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Das sogenannte ‚Königliche Gerichtsbuch‘ – Aufzeichnungen des Michael von Pfullendorf zu den Anfängen des Kammergerichts am römisch-deutschen Königshof (1442 bis 1451)
(2022)
This publication offers an edition of the “Royal court book” in full text. It starts with a foreword by Bernhard Diestelkamp, who underlines the central importance of this source for research. In the extensive analysis ...
WeXel oder Die Musik einer Landschaft Teil 2.3 Register – Das Weltliche Lied : Jodler, Jodler-Lied, Gstanzl und Tanz
(2021)
Melodic Incipits; dictionary of local dialect; list of yodel-, yodel-song and quatrain strophes;
Index of places and names in the Wechsel region.
General index of places / names of other regions and subjects.
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WeXel oder Die Musik einer Landschaft Teil 2.1 - Das Weltliche Lied - Ungeradtaktig: Jodler und Jodler-Lied – Ungeradtaktig
(2021)
Yodel and Yodel-Song in the Lower Austrian / Styrian Wechsel region from the beginning of the 19th century, completed with local research 2001–2019 (especially Schwaigen-Reigen® 2007–2009 – traditional music in 18 alpine ...
WeXel oder Die Musik einer Landschaft Teil 2.2 - Das Weltliche Lied – Geradtaktig: Jodler, Jodler-Lied, Gstanzl und Tanz - Geradtaktig
(2021)
Yodel and Yodel-Song – duple metre – in the Lower Austrian / Styrian Wechsel-region from the beginning of the 19th century, completed with local research-results 2001–2019 (especially Schwaigen-Reigen® 2007–2009 – traditional ...
Eine „unmögliche“ Ästhetik – Elfriede Jelinek im literarischen Feld
(2021)
The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Elfriede Jelinek, has decisively shaped the development of literature over the last 50 years and has repeatedly expanded the 'space of the possible'. This study reconstructs ...
Apostolo Zeno: Poesie drammatiche, Parte I, Volume 2: Parte I: Venezia e oltre Vol. 2: da Il Venceslao (1703) ad Alessandro Severo (1717)
(2021)
This is the first part of a critical edition of the complete dramatic works by Apostolo Zeno. Vol. I.2 offers 9 librettos: Il Venceslao, Aminta, Pirro, Il Teuzzone, L’Amor generoso, Atenaide, Scipione nelle Spagne, Merope, ...
Theatrum Sabaudiae. Das Kupferstichwerk der Herzöge von Savoyen: Entstehung, Rezeption, Funktionswandel (1660-1740)
(2021)
The Theatrum Sabaudiae (1682) is an illustrated publication that vividly depicted the territories of the Duchy of Savoy through detailed copper engravings and panegyric descriptions. The book was an important instrument ...
Apostolo Zeno: Poesie drammatiche, Parte I, Volume 1: Parte I: Venezia e oltre Vol. 1: da Gl’Inganni felici (1696) a Temistocle (1701)
(2021)
This is the first part of a critical edition of the complete dramatic works by Apostolo Zeno. Vol. I.1 offers 10 librettos: Gl’Inganni felici, Il Tirsi, Il Narciso, I rivali generosi, Eumene, Odoardo, Faramondo, Lucio Vero, ...
Die Korrespondenz des Ministers für Cultus und Unterricht Leo Thun-Hohenstein (1849–1860). Auswahledition: Zu den Reformen von Unterricht und Bildung in der Habsburgermonarchie
(2022)
The book publishes for the first time private letters from an to Leo Thun-Hohenstein, minister of education 1849–1860. In this periode Thun profoundly reformed the Austrian educational system.
Ökonomien der Parodie am Wiener Vorstadttheater
(2022-08)
Differing from previous research approaches, the parodies of the Viennese popular theatres can be considered as a genre of theatre practice which allows to demonstrate the conditions of production for playwrights in the ...
Chapter 3 Human– computer interaction in pun translation
(2022)
creative texts; translation technologies; machine translation; computer-aided translation; translation practice
Chapter 21 The Pandemic as we know it
(2023)
"Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance has now become a highly influential and rapidly growing topic in its own right. This new edition of the seminal text in the field is fully revised and includes new and ...
Theorie der Klassik
(2022)
For the last three centuries, prominent thinkers have been asking themselves what it is that constitutes a classic. This volume takes up this question and shows how cultural artifacts become and remain classics through ...
Verstehen verstehen
(2022)
This book explores the nature and normativity of the epistemic state of understanding. Particular attention is devoted to the relation between understanding and truth, the relation between understanding and explanation, ...
Abwägung im Kommunikationsstrafrecht
(2022)
The legislator sometimes restricts the fundamental freedoms of one person by means of criminal law in order to protect the rights of others. To this end, the legislator must weigh all the interests involved, and in criminal ...
Glanz und Elend der Aufklärung in Wien
(2023)
The Viennese Enlightenment began with a delay and then proceeded at an accelerated pace. The hurried and soon blocked process of adjustment led to peculiarities of Austrian culture. Based on the economic, political, social, ...
Studium als Balanceakt
(2023)
This open access book sheds light on study-related experiences of First-in-Family students in Austria. For the first time, this book comprehensively illuminates those areas of life in which students are embedded outside ...
The legal framework for refugee resettlement to the European Union with lessons from the American model
(2023)
This book elucidates the international and EU legal framework for refugee resettlement to the European Union. It identifies the international legal obligations of states applicable to resettlement and sets out the relevant ...
Albert Jäger (1801-1891) „Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben“
(2023)
In this volume, the previously relatively unknown memoirs of the Austrian historian Albert Jäger (1801-1891) are published for the first time in a scholarly annotated edition. Through his long life, his multiple relationships ...
Regional Economies in Action
(2023)
The volume contains 13 contributions dealing with ancient and medieval economy from an archaeological perspective based on the standardization of material evidences. Standardization has always been a problematic subject ...
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 wanted to marry their cousins or in-laws. In this case, bridal couples had to apply for a papal dispensation and this meant a hurdled, lengthy and also expensive ...
Sergius of Reshaina, Commentary on Aristotle’s ›Categories‹
(2024)
Sergius of Reshaina (d. 536) is a major figure in the history of the Syriac reception of Aristotle’s logic. He studied philosophy and medicine in the late 5th century in Alexandria with the famous Ammonius Hermeiou, whose ...
Great Queer Provocation
(2024)
Queer cultures are vibrant components of the constantly transforming societies of the 21st century. This is both socially and anthropologically recognizable, as well as individually readable. Categories such as wealth, ...
Unfree Lives
(2024)
This first detailed study of slavery in medieval Yemen examines the lives of women and men who were enslaved as children and then placed in various subaltern positions - from domestic servant to royal concubine, from ...
Translation und Exil (1933–1945) III
(2024)
Translation and Exile (1933-1945) III examines the motives, functions and effects of translations. Exile is often discussed in terms of loss and the exodus of scholars and artists is lamented. If we abandon this nation-state ...
Maritime Mobilities in Anglophone Literature and Culture
(2024)
This collection explores various aspects of how oceanic im/mobilities have been framed and articulated in English-speaking
literary and cultural imaginaries. It covers the entanglements of maritime mobility and immobility ...
Whom to blame for Judah’s doom?
(2023)
The Babylonian exile is considered one of the worst trauma experiences in the context of HB/OT, with which a multitude of biblical texts are concerned. The final chapters of 2 Kings offer various theological interpretations ...
Intim und respektabel
(2022-09)
The women’s movement was not only a place of political debate – a large number of activists spent most of their time among women. While “respectability” played a significant role in these circles the gradually growing ...
Bildung - Medien - Mensch. Mündigkeit im Digitalen
(2021-12)
The book outlines education under the auspices of digitization. Transformation processes are highlighted which, triggered by binary technologies, reach deep into everyday cultures and worldviews in our societies. These ...
Housing the Poor
(2023)
This book analyses in detail half a century of international discussions on housing, slums and informal settlements, identifies policy phases (self-help, enabling) and discusses pros and cons of applied measures globally ...
Das neue Volk Gottes in Hispanien
(2023)
This book investigates for the first time the role of the Bible in the Christian-Iberian chronicles from 8th to 12th centuries against the background of of the Arab/Berber foreign rule over major parts of the medieval ...
Regularisations of Irregularly Staying Migrants in the EU
(2023)
‘Combatting’ irregular migration is one of the key challenges to migration management at EU level. The present book addresses one of the most pressing structural problems regarding the EU’s return policy: the low return ...
Der lange Atem kolonialer Bilder
(2023)
Colonialism is part of many European family histories. Photographs convey collective ideas about the colonial past. This book explores how and for what purpose colonial images were (re-)produced, used, and passed on through ...
Kunst und Zeremoniell in Rom während des Pontifikates unter Paul V. (1605-1621)
(2023)
At the center of the book lies the question concerning the relation between art and papal ceremonial in Rome during the pontificate of Paul V. (1605-1621). It is examined by focussing on the selected cases of the splendid ...
Translation und Exil (1933–1945) II
(2023)
Translation does not work in a vacuum. Making it visible as action in a structured context is the goal of this book. This broad context includes individuals and, more significantly, collective actors-publishers, reviewers ...
Blicke in den Spiegel des Koran
(2023)
Sufis interpret the Qur’an in creative ways closely related to their life-experiences. The analysis of fourteen interviews with Sufis from diverse teaching traditions and cultural backgrounds gives insight into these Sufis’ ...
Der Vertrag von Sèvres
(2023)
The Peace Treaty with Turkey, concluded in 1920 in Sèvres near Paris in 1920 is, although it never came into force, one of the most important international law treaties of our time. Aimed at reshaping the Middle East, it ...
Werner Kofler
(2023)
Volumes I to III of the Annotated Edition of Werner Koflers Works gather radio plays, poetry (exemplary), short prose, and dramatic texts. A detailed commentary on passages and a comprehensive bibliography complete the two ...
Werner Kofler
(2023)
Volumes I to III of the Annotated Edition of Werner Koflers Works gather radio plays, poetry (exemplary), short prose, and dramatic texts. A detailed commentary on passages and a comprehensive bibliography complete the two ...
Ways of the Scientific World-Conception. Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath
(2024)
Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) and Otto Neurath (1882-1945) had a decisive influence on the development of the scientific world view of logical empiricism. Their relationship was marked by mutual intellectual stimulation, close ...