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Sebastian Brant (1457–1521)
(2023)
As a representative of the intellectual elites of his time, Sebastian Brant (1457–1521) was active in various cultural fields (Latin and German poetry, pious literature and theology, law, book illustration). The contributions ...
Lascivia mascherata
(2022)
How do Torquato Tasso and Giovan Battista Marino react to the vigilant and normative context between the 16th and 17th centuries? Two evasive tactics designed to safeguard lewdness and enchantment in the poems are considered, ...
La Suisse - portrait urbain
(2005)
The classic volume Switzerland. An Urban Portrait was published in three languages by Birkhäuser Verlag in 2005 and has lost none of its relevance to this day. The result of several years of research by ETH Studio Basel, ...
Memories of German Colonialism in Tanzania
(2023)
The book documents the collective memories of German colonialism in Tanzania Mainland which formed part of the former Germany East Africa. It argues that German colonialism which ended with the First World War left cultural ...
Krishna Sobti’s Views on Literature and the Poetics of Writing
(2022)
The Hindi writer Krishna Sobti (1925-2019) carved out a special place for herself within the post-Partition Hindi literary sphere thanks to her idiosyncratic use of language and her bold choices of topics. Known primarily ...
Isaac Orobio
(2018)
In philosophical works that circulated as clandestine manuscripts, the Amsterdam physician and polemicist Isaac Orobio de Castro (1617–1687) defended Judaism intermittently against Christianity and Spinoza’s critique of ...
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 ...
One Hundred Years at the Intersection of Chemistry and Physics
(2011-10-27)
This volume, occasioned by the centenary of the Fritz Haber Institute, formerly the Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, covers the institute's scientific and institutional history from its founding until ...
Humanidades Digitales
(2018)
The contributions gathered in this volume show how digital technologies can be applied to Medieval Studies (Philology, Art, and History) in order to improve our understanding of medieval societies and cultures.
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 ...
Tradition und Diskurs
(2023)
References to "Islamic tradition" are omnipresent in the general public sphere and in scholarship. However, there has not been much consideration of what actually constitutes Islamic tradition. This volume attempts to ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2015)
This edition, containing approx. 6,000 letters written to and by Johann Christoph Gottsched (and his wife Luise Adelgune Viktoria Gottsched), documents for the first time the correspondence of one of the most significant ...
Life Course, Work, and Labour in Global History
(2023)
This multidisciplinary volume offers unique perspectives on the complexity of the work-life course nexus across the globe and throughout the centuries, reaching from the early modern period to the present day, and from ...
Divination on stage
(2021)
Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses ...
Filmen, Forschen, Annotieren
(2021)
The handbook Research Video is the introduction to a new kind of software and publication based on annotated videos. Practitioners and researchers who work with motion data, such as those from the fields of performative ...
Kant on Love
(2018)
What did Immanuel Kant really think about love? This book is the first in-depth study of the concept of love in Kant`s philosophy. It argues that love is much more important to Kant than previously thought, and that ...
Galeni in Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum II commentariorum I-VI versio Arabica. Volume II: Commentaria IV-VI
(2016)
This two-volume monograph offers the first critical edition of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on Book 2 of the Hippocratic Epidemics produced by Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. ca. 870). The edition is based ...
The World Jewish Congress During The Holocaust - Between Activism and Restraint
(2014)
Drawing on hitherto neglected archival materials, Zohar Segev sheds new light on the policy of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) during the Holocaust. Contrary to popular belief, he can show that there was an impressive ...
Genre und Gemeinsinn
(2016)
Based on the premise that a society`s sense of commonality depends upon media practices of political communitarization, this study examines how Hollywood was deployed during the Second World War. It shows that Hollywood ...
Dynastischer Nachwuchs als Hoffnungsträger und Argument in der Frühen Neuzeit
(2023)
This volume sheds light on the role played by progeny in maintaining dynasties in early modern royal courts. It attempts to break through the narrative of older research that saw dynasties as a series of male rulers. ...
Model Order Reduction
(2020)
An increasing complexity of models used to predict real-world systems leads to the need for algorithms to replace complex models with far simpler ones, while preserving the accuracy of the predictions. This two-volume ...
Chapter Maverick: Experimentally Testing a Conjecture of the Antitrust Authorities
(2020)
The book identifies conditions for trust and cooperation. It highlights unintended consequences of individually rational behavior, and shows how trust and cooperation change dependent on social embeddedness. Such analyses ...
Anaphora Resolution and Text Retrieval
(2015)
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 ...
Das Mittelmeer und die deutsche Literatur der Vormoderne
(2023)
Characteristic of the premodern Mediterranean world were the manifold connections between communities shaped by diverse traditions. German-speaking actors influenced these transcultural entanglements: as rulers, traders, ...
Lernwelt Hochschule
(2020)
The college learning environment is in flux. The shift from teaching to learning entails extensive processes of change. A three-year research project conducted by the Learning Research Centers at the Stuttgart Media ...
In Search of the Culprit
(2021)
Despite poststructuralist rejections of the idea of a singular author-genius, the question of a textual archetype that can be assigned to a named author is still a common scholarly phantasm. This volume sets new standards ...
Damascius' Philosophy of Time
(2023)
The late Platonist philosopher Damascius both resumed and rejuvenated the long Greek thinking about time. In distinguishing between different takes on time, he offered novel perspectives, which can be seen as anticipating ...
Archive für Literatur
(2018)
The series "Literature and Archive" establishes a common field of conversation between literary and edition science, archive theory, archival and cultural studies as well as the practice of today's archives.
Forged in Genocide
(2024)
In the shadow of war, genocide and its aftermath, thousands of migrants would play a central role as auxiliaries in the German military and laborers in the Namibian economy. This is a history of colonial capitalism centered ...
Dialogues between Media
(2021)
This book unites essays on the interplay of media or inter-arts studies, as well as papers with a focus on comics studies, further testimony to the fact that comics have truly arrived in mainstream academic discourse. ...
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 ...
Der inkriminierte Bischof
(2019)
In this study, Till Stüber analyzes loyalty conflicts between bishops and kings in post-Roman Gaul. He examines the political or social factors that resulted in these conflicts, and also explores the solutions that were ...
Plato in the Third Sophistic
(2014)
Plato in the Third Sophistic examines the influence and impact of Plato and Platonism in the era of Byzantine and Christian rhetoric. The volume brings together articles from leading scholars of late antique philosophy and ...
Sprache und Kognition
(2018)
Is our thinking and thus the worldview the same or language-specific for all people? This book is an unequivocal answer to this age-old question, which was already pursued by Wilhelm von Humboldt: Our worldview is characterized ...
Künstliche Intelligenz und menschliche Gesellschaft
(2023)
Artificial intelligence exceeds the capabilities of humans in many ways. Now, if AI surpasses the achievements of human intelligence, where and why will humans remain irreplaceable in how we will live, shape our society, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Von der Freiheit, Schmerz zu spüren
(2017)
We can make our pain more bearable through our will. But how and where does my self (my mind) affect my body? In this books, medical doctors, neurophysiologists, physicists, and psychologists show that the dualism of body ...
Ambraser Heldenbuch
(2021)
The “Ambras Book of Heroes,” commissioned by Maximilian I, is one of the most important sources of medieval German literature. In this eleven-volume complete edition, all 25 texts from the codex appear in print for the ...
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, ...
Exil und Identität
(2017)
Once Germany invaded Italy in September 1943, the Jews of Italy became part of the Final Solution. The author examines a brief but important phase of their history by looking at the fate of those Jews who were able save ...
Cultures and Traditions of Wordplay and Wordplay Research
(2018)
This volume focuses on realisations of wordplay in different cultures and social and historical contexts, and brings together various research traditions of approaching wordplay. Together with the volume DWP 7, it assembles ...
Chronicles and the Priestly Literature of the Hebrew Bible
(2021)
This volume aims to examine the literary and socio-historical relationship between the Books of Chronicles and the priestly literature in the Pentateuch and in Ezekiel. Experts across this body of literature come together ...
Verb-second as a reconstruction phenomenon
(2021)
This investigation of V2-movement addresses the question which role the lexical content of the moved element plays during sentence processing. It draws on original theoretical arguments, empirical data and results from ...
Prosopon Rhomaikon
(2017)
This volume includes 17 studies that present aspects of the Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period. The book`s thematic focus is on structural developments, major personalities, and the Byzantine Empire`s relations ...
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 ...
Sprachen der Wachsamkeit
(2023)
This volume examines the linguistic dimension of vigilance in different contexts. The focus is on the social potentials, normative and regulative effects of languages as well as their use for marking dangers and orienting ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2011)
In the years 1738/39, Gottsched was mostly concerned with two events: his departure from the “Deutsche Gesellschaft” which he had been heading and the resulting developments, and the continuation of his disputes on the ...
Ein Meister an der Peripherie des Kapitalismus
(2023)
This study examines The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (1880), the magnum opus of Brazilian author Machado de Assis. Those interested in literature and cultural theory will find here a shining model of that which affects ...
Von den historischen Avantgarden bis nach der Postmoderne
(2021)
Die Vorlesung präsentiert im Überblick die Romanischen Literaturen der Welt auf ihrem Weg von den historischen Avantgarden zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts bis zu den Literaturen nach der Postmoderne zu Beginn unseres ...
Capricci luterani?
(2023)
Does Michelangelo’s art reflect Catholic orthodoxy or is it the work of a follower of the Reformation, forced to act in secret? The question of Michelangelo’s religious beliefs is still debated, and the positions taken ...
Naming, Defining, Phrasing Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies
(2023)
The eleven contributions in the volume examine the terminology used to refer to enslaved people and people in other forms of strong asymmetrical dependency as well as narratives by means of which dependency has been either ...
The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum
(2020)
The Second World War is omnipresent in contemporary memory debates. As the war fades from living memory, this study is the first to systematically analyze how Second World War museums allow prototypical visitors to comprehend ...
Good practice in der institutionellen Kommunikation
(2023)
How can we identify successful linguistic action in recordings of institutional conversations? The theoretical-methodological contributions discuss what the basis for evaluation is, how it can be collected empirically, and ...
The Poetry of Cao Zhi
(2021)
This is the first complete translation of the poetry of Cao Zhi, a major figure from the formative age of classical Chinese poetry. The translations take the reader beyond anthology pieces to present a more complete view ...
Öffentliches Recht und Privatrecht
(2020)
This conference volume presents lectures and discussion from the Conference of the Association of German Professors of Constitutional Law that was held in Marburg, Germany, on 9–12 October 2019.
„Fiktion“ und „Wirklichkeit“ in japanischen Literaturtheorien der Jahre 1850 bis 1890
(2022)
Which relationship should, must, or can creation in language (fiction) have to creation outside of language (reality)? How do theoretical notions of literary art change when reality drastically changes? This volume ...
Anachronismus und Aktualisierung in Ovids ›Metamorphosen‹
(2021)
The temporal inconsistencies in Ovid’s "Metamorphoses" are just as multifaceted and numerous as the image that has revealed itself in previous interpretations of these text phenomena – often referred to as "anachronisms" ...
Fragile Familien
(2022)
This book presents a new history of the family in the era of bourgeois modernity. The sources it uses are personal accounts, first and foremost diaries, but also letters and autobiographical texts from eight German-speaking ...
Kaiser Julian 'Apostata' und die philosophische Reaktion gegen das Christentum
(2008)
During his short reign in the 4th century, Emperor Julian II, known as the Apostate, attempted to combat Christianity philosophically and to set up a pagan Neo-Platonic doctrine as a counter-programme. The volume presents ...