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La tradizione manoscritta dell “ars dictaminis” nell’Italia medievale
(2022)
This volume is dedicated to the study of medieval ars dictaminis. Analyzing several manuscript witnesses, it sheds light on the historical contextualization of the phenomenon and examines the close relationship between ars ...
Sujetos del deseo
(2021)
This book analyzes, conceptualizes and historicizes the amateur translator figure as political and cultural agent in US-Latin American relations, from the end of the 19th century to the mid-20th century. Centered on the ...
Die Transformation der Informationsmärkte in Richtung Nutzungsfreiheit Alternativen zur Als-ob-Regulierung im Wissenschaftsurheberrecht
(2020)
In the last 30 years, copyright law’s approach to knowledge and information has come under fire. This book makes an important contribution to the debate about the sustainability of current models combining freedom of use ...
Chapter An Initial Selection of Manuscripts for the Editio Critica Maior of the Pauline Epistles
(2019)
Thirty-three internationally renowned scholars of the text and transmission of the New Testament offer original contributions on ancient manuscripts and digital editing in honour of Klaus Wachtel, a pioneer in the use of ...
Der Engel in der Moderne
(2022)
Die anhaltende Präsenz von Engeln in der Moderne wurde oft auf ein gesteigertes Trostbedürfnis zurückgeführt. Die Engelsfigur ist aber nicht bloß statisches Überbleibsel einer verlorenen Glaubensgewissheit. Vielmehr steht ...
Education Materialised
(2021)
This volume reveals how manuscripts may be used in gaining knowledge of educational practices across Africa, Asia and Europe from the Babylonian period up to the twentieth century. Four major research topics are addressed: ...
Lived Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World
(2020)
The Lived Ancient Religion project has radically changed perspectives on ancient religions and their supposedly personal or public character. This volume applies and further develops these methodological tools, new ...
Dependency and Social Inequality in Pre-Roman Italy
(2024)
In the past, most studies on Pre-Roman societies in Italy focused on the elites. The aim of this volume is to look at dependent and marginalized social groups, which are less visible and often even difficult to define. The ...
Vitale Mystik
(2022)
This study examines the form and reception of mystical writing in poetry by A. de Noailles (France, 1876–1933), E. de Champourcin (Spain 1905–1999), and A. Pozzi (Italy, 1912–1938) from the perspective of current transsecular ...
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 ...
Die kommunikative Konstruktion von Normalitäten in der Medizin
(2024)
Wenngleich die Bestimmung des medizinisch ‚Normalen’ einen zentralen Aspekt wissenschaftstheoretischer und -historischer Diskussion darstellt, ist die kommunikative Konstruktion von Normalitäten nur selten Gegenstand ...
Mobility Design
(2022)
Climate change and the scarcity of resources, but also the steadily increasing traffic make it indispensable to develop new solutions for environmentally friendly and people-friendly mobility. The smooth and safe transition ...
Evaluating Interreligious Peacebuilding and Dialogue
(2021)
Featuring chapters by well-established interreligious peacebuilders from around the world, this volume examines the challenges and implications faced by religious and interreligious peacebuilders and provides new models ...
Private Sector Development in an Emerging World
(2024)
This book explores the interactions between private sector development, public policies and societal institutions with a strong view on contributing to sustainable and inclusive development in emerging countries. The private ...
Führung, wohin führst du?
(2012)
With this book, students receive a critical introduction to the opportunities and limits of value creation-oriented management of companies. In this way you gain a holistic picture of value-oriented corporate management. ...
The Politics of Service
(2021)
This is the first comprehensive history of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the central humanitarian assistance organization of American Quakers during the first half of the 20th century. It describes the ...
Das Tagebuch des Astronomen Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt 1862–1882
(2025)
The diary of Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt provides deep insights into his life, his personal contacts, and his research interests in the period 1862 to 1882. Schmidt used his diary to document visits and events in Athens ...
The Roll in England and France in the Late Middle Ages
(2020)
In the Middle Ages, rolls were ubiquitous as a writing support. While scholars have long examined the texts and images on rolls, they have rarely taken the manuscripts themselves into account. This volume readdresses this ...
Affirmation und Kritik des modernen Zeitregimes bei Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich Heine und Gottfried Keller
(2025)
Since the eighteenth century, societies have been increasingly orienting the way they think and act around the future. This is not the result of a natural process, but can be attributed to a complex discursive formation: ...
Jenseits der Grenzen
(2009)
The process of transformation which saw the Byzantine Empire and the world of the Early Middle Ages develop from the Late Antique Imperium Romanum led to changes in all areas of life. The central topic of this volume of ...
Religionswissenschaft
(2025)
This volume offers a unique introduction to contemporary religious studies in twenty-seven accessible, clearly written chapters written by religious studies scholars from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The central, ...
Citation and Quotation in Early Modern Architecture
(2024)
This volume aims to tease out one of the principal threads of the over-arching theme of what might be termed ‘Lost and Found in Translation’ with regard to Early Modern Architecture. Citation of texts in relation to Early ...
Fremdes Begehren: Spiele der Identitäten und Differenzen im späten 12. Jahrhundert
(2024)
In the narrative literature of the late twelfth century, dynamics of desire produce complex identity and relationship constellations. This study examines the narrative logics of heterosocial and homosocial desire in the ...
Die Inschriften des Stadtgottesackers in Halle an der Saale (1550–1700)
(2021)
Between 1557 and 1590, the Stadtgottesacker in Halle, a prototype of a Protestant burial ground outside the city walls, was expanded into an architectural unity that in form and completeness has no parallel north of the ...
Perfekt unperfekt
(2021)
The book offers insight into the classical rhetorical strategies of elaboration for researchers interested in rhetoric as well as for designers and artists. The process of elaboration is governed by the tension between the ...
Studies in the Atharvaveda
(2024)
This volume, the first of its kind in nearly two decades, comprises 16 articles on the Atharvaveda, India’s second oldest text, by the world’s leading scholars in the field, from India, Japan, Europe and North America. ...
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 ...
The Making of an Anglo-Jewish Scholar
(2025)
This book is a study of the life and thought of the Polish Jew Solomon Yom Tov Bennett (1767-1838). Arriving in London, he encountered an educated group of English literati who found him useful for their own intellectual ...
Transkulturelle Verflechtungsprozesse in der Vormoderne
(2016)
Pre-Modern Europe`s diverse ethnic and religious groups were in continuous contact with each other and also with "cultures" beyond Europe. This collected volume analyzes these reciprocal exchange processes, taking into ...
Sprachen, Völker und Phantome
(2018)
Academics have long stopped speaking of “peoples” and “their” languages and cultures. Yet languages and cultures are still taken as evidence of quasi-ethnic community and “identity.” Nine papers by scholars in Egyptology, ...
Verwaltungsrecht in der Klausur
(2020)
This is the first textbook to present open access materials in administrative law geared toward the test-taking realities of law students. Focused on administrative process, it deftly presents the main areas of general ...
Lager als Architektur
(2024)
Since 1945, camps as a form of temporary mass housing have been either ignored or discussed only in the margins of architectural history. In this book, Antje Senarclens de Grancy examines for the first time the camps built ...
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 ...
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 ...
Qualität in der Inhaltserschließung
(2021)
This edited volume deals with issues relating to the quality of subject cataloging in the digital age, where heterogenous articles from different processes meet, and attempts to define important quality standards. Topics ...
Trading Zones of Digital History
(2021)
Will historians become programmers? How do historians collaborate with experts from computational domains? At the centre of the book is the question how historians are affected by such ongoing interactions. By following ...
Metaleptische Bilder des Erzählens
(2023)
Von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart wird erzählerisches Handeln immer wieder durch bildhafte Ausdrücke veranschaulicht, die den Erzähler in logikwidrigem Kontakt mit der erzählten Welt darstellen und sich damit narratologisch ...
The Fish Lands
(2020)
Based on newly uncovered archival sources as well as archaeological studies, this book offers the first extensive overview of the German trade with the North Atlantic in English. It challenges assumptions about the ...
Die verletzte Republik
(2022)
This study examines the literary discourse about forms of violence in French society at the beginning of the twenty-first century. How and why does French contemporary literature tell stories about the now historical, ...
Die Ausstattung kleinerer Häuser in Pompeji (Insula IX 5)
(2023)
The book examines the interplay of ancient and new decor elements on Insula IX 5 in Pompeii during the final phase of the city between AD 62-79 . This is the first time that an attempt has been made to grasp the construction ...
ReiseSchreiben
(2020)
The volume systematically presents the genre of travel literature in historical perspective and its broad relevance for contemporary societies. It examines the historical, economic, social, and political backdrops of travel. ...
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 ...
Linguistic intersections of language and gender
(2025)
Stop teaching kids pronouns! The current backlash against efforts to make language more gender-fair gives rise to strong, sometimes absurd, demands. This collection provides cutting-edge linguistic research on gender bias ...
Erzbischof Hinkmar und die Folgen
(2010)
The present study is concerned with sources for the history of the dioceses of Reims and Trier since the 8th century. It starts with essential information on the history of these dioceses in the Early Middle Ages which can ...
Nordrhein-Westfalen I
(2005)
Darstellung der reichen Kulturlandschaft des Rheinlands. Das Spektrum umfasst durch Industrialisierung geformte Stadtlandschaften im Ruhrgebiet, mittelalterliche Kirchenbauten, modernen Kirchenbau, Burgen und Schlösser, ...
Meeting the Inclusion Challenge in Innovation
(2024)
Users play an important role in innovation, both as a source of new ideas and insights and as accelerators of downstream adoption and diffusion. Their potential contribution is well known, but we understand less about how ...
Experimentalphysik
(2018)
Mit seinen stetig komplexeren Erläuterungen bildet dieses Werk den steigenden Schwierigkeitsgrad ab, den Studierende während der ersten Semester erleben. Durch zahlreiche Beispiele und künstlerisch sehr ansprechendes ...
Unter Beobachtung | Under Surveillance
(2022)
This volume is the first to examine how this "enemy" was observed and perceived by the intelligence services by looking at various case studies from the GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia.
Fundamentals
(2022)
Volume 1 establishes the foundations of this new field. It goes through all the steps from data collection, their summary and clustering, to different aspects of resource-aware learning, i.e., hardware, memory, energy, and ...
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 ...
Computational Stylistics in Poetry, Prose, and Drama
(2022)
The contributions in this edited volume approach poetry, narrative, and drama from the perspective of Computational Stylistics. They exemplify methods of computational textual analysis and explore the possibility of ...
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 ...
Occult Roots of Religious Studies
(2021)
This book focuses on the interconnections between religious studies and occultism. In addition, it explores new fields of research by introducing “biograms” of scholars whose relationship to occultism and science is sometimes ...
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 ...
Deportations in the Nazi Era
(2022)
During the Nazi era, about three million Jews and tens of thousands of Sinti and Roma were deported to ghettos, camps, and extermination centers, where most of them were murdered. In over 20 contributions, scholars from ...
Wie wird Weltliteratur gemacht?
(2020)
The debate surrounding world literature has been brought into renewed focus in light of questions pertaining to global networks in a polycentric world. Beyond theoretical debates, however, there has been a marked lack of ...
Mediality on Trial
(2020)
Insofar as one presumes a division between distinctly opposed categories of religion and the secular, technical media tend to be associated with the secular and human (trance) mediums tend to be associated with religion ...
Between Daily Routine and Violent Protest
(2021)
Human action has a technical dimension. This book is a hermeneutic and social theoretical interpretation of how acquired capabilities and the means of action together shape the technicity of action. The enactment of ...
Fragmentierungen
(2018)
This volume includes lectures and discussion from the Conference of the Association of German Professors of Constitutional Law in Saarbrücken, 4–7 October 2017
Die Glasmalereien vom Mittelalter bis 1930 im Kanton Thurgau
(2022)
Erstmals in der Geschichte des Schweizer Corpus Vitrearum sind im Band zum Kanton Thurgau auch die Glasmalereien des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts erfasst. Während die Erforschung der vor 1800 geschaffenen Glasgemälde ...
Models of Change in Medieval Textual Culture
(2024)
How does textual culture change? How do genres turn into new forms, how do texts and books change through use and in performance? When does variation turn into change? This book addresses different aspects of change in the ...
Die Papyri Herkulaneums im Digitalen Zeitalter
(2021)
The Herculaneum Papyri comprise the only surviving library of antiquity. In recent years, innovative technologies and new philological methods have effectively revolutionized research. Characters that were previously ...
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 ...
Sign Languages in Village Communities
(2012)
This book unites the work of both anthropologists and linguists who have conducted fieldwork in rural signing communities around the globe. In most cases, these signing communities have emerged in response to a high incidence ...
Figuren begegnen in Filmen und Comics
(2024)
Wie begegnen wir Figuren in Filmen und Comics? Für Zuschauende und Lesende sind sie intuitiv zugänglich, nicht aber für die Analyse. Die vorliegende Studie grenzt sich von narratologisch und kognitionstheoretisch geprägten ...
New Libraries in Old Buildings
(2021)
This book focuses on difficulties and opportunities in revitalization of old, derelict or abandoned buildings into a library and investigates the transformation of buildings which originally had a different purpose. The ...
Rescatando a Helena
(2024)
Transcending the dialectic between appearance and reality, Euripides succeeded in giving human intelligibility to a new Helena, who never loved Paris nor fled with him. Menelaus' wife must vindicate to her newfound husband ...
Mathematical Optimization for Machine Learning
(2025)
Mathematical optimization and machine learning are closely related. This proceedings volume of the Thematic Einstein Semester 2023 of the Berlin Mathematics Research Center MATH+ collects recent progress on their interplay ...
Spatial Formats under the Global Condition
(2019)
Contributions to this volume summarize and discuss the theoretical foundations of the Collaborative Research Centre at Leipzig University which address the relationship between processes of (re-)spatialization on the one ...
Diaspora, Law and Literature (Volume 12)
(2016)
The well-known challenges of international migration have triggered new departures in academic approaches, with 'diaspora studies' evolving as an interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary field of study. Its emerging ...
Cultural Heritage and Slavery
(2024)
In the recent cultural heritage boom, community-based and national identity projects are intertwined with interest in cultural tourism and sites of the memory of enslavement. Questions of historical guilt and present ...
Von der Makroökonomie zum Kleinbauern
(2020)
Die Habilitationsschrift untersucht, wie sich die entwicklungspolitischen Paradigmen der Dritte-Welt-Bewegung zwischen den 1960er und den 1990er Jahren verändert haben. Noch in den 1960er Jahren forderten westliche Aktivisten ...
Natural Communication
(2021)
In Natural Communication, the author criticizes the current paradigm of specific goal orientation in the complexity sciences. His model of "natural communication" encapsulates modern theoretical concepts from mathematics ...
Confronting Antisemitism from the Perspectives of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
(2020)
This volume engages with antisemitic stereotypes as religious symbols that express and transmit a belief system of Jew-hatred. These religious symbols are stored in Christian, Muslim and even today’s secular cultural and ...
Drogenpoesie der Frühen Neuzeit
(2025)
This volume brings together annotated editions and interpretations of Early Modern literature about tobacco, beer, wine, and coffee. It includes New Latin and German panegyric poems praising Tokaji wine or beer from ...
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 ...
The Modern Dream of Order
(2025)
A fresh exploration of modern photography through the lens of commercial portrait photography - the largest and yet most neglected visual archive of the 19th century. This study explores how commercial portrait photography ...
What’s in a Divine Name?
(2024)
Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. The book collects 36 essays pertaining to many different contexts – Egypt, Anatolia, Levant, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome – which ...
Empirische Erforschung internetbasierter Kommunikation
(2017)
Empirical approaches based on qualitative or quantitative methods of corpus linguistics have become a central paradigm within linguistics. The series takes account of this fact and provides a platform for approaches within ...
Sea of Literatures
(2023)
Mediterranean studies flourish in literary and cultural studies, but concepts of the Mediterranean and the theories and methods they use are very disparate. This is because the Mediterranean is not a simple geographical ...