OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2024)Japan’s regions have been affected by an aging population and structural weaknesses. Now, young people seem to be moving back to the country and solving these problems. Politics and the media paint an idyllic picture: in ...
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(2024)The interreligious exchange between Islam and Judaism is as old as Islam. Today, the political situation in the Middle East and the situation of Muslims as minorities in Europe constitute important backdrops to the ...
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(2024)The Eucharist and cannibalism: the cultural situatedness of these two concepts seems contrary, which made the analogies between these two concepts all the more disturbing in the sixteenth century. This volume asks whether ...
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(2024)The production and retention of written records was an important facet of pre-modern rulership and administration. While such documents’ contents have been well studied, much can still be learnt by examining these records ...
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(2024)In the year 672 BC, Esarhaddon, King of Assyria imposed a succession covenant (adê) on his subjects, the inhabitants of the Assyrian Empire. This covenant required the empire’s population to monitor one another, and ...
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(2024)In the wealth of early modern portrayals of the devil as a fear-inducing monstrosity, narrative realizations that take a strangely different path stand out. This includes the staging of the diabolical enemy as a latent ...
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(2024)This study lays out the pre-technological prehistory of contemporary virtual realities by drawing on selected discussions of virtual forces from antiquity and the Middle Ages, on meditation and spatialization procedures ...
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(2024)This book explores the practice of non-territorial autonomy, a concept based on collective rights and used to address national diversity within a single state. It examines its strands of development and the processes of ...
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(2024)The chapters in this volume ask how texts written in scholarly Latin and the vernacular provided instruction on staying attentive during devotions and prayer, and how they explained the necessity of attention and attentiveness, ...
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(2024)The book explores the semantic and morphosyntactic representation of affectedness in transitive predicates. It provides a first in-depth investigation of how the properties of undergoing change, functioning as a path to ...
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(2024)Within this volume, aspects of linguistic humour in ancient Greek comedy are explored. A rich repertoire of verbal artifices and types of joke is analysed, with emphasis on their contribution to the creation of comic effect ...
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(2024)The third issue of the Yearbook on the History of Global Development aims at collecting contributions about the role of international organizations in shaping the global system of development. International organizations ...
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(2024)The contributions in the volume follow the path of a “rhetoric of memory” in its various forms in the area of tension between canonization and decanonization as well as disruption and stabilization. The fundamental premise ...
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(2024)The volume deals with a phenomenon that has so far received little attention, but is all the more relevant, especially from a linguistic perspective: press releases at the intersection of two or more languages and cultures. ...
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(2024)Typically, innovation in public governance is limited to reforming existing institutions. Beyond Instrumentalised Politics characterises a novel political system. It articulates the evaluative principles required for ...
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(2024)Recounting the life stories of Malawian and South African freedom fighters living in exile in East Germany during the Cold War, this study unfolds multiple entanglements between the “Second” and “Third” worlds from the ...
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(2024)This is the first volume to deal with the migration of Greeks to the Holy Roman Empire in detail. It reveals that there were three types of migrants: almsmen, students, and traders. Greek migrants from the Ottoman Empire ...
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(2024)Work on drama has always been at the forefront of research in computational literary studies. The explicit structure of plays lends itself to formal analysis and has already been explored before the age of computers. ...
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(2024)This book explores the intersection of modern architecture and religious studies. It focuses on rethinking the concept of sacred space in a modern context, bringing together scholars from diverse fields into an interdisciplinary ...
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(2024)When Sephardic Jews were expelled from the Iberian Peninsula in the wake of the Inquisition, they were given refuge in the Sultan’s empire. Sephards and Romaniots, shaped the religious, cultural, economic, and social life ...
