Publications
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Meteorological Disasters in Medieval Britain (AD 1000‒1500)
(2023)
Natural disasters frequently affected medieval populations. This book explores what happened when meteorological hazards struck how medieval communities reacted and what steps they took to protect themselves against future ...
Instruments and Related Concepts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
(2018)
Instruments constitute a classic member of the thematic role inventory, yet they are usually analyzed only peripherally, taking a back seat to the more studied members such as Agent and Patient. This dissertation investigates ...
Arthur Schnitzler : Der Witwer. Die Gefährtin
(2023)
The 14th volume of the “Historical-Critical Edition of Arthur Schnitzler’s Early Works” – edited by Konstanze Fliedl since 2010 – presents Schnitzler's novella “Der Witwer” and the one-act play “Die Gefährtin,” which ...
Jugendbewegung, Antisemitismus und rechtsradikale Politik
(2014)
The year 2013 marks the centennial of the first "Free-German Youth Day" that took place on the Meissner massif. Anti-Semitic outbursts erupted at the margins of this historical gathering. In its wake, a right-wing populist ...
Caucasian Albania
(2023)
The handbook illustrates the present state of knowledge on the region of Albania in the Southern Caucasus and its inhabitants with a focus on its late antique and medieval history, its language and its written heritage, ...
Lehrkraft-Eltern-Interaktionen am Elternsprechtag
(2016)
Empirical approaches based on qualitative or quantitative methods of corpus linguistics have become a central paradigm within linguistics. The series takes account of this fact and provides a platform for approaches within ...
Geselliger Sang
(2024)
Sociable Song: this volume examines German-language love songs of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Its chapters from literary studies and musicology consider the songs’ dissemination, functions, and mediality. By ...
Wiederholung und Variation im Gespräch des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit
(2023)
Repetition is a fundamental cultural act that appears in all fields of human behavior and communication. This volume inquires into the creativity of repetitive conversational patterns in premodernity (German, Spanish, ...
Die Tragödie Europas
(2023)
The time between the Hitler-Stalin pact of 23 August 1939 and Germany`s invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 remains a controversial period in European historiography. This volume presents the still multivalent ...
Life and Works of Saint Gregentios, Archbishop of Taphar
(2012)
In the late 10th century, an anonymous author wrote the fictitious account of a religious dialogue between Archbishop Gregentios and the Jewish scribe Herban and included it in a life of Gregentios based on earlier sources, ...
Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World
(2020)
The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new ...
Latin as the Language of Science and Learning
(2021)
This book approaches its topic from three angles: diachronic semantics, a panorama of science and scientific writing in Latin from antiquity up to the present, and linguistic forays that try to demarcate scientific Latin ...
Endzeiten
(2008)
In this volume, leading scholars examine the ideas of the last days of the world held in Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. They discuss the mutual influence of these ideas together ...
Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books
(2018)
The volume contains a critical review of data, results and open problems concerning the principal Greek and Coptic majuscule bookhands, based on previous research of the author, revised and updated to offer an overview of ...
Neues aus Wissenschaft und Lehre
(2010)
Das Jahrbuch der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf versteht sich als Forum für den wissenschaftlichen Dialog der Universität zu Zeitfragen, zu aktuellen Problemlagen und Herausforderungen von Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft, ...
World Editors
(2020)
The existence of World Literature depends on specific processes, institutions, and actors involved in the global circulation of literary works. Looking at Latin American 20th and 21st century literatures, this book analyzes ...
Emma Goldman and the Russian Revolution
(2020)
How did Emma Goldman perceive the Russian Revolution and how did her perception change between 1917 and the early 1920s? What impact did the revolution’s corruption by Lenin have on the anarchist’s perception and what made ...
Invariant Differential Operators
(2017)
With applications in quantum field theory, general relativity and elementary particle physics, this three-volume work studies the invariance of differential operators under Lie algebras, quantum groups and superalgebras. ...
Clarice Lispector – Weltliteratur?
(2021)
It has only been in the 21st century that the literary oeuvre of the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) has received international recognition, after being repeatedly forgotten in the past. This volume traces ...
A Touch of Doubt
(2021)
Scepticism claims that there is always something that slips through the epistemologist’s grasp.Drawing on the tradition of scepticism within continental philosophy, this volume discusses how the sense of touch uncovers ...