This volume is the result of a workshop entitled “Travel writing between fact and fiction – genre, functions and boundaries” organized at Bogaziçi University Istanbul in December 2010 within the frame of the research project “Europe from the outside – formations of Middle Eastern views on Europe [...]

englisch‘Turkish Studies’ deal with the history, culture, religions, languages and literature of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. The scope of the book includes everything relating to Turkey, e.g. Kurdish, Armenian, Greek or Jewish matters, as well as its relations with the Turkic [...]

Vorstellungen von Reinheit und Unreinheit sind wichtige Strukturelemente antiker religiöser Traditionen. In ihrer einfachsten Form regeln sie die physische Präsenz von Individuen und Objekten in heiligen Bezirken oder an anderen Orten, an denen dies gesellschaftlich geboten scheint. Aufgrund ihres [...]

englischReligion as a discontinued model – that is how the narrative of modernity likes to see it. Empirically, the situation is more complex: even if secularisation often makes religious institutions appear as losers, important areas of religion have proven to be innovative and productive. How, [...]

Der dreiteilig angelegte Inhalt des Buches bewegt sich auf dem weiten Forschungsfeld der altägyptischen Medizin: Teil I beleuchtet die Hintergründe des problematischen Phänomens retrospektive Diagnose, dem Versuch, antike Krankheits- und Fallbeschreibungen mit einer heutigen Diagnose zu [...]

englischFrom its discovery in the mid-18th century onwards, the black-glazed pottery of ancient Greece set several trends in the history of taste in Europe. This was also especially true in the Victorian era, which took a systematic interest in copying not only shapes and décors of the pots but also [...]