Publications
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Holiness and Power
(2016)
The book examines models of relationships between Constantinopolitan holy man and secular and ecclesiastical authorities in the capital of Byzantium. The study explores the ideal underlying the lives of the four ...
Materialität, Inschriftlichkeit und schrifttragende Artefakte im mittelalterlichen Rom
(2023)
Like ancient Rome, the medieval metropolis on the Tiber is also a landscape of transmission due to the diversity of its epigraphic legacy. This legacy had a lasting impact on the municipal area of the urbs and provides ...
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 ...
Sprachliche Muster
(2018)
Die Studie arbeitet den musterhaften Sprachgebrauch in wissenschaftlichen Texten heraus und beschreibt auf der Basis einer datengeleiteten Korpusanalyse den Wissenschaftsstil auf formaler und pragmatischer Ebene. Mit der ...
Zeitgenössische jüdische Autobiographie
(2011-05-01)
The proceedings of the conference of the same name assemble papers concentrating largely on Franco-Jewish autobiography in the last few decades. Relevant literature in English and German is also discussed. In addition, ...
Meyer-Struckmann-Preis 2013: Sir Ian Kershaw
(2014)
Der Meyer-Struckmann-Preis für geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, ausgeschrieben für Deutsche Geschichte im 20. Jahrhundert, ging im Jahr 2013 an den renommierten britischen Historiker Sir Ian Kershaw. Die ...
Reading History in the Roman Empire
(2022)
Spanning the time from the 1st century BCE to the 400s CE, this volume highlights the multifaceted interactions between Greco-Roman historiographical texts and their readers. Its contributions focus on the testimonies ...
The expression of “collectivity” in Romance languages
(2022)
The empirical and comparative study examines various facets of the linguistic expression of collectivity in Romance languages. Against the background of an onomasiological conception of nominal aspectuality, collection ...
El queísmo en la historia
(2022)
The book offers a panchronic analysis of queísmo, one of the oldest variational phenomena in Spanish syntax, from the Classical era to this day. Within the framework of historical sociolinguistics and on the empirical basis ...
Jüdinnen - Literarische Weiblichkeitsentwürfe im 20. Jahrhundert
(2022)
In the nineteenth and, in particular, twentieth centuries, literature became a place to negotiate ideas of Jewish femininity, an experimental space in which contemporary discourses were carried out and tried out on and ...
gewohnt: un/common
(2021)
Neue Konzepte für unser Zusammenleben sind dringend erforderlich, um auf die wachsende gesellschaftliche Ungleichheit, die Auflösung klassischer Arbeits- und Familienstrukturen oder die Ausprägung vielfältiger sozialer ...
Data Disclosure
(2023)
This volume presents the proceedings of the bidt "Vectors of Data Disclosure" conference held in Munich 2022. The contributions give interdisciplinary and comparative insights into various factors of data disclosure decisions ...
Der Zauberstab der Analogie
(2023)
The publication aims to view analogy relations as heuristic magic sticks or semiotic universals through which the unknown can be heuristically opened up with the help of the known. This means that analogies simultaneously ...
Coping with Urban Climates
(2022)
While 20th century architecture learned to control the climate of a building, the architecture of the 21st century needs to learn to cope with the climate of cities. Problems such as urban heat and air pollution need to ...
Aging between Participation and Simulation
(2020)
This publication aims to initiate an interdisciplinary discourse on the ethical, legal, and social implications of socially assistive technologies in healthcare. It combines practically relevant insights and examples from ...
Disruption in the Arts
(2018)
The volume examines aesthetic disruptions within the various arts in contemporary culture. It assumes that the political potential of art is not solely derived from presenting its audiences with openly political content. ...
Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity
(2016)
It is estimated that only a small fraction, less than 1 per cent, of ancient literature has survived to the present day. The role of Christian authorities in the active suppression and destruction of books in Late Antiquity ...
Innovationsräume
(2019)
This volume examines the relationships between innovation and space, illustrating a range of phenomena subsumed in the concept of innovation spaces. It presents new conceptualizations of innovation as a dynamic, territorially ...
Gamification for Innovators and Entrepreneurs
(2022)
This book provides a research-based overview of the use of games to facilitate learning in innovation/entrepreneurship and draws on work in several European institutions and well-known companies. Also, it provides a review ...
When Tibetan Meditation Goes Global
(2022)
This pioneering ethnographic work on Western practitioners of Bon, or bonpos, presents the first in-depth study of the transition of the Yungdrung Bon religion, Tibet’s so-called "indigenous religion," to the West in the ...
Prototypen – Schemata – Konstruktionen
(2021)
Prototype, schema and construction are three central concepts that can be used to model mental representations of grammatical structures and relations within the frame of functional-cognitive grammar theories. This volume ...
Die deutschsprachige weltliche Liedkultur um 1600
(2022)
This study examines the transformation that took place in worldly lied culture in German around 1600. Ornate poetry in the vernacular and solo lieder emerged in the sixteenth century and were predominantly developed using ...
Model Order Reduction
(2020)
An increasing complexity of models used to predict real-world systems leads to the need for algorithms to replace complex models with far simpler ones, while preserving the accuracy of the predictions. This three-volume ...
Modalpartikeln als multimodale Konstruktionen
(2018)
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 ...
Onomastics of the “Chanson de Roland”
(2023)
This ambitious study of the proper names of the Chanson de Roland proves that it is more tightly and profoundly structured and considerably richer in depicting reality than generally assumed, and that its prehistory can ...
Religious Otherness and National Identity in Scandinavia, c. 1790–1960
(2020)
The book addresses how certain religious groups were labeled as foreign and constructed as political, moral and national threats in Scandinavia between c. 1790 and 1960. Key questions are who articulated such opinions, how ...
Viral Lobbying
(2022)
Pandemic policies have been the focus of fierce lobbying competition by different social and economic interests. The contributions in this book analyse patterns in and implications of this ‘viral lobbying’. Based on surveys ...
Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds
(2021)
This volume explores what ‘Islam’ is taken to mean in different social, economic and cultural contexts. It considers how people engage and employ varying traditions, institutions, and media in shaping their sense of self ...
Youth and Memory in Europe
(2022)
What kind of historical narratives are young people exposed to and what do they make of them? This volume brings together humanities and social sciences scholars in a study of youth and memory in different European regions. ...
Formen und Funktionen auktorialer Epitexte im literarischen Feld der Gegenwart
(2024)
How have the forms and functions of authorial epitexts expanded and developed in the German-speaking world since the turn of the millennium in a professionalised literary field with changed media conditions and possibilities ...
Jüdische Wissenskulturen und Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft
(2022)
Works that had a considerable impact on the development of the humanities in the twentieth century emerged against the backdrop of a culture of knowledge and an epistemological history shaped by Judaism. This volume aims ...
Theorie und Systematik materialer Textkulturen
(2023)
The final volume in the series synthesizes the research conducted by the Heidelberg Collaborative Research Center 933. Systematized into six topic areas (reflecting on writing, layout and text/image, memory and the archive, ...
Monastische Kultur als transkonfessionelles Phänomen
(2016)
A comparison between Western European Catholic monasteries and Russian Orthodox monasteries during the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period reveals their common roots in the Western and Eastern monastic traditions as ...
Exodus
(2016-04-25)
The story of Exodus from Egypt is a key founding myth that informs Israel`s collective identity and pervades all of Old Testament literature. In the Hellenistic period, the Exodus story enjoyed a renaissance, and it continues ...
Donation of Constantine and Constitutum Constantini
(2012)
The Donation of Constantine is the largest and most powerful forgery in world history. Disputed until modern times, this document was the fuel of religious war, used by both the reformation, as well as the counter-reformation. ...
Family Instructions for the Yan Clan and Other Works by Yan Zhitui (531–590s)
(2021)
This is a new, accurate translation into English, with critical introduction and notes and based on recent scholarship, of Yan Zhitui’s (531–590s) complete literary works, including his famous Family Instructions, his ...
Gestalterinnen
(2023)
Women designers, many of them Jewish, played a decisive role in the development of Viennese modernity during the interwar period. This book presents new research on designers, photographers, journalists, and patrons who ...
Lernwelt Hochschule 2030
(2022)
Tertiary institutions are facing expectations of change on all sides resulting from the challenges of new public management, the Bologna Process, a shift from teaching to learning, competence orientation, and societal ...
Sprache im kommunikativen, interaktiven und kulturellen Kontext
(2018)
The volume surveys the current state of research on the communicative use of language, its role in interaction, and relationship to culture. The essays present the theoretical foundation and historical development of each ...
Empty-Base Explanation
(2023)
Why does a dough rise? We might cite the presence of yeast as a reason why and explain the mechanism by which one brings about the other. This book investigates the idea of Empty-Base Explanation, in which a phenomenon is ...