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, [...]

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 [...]

englischBy displaying scenarios of violence, the epics König Rother and Straßburger Alexander inevitably convey specific attitudes towards the use of physical violence. In order to pinpoint these implicit evaluations, this study focuses on the narrative techniques of steering the recipients’ minds.

englischIn the beginning there was Napoleon’s death. It marked a fissure for the contemporary discourses on the heroic of the 19th century. In the imagination of european societies, more than ever, the departed hero lived on as the homme du siècle as which he had tried to represent himself in his [...]

englischIs Kyūdō a sport, pastime or asceticism? Is it ethical? Can archery be compared to harmonious beauty? In this study and using Japanese sources, the author depicts that the perceptions between mysticism, religiousness, play and sport owe a great deal to each era’s respective ideological [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]