Publications
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Aus Büchern Bücher machen
(2021)
Be it angels, meteorites, or harps – there is a wealth of knowledge in the more than one-hundred publications that, by the mid-eighteenth century, had appeared in four languages under the name of Johann Jacob Wecker ...
Aspects of Linguistic Variation
(2018)
This volume brings together papers on linguistic variation. It takes a broad perspective, covering not only crosslinguistic and diachronic but also intralinguistic and interspeaker variation, and examines phenomena ranging ...
Cultura literaria y políticas de mercado
(2022)
The volume addresses three key aspects of today’s book culture: independent publishing, book fairs and literary festivals. Using an innovative theoretical framework (a literary "value criticism"), it offers an in-depth ...
The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa
(2021)
The volume re-centres Africa and African history in memory studies, with each chapter drawing parallels to comparable cases in Africa and the world. An underlying assumption is that what can be learned from the politics ...
Between Manuscript and Print
(2023)
A cross-cultural, comparative view on the transition from a predominant ‘culture of handwriting’ to a predominant ‘culture of print’ in the late medieval and early modern periods is provided here, combining research on ...
„Moderne Form – neue Baustoffe“
(2025)
Der beginnende Boom der Fertighausindustrie erfasste in den frühen 1960er-Jahren auch westdeutsche Stahlunternehmen wie Hoesch und Krupp. Ihr Einstieg in das Bauen für einen Endverbraucher:innenmarkt war der ökonomische ...
Die Sprache der Judenfeindschaft im 21. Jahrhundert
(2017-06-26)
Wie artikuliert sich im 21. Jahrhundert judenfeindliches Gedankengut? Und wann ist eine Äußerung antisemitisch? Mit diesen Fragen beschäftigen sich die Sprach- und Kognitionswissenschaftlerin Monika Schwarz-Friesel und der ...
Was vom Himmel kommt
(2021)
In ancient myths, the sky is a numinous space. What comes from it is of outstanding importance. This transdisciplinary volume by the Collegium Mythologicum explores myths that involve transfers from the sky. The volume ...
Diskursmorphologie
(2024)
Discourse linguistics and morphology have had little in common in previous research. Traditional discourse linguistics often only considers morphological questions marginally, and word formation, despite the shift to ...
Top Ten Fictional Narratives in Early Modern Europe
(2023)
This volume examines the ten most popular fictional narratives in early modern Europe between 1470 and 1800. Each of these narratives was marketed in numerous European languages and circulated throughout several centuries. ...
Healing Grief
(2022)
Is it possible to overcome grief after years of mourning? What should a Roman woman do to regain control of her thoughts? This book – which is the first commentary in English on Seneca’s Consolation to Marcia in forty ...
Verfolgungssuizide im Nationalsozialismus
(2025)
Even amid despair, there could be positive aspects to the persecution suicides of the deportation period. This volume describes them as a distinct phenomenon that should be firmly integrated into emigration and resistance ...
Mythische Sphärenwechsel
(2020)
Journeys to the realm of the dead, voyages to the island of souls, ascents to heaven – this book analyzes and reconstructs sphere change myth material using an innovative theoretical and methodological approach. The research ...
Widerstände
(2024)
This volume addresses definitions, forms, and motifs of the resistance against National Socialist. Its explorations focus on individual choices to resist politically organized struggles and defiance deserters and queer ...
Römische Erinnerungsräume
(2008)
Between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD Rome underwent a process of transformation which profoundly marked the urban, social, and religious structure of the city. Examing the memory of saints, this study inspects a central ...
The Crisis of the 14th Century
(2020)
Societal and environmental change not only coincide during the period 1250–1380, they interact: What has been long discussed as the 'Crisis of the 14th Century' is happening during a shifting climatic regime, from the ...
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 ...
Der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine und das Völkerrecht
(2023)
This text addresses the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and the general development of international law. It focuses on three questions: What consequences does the Russian breach of the prohibition of violence ...
Trends in Statistical Codicology
(2021)
The application of statistical techniques to the study of manuscript books, based on the analysis of large data sets acquired through the archaeological observation of manuscripts, remains to this day one of the most ...
Interaction Between Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Factors
(2024)
Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives compiles over 30 state-of-the-art articles on Japanese psycholinguistics. It emphasizes the importance of using comparative perspectives when conducting ...
Internationale Wissenschaftskommunikation und Nationalsozialismus
(2022)
Taking a critical stance toward "internationality" was one of the central aspects of the notion of scholarship propagated in National Socialist Germany between 1933 and 1945. However, during this time, German scholars had ...
Semantische Spezialisierung vs. Polysemie
(2021)
Transitive verbs can often leave their arguments implicit. Until now, the objectless variants of these verbs have been frequently associated with specific meanings. This volume demonstrates that most verbs have different ...
Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies
(2021)
In the second volume a wide range of economic actors – from kings and armies to cities and producers – are discussed within different imperial settings as well as the tools which enabled and constrained economic outcomes. ...
New Cosmopolitanisms, Race, and Ethnicity
(2019)
This anthology offers fresh perspectives on cosmopolitanism that reflect cultural challenges in the contemporary world. It demonstrates that new cosmopolitan thinking can be combined with a sensitivity to ethnic and local ...
Mineral Building Traditions in the Himalayas
(2020)
This study gives fresh insight into the interaction between technical requirements, environmental resources and material implementation. It is the first scientific approach in studying the Himalayan earthen heritage in a ...
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, ...
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 ...
Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture
(2010-04-29)
The volume assesses performative structures within a variety of medieval forms of textuality, from vernacular literature to records of parliamentary proceedings, from prayer books to musical composition. Three issues are ...
Photomurals
(2024)
Das fotografische Wandbild, das sogenannte photomural, wurde in den USA der 1930er-Jahre zu einem Inbegriff nationaler Kunst und dabei als Gegenentwurf zum mexikanischen Muralismus positioniert. Johanna Spanke untersucht ...
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 ...
Lesepraktiken im antiken Judentum
(2021)
Practices of reading form an important center of synagogal worship as well as Jewish scholarship. The monograph reconstructs the development of ritual reading practices in ancient Judaism based on the triad of acts of ...
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. ...
Popliteratur 3.0
(2023)
Mit der Digitalisierung erfährt der Literaturbetrieb der Gegenwart einen massiven Wandel. Autor*innen schaffen mithilfe der sozialen Medien zusätzliche Kommunikations- und Inszenierungsräume – mit der Konsequenz, dass sich ...
Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum VI commentariorum I–VIII versio Arabica
(2022)
The present volume offers the first critical edition of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on Book 6 of the Hippocratic Epidemics. It is the sequel to the previous editions of Galen's Commentary. The ...
Rethinking Orality I
(2022)
The volume deals with the mechanisms of the oral communication in the ancient Greek culture. It focuses on the 'cultural message' of the texts, considered under two perspectives: the methodologies of cognitivism, and ...
Upon Entropy
(2024)
In his 1979 essay The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge philosopher Jean-François Lyotard noted that the advent of the computer opened up a stage of progress in which knowledge has become a commodity. Modernity ...
Informationsressourcen
(2022)
This reliable volume provides information specialists with an up-to-date introduction to using information resources. Alongside the theoretical principles, it selects about 400 general and specialist information resources ...
Cicero in Basel
(2024)
The contributions of this volume chart Cicero’s presence in the city of Basel – from the stories around the city’s foundation to humanist editions and commentaries and the politics of scholarship and education. They ...
Krise und Kult
(2010)
This volume contains twelve contributions on the urban development of the Near East and North Africa in Late Antiquity. On the one hand the authors consider historical and cultural aspects of the region. A comprehensive ...
Identitäten im Prozess
(2015)
Collective identities – national, regional, local, religious, linguistic – are all constructed as opposed to an "other" which is constructed in alterity. They are established by historiography, art, and media. The contributions ...