OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2025)Open to deviance, Catholic theology and devotional practice managed to integrate stigmata, revelations, visions, "magic," and spiritualistic contact – more so than Protestantism. At the same time, esoteric groups did not ...
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(2025)The loss of urban biodiversity pushes us to rethink architecture. Drawing on ecomfenimist theories, "Better Together" challenges established practices of progress and permanence, offering new ways and tools to accommodate ...
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(2025)This work traces the history of the text of Aristotle's collection of treatises known as Parva naturalia, based on an exhaustive study of all surviving manuscripts and their reception in antiquity and Byzantium, in particular ...
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(2025)It has become an unflinching belief that time is plural and temporal multiplicity is the best framework to study the relationship between time and society. Through a critical reading of existing scholarship, Sinha questions ...
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(2025)This book explores the travel of historical memory from one culture to the other via the medium of literature. In contemporary Europe, many writers have migrant background and represent the experience of migration as an ...
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(2025)This book delves into the many questions pertaining to human-animal relations today, with special focus on a new understanding and fresh perspectives beyond the problematic logocentric framework of modernity. It invites ...
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(2025)This book provides an overview of the activity and the output of the first Turkish press in the Ottoman Empire. Known as the Müteferrika Press, it was founded in Istanbul and was operated most actively from 1726 until 1747. ...
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(2025)This collective volume investigates the connection between women’s holiness and the notion of time from a diachronic perspective. By looking at temporality as intertwined with the construction of social and gendered roles, ...
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(2025)Globalization, as it is conceptualized in the early twenty-first century, is undergoing significant transformations. While we continue to live in a globalized world where markets, technologies, and cultures remain deeply ...
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(2025)Das Habitat-Diorama – ein Schaukasten, in dem Tierpräparate in einer gestalteten Landschaft hinter Glas präsentiert werden – ist eines der wichtigsten Bildmedien der Naturkundemuseen im 20. Jahrhundert und bis heute prägend ...
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(2025)This book combines two closely related research interests that have not yet received sufficient recognition: The investigation of justice in the Hebrew Bible and the position of male and female slaves within it. Justice ...
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(2025)Jaina culture in Karnataka flourished from the early centuries CE, and by the eighth century had achieved a predominance which lasted nearly four centuries. Subsequently, however, the Jainas’ influence waned and they became ...
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(2025)Can medieval Christianization and European expansion be described as colonialism? Were those encounters shaped by racism? This volume discusses questions regarding the similarities between premodern and modern phenomena ...
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(2025)Late antique and early medieval normative sources frequently employ Roman legal terminology to denote a person’s legal inferiority, and thus suggest the continued relevance of the concepts associated with these terms. ...
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(2025)Theater censorship was legally abolished during the turbulent transition from the German Empire to the Weimar Republic in 1919, after which theater productions were accompanied by unusually frequent scandals. This study ...
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(2025)This volume offers a unique introduction to contemporary religious studies in twenty-seven accessible, clearly written chapters written by religious studies scholars from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The central, ...
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(2025)Der beginnende Boom der Fertighausindustrie erfasste in den frühen 1960er-Jahren auch westdeutsche Stahlunternehmen wie Hoesch und Krupp. Ihr Einstieg in das Bauen für einen Endverbraucher:innenmarkt war der ökonomische ...
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(2025)The book provides the first comprehensive synchronic description (in English) of Maltese prepositions and their phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic properties. The size of the prepositional inventory is ...
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(2025)Reflecting Oil presents innovative reflections on crude oil, one of the most important fossil fuels characterising modern life: On the one hand, oil functions as a fuel for unrestricted mobility and on the other, as a basis ...
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(2025)The Hymn to the Mother of the Gods is the first text with which Emperor Julian launches his anti-Constantinian revolt against Christianity and tries to revive the old Greek-Roman religion and its cults. This book provides ...
