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Die Zeitschrift Mitteilungen zur Christlichen Archäologie wurde 1995 begründet und erscheint regelmäßig einmal jährlich. Neben den durchschnittlich vier wissenschaftlichen Artikeln zum Themenbereich der Christlichen Archäologie im weitesten Sinne und im Kontext der Klassischen Archäologie, der Alten Geschichte, der Kunstgeschichte, der Byzantinistik, der Klassischen Philologie und der Religionswissenschaft werden auch Bibliografien zur Spätantike und zur Christlichen Archäologie in Österreich...

During Schubert's lifetime, cultural events in Vienna were rarely one-dimensional. Rather, they combined different forms of expression to create complex aesthetic experiences: instrumental music was combined with operatic excerpts, poetry recitations, scenic performances, or tableaux vivants—whether in concert halls or in private salons. This volume, based primarily on contributions from the conference “Combining the Arts. Multimedia Performances in the early 19th-Century Habsburg Empire”...

"Austria, 1867–1955" connects the political history of German-speaking provinces of the Habsburg Empire before 1914 (Vienna and the Alpine Lands) with the history of the Austrian Republic that emerged in 1918. The book presents the case of modern Austria as a fascinating example of democratic nation-building. The construction of an Austrian political nation began in 1867 under Habsburg Imperial auspices, with the German-speaking bourgeois Liberals defining the concept of a political people...

During more than half a century, from 1972 onwards, Nicholas Sims-Williams has published many important articles on the older Iranian languages, especially Eastern Middle Iranian (Sogdian, Bactrian and Khotanese). Virtually all of his articles on Sogdian and Khotanese are collected in the present volume, together with three entirely new papers entitled “Is there a ‘predicative instrumental’ in Sogdian?”, “Yaghnobi and the Sogdian ‘Rhythmic Law’” and “The locative singular in Old Khotanese”. The...

The extensive corpus of all available legends of Byzantine metrical seals (approx. 4,500) was planned to be published in three volumes; the first two were published in 2011 and 2016, and the third is now available. A fourth volume with addenda is in the works. These miniature epigrams are sometimes aesthetically ambitious and also of philological interest. The commentary makes these seals accessible as an important source for prosopography, social and administrative history, historical...

This edited volume takes an original approach to the rich architectural heritage of the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau by focusing on the people, skills, materials, and processes involved in constructing and maintaining it. By placing building craft traditions centre stage, the book complements existing literature on the history, design, and symbolism of buildings, while also encouraging new perspectives. Drawing upon architecture, anthropology, sociology, material science, art history, and...

Die „Römischen Historischen Mitteilungen“ wurden von Leo Santifaller begründet und erschienen erstmals 1958. Sie werden derzeit von Andreas Gottsmann, Direktor des Österreichischen Historischen Instituts beim Österreichischen Kulturforum in Rom, herausgegeben. Den Hauptteil des diesjährigen Bandes bilden Aufsätze zur Geschichte der katholischen Kirche und ihrer Institutionen; sie werden von verschiedenen Autoren aus theologischer, lokal- und globalgeschichtlicher Warte beleuchtet und behandeln...

This volume addresses representations of war and peace in various media, ranging from literature to film, photography, the visual arts, and music. Underlining the importance of an inter-disciplinary study of images of war and peace, the essays collected in this volume analyse how the choice of medium has contributed to shaping images of war in different historical contexts. Topographically, the focus is on wars in Europe, the United States, and Canada, yet the essays also address the global...

Ausgangspunkt für das vorliegende Heft ist das Fachgespräch des Bundesdenkmalamtes, welches am 6./7. Juni 2024 unter dem Titel „Das Marmorschlössl kontextualisiert: Neugotik in romantischen Landschaftsgärten in Österreich zwischen 1790 und 1860“ stattfand. Die Neugotik war im 19. Jahrhundert weit mehr als ein architektonischer Stil. Sie war Ausdruck romantischer Geschichtsvergewisserung, dynastischer Repräsentation, bürgerlicher Selbstbehauptung und nicht zuletzt ein künstlerisches und...

The archaeological site of Svinjarička Čuka, which is situated on a slightly elevated river terrace in southern Serbia, has been the subject of investigation by an international research team since 2018 as part of an interdisciplinary Austrian-Serbian collaboration. The prehistoric occupation of the terrace dates back to the early Neolithic period and extends through the Copper and Bronze ages into the Iron Age. The most important scientific data on the Neolithisation process in Serbia and a...