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The Summa Halensis
(2020)
Begründet von Michael Schmaus †, Werner Dettloff † und Richard Heinzmann Fortgeführt unter Mitwirkung von Ulrich Horst Herausgegeben von Isabelle Mandrella und Martin Thurner Das Grabmann-Institut ist eine im ...
New Silk Road
(2025)
In 2013, China's planned "New Silk Road" initiative began, the implementation of which has directly transformed many places in Asia and Africa, as well as in China itself. In some cases, urgently needed infrastructure was ...
Conditions of Violence
(2024)
Mass violence comes not only from states, but also from people. By analyzing mass violence as social interaction through survivor accounts and other sources, this book presents understudied agents, aims and practices of ...
Creating Standards
(2019)
This book deals with various aspects of standardisation by stepping outside the disciplinary and regional boundaries and providing a typological cross-cultural comparison of standardisation processes in writing traditions ...
Religion und Städtekonkurrenz
(2009)
Christa Frateantonio follows a new line of research in this study of Pausanias` Periegesis, his historical and geographical description of Greece.Her underlying premise is that it is in fact concealed praise (or criticism) ...
Kontrafaktik der Gegenwart
(2021)
Non-realistic narratives are currently immensely popular but have been frequently accused of political escapism. This study models counterfactuality using theories of fiction and shows the great affinity that this narrative ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2013)
The focus of this volume is on the world of theater. The reign of Frederick II is a subject of considerable attention in the correspondence: from Königsberg come reports about the politics of religion, and from Berlin ...
On the Way to the (Un)Known?
(2022)
Twenty-two authors from various countries analyze travelogues on the Ottoman Empire between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The volume discusses questions of perceptions of "otherness", the circulation of ...
Toward a New Culture of the Material
(2024)
The publication takes up the vision to rediscover the analog within activities of images, spaces and materials in the age of the digital. The contributions, based on digital lectures of the Excellence Cluster »Matters of ...
Mater Genetrix
(2024)
Beyond the traditional dichotomy between idealized and "monstrous" mothers, the contributions gathered in this volume analyze a wide range of maternal figures in French and Francophone literature of the 20th–21st centuries, ...
Embodied Dependencies and Freedoms
(2023)
Most people regard the arts as free. This publication demonstrates that Asian art and architecture are created in contexts of extreme dependence. They depend on the climate, resources, social and religious traditions and ...
Familiengründung mittels Eizellspende
(2023)
A strict ban on egg donation is unjustified in a liberal society. Yet, egg donation is nevertheless fraught with problems that should not be ignored. This work examines those problems from a moral philosophical perspective ...
Self-Help in the Digital Age
(2024)
This book unites literature and science, exploring how American self-help culture influences science communication and shapes expectations of success and happiness, particularly through TED talks. It highlights literature's ...
Einstein vs. Bergson
(2021)
On 6 April 1922, Einstein met Bergson to debate the nature of time: is the time the physicist calculates the same time the philosopher reflects on? Einstein claimed that only scientific time is real, while Bergson argued ...
Digital Humanities and Libraries and Archives in Religious Studies
(2022)
How are digital humanists drawing on libraries and archives to advance research in the field of religious studies and theology? How can librarians and archivists make their collections accessible in return? This volume ...
La Table des rois
(2023)
The Table of Kings by Ptolemy, a second-century Alexandrian astronomer, presents a continuous list of rulers from the Neo-Assyrian Empire to the Roman Empire. It is a crucial source for our chronological approach to the ...
Herausforderung Digitalisierung
(2024)
As part of a digital lecture series organized at Justus Liebig University Giessen in the winter semester of 2021/22 to mark this anniversary, renowned scientists from various disciplines gave valuable lectures on the topics ...
Norms of Dependency in Late Antique and Early Medieval Societies
(2025)
Late antique and early medieval normative sources frequently employ Roman legal terminology to denote a person’s legal inferiority, and thus suggest the continued relevance of the concepts associated with these terms. ...
Female Authority and Holiness in Early and Medieval Christianity
(2025)
This collective volume investigates the connection between women’s holiness and the notion of time from a diachronic perspective. By looking at temporality as intertwined with the construction of social and gendered roles, ...
Gender und Diversity in Natur-, Technik- und Planungswissenschaften
(2024)
Gender und Diversity spielen eine wesentliche Rolle bei der Produktion von Wissen. Somit sind Gender und Diversity nicht nur relevant für die Frage, wer an Forschung und Lehre wie beteiligt ist, sondern auch für die Frage, ...
The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots
(2023)
Historians have often either ignored Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) or considered him deranged because he claimed to be the ‘orator of the human race’ and devised a ‘universal republic’ based on the ‘sovereignty of the human ...
History of Philosophy and the Reflective Society
(2021)
Make believe we are in 2028, attending the 26th World Congress of Philosophy, then the question is: how will philosophers delve into historic texts? Not on paper, but on devices. And each philosophical proposition uttered ...
Futures of the Study of Culture
(2020)
By exploring possible futures of the study of culture, this volume goes beyond the potentials and challenges of recent and emerging topics, theories, and methods. It unfolds interdisciplinary and international research ...
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 ...
Nomadic Connectivity
(2023)
Based in central Chad, the nomadic Walad Djifir are part of extensive socio-economic networks, ranging from very local cattle markets, to Western Unions in Libya, and selling merchandise in the Central African Republic. ...
Réinventer l’art sacré
(2024)
During the first half of the 20th century, artists all over Europe investigated religious art and tried to renew its forms of expression. In Switzerland, an artistic society known as the "Groupe de Saint-Luc" was particularly ...
Modernism in Africa
(2024)
Many African countries are home to extraordinary architecture that is virtually unknown. There are interpretations of Art Deco, International Style, Brutalism as well as of African vernacular architecture. Climate-responsive ...
Reparation, Restitution, and the Politics of Memory / Réparation, restitution et les politiques de la mémoire
(2023)
Over the past roughly two decades, the interconnected concepts of reparation, restitution, and commemorative culture have gained renewed momentum – in academic discourse as much as in activist, artistic, and political ...
Michaelis Pselli Chronographia
(2014)
The new critical edition of Michael Psellos` Chronographia takes into account the entire scholarly work on this text since 1874 in a critical apparatus and a separate text-critical commentary. Compared to previous editions, ...
Suhrkamp und DDR
(2022)
This study examines how West-German publishing processes were influenced by inner-German relations during the partition of Germany, revealing that publications are products of collective and multifactorial processes of ...
Simulations in Medicine
(2020)
This book describes application fields of high tech in diagnostics and therapy allowing individual therapy, interpretation of large data bases in form of neuronal signals, help visualization of organs during surgery, robotic ...
Bildungspraktiken der Aufklärung / Education practices of the Enlightenment
(2020)
This issue of JKGE is devoted to the specific conditions of educational processes in the pluri-cultural and multilingual regions of Eastern Europe. In the context of globally oriented research on the Enlightenment epoch, ...
Confronting Antisemitism in Modern Media, the Legal and Political Worlds
(2021)
The five volumes provide a compendium of the history of and discourse about antisemitism - both as a unique cultural and religious category. Antisemitic stereotypes function as religious symbols that express and transmit ...
„Seelenbeschreibungen“
(2022)
This volume examines an early-modern source "Seelenbeschreibungen" ("descriptions of souls"), the written product of house visits by pastors or elders that were used to measure people’s personal religious knowledge. They ...
The German-Jewish Experience Revisited
(2015-08-28)
This volume includes both historical treatments of differing German-Jewish understandings of their experience – their relations to their Judaism, general culture and to other Jews – and contemporary reflections ...
Creating an Empire of Informers
(2024)
In the year 672 BC, Esarhaddon, King of Assyria imposed a succession covenant (adê) on his subjects, the inhabitants of the Assyrian Empire. This covenant required the empire’s population to monitor one another, and ...
Discovery in Physics
(2022)
Volume 2 covers knowledge discovery in particle and astroparticle physics. Instruments gather petabytes of data and machine learning is used to process the vast amounts of data and to detect relevant examples efficiently. ...
Post-Global Aesthetics
(2022)
Phenomena such as the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, or the surge of political populism show that the current phase of accelerated globalization is over. New concepts are needed in order to respond to this exhaustion ...
Sterben dürfen im Krankenhaus
(2020)
Diese qualitative Studie zeigt Widersprüche zwischen gesundheitspolitischen Überlegungen, ethisch-moralischem Anspruch, normativen Erwartungen und klinischer Praxis in der Behandlung Schwerstkranker und Sterbender. Das ...
Doing Memory: Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their Afterlives in the Baltic Sea Region (19th–20th centuries)
(2024)
This anthology is about the representations and uses of medieval saints, heroes, and heroic events as elements of popular, local, and national culture during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Baltic Sea region: Scandinavia, ...
Chapter Ruth Barcan Marcus on Believing Without a Language
(2015)
This paper surveys Ruth Marcus’ many contributions to modal logic and its interpretation, starting with her pioneer work on quantified modal logic and ending with the controversies concerning the origin of the idea of rigid ...
Mutual Intelligibility between Closely Related Languages
(2024)
This book offers a comprehensive treatment of research on mutual intelligibility between closely related languages and its linguistic and extra-linguistic determinants. It synthesizes existing research and reflects on new ...
Coding da Vinci – Das Playbook
(2023)
Since 2014, the project "Coding da Vinci," which was funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation from 2019 to 2022, has been connecting communities of cultural enthusiasts and technologically minded people with German ...
Neues aus Wissenschaft und Lehre der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf 2010
(2011)
Das Jahrbuch der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf versteht sich als Forum für den wissenschaftlichen Dialog der Universität zu Zeitfragen, zu aktuellen Problemlagen und Herausforderungen von Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft, ...
Chapter Føllesdal and Frege on Reference
(2013)
In this essay I first identify some desiderata for a theory of reference that appear in Føllesdal’s later work (Section 1). We will see that these desiderata are highly Fregean in character. Next I outline a Frege-inspired ...
Chapter Locality and the functional sequence in the left periphery
(2017)
This volume brings together a selection of articles illustrating the multifaceted nature of current research in generative syntax. The authors, including some of the leading figures in the field, present analyses of ...
Chapter Criterial Freezing in small clauses and the cartography of copular constructions
(2018)
Criterial Freezing is a particular instance of freezing arising in criterial configurations, i.e., in configurations dedicated to the expression of scope-discourse properties. Recent proposals (e.g., Rizzi 2015a,b) try to ...
Heinrich Heine - ein deutscher Europäer im französischen Exil
(2011)
The presentation on Heinrich Heine to the Berlin Legal Association summarizes the stations of his life, the path of a German European in French exile.
Chapter Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics
(2020)
This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances ...
Chapter Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics
(2020)
This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances ...
Chapter Servant Testimonies and Anglo-Indian Homes in Nineteenth-Century India
(2018)
Our house is our corner of the world (G. Bachelard) Houses and homes prove complex and powerful concepts, invoking places, persons, emotions, and fantasies. This book, with photographs from Maurice Weiss, demonstrates how ...
Running and Clicking: Future Narratives in Film
(2013)
Running and Clicking examines how Future Narratives push against the confines of their medium: Studying Future Narratives in movies, interactive films, and other electronic media that allow for nodes, this volume demonstrates ...
Chapter 87 Scalar implicature as a grammatical phenomenon
(2012)
This article develops various arguments for the view that scalar implicatures should be de-rived within grammar and not by a theory of language use (pragmatics). We focus primarily on arguments that scalar implicatures can ...
Innovative Nursing Care
(2023)
Higher life expectancy on a global level requires complex nursing care as poor education and a lack of knowledge can lead to mistakes. There is a need for nurses who can provide high quality and advanced nursing practice. ...
The Book of Job
(2017-06-26)
The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. Why has Job`s response to disaster become a touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events? ...
Heinrich Heine - ein deutscher Europäer im französischen Exil
(2011)
The presentation on Heinrich Heine to the Berlin Legal Association summarizes the stations of his life, the path of a German European in French exile.
Spracheinstellungen und Identitätskonstruktion
(2014)
This study examines statements about language attitudes expressed by bilingually raised Germans of Vietnamese origin during language biographical interviews in search of specific conversational features. A further focus ...
Creativity and the Agile Mind: A Multi-Disciplinary Study of a Multi-Faceted Phenomenon
(2013)
Creativity; Language; Visual Communication; Music; Cognitive Science
Cultures of Eschatology Volume 1: Empires and Scriptural Authorities in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities
(2020)
The belief in the Last Things has an integral place in Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. The two volumes want to explain how eschatological thought influenced and factored into the political and religious perception and ...
Decolonising Medieval Fennoscandia
(2023)
The study investigates the relationship between Norse and Saami peoples in the medieval period and focuses on the multifaceted portrayal of Saami peoples in medieval texts. Through a systematic analysis of the sources, ...
Die Jugend des Dionysos
(2016)
The Millennium Studies seek to transcend boundaries, boundaries between epochs and regional spaces, as well as boundaries between disciplines. Millennium is international, transdisciplinary and epoch-wide. The editorial ...
Comics und Intersektionalität
(2024)
This volume expands on existing approaches in German-language comics studies by taking a deliberate intersectional perspective. The thematic core of the volume is a scholarly, interdisciplinary exploration of various forms ...
Languages Across Boundaries: Studies in Memory of Anna Siewierska
(2013)
Linguistic Typology; Person and Pronoun;s Grammatical Alignment; Grammatical Voice
Die Inschriften zu den Ludi saeculares
(2020)
The Saecular Games are considered one of the best-testified religious festivals of ancient Rome. The most significant source are two inscriptions, the Acta augustea and the – partially badly damaged – Acta severiana. The ...
The Languages of World Literature
(2024)
This volume opens the series of papers presented at the Vienna Congress of AILC/ICLA 2016, beginning with eight keynotes. Among others, thirty-four further papers are dedicated to the central theme of the conference: the ...
Chapter 87 Scalar implicature as a grammatical phenomenon
(2012)
This article develops various arguments for the view that scalar implicatures should be de-rived within grammar and not by a theory of language use (pragmatics). We focus primarily on arguments that scalar implicatures can ...
Chapter Mapping to prosody
(2015)
This study investigates the prosody of different types of sentence-medial parentheticals in Turkish. The results of a production experiment show that clausal parentheticals exhibit cues similar to intonation phrase-level ...
Spracheinstellungen und Identitätskonstruktion
(2014)
This study examines statements about language attitudes expressed by bilingually raised Germans of Vietnamese origin during language biographical interviews in search of specific conversational features. A further focus ...
Multimodale Konstruktionen im „Alltagskonsumkosmos“
(2024)
To which extent is the notational iconicity of text (layout, emphasis, etc.) grammatically significant? This volume provides an answer by taking an expanded cognitive-grammatical approach to examine a corpus of food packaging ...
Chapter 8 Classifiers
(2012)
Classifiers (currently also called ‘depicting handshapes’), are observed in almost all sign languages studied to date and form a well-researched topic in sign language linguistics. Yet, these elements are still subject to ...
Rural Revival
(2024)
About this book When most of their jobs disappear, how do communities survive? In the hard-hit area explored in this book – the Bonavista Peninsula, on the island of Newfoundland – many residents transitioned into "everyday" ...
The World's First Full Press Freedom
(2022)
The book investigates the world's first full legal press freedom. In 1770, king Christian 7's physician, the German enlightener J.F. Struensee, effectively became ruler of Denmark. His first decree, complete abandonment ...
Audiovisuelle Rhetorik als politische Intervention
(2024)
How do films and videos position themselves in the age of the "Alt-Right," #BlackLivesMatter, and financial and climate crises? In their interventions, they shape the perception of contemporary political crises. They raise ...
Die Inschriften zu den Ludi saeculares
(2020)
The Saecular Games are considered one of the best-testified religious festivals of ancient Rome. The most significant source are two inscriptions, the Acta augustea and the – partially badly damaged – Acta severiana. The ...
The Book of Job
(2017-06-26)
The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. Why has Job`s response to disaster become a touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events? ...
In the Wake of the Compendia
(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 and ...
Medieval Multilingual Manuscripts
(2022)
Medieval manuscripts combining multiple languages, whether in fusion or in collision, provide tangible evidence for linguistic and cultural interactions. Such encounters are documented in this volume through case studies ...
Audiovisuelle Rhetorik als politische Intervention
(2024)
How do films and videos position themselves in the age of the "Alt-Right," #BlackLivesMatter, and financial and climate crises? In their interventions, they shape the perception of contemporary political crises. They raise ...
Chapter Gog and Magog
(2016)
This volume addresses Jewish, Christian and Muslim future visions on the end of the world, focusing on the respective allies and antagonists for each religious society. Spanning late Antiquity to the early modern period, ...
Cultures of Eschatology Volume 1: Empires and Scriptural Authorities in Medieval Christian, Islamic and Buddhist Communities
(2020)
The belief in the Last Things has an integral place in Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. The two volumes want to explain how eschatological thought influenced and factored into the political and religious perception and ...