Publications
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Models of Change in Medieval Textual Culture
(2024)
How does textual culture change? How do genres turn into new forms, how do texts and books change through use and in performance? When does variation turn into change? This book addresses different aspects of change in the ...
Die Papyri Herkulaneums im Digitalen Zeitalter
(2021)
The Herculaneum Papyri comprise the only surviving library of antiquity. In recent years, innovative technologies and new philological methods have effectively revolutionized research. Characters that were previously ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2010)
The letters collected in Volume 4 show Gottsched at the height of his fame and recognition as a poetry theorist, linguist, philosopher, theater reformer, and publicist. Recurring themes in the correspondence, in addition ...
Sign Languages in Village Communities
(2012)
This book unites the work of both anthropologists and linguists who have conducted fieldwork in rural signing communities around the globe. In most cases, these signing communities have emerged in response to a high incidence ...
Figuren begegnen in Filmen und Comics
(2024)
Wie begegnen wir Figuren in Filmen und Comics? Für Zuschauende und Lesende sind sie intuitiv zugänglich, nicht aber für die Analyse. Die vorliegende Studie grenzt sich von narratologisch und kognitionstheoretisch geprägten ...
New Libraries in Old Buildings
(2021)
This book focuses on difficulties and opportunities in revitalization of old, derelict or abandoned buildings into a library and investigates the transformation of buildings which originally had a different purpose. The ...
Rescatando a Helena
(2024)
Transcending the dialectic between appearance and reality, Euripides succeeded in giving human intelligibility to a new Helena, who never loved Paris nor fled with him. Menelaus' wife must vindicate to her newfound husband ...
Mathematical Optimization for Machine Learning
(2025)
Mathematical optimization and machine learning are closely related. This proceedings volume of the Thematic Einstein Semester 2023 of the Berlin Mathematics Research Center MATH+ collects recent progress on their interplay ...
Spatial Formats under the Global Condition
(2019)
Contributions to this volume summarize and discuss the theoretical foundations of the Collaborative Research Centre at Leipzig University which address the relationship between processes of (re-)spatialization on the one ...
Diaspora, Law and Literature (Volume 12)
(2016)
The well-known challenges of international migration have triggered new departures in academic approaches, with 'diaspora studies' evolving as an interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary field of study. Its emerging ...
Cultural Heritage and Slavery
(2024)
In the recent cultural heritage boom, community-based and national identity projects are intertwined with interest in cultural tourism and sites of the memory of enslavement. Questions of historical guilt and present ...
Von der Makroökonomie zum Kleinbauern
(2020)
Die Habilitationsschrift untersucht, wie sich die entwicklungspolitischen Paradigmen der Dritte-Welt-Bewegung zwischen den 1960er und den 1990er Jahren verändert haben. Noch in den 1960er Jahren forderten westliche Aktivisten ...
Natural Communication
(2021)
In Natural Communication, the author criticizes the current paradigm of specific goal orientation in the complexity sciences. His model of "natural communication" encapsulates modern theoretical concepts from mathematics ...
Confronting Antisemitism from the Perspectives of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
(2020)
This volume engages with antisemitic stereotypes as religious symbols that express and transmit a belief system of Jew-hatred. These religious symbols are stored in Christian, Muslim and even today’s secular cultural and ...
Drogenpoesie der Frühen Neuzeit
(2025)
This volume brings together annotated editions and interpretations of Early Modern literature about tobacco, beer, wine, and coffee. It includes New Latin and German panegyric poems praising Tokaji wine or beer from ...
Disputed Memory
(2016)
The world wars, genocides and extremist ideologies of the 20th century are remembered very differently across Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, resulting sometimes in fierce memory disputes. This book investigates ...
The Modern Dream of Order
(2025)
A fresh exploration of modern photography through the lens of commercial portrait photography - the largest and yet most neglected visual archive of the 19th century. This study explores how commercial portrait photography ...
What’s in a Divine Name?
(2024)
Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. The book collects 36 essays pertaining to many different contexts – Egypt, Anatolia, Levant, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome – which ...
Empirische Erforschung internetbasierter Kommunikation
(2017)
Empirical approaches based on qualitative or quantitative methods of corpus linguistics have become a central paradigm within linguistics. The series takes account of this fact and provides a platform for approaches within ...
Sea of Literatures
(2023)
Mediterranean studies flourish in literary and cultural studies, but concepts of the Mediterranean and the theories and methods they use are very disparate. This is because the Mediterranean is not a simple geographical ...