Publications
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Czesław Miłosz in Postwar America
(2021)
Czesław Miłosz is at times called an American poet. This means one thing in Poland, and something else in the United States. To Polish readers, this description is mainly related to the moment of his departure from Europe ...
Imitate Anacreon!
(2014)
Despite their rich tradition, the Carmina Anacreontea transmitted in the Palatine Anthology have received little scholarly attention. This neglect is linked to questions concerning their authenticity. Long read as poems ...
Verfestigungen in der Interaktion Konstruktionen, sequenzielle Muster, kommunikative Gattungen
(2020)
The theoretically and empirically based contributions in this edited volume in honour of Susanne Günther examine different consolidations on the level of interaction. They span from relatively detailed formats such as ...
Digital Papyrology III
(2024)
The volume collects contributions about the most recent developments of the theoretical and practical concept of digital critical edition applied to Greek Papyrology, redacted by outstanding scholars involved in ground-breaking ...
Agents' Abilities
(2020)
What is it for agents to be able to do things? This question, while central to many debates, is still awaiting a comprehensive answer. Jaster provides just that by developing the “success view,” which posits that abilities ...
Mapping Narrations – Narrating Maps
(2022)
This volume offers the author’s central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation. A first group of essays gives an overview of medieval cartography, ...
Theory and Classification of Material Text Cultures
(2024)
The final volume in the series synthesizes the research conducted by the Heidelberg Collaborative Research Center 933 (SFB 933). Systematized into six topic areas (reflecting on writing, layout and text/image, memory and ...
Play Among Books
(2021)
How does coding change the way we think about architecture? Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form ...
Religious and National Discourses
(2023)
The book introduces a new perspective on discursive categorisations in societies. We suggest a shift from minority/majority differentiations towards an analysis of marginalising and centralising discourses which leave room ...
A Basic Theory of Everything
(2022)
The book presents a theory of what the basic building blocks of the world are and argues that they can be reduced to three: a field, a set of values, and an actualizer. The theory is used to answer philosophical questions ...
Digitale Infrastrukturen für die germanistische Forschung
(2018)
Modern research in linguistics is increasingly reliant on digital infrastructure and information systems. This development began at the turn of the millennium and has since accelerated. The volume examines national and ...
Graffiti Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed
(2023)
Over the last two decades, the study of graffiti has emerged as a bustling field, invigorated by increased appreciation for their historical, linguistic, sociological, and anthropological value and propelled by ambitious ...
Theatre Cultures within Globalising Empires
(2018)
This volume presents the proceedings of the international conference “Theatre Cultures within Globalising Empires: Looking at Early Modern England and Spain”, held in 2012 as part of the ERC Advanced Grant Project Early ...
Die „Confessio Augustana“ im ökumenischen Gespräch
(2021)
The year 2030 will mark the 500th anniversary of the Augustan Confession, the most important confessional document from the Wittenberg Evangelical movement. Written by Melanchthon as his last attempt to preserve the unity ...
Gesunde Stadt
(2021)
Unter der Maxime „Wien im Aufbau“ wurden im Ständestaat ab Mitte der 1930er Jahre nicht nur gezielt Altbauten abgerissen, sondern auch die Entfernung historischer Putzfassaden und Gliederungselemente gefördert. Neben der ...
Genealogisches Wissen in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit
(2023)
Genealogisches Wissen war in der Vormoderne eine wichtige Ressource. Adlige und bürgerliche Akteur:innen benötigten es im Ringen um Rang und Ämter, Gelehrte nutzten es für die Geschichtsschreibung. Zahlreiche Zeitgenossen ...
Die Stadt als beschriebener Raum
(2021)
Today’s visitors to Pompeii and Herculaneum encounter a vast profusion of written evidence. Painted announcements stand alongside inscribed notices and monumental stone inscriptions. The content is as varied as the conditions ...
Martin Luther in Rom
(2017)
About 500 years ago, Martin Luther visited Rome. Reflections about his journey often inquire as to its having been a critical factor for the Reformation, a prejudicial perspective often leading to a negative view of the ...
Intention and Interpretation: A Short History
(2022)
Should we take the author’s intention into account when interpreting literature? The question has been a subject of fierce debate since the 1940s that shows no signs of abating. The notion of authorial intent, however, has ...
Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer
(2020)
The three concepts mentioned in the title of this book refer to different forms of contact between two or more literary phenomena. Transfer, reception, and translation studies all imply the ‘travelling’ and the imitation ...
Der Anfang vom Ende der Ottonen
(2009)
In the Chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg, the experiences and problems of the tenth and early eleventh centuries come together they are taken up by Thietmar and formed into an epoch. This overall interpretation of the ...
Planar Dynamical Systems
(2014-10-29)
This book presents in an elementary way the recent significant developments in the qualitative theory of planar dynamical systems. The subjects are covered as follows: the studies of center and isochronous center problems, ...
Der Staat als Zuhälter
(2016)
Until the 20th century there were brothels throughout Europe where prostitution was controlled by the state. The study examines factors in the German, French, and Italian parliaments that gave impetus to the abolition of ...
Aulus Gellius und die ›Noctes Atticae‹
(2020)
Aulus Gellius’ Noctes Atticae is a collection of short texts that pursues an aesthetic of variation. Beer’s study is an appraisal of the texts and the collection in general. The author analyzes Noctes Atticae based on ...
Progress in Commutative Algebra 1
(2012-04-26)
This is the first of two volumes of a state-of-the-art survey article collection which originates from three commutative algebra sessions at the 2009 Fall Southeastern American Mathematical Society Meeting at Florida ...
Materialität und Medialität
(2023)
Ästhetische Akte und Artefakte sind durch ihre Materialien ebenso grundlegend bedingt wie durch die medialen Prozesse, in die sie eingebunden sind. Ausgehend von dieser Prämisse widmen sich die im Band versammelten Beiträge ...
Non-Extensive Entropy Econometrics for Low Frequency Series
(2019)
The second edition of Non-extensive Entropy Econometrics for Low Frequency Series provides a new and robust power-law-based, non-extensive entropy econometrics approach to the economic modelling of ill-behaved inverse ...
Graphs for Pattern Recognition
(2016)
This monograph deals with mathematical constructions that are foundational in such an important area of data mining as pattern recognition. By using combinatorial and graph theoretic techniques, a closer look is taken at ...
Ostfuturistisches Erinnern
(2024)
How do contemporary artists remember the post-socialist transformation period? What sources, media and strategies do they draw upon? Ulrike Gerhardt summarizes artistic memory of the Cold War’s conclusion using the newly ...
Between Figure and Ground
(2025)
The terms "figure" and "ground" became fundamental to art-historical analysis. But is this dichotomy suited to describe premodern art and? This volume calls into question long-standing habits of seeing and understanding ...
Vom Germanenerbe zum Urkommunismus
(2022)
After the end of the World War II, the museums in the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ) and the GDR were faced with the task of mastering the narrative turn from an ethnic-nationalist conception of prehistory to a Marxist one. ...
Gattungstheorie und Dichtungspraxis in neronisch-flavischer Epik
(2024)
Dieser Sammelband widmet sich den römischen Epikern Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius und Silius Italicus. Die Beiträge beleuchten den Kontrast zwischen Gattungstheorie und -praxis, das Zusammenspiel von Gattungsinterferenzen ...
Gottes Haus
(2012)
Using the idea that church buildings are sacred spaces, this study seeks to examine a central figure of thought in medieval society, the "ecclesia". Using normative, liturgical, and exegetic-theological sources, the book ...
Fontanes Medien
(2022)
This volume views the rapid mediatization of society in the nineteenth century as a productive framework for the "media worker" Theodor Fontane. Embedded within a ramified network of postal text circulation, familiar with ...
Conflicts in Interreligious Education
(2022)
Whenever people from different cultural and religious backgrounds converge, it produces tension and ambivalence. This study delves into conflicts in interreligious educational processes in both theory and practice, presenting ...
Approaches to the Medieval Self
(2020)
The self and how it relates to its surrounding world and history is a main concern of the humanities and social sciences. This book addresses the issue by discussing various modes of studying and defining the self, based ...
Topics in Complex Analysis
(2023)
Begins with an introduction to the theory of functions of a complex variable, covers complex numbers and their properties, analytic functions and the Cauchy–Riemann equations, the logarithm and other elementary functions ...
Tra i libri di Isacco Argiro
(2020)
This book reconstructs the figure of Isaac Argyrus, a byzantine scholar active in Constantinople of the 14th century, with due regards to the context of his work. The paleographical and codicological analysis of his book ...
Enklaven
(2019)
Die Bezeichnung „Enklave“ wird für unterschiedliche Phänomene und Prozesse verwendet. Enklaven sind in sozialer, politischer oder wirtschaftlicher Hinsicht von den sie umgebenden Räumen wie Nationalstaaten, Städten oder ...
Grundrechte
(2022)
This casebook takes an innovative approach to address the basic rights granted by the German constitution. A team of young scholars from all over Germany has combined basic knowledge for students with more in-depth knowledge ...