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Inspice diligenter codices
(2015)
During the first centuries of the Christian era, a large number of discrepant Latin translations of the Old and the New Testaments were in circulation. Rebekka S. Schirmer examines St. Augustine`s comments about the problems ...
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 ...
Elliptische Strukturen in SMS
(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 ...
Greek Culture in Hellenistic Egypt
(2024)
The volume investigates some aspects of the cultural consequences of the settlement of Greeks in Egypt during the Hellenistic period, with a focus on the reception and reuse of their literature, through a discussion of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Intonation between phrasing and accent
(2024)
Are our concepts from prosodic typology, like word stress, pitch accent, head-/edge-prominence, really that tightly linked to individual languages? How are meanings often signaled via intonation in European languages, like ...
Traum - Mantik - Allegorie
(2017)
The highly metaphorical language that is used in the dream narratives of the Hieroi Logoi written by the Mysian orator Aelius Aristides has hitherto hardly been assessed in a manner adequate to its depth. In her interpretation ...
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 ...
Writing the Heavens
(2024)
In the Middle Ages and early modernity, celestial observation was frequently a subject for verbal rather than numerical and geometrical recording. These records can now be difficult to decode, since what they address is ...
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 ...
Complexities of Spiritual Care in Plural Societies
(2022)
This volume contributes to an emerging field that could be referred to as "plural spiritual care and chaplaincy". It's innovative approach brings together contributions from a broad range of contexts and religious traditions ...
Preservation in Perspective
(2024)
The ‘Preservation in Perspective’ conference, held in 2021 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Coordination Office for the Preservation of Written Cultural Heritage (KEK), provided an opportunity to discuss the present and ...
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, ...
Der Heeresdienst von Christen in der römischen Kaiserzeit
(2021)
This study examines the attitude of three important pre-Constantinian Church authors on the issue of military service by Christians. During their era, there were growing numbers of Christians in the army, and discussions ...
Confronting Antisemitism from Perspectives of Philosophy and Social Sciences
(2021)
The five volumes provide a compendium of the history of and discourse about antisemitism - both as a unique cultural and religious category. Antisemitic stereotypes function as religious symbols that express and transmit ...
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 ...
The Oracle Bone Inscriptions from Huayuanzhuang East
(2020)
The Huayuanzhuang East oracle bone inscriptions form a corpus of more than 2500 individual divination accounts, which were engraved on turtle shells and bovine scapulae in the late Shang dynasty (c. 1200 B.C.). The book ...
Case Studies of Linguistic Representations of Motion
(2025)
How languages describe spatial motion events has been a hotly discussed topic in recent years in cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology. Based on a large-scale experimental study of motion event descriptions in ...
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–, ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Justinian und die Armee des frühen Byzanz
(2018)
Although the long reign of Emperor Justinian I (527–565 CE) and the military history of late antiquity have been frequent subjects of ancient historical research, the emperor’s military policy has not been closely studied ...
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 ...
Central and Eastern European Literary Theory and the West
(2022)
The twentieth century saw intensive intellectual exchange between Eastern and Central Europe and the West. Yet political and linguistic obstacles meant that many important trends in East and Central European thought and ...
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 ...
Power of the Priests
(2024)
Religion plays a central role in nearly every aspect in people’s life of most pre-modern cultures. Especially the interconnection between religion and politics is a common fact but the details of this relation and interacting ...
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 ...
Mitteilungen der Gemeinsamen Kommission für die Erforschung der jüngeren Geschichte der deutsch-russischen Beziehungen
(2023)
The German-Russian Historical Commission, a body of experts appointed by both governments, promotes research into mutual relations in the 20th century, among other things through joint projects and international colloquia. ...
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 ...
Translating the Language of the Syrian Revolution (2011/12)
(2024)
While the Arab revolutions have obviously triggered extensive social and political changes, the far-reaching consequences of the cultural and discursive changes have yet to be adequately considered. For activists, researchers, ...
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 ...
Queer Jewish Groups in Europe (1972-1990s)
(2025)
In February 1972, the world’s first group of and for queer Jews convened in London for their first public symposium. Their aim was to tackle the exlusion of non-heteronormative Jews in Jewish and queer communities. A few ...
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 ...
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, ...
Machiavelli und Dantes „Commedia“
(2024)
Machiavelli is considered to have been an "admirer" of Dante, but his Asino is also read as satire on Dante. So what is the position of the Commedia in Machiavelli’s poetry? This volume provides a nuanced answer that ...
Future T/Issues
(2024)
Future T/Issues discusses transplantation in speculative fiction and life writing and emphasizes the heterogenous voices that shape transplant practices. This book adds to the discussion of organ transplantation by focusing ...
Aus Büchern Bücher machen
(2021)
Be it angels, meteorites, or harps – there is a wealth of knowledge in the more than one-hundred publications that, by the mid-eighteenth century, had appeared in four languages under the name of Johann Jacob Wecker ...
Aspects of Linguistic Variation
(2018)
This volume brings together papers on linguistic variation. It takes a broad perspective, covering not only crosslinguistic and diachronic but also intralinguistic and interspeaker variation, and examines phenomena ranging ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
„Moderne Form – neue Baustoffe“
(2025)
Der beginnende Boom der Fertighausindustrie erfasste in den frühen 1960er-Jahren auch westdeutsche Stahlunternehmen wie Hoesch und Krupp. Ihr Einstieg in das Bauen für einen Endverbraucher:innenmarkt war der ökonomische ...
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 ...
Was vom Himmel kommt
(2021)
In ancient myths, the sky is a numinous space. What comes from it is of outstanding importance. This transdisciplinary volume by the Collegium Mythologicum explores myths that involve transfers from the sky. The volume ...
Diskursmorphologie
(2024)
Discourse linguistics and morphology have had little in common in previous research. Traditional discourse linguistics often only considers morphological questions marginally, and word formation, despite the shift to ...
Top Ten Fictional Narratives in Early Modern Europe
(2023)
This volume examines the ten most popular fictional narratives in early modern Europe between 1470 and 1800. Each of these narratives was marketed in numerous European languages and circulated throughout several centuries. ...
Healing Grief
(2022)
Is it possible to overcome grief after years of mourning? What should a Roman woman do to regain control of her thoughts? This book – which is the first commentary in English on Seneca’s Consolation to Marcia in forty ...
Verfolgungssuizide im Nationalsozialismus
(2025)
Even amid despair, there could be positive aspects to the persecution suicides of the deportation period. This volume describes them as a distinct phenomenon that should be firmly integrated into emigration and resistance ...
Mythische Sphärenwechsel
(2020)
Journeys to the realm of the dead, voyages to the island of souls, ascents to heaven – this book analyzes and reconstructs sphere change myth material using an innovative theoretical and methodological approach. The research ...
Widerstände
(2024)
This volume addresses definitions, forms, and motifs of the resistance against National Socialist. Its explorations focus on individual choices to resist politically organized struggles and defiance deserters and queer ...
Römische Erinnerungsräume
(2008)
Between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD Rome underwent a process of transformation which profoundly marked the urban, social, and religious structure of the city. Examing the memory of saints, this study inspects a central ...
The Crisis of the 14th Century
(2020)
Societal and environmental change not only coincide during the period 1250–1380, they interact: What has been long discussed as the 'Crisis of the 14th Century' is happening during a shifting climatic regime, from the ...
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 ...
Der russische Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine und das Völkerrecht
(2023)
This text addresses the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and the general development of international law. It focuses on three questions: What consequences does the Russian breach of the prohibition of violence ...
Trends in Statistical Codicology
(2021)
The application of statistical techniques to the study of manuscript books, based on the analysis of large data sets acquired through the archaeological observation of manuscripts, remains to this day one of the most ...
Interaction Between Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Factors
(2024)
Issues in Japanese Psycholinguistics from Comparative Perspectives compiles over 30 state-of-the-art articles on Japanese psycholinguistics. It emphasizes the importance of using comparative perspectives when conducting ...
Internationale Wissenschaftskommunikation und Nationalsozialismus
(2022)
Taking a critical stance toward "internationality" was one of the central aspects of the notion of scholarship propagated in National Socialist Germany between 1933 and 1945. However, during this time, German scholars had ...
Semantische Spezialisierung vs. Polysemie
(2021)
Transitive verbs can often leave their arguments implicit. Until now, the objectless variants of these verbs have been frequently associated with specific meanings. This volume demonstrates that most verbs have different ...
Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies
(2021)
In the second volume a wide range of economic actors – from kings and armies to cities and producers – are discussed within different imperial settings as well as the tools which enabled and constrained economic outcomes. ...
New Cosmopolitanisms, Race, and Ethnicity
(2019)
This anthology offers fresh perspectives on cosmopolitanism that reflect cultural challenges in the contemporary world. It demonstrates that new cosmopolitan thinking can be combined with a sensitivity to ethnic and local ...
Mineral Building Traditions in the Himalayas
(2020)
This study gives fresh insight into the interaction between technical requirements, environmental resources and material implementation. It is the first scientific approach in studying the Himalayan earthen heritage in a ...
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, ...
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 ...
Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture
(2010-04-29)
The volume assesses performative structures within a variety of medieval forms of textuality, from vernacular literature to records of parliamentary proceedings, from prayer books to musical composition. Three issues are ...
Photomurals
(2024)
Das fotografische Wandbild, das sogenannte photomural, wurde in den USA der 1930er-Jahre zu einem Inbegriff nationaler Kunst und dabei als Gegenentwurf zum mexikanischen Muralismus positioniert. Johanna Spanke untersucht ...
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 ...
Lesepraktiken im antiken Judentum
(2021)
Practices of reading form an important center of synagogal worship as well as Jewish scholarship. The monograph reconstructs the development of ritual reading practices in ancient Judaism based on the triad of acts of ...
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. ...
Popliteratur 3.0
(2023)
Mit der Digitalisierung erfährt der Literaturbetrieb der Gegenwart einen massiven Wandel. Autor*innen schaffen mithilfe der sozialen Medien zusätzliche Kommunikations- und Inszenierungsräume – mit der Konsequenz, dass sich ...
Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum VI commentariorum I–VIII versio Arabica
(2022)
The present volume offers the first critical edition of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on Book 6 of the Hippocratic Epidemics. It is the sequel to the previous editions of Galen's Commentary. The ...
Rethinking Orality I
(2022)
The volume deals with the mechanisms of the oral communication in the ancient Greek culture. It focuses on the 'cultural message' of the texts, considered under two perspectives: the methodologies of cognitivism, and ...
Upon Entropy
(2024)
In his 1979 essay The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge philosopher Jean-François Lyotard noted that the advent of the computer opened up a stage of progress in which knowledge has become a commodity. Modernity ...
Informationsressourcen
(2022)
This reliable volume provides information specialists with an up-to-date introduction to using information resources. Alongside the theoretical principles, it selects about 400 general and specialist information resources ...
Cicero in Basel
(2024)
The contributions of this volume chart Cicero’s presence in the city of Basel – from the stories around the city’s foundation to humanist editions and commentaries and the politics of scholarship and education. They ...
Krise und Kult
(2010)
This volume contains twelve contributions on the urban development of the Near East and North Africa in Late Antiquity. On the one hand the authors consider historical and cultural aspects of the region. A comprehensive ...
Identitäten im Prozess
(2015)
Collective identities – national, regional, local, religious, linguistic – are all constructed as opposed to an "other" which is constructed in alterity. They are established by historiography, art, and media. The contributions ...