Past Worlds Across Time And Space: Grasping The Transcendence Of Cultural Heritage And Communication

ISBN 10: 3847119389 / ISBN 13: 9783847119388

Published by V&R Unipress Gmbh, 2026

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Past Worlds Across Time And Space: Grasping The Transcendence Of Cultural Heritage And Communication
• Publisher: V&R Unipress Gmbh
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3847119389
• ISBN 13: 9783847119388
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.3 kilograms

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Synopsis

This volume examines two main topics of the Transdisciplinary Research Area (TRA) “Past Worlds and Modern Questions: Cultures across Time and Space” at the University of Bonn: cultural intangible heritage and communication. The authors focuses on the interrelations of these topics by analyzing past cultural, political, social, and economic constellations from broad geographical and historical perspectives. The contributions aim to overcome the canonical timeline anchored in Eurocentric history, affecting two areas of investigation in particular: Museum studies, which has been transformed in recent decades by new ways of thinking about and doing museum work, as well as concepts of understanding communication as a historical process of transfer that occurred during the so-called premodern age.

About the Authors

Prof. Dr. Matthias Becher studierte Geschichte und Politische Wissenschaften in Konstanz und ist seit 1998 Professor für Mittelalterliche und Neuere Geschichte an der Universität Bonn. Von 2016 bis 2021 war er Sprecher des Sonderforschungsbereichs 1167, seither leitet er das Bonner Zentrum ›Macht und Herrschaft‹.

Prof. Dr. Karoline Noack lehrt Altamerikanistik und Ethnologie an der Universität Bonn.