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Molière et le théâtre arabe
(2016-01-15)
Molière, often considered the ‘godfather of Arab theatre’, was first introduced to the Arab world in 1847 by Marun Naqqaš and his adaptation of The Miser. Since then, Molière has never ceased to influence Arab dramaturgy. ...
Space in Language and Linguistics: Geographical, Interactional, and Cognitive Perspectives
(2013)
Space; Geolinguistics; Interaction; Cognition
Staatliche Grenzen
(2019)
State borders are a central topos of political debates in Europe, in which liberal, national-conservative, populist and openly racist positions are articulated. What functions do they have? What effects and contradictions ...
Das Epos im Blick
(2018)
In detailed case studies, Helge Baumann analyzes how Martial and Statius presented, integrated, and functionalized the epic into small poetic formats. These authors associated different situations, cultural practices, and ...
Knowledge Shaping
(2023)
How can we portray the history of Renaissance knowledge production through the eyes of the students? Their university notebooks contained a variety of works, fragments of them, sentences, or simple words. To date, studies ...
Reform des deutschen Namensrechts
(2020)
Die Regelungsdichte im deutschen Namensrecht nimmt beständig zu. Anatol Dutta zeigt nicht nur die Ursachen für den Reformbedarf im Namensrecht auf. Er wirft auch einen Blick auf mögliche Grundzüge eines zeitgemäßen ...
The Lumumba Generation
(2021)
How and why did the African elite turn from loyal intermediaries into opponents of the colonial state? This book wants to help better understand the dramatic political and cultural processes of decolonization in the Belgian ...
Body and Spirit in the Middle Ages
(2020)
A crucial question throughout the Middle Ages, the relationship between body and spirit cannot be understood without an interdisciplinary approach – combining literature, philosophy and medicine. Gathering contributions ...
Ambraser Heldenbuch
(2021)
The “Ambras Book of Heroes,” commissioned by Maximilian I, is one of the most important sources of medieval German literature. In this eleven-volume complete edition, all 25 texts from the codex appear in print for the ...
MUSEALE RESTE
(2022)
Remnants challenge the institution of the museum. They are tipping figures that open up attributions and thus collaborate in transgressing the taxonomic, disciplinary, architectural and institutional boundaries of the ...
Health Promotion at School
(2019)
For decades the health of children and adolescents has been a topic of interest in all parts of Europe. And there is quite a consensus that schools are the most appropriate setting to promote health. Childhood and adolescence ...
Accelerating Human Evolution by Theosophical Initiation
(2022)
The main subjects of analysis in the present book are the stages of initiation in the grand scheme of Theosophical evolution. Mühlematter shows that the stages of initiation were the blueprint for Annie Besant’s pedagogy, ...
Women in the Ancient Near East
(2016-08-01)
Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of ...
Jalkut Schimoni zum Zwölfprophetenbuch
(2020)
The Yalkut Shimoni is collection of rabbinical commentaries on the Hebrew bible. Research has not yet explained all of the criteria for selecting these commentaries or clarified whether the work was conceived as a comprehensive ...
Der Berliner „jüdische Salon“ um 1800
(2012-07-30)
Anhand neuer Quellen werden die Berliner 'jüdischen Salons' um 1800 als ebenso lebendiges wie fragiles kommunikatives Netz präsentiert. Der Querschnitt durch die Salongesellschaft des Beispieljahrs 1794/95 beleuchtet eine ...
Der Berliner „jüdische Salon“ um 1800
(2012-07-30)
Anhand neuer Quellen werden die Berliner 'jüdischen Salons' um 1800 als ebenso lebendiges wie fragiles kommunikatives Netz präsentiert. Der Querschnitt durch die Salongesellschaft des Beispieljahrs 1794/95 beleuchtet eine ...
Emotional Minds
(2012-07-16)
The thoroughly contemporary question of the relationship between emotion and reason was debated with such complexity by the philosophers of the 17th century that their concepts remain a source of inspiration for today`s ...
Reform des deutschen Namensrechts
(2020)
Die Regelungsdichte im deutschen Namensrecht nimmt beständig zu. Anatol Dutta zeigt nicht nur die Ursachen für den Reformbedarf im Namensrecht auf. Er wirft auch einen Blick auf mögliche Grundzüge eines zeitgemäßen ...
Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions
(2015-11-13)
Given the recent interest in the emotions presupposed in early religious literature, it has been thought useful to examine in this volume how the Jews and early Christians expressed their feelings within the prayers recorded ...
The Lumumba Generation
(2021)
How and why did the African elite turn from loyal intermediaries into opponents of the colonial state? This book wants to help better understand the dramatic political and cultural processes of decolonization in the Belgian ...
The Poetry of Meng Haoran
(2021)
Meng Haoran (689-740) was one of the most important poets of the "High Tang" period, the greatest age of Chinese poetry. In his own time he was famous for his poetry as well as for his distinctive personality. This is the ...
Repair the World
(2024)
Drawing on twenty-first-century French-language literature, this study shows how literature can not only serve as a means of "personal development", but also help repair the "brokenness" implied in victimhood, and redress ...
Filmische Seitenblicke
(2018)
Did 1968 fail? The question is misstated. For the significance and consequences of ’68 cannot be captured in a coherent narrative. That year appears as the point of culmination of a set of highly heterogeneous cultural, ...
La langue du peuple dans la littérature
(2024)
From the classical age to contemporary Francophonie, French-language literature features numerous instances of popular speech, whose mimetic or conventional character remains open to debate. This book brings together ...
Chinese Annals in the Western Observatory
(2020)
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of documents of all sorts have been unearthed in China, opening whole new fields of study and transforming our modern understanding of ancient China. While ...
Red Glow
(2021)
Davor Konjikušić provides an in-depth presentation and contextualization of the photographs created by Yugoslav partisans between 1941 and 1945. In doing so, the author is not only interested in presenting the photographs ...
Women Writing War
(2018)
Recent scholarship has broadened definitions of war and shifted from the narrow focus on battles and power struggles to include narratives of the homefront and private sphere. To expand scholarship on textual representations ...
Brauchen wir ein drittes Geschlecht?
(2015)
In 2013, § 22, para. 3 of the Civil Status Act (PStG) made clear that the civil status of intersexual persons could be entered in birth records without an indication of gender affiliation. However, German family law is ...
Bilddenken und Morphologie
(2021)
What is the relationship between “image” and human thinking? What is the role of the concept of “form” in human knowledge? Scholars from the fields of philosophy, cultural studies, the history of science, aesthetics, ...
Atlas Kriegsschadenskarten Deutschland
(2022)
For the first time, the Atlas Kriegsschadenskarten (Atlas of War Damage Maps) prepares an important source inventory for urban research and presents maps of Nuremberg, Hamburg, Hanover, Freiburg, Leipzig, and Essen from ...
Vernakuläre Wissenschaftskommunikation
(2018)
Der sich vom 16. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert vollziehende Übergang der weitgehend lateinbasierten europäischen Gelehrtenkultur zu einem vernakulär-mehrsprachigen „modernen“ Wissenschaftssystem ist bislang für den deutschen ...
Medientechnologie und Affekt
(2022)
The fact that media technologies influence our feelings seems obvious. But how do digital cameras or MP3 players change how we perceive, feel, and emotionally assess the world? This book examines the connection between ...
Indic Manuscript Cultures through the Ages
(2017)
Stemming from the Sanskrit Manuscripts Project that ran in Cambridge (UK) in 2011-2014 and led to the cataloguing and partial digitization of the rich collections of South Asian manuscripts in the University Library, these ...
Funktionsverbgefüge des Deutschen
(2021)
This study suggests a new definition of the highly disputed class of noun-verb combinations. The new approach offered here does not begin, as before, with the verb, but rather, examines the semantic and pragmatic properties ...
Emerging Trends in and Strategies for Industry 4.0 During and Beyond Covid-19
(2021)
“Emerging Trends in and Strategies for Industry 4.0 During and Beyond Covid-19” is an all-encompassing scholarly referenced book which is comprised of original and previously unpublished research articles and chapters that ...
Der Prozess Jesu - aus römisch-rechtlicher Perspektive
(2016)
Although it is clear that the trial of Jesus has been extensively discussed and described before, new aspects are revealed by a strict focus on the written text from the perspective of legal history. The author follows ...
Hadrian and the Christians
(2010)
The book sheds new light on a much debated issue in the field of ancient history: the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire and its relationship with Judaism in the 2nd century. The contributions collected in this ...
Zur Geschichte deutscher Wissenschaftssprachen
(2020)
Gefördert durch die Klasse der Literatur und der Musik der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz Mehr als vierzig Jahre hat sich der Sprachwissenschaftler und Mediävist Uwe Pörksen mit der Geschichte der ...
Social Reform, Modernization and Technical Diplomacy
(2020)
Based on an extensive exploitation of the ILO archives, this book analyzes the emergence of a development discourse and practices at the international level between 1930 and 1946. It challenges several presumptions with ...
Ablasskampagnen des Spätmittelalters
(2017)
Martin Luther`s Theses against indulgences (1517) provided the impetus for the Reformation. This volume examines the context of this epochal moment against the backdrop of the extensive campaigns against indulgences that ...