Publications
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Ablasskampagnen des Spätmittelalters
(2017)
Martin Luther`s Theses against indulgences (1517) provided the impetus for the Reformation. This volume examines the context of this epochal moment against the backdrop of the extensive campaigns against indulgences that ...
Wood. Rethinking Material
(2021)
Als organisches Baumaterial erfährt Holz in Zeiten der Klimakrise eine besondere Wertschätzung. Eingebunden in umweltschonende Ressourcenkreisläufe zeigt sich seine Innovationskraft, wenn es als Material Bestandteil neuer ...
Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Start-ups
(2020)
Die Entwicklung zehn erfolgreicher Start-ups von der Gründung bis zur Wettbewerbsfähigkeit wird in diesem Band nachvollzogen. Dabei stehen konkrete Entscheidungen der Gründer und Faktoren, die den Erfolg der Unternehmen ...
Staatlichkeit und politisches Handeln in der römischen Kaiserzeit
(2012)
This collected volume contributes to the discussion among ancient historians of the character and form of political action in Imperial Rome. It concentrates on the East of the Imperium Romanum for the whole duration of the ...
Land, Dorf, Kehilla
(2020)
For secular, well-educated society, the “countryside” has always been a projection screen for desires and aversions. Almut Laufer examines the narrative traces left by rural Jewish communities by considering the texts of ...
Chapter Uses and Written Practices in Aljamiado Manuscripts
(2019)
Crossing disciplinary and regional boundaries, this book takes a comparative perspective on standardisation tendencies in Arabic-based writing systems across three continents. 12 distinct manuscript traditions are presented ...
Facing Poetry
(2020)
What is Literature? According to Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Literature is perfect sensate discourse. Based on this insight Baumgarten offers the first modern theory of literature. His uniquely holistic approach encompasses ...
Pacific Climate Cultures
(2019)
This edited volume examines the opportunities to think, do, and/or create jointly afforded by digital storytelling. The contributors discuss digital storytelling in the context of educational programs, teaching anthropology, ...
Zur Geschichte deutscher Wissenschaftssprachen
(2020)
Gefördert durch die Klasse der Literatur und der Musik der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz Mehr als vierzig Jahre hat sich der Sprachwissenschaftler und Mediävist Uwe Pörksen mit der Geschichte der ...
Forschungsfeld Sprachevolution
(2021)
This book provides a comprehensive and innovative exploration of the heterogenous field of linguistic evolution. The introductory sections discuss its subject-specific and methodological foundations. The main focus is the ...
SOS: Medien des Überlebens
(2023)
SOS signals, knocks, flares, or messages in a bottle: when people find themselves in distress, they must use all possible means to draw attention to themselves. They have to send distress signals in order to stay alive. ...
Emerging Trends in and Strategies for Industry 4.0 During and Beyond Covid-19
(2021)
“Emerging Trends in and Strategies for Industry 4.0 During and Beyond Covid-19” is an all-encompassing scholarly referenced book which is comprised of original and previously unpublished research articles and chapters that ...
Red Glow
(2021)
Davor Konjikušić provides an in-depth presentation and contextualization of the photographs created by Yugoslav partisans between 1941 and 1945. In doing so, the author is not only interested in presenting the photographs ...
Brauchen wir ein drittes Geschlecht?
(2015)
In 2013, § 22, para. 3 of the Civil Status Act (PStG) made clear that the civil status of intersexual persons could be entered in birth records without an indication of gender affiliation. However, German family law is ...
Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts
(2020)
This volume is the first English edition of the Nineveh Series on eye disease from the royal library of Ashurbanipal, 7th century BCE. It is the longest surviving ancient work on opthalmology, anticipating by centuries the ...
Indic Manuscript Cultures through the Ages
(2017)
Stemming from the Sanskrit Manuscripts Project that ran in Cambridge (UK) in 2011-2014 and led to the cataloguing and partial digitization of the rich collections of South Asian manuscripts in the University Library, these ...
Language and Linguistics in a Complex World
(2023)
This collection of papers addresses methodological issues in corpus linguistics and recent trends in the field. The authors discuss the multitude of data types that can be collected for computational analysis, tracing ...
Der Prozess Jesu - aus römisch-rechtlicher Perspektive
(2016)
Although it is clear that the trial of Jesus has been extensively discussed and described before, new aspects are revealed by a strict focus on the written text from the perspective of legal history. The author follows ...
Wittgenstein. The Philosopher and his Works
(2006)
This wide-ranging collection of essays contains eighteen original articles by authors representing some of the most important recent work on Wittgenstein. It deals with questions pertaining to both the interpretation and ...
Wittgensteins Sprachphilosophie in den "Philosophischen Untersuchungen". Eine kommentierende Ersteinführung
(2009)
Bei der Studie handelt es sich um eine Paragraphen für Paragraphen erläuternde Interpretation der "Philosophischen Untersuchungen". Sie wendet sich an alle an Wittgensteins Philosophie Interessierte, insbesondere an ...
Wirklichkeit oder Konstruktion? Sprachtheoretische und interdisziplinäre Aspekte einer brisanten Alternative
(2018)
Do we have true access to reality or are we merely surrounded by our own constructions of reality? This classic question has been taken up again with great urgency in the sciences and by the media. The volume reflects on ...
Thatchers konservative Revolution. Der Richtungswandel der britischen Tories (1975-1979)
(2002)
An Margaret Thatcher scheiden sich die Geister bis heute. Ihre Bewunderer vergleichen sie mit Charles de Gaulle und Winston Churchill oder halten sie schlicht für die größte Politikerin des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ihre Gegner ...
Theaternarratologie. Ein erzähltheoretisches Analyseverfahren für Theaterinszenierungen
(2018)
How does theater narrate? Theater narratology thinks narrativity and performativity together. On the basis of narratology and theater studies it develops for the first time an heuristic, analytic model of performative ...
Wissenschaftliches Publizieren. Zwischen Digitalisierung, Leistungsmessung, Ökonomisierung und medialer Beobachtung
(2016)
Academic publishing has been changing dramatically. The key aspects of this transformation are digitalization, economization, the concentration of the publishing industry, the introduction of performance indicators, and ...
Theodor Heuss, Bürger der Weimarer Republik
(2008)
Theodor Heuss was an extraordinarily versatile citizen and committed democrat who defended the Weimar Republic through all its crises. From 1918 onwards he worked as an editor and official in the Guild of German Writers. ...
Theodor Heuss, Erzieher zur Demokratie
(2007)
Theodor Heuss is one of the most significant founders of German politics' new political beginning in Germany. As a liberal party politician and leader of the Württemberg-Baden Kultministerium (ministry of culture) he gained ...
Theodor Heuss, Aufbruch im Kaiserreich
(2009)
The years leading up to World War I were very influential for Theodor Heuss' development. As a school pupil in Heilbronn, a student in Munich and Berlin, and an editor in Berlin and Heilbronn, he made experiences that were ...
Theodor Fontane als Kunstkritiker
(2017)
This monograph is the first comprehensive appraisal of Theodor Fontane`s complete works of art criticism in all its relevant contexts. It situates Fontane`s writings on art between the realms of the Berlin School`s fully ...
Wirtschaft und Wirtschaftspolitik in Deutschland. 75 Jahre RWI – Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V. 1943–2018
(2018)
This title documents the history of the Rhenish-Westphalian Institute for Economic Research (RWI), re-founded in 1943 as the “Western Division” of the German Institute for Economic Research. Starting from the initial ...
Wirtschaftsgeschichte der mittelalterlichen Juden. Fragen und Einschätzungen
(2008)
Bei jeder Betrachtung des Lebens der mittelalterlichen Juden werden zwar die wirtschaftlichen Aspekte erwähnt, ihre wissenschaftliche Untersuchung bleibt jedoch meist oberflächlich und von den Erkenntnissen der ...
Wordplay and Metalinguistic / Metadiscursive Reflection. Authors, Contexts, Techniques, and Meta-Reflection
(2015)
This volume is the first of two bringing together selected contributions from linguistics and literary studies focusing on the variegated manifestations of wordplay in different communicative settings. By investigating ...
Textbook of Cortical Brain Stimulation
(2014)
Developed over the past 25 years, Cortical Brain Stimulation has emerged as a brand new, cutting-edge option for the treatment of intractable neurological and psychiatric disorders. Devoid of the mortality and disabling ...
Text und Kontext. Fallstudien und theoretische Begründungen einer kulturwissenschaftlich angeleiteten Mediävistik
(2007)
An charakteristischen Einzelfällen erörtern die Beiträge grundsätzliche Fragen einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Ausrichtung der Mediävistik (Philologien, Geschichtswissenschaften und Kunstgeschichte). Das Spektrum reicht von ...
Text - Verstehen. Grammatik und darüber hinaus
(2006)
This volume examines the question: What happens when texts are comprehended? Written by academics from a variety of countries renowned in the field, the nineteen principal essays investigate the grammatical, psychological, ...
