Publications
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Decolonising Medieval Fennoscandia
(2023)
The study investigates the relationship between Norse and Saami peoples in the medieval period and focuses on the multifaceted portrayal of Saami peoples in medieval texts. Through a systematic analysis of the sources, ...
The World's First Full Press Freedom
(2022)
The book investigates the world's first full legal press freedom. In 1770, king Christian 7's physician, the German enlightener J.F. Struensee, effectively became ruler of Denmark. His first decree, complete abandonment ...
Mapping the Sensible
(2022)
Mapping figures in cinema as an experiential process inscribed within historically specific aesthetic regimes. The three long essays in this book explore mapping as a process of violent inscription on colonial landscapes ...
Diokletian und die Tetrarchie
(2012)
Renowned scholars from Germany, Great Britain, Croatia, Slovenia and Switzerland contributed to an international conference held in Split in 2003. Their papers collected here show the present state of research on the ...
In the Wake of the Compendia
(2015)
In the Wake of the Compendia examines the composition of technical literature in the ancient Semitic-speaking world. Compendia on astrology, magic, medicine, lexicography, and alchemy were composed in several languages and ...
Medieval Multilingual Manuscripts
(2022)
Medieval manuscripts combining multiple languages, whether in fusion or in collision, provide tangible evidence for linguistic and cultural interactions. Such encounters are documented in this volume through case studies ...
Variants and Variance in Classical Textual Cultures
(2024)
How textual variations develop in different cultures what variants say about a culture’s understanding of text, and (collective) authorship what happens when variants generate their own strands of tradition how changes in ...
Feminizid in Recht und Literatur
(2024)
This study examines the crime of femicide in the Latin American context in the novels of D. Zúñiga (Chile), L. Restrepo (Colombia), and F. Melchor (Mexico). It reveals how these literary texts shed light on the systematic ...
Kunst und Geld
(2023)
"Leiter setzte Geld in den Sand" titelte die Kasseler Lokalzeitung HNA im August 2017 und brachte geleakte Informationen aus dem Aufsichtsrat der documenta 14, einer weltweit renommierten Kunstausstellung, an die Öffentlichkeit: ...
Handbook of Stemmatology
(2020)
Stemmatology studies aspects of textual criticism that use genealogical methods. This handbook is the first to cover the entire field, encompassing both theoretical and practical aspects, ranging from traditional to digital ...
Historische Textmuster im Wandel
(2023)
Text patterns can be described in several interwoven dimensions. This volume looks at examples of empirical studies of historical text types to show how quantitative methods from corpus linguistics can be productively ...
The Trump Carnival
(2024)
A truly interdisciplinary approach to the Trump phenomenon. This book offers a unique holistic theoretical framework that includes a wide range of structural factors. While most books single out one specific factor, such ...
Context-Dependence, Perspective and Relativity
(2010)
This volume brings together original papers by linguists and philosophers on the role of context and perspective in language and thought. Several contributions are concerned with the contextualism/relativism debate, which ...
Literarische Formen des Erinnerns
(2024)
The contributions in the volume follow the path of a “rhetoric of memory” in its various forms in the area of tension between canonization and decanonization as well as disruption and stabilization. The fundamental premise ...
Heilige, Heiliges und Heiligkeit in spätantiken Religionskulturen
(2012)
Holy places; Holy times; Holiness; History of Religion; Sacralization
Griechen im Heiligen Römischen Reich
(2024)
This is the first volume to deal with the migration of Greeks to the Holy Roman Empire in detail. It reveals that there were three types of migrants: almsmen, students, and traders. Greek migrants from the Ottoman Empire ...
Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta
(2024)
This book focuses on the philosophy of the sixteenth-century Mādhva Vedānta philosopher Vyāsatīrtha. Vyāsatīrtha’s Nyāyāmr̥ta influenced philosophers throughout India and propelled his tradition to the center of the ...
Der grüne Kakadu
(2020)
In The Green Cockatoo, a one-act play from 1898, Arthur Schnitzler thematizes the indistinguishability of fiction and reality. The historical-critical edition reconstructs the history of the play and its publication, ...
Demographic Change in Japan and the EU
(2010)
This volume contains selected papers of the 2008 annual conference of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung e.V. – VSJF). The academic meeting ...
Knowledge, Freedom, and Taste
(2024)
This volume presents original contributions from former students of Paul Guyer, the 2024 recipient of the International Kant Prize. The authors engage with central aspects of Guyer’s work on Kant’s critical philosophy, ...