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Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
(2022)
Gods dwell in human environments in multiple ways. They move into imaginary spaces and explore the cosmos. This book analyzes the mapping of gods through a specific lens: their naming. By proposing this new perspective, ...
Beyond Exceptionalism
(2021)
While the economic involvement of early modern Germany in slavery and the slave trade is increasingly receiving attention, the direct participation of Germans in human trafficking remains a blind spot in historiography. ...
Chapter 3 Implicature and explicature
(2012)
In this paper, we look in detail at some of the particular micro-processes involved in the online, relevance-driven derivation of explicature and implicatures. But before that, we set out some background intellectual history ...
Elective Affinities
(2024)
This volume explores the historical, socio-political, transcultural, and intertextual connections between East Central Europe and Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present. The contributions from different ...
Christus in natura
(2020)
This volume offers detailed studies into the Physiologus, a Greek manuscript probably written in Egypt in the 2nd century CE. The Physiologus was the first Christian text to sum up a general understanding of nature using ...
Le lettere di Dante
(2020)
Notwithstanding an impressive amount of secondary literature, an exhaustive study has been never devoted to the twelve letters written by Dante Alighieri after his banishment from Florence (1302–1315). This book answers ...
Franz Brentano und sein philosophischer Nachlass
(2019-10)
The monograph tries to throw new light on Franz Brentanos (1838–1917) conspicuous reluctance to publish his philosophical findings based on his biography, personality and the development of his scientific theories. In ...
Optogenetics
(2013)
Biophysics; Genetic Engineering; Neuroscience; Optics; Vision Restoration
Comics and Agency
(2022)
This volume focuses on the attribution of agency across comics production (authorship and institutionalization), reception (appropriation and discursivation), and circulation (participation and canonization). Contributors ...
Animal Kingdom of Heaven
(2019)
The essays collected in this volume apply an interdisciplinary approach to explore aspects of the relationship between animal and human in late antiquity. With a focus on ways that anthropozoological connections were defined ...
Inhabited Machines
(2022)
Around 1800, one of the most influential architectural concepts of the last 250 years emerged—that of built spaces as technical devices. Climate, morality, and comfort are the three main themes of this study, and each is ...
Frames interdisziplinär: Modelle, Anwendungsfelder, Methoden
(2018)
Das Frame-Konzept als kognitives Repräsentationsformat ist seit seiner Einführung durch Minsky und Fillmore vielfach rezipiert und modifiziert worden. Dieser interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Band vereint Beiträge aus so ...
Postcolonial Theory and Crisis
(2024)
The volume aims at a conceptualisation of the relations between postcolonial theory and crisis as well as to the crisis of postcolonialism and the ways in which it can respond to contemporary issues, trying to understand, ...
Chapter Fragmenta poetarum Latinorum in papyris reperta: Occidente ed Oriente, testi e contesti
(2016)
The volume collates ten studies that confront the main issues of the research on Roman poetic fragments: textual criticism and interpretation, new additions to the corpus, authorship, prosody and colometry, literary genre, ...
Microbial Evolution under Extreme Conditions
(2015)
Microorganisms; biodiversity; microbial inhabitants
Body, Gender, Senses
(2024)
This volume explores through a series of essays, subversive expressions of body, gender and senses in literature and art by early modern women poets, philosophers, and artists. Underlining the critical relations between ...
The Age of Neoliberal Absolutism
(2024)
At the turn of the millenium, we saw the start of a global change that supersedes traditional forms of government, defined in this book as oikocracy. It is characterised by an uncontrollable demand for money ahead of public ...
Body, Gender, Senses
(2024)
This volume explores through a series of essays, subversive expressions of body, gender and senses in literature and art by early modern women poets, philosophers, and artists. Underlining the critical relations between ...
Das Gelingen der künstlichen Natürlichkeit
(2021)
It is becoming increasingly possible to fundamentally intervene into human life using disruptive biotechnologies. On the other side, artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly. In this twofold development, the boundaries ...
Das Gelingen der künstlichen Natürlichkeit
(2021)
It is becoming increasingly possible to fundamentally intervene into human life using disruptive biotechnologies. On the other side, artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly. In this twofold development, the boundaries ...
Chapter ‘Tested’ Remedies in Mesopotamian Medical Texts
(2015)
This contribution investigates the phraseology of descriptions of efficacy (efficacy phrases) in Mesopotamian medical texts, concentrating on the qualification latku ‘tested, tried, proven’, which implies that knowledge ...
Discourse on the State of the Jews Bilingual Edition
(2019)
Considered the first specimen of a theoretical literature on Jewish political economy, the Discourse is much more. Initially conceived as an apology for the Jewish community of Venice, it is actually replete with sceptical ...
Chapter A idade dos «desvios»: diacronia, variação social e linguística de corpus
(2016)
How and in which direction(s) is research in Ibero-Romance historical linguistics evolving? Now that the initial enthusiasm for the possibilities of digital corpora has worn off, the essays gathered in this volume reflect ...
Boundaries and Bridges: Language Contact in Multilingual Ecologies
(2017)
Language Contact; Creoles; Bilingualism; Language Change.
Poéticas espectatoriales en Hispanoamérica y Brasil (1800–1847)
(2022)
This book offers the first panoramic study on the development and characteristics of the literary-journalistic genre of spectator periodicals in Hispanic America and Brazil. After contextualizing these publications within ...
Demokratie und Populismus in der griechischen Antike und heute
(2024)
In light of the evident global rise of populist tendencies in recent years, it seems reasonable to ask whether there were political currents in classical Athens and then in the Hellenist poleis that could qualify as populist ...
In Japan liegt das Glück auf dem Land
(2024)
Japan’s regions have been affected by an aging population and structural weaknesses. Now, young people seem to be moving back to the country and solving these problems. Politics and the media paint an idyllic picture: in ...
Emerging Subjectivity in the Long 19th-Century Middle East
(2024)
What, actually, meant “modernisation” for the long 19th century Middle Easterner? Stephan Guth finds the essence of the so-called Arab(ic) “Renaissance” (and corresponding movements in Turkish) in emerging subjectivity and ...
Sprachverfall?
(2014)
The 2013 Annual of the Institute for the German Language provides a classification of discourse on language decline based on language history and variation linguistics. In addition, it offers an analysis of the processes ...
Korea and the “Others”
(2024)
This volume features ten articles, each dealing with a particular aspect of the relationship between the Korean people and foreigners. It is a work conducted with a comparative/structuralist approach, which comprises a ...
Good practice in der institutionellen Kommunikation
(2023)
How can we identify successful linguistic action in recordings of institutional conversations? The theoretical-methodological contributions discuss what the basis for evaluation is, how it can be collected empirically, and ...
Sacred Scripture / Sacred Space
(2019)
Thirteen papers on different subjects, focussing on writings and inscriptions in medieval art, explore the faculty of writing to create and determine spaces and to generate the sacred by the display of holy scripture. The ...
The Influence of English on Italian
(2023)
The volume explores the history of language contact between Italy and Anglophone countries and illustrates the phenomenon of lexical borrowing. Types of borrowings are discussed on the basis of a usage-based list of ...
Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences
(2013)
linguistics; linguistic differences
Chapter Medieval Endowment Cultures in Western India: Buddhist and Muslim Encounters – Some Preliminary Observations
(2019)
The volume analyses the encounter between Buddhist and Muslim communities in South and Central Asia during the medieval period. The articles by historians, epigraphists, philologists, art historians and archaeologists ...
300 Jahre Robinson Crusoe
(2022)
The year 2019 marked the 300th anniversary of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. His novel was a huge success right away and was soon followed by bootlegs and translations. With the robinsonade, an independent genre of adventure ...
Religion and Change
(2023)
Are religions like everything else in the world, subject to permanent change? Or are they perhaps the only stable element for people in a world of permanent change? Within the wide field of this discourse, five authors – ...
Parenthetical Verbs
(2015)
parenthesis; comment clauses; report clauses; quotation
Kaiser Julian 'Apostata' und die philosophische Reaktion gegen das Christentum
(2008)
During his short reign in the 4th century, Emperor Julian II, known as the Apostate, attempted to combat Christianity philosophically and to set up a pagan Neo-Platonic doctrine as a counter-programme. The volume presents ...
Öffentliches Recht und Privatrecht
(2020)
This conference volume presents lectures and discussion from the Conference of the Association of German Professors of Constitutional Law that was held in Marburg, Germany, on 9–12 October 2019.