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This important work offers a comprehensive analysis of the early Roman necropolis discovered in 2011 during preparatory work for the construction of a wind turbine in what is now Burgenland (Austria). The find complex, consisting of 31 inhumations and cremations, provides insights into unknown burial rituals and lifestyles of the pre-military Roman era. The graves document for the first time inhumations from the first half of the first century AD, deviating from urban Roman traditions. Grave...

Die Zeitschrift „Virus – Beiträge zur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin“ ist das Publikationsorgan des Vereins für Sozialgeschichte der Medizin und erscheint einmal jährlich. Sie versammelt wissenschaftliche Beiträge verschiedener Disziplinen, die sich mit Themen aus den Bereichen Medizin, Gesundheit und Krankheit in historischer, kultur- und/oder sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive empirisch auseinandersetzen. Der „Virus“ publiziert vornehmlich Beiträge mit Bezug zur Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte...

This issue reacts to Alexander Demandt’s fast-paced account of the rise and eventual fall of the Western Roman Empire, a topic of periodically hot political interest. His focus: Germanic barbarians and the Rhine-Danube limes, invasion, conflict, change, and loss (from the Empire’s perspective). The international contributors, primarily ancient historians and adherents of a more peaceable “transformation school,” respond and refine. The volume offers a study of client kingship as a strategy for...

Die renommierte Fachzeitschrift „GW-Unterricht“ bietet ein vielseitiges Angebot für ein breites Publikum. Studierende, Lehrer:innen, Fachdidaktiker:innen und Fachwissenschaftler:innen finden hier fundierte Informationen über die gesamte Palette fachdidaktischer Forschung und Praxis des Faches Geographie und Wirtschaftskunde. „GW-Unterricht“ erscheint viermal pro Jahr – sowohl online als auch als Printversion.

The major aim of this international, topic-oriented journal is the publication of original articles of translational dermatology, clinical studies, state-of-the-art reviews and perspectives with insight into mechanisms of skin diseases and their therapeutic relevance. The journal will address an international scientific readership. [To access the articles please follow the link below.]

This book presents the Diplomatic Edition of the Sanskrit manuscript of the first chapter of Sthiramati's Abhidharmakośaṭīkā Tattvārthā. It has not been found in Sanskrit and has been studied exclusively through poor translations into Tibetan, which have not yielded the desired results. Traditionally, commentary on the Sanskrit text of the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya is based on Yaśomitra's Abhidharmakośavyākhyā Sphuṭārthā, published by Unrai Ogiwara. The Sphuṭārthā is a commentary on the technical...

This edition forms the fourth volume of the series "Vorarbeiten zu einem Urkundenbuch des Patriarchats Aquileia". It thus complements the existing editions of documents from Friulian churches up to the middle of the 13th century. Around half of the texts or document extracts contained here were previously completely unknown to researchers. Moreover, a number of texts have now been edited verbatim for the first time, and others are now available due to a significantly better textual basis than...

In 1848 a comprehensive process of modernisation of the education system started in the Habsburg monarchy whose effects are still felt today. In keeping with the liberal, enlightened ethos, the standard of education was to be raised, the influence of the church reduced, the ability of people to make judgements improved, independent thinking encouraged, and young people were to be inoculated with a sense of patriotism centred around the emperor and the empire. The dissemination of practical...

In the southeastern Alpine region, German, Slavic and Romance cultures meet and shape one of the most culturally diverse regions in Europe. For a very long time, Germans and Slovenes lived under a political umbrella that covered economic, social and cultural structures common to people regardless of their language. It was only after 1918 that people found themselves living in two separate states in which distinguishing between the self and one’s neighbours in terms of nationhood was the norm....

The more than 300,000 documents discovered in a storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo in the late 19th century, now housed in the collections in St. Petersburg, Cambridge, and Paris, are known as the Cairo Genizah. These documents, which span a wide array of subjects, are invaluable sources for understanding the history of medieval Judaism, as well as for the social and economic landscape of the Mediterranean from the 10th to the 13th centuries. Among them are thousands of private...

The book accompanying the ‘Ice Age’ exhibition tells the story of the fascinating world of the Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers of the last Ice Age between around 40,000 and 11,700 years ago. This time frame is intrinsically connected to modern humans (Homo sapiens) and is illustrated by several sites around Krems an der Donau (Lower Austria). Different areas of daily life, from birth to death and complex survival strategies of the highly mobile societies are shown in an exciting and vivid way....