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Ein Diener seiner Herren
(2002)
The biography of Gustavus G. Zertfi (1820-1892) is the first analytical introduction to the Habsburg secret service in the 1850s and 1860s through the case study of a secret agent. By strange coincidence, it is also a major ...
Von der philosophisch-moralischen Erzählung zur modernen Novelle
(2004)
The treatise deals with the pre-history of the modern French novella, which has constituted a new paradigm of genre history within the field of short narrations since 1829. Contrary to claims that Mérimée's, Stendhal's, ...
Wirtschaft, Krieg und Seelenheil
(2020)
The monograph deals with the embargo, which was imposed by the papacy and the Catholic lay powers upon all trade and commerce with the Czech Hussites between 1420 and 1436. The author explores this anti-Hussite embargo by ...
Damous-el-Karita
(2001)
Two seasons of excavation (1996 and 1997) have been completed at the "subterranean rotunda" southeast of the Basilica Damous-el-Karita on the outskirts of ancient Carthage (Blg. 1/15, 16; Blg. 3; Abb. 1). 'Me purpose of ...
Giottus Pictor
(2008)
This represents the second volume of a three-volume undertaking. Volume I (M.V. Schwarz und P. Theis, Giottos Leben (Giotto´s life), Vienna 2004) critically examined Giotto´s biography and the corpus of his documented ...
Wien als Festungsstadt im 16. Jahrhundert
(2017)
Three members of the Milan-born Angielini family have bequeathed plans and views of fortified places at the border to the Ottoman Empire around 1570, amongst them three maps of Vienna. This basis serves for an analysis of ...
Joseph Lanner
(2012)
Joseph Lanner (1801-18439 is one of the most important and outstanding composers of dance music in the so called "Biedermeier" (the period after the "Wiener Kongress", 1st half of the 19th century). He invented the form ...
Philosophische Theologie im Umbruch (II/2)
(2015)
Part of Philosophical Theology in Transition (Vol. II/2): Atheistic Philosophers after Hegel and den scotistisch Tradition, wich obscures an phaenomenological and existential understanding of being (creation) as a gift, ...
St. Christoph am Arlberg
(2005)
Based on the evaluation of extensive sources the book presents the history of an Alpine pass as a living space for many people. Whether it was merchants, grocers, pedlars, wagoners and sumplers, peasants, shepherds, wardens, ...
Historische Anthropologie im südöstlichen Europa
(2003)
The beginnings of historical anthropology as a transdisciplinary project have to be located in the 1970s. However, in this part of the world it is still considered as a young project. This seems to be the main reason for ...
Antike Grabbauten in Noricum
(2001)
Most of the stone blocks left from roman time in the province of Noricum were initially part of funerary monuments. The aim of this book is to reconstruct the architectural form of these monumental tombs, to develope a ...
Teleologie und politische Vernunft
(2002)
This book describes stages of development of the conception of an ideal republic that is fundamentally based on practical reason. It is widely understood that this conception is paradigmatically represented in the political ...
Basic Questions of Tort Law from a Comparative Perspective
(2015)
The starting point for this project on the »Basic Questions of Tort Law« was the book written by Helmut Koziol, the »Basic Questions of Tort Law from a Germanic Perspective« (Sramek Verlag, 2012), a volume which presented ...
Rudolf Perco 1884-1942
(2001)
Rudolf Perco, one of the most promising pupils in Otto Wagner’s late period as teacher received numerous honourable mentionings and awards while still a student (1906 – 10) and so may well have expected a brilliant career. ...
Ein Brandhorizont aus der Zeit der Markomannenkriege im südostnorischen Munizipium Flavia Solva
(2014)
The publication provides a detailed study of a burnt layer from Insula XLI in Flavia Solva (Wagna, Austria), dated ca. AD 170, i.e. within the period of the Marcomannic Wars.
Die römische Modelkeramik vom Magdalensberg
(1980)
Excavations on the Magdalensberg in Carinthia, Southern Austria yielded a large number of moulded vessles of the group Norditlaica decorate, best known under the mane of the most frequent brandnames Acobeakers or Sariuscups. ...
Morfologia verbale dei dialetti lombardi nord-orientali nel loro contesto geolinguistico
(2015)
Based on dialect data of the Linguistic atlas of Dolomitic Ladinian and neighbouring dialects, 2nd part this survey tries to offer a description as complete as possible of the verbal morphology of the north-eastern Lombard ...
Der Briefwechsel zwischen August Sauer und Bernhard Seuffert 1880 bis 1926
(2019)
With more than 1200 letters the correspondence between August Sauer (1855–1926) and Bernhard Seuffert (1853–1938) is one of the most comprehensive scholarly correspondences of the late 19th and the early 20th century. Their ...
Das Volk sitzt zu Gericht
(2006)
From December 1944 until the end of March 1945, there existed a forced labour camp for Hungarian Jews in Engerau (today town district Petrzalka of the Slovakian capital Bratislava), which war part of the "Reich Defense ...
Appians Κελτική
(2018)
Appian’s Celtic History, which deals with the military conflicts between Romans and Celts from the 4th cent. BC until the conquest of Gaul by Caesar, is despite its fragmentary state a valuable source, as it contains various ...
Die kirchenslavische Übersetzung der Dioptra des Philippos Monotropos. Bd. 1
(2013)
This volume is dedicated to the Church Slavonic version of the Dioptra of Philippos Monotropos. It focuses on the transmission of the Slavonic text. Furthermore, a critical edition of the prefaces and the first book of the ...
Bernard Bolzano
(2001)
Bernard Bolzano (1781–1848) during his time as a professor of religious studies (1805–1820) had to give a speech to the whole community of students every sunday during the academic year. This was a very influential position ...
Die Lebenszeugnisse Oswalds von Wolkenstein, Band 1
(1999)
The first of five volumes presents the younger son of Tyrolean country gentry as a squire bustling striving for social advancement. After unsteady years as a noble warrior, crusader and expert for public administration ...
Die Lebenszeugnisse Oswalds von Wolkenstein, Band 3
(2004)
The historical source materials edited in the 3rd volume, which were collected in more than 40 archives and libraries in Austria, Italy, Germany, Czechia and Switzerland, present Oswald von Wolkenstein as a legal expert, ...
European Voices II
(2011)
Although the fundamental meaning of basic terminology is well established for every scholarly discipline, many concepts are often questioned and redefined. In the case of ethnomusicology, this process is all too familiar, ...
Trauma und Terror
(2007)
Although small and not particularly peoples both Chechens and Palestinians became famous for suicide bomber attacks in recent years. This can - partly - be explained by the unrecognised collective traumas of the past.
Both ...
Die altgermanischen Toponyme sowie die ungermanischen Toponyme Germaniens
(2014)
This handbook of Old Germanic toponyms is a comprehen-sive collection of Germanic, possibly Germanic and non-Germanic geographical names of Magna Germania and the adjacent provinces. The selection of headwords is based on ...
Die Lebenszeugnisse Oswalds von Wolkenstein, Band 2
(2001)
While the first volume presented a younger son of a family of Tyrolese nobility, who strived after social advancement throughout Europe and who succeeded to act the part of a special advisor in service of the sovereign, ...
Arthur Schnitzler: Blumen
(2017-12)
Historical-critical edition of Arthur Schnitzler’s novella Blumen. The volume presents all bequeathed manuscripts as full-size facsimiles with transcriptions and a print text with a display of textual variants. It is ...
Teologie dell’Antico Testamento
(2015)
This volume illustrates the different images of God in the books of the Old Testament. The single writings are considered synchronically in their final version. They speak in totally different ways about God and present a ...
Sportfunktionäre und jüdische Differenz
(2018-12)
Based on information about more than 600 Viennese Jewish officials, the book examines issues related to the self-characterization and outside characterization of Jews in Vienna. Sports are an important part of urban identity ...
The Hyksos Ruler Khyan and the Early Second Intermediate Period in Egypt: Problems and Priorities of Current Research
(2018)
Recent results from the most important sites of the Late Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period (Edfu, Tell el-Dab'a and Abydos) have broadened our knowledge of the situation in Egypt enormously. Of utmost ...
Die Wiener Stadtbücher 1395-1430, Teil 5: 1418-1421
(2018)
The Archive of the City of Vienna keeps three folio-volumes of a manuscript in conservation of her archive, which in common was marked as “Wiener Testamentsbücher” (Viennese Last Wills-Register). The source, comprising the ...
Die Regesten des Kaiserreiches unter Friedrich I., Lief.5
(2018)
With the last volume of the „Regesta Imperii under Frederick I“ a project started in 1975 has come to its end. Thereby the whole existing sources concerning the period and the reign of Frederick Barbarossa are encompassed ...
Die Freimaurer im Alten Preußen 1738–1806, Die Logen in Pommern, Preußen
(2009)
The research “The Freemasons in Ancient Prussia 1738 – 1806” is the result of a research project of the Research Centre for Democratic Movements at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Innsbruck in cooperation ...
Sprachatlas des Dolomitenladinischen und angrenzender Gebiete
(2012)
The volumes 7 contains supplementary information to the 1066 dialect maps of the volumes 1-5.
Die literarische Zensur in Österreich von 1751 bis 1848
(2017)
The impact of censorship on the political and intellectual climate in Austria between 1751 and 1848 can hardly be over-estimated. The book covers the institutions involved in censorship, its procedures and results represented ...
(Fremd)Körper
(2019)
The ideology of purity-of-blood (limpieza de sangre) divided
early modern Iberian society into two different classes: Old
Christians and New Christians. New Christians, i.e. Conversos (converted Jews) and Moriscos ...
Figuren der Urszene
(2013)
In Freudian psychoanalysis the so-called »primal scene« is of a very fragile ontological and epistemological nature. It oscillates between factual event, phylogenetically pre-structured phantasy and construction of the ...
Das Wiener Handwerksordnungsbuch (1364–1555)
(2017)
The so-called “Wiener Handwerksordnungsbuch” was compiled by Ulrich Hirssauer, town clerk of Vienna, in the year 1430 and provides a multifaceted picture of everyday life in 15th- and 16th-century Vienna. It not only ...
Die effektiven Konsuln Österreich (-Ungarns) v. 1825-1918
(2017)
I report about education and duties of Austrian consuls from 1825-1918 and their biographies.
Die Donau ist die Form
(2017)
The monography traces the complex relationships between political discourses on the Danube and the aestheticization of the river landscape. It shows the making of the idea of a united Danube region paralleled by the ...
Der „jüdisch-christliche“ Dialog veränderte die Theologie
(2016)
The volume presents a collection of papers which clearly document a theological paradigm shift during the decades after World War II. Protestant, Catholic and Jewish experts from various specialist fields of theology, such ...
Von Katterburg zu Schönbrunn
(2004)
In 1996, the Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn were inscribed on the World Heritage List. In inscribing Schönbrunn, the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO recognised that "the Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn in Vienna - ...
WeXel oder Die Musik einer Landschaft
(2014)
Traditional music of the Wechsel, styrian-lower austrian border region, 100 kms south of Vienna. Volume 1 „The religious song“ sung during the farmer’s traditional two-night corpse-watch at the bier in the house of the ...
The Thun-Hohenstein University Reforms 1849–1860
(2017)
The book gathers 14 articles on the reforms of the Austrian University system from 1848 to 1860 named after Leo Thun Hohenstein. The reforms mark a turning point in the history of the Austrian educational landscape. The ...
Im Dienste einer Staatsidee
(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 ...
Das englische Geschäft mit der Nachtigall
(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 ...
Ein Bürger unter Bauern?
(2017)
The hundred years from 1750 to 1850 were characterised by great changes, often associated with even greater catchphrases. In this study, these profound and radical changes are being looked at from a special point of view, ...
European Voices III
(2017)
Local multipart music practices are based on the intentionally distinct and coordinated participation of music makers in the performing act. Following the rules of interaction while promoting at the same time their personal ...
Die Thun-Hohenstein’sche Universitätsreformen 1849–1860
(2017)
The book gathers 14 articles on the reforms of the Austrian University system from 1848 to 1860 named after Leo Thun Hohenstein. The reforms mark a turning point in the history of the Austrian educational landscape. The ...
Ester Boserup’s Legacy on Sustainability
(2014)
Arising from a scientific conference marking the 100th anniversary of her birth, this book honors the life and work of the social scientist and diplomat Ester Boserup, who blazed new trails in her interdisciplinary approach ...
Regesten Kaiser Sigismunds (1410-1437), Band 2
(2016)
The volume contains the edition of 180 abstracts of the charters and letters from the archives and libraries in West, North and East Bohemia, issued by Emperor Sigismund (1410-1437).
It is the second volume of the planned ...
Rückkehr unerwünscht
(2014)
"Rückkehr unerwünscht" (Return Undesired) is the first systematic study on deportation in the Habsburg empire. The measures taken against protestants, deviants and losers in the modernisation process are both delineated ...
Regesten Kaiser Friedrichs III. (1440-1493) nach Archiven und Bibliotheken geordnet
(2014)
This volume of abstracts of charters Emperor Frederick´s III in the series Regesta Imperii focusses on the last decade of his rule, in particular on the years between 1483 and 1488. They are based on the original charters ...
Musik und Melancholie im Werk Heimito von Doderers
(2012)
The present book consists of two parts, thus embodying the “two forces” that Bakhtin sees at play in every work of art: form and content. They are accorded equal weight. With regard to form, the book explores the various ...
Wien - Geschichte einer Stadt
(2006)
This volume is the last and final part of a trilogy on a detailed history of Vienna. It covers the period from 1790 until the present times. For the decisive forces as well as the inhabitants of the city this era of the ...
Wien - Geschichte einer Stadt
(2003)
This volume is the second part of a trilogy on a detailed history of Vienna. It covers the period from the First Turkish Siege (1529) to the death of the Emperor Joseph II (1790). During these centuries the Habsburg dynasty ...
Schlachtfelder
(2016)
Taking the province of Niederdonau as an example, this pioneer study highlights everyday fields-of-force between National Socialism and agrarian society in which rural actors competed for resources among themselves and ...
Kakanien als Gesellschaftskonstruktion
(2011)
This monograph (professorial dissertation FU Berlin 2009) undertakes an interpretation of the entirety of Musil's monumental novel by placing the focus on its socio-analytical critique of contemporary society. It adapts ...
Die Tagebücher des Grafen Egbert Belcredi 1850-1894
(2016)
The edition includes the diaries of Count Egbert Belcredi from 1850 until his death in 1894. Belcredi – who was the brother of Austrian Prime Minister Richard Belcredi (1865-67) – was an outspoken Conservative, with links ...
Dommusikarchiv Salzburg (A-Sd)
(2018)
This is a catalogue of the musical sources of Salzburg Cathedral between ca. 1670 and 1841, that have survived in the holdings of the Dommusikarchiv at the Archiv der Erzdiözese Salzburg.
Stalins Soldaten in Österreich
(2012)
As Soviet troops first set foot on Austrian territory on March 29, 1945 near Klostermarienberg, they found themselves in a hostile, perplexing and largely unknown world. The Austrians by no means greeted their Eastern ...
Regesten Kaiser Sigismunds (1410-1437), Band 3
(2016)
The volume contains 253 abstracts of 229 Emperor Sigismund’s charters and letters or deperdita and 21 medieval forgeries or highly suspect documents attributed to this ruler from the archives of southern Bohemia.
Alexander Lernet-Holenia und Maria Charlotte Sweceny
(2013)
In the centre of this study stand some 154 letters exchanged between the Austrian writer Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976) and Maria Charlotte ("Lotte") Sweceny (née Stein, 1904-1956), the co-proprietor of the Viennese ...
Diskurse des Kalten Krieges
(2017)
The study analyses Cold War discourses in Austrian post-war literature, a subject that so far has been neglected in Austrian literary history. Through extensive research, 50 mainly unknown or little acknowledged novels, ...
Das Tetraevangelium des Ivan Aleksandăr
(2017)
The first philological edition of the famous Four Gospels of the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Alexander from 1356 with its later liturgical additions, accompanied by studies on the codicology and palaeography, the tsar’s portraits, ...
Die Matrikel der Universität Wien, VIII Band 1746/47-1777/78
(2014)
Register (matriculation book) of the University of Vienna, 1746/47-1777/78 with university records, chronicles and enrollments.
Österreichische Historiker, Band 3
(2019)
The book presents detailed scientific biographies of 13 Austrians historians from the period 1900-1945. It focuses on the scientific work, careers and political activities and their changes
Studien zur Volkskunde Südosteuropas und des mediterranen Raums
(2009)
This volume includes 24 studies on comparative culture analysis in the Southeastern-European and Mediterrean area, as practizised in the "Ethnologia europaea" of Leopold Kretzenbacher, giving an idea of the plurality of ...
Enzyklopädie der slowenischen Kulturgeschichte in Kärnten/Koroška, Band 3: PO-Z
(2016)
The Encyclopaedia of Slovenian cultural history in Carinthia (Austria) is conceaved as a pluridisciplinary and intercultural reference work with over 160 authors, some 1000 entries and in total over 2100 conceptual entries ...
Historische Gärten Österreichs / Bd. 1
(2002)
In the year 1999 the project of the inventarisation of the historic gardens in Austria, financed by the Austrian Science Fund FWF was finished with the manuscript “Historic Gardens in Austria. Gardens and Parks from the ...
Enzyklopädie der slowenischen Kulturgeschichte in Kärnten/Koroška, Band 2: J-PI
(2016)
The Encyclopaedia of Slovenian cultural history in Carinthia (Austria) is conceaved as a pluridisciplinary and intercultural reference work with over 160 authors, some 1000 entries and in total over 2100 conceptual entries ...
Volkserzählungen der Südslaven
(2002)
The hitherto unpublished collection of South Slavic folk tales in German translation in the legacy of Friedrich Salomo Krauss (1859-1938), jewish-croatian ethnography, writer and sexologist, in Los Angeles, is on the one ...
Die Wiener Free-Jazz-Avantgarde: Revolution im Hinterzimmer
(2005)
There are some strange stories heard in Viennese jazz scene. Already in the second half of the 1950s, two art students, who were in touch with painters like Arnulf Rainer, Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Ernst Fuchs, ...
Performanz und Imagination in der Oralkultur Südosteuropas
(2017)
This monograpy analyses forms of performativity in the oral cultures of Southeast-Europe, as gestures, masks and disguising, theatrical customs, popular and professional theatre, as well as forms of imagination, like ...
„Berufsstand“ oder „Stand“?
(2016)
The Constitution of 1 May 1934 saw an attempt made in Austria to create an alternative to parliamentary democracy in the form of an order based on the professional “Stand” (corporation). The failure of this attempt was due ...
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. ...
Der griechisch-orientalische Religionsfonds der Bukowina 1783-1949
(2020)
A comprehensive secularisation process in the course of the
Josephinian reforms led to a complete restructuring of church assets. As
early as 1783 a Greek-Oriental Religious Fund attributed to the Bukovina
was established. ...