Publications
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Handschrift im Druck (ca. 1500–1800)
(2023)
This edited volume examines the forms and functions of the interaction between hand writing and print culture in the period ca. 1500 to 1800. Handwritten interventions into printed books interrupt the text fixed in print ...
Mahnen und Regieren
(2015)
The shepherd metaphor is widely diffused in many civilizations. Using this metaphor Pope Gregory introduced a successful leadership model which, as the Author shows, was further developed by the clergy and the kings in ...
Principles of Decoration in the Roman World
(2021)
Principles of Decoration in the Roman World explores the manner in which architectural settings and action contexts influenced the perception of decorative elements in Roman culture. By examining the relationship between ...
Culture-bearing Women
(2019)
The study examines the fiction of Black Women’s Renaissance. It focuses on the novels of the 1980s, which appreciated “culture-bearing” mothers as reproducers of the nation, to analyze the vexed relationship between cultural ...
Gender in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
(2022)
This volume is the first to diachronously present the development of gender in German children's and young-adult literature from the middle ages to the present. It explores a topic of enormous societal relevance by examining ...
Die Ordnung der Zukunft
(2023)
The future is open: This is a basic assumption of modernity. It originated in the 18th century and still shapes our self-image today. This study uncovers another tradition: the effort to close the future again, to ‘fill ...
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism
(2022)
Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) was a prominent German sociologist, economist and Zionist activist. As a co-founder of academic sociology in Germany, Oppenheimer vehemently opposed the influence of antisemitism on the nascent ...
Konflikt und Bewältigung
(2011)
On September 28, 1009, Caliph al-Hakim had the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem destroyed. How did it come to this? What did it mean for contemporaries? Why were Jews persecuted as a result? Did it interrupt the ...
Transformations of Romanness
(2018)
Few pre-modern empires had an impact on their subjects comparable to that of the Roman Empire. Over time, being Roman could mean many different things, e.g. Latin speakers under barbarian rule, subjects of the Byzantine ...
One-Volume Libraries
(2016)
Composite and multiple-text manuscripts are traditionally studied for their individual texts, but recent trends in codicology have paved the way for a more comprehensive approach: Manuscripts are unique artefacts which ...
Juden und ihre Nachbarn
(2022)
The contributions in this volume address developments in the emergence of a Jewish scholarship movement against the backdrop of diaspora and migration movements in Central and Eastern Europe. These studies on the epistemology ...
Prosodie und Konstruktionsgrammatik
(2020)
Most forms of construction grammar offer a usage-based model of grammar. To date, construction grammar researchers have been dismissive of prosody. This anthology seeks to redress this gap in the research, examining the ...
Libraries on the Agenda
(2024)
Libraries on the Agenda shows how to engage in lobbying and advocating for libraries. The book analyzes political elements of power, policy making and human values. Political decision makers from local communities up to ...
Auf dem Weg zur Normalität
(2014)
Despite the fortuitous leadership of Giscard and Schmidt, German-French relations during the 1970s experienced a series of major conflicts. There were a number of different governmental and societal forces that sought to ...
Landscape’s Revenge
(2018)
Drawing from diverse critical traditions from Latin-America and Europe, this work posits the landscape as the pathway to the hidden, dark depths of Robert Walser’s and Bernardo Carvalho’s literary projects. Behind the ...
Öffentliche Räume in Pompeji
(2023)
Experiencing towns means feeling atmospheres. This impact made by urban spaces depends largely on their architecture and its decorative and visual features – including its design. In this sense, this volume is about ...
Vergangenes verhandeln
(2019)
This study in cultural history addresses the value of past relations in Gallo-Roman and Italian discourses on social status in late antiquity. The volume examines how senatorial figures referred back to ancestors and ancient ...
After Dictatorship
(2023)
What must be done after the end of a dictatorship so that the suffering of those persecuted comes to an end and history does not repeat itself? Only rarely have long-term studies academically investigated the effects that ...
Diaspora and Disaster
(2016)
On March 11, 2011 the North-East of Japan was hit by a massive magnitude 9 earthquake. The earthquake was followed by a tsunami that destroyed farmland, cities, factories and the infrastructure of the coastal regions and ...
Konstruktionen zwischen Lexikon und Grammatik
(2022)
The object of study in this edited volume is semi-schematic phrasemes, which are known in German construction grammar research by the term "phraseme constructions." Ten contributions by internationally renowned authors ...
Kognition und Reflexion: Zur Theorie filmischen Denkens
(2018)
The discourse of sound motion pictures has evolved to become a cultural practice through which people attempt to grasp their subjective cognitive reality as part of a shared world. By developing a poetological theory of ...
Methoden zur Erforschung grammatischer Strukturen in historischen Quellen
(2023)
In order to counteract introspective approaches and the detailed analysis of individual cases in historical grammar research, this volume brings together essays by experts working on the empirical analysis of (text)grammatical ...
Estereotipos femeninos desde la antigüedad clásica hasta el siglo XVI
(2022)
The volume gathers eleven contributions on the origins, evolution and function of female models in Western culture, from Greco-Roman texts to medieval and Renaissance literature. Organized in four thematic blocks, the book ...
Elfriede Jelineks Theater des (Post-)Politischen
(2023)
Since the turn of the millennium, there has been a boom in political literature however, the possibilities of political writing in the present must be renegotiated. The challenges of a post-political climate of lack of ...
Archaeology of Mind in the Hebrew Bible / Archäologie alttestamentlichen Denkens
(2023)
Research into the Hebrew Bible, Ancient Near East, Philosophy and History have long considered whether thought in the cultural area of the ancient Middle East differs from that in the western Mediterranean. The inclusion ...
Regionale Alltagssprache
(2015)
Empirical approaches based on qualitative or quantitative methods of corpus linguistics have become a central paradigm within linguistics. The series takes account of this fact and provides a platform for approaches within ...
System- and Data-Driven Methods and Algorithms
(2021)
An increasing complexity of models used to predict real-world systems leads to the need for algorithms to replace complex models with far simpler ones, while preserving the accuracy of the predictions. This two-volume ...
Navigating Socialist Encounters
(2021)
This edited volume firmly places African history into global history by highlighting connections between African and East German actors and institutions during the Cold War. With a special focus on negotiations and African ...
The Politics of Dementia
(2021)
This edited volume analyses how forms of individual and societal forgetting, as envisaged in contemporary literary texts and other works of art, tie into cultural concepts of pathological memory loss how globally diverse ...
Praxishandbuch Forschungsdatenmanagement
(2021)
The creation of the German National Research Data Infrastructure and the European Open Science Cloud is presenting the providers and users of research data with technical, legal, and organizational challenges. This ...
Zur Intermaterialität geschnitzter Kästen aus Holz
(2024)
How does materiality affect artistic processes of object creation and reception? This volume examining carved boxes from the High and Late medieval periods deals with interrelations between material and technique. It ...
Der lateinische ›Alexanderroman‹ des Iulius Valerius
(2023)
Within the scope of the Greek-Latin Alexander romance, the Res gestae Alexandri Macedonis by Julius Valerius (early fourth century CE) stand out due to their high literary and stylistic standards. The eleven contributions ...
Kant and Artificial Intelligence
(2022)
How are artificial intelligence (AI) and the strong claims made by their philosophical representatives to be understood and evaluated from a Kantian perspective? Conversely, what can we learn from AI and its functions about ...
Kooperative Informationsinfrastrukturen als Chance und Herausforderung
(2018)
Cooperative information infrastructures as a chance and a challenge to this topic are the contributions to the Festschrift for Thomas Bürger on the occasion of his 65th birthday. More than 40 contributions by renowned ...
Die Begründung des Realen
(2021)
Das Problem einer ausschließlich „idealistischen“ oder „realistischen“ Position ist es, dass sie die Bedingungen ihrer Analyse nur einseitig einfangen und nicht hinreichend begründen kann, weil sie das begriffliche und ...
Adolescent Psychiatry
(2013-09-17)
Psychiatric disorders in adolescents are an important social problem relevant to almost all healthcare professionals. The prevalence of mood, anxiety, substance use and other psychiatric disorders among adolescents is high. ...
Perspectives on the Self
(2022)
Modernity is the era of the self-made person: the moderns create themselves by self-reflexivity and make their world – society – in their own image. That the social world is reflexive means that its dynamics become independent ...
Guimarães Rosa und Meyer-Clason
(2020)
This edited volume, which features essays from prominent German, Brazilian, and Portuguese scholars, deals with the personal relations and intensive intellectual collaboration between Joao Guimaraes Rosa (1908–1967) and ...
Digital Classical Philology
(2019)
The buzzwords “Information Society” and “Age of Access” suggest that information is now universally accessible without any form of hindrance. Indeed, the German constitution calls for all citizens to have open access to ...
Visuelle Linguistik
(2020)
Graphics and diagrams are important in linguistics: they visualise analysis findings, illustrate theoretical concepts and make it possible to analyse data in the first place. But how do they influence the generation of ...