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Essays on Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond in Honor of Thomas E. Levy

The Donation of Constantine is the most outrageous and powerful forgery in world history. The question of its precise time of origin alone kept generations of researchers occupied. But, what exactl...

"This excellent book fills a longstanding void in literature on the politics of memory in Eastern Europe. Professor Marples has produced an innovative and courageous study of how postcommunist Ukra...

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction: Astrologers' Theory of History -- Astrology as a Naturalistic Theology of History -- Celestial influence - the major premiss of astrology -- Lut...

In the first three decades of the 20th century, the importance of Jewish artists from Central and Eastern Europe grew in the international artistic community. Liberated from the dictates of orthodo...

Manuskripte und Menschen unterwegs zueinander - dieser Ausstellungskatalog ist das Ergebnis eines Experiments: Was passiert, wenn zwei junge Künstler*innen aus dem Iran auf persische Handschriften ...

Der Band nimmt die Reise- und Sammlungsbeschreibungen von Philipp Hainhofer (1578-1647) zum Anlass, um verschiedene Aspekte der deutschen Gartenkunst zu beleuchten. Der behandelte Zeitraum setzt mi...

What do we mean by Jewish space? How does it come into being, what qualities does it possess, and how does one experience it? Does this specific space play a role in Jewish-Christian encounters? Ho...

While words can mean different things to different people in different contexts, specialists excel in using terms and expressions, which non-specialists ~ quite often ~ find challenging to understa...

Digging the Others' Past

Olesya Khromeychuk is a Lector in Ukrainian at the University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD in History from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.

This is a monograph about the medieval Jewish community of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Through deep analyses of contemporary historical sources, mostly documents from the Cairo Geniz...

The origins of the anonymous Late Latin Story of Apollonius, King of Tyre (Historia Apollonii regis Tyri), are disputed, with the narrative commonly being seen as a Christianised folktale of a sub-...

Helen Agnes Stoffel hat mit Überlebenden des Holocaust in Tel Aviv und Berlin Gespräche geführt, die Auskunft geben über ihr Schicksal als vom Nationalsozialismus verfolgte und in Konzentrationslag...

As a case study of the religious history of colonial Sri Lanka in the 19th and early 20th centuries, this book by Jiang Wei explores the prehistory, development, and decline of the 'Independent Cat...