Literary essays

Iran und iranisch geprägte Kulturen

Studien zum 65. Geburtstag von Bert G. Fragner

From ancient times, 'Iranianate' cultures and the Persian language had a significant role beyond the borders of Iran: in the lands of the Near & Middle East, Central Asia as far...

Persistenz und Rezeption

Weiterverwendung, Wiederverwendung und Neuinterpretation antiker Werke im Mittelalter

The present volume is based on a colloquium held by two research centres of the Philosophical Faculty of Cologne University. i.e. the “Centre for Mediterranean Cultures...

Mitteilungen zur spätantiken Archäologie und byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte

The periodical "Mitteilungen zur Spätantiken Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte" is designed to provide the field of archaeology and early art history and byzantine...

Inkulturation des Christentums im Sasanidenreich

This volume is the edition of various contributions to the subject of Inculturation of Christianity in other cultures. Under various aspects, they all discuss the phenomenon for...

Buddhism and Violence

One of the aims of this volume is to provide material, based on critical, unbiased research illustrating the fact that, at particular moments in their history and in certain...

Poetry’s Voice – Society’s Norms

Forms of Interaction between Middle Eastern Writers and their Societies

Literary works are much more than mere illustrations of societal conditions. Literature is the setting in which society discusses itself. In this volume, international scholars of...

Zeitschrift für Archäologie Außereuropäischer Kulturen

Band 1, 2006

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Die „Zeitschrift für Archäologie Außereuropäischer Kulturen“ (ZAAK) stellt die geographisch weit gestreuten...

Reflections on Reflections

Near Eastern Writers Reading Literature

This volume assembles the papers read at a symposium on the diverse forms of literature reception and intertextuality in Middle Eastern literatures in general and Arabic...

Architektur und Liturgie

Akten des Kolloquiums vom 25. bis 27. Juli 2003 in Greifswald

This book unites most of the papers which were held during the colloquium „Architecture and Liturgy“ in Greifswald in 2003. The articles are dealing with the relationship of...

Bilder von der Vergangenheit

Zur Geschichte der archäologischen Fächer

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Als Archäologe sieht man sich derzeit mit einem Widerspruch konfrontiert: Auf der einen Seite erfreut sich die...

Mitteilungen zur spätantiken Archäologie und byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte

Akten des Symposiums »Austausch diplomatischer Geschenke in Spätantike und Byzanz« in München vom 28. Februar bis 1. März 2002

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Aus dem Inhalt:

Anthony Cutler, Silver across the Euphrates. Forms of Exchange between Sasanian Persia...

Writers and Rulers

Perspectives on Their Relationship from Abbasid to Safavid Times

Nine essays explore the ways in which individual Arabic and Persian authors between the 9th and 17th centuries (with examples drawn from the Abbasid to the Safavid dynasties)...

Medizinische Fachprosa aus Mähren

Sprache – Kultur – Edition

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Gegenstand der Untersuchung sind medizinische Texte, die aus dem 15. Jahrhundert stammen und die in der...

Würzburg, der Große Löwenhof und die deutsche Literatur des Spätmittelalters

Tagung vom 9. bis 12. Oktober 2002

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Im Oktober 2002 widmete sich eine interdisziplinäre Tagung den literarischen, bildungs- und...

Crisis and Memory

The Representation of Space in Modern Levantine Narrative

This volume explores the literary representation of social and political crises that have punctuated the second half of the 20th century in the Middle East. From the creation of...

Religious themes and texts of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia

Studies in honour of Professor Gherardo Gnoli on the occasion of his 65th birthday on 6th December 2002

The volume contains forty-one papers dedicated to the distinguished Iranianist by colleagues, friends and former students, and a complete bibliography of the dedicatee. The papers...

Dating Tibetan Art

Essays on the Possibilities and Impossibilities of Chronology from the Lempertz Symposium, Cologne

During the past twelve years, international trade in Tibetan art has enjoyed an unprecedented upswing, as buyer demand has confronted limited supply. Prices have risen to dizzying...

Indogermanische Syntax

Fragen und Perspektiven

In this volume, the members of an international research group present the first results of their work on a new „Indo-European Sytanx“. Furthermore, the volume contains...

Mitteilungen zur Spätantiken Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte

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Der dritte Band der Mitteilungen zur Spätantiken Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte enthält Aufsätze...

Wahrnehmung und Darstellung von Kriegen im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit

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Das Thema Krieg wird seit einiger Zeit in mehreren geisteswissenschaftlichen Disziplinen stark beachtet. Der...