Funded publications
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Zum jüdischen Erbe in der Wiener Architektur
(2016)
A survey of the role played by jewish architects working in Vienna in the period between 1868-1938.
Liminalität und Adoleszenz
(2016)
Based upon the description of the psychoanalytic subtext in the work of Victor Turner, his concept of structure and antistructure is submitted to a fundamental revision.
Spital als Lebensform, Band 2
(2015)
The voluminous publication edits 203 such items covering all of the Austrian territories from the Late Middle Ages to the 19th century. Hospital rules, instructions for hospital staff, job descriptions, special rules as, ...
Feminist Activism, Travel and Translation Around 1900
(2024)
This open access book takes the biographical case of German feminist Käthe Schirmacher (1865–1930), a multilingual translator, widely travelled writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a disputatious activist to examine the ...
Reconfiguring the Land of Israel
(2024)
This book is about ways in which the land of Israel, the homeland of the most paradigmatic of all diasporas, was envisioned in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the literature of the sages. It is about the Land ...
Administrating Kinship: Marriage Impediments and Dispensation Policies in the 18th and 19th Centuries
(2023)
From the late eighteenth century, more and more men and women wished to marry their cousins or in-laws. This aim was primarily linked to changes in marriage concepts, which were increasingly based on familiarity. Wealthy ...
Au-pair: Von der Kulturträgerin zum Dienstmädchen
(2008)
Since the 1970s, highly educated families in Austria have employed Au-pairs for taking care of their children. Why have these families preferred Au-pairs to kindergartens with qualified teachers? Were Au-pairs just a ...
Geschichtsraum Österreich
(2006)
The history is intended as the first comprehensive examination of the role of Austrian history in the visual arts of the Habsburg monarchy between 1804 and 1918. At its centre are the following three key questions: What ...
Alpenverein
(2007)
The Deutsche und Österreichische Alpenverein resulted from a merger of the Österreichischer Alpenverein founded in 1862 with the Deutsche Alpenverein in 1873. Both clubs had been initiated by urban circles in Vienna, Munich ...
Der Kaiser ist ein Lump und Spitzbube
(2010)
The subject of this study is the criminal prosecution of insulting remarks about the emperor in the Habsburg monarchy in the second half of the 19th century (1852-1918). The first chapter discusses the historical development ...