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Mapping the Sensible
(2022)
Mapping figures in cinema as an experiential process inscribed within historically specific aesthetic regimes. The three long essays in this book explore mapping as a process of violent inscription on colonial landscapes ...
Tempi der Bewegung – Modi des Gefühls
(2020)
Wie ist die zeitliche Gestaltung audiovisueller Bilder mit den verschiedenen Modi des Zuschauergefühls verbunden? Am Gegenstand der Screwball Comedy wird diese Frage erörtert: Die Filme des klassischen Hollywood-Genres der ...
Digressions in Classical Historiography
(2024)
This book offers an overall view of the ways in which digressions were diachronically used by ancient historians from the genre’s first steps in the 5th century BCE up to the Imperial Era. The authors of this volume mainly ...
Willensfreiheit
(2017)
This book surveys recent debates on freedom of will, incorporating the implications of modern brain research. The author develops an original, capability-based conception of freedom of will. Geert Keil proposes that the ...
Handbook of Stemmatology
(2020)
Stemmatology studies aspects of textual criticism that use genealogical methods. This handbook is the first to cover the entire field, encompassing both theoretical and practical aspects, ranging from traditional to digital ...
Chapter Speaker and quote reduced parenthetical clauses
(2015)
In this paper, I present a syntactico-pragmatic delimitation and subsequent analysis of reduced parenthetical clause constructions that is based upon Schneider’s (2007a) superordinate and binary division between reduced ...
The Cold War
(2017)
The traces of the Cold War are still visible in many places all around the world. It is the topic of exhibits and new museums, of memorial days and historic sites, of documentaries and movies, of arts and culture. There ...
Schönheitsdiskurse in der Literatur des Mittelalters
(2022)
This study provides a fundamental new reading of numerous commonplace positions in Germanic medieval studies relating to the physical beauty of literary figures. It looks at both canonic and more marginal Middle High German ...
Willensfreiheit
(2017)
This book surveys recent debates on freedom of will, incorporating the implications of modern brain research. The author develops an original, capability-based conception of freedom of will. Geert Keil proposes that the ...
Geschichten im digitalen Raum
(2024)
In the age of digitality, the question is not so much whether learning about history is relevant in the digital space but how it should be modeled. In this volume, Alexandra Krebs develops a theoretical concept for such a ...
Erinnerungsorte in der Musik
(2022)
Why do we remember certain music from the past and attribute meaning to it, while other protagonists from the history of music slip into obscurity? Armed with this question, the author embarks upon a journey to sites of ...
Bilder unter Verdacht
(2024)
Digital images have been under suspicion of manipulation not just since the discussions about "deepfakes" and generative AI. While in the 1990s any digital image evidence seemed questionable, pragmatic answers have since ...
Erinnerungsorte in der Musik
(2022)
Why do we remember certain music from the past and attribute meaning to it, while other protagonists from the history of music slip into obscurity? Armed with this question, the author embarks upon a journey to sites of ...
Der grüne Kakadu
(2020)
In The Green Cockatoo, a one-act play from 1898, Arthur Schnitzler thematizes the indistinguishability of fiction and reality. The historical-critical edition reconstructs the history of the play and its publication, ...
Context-Dependence, Perspective and Relativity
(2010)
This volume brings together original papers by linguists and philosophers on the role of context and perspective in language and thought. Several contributions are concerned with the contextualism/relativism debate, which ...
The Global Cold War on Campus
(2023)
How and why did students at Kabul University engage in political activism or refrained from it between 1964 and 1992? Based on oral history interviews with former students, this book reveals how they – as many others around ...
Literarische Formen des Erinnerns
(2024)
The contributions in the volume follow the path of a “rhetoric of memory” in its various forms in the area of tension between canonization and decanonization as well as disruption and stabilization. The fundamental premise ...
Unruly Narrative
(2022)
This study deals with the formative powers of modern liberal ideas of private property. The liberal subject emerged with the formations of European liberalism, Atlantic slavery, and settler colonial expansion in the New ...
Libraries in the Manuscript Age
(2023)
Ancient, medieval and modern libraries in various regions (the Muslim world, East Asia, Byzantium, Western Europe) are known only by the manuscripts they kept or documents that shed light on their history. Through case ...
Libraries in the Manuscript Age
(2023)
Ancient, medieval and modern libraries in various regions (the Muslim world, East Asia, Byzantium, Western Europe) are known only by the manuscripts they kept or documents that shed light on their history. Through case ...
SignGram Blueprint
(2017)
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union. Current grammatical knowledge about particular ...
Chapter Towards automated language classification
(2013)
In this paper, we discuss advantages of clustering approaches to automated language classification, describe distance measures used for this purpose, and present results of several proof-of-concept experiments. We advocate ...
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 ...
Antike Texte und ihre Materialität Alltägliche Präsenz, mediale Semantik, literarische Reflexion
(2019)
The everyday use of texts in the ancient world relates in many ways to contemporary practice. Besides inscribed artifacts, the self-reflection of Greek and Roman authors demonstrate an awareness of the importance of ...
Artifizialität und Agon
(2022)
This study develops the theory that the practice of retelling reflected in the poetologies of German chivalric romance (12th and 13th cent.) must be understood not just as artificial poiesis but also as a practice of ...
Rethinking Islam in Europe
(2022)
After Islamic theology was given a place at universities in German-speaking areas, certain issues in the Islamic theology and religious pedagogy took on greater importance and moved to the forefront of discussion. A ...
Chapter Introduction
(2015)
In the Wake of the Compendia examines the composition of technical literature in the ancient Semitic-speaking world. Compendia on astrology, magic, medicine, lexicography, and alchemy were composed in several languages ...
Die Briefe des Ignatios von Antiochia
(2018)
The letters preserved under the name of Ignatios of Antiochia remain a contentious topic to this day among scholars of early Christianity. The essays collected in this volume discuss issues about their origins and cultural ...
Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science Semantics Volume 3
(2012)
Semantics; Linguistic; Theories; Generative and Cognitive Linguistics
Tempi der Bewegung – Modi des Gefühls
(2020)
Wie ist die zeitliche Gestaltung audiovisueller Bilder mit den verschiedenen Modi des Zuschauergefühls verbunden? Am Gegenstand der Screwball Comedy wird diese Frage erörtert: Die Filme des klassischen Hollywood-Genres der ...
Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field
(2014)
Cultural Studies; Manuscripts Philology
LiebeLesen. Potsdamer Vorlesungen zu einem großen Gefühl und dessen Aneignung
(2020)
The lecture volume plumbs a seductively diverse and infinitely confusing subject: love. From Tristan and Isolde to Don Juan, Cecilia Valdes, Emma Bovary, and the love fables of modern mass media, the relationship between ...
LiebeLesen. Potsdamer Vorlesungen zu einem großen Gefühl und dessen Aneignung
(2020)
The lecture volume plumbs a seductively diverse and infinitely confusing subject: love. From Tristan and Isolde to Don Juan, Cecilia Valdes, Emma Bovary, and the love fables of modern mass media, the relationship between ...
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 ...
Krieg und Kunst im antiken Griechenland und Rom Heldentum, Identität, Herrschaft, Ideologie
(2019)
Images of war in Greek and Roman art reveal much more than the mere veneration of victory and glory. This book examines ancient Greek and Roman sculpture and memorials to reveal the ambivalent motivating forces that underlie ...
Paradigmas y polifuncionalidad
(2020)
This study presents a corpus-based semasiologial and onomasiological analysis of the paradigm of adjectives and adverbs of accuracy. Looking specifically at justo / justamente, cabal / cabalmente, preciso / precisamente, ...
Theater as Metaphor
(2019)
The papers of the present volume investigate the potential of the metaphor of life as theater for literary, philosophical, juridical and epistemological discourses from the Middle Ages through modernity, and focusing on ...
Chapter Historical overview
(2012)
The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide is a thorough guide to the indigenous languages of this part of the world. With more than a third of the linguistic diversity of the world (in terms of ...
Die Lehnwörter im Wortschatz der spätbyzantinischen historiographischen Literatur
(2018-12)
This collective publication deals with the loanwords, which are found in 18 late Byzantine historians and chronicles.
Rethinking Islam in Europe
(2022)
After Islamic theology was given a place at universities in German-speaking areas, certain issues in the Islamic theology and religious pedagogy took on greater importance and moved to the forefront of discussion. A ...
Meyer-Struckmann-Preis 2013: Sir Ian Kershaw
(2014)
Der Meyer-Struckmann-Preis für geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, ausgeschrieben für Deutsche Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert, ging im Jahr 2013 an den renommierten britischen Historiker Sir Ian Kershaw. Die ...
Dutch
(2013)
Dutch; language variation; language/dialect contact; language change
Dutch
(2013)
Dutch; language variation; language/dialect contact; language change
Chapter „Von Aalschwanzspekulanten bis Abendrotlicht“
(2015)
This book examines the ways that texts from the humanities have fostered particular approaches to knowledge by constructing different versions of a ‘scientific ethos’. The studies contained in this volume reveal how and ...
Das 'Prinzip Störung' in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften
(2013)
Disruption; systems theory; cultural theory
Geschichte der altgermanistischen Edition
(2023)
This volume portrays the practice of Old German textual criticism from its beginnings in the 19th century to the early 20th century, examining the most important editions and personalities from the discipline’s history and ...
Die Briefe des Ignatios von Antiochia
(2018)
The letters preserved under the name of Ignatios of Antiochia remain a contentious topic to this day among scholars of early Christianity. The essays collected in this volume discuss issues about their origins and cultural ...
›Suétone narrateur‹
(2024)
The Lives of the Caesars by Latin biographer C. Suetonius Tranquillus is one of the central texts for our understanding of the early imperial history of Rome as well as a work full of unique literary features. In eight ...
Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science Semantics Volume 3
(2012)
Semantics; Linguistic; Theories; Generative and Cognitive Linguistics
Chapter Restricted integer partition functions
(2014)
Additive; multiplicative and probabilistic number theory; Sequences and sets; Extremal and classical combinatorics; Ramsey theory; Hypergraphs
Greek Medical Papyri Text, Context, Hypertext
(2019)
This volume, authored by outstanding papyrologists and historians of ancient medicine, deals with topics focused on the papyrological evidence of ancient medical texts and contexts. The first part contains some new reflections ...
Antike Texte und ihre Materialität Alltägliche Präsenz, mediale Semantik, literarische Reflexion
(2019)
The everyday use of texts in the ancient world relates in many ways to contemporary practice. Besides inscribed artifacts, the self-reflection of Greek and Roman authors demonstrate an awareness of the importance of ...
Parenthesis and Ellipsis: Cross-Linguistic and Theoretical Perspectives
(2014)
This volume presents a cross-section of research addressing the interaction of two prominent areas in linguistic theory: parenthesis and ellipsis. The contributions address various theoretical questions raised by 'incomplete' ...
Paper Stories – Paper and Book History in Early Modern Europe
(2023)
This book examines paper and material aspects of the written word in early modern Europe. The contributors investigate the origins of paper production as well as manufacture, use, ownership, trade and preservation of books. ...
History and Religion: Narrating a Religious Past
(2015)
This volume is the first systematic scholarly study that analyses the complex relationship between history and religion. It considers religious groups as both producers of historical narratives and topics of historiography. ...
Theater as Metaphor
(2019)
The papers of the present volume investigate the potential of the metaphor of life as theater for literary, philosophical, juridical and epistemological discourses from the Middle Ages through modernity, and focusing on ...
The expression of “collectivity” in Romance languages
(2022)
The empirical and comparative study examines various facets of the linguistic expression of collectivity in Romance languages. Against the background of an onomasiological conception of nominal aspectuality, collection ...
Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field
(2014)
Cultural Studies; Manuscripts Philology
World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise
(2019)
In view of the current crisis of globalization, this book aims to interrogate one of its key concepts in the past decades: World Literature. In a historical moment where the established focus on transnational identities, ...
Arabic-Type Books Printed in Wallachia, Istanbul, and Beyond
(2024)
This volume brings together studies focusing on the history of printing in the Ottoman Empire and the Romanian Principalities in the 18th century across a variety of linguistic and confessional communities. It gives ...
The Maghrib in the Mashriq
(2021)
This book is about the impact of knowledge produced in the Islamic West on the Mashriq. Topics include the emergence and construction of the concept ‘Maghrib’, the role of travel in the transmission, reception and integration ...
Health and Development
(2023)
Health and development require one another: there can be no development without a critical mass of people who are sufficiently healthy, and people cannot be healthy without societal developments. 11 case studies from 9 ...
Toward Re-Entanglement
(2024)
Recognizing the dire threats of climate collapse and mass extinction, the global initiative Bauhaus Earth convened a team of scientists, architects, spatial planners, and policymakers from around the world to author a ...
Johann Gottlob von Quandt (1787−1859) Kunst fördern und ausstellen
(2019)
Quandt was the builder of a first Goethe memorial site, founder of the Saxon Kunstverein and pioneer for a modern art gallery in Dresden. He promoted contemporary artists and explored Old Masters. He wanted his fellow ...
Agonal Perspectives on Nietzsche's Philosophy of Critical Transvaluation
(2021)
Nietzsche’s concept of the agon or Wettkampf, a measured and productive form of conflict inspired by ancient Greek culture, has attracted a good deal of interest in Nietzsche studies and beyond. This book, by a leading ...
Elements of Comparative Syntax: Theory and Description
(2017)
Generative Syntax; Comparative Syntax; Micro-comparative Syntax
Writing the Digital History of Nazi Germany
(2022)
This book will consider how the outcomes of “doing history digitally” include different kind of sources and data, as well as new ways of researching historical questions, and innovative forms of presenting history. All ...
Die Applikation literarischer Texte
(2021)
Diese literaturgeschichtliche Arbeit führt erstmals auf breiter Quellenbasis den empirischen Nachweis, dass Leser/-innen beim außerwissenschaftlichen Umgang mit Literatur in Geschichte und Gegenwart Applikationen vornehmen. ...
Heilige und Heiden im legendarischen Erzählen des 13. Jahrhunderts
(2021)
Against the backdrop of 13th-century cultural history, the study examines the function of legendary narratives in Christian identity formation. Martyrdom, war, and conversion are the basic narratives in negotiating religious ...
Literature and Politics in the Later Foucault
(2020)
While it has been argued that Foucault’s interest in literature was limited to the 1960s and of a mostly depoliticized nature, the philosopher's previously unpublished later works suggest a different reality, showing a ...
Health and Development
(2023)
Health and development require one another: there can be no development without a critical mass of people who are sufficiently healthy, and people cannot be healthy without societal developments. 11 case studies from 9 ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2009)
This third volume of the letter edition documents the correspondence of the years 1734 and 1735. With his appointment as professor of logic and metaphysics and his marriage to Luise Adelgunde Victorie Kulmus, Gottsched was ...
Risque et vigilance sanitaire
(2024)
This book addresses the question of vigilance in the face of an epidemic at the beginning of the 18th century, based on the example of the fight against the plague in the French Mediterranean. Because of its trans-Mediterranean ...
Discourses on Nations and Identities
(2021)
This book focuses on the interplay between concepts of nation, language, and individual as well as collective identities. Because literary communication happens within different kinds of power structures - linguistic, ...
Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK) 38/1
(2013)
Multimodal Communication; Embodiment
Men in the Middle. Local Priests in Early Medieval Europe
(2016)
This volume studies local priests as central players in small communities of early medieval Europe. On the one hand, manuscript evidence shows their knowledge, expertise and potential to teach, whereas charter collections ...
Fictionalizing heterodoxy Various uses of knowledge in the Spanish world from the Archpriest of Hita to Mateo Alemán
(2019)
The information overload produced by the printing press and the new forms of the structuring of knowledge are echoed in fictional works. The essays assembled in this book study the textualization of problematic forms of ...
Schauplatz Archiv Objekt – Narrativ – Performanz
(2019)
While archives have traditionally attracted little publicity, this situation is in flux: things that were hidden away – from precious objects to curiosities – are now being made available not only to scholars but to a ...
Languages From the World of the Bible
(2011-12-19)
The alphabetic script is part of the lasting heritage of the ancient Near East. It unites a number of newly-emerging civilizations in ancient Syria-Palestine, which together constitute the immediate background of the Hebrew ...
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 ...
Agonal Perspectives on Nietzsche's Philosophy of Critical Transvaluation
(2021)
Nietzsche’s concept of the agon or Wettkampf, a measured and productive form of conflict inspired by ancient Greek culture, has attracted a good deal of interest in Nietzsche studies and beyond. This book, by a leading ...
Risque et vigilance sanitaire
(2024)
This book addresses the question of vigilance in the face of an epidemic at the beginning of the 18th century, based on the example of the fight against the plague in the French Mediterranean. Because of its trans-Mediterranean ...
Narratologie und Epistemologie
(2019)
A narrative is more than story it is a window into the world it narrates. Sebastian Meixner’s book explores the juncture between narrative and world in his study of Goethe’s early works. In three different constellations ...
Manual der Koloproktologie
(2024)
This is the standard textbook for every medical or surgical coloproctologist from the German Society for Coloproctology. In two volumes, it covers the full anatomy of the colon from the ileocecal valve to the anus. Each ...
Elements of Comparative Syntax: Theory and Description
(2017)
Generative Syntax; Comparative Syntax; Micro-comparative Syntax
Israel and the Question of Reparations from Germany
(2023)
Based on an extensive range of primary sources - whether they be archival, journalistic or documentary - some of which are exposed here for the first time, the present volume reviews the efforts made by the State of Israel ...
Subjektive und objektive Zeit
(2021)
This essay examines the differentiation between subjective and objective time in Aristotle and in modern theories of time. It aims to show that (i) Aristotle does make this distinction but regards subjective and objective ...
Accelerating Human Evolution by Theosophical Initiation
(2022)
The main subjects of analysis in the present book are the stages of initiation in the grand scheme of Theosophical evolution. Mühlematter shows that the stages of initiation were the blueprint for Annie Besant’s pedagogy, ...
Heilige und Heiden im legendarischen Erzählen des 13. Jahrhunderts
(2021)
Against the backdrop of 13th-century cultural history, the study examines the function of legendary narratives in Christian identity formation. Martyrdom, war, and conversion are the basic narratives in negotiating religious ...
Literature and Politics in the Later Foucault
(2020)
While it has been argued that Foucault’s interest in literature was limited to the 1960s and of a mostly depoliticized nature, the philosopher's previously unpublished later works suggest a different reality, showing a ...
World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise
(2019)
In view of the current crisis of globalization, this book aims to interrogate one of its key concepts in the past decades: World Literature. In a historical moment where the established focus on transnational identities, ...
Arabic-Type Books Printed in Wallachia, Istanbul, and Beyond
(2024)
This volume brings together studies focusing on the history of printing in the Ottoman Empire and the Romanian Principalities in the 18th century across a variety of linguistic and confessional communities. It gives ...
Chapter 5 Ringwoodite
(2015)
The history of ringwoodite started in 1869 in a remote locality in the south-west of Queensland in Australia. Mr. Michael Hammond witnessed a meteorite shower close to the junction between Cooper and Kyabra Creeks (Lat. ...
Chapter 5 Ringwoodite
(2015)
The history of ringwoodite started in 1869 in a remote locality in the south-west of Queensland in Australia. Mr. Michael Hammond witnessed a meteorite shower close to the junction between Cooper and Kyabra Creeks (Lat. ...
Rome’s Apostolic Heritage
(2023)
Guglielmo Sirleto has generally been acknowledged as a crucial contributor to defending the papacy’s claims over St Peter’s primacy, including the apostle’s legendary arrival to Rome before his martyrdom. Sirleto established ...
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" ...
Behördlich autorisiert. Staatlich beeidet. Im Nationalsozialismus verfolgt.
(2024)
This book is the first history of Austria’s Chambers of Chartered Engineering Consultants from the foundation of the institution of chartered engineering consultants in 1860 up to the Ziviltechnikergesetz of 1957. In ...
Behördlich autorisiert. Staatlich beeidet. Im Nationalsozialismus verfolgt.
(2024)
This book is the first history of Austria’s Chambers of Chartered Engineering Consultants from the foundation of the institution of chartered engineering consultants in 1860 up to the Ziviltechnikergesetz of 1957. In ...
Chapter 17 Motivation by formally analyzable terms in a typological perspective
(2016)
This article tackles a question raised by one of the founding figures of lexical typology, Stephen Ullmann: to what degree do languages differ in the extent to which they resort to morphologically analyzable lexical items? ...
Chapter 17 Motivation by formally analyzable terms in a typological perspective
(2016)
This article tackles a question raised by one of the founding figures of lexical typology, Stephen Ullmann: to what degree do languages differ in the extent to which they resort to morphologically analyzable lexical items? ...