“…Taken to Europe during the conquest of Mexico, it was placed at Ambras Castle, the Habsburg residence of the author’s ancestors, and is now in Vienna’s Welt Museum. Mexico has long requested to have it back, but the Welt Museum uses science to insist it is too fragile to travel. …”

“…Costretta in nome della ragion di Stato a dare in sposa l’appena quattordicenne Maria Antonietta al delfino di Francia per rinsaldare l’alleanza fra Vienna e Versailles, Maria Teresa non smetterà mai di preoccuparsi della condotta di questa sua giovane figlia dal carattere vivace, incline alla leggerezza e allo sfarzo. …”

“…And yet he was one of the most important artists in Vienna in around 1900, alongside Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Dangerous Gifts: Imperialism, Security, and Civil Wars in the Levant, 1798-1864 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Historicizing the Eastern Question -- Silence, Civil Wars, and Lives -- PART I: AVANT LE MOT -- 1: Crossing the Mediterranean -- Defining the 'Eastern Question' -- France and the Ottoman Empire -- Preparation for the Egyptian Expedition -- 2: The Circle of Justice and the Napoleonic Wars -- The Circle of Justice -- The Sultan's Bafflement -- The Wrecked Victory -- 3: The Chase in the Desert: Empires and Civil War in Egypt, 1801-1812 -- Ottoman Egypt before the Eastern Question -- Useful Allies, Dangerous Enemies -- The Tripartite Civil War -- PART II: THE INVENTION OF THE EASTERN QUESTION -- 4: A New Era?: The Vienna Order and the Ottoman World -- The Eastern Question in the 1810s -- A 'Humanitarian' Intervention: Navarino 1827 -- 5: Old Enemies: Cairo, Istanbul, and the Civil War of 1832-1833 -- Hüsrev and Mehmed Ali -- 'The Civil War of Islamism' -- 6: The Russian Peace in the Levant -- The Russian Intervention: 'We Have Been Sick, You the Medicines' -- Preaching to the Winds: The Disconcert of Europe and the Diplomatic Impasse -- 7: An Unusual Quest for Revenge: Civilization, Commerce, and Reform -- Civilization -- Commerce and Security: A Capo d'Opera? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “….]" - Konrad Hagius and Musician's Mobility in Early Modern Times in Light of Local and Regional Profile 51 Competition at the Catholic Court of Munich Italian Musicians and Family Networks 73 From Munich to 'Foreign' Lands and Back Again Relocation of the Munich Court and Migration of Musicians (c. 1690-1715) 91 Migratory and Traveling Musicians at the Polish Royal Courts in the 17th Century The Case of Kaspar Förster the Younger 135 Foreign Musicians at the Polish Court in the Eighteenth Century The Case of Pietro Mira 151 Luka Sorgo - a Nobleman and Composer from Dubrovnik 171 MUSICI and MusMig Continuities and Discontinuities 185 Musical Travels Sources of Musicians' Tours and Migrations in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century 207 " und bißhero mein Glück in der Welt zu suchen " - Notes on the Biography of Jonas Friederich Boenicke 227 The Russian Experience The Example of Filippo Balatri 241 Soloists of the Opera Productions in Brno, Holeov, Kromí and Vykov Italian Opera Singers in Moravian Sources c. 1720-1740 (Part I) 255 Vienna Kärntnertortheater Singers in the Letters from Georg Adam Hoffmann to Count Johann Adam von Questenberg Italian Opera Singers in Moravian Sources c. 1720-1740 (Part II) 275 Estienne Roger's Foreign Composers 295 From "Sonate a quattro" to "Concertos in Seven Parts" The Acclimatization of Two Compositions by Francesco Scarlatti 311 Spread of Italian Libretti Maria Clementina Sobieska Stuart - a Patron of Roman Operas 323 Migrations of Musical Repertoire The Attems Music Collection from Around 1744 341 The Case of Juraj Kriani (1619-1683?) …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cartwright, and Mark Walton -- The APPEAR Project Collaboration and Benefits: Nondestructive Studies of Ancient Pigments on Greco-Roman Funerary Portraits of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna / Bettina Vak, Roberta Iannaccone, and Katharina Uhlir -- Painted Roman Wood Shields from Dura-Europos / Anne Gunnison, Irma Passeri, Erin Mysak, and Lisa Brody -- Characterization of Binding Media in Egyptian Funerary Portraits / Joy Mazurek -- Binding Media and Coatings: Mummy Portraits in the National Museum of Denmark and Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek / Lin Rosa Spaabaek and Joy Mazurek…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…When Size Matters: On the Legality of the Recovery Instrument 'Next Generation EU' in Light of its Unprecedented Volume, <i>Claudia Wutscher (Vienna University of Economics And Business, Austria)</i> 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Promoting Ecoliteracy in Essayistic Media Texts through the Case of the Anthropocene Reviewed, <i>Andrea Sabine Sedlaczek</i> <i>(University of Vienna, Austria)</i> 9. Picturebook Mediation for Children's Ecoliteracy in English L2, <i>Elisa Bertoldi</i> <i>(University of Udine, Italy)</i> 10. …”

“…Julia Hüttner from University of Vienna, and Assoc. Prof. Markéta Malá from Charles University, Prague) offer a range of linguistic topics, covering media discourse, learner discourse (e.g. …”

“…The present book, the first collective volume entirely devoted to aspects of Byzantine epigraphy, mainly comprises papers delivered at two international meetings (Vienna 2010, Sofia 2011). The book is divided into four sections and includes contributions on the history of Byzantine epigraphy, on the definition of Byzantine inscriptions, on the methodoly of editing and on case studies of inscription of specific regions and eras Das vorliegende Buch, der erste zur Gänze Aspekten der byzantinistischen Epigraphik gewidmete Sammelband, umfasst in erster Linie Beiträge von zwei internationalen Konferenzen (Wien 2010, Sofia 2011). …”