Publications
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Gesammelte Aufsätze zur altfranzösischen Epik
(2019)
Conceived as a companion volume to his Onomastics of the Song of Roland (2017), Beckmann’s eighteen Collected Essays on Old French Epic Poetry presents a multi-faceted panorama about the origins of the ancient chansons de ...
Literatur und Naturwissenschaft: Interformation und epistemische Transformation
(2024)
This volume establishes theoretical and methodological principles on the relationship between literature and science. It combines approaches from the fields of cultural semiotics, narratology, and the philosophy of science, ...
Style in Latin Poetry
(2024)
This volume assembles cutting-edge work on Latin poetic style from an international cast of scholars, both senior and emerging. Some of the papers were discussed in an international workshop in Oxford in March 2022 the ...
Return and Circular Migration in Contemporary European History
(2024)
The essays collected in this volume analyze return movements from an interdisciplinary perspective and embrace a wide range of case studies and methodological issues of circulation migration in the 20th century in Europe. ...
Prosa
(2021)
“Prose” refers to a largely free mode of speaking and writing that is not tethered to any normative form, and which permits a wide range of composition styles due to the openness of its content and form. In 18 chapters, ...
Geschlechterunterschiede und Geschlechterunterscheidungen in Europa
(2016)
Personnel selection; Parenthood; Gender; Adolescence; Childhood; social policy
Die Geschichte der Leipziger Buchmesse in der DDR
(2024)
This history of the Leipzig Book Fair examines the socialist showcase, the motor of the centrally planned book trade, censorship, and Stasi surveillance, but also the theft of books from Western publishers. It shows how ...
The Poetry of Ruan Ji and Xi Kang
(2017)
The poetry of Ruan Ji has been previously translated several times, with one fully scholarly translation of both the poetry and the Fu (poetic expositions). The present translation not only provides a facing page critical ...
Prokop und der soziale Kosmos der Historiographie
(2024)
Procopius of Caesarea was one of the last authors of classical antique historiography. His major volume on Justinian’s wars is the most important historical source on the sixth century. This new interpretation of, above ...
Chapter Mainland Southeast Asian languages: State of the art and new directions.
(2015)
Mainland Southeast Asia (hereafter: MSEA) can be broadly defined as the area occupied by present day Cambodia, Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam, along with areas of China south of the Yangtze River. ...
Sprache(n) in pädagogischen Settings
(2022)
This volume spans various languages and education levels, focusing on heterogeneity as an immanent characteristic of pedagogical settings. Its examines the potential of language development, the factors and facets of the ...
Chapter 13 Cognitive Effects of Bilingualism in Infancy
(2016)
Exposure to multiple languages is a very common phenomenon even during early childhood. Although learning just one language is a major accomplishment in itself, the challenge for infants born in multilingual environments ...
Baccio Bandinelli e le anatomie degli scartafacci
(2023)
This study, based on extensive archival research, sheds light on the writings attributed to the sixteenth-century sculptor Baccio Bandinelli (Libro del disegno, Memoriale) and analyses them in their historical and artistic ...
Am Rande der Fotografie
(2018-11)
Why is there a history of photography but no history of the photogram? The publication pursues this question by approaching the specific materiality, the scientific and artistic qualities of the photogram on the basis of ...
Am Rande der Fotografie
(2018-11)
Why is there a history of photography but no history of the photogram? The publication pursues this question by approaching the specific materiality, the scientific and artistic qualities of the photogram on the basis of ...
The Cultural Life of Money (Volume 6)
(2015)
The book discusses how culture simultaneously shapes and is shaped by the economy. Over the past few years, as the world has staggered from one financial crisis to another, the neat separation of economics and culture has ...
Bridging Formal and Conceptual Semantics
(2017)
The articles in this volume are the outcome of the successful BRIDGE Workshop held in Düsseldorf in 2014. The workshop gathered a number of distinguished researchers from formal semantics and conceptual semantics and aimed ...
The Power of Urban Water
(2020)
Water is a global resource for modern societies - and water was a global resource for pre-modern societies. The many different water systems serving processes of urbanisation and urban life in ancient times and the Middle ...
The Internet of Everything
(2019)
In the era before IoT, the world wide web, internet, web 2.0 and social media made people’s lives comfortable by providing web services and enabling access personal data irrespective of their location. Further, to save ...
The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China
(2022)
This volume is distinctive for its extraordinarily interdisciplinary investigations into a little discussed topic, the spatial imagination. It probes the exercise of the spatial imagination in pre-modern China across five ...