OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2024)The Russkij Mir Foundation was established in 2007 to promote Russian language and culture abroad. Its work and methods have since become highly controversial. The EU declared the foundation a propaganda tool of Russia in ...
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(2024)The Erlangen sanatorium and nursing home was the site of "euthanasia" crimes during the Nazi era. From here, over 900 disabled and mentally ill people were transported to killing centers, and many hundreds more fell victim ...
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(2024)When Charles V took over the government of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in 1520, he was confronted not only with complex political issues. He also received thousands of petitions from rulers and individuals ...
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(2024)In medieval society, expulsion from the city was an effective means of sanctioning unconventional behavior by citizens, residents, and even strangers. This dissertation provides insight into numerous written sources from ...
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(2024)Late medieval riflemen's chains were and continue to be carriers of diverse functions, meanings, and interests. They were produced, then modified, damaged, and repaired again; they were dismantled to make room for new ...
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(2024)The Konrad Adenauer Foundation's "Historical-Political Reports" are a forum for research and presentations on the history of Christian democratic movements and parties in Germany and Europe.
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(2024)Whether in outwardly- or inwardly-directed ceremonies and rituals, the appearances of rulers and their court states, as well as other institutions of power, took place under unique acoustic conditions. The latter, in turn, ...
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(2024)The Yearbook of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, first published in 1882, is one of the oldest continuously published art and cultural history periodicals of a museum. The scholarly contributions relate to the museum's ...
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(2024)“The Ladies on the Hill” is dedicated to the Benedictine monastery of St. George in Prague and the women's community alongside the Augustinian canons in Klosterneuburg. The volume discusses the rich heritage of these women's ...
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(2024)What challenges must writing consultants meet when working in an academic context? What characterizes language-sensitive writing consulting? Writing consultants support writers in developing their academic writing skills ...
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(2025)The Klosterneuburg Tradition Book is one of the most important sources on Austrian medieval history. This manuscript, now housed in the monastery archives of the Augustinian Canons, contains just over 800 records of the ...
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(2025)During the final years of the war, two Wehrmacht courts were housed in the former bank building at Hohenstaufengasse 3 in Vienna. 69 people were sentenced to death there. This book examines the role of Nazi military ...
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(2025)This study examines the interactions between literature and occultism in Vienna around 1900. For the first time, it examines a comprehensive and disparate corpus of texts and asks how philological work relates to a worldview ...
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(2024)Estates-based state parliaments were a long-standing phenomenon of the Habsburg Monarchy. Using seven examples from the Austrian and Bohemian lands and with multiple comparative perspectives, this monograph examines in ...
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(2024)The “anthropological turn” in ethnomusicology is generally associated with Alan P. Merriam’s “Anthropology of music” (1964). The present volume intends to correct this picture from a European perspective, presenting insights ...
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(2024)This book examines musical careers in the 20th century, focusing on the Hollywood composer Franz Waxman (1906–1967). The perspective "between film music and the concert hall" illuminates both the composer's diverse ...
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(2024)What was a thrilling pleasure for some was strenuous work for others: musicians often had a difficult lot (even) in the late Habsburg Monarchy. The Austro-Hungarian Musicians' Association, founded in 1896, set out to improve ...
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(2010)De wetenschappelijke beoefening van de neerlandistiek heeft ook buiten het Nederlandse taalgebied een lange geschiedenis. In sommige landen waren er al in de eerste helft van de negentiende eeuw taal- en letterkundigen die ...
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(2022)Who Are My People? explores the complex relationship between identity, violence, and Christianity in Africa.In Who Are My People?, Emmanuel Katongole examines what it means to be both an African and a Christian in a continent ...
