Publications
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Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages
(2020)
This book showcases the state of the art in corpus-based linguistic analysis of Celtic languages (specifically, Old/Middle Irish, Middle Welsh, and Cornish). It explores corpus approaches to morphosyntactic variation in ...
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 ...
The European Experience in Slavery, 1650–1850
(2024)
The European Experience in Slavery assembles experts on the repercussions of the transatlantic as well as Mediterranean slave trade in different countries of early modern Europe for the first time, demonstrating that human ...
Barren Women
(2020)
Barren Women is the first scholarly book to explore the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world. Through an examination of legal texts, medical treatises, and works of religious preaching, Sara ...
Neues aus Wissenschaft und Lehre der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf 2010
(2011)
Das Jahrbuch der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf versteht sich als Forum für den wissenschaftlichen Dialog der Universität zu Zeitfragen, zu aktuellen Problemlagen und Herausforderungen von Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft, ...
Women Writing War
(2018)
Recent scholarship has broadened definitions of war and shifted from the narrow focus on battles and power struggles to include narratives of the homefront and private sphere. To expand scholarship on textual representations ...
Schreibweisen des Exotismus
(2023)
This study examines the relationship between sensory perception and exoticism in German, French, and British literature written between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its starting point is the proposition ...
Familiengründung mittels Eizellspende
(2023)
A strict ban on egg donation is unjustified in a liberal society. Yet, egg donation is nevertheless fraught with problems that should not be ignored. This work examines those problems from a moral philosophical perspective ...
Kontrafaktik der Gegenwart
(2021)
Non-realistic narratives are currently immensely popular but have been frequently accused of political escapism. This study models counterfactuality using theories of fiction and shows the great affinity that this narrative ...
Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum II commentariorum I-VI versio Arabica. Volume I: Commentaria I-III
(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 ...
150 Jahre deutsche Verwaltungsgerichtsbarkeit
(2013)
The Baden Administrative Court was the first administrative court to be established in Germany and began its work in October 1863 in Karlsruhe. In 2013, the anniversary of its founding provided the occasion to reflect on ...
Poéticas espectatoriales en Hispanoamérica y Brasil (1800–1847)
(2022)
This book offers the first panoramic study on the development and characteristics of the literary-journalistic genre of spectator periodicals in Hispanic America and Brazil. After contextualizing these publications within ...
Sprachverfall?
(2014)
The 2013 Annual of the Institute for the German Language provides a classification of discourse on language decline based on language history and variation linguistics. In addition, it offers an analysis of the processes ...
History of Philosophy and the Reflective Society
(2021)
Make believe we are in 2028, attending the 26th World Congress of Philosophy, then the question is: how will philosophers delve into historic texts? Not on paper, but on devices. And each philosophical proposition uttered ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2013)
The focus of this volume is on the world of theater. The reign of Frederick II is a subject of considerable attention in the correspondence: from Königsberg come reports about the politics of religion, and from Berlin ...
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 ...
Digital Humanities and Libraries and Archives in Religious Studies
(2022)
How are digital humanists drawing on libraries and archives to advance research in the field of religious studies and theology? How can librarians and archivists make their collections accessible in return? This volume ...
Kellers Medien
(2022)
As an author and painter, Gottfried Keller deliberately experimented with different media and their forms – with genres from both literature and the fine arts. The objective of this volume is to trace the various intermedial ...
Coding da Vinci – Das Playbook
(2023)
Since 2014, the project "Coding da Vinci," which was funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation from 2019 to 2022, has been connecting communities of cultural enthusiasts and technologically minded people with German ...
Bewertungsinteraktionen in der Theaterpause
(2020)
This study inquires into the specific forms of critical interaction that occur in conversations during intermissions in the theater lobby. Using conversational analysis, it reconstructs how the assessments shared during ...
Embodied Dependencies and Freedoms
(2023)
Most people regard the arts as free. This publication demonstrates that Asian art and architecture are created in contexts of extreme dependence. They depend on the climate, resources, social and religious traditions and ...
On the Way to the (Un)Known?
(2022)
Twenty-two authors from various countries analyze travelogues on the Ottoman Empire between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The volume discusses questions of perceptions of "otherness", the circulation of ...
Einstein vs. Bergson
(2021)
On 6 April 1922, Einstein met Bergson to debate the nature of time: is the time the physicist calculates the same time the philosopher reflects on? Einstein claimed that only scientific time is real, while Bergson argued ...
Creating Standards
(2019)
This book deals with various aspects of standardisation by stepping outside the disciplinary and regional boundaries and providing a typological cross-cultural comparison of standardisation processes in writing traditions ...
Multiphoton Microscopy and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging
(2018)
This monograph focuses on modern femtosecond laser microscopes for two photon imaging and nanoprocessing, on laser tweezers for cell micromanipulation as well as on fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) in Life Sciences. ...
Theatre and Metatheatre
(2021)
In this book, experts discuss the use of ‘theatre’ and ‘metatheatre’ to describe ancient Greek dramatic activities. By examining how these two concepts are used in very different ways by scholars of various horizons, this ...
The Walking Dead at Saqqara
(2022)
Funerary rituals and mortuary cults are classics of religious studies research in ancient Egypt. Still, we know little about how the living interacted with ancestors and gods in daily life. The case study of the city of ...
Der Nachlass Paul de Lagarde
(2020)
Based on the legacy and published works of the Göttingen orientalist Paul de Lagarde (1827–1891), the contributors to this volume undertake a historical inventory of his life and scientific work, including its political ...
Writing the Reader
(2016)
The history of the novel is also a history of shifting views of the value of novel reading. This study investigates how novels themselves participate in this development by featuring reading as a multidimensional cultural ...
Konstruktionssemantik
(2022)
Construction semantics combines usage-based construction grammar and frame semantics, as set out in the FrameNet project. This volume models the semantic properties of grammatical constructions and their instances by ...
Jüdische Expatriates in China und Hong Kong nach 1976
(2018)
Die Arbeit bietet die erste umfangreiche, empirisch fundierte Religionsgeschichtsschreibung der jüdischen Gemeinden in China und Hong Kong nach der Kulturrevolution. Zahlreiche Synagogen entstehen, das jüdisch-religiöse ...
Linguistik und Medizin
(2021)
Linguistics and medicine is a growing branch of research in the medical humanities. The interdisciplinary contributions in this volume address current, socially relevant issues in doctor-patient communication, public ...
Nominale Determination im Bulgarischen und Mazedonischen
(2020)
Bulgarian and Macedonian are the only Slavic languages with definite and indefinite articles. Macedonian is among the few languages that differentiate the definite article deictically. This innovative study presents a ...
Diversity Dimensions in Mathematics and Language Learning
(2021)
Extensive research is available on language acquisition and the acquisition of mathematical skills in early childhood. But more recently, research has turned to the question of the influence of specific language aspects ...
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 ...
Hadrian and the Christians
(2010)
The book sheds new light on a much debated issue in the field of ancient history: the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire and its relationship with Judaism in the 2nd century. The contributions collected in this ...
Our Neighbours, Ourselves
(2011)
Homi K. Bhabha delivered the 2010 Hegel lecture, evoking the spirit of Hegel in an attempt to understand contemporary issues of ethical witness, historical memory and the rights and representations of minorities in the ...
Land, Dorf, Kehilla
(2020)
Die 1992 gegründete Buchreihe ist interdisziplinär ausgerichtet; sie umfasst wissenschaftliche Monographien, Aufsatzsammlungen und kommentierte Quelleneditionen vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Der Begriff ...
Ordinary Sudan, 1504–2019
(2023)
This book examines how ordinary people have induced the most important political shifts in the history of the Sudan, including the last 2019 Revolution but also how they have participated to the construction of consensus ...
Das Emanzipationsedikt von 1812 in Preußen
(2013)
Two-hundred years after the issuance of the "Edict concerning the civil rights of Jews in the Prussian state," the thirteen essays in this volume examine the Prussian emancipation model with the benefit of previously ...