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The Nuremberg Trials
(2006)
60 years after the trials of the main German war criminals, the articles in this book attempt to assess the Nuremberg Trials from a historical and legal point of view, and to illustrate connections, contradictions and ...
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.
Formulaic Language and New Data
(2020)
The existence of formulaic patterns has been attested to all languages of the world. However, systematic research in this field has been focused on only a few European standard languages with a rich literary tradition and ...
De la literatura latinoamericana a la literatura (latinoamericana) mundial Condiciones materiales, procesos y actores
(2019)
What is World Literature? To answer this question, this book asks another one: How is it produced, that is, what are the material conditions, processes, and actors, which enable Latin-American Literature to circulate ...
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 ...
Was sprach der eine zum anderen?
(2019)
Eight disputations on precedence have been preserved from Ancient Mesopotamia. In these texts, two opposing understandings of everyday life engage in a verbal argument. The works served at one time to teach oratorical ...
Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish Refugees from Central Europe
(2012)
The study discusses the history of the Jewish refugees within the Shanghai setting and its relationship to the two established Jewish communities, the Sephardi and Russian Jews. Attention is also focused on the cultural ...
Sollbruchstellen des deutschen, europäischen und internationalen Flüchtlingsrechts
(2019)
Refugee law has recently become the focus of public debate. It
various topics such as the failure to close the German border during
the refugee crisis, cooperation with third countries such as Turkey or
Libya, national ...
Dividing Texts
(2020)
The number of manuscripts produced in the Indian sub-continent is astounding and is the result of a massive enterprise. The visual organization of texts in North Indian and Nepalese manuscripts from 800 to 1300 CE is at ...
Eine Geschichte mit Geschmack
(2023)
It is difficult to imagine food today without flavorings, whether natural, synthetic, or artificial. But at the same time, they are substances that society is viewing increasingly critically and whose chemical and industrial ...
Sprache – Bewegung – Instruktion
(2023)
We often acquire new movement patterns under expert guidance. This book discusses how this task is accomplished through multimodal means (linguistic, physical, visual levels). The Pilates method serves as the situational ...
Infrastructures of Freedom
(2023)
Infrastructures of Freedom sheds light on the impact of inadequate public lighting in self-built communities in Cape Town. In democratic South Africa, where infrastructure provision still reflects deeply embedded notions ...
A Mist Connection
(2023)
In 1783, an eruption occurred in Iceland. Soon after, a dry fog descended upon mainland Europe. These two events long went unconnected. "A Mist Connection" documents the Laki eruption and its consequences for Iceland and ...
Papierherstellung im deutschen Südwesten
(2018)
The series Material Text Culturess the publication organ of the Collaborative Research Center 933 of the same name at Heidelberg University, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The series publishes collections ...
Learned Physicians and Everyday Medical Practice in the Renaissance
(2021)
Michael Stolberg offers the first comprehensive presentation of medical training and day-to-day medical practice during the Renaissance. Drawing on previously unknown manuscript sources, he describes the prevailing notions ...
Progress in Commutative Algebra 1
(2012-04-26)
This is the first of two volumes of a state-of-the-art survey article collection which originates from three commutative algebra sessions at the 2009 Fall Southeastern American Mathematical Society Meeting at Florida ...
Die „Confessio Augustana“ im ökumenischen Gespräch
(2021)
The year 2030 will mark the 500th anniversary of the Augustan Confession, the most important confessional document from the Wittenberg Evangelical movement. Written by Melanchthon as his last attempt to preserve the unity ...
Graphs for Pattern Recognition
(2016)
This monograph deals with mathematical constructions that are foundational in such an important area of data mining as pattern recognition. By using combinatorial and graph theoretic techniques, a closer look is taken at ...
Paulus als Erzähler? Eine narratologische Perspektive auf die Paulusbriefe
(2020)
In recent Pauline research, the critical importance of implicit narratives for understanding the apostle’s Epistles gained importance. The study examines this in a critical analysis using narrative theory and text linguistics. ...
The Poetry of Ruan Ji and Xi Kang
(2017)
The poetry of Ruan Ji has been previously translated several times, with one fully scholarly translation of both the poetry and the Fu (poetic expositions). The present translation not only provides a facing page critical ...
Sprache(n) in pädagogischen Settings
(2022)
This volume spans various languages and education levels, focusing on heterogeneity as an immanent characteristic of pedagogical settings. Its examines the potential of language development, the factors and facets of the ...
Image, Text, Stone
(2022)
This book explores the intermediality of image and text in Graeco-Roman sculpture. By studying a wide range of material, from grand sculpture to humble reliefs, scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds explore ...
A Grammar of Yélî Dnye
(2022)
This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken offshore from Papua New Guinea, remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, it ...
The Poetry of Du Fu
(2015)
The Complete Poetry of Du Fu presents a complete scholarly translation of Chinese literature alongside the original text in a critical edition. The English translation is more scholarly than vernacular Chinese translations, ...
Narrative der Migration
(2021)
The cultural history of German migration society is still unwritten, even though, since the 1960s, numerous interactions and aesthetic negotiations have taken place in literature, film, and in societal debates and theories ...
Diversity and Otherness
(2021)
This book critically examines multiple ways in which cultural diversity is, and has been represented and handled. It questions the construction of differences in doing culture while emphasizing the fluidity of cultural ...
Der Anfang vom Ende der Ottonen
(2009)
In the Chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg, the experiences and problems of the tenth and early eleventh centuries come together they are taken up by Thietmar and formed into an epoch. This overall interpretation of the ...
Gesunde Stadt
(2021)
Unter der Maxime „Wien im Aufbau“ wurden im Ständestaat ab Mitte der 1930er Jahre nicht nur gezielt Altbauten abgerissen, sondern auch die Entfernung historischer Putzfassaden und Gliederungselemente gefördert. Neben der ...
Aspects of Linguistic Variation
(2018)
This volume brings together papers on linguistic variation. It takes a broad perspective, covering not only crosslinguistic and diachronic but also intralinguistic and interspeaker variation, and examines phenomena ranging ...
Toscana bilingue (1260 ca.–1430 ca.)
(2021)
The contributions gathered in this volume discuss the complex topic of translating in medieval itay from an interdisciplinary perspective, combining the philological approach with a detailed social and cultural analysis. ...
Dictionnaire historique de l’adjectif-adverbe
(2021)
The Historical Dictionary of French Adjective-Adverbs (Dictionnaire historique de l’adjectif-adverbe) documents groups such as couper court which combine a verb and an adjective with adverbial function. The 2.600 entries ...
Aus Büchern Bücher machen
(2021)
Be it angels, meteorites, or harps – there is a wealth of knowledge in the more than one-hundred publications that, by the mid-eighteenth century, had appeared in four languages under the name of Johann Jacob Wecker ...
Religious and National Discourses
(2023)
The book introduces a new perspective on discursive categorisations in societies. We suggest a shift from minority/majority differentiations towards an analysis of marginalising and centralising discourses which leave room ...
Bridging Formal and Conceptual Semantics
(2017)
The articles in this volume are the outcome of the successful BRIDGE Workshop held in Düsseldorf in 2014. The workshop gathered a number of distinguished researchers from formal semantics and conceptual semantics and aimed ...
The Summa Halensis
(2020)
The Summa Halensis (1236-45) was collaboratively authored by the founding members of the Franciscan school at Paris and represents not only the first official statement of Franciscan thought but also a defining text for ...
Hidden Multilingualism in 19th-Century European Literature
(2023)
This volume provides a new set of methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of literary multilingualism in the age of national literature. Broader studies examine multilingual origins of seemingly monolingual ...
Zukunft Lernwelt Hochschule
(2020)
Based on the findings of the college learning environment research project, this book includes a range of articles on the future of colleges focusing on organization, didactics, digital structures and physical learning or ...
Zur Kriminal- und Strafrechtspolitik des 21. Jahrhunderts
(2019)
The volume brings together 18 articles published by the author between 1985 and 2017. These focus on the reforms to Finland’s Criminal Code, which were concluded in 2003 following a process lasting over 30 years. Further ...
Glaube, Wissenschaft, Sprache
(2022)
This publication provides a diachronic overview of the main tendencies in Protestant theological jargon and academic language from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries from a Germanist-linguistic perspective. Using ...
Zitate der Aeneis in den Briefen des Hieronymus
(2022)
In his letters, the church scholar Jerome describes a deep inner rift between Virgil and the gospels, between Cicero and the apostles. This volume traces late ancient processes of cultural hybridization using methods from ...