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Die Akademien der Wissenschaften in Zentraleuropa im Kalten Krieg
(2018)
During the Cold War, the systemic rivalry between East and West was also carried out in the field of scholarship. This volume examines the Academies of Sciences in Central Europe on either side of the Iron Curtain in the ...
Sakralmöbel aus Österreich: Von Tischlern und ihren Arbeiten im Zeitalter des Absolutismus. I: Östliche Landesteile
(2017)
The study includes picture sources and written records to fully discuss the history of ecclesiastical interiors as well as the stylistic development of the furnishings in the early modern period. In addition, the study ...
Die Universität Innsbruck in der Ära der Thun-Hohenstein’schen Reformen 1848–1860
(2018)
The book addresses the implementation of the reform of the Austrian educational system named after Minister Leo Thun-Hohenstein (1811–1888) in the years following the revolution of 1848 at the University of Innsbruck.
John Gibson & Antonio Canova. Rezeption, Transfer, Inszenierung
(2018)
The book is dedicated to the sculptor John Gibson (1790-1866) and his relationship with Antonio Canova (1757-1822). It analyses Gibson’s early years in Rome, his role in anlgo-roman artistic exchange and his self-fashioning ...
Klosterneuburger Traditionsbuch
(2025)
The “Klosterneuburg Traditionsbuch”, which is now kept in the Augustinian canons' archive, contains over 800 records of the canonry's legal transactions, ranging from its foundation by the Babenberg Leopold III and his ...
The Preaching of the Third Crusade (1187–1192)
(2025)
This book offers the first broad investigation of the preaching and mobilization of the Third Crusade (1187-92), straddling around 200 sermon texts as well as 100 manuscripts. It addresses the major problem that “crusade ...
Die Sprache des erlittenen Krieges (1914–1938)
(2025)
This volume focuses on poems by French frontline soldiers that address the suffering resulting from the experience of war. They bear witness, accuse, and function as a medium for coping with traumatic experiences. In ...
Narratives at Play in Aeschylus
(2025)
The strong presence of embedded narratives in Aeschylus is often explained as a sign of the immaturity of the tragic genre in his time. Narratives at Play in Aeschylus analyses narrative features which were ostensibly ...
Monuments and Territory
(2025)
Gabowitsch and Homanyuk draw on unique sources to trace the logic of Russian monument policies in occupied Ukraine: wartime on-site ethnography complemented by systematic real-time data collection from online sources, many ...
Risiko und Unsicherheit in der modernen islamischen Praxis
(2024)
The principle of insurance as a calculable assumption of risk emerged in Europe as early as the late Middle Ages. Despite their high economic relevance, however, they were not fully institutionalized in law until the 19th ...
Крах Просвещения?
(2024)
This introduction to the philosophy of the Enlightenment examines and critiques concepts, clichés, distortions, or simply assumptions about this intellectual movement. The aim of the book is to distinguish between different ...
Sergius of Reshaina, Commentary on Aristotle’s ›Categories‹
(2024)
Sergius of Reshaina (d. 536) is a major figure in the history of the Syriac reception of Aristotle’s logic. He studied philosophy and medicine in the late 5th century in Alexandria with the famous Ammonius Hermeiou, whose ...
Great Queer Provocation
(2024)
Queer cultures are vibrant components of the constantly transforming societies of the 21st century. This is both socially and anthropologically recognizable, as well as individually readable. Categories such as wealth, ...
Texte vererben
(2024)
Amalia Witt sheds light on questions of inheriting and bequeathing texts based on the extraordinary friendship between the author Montaigne and Marie de Gournay, one of the first female editors and authors of the early ...
Inorganic Life
(2024)
Contemporary theory has pushed the boundaries of the concept of the living, urging us to consider a vitality that manifests beyond the human, animal or even the organic altogether. Lindner explores this passive vitalism ...
Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta
(2024)
This monograph analyses metaphysics and epistemology in the medieval Mādhva tradition of Vedānta. It focuses primarily on the ideas of the sixteenth-century philosopher Vyāsatīrtha. The volume explores Vyāsatīrtha’s defence ...
Unfree Lives
(2024)
This first detailed study of slavery in medieval Yemen examines the lives of women and men who were enslaved as children and then placed in various subaltern positions - from domestic servant to royal concubine, from ...
Theorie der Klassik
(2022)
For the last three centuries, prominent thinkers have been asking themselves what it is that constitutes a classic. This volume takes up this question and shows how cultural artifacts become and remain classics through ...
Werkverzeichnis Anton Bruckner, Band 2 : WAB 96 bis WAB add 334
(2024)
Based on the 149 works listed in Renate Grasberger's older catalogue of works, the new catalogue has been expanded to over 300 works, including autograph sketches, study materials, copies and arrangements. A novelty of the ...
Schauspiel & Doppeltes Bewusstsein
(2024)
The present study examines how four acting theorists—Constant Coquelin, William Archer, Max Martersteig, and Edward Gordon Craig—incorporated new psychological insights on consciousness splits into their considerations. ...
«Poor images» – arme Bilder?
(2025)
Digital images are ubiquitous and, since the spread of mobile devices, often appear as poorly resolved, frequently edited digital
copies. Based on Hito Steyerl's concept of the »poor image«,Helena Schmidt analyses their ...
Abwägung im Kommunikationsstrafrecht
(2022)
The legislator sometimes restricts the fundamental freedoms of one person by means of criminal law in order to protect the rights of others. To this end, the legislator must weigh all the interests involved, and in criminal ...
Verstehen verstehen
(2022)
This book explores the nature and normativity of the epistemic state of understanding. Particular attention is devoted to the relation between understanding and truth, the relation between understanding and explanation, ...
Regularisations of Irregularly Staying Migrants in the EU
(2023)
‘Combatting’ irregular migration is one of the key challenges to migration management at EU level. The present book addresses one of the most pressing structural problems regarding the EU’s return policy: the low return ...
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Österreich, Beiheft 1
(2013)
Der vorliegende Band konzentriert sich – wie der Titel bereits deutlich macht – auf die Vorstellung und Besprechung neuer Methoden der Dokumentation sowie der Visualisierung, die besonders in den letzten Jahren auch im ...
Das Prytaneion in Ephesos
(2010)
Hitler - Beneš - Tito
(2014)
Théonymie celtique, cultes, interpretatio - Keltische Theonymie, Kulte, Interpretatio
(2013)
Diese zehnte Buchpublikation im Rahmen des ÖAW-Projekts "Fontes epigraphici religionum Celticarum antiquarum“ vertieft verschiedene Aspekte der religiösen Überlieferung keltischsprechender Bevölkerungen, von Britannien und ...
Soft Law and its Importance in Ensuring Member States' Compliance with Union Law
(2024-02-02)
Soft law and its role in the enforcement of EU law: Apart from the Treaty infringement procedure there are more and more procedures, mostly laid down in secondary law, by which the EU – often using soft law – ensures Member ...
Die Register Innocenz‘ III. 16. Band 16. Pontifikatsjahr, 1213, 1214 : Texte und Indices
(2024)
The 16th volume of the edition of pope Innocent III’s chancery registers is containing 182 letters on political and ecclesiastical issues addressed to multiple recipients all over Europe and in the Middle East. The volume ...
Die Zukunft der Vergangenheit in der Gegenwart
(2019)
The volume contains 18 contributions to an international conference of archivists and historians dealing with the current situation of archives and archival science generally and specifically with the impact of digitization ...
Professionelle Handlungskompetenz für mehrsprachig-sprachbewussten Unterricht entwickeln
(2024)
This dissertation analyzes the development of pre-service teachers' competences in the area of inclusive translingual instruction. It gives equal consideration to the multilingual repertoires of pupils, alongside German ...
Religiöse Vorstellungen von SchülerInnen erforschen
(2024)
This volume is dedicated to a fundamental and comprehensive assessment of research on students' conceptions in the field of religion. Various theoretical approaches to researching students' religious conceptions are revealed, ...
Glanz und Elend der Aufklärung in Wien
(2023)
The Viennese Enlightenment began with a delay and then proceeded at an accelerated pace. The hurried and soon blocked process of adjustment led to peculiarities of Austrian culture. Based on the economic, political, social, ...
The legal framework for refugee resettlement to the European Union with lessons from the American model
(2023-06-01)
This book elucidates the international and EU legal framework for refugee resettlement to the European Union. Firstly, it provides clarity on the concept of resettlement. Secondly, it identifies the international legal ...
Studium als Balanceakt
(2023)
This open access book sheds light on study-related experiences of First-in-Family students in Austria. For the first time, this book comprehensively illuminates those areas of life in which students are embedded outside ...
Ökonomien der Parodie am Wiener Vorstadttheater
(2022-08)
Differing from previous research approaches, the parodies of the Viennese popular theatres can be considered as a genre of theatre practice which allows to demonstrate the conditions of production for playwrights in the ...