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From the early medieval period onwards, Persian-speaking Jewish communities in Greater Iran utilized the Judeo-Persian language for their religious, intellectual, and cultural endeavors. Over six centuries, spanning from the 14th to the 19th century, Judeo-Persian literature flourished across various genres: bible translations, exegetical literature, halakhic and midrashic works, historical chronicles, dictionaries, scientific treatises and, notably, religious-epic narrative poems (mathnavī)....

The minutes of the Council of Ministers of the Habsburg Monarchy contain everything the governments discussed. Therefore, they were secret—and often contained decisions whose effects are still felt today. This volume covers the last two years of the First World War: from the death of Franz Joseph on November 21, 1916, to Karl's resignation from all offices on November 11, 1918. A total of five prime ministers succeeded one another: Koerber, Clam-Martinic, Seidler, Hussarek, and Lammasch. In...

Die Jahre 1945, 1955 und 1995 stehen für gravierende Veränderungen der österreichischen Identität. Oliver Rathkolb kontextualisiert diese drei Schlüsseljahre in seiner Einleitung und zeichnet das Bild von einer Nation, die zwischen Kontinuitäten und Neubeginnen navigiert. Die Betrachtung der drei großen Jubiläen ermöglicht es uns, gesellschaftspolitische Entwicklungen in Österreichs jüngerer Geschichte besser zu verstehen und zu vergleichen. Das Jahr 1945 markiert das Ende des Zweiten...

Das von A. Böhrer, M. Ruisinger, S. Schlegelmilch und A. Unterkircher herausgegebene Schwerpunktheft beleuchtet die Bedeutung von Hand und Werkzeug für die unterschiedlichen Heilberufe aus vielfältigen Perspektiven: Die drei Originalbeiträge werfen spezifische Schlaglichter auf charakteristische Handgriffe und -symboliken von der frühen Neuzeit bis ins frühe 20. Jahrhundert: T. Taape zeigt am Beispiel zweier Wundärzte aus dem frühneuzeitlichen Straßburg, wie diese in ihren Werken das...

This anthology analyses Italy's economic interests in Austria and in East-Central and South-Eastern Europe in the first post-war years. Although the ‘commemorative year 2018’ led to an expansion of the state of research with regard to the political upheavals that took place after 1918, the broad and at the same time very relevant subject area of the economic, financial and structural developments of these years has hardly been addressed. An economic area that had grown over centuries, such as...

While the art of the first half of the seventeenth century has been the subject of extensive scholarly research, the decades following the death of Pope Alexander VII in 1667 up to the election of Clement XI Albani in 1700 remain comparatively understudied and call for further investigation. This volume is dedicated to artistic production in Rome during the second half of the seventeenth century—a period of remarkable richness and diversity that is explored here through a series of focused case...

Yamāri, ein bedeutender buddhistischer Gelehrter des 11. Jahrhunderts (ca. 1000–1060), ist als Verfasser des Pramāṇavārttikālaṅkāranibandha bekannt, dem zweiten und letzten Kommentar zu Prajñākaragupta's Pramāṇavārttikālaṅkāra. Dieses Werk galt lange Zeit als im ursprünglichen Sanskrit verloren. Erst kürzlich wurde bekannt, dass eine Sanskrit-Handschrift dieses Werks in Lhasa erhalten ist; eine Fotokopie wird im China Tibetology Research Center (CTRC) in Peking aufbewahrt . Das Manuskript...

The Bodhisatvapiṭaka (“The Collection of the Bodhisattvas”) is a middle-period Mahāyāna sūtra, edited here for the first time in Sanskrit. It probably represents an early attempt to produce a consistent and complete exposition of the Mahāyāna as it became popular around the beginning the Common Era. The codex unicus presented here in a diplomatic edition, with corrections in the notes, dates from the 9th century CE and is currently kept in Lhasa. The Bodhisatvapiṭaka explains the main doctrines...

The volume “Historical Biodiversity in the Alps: Grassland Agroecosystems in the Last Millennium” discusses seminatural meadows, the most species-rich habitat types in Central Europe. It establishes closer links between history and grassland ecology than most long-term agricultural environmental history research in European mountains. The publication covers a broad spectrum of topics that go far beyond agricultural history. It presents mutual interactions between (historical) grassland...

The “Echter Speik” (Valeriana celtica subsp. norica) is more than a modest alpine herb found in the Nockberge Mountains of Carinthia. This book is a tribute to its rich history as a medicinal plant, trade good and cultural symbol—while exploring the pressing questions of conservation and sustainable use in today’s world. In a truly inter- and transdisciplinary research project, authors from science, regional practice and administration have created a vivid portrait of the plant and its...

The proclamation of the Republic of Austria on November 12, 1918 also led to a change in the status of the court theaters. At the end of November, the state administration took over the two theatres and transferred them from the imperial court arsenal to the budget of the young republic. Even the changing address of the Burgtheater shows the political upheavals: the "Franzensring", the official address of the Hofburgtheater, becomes the "Ring des 12. November". The "k. k. Hofburgtheater", as it...