Publications
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Biographie und Bildungskultur
(2012)
What role did biographies play for the intelligentsia of the 2nd century AD and what literary forms were used by contemporary authors in their personal portrayals? These two questions have led to this cross-genre investigation ...
Himmelwärts / Das unbekannte Leben / Mit dem Kopf durch die Wand
(2020)
This volume presents two lesser-known plays from Horváth’s middle creative period – the tragicomedy Skyward, which he titled a “fairy tale,” and the comedy Head On. The volume reconstructs the plays’ writing process. ...
Bon and Naxi Manuscripts
(2023)
This collective volume offers an insight into the Bon and Naxi manuscript cultures and their possible interconnections. This is the first primarily object-based study to deal with Bon and Naxi cultural history, book ...
New Perspectives in Global Latin
(2025)
The Global Latin II Conference has highlighted the role of the Latin language as cultural medium between West and East. Adopting a diachronic perspective which spans from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age, the conference ...
Die Vergangenheitstempora im Alemannischen Deutschlands
(2022)
In this volume, corpus-linguistic methods and spontaneous language data have been utilized to prove that the tense forms preterite and pluperfect have reestablished themselves in German Alemannic. The reason for this is ...
Dinámicas lingüísticas de las situaciones de contacto
(2021)
The volume offers in-depth analyses of contact situations between Spanish and other languages, showing how language variation and change are part of the complex linguistic dynamics that characterize contact areas. Aimed ...
Excavations at Paithan, Maharashtra
(2020)
Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State is a research initiative hosted by the British Museum and the British Library in London. Moving beyond geographical, chronological, disciplinary and historiographical ...
Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads
(2025)
Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads has as its aim to evaluate the impact of mirativity in Romance languages or –expressed differently– to determine how these languages apprehend surprise and related notions as linguistic ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2012)
Of the 218 letters, 126 belong to correspondence with the Imperial Count Ernst Christoph von Manteuffel, a dedicated patron of the supporters of Christian Wolff and the head of the Berlin chapter of the Society of Alethophiles. ...
Encountering Others, Understanding Ourselves in Medieval and Early Modern Thought
(2022)
How did medieval and early modern religious traditions deal with otherness? Were the different and the divergent systematically rejected? How did these traditions pave the way for the tolerant and respectful views we ...
Latin America’s Contested Pasts in Telenovelas and TV Series
(2024)
This interdisciplinary volume analyzes the historical culture of Latin American society embodied in telenovelas and series from the 1960s to the present. Bringing together regional case studies on the representation of ...
Diskursive Verfestigungen
(2018)
The concept of frozenness has helped to shape recent lexicographic and phraseological research. The essays in this volume form a part of this current trend and examine discursive aspects of the problematics of frozenness ...
Infrastructure Aesthetics
(2024)
In recent years, more artists have been integrating institutions, funding structures, critics, and distribution circuits into the works themselves, putting pressure on the long-standing analytical division in art studies ...
Ernst Papanek and Jewish Refugee Children
(2021)
Ernst Papanek (1900-1973) was an Austrian-born Viennese reform pedagogue who realized already in the 1930s that unaccompanied, traumatized young refugees were self-directed. He organized "Kindertransporte" for about 1,600 ...
Commentary on Aristotle, ›Nicomachean Ethics‹
(2022)
This volume includes the first critical edition of George Pachymeres’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. An English translation of the Byzantine text and an extensive introduction on philosophical and philological ...
The Unity of Plutarch's Work
(2008)
The contributions to this volume inquire into many important issues of Plutarchean scholarship: the conditions under which Plutarch`s writings were split into two distinct corpora, his methods of work and the various ...
Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory
(2021)
How can it be, that only as much happens as fits into the newspaper the next day? (K. Valentin). Information of the past has to be organised, arranged and selected. The process of selection must be seen as the fundamental ...
The Science-Media Interface
(2023)
The publication and distribution of scientific results is of major importance for the functioning of an information society and the tackling of the complex challenges the world faces today. It is not only scholars who rely ...
Spätantike Chroniken im Fluss der Zeit
(2025)
One change in late antiquity was the emergence of a trend toward a minor historiography in the form of lists and chronicles that were regularly edited and continued in a decentralized manner. This study gives a historical ...
Das Imperium Romanum und seine Gegenwelten
(2012)
Ammianus is regarded as the greatest historian of late antiquity. Yet his geographic and ethnographic digressions were long underestimated as examples offeigned eruditionand as undue interruptions to the historical narrative. ...