Publications
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Patterns of Symbolic Violence
(2019)
Drawing on a number of paradigmatic works of art, the book explores the motif of ‘gypsy’ child-theft and its visualisations. The analytical focus is on the colour coding of bodies in texts and images and their racialised ...
Melchior Goldast und der 'Codex Manesse'
(2019)
In the period around 1600, the Swiss humanist and lawyer Melchior Goldast von Haiminsfeld (1576/78–1635) focuses his scholarly work on the literature of the Middle Ages. His attention is particularly drawn to the most ...
Melchior Goldast und der 'Codex Manesse'
(2019)
In the period around 1600, the Swiss humanist and lawyer Melchior Goldast von Haiminsfeld (1576/78–1635) focuses his scholarly work on the literature of the Middle Ages. His attention is particularly drawn to the most ...
Patterns of Symbolic Violence
(2019)
Drawing on a number of paradigmatic works of art, the book explores the motif of ‘gypsy’ child-theft and its visualisations. The analytical focus is on the colour coding of bodies in texts and images and their racialised ...
Slavery and Unfree Labour in Nepal
(2022)
The topic of slavery is largely under-represented in the historiography of Nepal. This source book, aware of this disparity and wishing to encourage future studies on the topic, provides the reader with editions, translations ...
Latin and Arabic
(2019)
As linguistic systems comprising a large variety of written and oral registers including derivate “languages” and “dialects,” Latin and Arabic have been of paramount importance for the history of the Euromediterranean since ...
Süddeutsche Hofkapellen im 18. Jahrhundert
(2018)
Since the Middle Ages, next to churches the courts have been the most important employers of professional musicians. The important role of court music in European and particularly in German music history has not been ...
Wilhelm Windelband und die Psychologie
(2017)
Wilhelm Windelband (1848-1915) was a professor of philosophy during the German Empire, leader of the south-west German school of neo-Kantianism and an influential, when somewhat opinionated, public speaker. Neo-Kantianism ...
Wilhelm Windelband und die Psychologie
(2017)
Wilhelm Windelband (1848-1915) was a professor of philosophy during the German Empire, leader of the south-west German school of neo-Kantianism and an influential, when somewhat opinionated, public speaker. Neo-Kantianism ...
Süddeutsche Hofkapellen im 18. Jahrhundert
(2018)
Since the Middle Ages, next to churches the courts have been the most important employers of professional musicians. The important role of court music in European and particularly in German music history has not been ...
Latin and Arabic
(2019)
As linguistic systems comprising a large variety of written and oral registers including derivate “languages” and “dialects,” Latin and Arabic have been of paramount importance for the history of the Euromediterranean since ...
Grammar and Corpora 2016
(2018)
In recent years, the availability of large annotated corpora, together with a new interest in the empirical foundation and validation of linguistic theory and description, has sparked a surge of novel work using corpus ...
Französische Lebenswelten in der Residenz
(2022)
In der augusteischen Epoche (1694–1763) entwickelte sich die sächsische Residenzstadt Dresden zu einem kulturellen Zentrum des Reichs. Neue Personennetzwerke und Handelswege setzten Wissenstransfers in Gang, wobei die ...
Französische Lebenswelten in der Residenz
(2022)
In der augusteischen Epoche (1694–1763) entwickelte sich die sächsische Residenzstadt Dresden zu einem kulturellen Zentrum des Reichs. Neue Personennetzwerke und Handelswege setzten Wissenstransfers in Gang, wobei die ...
Agonale Invektivität
(2021)
What does humanism mean, who is a humanist? Contemporaries clarified this not least through diatribes. Intellectuals who, since the middle of the fourteenth century, have regarded rhetoric as the most noble method of ...
Agonale Invektivität
(2021)
What does humanism mean, who is a humanist? Contemporaries clarified this not least through diatribes. Intellectuals who, since the middle of the fourteenth century, have regarded rhetoric as the most noble method of ...
Die goldenen Siegelringe der Ägäischen Bronzezeit
(2018)
Due to their high material value and their meaningful iconography, Aegean signet rings have already attracted considerable attention in research. The focus was often on the analysis and interpretation of images, however, ...
Die goldenen Siegelringe der Ägäischen Bronzezeit
(2018)
Due to their high material value and their meaningful iconography, Aegean signet rings have already attracted considerable attention in research. The focus was often on the analysis and interpretation of images, however, ...
Das Schloss als Zeichen des Aufstiegs
(2022)
Louis XIV's absolutist rule, which began in 1661, was preceded by a period of intensive building activity of ascended state and financial elites in France. Among the most important of these estates, which were mostly located ...
Das Schloss als Zeichen des Aufstiegs
(2022)
Louis XIV's absolutist rule, which began in 1661, was preceded by a period of intensive building activity of ascended state and financial elites in France. Among the most important of these estates, which were mostly located ...
Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands
(2017)
This collaborative study investigates the hill station of Kalimpong and the larger Eastern Himalayan borderlands as a paradigmatic case of a “contact zone.” In the colonial and early post-colonial era, this space enabled ...
Emperor and God
(2024)
This study explores how the understanding of the Byzantine emperor as a sacred or divine figure changed in the Middle Byzantine period. It is based on close readings and studies of three medieval Passion relics held in ...
Facilitating Cross-Border Family Life – Towards a Common European Understanding
(2021)
This volume constitutes the final study of EUFams II, a research project on European family and succession law funded by the European Commission. Its contributors present historical developments, discuss the status quo, ...
Religion and Aesthetic Experience
(2018)
Religious aesthetics have gained increasing importance over the past few years in the fields of Religious studies and Islamic studies. This volume highlights the transcultural dimensions of the theoretical foundations of ...
Abwesenheit von Rom: Aristokratische Interaktion in der späten römischen Republik und in der frühen Kaiserzeit
(2015)
The immense ideological significance that the city of Rome held since the times of the late republic corresponded until the 2nd century AD with the actual supremacy of the urbs within the Imperium Romanum: Rome was the ...
Glas in der Frühen Neuzeit
(2022)
The production of glass was one of the high technologies of the early modern period. At a heat of around 1500 degrees, mixtures of sand, lime and vegetable, wood or potash were transformed into greenish, crystal-clear or ...
Collectives, Localities, Networks
(2023)
Artist collectives emerge as driving forces in the art field. They activate new spaces as locales of artistic practice and display. They shape emerging formats, from neighborhood arts projects to largescale biennials. In ...
Im Geisteskampf
(2024)
Dem Verlag Philipp Reclam jun. kommt als einem bildungsbürgerlichen Idealen verpflichteten und in Volksbildung und Schule fest verankerten Traditionshaus eine exponierte Rolle in der öffentlichen Meinungsbildung und in ...
"Mulukī Ain" of 1854
(2021)
The Mulukī Ain of 1854—the law code with constitutional features drafted at the initiative of Prime Minister Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā—is the foundational legal text for modern Nepal. It covers almost every aspect of public, ...
L'agir en Grèce ancienne
(2024)
What is the relationship between Greek antiquity and today's world? What is the connection between the academic analyses of a researcher, his convictions and his life as a citizen? Between a reflection on the way in which ...
» Ruine d'estat «
(2020)
Security – a category that is as important as neglected when it comes to the French Wars of Religion in the 16th century. Christian Wenzel systematically traces imaginations of security as well as their function in the ...
Islamische Selbstbilder
(2020)
In der Islamkunde wird seit einigen Jahren sehr lebhaft diskutiert, inwieweit „Horizonte des Individuellen“ in literarischen und dokumentarischen Quellen wahrnehmbar sind. Der Band ist bewusst nicht als kumulativ strukturierte ...
The Transformative Power of the Copy
(2017)
This volume offers a fresh perspective on the copy and the practice of copying, two topics that, while the focus of much academic discussion in recent decades, have been underrepresented in the discourse on transculturality. ...
Coptica Palatina
(2019)
The texts compiled in Coptica Palatina were worked on by young scholars taking part in an International Summer School for Coptic Papyrology under the supervision of the editors. The volume offers editions of Coptic literary ...
Coptica Palatina
(2019)
The texts compiled in Coptica Palatina were worked on by young scholars taking part in an International Summer School for Coptic Papyrology under the supervision of the editors. The volume offers editions of Coptic literary ...
Tradition und Traditionsverhalten
(2021)
In Western cultural history, 'tradition' is one of the central concepts to describe processes of reception and their impact. Especially in literary studies, traditions are often claimed by stating, for example, that a ...
Counterstrategies to the Antigypsy Gaze
(2024)
Countering antigypsyism in film is the problem field which this edited collection inaugurates. The aim is to shift the focus from antigypsyism critique and open up alongside it a new set of discussions about the artistic ...
Proust Cinématographe
(2017)
"Proust Cinematographe – Ruiz reading In Search of Lost Time" takes a new look at the metapoetic program of Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps perdu. Selected text passages and film excerpts are analyzed, focusing on the ...
Tradition und Traditionsverhalten
(2021)
In Western cultural history, 'tradition' is one of the central concepts to describe processes of reception and their impact. Especially in literary studies, traditions are often claimed by stating, for example, that a ...
Proust Cinématographe
(2017)
"Proust Cinematographe – Ruiz reading In Search of Lost Time" takes a new look at the metapoetic program of Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps perdu. Selected text passages and film excerpts are analyzed, focusing on the ...
Counterstrategies to the Antigypsy Gaze
(2024)
Countering antigypsyism in film is the problem field which this edited collection inaugurates. The aim is to shift the focus from antigypsyism critique and open up alongside it a new set of discussions about the artistic ...
Religion, Recht und Säkularisierung in der Frühen Neuzeit
(2024)
The stimulating polarity of religion and law has determined the history of Christianity from the very beginning. In the Middle Ages, it is associated with the struggle between spiritual and secular power and, since the ...
Religion, Recht und Säkularisierung in der Frühen Neuzeit
(2024)
The stimulating polarity of religion and law has determined the history of Christianity from the very beginning. In the Middle Ages, it is associated with the struggle between spiritual and secular power and, since the ...
Kosmos
(2023)
The long history of cosmology did not simply end in the specialised discipline of the physical study of the universe. Rather, the times we live in are characterised by a "cosmological restlessness", which indicates that ...
Drawing Education – Worldwide!
(2019)
As a cultural technique, drawing was firmly anchored in the realities of European society from early modern to modern times. Based on this fact, the present volume asks for the first time about the significance of drawing ...
Drawing Education – Worldwide!
(2019)
As a cultural technique, drawing was firmly anchored in the realities of European society from early modern to modern times. Based on this fact, the present volume asks for the first time about the significance of drawing ...
Il cardinale Pietro Gasparri, segretario di Stato (1914–1930)
(2020)
Pietro Gasparri (1852–1934) was a famous jurist, a valued university professor and an able papal diplomat. He headed the Secretary of State and the Roman Curia from November 1914 to January 1930, during a crucial period ...
Digitising Heritage
(2024)
‘Digitising Heritage’ presents new interdisciplinary studies about the diverse manifestations of heritage in digital form, in museums, academic institutions, politics, and history. Individual contributions span across ...
Digitising Heritage
(2024)
‘Digitising Heritage’ presents new interdisciplinary studies about the diverse manifestations of heritage in digital form, in museums, academic institutions, politics, and history. Individual contributions span across ...
Il cardinale Pietro Gasparri, segretario di Stato (1914–1930)
(2020)
Pietro Gasparri (1852–1934) was a famous jurist, a valued university professor and an able papal diplomat. He headed the Secretary of State and the Roman Curia from November 1914 to January 1930, during a crucial period ...
Universalistisches Ideal und koloniale Kontinuitäten
(2021)
When Algeria gained independence in 1962, an estimated 1 million European settlers and roughly 85 000 so called »Harkis«, muslim Algerians that served as auxiliaries in the French Army, left Algeria en route to France. ...
Antigypsyism and Film / Antiziganismus und Film
(2020)
Antiziganism is a common phenomenon on the big screen. To examine this issue from various perspectives, acclaimed scholars and junior researchers, filmmakers and human rights activists, both Roma and non-Roma, gathered in ...
Universalistisches Ideal und koloniale Kontinuitäten
(2021)
When Algeria gained independence in 1962, an estimated 1 million European settlers and roughly 85 000 so called »Harkis«, muslim Algerians that served as auxiliaries in the French Army, left Algeria en route to France. ...
Antigypsyism and Film / Antiziganismus und Film
(2020)
Antiziganism is a common phenomenon on the big screen. To examine this issue from various perspectives, acclaimed scholars and junior researchers, filmmakers and human rights activists, both Roma and non-Roma, gathered in ...
Die Alte Aula der Universität Heidelberg
(2016)
Heidelberg University; History; Art
Reading Objects in the Contact Zone
(2021)
The cultural effects of globalization constitute one of the most important challenges for the discipline of art history today. The aim of this publication is to take a critical look at art historical narratives. Based on ...
Erinnerung im Umbruch
(2022)
The study traces the development of historiography surrounding the rulers in France in the 15th and early 16th centuries. In the first two parts, the focus is on the continuation and printing of the “Grandes Chroniques” ...
Vom byzantinischen zum arabischen Ägypten
(2021)
This volume contains the edition of 42 Egyptian documentary papyri from the 5th–8th century AD including translations as well as historical and philological commentary. The texts were written in Greek or Coptic, but the ...
Vom byzantinischen zum arabischen Ägypten
(2021)
This volume contains the edition of 42 Egyptian documentary papyri from the 5th–8th century AD including translations as well as historical and philological commentary. The texts were written in Greek or Coptic, but the ...
Die Alte Aula der Universität Heidelberg
(2016)
Heidelberg University; History; Art
Reading Objects in the Contact Zone
(2021)
The cultural effects of globalization constitute one of the most important challenges for the discipline of art history today. The aim of this publication is to take a critical look at art historical narratives. Based on ...
Erinnerung im Umbruch
(2022)
The study traces the development of historiography surrounding the rulers in France in the 15th and early 16th centuries. In the first two parts, the focus is on the continuation and printing of the “Grandes Chroniques” ...
Old Age before Modernity
(2023)
This book investigates old age and ageing in premodern times, with a special focus on the Middle Ages. Perspectives from gerontology and the humanities, and above all from history, are combined to provide novel insights. ...
Florentine Banks in Germany
(2024)
"Florentine Banks in Germany" offers a thorough examination of the market strategies employed by the influential Florentine banking families Alberti, Medici, and Spinelli from 1400 to 1475. Kurt Weissen reveals how these ...
Die kognitive Perspektive
(2024)
Christiane von Stutterheim's scientific work ranges from language typology to sentence and text production, to questions of second and foreign language acquisition. Her particular contribution lies in emphasizing linguistics ...
Fürstliches Arkadien
(2021)
In academic research, princely summer residences are regarded as places of longing, where rulers sought to realize their dream of an earthly paradise and escape the constraints of courtly ceremonial. Traditionally, this ...
Bausteine einer Korpusgrammatik des Deutschen: Bd. 2 (2021)
(2021)
Bausteine einer Korpusgrammatik des Deutschen (“Building blocks towards a corpus grammar of German”) is a series presenting corpus linguistic studies on German grammar conducted at the Leibniz Institute for the German ...
Postcolonial Oceans
(2023)
This book contributes to the study of oceans, seas, coastal waters, and rivers within blue humanities by broadening, circulating, and interweaving knowledge about such waters, ocean epistemologies, and sea narratives from ...
»Daraus kündten auch die Graeci lärnen«
(2022)
In search of subsidies for the publishing of his Greek and Latin oeuvre, the Corona Anni, Professor Martin Crusius of Tübingen (1526-1607) pointed out in a letter to Johan Papius, court physician at Ansbach, that it might ...
Museen digital
(2018)
Museums especially in the Anglosaxon world understand that they have to present themselves in a modern form if they want to be accepted by a younger audience. Internet, social media, virtual and augmented reality, open ...
Homicide Law in 19th-Century Nepal
(2024)
The main ambition of this book lies in a detailed analysis of the formation and enforcement of Nepal’s Mulukī Ain of 1854, specifically focusing on the provisions regarding homicide within the Mulukī Ains of 1854 and 1870. ...
Musiktheater im höfischen Raum des frühneuzeitlichen Europa
(2020)
The unification of the arts in the "Gesamtkunstwerk" of courtly opera has repeatedly been the subject of musicological research, but so far, for example, the specific spatial-architectural side of courtly opera has hardly ...
Musiktheater im höfischen Raum des frühneuzeitlichen Europa
(2020)
The unification of the arts in the "Gesamtkunstwerk" of courtly opera has repeatedly been the subject of musicological research, but so far, for example, the specific spatial-architectural side of courtly opera has hardly ...
Prediger der Transformation
(2025)
Around 1200, a new institution of teaching and learning emerged in Paris: the university. But how was it possible that teachers came together to form a community and regulate their activities? A hitherto underestimated ...
Visuelle Dimensionen des Antiziganismus
(2021)
Visual media have played a key role in the genesis of antigypsyism since the early modern period. This interdisciplinary anthology examines the central motifs and semantics of "Gypsy" images in various forms of representation ...
Digital Stylistics in Romance Studies and Beyond
(2024)
Digital Stylistics is an area of research at the intersection of Literary Studies, Linguistics, Digital Humanities, and Computational Literary Studies. It is concerned with the computational and statistical analysis of ...
Menschen in ihrer Gegenwart
(2024)
This volume of selected essays by Arnold Esch and Ludwig Schmugge, the fruit of over thirty years of research, deals with sources from the archives of the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Catholic Church’s supreme tribunal of ...
Testing the Margins of Leisure
(2020)
This volume offers eight studies on different historical and present-day aspects of leisure in Asia. It critically engages with the predominant Eurocentric focus of leisure studies, bringing into the discussion a number ...
Testing the Margins of Leisure
(2020)
This volume offers eight studies on different historical and present-day aspects of leisure in Asia. It critically engages with the predominant Eurocentric focus of leisure studies, bringing into the discussion a number ...
»Es ist nur ein Dorf«. Schwetzingen mit den Augen Leopold Mozarts
(2020)
This volume, which accompanies the exhibition of the same name, honours Leopold Mozart (1719-1787), who was not only a musician, composer and teacher, but also a well-informed observer of his time. His letters contain ...