englischThis study examines Muhammed Ali Al Hammi’s, the founder of the first Tunisian trades union, stays overseas in a geopolitical context. Among other things, it demonstrates how the Wilhelmine Empire employed the instrumentalisation of Islam and the development of pan-Islamism for its own [...]

englischIn a time when observation technologies, corporate surveillance and facial recognition are ubiquitous, a critical examination of surveillance has become more urgent than ever, as digital totalitarianism puts privacy and personal freedom at risk. Representations of surveillance in literature, [...]

englischThis edited volume focuses on the historical modification of known narratives until the onset of modernity. It examines the forms and functions which underlie this basic historical narrative technique and what opportunities might emerge from it for current research from an interdisciplinary [...]

englischDescribing the boundaries of what society conceives as ‘religion’ means establishing a social order with its respective areas of politics, law, or science. These areas are sometimes opposed to what we conceal as ‘religion’. In this book, the social boundaries of religion are explored with a [...]

englischThe development of state formation in Europe has proceeded under special conditions as jurisprudence was influenced sustainably by the heritage of the ancient world with Roman and ecclesiastical law. It is impossible to adequately describe state and politics since the late Middle Ages [...]

englischThis study contributes to the understanding of Ottoman-Greek identity by exploring the discourse that the Greek Philological Society in Constantinople has published on this topic in its journal. As capital of the Ottoman Empire, the city of Constantinople epitomized the transformations both [...]

englischBy employing intrinsic analyses of literary texts by early modern authors such as Stefan George, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rainer Maria Rilke, and other authors, the present study shows that privacy as an aesthetic phenomenon is one of the central paradigms in the definition and interpretation [...]

Was wäre der Obergermanisch-Raetische Limes – seit 2005 Teil des UNESCO-Weltkulturerbes – ohne die zahlreichen „Rekonstruktionen“, Nachbauten etc.? Er wäre vielerorts schlicht nicht sichtbar oder erkennbar. Der Wunsch, der römischen Vergangenheit ein Gesicht zu geben, ist also durchaus verständlich [...]