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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 ...
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 ...