biography fully illustrates his ...
Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte
(2011)
Characteristic for all contributions to the Wiener Jahrbuch in 2010 is the presentation of latest research findings with the help of methodological refinements. Thus Assaf Pinkus suggests a new interdisciplinary approach ...
Vergeben und Vergessen? Amnestie in der Antike
(2013)
Amnesty as an institutionally imposed act of „Forgiving and Forgetting“ is nowadays practised in various fields. Whether it is granted due to security, domestic or financial policy reasons, the freedom and escape from ...
Die Matrikel der Universität Wien, VII Band 1715/16 bis 1745/46
(2011)
The seventh volume of the Matriculation Book of the University of Vienna includes the period from 1715/16 to 1745/46. It represents the follow-up of the edition of the central student enrollments of the rectors of the ...
Palmyras Reichtum durch weltweiten Handel. Achäologische Untersuchungen im Bereich der hellenistischen Stadt
(2013)
Final publication of an international excavation project in Palmyra/Syria. Publicaation of so called small finds of an hellenistic-roman caravan building: pottery (incl. natural science analyses), amphorae, lamps, glass. ...
Deutsche und Ungarn im südöstlichen Europa
(2016)
Der zeiltiche Fokus liegt vor allem auf der postsozialistischen Zeit ab 1989/90 bis etwa 2012; die räumliche Ausdehnung der Forschungen schliesst Ungarn (Herberge- Patronagestaat), Slowenien, Kroatien (Slawonien), Serbien ...
Nako
(2010)
The Nako temple complex with its earliest structures dating back to the 11th century is an extraordinary testimony of early Tibetan Buddhism not anymore preserved in today’s Tibet. Endangered by the rough environment,
improper ...
Die Repräsentation der Habsburg-Lothringischen Dynastie in Musik, visuellen Medien und Architektur, ca. 1618–1918
(2017)
This volume consists of conference papers from the Vienna conference about Habsburg representation which took place in June 2015. The theme is the different forms of representation of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty in art ...
Essential Cases on the Limits of Liability
(2024)
European legal systems have developed a broad range of instruments aimed at limiting liability. These instruments are systematically examined within the present volume, which fills a major gap in tort law literature. The ...
The Preaching of the Third Crusade (1187–1192)
(2024)
This book delivers the first substantial study of the preaching of the Third Crusade (1187-92). It assembles c.200 sermon texts and c.100 manuscripts, to understand the explosive dynamic of mobilization in the Latin West. ...
Der einsame Weg
(2024)
The Great War and the Anthropocene
(2024)
This volume places the Eastern, especially the Austro-Russian, fronts of the Great War centre stage, examining the little-known environmental and spatial dimensions in the history of the war. The focus is particularly on ...
The Emergence of Ukraine
(2015)
This book is a collection of essays by prominent historians from Austria, Germany, Ukraine, Poland and Russia, who undertook a thorough and detailed study of one as yet inadequately researched aspect of the First World ...
Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas
(2015)
Dutch architect, architectural theorist and urban thinker Rem Koolhaas (born 1944) has been a protagonist of the international architectural avant-garde since the 1970s; his numerous worldwide awards include the Pritzker ...
Revolution and Transition
(2017)
Bulgaria’s cultural policy has experienced many transformations since the revolution. One of the most important is that at the beginning the conviction developed that those elements which could not support themselves because ...
Wende und Übergang
(2017)
Bulgaria’s cultural policy has experienced many transformations since the revolution. One of the most important is that at the beginning the conviction developed that those elements which could not support themselves because ...
NS-Siedlungen in Wien
(2015)
This study investigates the impact of National Socialist ideology and housing settlement projects in Greater Vienna following the Anschluss of Austria to the German Reich in 1938. In this regard, both planned and realized ...
Musiklernwelten erkennen und gestalten
(2016)
The research project Recognizing, Acknowledging and Designing Music Learning Worlds studied the educational practices and the music education principles of music school teachers in Austria. The project was designed as a ...
Karl Kraus und Peter Altenberg
(2015)
The book explores the modern attitudes that are articulated in the texts "Third Walpurgis Night" (1933) by Karl Kraus and "Prodromos" (1905) by Peter Altenberg. Following Foucault's discourse analytical approach and his ...
Qhapaq Ñan Inkastraßen im Wandel der Zeit
(2015)
Qhapaq Ñan, refers to a network of roads built during the time of the great inca empire. Almost 55,000 kilometers long this net of roads extended across the entire geographical area of the Inca. The Thesis, that guides ...
Carl Junker, Zum Buchwesen in Österreich
(2001)
Anyone interested in the history of the book in Austria will, sooner rather than later, come across the publications of Carl Junker (1864-1928). No one before or after him has done as much toward compiling what we know ...
Geschichte der italienischen Literatur in Österreich
(2011)
Towards the end of the 20th century the Italian literature created outside Italy finally started to receive proper attention, because research began to focus on the socio-cultural analysis of the different forms of internal ...
Graz 1914
(2018)
This dissertation examines the outbreak of the First World War in Graz by means of a microhistorical approach. Consequently, this dissertation reveals that the social cohesion of the city has fundamentally changed during ...
Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Österreich im Mittelalter, Band 1
(2005)
The still existing source material on the history of the Jews in Austria in the Middle Ages is unique in Europe. The huge number of sources give information on the economic, legal, and personal situation of the Jews as ...
Zwischen Authentizität und Fiktion
(2012)
The main focus of this study is a methodological analysis of private letters written by Spanish emigrants from the Americas to their relatives and friends back in Europe, with an intensive discussion about the interaction ...
Kaiser Sigismund
(2012)
The present conference proceedings consist of 18 articles based on papers presented on 6th and 7th December 2007 at the international conference "Emperor Sigismund (†1437). Rulership in Practice, Charters and Rituals" at ...
The English Trade in Nightingales
(2017)
This books deals with the Italian opera business in nineteenth century-London. A special emphasis lies on the opera singers as the most important protagonists of the London system. This special role will be examined through ...
Die Lebenszeugnisse Oswalds von Wolkenstein, Band 5
(2013)
Until today, the death of Charles VI and Maria Theresia’s ascending the throne 1740 is seen as a major turning point in Austrian history. But now is the question of whether in different “layers” and “rooms” without doubt ...
The Art of Prehistoric Textile Making
(2016)
Textiles, textile production and clothing were essentials of living in prehistory, locked into the system of society at every level – social, economic and even religious.
Textile crafts not only produced essential goods ...
Die ältesten Quellen zur Kodifikationsgeschichte des österreichischen ABGB
(2012)
"... habent sua fata libelli": Nowadays this saying is usually used to state, that a text is only able to impart as much message, as the reader is willing to understand. However, we can make use of this saying in another ...
Otto Leichter. Briefe ohne Antwort
(2003)
The text at issue written by Otto Leichter for his wife from September 1938 to August 1939 in his Exile in Paris is a unique documentation of the inside view of the loss of a beloved person during the time of one year. In ...
Die gelehrte Korrespondenz der Brüder Pez, Text, Regesten, Kommentare
(2010)
The submitted manuscript for Vol. I. comprises the learned correspondence of the Benedictine historians Bernhard and Hieronymus Pez of Melk abbey from the years 1709 to 1715. The edition and commentary were prepared between ...
Eugenische Vernunft
(2008)
This is a study about the causes and consequences of the eurgenic intrusions into our society´s reproductive culture by medicine over the course of the twentieth century. By the turn of the twenty-first century, such ...
Pattern Recognition, Tracking and Vertex Reconstruction in Particle Detectors
(2021)
This open access book is a comprehensive review of the methods and algorithms that are used in the reconstruction of events recorded by past, running and planned experiments at particle accelerators such as the LHC, SuperKEKB ...
Hier und Anderswo
(2020)
Die Folklore Südosteuropas
(2016)
This comparative investigation is focused on the comparison of contents, themes, topics, motives, but also symbolism, stereotype situations, patterns of behavior etc. of sung and narrated oral text in South-east Europe. ...
Frauen und Geschlechter
(2006)
This volume is an outcome of the FWF project P14853 "Ethnographie - Gender-Perspektive - Antikerezeption". The research project intended to connect ancient ethnography, gender studies and the running methodological debate. ...
Ohnmacht und Chance
(2011)
This study takes as its point of departure the diet in the summer of the year 1579 in Vienna. Leonhard von Harrach, Privy Councellor of Emperor Rudolf II, negotiated with leaders of the oppositional protestant nobility, ...
Viktor Franz Freiherr von Andrian-Werburg
(2011)
Viktor Franz Freiherr von Andrian-Werburg (1813-1858) was and still is primarily known as the author of Österreich und dessen Zukunft, the most important programmatic brochure of the estatist opposition in the late Vormärz. ...
Nervenschwäche und Krieg
(2004)
Since the 1880s neurasthenia - a term popularised by New York-physician George Beard - was discussed an a phenomenon of modernity, but over a long period of debate, psychiatry were not able to define what this "modern ...
"Écrire un seul livre, sans cesse renouvelé"
(2006)
The study examines Jorge Semprun´s literary reflections on his experiences made in the concentration camp of Buchenwald in "Le grand voyage" (1963), "Quel beau dimanche!" (1980), "L´écriture ou la vie" (1994) and "Le mort ...
Regesten zur Geschichte der Juden in Österreich, Band 3: 1366-1386
(2015)
The remarkably high number of medieval sources on the history of Austrian Jews allows for insights into the economic, legal, and social standing of the Jews as well as into how the Christian environment treated them. The ...
Die Literaturen Südosteuropas, 15. bis frühes 20. Jahrhundert
(2015)
This book is the basis of comparative literature studies of
Southeast-Europe from the late medieval period to early 20th century in the near future and compare for the first time the development of genres and periods of ...
Wege zum illuminierten Buch
(2014)
The essays in this volume present art historical methods for research on the conditions in which books were produced and decorated in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. The consideration of the multiple factors ...
Religious Education Faces the Challenge of Religious Plurality
(2016)
This study examines the internal discourse on religious education (RE) at two secondary schools in Vienna using a qualitative empirical method. At these schools RE have reached their oraganisational limits. The study has ...
Otto Bauer (1881-1938)
(2016-11)
This work depicts Otto Bauer as the main politician of the SDAP and attempts a critical-analytical interpretation of his socio-political theories, which are shown against the background of the debates within the First and ...
The Spanish Connection
(2016)
In early modern times, the city of Seville was the most important entrepôt between the Old and the New World, attracting numerous merchants from all of Europe. They provided the American market with European merchandise, ...
Neue Inschriften von Olympia
(2013)
The ancient sanctuary of Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympic Games and of athletic competion in general, has been fascinating people from antiquity up to the present time. In the present volume, all inscriptions - large ...
Literatur in Österreich 1938-1945, Kärnten
(2011)
The book is the second volume of an encyclopedic reference work that, as the result of basic research in literary studies, represents the first systematic attempt to provide comprehensive documentation of the literary life ...
Die Politik des Waldes
(2010)
The thesis deals with the question of why no international legally binding instrument for forest policy exists so far. The thesis shows that the problem definition presents a form of control for the decision making process ...
Palmyras Reichtum durch weltweiten Handel. Achäologische Untersuchungen im Bereich der hellenistischen Stadt
(2013)
Final publication of an international excavation project in Palmyra/Syria. Publicaation of the architectural features of an hellenistic-roman caravan building: architecture, wall paintings, stucco decorations, restauration ...
Zwischen Krieg und Euthanasie
(2009)
This publication describes in detail the preparation and realization of the forcibly sterilization of numerous women and men Vienna from 1940 to 1945.
These forced sterilizations of individuals, being categorized as ...
Ödön von Horváth, Ein Sklavenball/ Pompej, Band 1
(2015-11)
The farce Ein Sklavenball mit Gesang und Tanz [A Slave Ball with song and dance] and the comedy that was developed out of it Pompeji [Pompei] (both 1937) are the last two dramas completed by Ödön von Horváth. The present ...
Ernst Lothar
(2016)
The monograph explores the life, work and legacy of the Austrian writer, director and producer Ernst Lothar (1890–1974) through the analysis of hitherto unpublished correspondence as well as other unpublished writings/documents ...
Globalisierung und Integrales Bewusstsein
(2008)
Heinrich Leopold´s study of the relationship between globalisation and integral thinking forges a link between Jean Gebser´s structural model of intellectual thought and current arenas of globalisation. It takes a carefully ...
Die Landschaft Bukowina
(2010)
Bucovina was an integral part of Habsburg Empire since 1775. Starting from a pure political construction on the European map of power at the end of 18th century this small area developed into a well integrated Austrian ...
Die Kinder des Schweigens
(2008)
The original edition "Ta paidia tis siopis" was published by Ekdoseis Parousia Publishing House (ISBN 960-7601-64-5). The author owns the copyright and transferred it to the editor of the German translation for free.
The ...
Kulturraum Österreich
(2008)
While the first volume of the overalll work, which was published as "The historical Area of Austria" ("Geschichtsraum Österreich") in 2006, focused on the Hapsburgian "whole state" from the perspective of the most important ...
Josef Ignaz Mildorfer 1719-1775
(2011)
This monograph on Joseph Ignaz Mildorfer (1719-1775) consists of forteen chapters, that after having given an overall curriculum, depict the various stations in the painter's working process. Special emphasis has been given ...
Dörfer und Deputierte
(2012)
The manuscript deals with the elections to the Austrian Constituent Diet in June 1848, compared with those to the French National Assembly in April of the same year, with a focus on the dissemination of new concepts and ...
biografiA. Lexikon österreichischer Frauen, Band 3
(2016)
biografiA gives on the basis of selected 6.367 biographies an overview over many centuries of austrian female history and various insights into the cultural and social contexts of the concerned eras both for experts and ...
Die synchronisierte Stadt
(2015)
The work at hand explores the successive chronometrisation of public space using the example of Viennas public clocks from the middle of the 19th century until today.The need for knowing the exact time steadily increased ...
Die mittelalterlichen Handschriften des Stiftes Nonnberg in Salzburg
(2018-01)
This academic catalogue provides access for the first time to the medieval manuscripts and fragments preserved in the Benedictine Convent of Nonnberg in Salzburg: 108 manuscripts and 125 fragments from the early 9th to the ...
Ödön von Horváth, Ein Sklavenball/ Pompej, Band 2
(2015-11)
The farce Ein Sklavenball mit Gesang und Tanz [A Slave Ball with song and dance] and the comedy that was developed out of it Pompeji [Pompei] (both 1937) are the last two dramas completed by Ödön von Horváth. The present ...
Das Heroon von Trysa, 13 B
(2016)
The study examines the friezes of the Heroon of Trysa in context of Lycian culture and society and interprets the selection of the picture themes. In a very exceptional way the friezes visualize Greek, Lycian and Persian ...
Bereicherung und Schadenersatz im Immaterialgüterrecht
(2018)
The special rules on unjust enrichment and damages in intellectual property law are subject of a discussion where representatives of civil law criticise them as incoherent in the general system of civil law and representatives ...
Columna Traiani – Traianssäule
(2017)
On 12th May 2013 the dedication day of Trajan’s Column in Rome was celebrated for the nineteen hundredth time. This anniversary provided the perfect occasion to fully appreciate the outstanding significance of this unique ...
Architektur immaterieller Arbeit
(2013)
The book takes up the (post-)operaist concept of immaterial labour (cf. Maurizio Lazzarato: 1998, Toni Negri, Michael Hardt: 2000) and relates it to spatial processes and architectural projects from the 1960s. The book’s ...
Sprachatlas des Dolomitenladinischen und angrenzender Gebiete
(2012)
The third volume contains 215 dialect maps which embrace dialectal terminologies from the furniture to the numerals.Third map volume of a linguistic atlas with five map volumes and two index volumes.
Sprachatlas des Dolomitenladinischen und angrenzender Gebiete
(2012)
The fifth volume contains 216 dialect maps which embrace dialectal terminologies from the chicken breeding to the verb stare (“to stay”).
Anton Kuh
(2018-10)
Walter Schübler’s biography paints a portrait of the extravagant bon vivant Anton Kuh with all his facets: the militant publicist, whose polemical squibs provided a running commentary to happenings in Vienna and Berlin, ...
Dogface Soldiers.
(2016)
Dogface Soldiers is an interdisciplinary and image centered cultural history of the Army of the United States‘ infantry riflemen in the Mediterranean- and European Theaters of Operations of World War II. Its methods transcend ...
Josephinische Mandarine
(2013)
Content of the book are the bureaucracy and its officials in Austria between 1848 - 1914, their mutuel influences in office and private life, cultur, identities and loyalities, as well as questions of images.
Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences
(2021)
This open access edited book provides new thinking on scientific identity formation. It thoroughly interrogates the concepts of community and identity, including both historical and contemporaneous analyses of several ...
Quart und Querel
(2025)
If children were left empty-handed in the will, they could sue for breach of the pietas duty. However, it was sufficient to leave a quarter of the intestacy portion to protect the will against annulment to the extent of ...
Literarisches Lesen
(2025)
This work makes a significant contribution to the foundations of reading research and opens up a field of discussion in which the question of the significance of reading for literary studies on the one hand and the aesthetic ...
Environments of Intelligence
(2017)
What is the role of the environment, and of the information it provides, in cognition? More specifically, may there be a role for certain artefacts to play in this context? These are questions that motivate "4E" theories ...
Handbuch der österreichischen Kinder- und Jugendbuchautorinnen: L-Z
(2014)
This handbook is based on the project "Österreichische Kinder- und Jugendbuchautorinnen" (Austrian Women
Writers of children's literature), which was defined as part of the project "biografiA. datenbank und lexikon
öst ...