OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
Now showing items 15521-15540 of 50051
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(2023)Ancient, medieval and modern libraries in various regions (the Muslim world, East Asia, Byzantium, Western Europe) are known only by the manuscripts they kept or documents that shed light on their history. Through case ...
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(2024)The autonomy granted to local communities by central powers is a recurrent feature of European history over time. The density of population in urban settlements facilitates human communication, however, towns are also zones ...
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(2024)This volume examines the category of space on the basis of texts from seventeenth-century Chinese philosophy and art theory. The epistemological reconstructions and analyses of example sources in this volume present notions ...
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(2024)This book explores the concepts of sickness and health in Nietzsche’s late philosophy, showing that Nietzsche viewed these concepts not as dialectical opposites but as events that each assert themselves and merge into each ...
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(2024)The newly discovered original plans, published for the first time in 2019, allow a new view at Leberecht Migge as a garden architect who is still relevant today. His equally beautiful and groundbreaking designs for house ...
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(2024)In light of the evident global rise of populist tendencies in recent years, it seems reasonable to ask whether there were political currents in classical Athens and then in the Hellenist poleis that could qualify as populist ...
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(2024)This volume contributes to a better understanding of the Byzantine collections of exegetical excerpts on the Gospel of Luke. The edition of previously unknown or largely neglected series of comments on Luke and the examination ...
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(2024)How are communities worldwide experiencing changes to their seasons? Through 35 real-world accounts of seasonal change by researchers and practitioners, this anthology gives pause to critically rethink what seasons mean. ...
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(2024)Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. The book collects 36 essays pertaining to many different contexts – Egypt, Anatolia, Levant, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome – which ...
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(2024)This volume brings together studies focusing on the history of printing in the Ottoman Empire and the Romanian Principalities in the 18th century across a variety of linguistic and confessional communities. It gives ...
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(2024)This book offers an overall view of the ways in which digressions were diachronically used by ancient historians from the genre’s first steps in the 5th century BCE up to the Imperial Era. The authors of this volume mainly ...
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(2024)This book uses current data to show how the employment situation in the social sector has developed in recent years and what impact the Corona pandemic is having on social institutions in comparison to other sectors.
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(2024)The Lives of the Caesars by Latin biographer C. Suetonius Tranquillus is one of the central texts for our understanding of the early imperial history of Rome as well as a work full of unique literary features. In eight ...
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(2024)The volume aims at a conceptualisation of the relations between postcolonial theory and crisis as well as to the crisis of postcolonialism and the ways in which it can respond to contemporary issues, trying to understand, ...
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(2024)In the past, Berlin flourished as a capital city, not so much due to the subsidies provided by Prussia and the empire but because these regimes understood and utilized it as a capital city. It became an imperial city and ...
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(2024)The volume provides the text of the Erfurt Popular Bible (an expanded bible translation with commentary) in a parallel presentation of two Erfurt manuscripts from the 1420s. The text reprint indicates the connections to ...
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(2024)Written around 1300, the Passional is the first great collection of legends in the German language and considered among the most significant and influential literary works of Middle High German spiritual epic poetry. Books ...
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(2024)Democracies are coming under increasing pressure. In the process, the meaning of democracy itself has become the subject of debate. What normative conditions are essential for democracy? And how can we better realize these ...
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(2024)In this book, four multilingual adolescents who have experienced migration have their say. They discuss their language acquisition biographies, and their concepts of and views on language, language use, and language ...
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(2024)This volume focuses on the thorny relations between empires and religions. All empires employed religious semantics and religious rituals in their practice of rulership, and many invested substantial human and material ...
