Publications
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Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics
(2022)
Cicero's self-portrait as master of Roman prose, philosopher, and statesman has often attracted interest from intellectuals over the times. This volume concentrates on the multiple ways by which different ages created their ...
Friedrich Rosen
(2020)
Diplomat, Orientalist, and German foreign minister: Friedrich Rosen (1856-1935) was an Orient expert par excellence in the age of German imperialism. His story is told here for the first time. Following his rise to the ...
Manuscripts and Archives
(2018)
The archive is traditionally considered the counterpart of the library, the one storing records, the other housing "books." There is evidence, however, that this institutional division of labor reflects certain historical ...
Between Manuscript and Print
(2023)
A cross-cultural, comparative view on the transition from a predominant ‘culture of handwriting’ to a predominant ‘culture of print’ in the late medieval and early modern periods is provided here, combining research on ...
1919 – The Year That Changed China
(2018)
The year 1919 changed Chinese culture radically, but in a way that completely took contemporaries by surprise. At the beginning of the year, even well-informed intellectuals did not anticipate that, for instance, baihua ...
Beteiligung interkulturell gestalten
(2021)
Wie lassen sich Beteiligungsangebote in Stadtplanung und Stadtentwicklung interkulturell gestalten? Welche Rolle können analoge und virtuelle Erzählräume, digitale Dienste und Online-Beteiligungstools dabei spielen? Und ...
Scientific writing and publishing in medicine and health sciences
(2021)
Writing and publishing scientific papers is the core business of researchers, but is often experienced as difficult and frustrating. This book provides clear and concise key information on 12 major aspects of the process, ...
Poetas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas
(2021)
Poetas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas: poéticas y metapoéticas (Siglos XX–XXI) reúne estudios sobre las poéticas –fundamentalmente las «poéticas explícitas de poetas» (Demmers), con la inclusión de las artes poéticas–, ...
Cultura literaria y políticas de mercado
(2022)
The volume addresses three key aspects of today’s book culture: independent publishing, book fairs and literary festivals. Using an innovative theoretical framework (a literary "value criticism"), it offers an in-depth ...
Die Welt im Dorf
(2024)
It was not just in the major trade centers but also in the expanse of the "Hinterland" that the foreign and the exotic made themselves felt in the age of Enlightenment – be it in the form of missionaries from China, galley ...
The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa
(2021)
The volume re-centres Africa and African history in memory studies, with each chapter drawing parallels to comparable cases in Africa and the world. An underlying assumption is that what can be learned from the politics ...
Bronze Age Lives
(2021)
This book provides a personal view of the European Bronze Age by one of its long-standing scholars. It takes the period as a series of “lives”: of people, objects, places and societies, as well as of the Bronze Age itself, ...
Dynamics of Religion
(2016)
RGVV(History of Religion: Essays and Preliminary Studies) brings together the mutually constitutive aspects of the study of religion(s)—contextualized data, theory, and disciplinary positioning—and engages them from a ...
Eine andere Geschichte der spanischen Literatur
(2022)
This first German-language portrayal of Spanish literature in the digital age offers interpretations that go "against the grain." It makes no claims to academic completeness but is about the transgressive potential of ...
The Power of Religion / Religion and Power
(2023)
How does the powerful effect that religion has on public and personal life relate to the various spheres of our culture? Is the relationship between power and religion always negative or can religion also affect individuals ...
Soziologie - Sociology in the German-Speaking World
(2021)
This book provides the first systematic overview of German sociology today. Thirty-four chapters review current trends, relate them to international discussions and discuss perspectives for future research. The contributions ...
Die Sprache der Judenfeindschaft im 21. Jahrhundert
(2017-06-26)
Wie artikuliert sich im 21. Jahrhundert judenfeindliches Gedankengut? Und wann ist eine Äußerung antisemitisch? Mit diesen Fragen beschäftigen sich die Sprach- und Kognitionswissenschaftlerin Monika Schwarz-Friesel und der ...
Bibliotheken der Schweiz: Innovation durch Kooperation
(2018)
This volume presents a representative selection of initiatives of the Swiss Academic Libraries, which show a high innovation potential as a result of successful cooperation. The focus is on science, higher education and ...
Optically Induced Nanostructures
(2015)
Nanostructuring of materials is a task at the heart of many modern disciplines in mechanical engineering, as well as optics, electronics, and the life sciences. This book includes an introduction to the relevant nonlinear ...
Facets of Facebook
(2016)
The debate on Facebook raises questions about the use and users of this information service. This collected volume gathers a broad spectrum of social science and information science articles about Facebook.Facebook has ...
Meteorological Disasters in Medieval Britain (AD 1000‒1500)
(2023)
Natural disasters frequently affected medieval populations. This book explores what happened when meteorological hazards struck how medieval communities reacted and what steps they took to protect themselves against future ...
Instruments and Related Concepts at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
(2018)
Instruments constitute a classic member of the thematic role inventory, yet they are usually analyzed only peripherally, taking a back seat to the more studied members such as Agent and Patient. This dissertation investigates ...
Arthur Schnitzler : Der Witwer. Die Gefährtin
(2023)
The 14th volume of the “Historical-Critical Edition of Arthur Schnitzler’s Early Works” – edited by Konstanze Fliedl since 2010 – presents Schnitzler's novella “Der Witwer” and the one-act play “Die Gefährtin,” which ...
Jugendbewegung, Antisemitismus und rechtsradikale Politik
(2014)
The year 2013 marks the centennial of the first "Free-German Youth Day" that took place on the Meissner massif. Anti-Semitic outbursts erupted at the margins of this historical gathering. In its wake, a right-wing populist ...
Caucasian Albania
(2023)
The handbook illustrates the present state of knowledge on the region of Albania in the Southern Caucasus and its inhabitants with a focus on its late antique and medieval history, its language and its written heritage, ...
Lehrkraft-Eltern-Interaktionen am Elternsprechtag
(2016)
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 ...
Geselliger Sang
(2024)
Sociable Song: this volume examines German-language love songs of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Its chapters from literary studies and musicology consider the songs’ dissemination, functions, and mediality. By ...
Wiederholung und Variation im Gespräch des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit
(2023)
Repetition is a fundamental cultural act that appears in all fields of human behavior and communication. This volume inquires into the creativity of repetitive conversational patterns in premodernity (German, Spanish, ...
Die Tragödie Europas
(2023)
The time between the Hitler-Stalin pact of 23 August 1939 and Germany`s invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 remains a controversial period in European historiography. This volume presents the still multivalent ...
Life and Works of Saint Gregentios, Archbishop of Taphar
(2012)
In the late 10th century, an anonymous author wrote the fictitious account of a religious dialogue between Archbishop Gregentios and the Jewish scribe Herban and included it in a life of Gregentios based on earlier sources, ...
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 ...
Latin as the Language of Science and Learning
(2021)
This book approaches its topic from three angles: diachronic semantics, a panorama of science and scientific writing in Latin from antiquity up to the present, and linguistic forays that try to demarcate scientific Latin ...
Endzeiten
(2008)
In this volume, leading scholars examine the ideas of the last days of the world held in Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. They discuss the mutual influence of these ideas together ...
Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books
(2018)
The volume contains a critical review of data, results and open problems concerning the principal Greek and Coptic majuscule bookhands, based on previous research of the author, revised and updated to offer an overview of ...
Neues aus Wissenschaft und Lehre
(2010)
Das Jahrbuch der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf versteht sich als Forum für den wissenschaftlichen Dialog der Universität zu Zeitfragen, zu aktuellen Problemlagen und Herausforderungen von Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft, ...
World Editors
(2020)
The existence of World Literature depends on specific processes, institutions, and actors involved in the global circulation of literary works. Looking at Latin American 20th and 21st century literatures, this book analyzes ...
Emma Goldman and the Russian Revolution
(2020)
How did Emma Goldman perceive the Russian Revolution and how did her perception change between 1917 and the early 1920s? What impact did the revolution’s corruption by Lenin have on the anarchist’s perception and what made ...
Invariant Differential Operators
(2017)
With applications in quantum field theory, general relativity and elementary particle physics, this three-volume work studies the invariance of differential operators under Lie algebras, quantum groups and superalgebras. ...
Clarice Lispector – Weltliteratur?
(2021)
It has only been in the 21st century that the literary oeuvre of the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) has received international recognition, after being repeatedly forgotten in the past. This volume traces ...
A Touch of Doubt
(2021)
Scepticism claims that there is always something that slips through the epistemologist’s grasp.Drawing on the tradition of scepticism within continental philosophy, this volume discusses how the sense of touch uncovers ...