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The Nuremberg Trials
(2006)
60 years after the trials of the main German war criminals, the articles in this book attempt to assess the Nuremberg Trials from a historical and legal point of view, and to illustrate connections, contradictions and ...
Die Lehnwörter im Wortschatz der spätbyzantinischen historiographischen Literatur
(2018-12)
This collective publication deals with the loanwords, which are found in 18 late Byzantine historians and chronicles.
Formulaic Language and New Data
(2020)
The existence of formulaic patterns has been attested to all languages of the world. However, systematic research in this field has been focused on only a few European standard languages with a rich literary tradition and ...
De la literatura latinoamericana a la literatura (latinoamericana) mundial Condiciones materiales, procesos y actores
(2019)
What is World Literature? To answer this question, this book asks another one: How is it produced, that is, what are the material conditions, processes, and actors, which enable Latin-American Literature to circulate ...
Krieg und Kunst im antiken Griechenland und Rom Heldentum, Identität, Herrschaft, Ideologie
(2019)
Images of war in Greek and Roman art reveal much more than the mere veneration of victory and glory. This book examines ancient Greek and Roman sculpture and memorials to reveal the ambivalent motivating forces that underlie ...
Was sprach der eine zum anderen?
(2019)
Eight disputations on precedence have been preserved from Ancient Mesopotamia. In these texts, two opposing understandings of everyday life engage in a verbal argument. The works served at one time to teach oratorical ...
Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish Refugees from Central Europe
(2012)
The study discusses the history of the Jewish refugees within the Shanghai setting and its relationship to the two established Jewish communities, the Sephardi and Russian Jews. Attention is also focused on the cultural ...
Sollbruchstellen des deutschen, europäischen und internationalen Flüchtlingsrechts
(2019)
Refugee law has recently become the focus of public debate. It
various topics such as the failure to close the German border during
the refugee crisis, cooperation with third countries such as Turkey or
Libya, national ...
Dividing Texts
(2020)
The number of manuscripts produced in the Indian sub-continent is astounding and is the result of a massive enterprise. The visual organization of texts in North Indian and Nepalese manuscripts from 800 to 1300 CE is at ...
Eine Geschichte mit Geschmack
(2023)
It is difficult to imagine food today without flavorings, whether natural, synthetic, or artificial. But at the same time, they are substances that society is viewing increasingly critically and whose chemical and industrial ...