Publications
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Sakrale Schriftbilder
(2024)
The pictoriality of writing has been a major research topic for some years now. This reflects the fact that writing is not just read but always seen as well, that letters are not just written but can also be carved, ...
The Patient Griselda Myth
(2019)
The Patient Griselda myth tells the story of a marquis who is reluctant to get married, but, under pressure from his subjects, agrees to take a wife and chooses a poor young country girl for her virtues. Once married, he ...
China’s capitalist transformation
(2024)
This book provides a rare account of China’s market reform in the own words of the Chinese: politicians, intellectuals, the media, and journalists. The Chinese rhetoric―complex, ironic, argumentative, and abstruse―may hold ...
Geselliger Sang
(2024)
Sociable Song: this volume examines German-language love songs of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Its chapters from literary studies and musicology consider the songs’ dissemination, functions, and mediality. By ...
Literatur und Film im Spiegel des Digitalen
(2024)
In light of the strong media competition generated by the internet and digital television, two older and similarly endangered media formats, literature and cinema, are increasingly reflecting on their potential and limits ...
Freezing: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Domains
(2018)
Criterial freezing; copula; Hebrew copular sentence; labeling; Subject Criterion; small clause; subject position(s); PRON; Inverse copular sentence; Focus; Smuggling
The Power of Religion / Religion and Power
(2023)
How does the powerful effect that religion has on public and personal life relate to the various spheres of our culture? Is the relationship between power and religion always negative or can religion also affect individuals ...
Modalities, Identity, Belief, and Moral Dilemmas: Themes from Barcan Marcus
(2015)
Modal logic; quantification; rationality
The Philosophy of Human Rights
(2011-11-17)
The notion of "human rights" is widely used in political and moral debates. The core idea, that all human beings have some inalienable basic rights, is appealing and has an important practical function: It allows moral ...
Inschriftenkulturen im kommunalen Italien Traditionen, Brüche, Neuanfänge
(2019)
The volume examines the epigraphic cultures of Italian communes during the High Middle Ages and their relationship to earlier epigraphic cultures in antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. It focuses especially on the question ...