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Dependency at the Centre and Periphery of the Tibetan Empire: Sayings, Doings and Interagency
(2023-06)
This paper presents a microhistory of ninth-century asymmetrical social relations in the centre
and on the periphery of the Tibetan empire (ca. 600–850 CE), as well as relations between the
periphery and the centre. ...
The Power of Biblical Authors: A Risk Analysis of ‘Living’ Sacred Texts
(2023-06)
New Testament authors claim immense (interpretive) power and generate strong
asymmetrical dependencies between themselves and the communities they address. They are
convinced that they have the resource of ‘salvation’, ...
El(-GOD) as “Father in Regalness”. Mine M in Serabit el Khadim as a Middle-Bronze-Age (c. 1900 BC) Working Space sacralised by Early Alefbetic Writing
(2023-09)
This paper grew out of an archaeological field season conducted in southwestern Sinai by the Department of Egyptology at the University of Bonn during November and December 2022. It specifically discusses the social and ...
Anti-Vagrancy, Punishment and Labor Relations in the Context of the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil and the Portuguese Empire (1870–1910)
(2022-03)
Focusing on the Brazilian and Portuguese Empire contexts, between 1870 and 1910, this text aims to investigate how the slavery abolition process affected the different historical definitions of what constituted vagrancy ...
Embodied Dependencies and Valencian Slavery in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
(2022-03)
The aim of this article is to investigate slavery in the Kingdom of Valencia in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. As we will see, slavery can be analysed in a perspective of both global
history and micro-history, ...
Theorie und Methode der Analyse asymmetrischer Formen von Abhängigkeit: Eine (global)rechtshistorische Perspektive
(2022-05)
This working paper aims to contribute to the transdisciplinary debates on how to analyze
asymmetric forms of dependency at the BCDSS from the perspective of a legal historian inter ested in global legal history and working ...
Peasant Dependencies in Medieval Islam: Whose Agency in Food Production and Migration?
(2022-03)
Medieval feudalism, while it took different forms in different parts of the world, shared one
common characteristic: the military, political, and economy foundations of society were
constructed with peasant labor. The ...
The Numerus Clausus Law of 1920: Asymmetrical Dependencies, and the “Twisted Road” of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz
(2022-08)
This working paper examines the impact of the infamous numerus clausus legislation of 1920, which limited the share of Jewish students at institutions of higher learning to their proportion of the population, on incoming ......
Die Entwicklung von Ämtern und Abhängigkeitsstrukturen im Frühchristentum
(2022-05)
This Working Paper provides a window on Christian Hornung’s current research as part of the
Cluster of Excellence “Dependency and Slavery Studies.” His research focuses on the history
of early Christian offices and ...
“Divine Dependency” in Ancient Judaism and Emerging Christianity: Reflections and Case Studies
(2022-05)
This paper provides insights into the author’s current project, which looks at “divine
dependency” in texts of ancient Judaism (from the Second Temple period) and emerging
Christianity. The first part identifies aims ...