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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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Diokletian und die Tetrarchie
(2012)
Renowned scholars from Germany, Great Britain, Croatia, Slovenia and Switzerland contributed to an international conference held in Split in 2003. Their papers collected here show the present state of research on the ...
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 ...
Variants and Variance in Classical Textual Cultures
(2024)
How textual variations develop in different cultures what variants say about a culture’s understanding of text, and (collective) authorship what happens when variants generate their own strands of tradition how changes in ...
Feminizid in Recht und Literatur
(2024)
This study examines the crime of femicide in the Latin American context in the novels of D. Zúñiga (Chile), L. Restrepo (Colombia), and F. Melchor (Mexico). It reveals how these literary texts shed light on the systematic ...
Kunst und Geld
(2023)
"Leiter setzte Geld in den Sand" titelte die Kasseler Lokalzeitung HNA im August 2017 und brachte geleakte Informationen aus dem Aufsichtsrat der documenta 14, einer weltweit renommierten Kunstausstellung, an die Öffentlichkeit: ...
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 ...
Historische Textmuster im Wandel
(2023)
Text patterns can be described in several interwoven dimensions. This volume looks at examples of empirical studies of historical text types to show how quantitative methods from corpus linguistics can be productively ...
The Trump Carnival
(2024)
A truly interdisciplinary approach to the Trump phenomenon. This book offers a unique holistic theoretical framework that includes a wide range of structural factors. While most books single out one specific factor, such ...
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 ...
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 ...
Heilige, Heiliges und Heiligkeit in spätantiken Religionskulturen
(2012)
Holy places; Holy times; Holiness; History of Religion; Sacralization
Griechen im Heiligen Römischen Reich
(2024)
This is the first volume to deal with the migration of Greeks to the Holy Roman Empire in detail. It reveals that there were three types of migrants: almsmen, students, and traders. Greek migrants from the Ottoman Empire ...
Existence and Perception in Medieval Vedānta
(2024)
This book focuses on the philosophy of the sixteenth-century Mādhva Vedānta philosopher Vyāsatīrtha. Vyāsatīrtha’s Nyāyāmr̥ta influenced philosophers throughout India and propelled his tradition to the center of the ...
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, ...
Demographic Change in Japan and the EU
(2010)
This volume contains selected papers of the 2008 annual conference of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung e.V. – VSJF). The academic meeting ...
Knowledge, Freedom, and Taste
(2024)
This volume presents original contributions from former students of Paul Guyer, the 2024 recipient of the International Kant Prize. The authors engage with central aspects of Guyer’s work on Kant’s critical philosophy, ...
Predigt und Politik im frühmittelalterlichen Bayern
(2015)
Many sermon manuscripts were created around 800 CE over the course of the Carolingian reform movement, but until now, historical researchers have largely overlooked them. The presentation analyzes selected sermon collections ...
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 ...
Historische Textmuster im Wandel
(2023)
Text patterns can be described in several interwoven dimensions. This volume looks at examples of empirical studies of historical text types to show how quantitative methods from corpus linguistics can be productively ...
Chapter Sarazenen als „Fremde“?
(2009)
The subjects of this volume are views and perceptions of the “other” (i.e. strangers, enemies or curiosities) within the Islamic world, as well as in the interplay between the Islamic and non-Islamic worlds. More than 20 ...
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 ...
Remote Places, Public Spaces
(2024)
The SMOTIES network is a partnership of ten design universities, research centres, creative agencies, and national associations. Each partner selected a small and remote place in their country to benefit from the design ...
Nicht-Naives Erzählen
(2018)
What is “naïve narrative” and to what extent should we regard it as obsolete? This study examines the poetological effects of the modern crisis in narration on German literature at the turn of the century based on the ...
Predigt und Politik im frühmittelalterlichen Bayern
(2015)
Many sermon manuscripts were created around 800 CE over the course of the Carolingian reform movement, but until now, historical researchers have largely overlooked them. The presentation analyzes selected sermon collections ...
Berlin International
(2023)
By the time West Berlin was declared the European Capital of Culture of 1988, a heavily internationalized literary scene had already been developing on both sides of the Wall. In fifteen contributions, this volume traces ...
Apostellegenden
(2024)
Written around 1300, the Passional is the first major collection of legends in the German language and considered among the most significant and influential literary works of Middle High German spiritual epic poetry. Books ...
Apostellegenden
(2024)
Written around 1300, the Passional is the first major collection of legends in the German language and considered among the most significant and influential literary works of Middle High German spiritual epic poetry. Books ...
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 ...
Demographic Change in Japan and the EU
(2010)
This volume contains selected papers of the 2008 annual conference of the German Association for Social Science Research on Japan (Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung e.V. – VSJF). The academic meeting ...
Kunst und Geld
(2023)
"Leiter setzte Geld in den Sand" titelte die Kasseler Lokalzeitung HNA im August 2017 und brachte geleakte Informationen aus dem Aufsichtsrat der documenta 14, einer weltweit renommierten Kunstausstellung, an die Öffentlichkeit: ...
Immanuel Kant – Freiheit, Vernunft, Sinnlichkeit
(2024)
This volume takes the Kant anniversary year 2024 as an opportunity to give space to the many-voiced echoes of Kant's philosophy by renowned authors of the 20th century (Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Gilles Deleuze, ...
Immanuel Kant – Freiheit, Vernunft, Sinnlichkeit
(2024)
This volume takes the Kant anniversary year 2024 as an opportunity to give space to the many-voiced echoes of Kant's philosophy by renowned authors of the 20th century (Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Gilles Deleuze, ...
Nicht-Naives Erzählen
(2018)
What is “naïve narrative” and to what extent should we regard it as obsolete? This study examines the poetological effects of the modern crisis in narration on German literature at the turn of the century based on the ...
Die metrische Psalmenmetaphrase des Manuel Philes
(2024)
This book is the first comprehensive study on the psalm metaphrase by Byzantine poet Manuel Philes (fourteenth century) and contains the first critical edition of the entire text (about 3,500 verses). It arranges metaphrase ...
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 ...
Chapter Multilingualism, Multiscripturalism, and Knowledge Transfer in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Graeco-Roman Judaea
(2018)
How did ancient communities approach the concept of religious knowledge? Was it something to be shared with all, or was it the provenance of certain initiates? This volume of collected essays illustrates a range of approaches ...
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 ...