Publications
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Kreuzzug als Selbstbeschreibung
(2020)
The reign of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy (1363–1477) might, in retrospect, suggest a link between modern and medieval features of their rule, especially with respect to the crusade projects of Philipp the Good (1419–1467). ...
» Cette reine qui fait une si piètre figure «
(2020)
Successive generations have remembered Marie de’ Medici (1575–1642), Queen of France, as an incompetent regent, obsessed with power and alleged to have murdered her husband. Moreover, historians often saw no more to her ...
Exultet in Material und Raum
(2025)
Exultet iam angelica turba coelorum! – Rejoice, choirs of angels! – these words mark the beginning of the Easter Proclamation; its opening word, Exultet, gave its name to the manuscripts in which the proclamation was ...
Europäischer Buchmarkt und Gelehrtenrepublik
(2023)
The publishing house and bookshop Treuttel & Würtz was a hub of European exchange par excellence around 1800. While the publishing house targeted a transcultural elite audience with publications by Johann Wolfgang von ...
Minoische Bild-Räume
(2020)
This volume presents a new analysis of the wall paintings discovered over a hundred years ago in one of the most important centres of Minoan culture, the palace at Knossos. Introducing the theoretical concept of Bild-Raum, ...
Marie Luise Gotheins "Geschichte der Gartenkunst"
(2020)
Marie Luise Gothein’s „A History of Garden Art“, first published in 1914 and still in print, was immediately recognized as a classic, but has so far never been brought into focus as a seminal work of the discipline. This ...
Deutsch-Französische Geschichte ; Band 6: Diesseits und jenseits der Nation
(2025)
The 19th century is widely regarded as an era of profound transformation. In both Germany and France, the period between 1815 and 1870 was shaped by diverse political, social, and cultural developments associated with the ...
"From the Australian Bush to the International Jungle"
(2023)
After World War I, membership in the League of Nations represented an important step for the British Dominions on the road to foreign policy independence. The internationalism of the League of Nations was not a purely ...
Caesarius von Heisterbach: Libri VIII miraculorum – Die „Acht Wunderbücher“
(2025)
The Cistercian Caesarius of Heisterbach (ca. 1180-1240) is one of the most renowned authors of the Middle Ages. His 'Eight Books of Miracles' (Libri VIII miraculorum) are a collection of instructional, edifying and deterrent ...
Verwandtsein und Herrschen
(2020)
Catherine de Médicis was an important political figure of the French monarchy for over 30 years. Her authority was based on her position as queen mother in relation to her children. This book explores the question of what ...
Images, Gestures, Voices, Lives
(2025)
The concept of ‘Palaeolithic art’ and its study have changed considerably in recent decades. The modern notion of ‘art’ is cross-culturally and diachronically problematic. The phenomenon cannot be reduced to material visual ...
Kreuzzug als Selbstbeschreibung
(2020)
The reign of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy (1363–1477) might, in retrospect, suggest a link between modern and medieval features of their rule, especially with respect to the crusade projects of Philipp the Good (1419–1467). ...
Le udienze di Mussolini durante la Repubblica Sociale Italiana, 1943–1945
(2020)
The calendar of Mussolini’s audiences given towards the end of fascism (the Italian Social Republic) are held at the Central State Archives. The volume, which makes it available to scholars for the first time, is enriched ...
Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives
(2025)
From climate change to global pandemics, some of the most vexing questions facing postcolonial societies are entangled with the contradictory role of science in postcolonial contexts. Science is connected to histories of ...
Economies of the Edge
(2025)
This volume offers a new perspective on trans-Eurasian connectivity between 300 BCE and 300 CE. It focuses on border regions as key sites of economic interaction and transformation. Beyond classic center-periphery models ...
Negotiating States of Mind
(2025)
Negotiating States of Mind examines melancholia's demise as a scientific concept, tracing the conceptual changes that transformed psychiatric thinking in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on Meiji Japan's adaptation ...
Bausteine einer Korpusgrammatik des Deutschen: Bd. 2 (2021)
(2021)
Bausteine einer Korpusgrammatik des Deutschen (“Building blocks towards a corpus grammar of German”) is a series presenting corpus linguistic studies on German grammar conducted at the Leibniz Institute for the German ...
Fake News im Mittelalter?
(2026)
The “post-truth era” and a new kind of threat from uncontrollable fake news have been central components in diagnoses of the present for several years. However, the question of how historically new such phenomena actually ...
Environments, Resources, and Infrastructures Between Russia and the Asia-Pacific
(2025)
The volume brings together interdisciplinary studies of the environments, resource policies, and infrastructures in the North Pacific, spanning the eighteenth century to the present. From early colonial encounters to ...
Contested Solidarities
(2025)
This volume responds to the multiple forms of oppression and their manifold casualties in the Global South, without taking recourse to a preemptive normativity promising instant identification of victims and perpetrators. ...
»Émigrés« an der Grenze
(2025)
In the chaos of the violent upheaval of 1789, tens of thousands of people decided to flee to neighbouring countries. Who were these refugees, ostracised by the revolutionaries as émigrés? How did they manage to cross the ...
I Comuni cittadini italiani
(2026)
The volume combines recent research trends, investigating the Italian city communes in light of the key concepts „actors“, „artifacts“, and „processes“. These analytical categories specifically address newly emerging and ...
Künstlersignatur und Artefakt
(2025)
In the extensive research on artists' signatures, little attention has been paid to their material, topological, and praxeological dimensions. This volume proposes a shift in focus from the texts themselves to how their ...
Reflexionsvertrauen
(2025)
As a commemorative publication for the long-standing Heidelberg professor of Systematic Theology (Ethics), Prof. Dr. Klaus Tanner, this volume brings together contributions from colleagues, students and close companions. ...
La ville jurée
(2026)
In the late Middle Ages, towns in the Rhine valley from Konstanz to Strasbourg created networks of relationships guaranteed by oath in order to build trust and solidarity between their inhabitants and secure their obedience ...
»Ernsthafte Genauigkeit und ehrende Strenge«
(2025)
This study examines musical analyses in German-language music journals from the 1760s to the 1820s with regard to their journalistic and theoretical context. Like hardly any other format of the time, these texts bundle the ...
Who Won the Sino-Nepalese War of 1791–1792?
(2026)
The book deals with the history of the last war between Nepal and China-Tibet in 1791/1792. With a wealth of newly discovered and for the first time edited and translated texts from Nepal, China and Tibet, the volume forms ...