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Bilder schreiben
(2011)
The work Eikones (Imagines/Images) by Philostratus consists of 64 fictitious descriptions of images. Mario Baumann analyzes the aesthetic virtuosity which characterizes this text. The speaker who formulates the descriptions ...
Kommunikation und Konfrontation
(2016)
For the first time, the book examines the emergence of the Habsburgs as a leading ruling dynasty under Maximilian I from the perspective of its most important diplomats. It analyzes their influence on European power politics, ...
Globale Herausforderungen gemeinsam meistern – gestern, heute, morgen
(2021)
Der Welt-Museumsverband International Council of Museums wurde 1946 als Antwort auf die Gräuel des Zweiten Weltkriegs gegründet. ICOM versteht sich als Brückenbauer, Think Tank und Netzwerk der Museumsfachleute und Museen. ...
Fragile Familien
(2022)
This book presents a new history of the family in the era of bourgeois modernity. The sources it uses are personal accounts, first and foremost diaries, but also letters and autobiographical texts from eight German-speaking ...
Magie-Theater im 17. Jahrhundert
(2024)
This volume examines the previously overlooked connections between historical manifestations of magic and their performance in the theater between 1600 and 1685. A comparison of Spanish and French theater culture reveals ...
Deskription und Metapoetik in der spätantiken lateinischen Dichtung
(2022)
Literary description emerges as one of the central elements of late antique poetry. It serves a dual role in that it interacts both to represent multisensory perceptions and to break through the illusion it creates through ...
Kafka and the Universal
(2016-07-25)
Kafka`s work has been attributed a universal significance and is often regarded as the ultimate witness of the human condition in the twentieth century. Yet his work is also considered paradigmatic for the expression of ...
Stadt − Krieg − Literatur
(2024)
Was geschieht mit der Stadt und dem urbanen Leben in Kriegszeiten? Dass Städte vom Krieg nie unberührt waren, ist offensichtlich, doch ist es ein Merkmal kriegerischer Gewalt spätestens ab 1914, dass die Grenzen der Front ...
Spektakel filmischer Oberflächen
(2024)
Despite its specific visuality, the spectacle has not played any major role in film studies. By deconstructing the cultural history of the term, this study sounds out its analytical potential. Three analyses spanning the ...
Jews and Protestants From the Reformation to the Present
(2020)
The volume sheds light on various chapters in the long and multifaceted history of Protestant-Jewish relations, from the Reformation to the present. Going beyond theological questions to the areas of philosophy, music, ...
Jews and Protestants From the Reformation to the Present
(2020)
The volume sheds light on various chapters in the long and multifaceted history of Protestant-Jewish relations, from the Reformation to the present. Going beyond theological questions to the areas of philosophy, music, ...
Globale Herausforderungen gemeinsam meistern – gestern, heute, morgen
(2021)
Der Welt-Museumsverband International Council of Museums wurde 1946 als Antwort auf die Gräuel des Zweiten Weltkriegs gegründet. ICOM versteht sich als Brückenbauer, Think Tank und Netzwerk der Museumsfachleute und Museen. ...
Klassische Archäologie
(2015)
Mit dem 2014 im Themenfeld "Klassische Archäologie" ausgeschriebenen Preis wird der 1946 geborene Franzose Alain Schnapp ausgezeichnet. Er ist Professor für Archäologie der Universität Paris I und war Leiter der Abteilung ...
The Linguistic Integration of Adult Migrants / L’intégration linguistique des migrants adultes
(2017)
This volume provides a comprehensive report on a symposium organised by the Council of Europe (Strasbourg) in 2016 in the context of its human rights agenda. Its purpose was to explore some of the ways in which scientific ...
New Approaches to Shorthand
(2024)
Countless systems of shorthand have been in use for the past two millennia, but over the past century of scholarship this rich set of writing systems has been given short shrift. This volume serves as the first scholarly ...
Fragile Familien
(2022)
This book presents a new history of the family in the era of bourgeois modernity. The sources it uses are personal accounts, first and foremost diaries, but also letters and autobiographical texts from eight German-speaking ...
Deskription und Metapoetik in der spätantiken lateinischen Dichtung
(2022)
Literary description emerges as one of the central elements of late antique poetry. It serves a dual role in that it interacts both to represent multisensory perceptions and to break through the illusion it creates through ...
Littérature française et savoirs biologiques au XIXe siècle
(2020)
By the metaphorical power and the modelling power which they take, biological knowledge and its representations arouse in the XIXth century the fascination of the writers. They find there the source of new poetry, of an ...
Bilder schreiben
(2011)
The work Eikones (Imagines/Images) by Philostratus consists of 64 fictitious descriptions of images. Mario Baumann analyzes the aesthetic virtuosity which characterizes this text. The speaker who formulates the descriptions ...
The Linguistic Integration of Adult Migrants / L’intégration linguistique des migrants adultes
(2017)
This volume provides a comprehensive report on a symposium organised by the Council of Europe (Strasbourg) in 2016 in the context of its human rights agenda. Its purpose was to explore some of the ways in which scientific ...
50 Jahre Aktiengesetz
(2015)
On the 50th anniversary of the German Stock Corporation Act, which was originally ratified in 1965, leading legal scholars met at the birthplace of the law in Bonn to discuss current pressing challenges in this area of ...
Kafka and the Universal
(2016-07-25)
Kafka`s work has been attributed a universal significance and is often regarded as the ultimate witness of the human condition in the twentieth century. Yet his work is also considered paradigmatic for the expression of ...
Klassische Archäologie
(2015)
Mit dem 2014 im Themenfeld "Klassische Archäologie" ausgeschriebenen Preis wird der 1946 geborene Franzose Alain Schnapp ausgezeichnet. Er ist Professor für Archäologie der Universität Paris I und war Leiter der Abteilung ...
50 Jahre Aktiengesetz
(2015)
On the 50th anniversary of the German Stock Corporation Act, which was originally ratified in 1965, leading legal scholars met at the birthplace of the law in Bonn to discuss current pressing challenges in this area of ...
New Approaches to Shorthand
(2024)
Countless systems of shorthand have been in use for the past two millennia, but over the past century of scholarship this rich set of writing systems has been given short shrift. This volume serves as the first scholarly ...
Stadt − Krieg − Literatur
(2024)
Was geschieht mit der Stadt und dem urbanen Leben in Kriegszeiten? Dass Städte vom Krieg nie unberührt waren, ist offensichtlich, doch ist es ein Merkmal kriegerischer Gewalt spätestens ab 1914, dass die Grenzen der Front ...
Kommunikation und Konfrontation
(2016)
For the first time, the book examines the emergence of the Habsburgs as a leading ruling dynasty under Maximilian I from the perspective of its most important diplomats. It analyzes their influence on European power politics, ...
Magie-Theater im 17. Jahrhundert
(2024)
This volume examines the previously overlooked connections between historical manifestations of magic and their performance in the theater between 1600 and 1685. A comparison of Spanish and French theater culture reveals ...
Forensische Verfahren in den zeitgenössischen Künsten
(2022)
The research agency Forensic Architecture investigates war crimes and ecological and political crises, and brings them to both exhibition spaces and courtrooms by applying its “investigative aesthetics” (MACBA 2017). Using ...
Forensische Verfahren in den zeitgenössischen Künsten
(2022)
The research agency Forensic Architecture investigates war crimes and ecological and political crises, and brings them to both exhibition spaces and courtrooms by applying its “investigative aesthetics” (MACBA 2017). Using ...
Women in the Ancient Near East
(2016-08-01)
Women in the Ancient Near East offers a lucid account of the daily life of women in Mesopotamia from the third millennium BCE until the beginning of the Hellenistic period. The book systematically presents the lives of ...
Rotes Licht
(2021)
Davor Konjikušić provides an in-depth presentation and contextualization of the photographs created by Yugoslav partisans between 1941 and 1945. In doing so, the author is not only interested in presenting the photographs ...
CLARIN
(2022)
The book provides a comprehensive overview of the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure – CLARIN – for the humanities. It covers a broad range of CLARIN language resources and services, its underlying ...
Andronikos Kallistos: A Byzantine Scholar and His Manuscripts in Italian Humanism
(2023)
Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greeks who participated in Italian Humanism, was a scholar, teacher and copyist of manuscripts. This book investigates Kallistos’ scholarly and scribal activity by ...
Exzerpieren - Kompilieren - Tradieren
(2016)
This study examines from multiple disciplinary perspectives the phenomenon of how knowledge was transformed and transmitted between late antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. The essays explore the ways that excerpting, ...
Poetry and Contemporary Visual Culture / Lyrik und zeitgenössische Visuelle Kultur
(2023)
This book’s goal is to determine the significance of visual culture in the production of contemporary poetry and to sound out the insights poetry might generate into contemporary visual culture. Its main hypothesis is that ...
Literarische Triumphe
(2023)
Der Triumphzug bestimmte das Denken und Handeln der Römer in hohem Maße. Dies gilt nicht nur für die Zeit der späten Republik, in der die Triumphzüge hart umkämpft waren, sondern auch für die frühe Kaiserzeit, in der das ...
Chapter 14 Quantitative tests of implicational verb hierarchies
(2016)
This chapter will begin by discussing the implicational verb hierarchy of Tsunoda (1985) as a convenient starting point for looking at what happens when are latively large dataset and a principled, quantitative approach ...
Die Mosaiken der Acheiropoietos-Basilika in Thessaloniki
(2012)
The volume examinesfurther questions on the early Byzantine mosaics in the metropolis, and in particular their problematic chronology. A number of mosaics from the entire Mediterranean, which have to date received little ...
Coolies of Capitalism
(2016)
Coolie labour was often proclaimed as a deliberate compromise straddling the regimes of the past (slave labour) and the future (free labour). In the late 1850s, the locals were replaced by labourers imported from outside ...