Publications
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Verfassung als Ordnungskonzept
(2016)
This volume includes lectures and discussions from the Conference of the Association of German Constitutional Lawyers in Speyer from 7 to 10 October 2015.
Models, Simulations, and the Reduction of Complexity
(2013)
Modern science is a model-building activity. But how are models contructed? How are they related to theories and data? How do they explain complex scientific phenomena, and which role do computer simulations play? To address ...
›Mos uetustissimus‹ – Tito Livio e la percezione della clemenza
(2023)
Clemency plays an important role in Livy and his value system. Clemency is invoked, exercised or denied in three areas: family, justice and army. What emerges is a complex understanding of this value concept, which relates ...
Nietzsche, Religion, and Mood
(2019)
This monograph casts new light on Nietzsche’s philosophy of religion by examining the role of mood in the philosopher’s critical project. The novel approach does not only contribute to scholarship on Nietzsche it also ...
Okkultismus im Gehäuse
(2016)
Where was the locus of parapsychology – the academic involvement with the occult – during the 20th century? In this first attempt at an international comparison, the authors examine various institutional venues, including ...
Tertullian the African
(2011)
This work is largely a social history of Tertullian, a Christian from Carthage (c.160� CE), and his ancient African context, which is viewed through a postcolonial lens.Theories from the discipline of social/cultural ...
Writing Systems and Their Use
(2022)
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of grapholinguistics, treating questions concerning both the structure and use of writing systems by complementing the linguistic main perspective ...
Neighbourhoods and City Quarters in Antiquity
(2023)
This volume focuses on the socio-spatial organisation of ancient cities, and more specifically on Late Republican and Imperial Italy. Referring to a praxeological and phenomenological perspective, it looks at neighbourhoods ...
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 ...
HORACE’s SERMONES BOOK 1
(2019)
This monograph interprets Sermones book 1 as a collection of Horace's credentials for Maecenas and traces his efforts in getting accepted as an associate of the latter after his miscalculation in joining Brutus. Although ...
Was ist Gesundheit?
(2021)
Obwohl Gesundheit für alle Menschen essentiell ist, unterliegt das Verständnis des Begriffs »Gesundheit« jeweils historisch, regional und kulturell unterschiedlichen Einflüssen. Mit verschiedenen Festlegungen von »Gesundheit ...
Probability and Statistics
(2017)
This textbook offers an introduction to concepts of probability theory, probability distributions relevant in the applied sciences, as well as basics of sampling distributions, estimation and hypothesis testing. As a ...
Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft
(2020)
As an urgent response to the continually growing flood of information to which libraries, search engines, and cultural institutions are exposed, Data Loam combines radical approaches and strategies from the international ...
Digital Finance in Europe: Law, Regulation, and Governance
(2021)
This special volume collects contributions from leading scholars who scrutinize the challenges digital finance presents for the EU internal market and financial market regulation from multiple public policy perspectives. ...
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 ...
Von der Dämonologie zum Unbewussten
(2014)
As the science of man, anthropology was among the most exciting disciplines during the period of intense change from the early modern era to modernity. Where demons had once wielded their power, after 1800, it was now the ...
Topografien des 20. Jahrhunderts
(2020)
The polyphonic world poem Galáxias (1984) by Brazilian poet Haroldo de Campos has, to date, mainly been discussed in the broader context of concrete poetry and the Latin American neo-baroque. This book offers a completely ...
An Alchemist in Chains
(2024)
In 1717–1719, a court case against the pietist and alchemist Johann Konrad Dippel in Altona led to the burning of his writings and his banishment to Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. This book investigates the details of the ...
Zeichentragende Artefakte im sakralen Raum
(2018)
Sign-bearing artifacts are immanent elements of sacred spaces in many cultures. Often, one encounters a phenomenon there that might be described as deliberate “invisibility,” the conscious “concealment” of artefacts and ...
Competing Knowledges - Wissen im Widerstreit
(2020)
Whatever societies accept as ‘knowledge’ is embedded in epistemological, institutional, political, and economic power relations. How is knowledge produced under such circumstances? What is the difference between general ...
Geschichte der altgermanistischen Edition
(2023)
This volume portrays the practice of Old German textual criticism from its beginnings in the 19th century to the early 20th century, examining the most important editions and personalities from the discipline’s history and ...
Verfasste Freiheit
(2023)
Dieser Band enthält die Referate und Diskussionen der Tagung der Staatsrechtslehrervereinigung in Bremen vom 5. bis 7. Oktober 2022:
VERFASSTE FREIHEIT
Ino Augsberg, Helen Keller, Josef Franz Lindner: Selbstbestimmung ...
Translanguaging for Equal Opportunities
(2023)
This multi-authored monograph offers a state-of-the-art analysis of how translanguaging supports bilingual Roma students’ learning in monolingual school systems. Co-written by academic and non-academic participants, it is ...
Moving Workers
(2023)
This book brings together a variety of regions and periods to provide fresh perspectives on the study of labour. It deconstructs the polarisation between mobility and immobilisation in labour history and instead stresses ...
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 ...
Byzantium, Pliska, and the Balkans
(2009)
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Warum weinen?
(2018)
Demonstrating feelings of grief was of great importance in the elite culture of liberal Italy. At the same time, mourning the dead flew in the face of societal trends toward secularization. The study analyzes the background ...
Religious Narratives in Italian Literature after the Second Vatican Council
(2019)
This book presents a semiotic study of the re-elaboration of Christian narratives and values in a corpus of Italian novels published after the Second Vatican Council (1960s). It tackles the complex set of ideas expressed ...
Sprechen und Erzählen beim Stricker
(2018)
This study traces the poetics and narrative style of the Stricker’s epics back to the communicative pragmatics of their time. It analyzes depictions of counselling, dispute, and religious speech using approaches from ...
Katechismus-Andachten (1656)
(2016)
The Catechism Devotions are comprised of 50 spiritual songs that impart all of the material in Luther`s Small Catechism in vocal form. They are regarded as an important milestone in early modern theologia catechetica that ...
Notions of Temporalities in Artistic Practice
(2022)
This publication focuses on the ideas of temporality in artistic practices. The analysis and reflection of various approaches enable the reader to delve into situation-specific settings and to contextualize and examine the ...
Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630-1700
(2020)
This book explores literary culture in England between 1630 and 1700, focusing on connections between material, epistemic, and political conditions of literary writing and reading. In a number of case studies and close ...
The Epistolary Renaissance
(2018)
Since the late twentieth century, letters in literature have seen a remarkable renaissance. The prominence of letters in recent fiction is due in part to the rediscovery, by contemporary writers, of letters as an effective ...
Framing Intellectual and Lived Spaces in Early South Asia Sources and Boundaries
(2020)
The contributions to this book address a series of ´confrontations`—debates between intellectual communities, the interplay of texts and images, and the intersection of monumental architecture and physical terrain—and ...
Anthroposophieforschung
(2023)
Rudolf Steiner's (1861–1925) anthroposophy is present in society (Waldorf schools, Weleda, Demeter…) but not in scholarly research. This volume is the first to present academic research articles that close this gap by ...
Diversität in Bibliotheken
(2021)
Trying to do justice to society’s diversity is a challenge for public libraries. This volume provides an overview of the development of strategic and anti-discrimination organizations and of the work being done in the ...
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 ...
Producing and Debating History
(2024)
This book explores how historical knowledge is produced in one of the most central digital communities of knowledge, Wikipedia. By placing Wikipedia editors at the center of inquiry and by shedding light on the debates ...
Disputed Memory
(2016)
The world wars, genocides and extremist ideologies of the 20th century are remembered very differently across Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, resulting sometimes in fierce memory disputes. This book investigates ...
Johann Christoph Gottscheds Briefwechsel - Historisch-kritische Ausgabe
(2010)
The letters collected in Volume 4 show Gottsched at the height of his fame and recognition as a poetry theorist, linguist, philosopher, theater reformer, and publicist. Recurring themes in the correspondence, in addition ...