Publications
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Biographie und Bildungskultur
(2012)
What role did biographies play for the intelligentsia of the 2nd century AD and what literary forms were used by contemporary authors in their personal portrayals? These two questions have led to this cross-genre investigation ...
Himmelwärts / Das unbekannte Leben / Mit dem Kopf durch die Wand
(2020)
This volume presents two lesser-known plays from Horváth’s middle creative period – the tragicomedy Skyward, which he titled a “fairy tale,” and the comedy Head On. The volume reconstructs the plays’ writing process. ...
Bon and Naxi Manuscripts
(2023)
This collective volume offers an insight into the Bon and Naxi manuscript cultures and their possible interconnections. This is the first primarily object-based study to deal with Bon and Naxi cultural history, book ...
New Perspectives in Global Latin
(2025)
The Global Latin II Conference has highlighted the role of the Latin language as cultural medium between West and East. Adopting a diachronic perspective which spans from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age, the conference ...
Die Vergangenheitstempora im Alemannischen Deutschlands
(2022)
In this volume, corpus-linguistic methods and spontaneous language data have been utilized to prove that the tense forms preterite and pluperfect have reestablished themselves in German Alemannic. The reason for this is ...
Dinámicas lingüísticas de las situaciones de contacto
(2021)
The volume offers in-depth analyses of contact situations between Spanish and other languages, showing how language variation and change are part of the complex linguistic dynamics that characterize contact areas. Aimed ...
Excavations at Paithan, Maharashtra
(2020)
Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State is a research initiative hosted by the British Museum and the British Library in London. Moving beyond geographical, chronological, disciplinary and historiographical ...
Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads
(2025)
Expressing Surprise at the Crossroads has as its aim to evaluate the impact of mirativity in Romance languages or –expressed differently– to determine how these languages apprehend surprise and related notions as linguistic ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2012)
Of the 218 letters, 126 belong to correspondence with the Imperial Count Ernst Christoph von Manteuffel, a dedicated patron of the supporters of Christian Wolff and the head of the Berlin chapter of the Society of Alethophiles. ...
Encountering Others, Understanding Ourselves in Medieval and Early Modern Thought
(2022)
How did medieval and early modern religious traditions deal with otherness? Were the different and the divergent systematically rejected? How did these traditions pave the way for the tolerant and respectful views we ...