englisch‘Turkish Studies’ deal with the history, culture, religions, languages and literature of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. The scope of the book includes everything relating to Turkey, e.g. Kurdish, Armenian, Greek or Jewish matters, as well as its relations with the Turkic [...]

englischIn 1898, the academic discipline Byzantine Studies was founded by Karl Krumbacher at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. Since then, Byzantine Studies have been thriving there for more than one hundred years. PD Dr. Sergei Mariev (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, [...]

englischIn this book, the authors proceed from the theory that the organ can be regarded as a symbol of traditions and forms of codification, in which the spirit and history of our continent to date are reflected. Independent of political boundaries and religious denominations, this instrument [...]

englischThis historiographical study deals with the transformation of heroic images of German and French soldiers and officers during the Seven Years' War and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. A culture of sensitivity, levée en masse and intensive forms of opinion management on the part of [...]

englischThis book is dedicated to the forgotten intellectual Léo Wanner, who intervened in the political landscape in the 1920s and 1930s with public statements and strategic ingenuity. Based on historical sources that were opend up for the first time, the diverse role repertoire of this globally [...]

englischConrad Ekhof (1720–1778) is known for establishing the realistic style of acting in German theatre–like Garrick in Britain–, turning strolling troupes into state theatres, and transforming jesters who lived at the fringes of society into distinguished artists and respected citizens. The [...]

englischBetween the age of confessionalization and the comprehensive edicts of tolerance of the late 18th century lies a period in which research emphasises the role of the confession in very different ways. The concept of tolerance existed in the intellectual history, but the regulations of the [...]

englischThis dissertation is the first to examine the soldier's tax as a special case of the tribute system during the Thirty Years' War. Since "contribution" has two meanings, the term "soldier's tax" is introduced. Ideally, it describes a direct form of army financing, independent of [...]

englischInvestigating the use of language in pieces of visual art enables a sensual experience of its complexity. This study is therefore built like an exhibition: Based on over eighty paintings it scrutinises versatile constellations of language use and highlights its prototypical contingency. This [...]

englischWhile Kurt Tucholsky's political struggle and provocations against Weimar society have gone down in literary history, there has been a lack of critical examination of his relationship to the new media that began to shape modern reality at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Berlin [...]

englischThis study examines late 20th century depictions of embryonic development derived from the Quran, which are referred to as a scientific miracle of the Qur'an. This approach of harmonizing religious and scientific knowledge has so far only been evaluated as a marginal phenomenon. Using the [...]

Der Band behandelt die Schrift- und Buchgeschichte des griechischsprachigen byzantinischen Reiches aus der Perspektive einer Sozialgeschichte. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Schrift in ihrem Wechselspiel mit den Akteuren (Schreiber, Leser) und damit verbundene sozialgeschichtliche Aspekte wie die Wahl [...]

englischWith "Erste Erde", Raoul Schrott has presented a text that attempts to grasp the entire body of knowledge about the world - and thus inscribed himself in the tradition of polymaths such as Alexander von Humboldt, who pursued a similar goal with his "Cosmos" in the 19th century. Schrott thus [...]

englischThe study of ancient heroes in film provides an eminent contribution to our understanding of the present by identifying the upheavals, conflicts, crises and resolution strategies that manifest themselves in heroic figures. This volume approaches heroizations by examining political leadership [...]

englischSince 1993, Osama bin Laden and al-Qáida have carried out a series of terrible Islamist terrorist attacks - on the World Trade Center 1, the US warship Cole, the World Trade Center 2 (11 September), hotels in Bali, synagogues in Istanbul, railways in Madrid and Casablanca, to name just a few [...]

englischThe book deals with the discourse of a spiritual medicine in Arabic-Islamic sources of the pre-modern period. The focus is on a 13th-century writing: "The Cheering of the Soul" (Mufarriḥ an-nafs) by the Damascene physician Ibn Qāḍī Baʿalbakk, a scholar in the tradition of Ibn Sinā. Based on [...]

englischThis is the first-ever biography of the Victorian journalist, newspaper editor and travel writer Andrew Wilson (1830–1881). Born in Bombay, he was educated in the universities of Edinburgh and Tübingen, subsequently editing various newspapers in Bombay, Karachi and Hongkong. A prolific [...]

englischFrom its discovery in the mid-18th century onwards, the black-glazed pottery of ancient Greece set several trends in the history of taste in Europe. This was also especially true in the Victorian era, which took a systematic interest in copying not only shapes and décors of the pots but also [...]

englischIn June 2009, US president Barack Obama travelled to Cairo to seek a ‘new beginning’ in the Middle East. Beyond people’s hopes and disappointments, Nils E. Lukacs takes the Obama’s historical idea under the magnifying glass. Asking what was ‘new’, what was ‘old’, and how the ‘new beginning’ [...]

englischIgnaty J. Krachkovsky (1883–1951) is one of the most important Oriental scholars of the 20th century and is considered the founder of modern Arabic studies in Russia. The German edition of his biography by Anna A. Dolinina (1923–2017) presents his eventful life and exciting academic career [...]

englischProvincial theatres have so far been largely ignored by researchers, although they were cultural centres of entire regions in the 19th century: In these theatres, the population could meet, engage in social activities such as gambling and exchange views on socio-political events. This [...]

englischIn early modern Europe, music-theatrical patterns of representing the foreign ‘Other’ helped shape relations with the Ottoman Empire. Accordingly, hybridity must be understood as a dynamic practice playing with cultural blends and borrowings, albeit possibly (re-)producing inequalities, [...]

englischReligion as a discontinued model – that is how the narrative of modernity likes to see it. Empirically, the situation is more complex: even if secularisation often makes religious institutions appear as losers, important areas of religion have proven to be innovative and productive. How, [...]

englischWho was responsible for the thousands of murders of people with psychological, mental or physical impairments under National Socialism? How were institutions and actors interconnected?

The mental hospitals play a central role as crime scenes within the framework of Nazi "euthanasia: Health [...]

englischStages of life can be climbed, life paths can be taken, life beginnings and evenings can be experienced - the anthology Lebensstufen (Life Stages) thematically addresses these traditional ciphers of Western cultural history and the history of ideas in order to trace the staging of life [...]

englischThis volume sheds light on the status of the humanities in the Soviet Union, using the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan as an example. The work presented here for the first time in translation is the literary thesis of the well-known Azerbaijani writer Mir Cəlal (1908–1978), written from the [...]