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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.
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 ...
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. ...
COMPANY
(2019-11)
The artistic research in COMPANY investigates behind the scenes of everyday worklife in a metalworking industrial enterprise.
In photographs, videos, and conversations with the workers in this company, the authors search ...
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 ...
Infrastructures of Freedom
(2023)
Infrastructures of Freedom sheds light on the impact of inadequate public lighting in self-built communities in Cape Town. In democratic South Africa, where infrastructure provision still reflects deeply embedded notions ...
Karl Barth’s Epistle to the Romans
(2022)
This volume considers Karl Barth’s first major publication, his commentary on the apostle Paul’s epistle to the Romans in its two editions (1919 and 1922), analyzing both its contents and its relevance today. The volume ...
Chapter 13 Cognitive Effects of Bilingualism in Infancy
(2016)
Exposure to multiple languages is a very common phenomenon even during early childhood. Although learning just one language is a major accomplishment in itself, the challenge for infants born in multilingual environments ...
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, ...
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 ...
Baccio Bandinelli e le anatomie degli scartafacci
(2023)
This study, based on extensive archival research, sheds light on the writings attributed to the sixteenth-century sculptor Baccio Bandinelli (Libro del disegno, Memoriale) and analyses them in their historical and artistic ...
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 ...
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. ...
From Sounds to Structures: Beyond the Veil of Maya
(2018)
Phonology; Morpho-phonology; Morpho-syntax; Italian Dialectology
Jewish Life and Culture in Germany after 1945
(2022)
How was the re-emerging Jewish religious practice after 1945 shaped by traditions before the Shoah? To what extent was it influenced by new inspirations through migration and new cultural contacts? By analysing objects ...
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, ...
Gesammelte Aufsätze zur altfranzösischen Epik
(2019)
Conceived as a companion volume to his Onomastics of the Song of Roland (2017), Beckmann’s eighteen Collected Essays on Old French Epic Poetry presents a multi-faceted panorama about the origins of the ancient chansons de ...
Das französische Ancien Régime als Eigentümergesellschaft?
(2024)
Bernard Derouet was a highly specialized researcher who regularly published articles about rural French society in Europe’s most renowned social and economy history journal, the Annales ESC / Annales HSS. This translation ...
Barlaam und Josaphat: Neue Perspektiven auf ein europäisches Phänomen
(2015)
Barlaam and Josaphat; Hagiography; Theologians
Return and Circular Migration in Contemporary European History
(2024)
The essays collected in this volume analyze return movements from an interdisciplinary perspective and embrace a wide range of case studies and methodological issues of circulation migration in the 20th century in Europe. ...
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. ...
Die Geschichte der Leipziger Buchmesse in der DDR
(2024)
This history of the Leipzig Book Fair examines the socialist showcase, the motor of the centrally planned book trade, censorship, and Stasi surveillance, but also the theft of books from Western publishers. It shows how ...
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, ...
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, ...
From Sounds to Structures: Beyond the Veil of Maya
(2018)
Phonology; Morpho-phonology; Morpho-syntax; Italian Dialectology
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 ...
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 ...
Virtual Museums – A Plea
(2024)
Digital technologies have opened up new possibilities for the cultural sector. Many museums are represented on the internet with various materials. Augmented reality and virtual reality offer immersion experiences even for ...
Karl Barth’s Epistle to the Romans
(2022)
This volume considers Karl Barth’s first major publication, his commentary on the apostle Paul’s epistle to the Romans in its two editions (1919 and 1922), analyzing both its contents and its relevance today. The volume ...
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 ...
Papierherstellung im deutschen Südwesten
(2018)
The series Material Text Culturess the publication organ of the Collaborative Research Center 933 of the same name at Heidelberg University, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The series publishes collections ...
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. ...
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 ...
The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide
(2012)
General Linguistics; Indigenous Languages of South America
COMPANY
(2019-11)
The artistic research in COMPANY investigates behind the scenes of everyday worklife in a metalworking industrial enterprise.
In photographs, videos, and conversations with the workers in this company, the authors search ...
Action-Related Representations
(2020)
Theories of grounded cognition state that there is a meaningful connection between action and cognition. Although these claims are widely accepted, the nature and structure of this connection is far from clear and is still ...
Literatur und Naturwissenschaft: Interformation und epistemische Transformation
(2024)
This volume establishes theoretical and methodological principles on the relationship between literature and science. It combines approaches from the fields of cultural semiotics, narratology, and the philosophy of science, ...
Action-Related Representations
(2020)
Theories of grounded cognition state that there is a meaningful connection between action and cognition. Although these claims are widely accepted, the nature and structure of this connection is far from clear and is still ...
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 ...
Medienwissenschaften
(2016)
Die Philosophische Fakultät der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf hat den Meyer-Struckmann-Preis für geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung 2015 an Winfried Schulz verliehen. Das diesjährige Thema lautete ...
Gesammelte Aufsätze zur altfranzösischen Epik
(2019)
Conceived as a companion volume to his Onomastics of the Song of Roland (2017), Beckmann’s eighteen Collected Essays on Old French Epic Poetry presents a multi-faceted panorama about the origins of the ancient chansons de ...
Literatur und Naturwissenschaft: Interformation und epistemische Transformation
(2024)
This volume establishes theoretical and methodological principles on the relationship between literature and science. It combines approaches from the fields of cultural semiotics, narratology, and the philosophy of science, ...
Style in Latin Poetry
(2024)
This volume assembles cutting-edge work on Latin poetic style from an international cast of scholars, both senior and emerging. Some of the papers were discussed in an international workshop in Oxford in March 2022 the ...
Return and Circular Migration in Contemporary European History
(2024)
The essays collected in this volume analyze return movements from an interdisciplinary perspective and embrace a wide range of case studies and methodological issues of circulation migration in the 20th century in Europe. ...
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, ...
Geschlechterunterschiede und Geschlechterunterscheidungen in Europa
(2016)
Personnel selection; Parenthood; Gender; Adolescence; Childhood; social policy
Die Geschichte der Leipziger Buchmesse in der DDR
(2024)
This history of the Leipzig Book Fair examines the socialist showcase, the motor of the centrally planned book trade, censorship, and Stasi surveillance, but also the theft of books from Western publishers. It shows how ...
The Poetry of Ruan Ji and Xi Kang
(2017)
The poetry of Ruan Ji has been previously translated several times, with one fully scholarly translation of both the poetry and the Fu (poetic expositions). The present translation not only provides a facing page critical ...
Prokop und der soziale Kosmos der Historiographie
(2024)
Procopius of Caesarea was one of the last authors of classical antique historiography. His major volume on Justinian’s wars is the most important historical source on the sixth century. This new interpretation of, above ...
Chapter Mainland Southeast Asian languages: State of the art and new directions.
(2015)
Mainland Southeast Asia (hereafter: MSEA) can be broadly defined as the area occupied by present day Cambodia, Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam, along with areas of China south of the Yangtze River. ...
Sprache(n) in pädagogischen Settings
(2022)
This volume spans various languages and education levels, focusing on heterogeneity as an immanent characteristic of pedagogical settings. Its examines the potential of language development, the factors and facets of the ...
Chapter 13 Cognitive Effects of Bilingualism in Infancy
(2016)
Exposure to multiple languages is a very common phenomenon even during early childhood. Although learning just one language is a major accomplishment in itself, the challenge for infants born in multilingual environments ...
Baccio Bandinelli e le anatomie degli scartafacci
(2023)
This study, based on extensive archival research, sheds light on the writings attributed to the sixteenth-century sculptor Baccio Bandinelli (Libro del disegno, Memoriale) and analyses them in their historical and artistic ...
Am Rande der Fotografie
(2018-11)
Why is there a history of photography but no history of the photogram? The publication pursues this question by approaching the specific materiality, the scientific and artistic qualities of the photogram on the basis of ...
Am Rande der Fotografie
(2018-11)
Why is there a history of photography but no history of the photogram? The publication pursues this question by approaching the specific materiality, the scientific and artistic qualities of the photogram on the basis of ...
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 ...
Bridging Formal and Conceptual Semantics
(2017)
The articles in this volume are the outcome of the successful BRIDGE Workshop held in Düsseldorf in 2014. The workshop gathered a number of distinguished researchers from formal semantics and conceptual semantics and aimed ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Arrivals and Departures
(2024)
This book explores the human relationship with changing biodiversity. New animal and plant species arrive, and the ones previously existing may disappear. However, the historical and social perspectives of the matter have ...
Chapter Depersonalized Case Histories in the Babylonian Therapeutic Compendia
(2015)
Standard histories of medicine identify Hippocratic texts such as Epidemics as the earliest medical case histories in human history. In contrast to the Hippocratic case histories, it is often stated that Babylonian medicine ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chapter 6 Optogenetic actuation, inhibition, modulation and readout for neuronal networks generating behavior in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
(2013)
Elucidating the mechanisms by which nervous systems process information and generate behavior is among the fundamental problems of biology. The complexity of our brain and plasticity of our behaviors make it challenging ...
Schweizerdeutsch und Sprachbewusstsein
(2019)
The German Linguistic Studies Series is a comprehensive and outstanding forum in its field. It has borne the name of its subject in its title since the foundation of the series in the eighth decade of the last century.The ...
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 ...
Language Contact in Sanandaj
(2024)
This book is a detailed study of contact-induced change in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of the Jews of Sanandaj, a town in western Iran. Since its foundation in early 17th century, the city has been home to a significant Jewish ...
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 ...
Chapter Combinatory Categorial Grammar
(2019)
In this handbook thirteen current approaches to syntactic description are presented (Part I) along with six studies on their metatheoretical underpinnings (Part II). The goal is to facilitate a systematic comparison among ...
Archivos Abiertos
(2024)
The digital era is transforming the way we preserve, publish and research our cultural heritage: archives and libraries are being reorganized, heritage collections are being resurrected in new forms. This volume presents ...
Language Contact in Sanandaj
(2024)
This book is a detailed study of contact-induced change in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of the Jews of Sanandaj, a town in western Iran. Since its foundation in early 17th century, the city has been home to a significant Jewish ...
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 ...
Thinking and Killing - Philosophical Discourse in the Shadow of the Third Reich
(2013)
This book explores the phenomenon of the Third Reich from a philosophical perspective. It concentrates on the ways in which the subjects and experiences of Nazi Germany, the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism are conceived by ...
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 ...
Summa theologica Halensis
(2018)
So far, only the Latin text in a critical edition from the year 1948 has been available from the law treaty of the Summa Halensis. With the three-volume publication, a German translation and a commentary on this important ...
Changes of Monarchical Rule in the Late Middle Ages / Monarchische Herrschaftswechsel des Spätmittelalters
(2024)
For the first time, this volume presents a geographically and phenomenologically broad range of case studies on late medieval changes of rule, from dynastic succession to conquest by force. The focus will be on the border ...
Sub-Indo-European Europe
(2024)
The dispersal of the Indo-European language family dramatically altered the linguistic landscape in Europe, resulting in the loss of many of the preexisting languages. This volume brings together contributions focusing on ...
Empire and Politics in the Eastern and Western Civilizations
(2022)
The volume includes the proceedings of the 2nd Roma Sinica conference held in 2019 and aims to compare some features of the ancient political thought in the Western classical tradition and in the Eastern ancient thought. ...
Der einsame Weg, Band 1 : Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2024)
The 15th volume of the “Historical-Critical Edition of Arthur Schnitzler’s Early Works” – edited by Konstanze Fliedl since 2010 – presents Schnitzler’s play “Der einsame Weg” (1904). The entire extensive corpus of material ...
Medizinische Gutachten des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts
(2018)
Historical text species research is still a relatively unexplored field for German, and so far only a few historical text types have been recorded and described. With the medical reports, this study focuses on a historical ...
Jewish Studies in the Digital Age
(2022)
The digitisation boom of the last two decades, and the rapid advancement of digital tools to analyse data in myriad ways, have opened up new avenues for humanities research. This volume discusses how the so-called digital ...
Die Chronik des Richard von San Germano
(2022)
The chronicle of Richard von San Germano is a volume of fundamental significance for the history of the Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick II in Italy. This volume is the first to analyze and explain Richard’s life and work ...
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 ...
Annotations in Scholarly Editions and Research
(2020)
The notion of annotation is associated in the Humanities and Information Sciences with different concepts that vary in coverage, application and direction of impact, but have conceptual parallels as well. This publication ...
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, ...
La identidad mexicana en libros escolares y narrativas
(2021)
This study analyzes the discursive construction strategies that structured the cognitive model of Mexican national identity in four generations of textbooks (1960–2009). Using tools from the fields of Cognitive Linguistics ...
Integers: Annual Volume 2013
(2014)
Additive; multiplicative and probabilistic number theory; Sequences and sets; Extremal and classical combinatorics; Ramsey theory; Hypergraphs
Textkomplexität und Textverstehen
(2023)
Text comprehension is a dynamic process in which readers enter into a dialog with the text and interact with it: one’s own knowledge is activated and the text is interpreted in its cultural, social context. The study of ...
Mobility Design
(2022)
Climate change and the scarcity of resources, but also the steadily increasing amount of traffic, make it indispensable to develop new solutions for environmentally friendly and people-friendly mobility. With the expansion ...
Hans Haacke und Pierre Huyghe
(2024)
Since the 1960s, artists have questioned the traditional idea of opposition between art and nature. They have incorporated animals and plants as co-actors in their work, and so established a sculptural aesthetic of the ...
Integers: Annual Volume 2013
(2014)
Additive; multiplicative and probabilistic number theory; Sequences and sets; Extremal and classical combinatorics; Ramsey theory; Hypergraphs
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 ...
Bruchstücke
(2023)
Das Jahrbuch des Dokumentationsarchivs des österreichischen Widerstandes (DÖW) untersucht seit 1986 alle Aspekte des Nationalsozialismus. Dieses Bemühen um Erforschung und Aufarbeitung bleibt immer fragmentarisch. Zu viele ...
The Semantics of Derivational Morphology
(2023)
This volume comprises eight cutting-edge research articles on the meaning of complex words. The contributions apply a range of innovative methodological approaches to under-researched problems in derivational semantics. ...
La identidad mexicana en libros escolares y narrativas
(2021)
This study analyzes the discursive construction strategies that structured the cognitive model of Mexican national identity in four generations of textbooks (1960–2009). Using tools from the fields of Cognitive Linguistics ...
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, ...