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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 ...
Annotations in Scholarly Editions and Research
(2020)
The notion of annotation is associated in the Humanities and Information Sciences with different concepts that vary in coverage, application and direction of impact, but have conceptual parallels as well. This publication ...
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 ...
Bruchstücke
(2023)
Das Jahrbuch des Dokumentationsarchivs des österreichischen Widerstandes (DÖW) untersucht seit 1986 alle Aspekte des Nationalsozialismus. Dieses Bemühen um Erforschung und Aufarbeitung bleibt immer fragmentarisch. Zu viele ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lingüística de corpus y lingüística histórica iberorrománica
(2016)
Corpus Linguistics; Ibero-Romance Languages
Prosopon Rhomaikon
(2017)
This volume includes 17 studies that present aspects of the Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period. The book`s thematic focus is on structural developments, major personalities, and the Byzantine Empire`s relations ...
Chapter 2 Phonetics
(2012)
Sign and spoken languages differ primarily in their perceptual channel, vision vs. audition. This ‘modality difference’ has an effect on the structure of sign languages through-out the grammar, as is discussed in other ...
The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China
(2022)
This volume is distinctive for its extraordinarily interdisciplinary investigations into a little discussed topic, the spatial imagination. It probes the exercise of the spatial imagination in pre-modern China across five ...
Chapter Final Phases of Medieval Hebraism
(2010)
"The relationship between Jews and Christians and between Judaism and Christianity during the 13th and 14th century is a matter of concrete and contingent historical circumstances; and its ideological elements ...
The Nivison Annals
(2018)
In his last essay just weeks before his death at the age of 91, David S. Nivison says, "Breaking into a formal system - such as a chronology - must be like breaking into a code. If you are successful, success will show ...
L’historiographie tardo-antique et la transmission des savoirs
(2015)
This volume focuses on the role played by historiography in the selection, processing and transmission of knowledge in Late Antiquity. In particular, the transmission of documents (civil and ecclesiastical, authentic and ...
Chapter 2 Phonetics
(2012)
Sign and spoken languages differ primarily in their perceptual channel, vision vs. audition. This ‘modality difference’ has an effect on the structure of sign languages through-out the grammar, as is discussed in other ...
Die slavischen Sprachen / The Slavic Languages
(2009)
Slavic Languages; Linguistic History
Chapter Maverick: Experimentally Testing a Conjecture of the Antitrust Authorities
(2020)
The book identifies conditions for trust and cooperation. It highlights unintended consequences of individually rational behavior, and shows how trust and cooperation change dependent on social embeddedness. Such analyses ...
Krishna Sobti’s Views on Literature and the Poetics of Writing
(2022)
The Hindi writer Krishna Sobti (1925-2019) carved out a special place for herself within the post-Partition Hindi literary sphere thanks to her idiosyncratic use of language and her bold choices of topics. Known primarily ...
Doing Experimental Media Archaeology
(2022)
The volume aims at taking the materiality of past media devices seriously and explores the heuristic possibilities of an experimental study of these devices. It offers a sophisticated reflection on the epistemological and ...
Animal Industries
(2024)
This book explores the history and development of animal industries in Nordic countries from their establishment in the late nineteenth century to the present day. It charts the manner in which the value of an animal has ...
Handbuch Deutsch als Fach- und Fremdsprache
(2024)
In recent years, the interest in GFL has continued to grow around the globe. So far, however, not enough attention has been paid to the fact that GFL is generally learned for work and with specific professional intentions. ...
Online Virality
(2024)
This volume offers an interdisciplinary overview of online virality, exploring the circulation, reception, evolution of viral born-digital content. This phenomenon involves a combination of material, infrastructural, visual, ...
Chapter 62 Doing fieldwork on the body, language, and communication.
(2013)
This chapter gives a brief and selective overview of how to approach research on bodilyand linguistic aspects of communication by doing fieldwork. Here I do not address tech-nological issues such as specific choices of ...
Alternate History: Playing with Contingency and Necessity
(2013)
While, strictly speaking, Alternate Histories are not Future Narratives, their analysis can shed a clear light on why Future Narratives are so different from past narratives. Trying to have it both ways, most Alternate ...
Isaac Orobio
(2018)
In philosophical works that circulated as clandestine manuscripts, the Amsterdam physician and polemicist Isaac Orobio de Castro (1617–1687) defended Judaism intermittently against Christianity and Spinoza’s critique of ...
Handbuch Deutsch als Fach- und Fremdsprache
(2024)
In recent years, the interest in GFL has continued to grow around the globe. So far, however, not enough attention has been paid to the fact that GFL is generally learned for work and with specific professional intentions. ...
Chapter Final Phases of Medieval Hebraism
(2010)
"The relationship between Jews and Christians and between Judaism and Christianity during the 13th and 14th century is a matter of concrete and contingent historical circumstances; and its ideological elements ...
One Hundred Years at the Intersection of Chemistry and Physics
(2011-10-27)
This volume, occasioned by the centenary of the Fritz Haber Institute, formerly the Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, covers the institute's scientific and institutional history from its founding until ...
One Hundred Years at the Intersection of Chemistry and Physics
(2011-10-27)
This volume, occasioned by the centenary of the Fritz Haber Institute, formerly the Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, covers the institute's scientific and institutional history from its founding until ...
Demystifying the Sacred
(2022)
This book investigates the relationship between blasphemy and violence in modern history, with a focus on cases from the European world, including its (post-) colonial ties. Spanning from the late-eighteenth century to ...
Zeit-Hören
(2024)
This volume shows why it is misleading to view time as an object, exploring the insights that can be gained from analogies between sequences and by comparing event timings. Incorporating extensive references to music and, ...
International Organizations and Global Development
(2024)
The third issue of the Yearbook on the History of Global Development aims at collecting contributions about the role of international organizations in shaping the global system of development. International organizations ...
Prosopon Rhomaikon
(2017)
This volume includes 17 studies that present aspects of the Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period. The book`s thematic focus is on structural developments, major personalities, and the Byzantine Empire`s relations ...
Surviving the Middle Passage: The West Africa-Surinam Sprachbund
(2014)
The relation between the Surinam Creoles and the languages of West Africa, where slaves who created the creoles originated, has been hotly debated. This book argues that the close relationship can be viewed in terms of a ...
Chapter Maverick: Experimentally Testing a Conjecture of the Antitrust Authorities
(2020)
The book identifies conditions for trust and cooperation. It highlights unintended consequences of individually rational behavior, and shows how trust and cooperation change dependent on social embeddedness. Such analyses ...
Krishna Sobti’s Views on Literature and the Poetics of Writing
(2022)
The Hindi writer Krishna Sobti (1925-2019) carved out a special place for herself within the post-Partition Hindi literary sphere thanks to her idiosyncratic use of language and her bold choices of topics. Known primarily ...
Doing Experimental Media Archaeology
(2022)
The volume aims at taking the materiality of past media devices seriously and explores the heuristic possibilities of an experimental study of these devices. It offers a sophisticated reflection on the epistemological and ...
Chapter The Fruit of the Tree of Life
(2014)
The Gospel of Philip, preserved only in Nag Hammadi Codex II,1 has proven to be a difficult text for its modern interpreters. In addition to its numerous lacunae, scholars have consistently been frustrated by its seemingly ...
Chapter The Fruit of the Tree of Life
(2014)
The Gospel of Philip, preserved only in Nag Hammadi Codex II,1 has proven to be a difficult text for its modern interpreters. In addition to its numerous lacunae, scholars have consistently been frustrated by its seemingly ...
Animal Industries
(2024)
This book explores the history and development of animal industries in Nordic countries from their establishment in the late nineteenth century to the present day. It charts the manner in which the value of an animal has ...
The State of Law
(2017)
This book is the result of the first interdisciplinary conference in Vietnam which took place on “the Rule of Law.” Instead of beginning immediately with a highly specialized debate from the perspective of one single ...
Genocide and Mass Violence in Asia An Introductory Reader
(2019)
In Asia the "Age of Extremes" witnessed many forms of mass violence and genocide, related to the rise and fall of the Japanese Empire, the proxy wars of the Cold War, and the anti-colonial nation building processes that ...
Grundlagen einer Theorie der Prosa
(2022)
This volume develops its theory of prose out of the concept of the basal self-referentiality of the poetic text. Its object of study is a corpus of sophisticated prose texts that are both extensive and complex, and which ...
Das Mönchtum in der Religionspolitik Kaiser Justinians I.
(2015)
With his religious politics and his self-representation as the vicar of God on Earth, Justinian I (527-565) had an enduring impact on Late Antiquity. What part did monks, believed to be heavenly angels, play in promoting ...
Image Controversies
(2024)
Contemporary image controversies are manifestations of (geo-)political shifts and socio-cultural transformation processes in the 21st century. Based on case studies from different world regions, the authors analyze ...
Religion and Diversity
(2024)
Diversity characterises internal dynamics and external relations of all religious groups. The four lectures offer insights into the role of religious education for today’s European society the challenges faced by academia ...
A Mirror of the Jewish Religion: A Critical Edition and Translation of Christian Petter Löwe’s “Speculum Religionis Judaicæ” (1732)
(2024)
Christian Petter Löwe, a Jewish convert to Lutheranism, published Speculum Religionis Judaicæ (Mirror of the Jewish Religion) in 1732. Jonathan Adams (University of Gothenburg) introduces the background to Löwe’s "mirror" ...
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 ...
Chapter How constructions are born. The role of patterns in the constructionalization of be going to INF
(2019)
Despite its importance for language and cognition, the theoretical concept of »pattern« has received little attention in linguistics so far. The articles in this volume demonstrate the multifariousness of linguistic patterns ...
Grundlagen einer Theorie der Prosa
(2022)
This volume develops its theory of prose out of the concept of the basal self-referentiality of the poetic text. Its object of study is a corpus of sophisticated prose texts that are both extensive and complex, and which ...
A Mirror of the Jewish Religion: A Critical Edition and Translation of Christian Petter Löwe’s “Speculum Religionis Judaicæ” (1732)
(2024)
Christian Petter Löwe, a Jewish convert to Lutheranism, published Speculum Religionis Judaicæ (Mirror of the Jewish Religion) in 1732. Jonathan Adams (University of Gothenburg) introduces the background to Löwe’s "mirror" ...
In Search of the Culprit
(2021)
Despite poststructuralist rejections of the idea of a singular author-genius, the question of a textual archetype that can be assigned to a named author is still a common scholarly phantasm. This volume sets new standards ...
In Search of the Culprit
(2021)
Despite poststructuralist rejections of the idea of a singular author-genius, the question of a textual archetype that can be assigned to a named author is still a common scholarly phantasm. This volume sets new standards ...
Genre und Gemeinsinn
(2016)
Based on the premise that a society`s sense of commonality depends upon media practices of political communitarization, this study examines how Hollywood was deployed during the Second World War. It shows that Hollywood ...
Chapter Postverbal subjects and nuclear pitch accent in Italian wh-questions
(2018)
The structure of this chapter is as follows. We first illustrate the phenomenon of subject inversion in Italian wh-questions (§ 2). In Section 3, we present the results of a syntactic experiment on the distribution of ...
Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues
(2018)
Franz Köchers standard work on Babylonian and Assyrian medicine, which was designed to provide copies of the texts with translation and commentary, had remained unfinished at his death in 2002. Six volumes of transcriptions ...
Genocide and Mass Violence in Asia An Introductory Reader
(2019)
In Asia the "Age of Extremes" witnessed many forms of mass violence and genocide, related to the rise and fall of the Japanese Empire, the proxy wars of the Cold War, and the anti-colonial nation building processes that ...
Das Mönchtum in der Religionspolitik Kaiser Justinians I.
(2015)
With his religious politics and his self-representation as the vicar of God on Earth, Justinian I (527-565) had an enduring impact on Late Antiquity. What part did monks, believed to be heavenly angels, play in promoting ...
Afterlives of the Garden
(2024)
The collection of essays in this volume offers fresh insights into varied modalities of reception of Epicurean thought among Roman authors of the late Republican and Imperial eras. Its generic purview encompasses prose as ...
Afterlives of the Garden
(2024)
The collection of essays in this volume offers fresh insights into varied modalities of reception of Epicurean thought among Roman authors of the late Republican and Imperial eras. Its generic purview encompasses prose as ...
Chapter Quantitative explorations of the worldwide distribution of rare characteristics, or
(2011)
In this article, the distribution of rare features among the world’s languages is investigated based on the data from the World Atlas of Language Structures (Haspelmath et al. 2005). A Rarity Index for a language is defined, ...