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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...

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.

Der thematisch offene Band enthält vier Beiträge: R. Scholz fragt, warum Goethe Faust in den Himmel kommen lässt und beleuchtet von da aus kritisch Traditionen der Faust-Forschung. H. Klapdor zeigt, wie Briefe Ausgrenzungen des Exils unterlaufen: in Erzählungen von Anna Seghers und Kathrine Kressmann Taylor werden sie zu zentralen Figuren einer „weißen“ und einer „schwarzen“ Intrige. H. Ribbe nimmt eine kurzfristige Essensgemeinschaft aus Ingeborg Bachmanns „Wüstenbuch“ in den Blick und...

“eco.mont – Journal of Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management” was founded as a joint initiative of the Alpine Network of Protected Areas (ALPARC), the International Scientific Committee on Research in the Alps (ISCAR), the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Innsbruck. “eco.mont” offers a platform specifically for scientists and practitioners working in and on protected mountain areas in Europe and overseas. Target audiences of the journal are scientists from all...

Based on the research at Çukuriçi Höyük, a prehistoric tell settlement on the western Anatolian Aegean coast, this volume focuses on the analysis of textile production technologies. Due to its chronological depth, its geographic location and the excavations carried out using state-of-the-art methods, this site constitutes an ideal base for the diachronic investigation of prehistoric textile technologies in Anatolia, the Aegean and neighbouring regions. Chronologically the studies range from the...

In the languages spoken by the Muslims in Central Asia, atheistic writing developed into a setting not for attacking religion, but for documenting it. "Muslim Atheism in Central Asia" argues that scientific atheism, an ideology hostile to Islam, was itself Islamized during the decades following World War II. Drawing on a substantial and neglected body of literature in these languages, this study shows how atheist writers described and catalogued prayer, pilgrimage, ritual, and sacred geography...