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 ...