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Size Matters – Understanding Monumentality Across Ancient Civilizations
Does size matter in the perception of monuments? How can one quantify the monumental? This volume considers these questions in an interdisciplinary approach.
Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing?
The Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the question of the construction and transfer of knowledge about man and nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Harco Willems
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Jan-Michael Dahms
(eds.)
The Nile: Natural and Cultural Landscape in Egypt
Ancient Egypt as we know it with all its wonders like pyramids and temples wouldn't have existed without the Nile. The first recent attempt to explain the importance of this natural phenomenon for the culture of pharaonic Egypt.
Gesa zur Nieden
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Berthold Over
(eds.)
Musicians' Mobilities and Music Migrations in Early Modern Europe
Biographical Patterns and Cultural Exchanges
In the book musicologists and historians examine music migrations between elite and everyday musicians' mobilities during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Elisabeth Cheauré
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Regine Nohejl
(eds.)
Humour and Laughter in History
Transcultural Perspectives
By using examples from different cultures and different historical epochs this book shows how humour can be used as a means of coping with problematic historical events, especially in times of war and crisis.
Jörg Rogge
(ed.)
Making Sense as a Cultural Practice
Historical Perspectives
The production of sense is a central field of action of cultural and political practice. The articles examine how, in different contexts, the construction of sense and its outcome as a cultural practice.
The Transatlantic Sixties
Europe and the United States in the Counterculture Decade
The 1960s from a transatlantic perspective: The book comprises critical essays on transatlantic and globalized American studies, focused on politics and culture.
Jörg Rogge
(ed.)
Cultural History in Europe
Institutions – Themes – Perspectives
What is the current state of research in European cultural history? Are there developments that rewrite this approach to history? This volume discusses these and other fundamental questions and provides initial answers.