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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 ...