For over 60 years, the accepted view of cultural evolution was that the world's first cities developed in the Fertile Crescent in the 4th millennium BC. This view overlooks the emergence of a much neglected class of sites—the Trypillia megasites of the Ukrainian forest-...

Based on the legacy and published works of the Göttingen orientalist Paul de Lagarde (1827-1891), the contributors to this volume undertake a historical inventory of his life and scientific work, including its political aspects, especially Lagarde's anti-Semitism. Besid...

The contributions to this book address a series of 'confrontations' - debates between intellectual communities, the interplay of texts and images, and the intersection of monumental architecture and physical terrain - and explore the ways in which the legacy of these en...

This volume provides access to the working and results of six years of research on religious individualisation. It demonstrates the independence of individualisation and modernisation. It has proved that religion is a motor of individualisation. And it has proved that t...

The experiences of Korean comfort girls-women are a paradigmatic example of how military sexual violence can obliterate the dignity of women and shame them into nonexistence. This book examines how the turning of their innocence into inadequacy, compounded their long, m...

The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new perspectives and new questions. The religious transform...

Die Studie untersucht Art und Veränderungen im sozialen Wohnungsbau in Deutschland der letzten hundert Jahre (1918 bis 2019) und deren Abhängigkeit von den jeweiligen wohnungspoltischen Tendenzen und Leitlnien, in Bezug auf die Neubautätigkeit im sozialen Wohnungsbau üb...

The self and how it relates to its surrounding world and history is a main concern of humanities and social sciences. This book addresses the issue by discussing various modes of studying and defining the self, based on a wide span of sources from medieval Western Scand...

This is the first volume dedicated exclusively to the historiographical work by Seneca the Elder, after the recent discovery of a fragmentary roll from Herculaneum bearing traces of his Historiae. Contributions not only focus on the discovery of the papyrus roll, but al...