OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
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(2025)The volume analyzes the implications of the “world exhaustion” concept that has emerged in a post-global cultural context and whose effects are particularly salient in Latin American literatures and cultures. This conceptual ...
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(2025)This volume investigates the doctrine of the seven divine attributes in the Ashʿarite theological school and assigns them to three new main categories: (1) omnipotence, will, and knowledge (2) life and seeing (3) hearing ...
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(2025)The “West” is a central concept in public discourse, but its meaning is often unclear and open to manifold interpretations and ascriptions of belonging and exclusion: Who is part of the “West”? When and where is it located? ...
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(2025)Twenty representations of the globe accompany the late medieval transmission of Benedictine monk Ranulph Higden’s world chronicle, the Polychronicon. This study is the first to analyze all these maps and their codicological ...
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(2025)The eighteenth century can be seen as a turning point in the description and interpretation of extreme events – and not just due to the Lisbon earthquake. This volume examines the discursive and cultural consequences of ...
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(2025)In the premodern period, many cities endeavoured to obtain a fair privilege and attract as many merchants as possible. Through the economic activities and infrastructures provided, a supra-regional spatial configuration ...
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(2025)Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads has as its aim to evaluate the impact of mirativity in Romance languages or –expressed differently– to determine how these languages apprehend surprise and related notions as linguistic ...
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(2025)The Global Latin II Conference has highlighted the role of the Latin language as cultural medium between West and East. Adopting a diachronic perspective which spans from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age, the conference ...
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(2025)In the decades following World War II, ambitious building programs were launched across Europe to secure social prosperity. Scandinavia, in particular, underwent an intensive phase of modernization aimed at distributing ...
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(2025)How languages describe spatial motion events has been a hotly discussed topic in recent years in cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology. Based on a large-scale experimental study of motion event descriptions in ...
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(2025)How did architects imagine the functioning of government? How did senior civil servants and politicians envisage modern architecture? In the interwar period, when the modernist architectural movement was struggling to ...
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(2025)This book examines the history of Christian and Muslim student associations at the universities of Lomé (Togo) and Abomey-Calavi (Benin) since the 1970s. It traces their emergence under authoritarian regimes and examines ...
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(2025)Behavior is an important category in the life sciences. It is central to all negotiations of human-animal relationships and is present in both science and scholarship, and the popular media. Understanding the historical ...
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(2025)A rupture of life on Earth is unfolding. What, then, does this rupture signify, not only in terms of being alive during such an upheaval, but also in terms of being alive to upheaval itself? Lyrical, playful, and deadly ...
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(2025)This volume examines the German Federal Labor Court's labor dispute law over time. It presents the legal and factual framework and asks: Is labor dispute law still up-to-date, or does it require a reorientation? Does the ...
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(2025)In 2013, China's planned "New Silk Road" initiative began, the implementation of which has directly transformed many places in Asia and Africa, as well as in China itself. In some cases, urgently needed infrastructure was ...
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(2025)There are special affinities between comics and architecture. The structure of a comic page follows architectural principles that significantly influence its reception. At the same time, urban architecture plays a crucial ...
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(2025)This book presents an innovative approach to the Old Icelandic sagas depicting the social transformation of medieval Iceland in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, analysing them through the lens of cultural memory studies. ...
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(2025)This collective volume explores crises in the Upper Egyptian Thebaid during the Ptolemaic Period. As a result of an international conference held at the Freie Universität Berlin (May 2–4, 2019), the presented case studies ...
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(2025)This volume collects Greek and Arabic testimonia of the lost On Demonstration by Galen of Pergamum (129–c. 216). The texts are accompanied by notes, English translation, and a substantive introduction. The treatise was a ...
