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    • Festa and Music at the Court of Marie Casimire Sobieska in Rome (1699–1714)
      Markuszewska, Aneta (2021)
      Polish queen Marie Casimire Sobieska, French by birth, left the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after the death of her husband king John III and settled in Rome in 1699. Supported by her son, Prince Aleksander Sobieski, the ...
    • Poland and the Origins of the Second World War
      Kornat, Marek (2021)
      This monograph deals with Polish foreign policy shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. In tracing the diplomatic activity of foreign minister Józef Beck, it discusses six general problems: (1) the Polish ...
    • Insane Run
      Tomasik, Wojciech (2020)
      This is a book about impending catastrophe. The metaphorical insane “run“ ends with the outbreak of the First World War. The book focuses on European culture of the late nineteenth century and the Polish contribution to ...
    • Die Hofordnungen der Herzoege von Burgund
      Bessey, Valérie; Dünnebeil, Sonja; Werner, Paravicini (2021)
      In wenigen Texten tritt die Figur Herzog Karls des Kühnen von Burgund (reg. 1467-1477) in seinem Ehrgeiz und seinem Organisationsvertrauen so deutlich hervor wie in diesen seinen Hofordnungen. Hier werden sie erstmals ...
    • The Writing of Disaster - Literary Representations of War, Trauma and Earthquakes in Modern Japan
      Morton, Leith (2020)
      This book analyzes the literature that emerged from World War II. It also examines the literature that resulted from the two major earthquakes that have struck Japan over the course of over the last hundred years. The small ...
    • Multilingualism in Film
      Junkerjürgen, Ralf; Rebane, Gala (2019)
      Multilingualism is a phenomenon that has become increasingly visible in popular cinema and thus is currently a very novel object of academic inquiry. The present volume is a cutting-edge collection of cross- and transdisciplinary ...
    • Musical Culture of Polish Benedictine Nuns in the 17th and 18th Centuries
      Walter-Mazur, Magdalena (2018)
      The study is the first monograph devoted to the musical culture of a female order in Poland. It is a result of in-depth research into musical, narrative, economic, and prosopographic sources surviving in libraries and ...
    • Chopin
      Edlund, Bengt (2014)
      The first study of this volume looks for reminiscences of Dies Irae in Chopin’s works. A great number of allusions and affinities are found in the preludes as well as in Chopin’s output. The study also yields insights into ...
    • Laudato Si
      Kelly, Anthony J. (2023)
      Pope Francis; Laudato Si; is a game-changing document for the life of the Church and the ecological health of this planet. A Catholic vision is deficient if it does not include the earth and its life-forms. Loving one;s ...
    • Technics
      Baer, Nicholas; van den Oever, Annie (2024)
      Technics gathers leading international media scholars to rethink technology for the contemporary digital era. The volume’s 28 contributors provide cutting-edge theoretical, historiographical, and methodological reflections ...
    • Kinder- und Jugendhilfereport 2024
      Rauschenbach, Thomas; Mühlmann, Thomas; Meiner- Teubner, Christiane; Fendrich, Sandra; Volberg, Sebastian; Böwing-Schmalenbrock, Melanie; Tabel, Agathe; Olszenka, Ninja; Afflerbach, Lena; Pothmann, Jens; Erdmann, Julia; Tiedemann, Catherine; Froncek, Benjamin; Röhm, Ines; Haubrich, Julia; Kopp, Katharina (2024)
      The Child and Youth Welfare Report 2024 analyses the situation of child and youth welfare in Germany on the basis of the most important social and educational statistical key figures, such as on utilisation, providers, ...
    • Vom Heim nach Hause: Herstellungsleistungen von Familie bei Rückkehrprozessen aus stationären Erziehungshilfen
      Lienhart, Christina (2024)
      Out-of-home placement in institutionalised care and returning to the family system present young people and their families with major transformational challenges. This involves affiliations and demarcations, relative ...
    • A Literary History of Medicine
      Gelder, Geert Jan; Savage-Smith, Emilie; Swain, Simon (2024)
      A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the ...
    • A Literary History of Medicine
      Gelder, Geert Jan; Savage-Smith, Emilie; Swain, Simon (2024)
      A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the ...
    • A Literary History of Medicine
      Gelder, Geert Jan; Savage-Smith, Emilie; Swain, Simon (2024)
      A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the ...
    • A Literary History of Medicine
      Gelder, Geert Jan; Savage-Smith, Emilie; Swain, Simon (2024)
      A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the ...
    • A Literary History of Medicine
      Gelder, Geert Jan; Savage-Smith, Emilie; Swain, Simon (2024)
      A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the ...
    • Music and its Narrative Potential
      Bouckaert, Bart; Peeters, Ann; Van Nerom, Carolien (2024)
      “Music and its Narrative Potential” is a book about musical stories. It is a collection of thoughts on how music evokes narratives through its own medium-specific strategies. This book is a versatile consideration of ...
    • Moralische Pluralität und ethische Bildung
      Feichtinger, Christian (2024)
      Moral education today faces the challenge of understanding different conceptions of morality. While religious education recently has dealt with various aspects of plurality, there has been little engagement with issues of ...
    • Katechetischer Schriftgebrauch im frühmittelalterlichen Konstantinopel
      Anikin, Konstantin (2024)
      The Holy Scripture was used as a form of pre- and postbaptismal catechesis in early medieval Constantinople. This volume presents an examination of the theological content communicated to catechumens through the Bible, and ...