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Der exquisite Band zeigt das vielseitige Schaffen der Münchner Zeichnerin, Bildhauerin und Installationskünstlerin Elisabeth Heindl. Die Intensität der Formen und Bildsprache ihrer Kunst beeindruck...

Ehrungen sind ein gesellschaftliches Problem: Seit Jahren brechen in Deutschland Debatten über Straßennamen und Ehrenbürger auf, stehen koloniale, nationalsozialistische oder militärische Tradition...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Vorwort / Hudemann, Rainer / Soutou, Georges-Henri -- Introduction / Soutou, Georges-Henri -- Adel - ,,Mehrzweck-Elite" vor der Moderne ? / Werner, Karl Ferdinand -- Der Ad...

This book showcases Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess Palatine (1618-1680), one of the foremost female minds of the 17th century. Best known today for her important correspondence with the philosopher...

Jean-Paul Forster has taught English and American literature in Lausanne as well as at the Centre de Télé-enseignement, University of Nancy. He is the author of and of , a short introduction to Eng...

This book re-locates Elizabeth Gaskell's 'smaller stories' in the literary and cultural context of the nineteenth century. While Gaskell is recognised as one of the major novelists of her time, the...

If we had to formulate in one sentence what this book is about, it might be "How partial differential equations can help to understand heat explosion, tumor growth or evolution of biological specie...

This book contributes to the literary history of eighteenth-century women's life writings, particularly those labeled "scandalous memoirs." It examines how the evolution of this subgenre was shaped...

Reversing F. O. Matthiessen's famous description of translation as "an Elizabethan art", Elizabethan literature may well be considered "an art of translation". Amidst a climate of intense intercult...

Eltz Castle near Koblenz deeply impressed many visitors. The German art-historian Georg Dehio declared it 'the castle par exellence'. This book describes its history and takes readers through the i...

Die Natur des Menschen aus seiner Kulturgeschichte und diese umgekehrt aus der menschlichen Natur zu erschließen, bildet das Anliegen einer anthropologischen Geschichtsschreibung, deren Genese im ,...

This book explores the history of the international order in the eighteenth and nineteenth century through a new study of Emer de Vattel's   (1758). Drawing on unpublished sources from European arc...

This is the first-ever biography of the Victorian journalist, newspaper editor and travel writer Andrew Wilson (1830-1881). Born in Bombay, he was educated in the universities of Edinburgh and Tübi...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Vorwort -- Danksagung -- I. Einleitung -- II. Die Hauptabteilung ,,Verbindung zu den Kirchen" als Institution -- III. Die Hauptabteilung ,,Verbindung zu den Kirchen" im Sys...

The book begins with a review of zoonotic pandemics of the past: the "Black Death" or bubonic plague of the Middle Ages, the Spanish Influenza pandemic (derived from avian influenza) of the early 2...