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Die „Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs“ wurden als Zeitschrift der Kommission für Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs gegründet. Seit 2011 erscheinen die „BRGÖ“ zweimal jährlich sowohl in einer Printfassung als auch online; in der Regel ist ein Band einem besonderen Thema gewidmet, während der zweite Band vermischte Beiträge enthält. Der aktuelle Band enthält 10 Aufsätze zu verschiedenen rechtshistorischen Themen vom 16. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Zwei Beiträge widmen sich zentralen...

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.

Exceptionally, volume 22 focuses on one topic only: the manuscript corpus from the period of Ilkhanid rule in Baghdad (13th and 14th century CE). Entitled The Mongols’ Baghdad: Knowledge Transmission through Manuscript Cultures before and after the Conquest, guest editors Bruno De Nicola and Nadine Löhr aim to challenge with this volume the well-established narrative of Baghdad’s cultural decline after the Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258 CE. They consider the corpus a valuable resource for...

This volume presents an interdisciplinary discourse on recent archaeological investigations at the ancient sites of Sikyon, Aigeira and Lousoi. These three Northern Peloponnesian poleis represent microregions which from the Geometric and Archaic periods onward participated in similar networks of exchange, albeit with different roles. In light of their geographical location on the southern coast of the Corinthian Gulf and in the mountainous hinterland, respectively, they offer insight into three...

Werner Finke spent over 30 years ethnographically documenting the everyday culture of the Kurds in Turkey. He traveled to the Kurdish regions almost every year and created a comprehensive multimedia documentation and an ethnographic collection for the Weltmuseum Wien. Apart from a few smaller presentations and a larger exhibition, his multimedia material has remained unseen to date. This publication accompanies the digital release of large parts of the collection. In addition to a biographical...

“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...

Aus dem Vorwort von Christiane Wendehorst, Präsidentin der philosophisch-historischen Klasse der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften: The Austrian Academy of Sciences is committed to serving as a forum for interdisciplinary discussions. Thus, each division regularly extends invitations to members and guest speakers from other institutions to give lectures or contribute to panel discussions on a broad range of subjects. The present publication is largely based on the panel discussion...

Tilmann Vetter was a Full Professor of Buddhist studies at Leiden University from 1975 until his retirement in 2000. He was an internationally renowned scholar of Indian philosophy and Buddhism. His untimely death in 2012 prevented him from finishing several significant projects. This volume contains a partial reconstruction of materials relating to the planned revision of his book “The Ideas and Meditative Practices of Early Buddhism” (1988), as well as scripts and lecture manuscripts on...

This ISR-Research Report summarises the results of a research project in which the synthesised population register of the City of Vienna was evaluated with regard to its applicability in social sciences. For this purpose, several analyses were carried out on two central topics of urban research - the arrival city and ethnic segregation - at different levels of scale. The results of this report are therefore of interest for two reasons: Firstly, from a thematic perspective, they show recent...

Die Zeitschrift „Fundberichte aus Österreich“ (FÖ) berichtet alljährlich über das aktuelle archäologische und bauhistorische Geschehen in Österreich. Neben den obligatorischen Berichten zu archäologischen Maßnahmen und Funden sowie zu bauhistorischen Untersuchungen enthalten die FÖ auch Aufsätze zu Themen aus der archäologischen Denkmalpflege sowie ausführlichere Beiträge zu archäologischen Befunden und Fundkomplexen aus dem gesamten Bundesgebiet. Der neue Band der „Fundberichte aus...