Harvested from FWF: Recent submissions
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(2023)The Monastery of Saint Catherine in the Sinai peninsula preserves one of the largest collections of manuscripts in the world, which include a significant number of palimpsest manuscripts (over 170). This book deals with ...
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(2022)With this volume, the editors Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie, and Gianna Zocco propose an extension of the traditional conception of imagology as a theory and method for studying the cultural construction and literary ...
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(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 ...
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(2022)In this publication, the characteristic bell-shaped pits are investigated from initial use as storage facilities for grain to the final backfilling process. The study demonstrates that the “central site” of Stillfried also ...
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(2022)The remarkably high number of medieval sources on the history of Austrian Jews provide insights into the economic, legal, and social standing of the Jews as well as into how the Christian environment treated them. The ...
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(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 ...
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(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, ...
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(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 ...
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(2022)The Russian ‚middle class‘ has been heavily researched since the end of the Soviet Union, which is mainly rooted in its attributed socio-political functions as a catalyst of democratic and market-economic transformations ...
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(2022)In 1918 according to the interior ministry in Vienna of the Republic of Austria there was no ‘Gypsy mischief’ anymore. The criminalization of poverty and the assumption about destitute persons would endanger the public ...
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(2022)The research agency Forensic Architecture investigates war crimes and ecological as well as political crises and brings them into the exhibition as well as the courtroom through "Investigative Aesthetics" (MACBA 2017). ...
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(2022)In this book, the author develops a theory of metaphors according to which metaphorical interpretations result from an interaction between certain linguistic properties of expressions and similarity-based processes of ...
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(2023)The Nyāyasūtravivaraṇa, written in the first centuries of the 2nd millennium CE, provides the most accessible introduction to the core teachings of old Nyāya. Excerpting from the two earliest and most important treatises ...
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(2022)From objects to sounds, choreography is expanding beyond dance and human bodies in motion. This book offers one of the rare systematic investigations of expanded choreography as it develops in contemporaneity, and is the ...
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(2022)Georgij Sergeevič Ėfron (1925–1944) was the son of the poet Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), and grandson of the art historian who was the founder of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. The German translation of ...
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(2022)The Diaries, Volume II, continue after the death of Marina Tsvetaeva, he returns to Moscow, where he could stay with aunt Lilja, a sister of his father, living off from selling items that he inherited from his mother. At ...
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(2022)The publication presents the results of recent building archaeology in the auditorium of the theater, conducted in the years 2003–2011. Starting with an introductory presentation on the history of research and the current ...
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(2022)In the present volume sacred motets composed by members of the chapel of the Archduke and later Emperor Maximilian II – among them Jacobus Vaet, Philippe de Monte and Jacob Regnart – are documented and analysed for the ...
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(2022)Starting from Adorno's dictum, what arts and culture could be after the reality of Auschwitz, the philosopher Sabine Kock takes central argumentations of Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Hannah Arendt, Jean-François ...
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(2022)By presenting documents and original photographs of the ophthalmologist Ernst Fuchs his life and scientific work are presented in a way never done before. German Version: http://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1551 English Version: ...
