OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2025)The Open Access publication of this book has been made possible by the Swiss National Science Foundation. What is a border, and why does it exist? Reappraising a key idea from Arnold van Gennep’s Les rites de passage, this ...
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(2025)This study looks at the synoptic tradition on money in an innovative way of an overview with deep theological and ethical aspects. It looks at Jesus’ advice on money, God’s saving action and people’s hope of salvation, as ...
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(2025)The Swiss journalist, writer and literary patron Carl Seelig (1894–1962) was an extraordinary networker. He is remembered as friend and guardian of Robert Walser – and yet he was much more: his multifaceted work makes him ...
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(2025)The volume develops an innovative analysis of EU cooperation mechanisms in the criminal matter through the lens of a computational approach to the law. This multi-level research tackles both EU and national legislation. ...
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(2025)The expulsion of the Moriscos from Habsburg Spain between 1609 and 1614 represents the largest expulsion of a minority in Europe in the early modern period, an important episode of ethnic, political and religious cleansing ...
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(2025)This volume explores what aspects of contemporary rural life as deeply globalized – and thus implicated in the ongoing, destructive unfolding of colonialism and capitalism – are highlighted and obscured in social, political, ...
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(2025)La rencontre, au début du XXe siècle au Caire, de deux savants, un lettré du Borno, al-Hajj Musa ibn Hissein, et un linguiste amateur allemand, Rudolf Prietze, résulta dans la production d’un ensemble exceptionnel de ...
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(2025)The volume delves into the multifaceted history of Lisbon's Jesuit College of Santo Antão, tracing its evolution from its establishment to the eventual suppression of the Society of Jesus. This scholarly work examines an ...
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(2025)During the 1st millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia acted as a melting pot and crossroads of languages, cultures and peoples. The political map of the world changed after the collapse of the Bronze Age, the horizon of ...
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(2025)This volume is the first complete study of the 12th-century CE Byzantine philosopher Nicholas of Methone, offering a critical examination of a key moment in 11th–12th-century Byzantine philosophy. Although traditionally ...
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(2024)In this collected volume, members of the Kalīla and Dimna project discuss, from different perspectives, a core aspect of their work with this textual tradition: the study of variation and mutability. The aim is to shed ...
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(2025)This monograph presents a full picture of Galen’s ethics. It expounds his view on human character and morality as based on his account of human nature (including his reception of Plato and Aristotle). This book reveals ...
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(2025)"How did the Tocharians reach China?" "Who did they meet on the way?” are some of the most intriguing questions in Indo-European studies. This book is zooming in on a specific part of the question: on their way to China, ...
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(2025)During the past decade, the ancient DNA revolution has had a massive impact on the scholarly debates on the origins and dispersals of language families. Now, linguists are asking the question: does linguistic and genetic ...
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(2025)In this volume you will find contributions on transnational European drama of the early modern period, featuring a range of innovative approaches. The volume, for the first time, covers dramas and theatre plays in Latin, ...
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(2020)The fifteen studies presented inConfucian Academies in East Asia offer insight into the history and legacy of these unique institutions of knowledge and education. The contributions analyze origins, spread and development ...
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(2025)The contributions to this volume analyse material and visual effects that are artistically produced in different, often seemingly 'poorer' media. As an alternative to the notions of mimesis and imitation, this volume uses ...
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(2025)The Euthalian tradition is a complex and pervasive set of late ancient prefaces, lists, divisions, and other paratexts transmitted alongside Acts, the Catholic Epistles, and Pauline Epistles, preserved (at least in part) ...
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(2015)In 1898, a Swedish immigrant farmer claimed to have discovered a large rock with writing carved into its surface in a field near Kensington, Minnesota. The writing told a North American origin story, predating Christopher ...
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(2015)Traci Brynne Voyles argues that the presence of uranium mining on Diné (Navajo) land constitutes a clear case of environmental racism. Looking at discursive constructions of landscapes, she explores how environmental racism ...
