History

After the defeat in the First World War, the Versailles Peace Treaty obliged the German Reich at that time to undertake far-reaching military disarmament. Amelie Tscheu's in-depth study investigates the judicial rulings of the Reichsgericht against pacifist journalists who reported on illegal armament measures by the Reichswehr in the 1920s and early 1930s.

The Marburg theologian Wilhelm Herrmann asserted the Christian religion in his theology against the cultural powers of naturalism and historicism. In doing so, he made use of the structures of individual life that every single person draws on during life.

In late antiquity, exile in various forms was one of the punishments of both Roman law and internal church discipline. Using numerous ancient sources, Florian Schwarz presents the different types of exile and their effects as well as specific individual fates.

Christian Hornung examines »spaces« in ancient Christianity. Against the background of the spatial turn , he analyzes literary descriptions of the ecclesiastical building complex (including the church, bishop's house, and annexes) as well as synods, monasticism and the so-called public space and interprets »spaces« as forms of ecclesiastical staging and representation.