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Gefangen in Mauthausen
(2024)
“Gefangen in Mauthausen” (Imprisoned in Mauthausen) is volume three of a ”major European project on the history of the survivors” (Carlo Moos). It deals with the everyday life of the concentration camp inmates and their ...
Die Produktion besonderer Arbeitskräfte
(2024)
The "servant question" in the late nineteenth century led to the proliferation of debates and conflicts regarding domestic work. Were household servants to be viewed as workers or as members of the household? How should ...
Von Hyele zu Velia
(2024)
Comprehensive research, undertaken by a multidisciplinary team from the University of Vienna between 1974 and 2001 in the Lower town of Velia, studied the evolution of the city walls in relation to the urban development ...
Romani People as Object and Subject of Scientific Inquiry : Scientification of Roma or RomaNization of science?
(2024)
The special issue of Romani Studies entitled “Romani people as object and subject of scientific inquiry: Scientification of Roma or RomaNization of science?” brings forward innovative approaches to critically revise the ...
Wie der Titel zu den Bildern kam
(2024)
For a long time, works of art with traditional pictorial motifs were sufficiently comprehensible even without titles. Why, when and under what circumstances were titles nevertheless created? The livrets, the exhibition ...
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, ...
Von Hyele zu Velia. Die Stadtmauern im urbanistischen Kontext. Die Befunde : Die österreichischen Forschungen in der West- und Unterstadt (1974, 1990-1993 und 1997-2001)
(2024)
The Austrian research team studied the evolution of the city walls in the Lower town of Velia and set it in relation to the urban development of the Phocaean polis on the Tyrrhenian coast, providing new information on the ...
Postmigrantische Literaturgeschichte
(2024)
Which role does literature play in the process of social change through migration? Postmigrant literary history establishes a new field-theoretical approach and considers migrants as an integral part of literary fields ...
Rudolf Carnap / Otto Neurath: Briefwechsel
(2024)
The correspondence between Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath is a key document in the history of logical empiricism. It illustrates the development of the debates in the Vienna Circle and in the subsequent emigration, provides ...
Q 11:9-13. The Certainty of the Answer to Prayer
(2024)
The Documenta Q volumes give a presentation and evaluation of the history of research on each section of the Sayings Gospel Q. This volume treats the segment Q 11:9-13 together with Luke 11:5-8 which follow on the Lord's ...
Lager als Architektur : Kriegsflüchtlingslager der Habsburgermonarchie und Architektur der Moderne
(2024)
Since 1945, camps as temporary mass accommodation have long been ignored in the history of architecture. Antje Senarclens de Grancy examines the camps at the beginning of the 20th century for the first time in the context ...
Beethoven-Geflechte. A Beethoven Tapestry
(2024)
Beethoven, the loner – that is the historiographical image that has long dominated biographies and research on Beethoven. It is the social circles Beethoven encountered as he settled in the cultural and political metropolis, ...
Das Wiener Hetzamphitheater (1755-1796)
(2024)
The “Wiener Hetzamphitheater” (1755-1796) was the largest theater in Vienna until it burned down. The study is dedicated to a neglected chapter of local and European theater history by focusing on the staged animal fights. ...
Searching for Gold
(2024)
This volume focusses on Bronze Age mining in the Balkan regions, presented in the regional and inter-regional context. The archaeological excavations on the Ada Tepe located in the Bulgarian Rhodopes are the point of ...
Masken des Staates
(2024)
The book unfolds the reciprocal interplay between drama and diplomacy and opens up a new reading of key dramatic texts and performances of the Early Modern period.
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. ...
Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons
(2024)
This book argues that the received view of the distinction between freedom and power must be rejected because it rests on an untenable account of the discursive cognition that endows individuals with the capacity for ...
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 ...
Immanuel Kant – Freiheit, Vernunft, Sinnlichkeit
(2024)
This volume takes the Kant anniversary year 2024 as an opportunity to give space to the many-voiced echoes of Kant's philosophy by renowned authors of the 20th century (Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Gilles Deleuze, ...
“Cultures of Airborne Diseases”, Special Issue of Open Cultural Studies
(2024)
Examining airborne diseases from the perspectives of literary studies, cultural studies, environmental humanities, and health humanities, among other fields, “Cultures of Airborne Diseases” platforms significant discourse ...
Ironie und Ambiguität im Ijobbuch
(2024)
Taking up a recent trend in studies on the book of Job, the study is centered on irony and ambiguity in the text to show that both rhetorical features appear throughout the book and point to the finiteness of human cognitive ...
Marianne Pirker
(2024)
This study is the first to present a source-critical biography and vocal profile of the singer Marianne Pirker (1717?–1782). Pirker's career is continuously reflected against the background of the production system of the ...
The Industrialized Designer
(2024)
What does it mean to be called an industrial designer? This book traces the remarkable rise of this professional identity in historical perspective from a position of anonymity in the early twentieth century, to mid-century ...
Militär in der Provinz
(2025)
In the historiography of the Habsburg Monarchy, the first half of the 19th century has received relatively little attention compared to the preceding reform phase from Maria Theresa to Leopold II or the long reign of Franz ...
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 ...
Bronze Age Metallurgy
(2025)
This volume presents new results on Bronze Age metallurgy in Central Europe and the Balkans. The papers discuss recent developments and results concerning the production and use of copper, trade and exchange of raw materials ...
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 ...
«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 ...
Zeugnisse des Okkulten
(2025)
The research project aims to make the occult visible as a component of Viennese modernism. It connects to a
research context that understands occultism and esotericism not as opposed to modernism, but rather as
concepts ...
Der einsame Weg, Band 2 : Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2024)
The 15th volume of the “Historical-Critical Edition of Arthur Schnitzler’s Early Works” – edited by Konstanze Fliedl since 2010 – presents Schnitzler’s play “Der einsame Weg” (1904). The entire extensive corpus of material ...
Dressaged Animality
(2024)
The book combines Marxist analysis with feminist and posthumanist methodology to analyse the relation between ‘societal dressage’ and ‘bodily animality’ that humans and animals share. Within this original theoretical ...
Der einsame Weg, Band 1 : Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2024)
The 15th volume of the “Historical-Critical Edition of Arthur Schnitzler’s Early Works” – edited by Konstanze Fliedl since 2010 – presents Schnitzler’s play “Der einsame Weg” (1904). The entire extensive corpus of material ...
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 ...
Rewriting Alpine Orientalism : Postcolonial Readings in Canadian and Austrian Mountain Tourism
(2024)
This comparative study examines Orientalist discourse through a wide range of mountain representation from the Canadian Rockies and Austrian Alps, including exploration reports, newspaper articles, promotional documents, ...
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 ...
The Town of Kom Ombo I
(2024)
The publication gives an overview of the settlement history of the site, the research history, Kom Ombo as seen in the visual arts, the transformation of the landscape of Kom Ombo and, as the last chapter, the magnetic ...
Zukunft Bestand
(2024)
Zukunft Bestand is a holistic concept for the ecological and socially inclusive renovation of existing housing complexes. Using two case studies representative of typical building methods of the 20th century, the book shows ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Theater als „Spiel- und Spiegelform“ jüdischer Erfahrung
(2024)
The book explores how the entry of Jews into modern Viennese society functioned "as theater" and with theatrical means, developing a praxeology of Jewish belonging and difference. Four studies address Jewish experiences ...
Werkverzeichnis Anton Bruckner, Band 1 : WAB 1 bis WAB 95
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A History of Displaced Knowledge : Austrian Refugees from National Socialism in Australia
(2025)
The book examines the migration of ideas and knowledge carried in the cultural baggage of Austrian refugees who fled to Australia in 1938 and 1939 to escape National Socialism. Through 26 life stories, it explores the ...
I libretti italiani a Vienna tra Sei e Settecento = Italian Libretti in Vienna During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
(2025)
The present collection of essays focusing on Italian librettos at the Habsburg Court during the Baroque era gathers together the papers presented at the international conference “I libretti italiani a Vienna tra Sei e ...
C’était bien à l’époque mais l’avenir iko sombre
(2025)
How can exploitative living and working conditions be remembered with nostalgia? This monograph offers an analysis of the specific form of the 'nostalgia-based master narrative' used by ex-mineworkers in Lubumbashi (DR ...
Field Research on Translation and Interpreting
(2025)
This volume constitutes a significant step in establishing field research as a central methodological approach in translation and interpreting studies. Following an integrative approach, it addresses both translation and ...
Die Nekropole Potzneusiedl (Burgenland)
(2025)
The book deals with the early imperial period inhumations and cremation burials of Potzneusiedl. Interdisciplinary analyses (archaeology, archaeobotany, archaeozoology, genetics, numismatics and anthropology) provide a ...
Debunking Moral Generalism : New Vindications of Moral Particularism
(2025)
In this book, the idea of moral generalism, i.e. morality depends on moral principles, and its arguments are debunked. The author argues that there are no substantive true moral generalizations, and that the existence and ...
Military Healthcare and the Early Modern State, 1660–1830 : Management − Professionalisation − Shortcomings
(2025)
This volume demonstrates novel ways to study military health care in Europe from the 1660s to the 1830s. The book uses a sociocultural mode to scrutinize the impact of values, habits and behaviour on the quality and ...
Ferdinand Raimund: Historisch-kritische Ausgabe, Bd. 4 : Die Unheil bringende Krone, Der Verschwender
(2025)
The fourth volume of the new historical-critical edition of Raimund's works contains, in addition to the play 'Die Unheil bringende Krone', the magic play 'Der Verschwender', a 'classic' of Austrian theatre. The complete ...
Exhibiting Abstraction
(2025)
The time around 1910 has entered art history as the moment when «abstraction was invented». However, where and when works of non-figurative art became present in the public eye has been afforded little attention to date. ...
The Mobilization at the Periphery
(2025)
The text is devoted to researching the processes of formation of common Austro-Hungarian armed forces during the last third of 19th and first decades of 20th centuries up to the beginning of World War I. One of the most ...
Geteilte Diskurse : Moritz Rahmers ,,Die hebräischen Traditionen in den Werken des Hieronymus" zum Buch Genesis
(2025)
The present study provides an analysis and commentary on the main part of the dissertation "Die hebräischen Traditionen in den
Werken des Hieronymus", written in 1861 by the Breslau rabbinate candidate Moritz Rahmer. ln ...
ASMOSIA XIII : Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones In Antiquity. Vienna, 19–24 September 2022, Volume 2
(2025)
The book contains the proceddings of the ASMOSIA XIII Conference held in 2022 inVienna which is the largest conference dealing with »Marbel in Antiquity«. This volume contains more than 70 scientific contributions from ...