This book explores the many types of medieval murder and many types of medieval murderers, from men killing other men in anger, envy or revenge, to women killing their husbands or their infants, from plotters assassinating their rulers to Christian mobs massacring Jews.
This book explores the many types of medieval murder and many types of medieval murderers, from men killing other men in anger, envy or revenge, to women killing their husbands or their infants, from plotters assassinating their rulers to Christian mobs massacring Jews.
From the moment that Prussia entered the world of the crusade movement and the zone of Western European external expansion in the thirteenth century, and was quickly dominated by the Teutonic Order, the new Prussian land created by the Order became a transitional area and a frontier country.
On the Significance of Religion in Social Justice analyses the role of religion in social justice from the perspectives of Traditional African Religion, Christianity, and Islam by bringing different disciplines into play, including medicine and health, humanities and Indigenous knowledge systems or African metaphysics, Islam and sociopolitical studies, practical theology, and pastoral care.
On the Significance of Religion in Social Justice analyses the role of religion in social justice from the perspectives of Traditional African Religion, Christianity, and Islam by bringing different disciplines into play, including medicine and health, humanities and Indigenous knowledge systems or African metaphysics, Islam and sociopolitical studies, practical theology, and pastoral care.
Empire of Elites investigates the self-representation of the late Roman senatorial aristocracy in epigraphic evidence to illuminate the cultural, social, and political dynamics of the Later Roman Empire.
This interdisciplinary volume examines the longstanding and complex relations between Poland and Turkey from the 18th century to the present, exploring their cultural, diplomatic, political and economic dimensions.
This interdisciplinary volume examines the longstanding and complex relations between Poland and Turkey from the 18th century to the present, exploring their cultural, diplomatic, political and economic dimensions.
For many observers, the predation of Boko Haram, unsparing and venal in its manifestation, is shocking, and it seems to lack a local historical frame of reference that would help make it understandable.
Empire of Elites investigates the self-representation of the late Roman senatorial aristocracy in epigraphic evidence to illuminate the cultural, social, and political dynamics of the Later Roman Empire.
From the moment that Prussia entered the world of the crusade movement and the zone of Western European external expansion in the thirteenth century, and was quickly dominated by the Teutonic Order, the new Prussian land created by the Order became a transitional area and a frontier country.
Using a transdisciplinary approach, this book examines how scientific understanding of the Earth has been created, transformed, and shared across time - combining perspectives from the history of science, sociology of knowledge, and cultural studies to explore the evolution of Earth sciences.
This book offers a comprehensive history of the Ethiopian labour movement, exploring the impact of trade unions and workers’ militancy from the 1960s onwards.
This book offers a comprehensive history of the Ethiopian labour movement, exploring the impact of trade unions and workers’ militancy from the 1960s onwards.
George Catlin gained renown for his nineteenth-century paintings of Indians and their lands, sympathetic portraits that counterbalanced those of other Americans eager to conquer and dominate both.
Using a transdisciplinary approach, this book examines how scientific understanding of the Earth has been created, transformed, and shared across time - combining perspectives from the history of science, sociology of knowledge, and cultural studies to explore the evolution of Earth sciences.
George Catlin gained renown for his nineteenth-century paintings of Indians and their lands, sympathetic portraits that counterbalanced those of other Americans eager to conquer and dominate both.
Die umfassende Monographie fuhrt erstmals alle heute bekannten Belege von Darstellungen in Grabern, die sich chronologisch vom Alten Reich bis zur griechisch-romischen Epoche erstrecken, mit den Werken antiker Autoren und modernen medizinischen Erkenntnissen zusammen und zeichnet einen idealtypischen Verlauf eines altagyptischen Bestattungsrituals nach.
Das Jahrbuch Sexualitäten ist ein jährlich erscheinendes Periodikum, das Fragen des Sexuellen in einem weiten Sinne thematisiert – unter anderem in den Bereichen des Gesellschaftlichen, Politischen, Kulturellen, Historischen und Juristischen, in der Medizin und den Naturwissenschaften, in Religion, Pädagogik und Psychologie.
Eine alltagsrelevante Verwaltungsgeschichte Hamburgs im Zuge der Revolution von 1918/19November 1918 – der Krieg ist verloren, das Deutsche Kaiserreich am Ende.
In über 300 Biografien erinnert das Buch an Rotary-Mitglieder, die unter dem Druck des Nazi-Regimes aufgrund ihrer Herkunft oder politischen Einstellung aus deutschen und österreichischen Clubs ausgeschlossen wurdenKonrad Adenauer, Thomas Mann, Karl Wolfskehl - sie alle waren Anfang des 20.
Ein vergessenes Stück Literaturgeschichte der Stadt BerlinUnter der Leitmetaphorik der leeren Zentrale wird erstmals nicht nur das Ruinenfeld des Nachkriegsberlin mittels eines stadtarchäologischen Zugangs erschlossen, sondern ein literaturgeschichtliches Terrain aus dem Schutt der Überlieferung geholt, das sich sukzessive als Denkfeld sui generis erschließt.
Diese wissenschaftliche Aufarbeitung der Fremdunterbringung von Kindern und Jugendlichen in katholischen Einrichtungen beleuchtet erstmals diese Strukturen nach 1945.
Das erste Jahrtausend unserer Zeitrechnung ist überladen mit Ursprungserzählungen, Geschichtsbildern und Meistererzählungen, was natürlich keineswegs nur für das alte Tirol gilt.
Karl Kassenbrock beschreibt die besondere Verbindung des »Rassereferenten « beim Reichskommissar der besetzten Niederlande, Hans Calmeyer, mit der deutschen Jüdin Henriette Koppel-Hirsch (1914–1984), die von 1931 bis 1933 in seiner Osnabrücker Anwaltskanzlei arbeitete.
SOMMERFRISCHE, WINTERSPORT UND ERNEST HEMINGWAY: TOURISMUS IM MONTAFON VON DEN ANFÄNGEN BIS IN DIE GEGENWARTDer Tourismus prägt das heutige Montafon in all seinen Facetten und mit all seinen positiven wie negativen Auswirkungen.
