Publications
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Canones: The Art of Harmony. The Canon Tables of the Four Gospels
(2020)
The so-called ‘Canon Tables’ of the Christian Gospels are an absolutely remarkable feature of the early, late antique, and medieval Christian manuscript cultures of East and West, the invention of which is commonly attributed ...
The Challenge of Minority Integration. Politics and Policies in the Nordic Nations
(2015)
How is solidarity achieved in highly diverse societies - particularly those that have been until recently characterized by rather homogeneous populations? What are the implications of growing levels of diversity on existing ...
Changing Roles of NGOs in the Creation, Storage and Dissemination of Information in Developing Countries
(2006)
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are growing exponentially. In 1993, the Yearbook of International Organizations listed 16,000 internationally recognized NGOs. By 2004, this number was 63,000. With this increase comes ...
Applications
(2021)
An increasing complexity of models used to predict real-world systems leads to the need for algorithms to replace complex models with far simpler ones, while preserving the accuracy of the predictions. This three-volume ...
Approaches in Tourism Modelling. Collected papers
(2019)
Tourism research has indeed become a booming and attractive agenda for data analysis oriented empirical economist thanks to modern technology. There has been a tremendous improvement over last decades in the mathematical, ...
Arabic Script on Christian Kings. Textile Inscriptions on Royal Garments from Norman Sicily
(2017)
Isabelle Dolezalek is the recipient of the 2018 ICMA Annual Book Prize. Roger II’s famous mantle and other royal garments from twelfth- and thirteenth-century Sicily prominently display Arabic inscriptions. While the ...
Arbeit als Hoffnung. Jüdische Ghettos in Litauen 1941-1944
(2015)
In the ghettos of Lithuania an urban infrastructure developed based on the needs of Jewish conscription and forced labor for German occupation forces and the Lithuanian administration. Using the example of the ghettos in ...
Arbeit im Nationalsozialismus
(2014)
Work was a core concept in National Socialism. In pre-war concentration camps, it was a tool for converting prisoners into Volksgenossen, or members of the national community. And during the war, forced labor was crucial ...
Children disengaged from armed groups in Colombia. Integration Processes in Context
(2013)
An in-depth study of the complex situation in Colombia; extensive research involving a broad range of participants. Drawing on a broad research on historical, geographical and socio-political context of the Colombian ...
Chinese Annals in the Western Observatory. An Outline of Western Studies of Chinese Unearthed Documents
(2020)
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of documents of all sorts have been unearthed in China, opening whole new fields of study and transforming our modern understanding of ancient China. While ...
Chora und Polis
(2004)
Der Schwerpunkt der althistorischen wie der archäologischen Forschung lag bis vor kurzem auf der Geschichte der Stadt das sie umgebende Land, die Chora blieb hingegen im Dunklen. Daher sind hinsichtlich des antiken Landlebens ...
Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity. Studies in Text Transmission
(2016)
The role of Christian institutions, writers and saints in the active suppression and destruction of books in Late Antiquity has received surprisingly little consideration. The author argues that texts and ideas from ...
The Civilising Offensive. Social and educational reform in 19th century Belgium
(2019)
Around 1850 Belgium was continental Europe`s most heavily industrialised state. From the mid-century until the Belle Époque many international social reform associations were based in Belgium. This book will stimulate the ...
Christian Martyrdom in Late Antiquity (300-450 AD). History and Discourse, Tradition and Religious Identity
(2012)
The present volume`s focus lies on the formation of a multifaceted discourse on Christian martyrdom in Late Antiquity. While martyrdom accounts remain a central means of defining Christian identity, new literary genres ...