Attisch rotfigurige und schwarzgefirnißte Lekanides

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Subject of the book is the cultural-historical significance of the lekanis produced in Athens in the 5th and 4th century BC, reaching its zenith in the first half of the 4th century BC. Investigated are function, shape development, workshops, iconography, …

Die „Habichtslehren“ des deutschen Spätmittelalters

Eine Quellenstudie zu Sprache, Herkunft und Kulturgeschichte

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Not before their successor, the “Beizbüchlein”, was published as the very first printed book on hunting in Europe, the so-called “Habichtslehren” (“goshawk-lore”) got to some publicity and made quite remarkable impact on the development of a widespread and highly relevant …

Das Wort im Bild

Untersuchung zu den Ikonographien von Mönchen und Märtyrern in Ägypten und zu ihren Grundlagen in der koptischen Hagiographie

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In the Coptic Church, numerous pictorial representations with Christian content attest their deep significance for the Coptic faith. In order to give expression to individual motifs, individual passages from various texts were transformed into works of representational art, and thus …

Variation within and among writing systems

Concepts and Methods in the Analysis of Ancient Written Documents

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The present volume, edited by Paola Cotticelli Kurras and Alfredo Rizza, deals with the variation within the systems of writing focusing on various aspects: the metalanguage of the discipline, the methods of analysis, the history of writing, its adaptation in …

Climate and Settlement in Southern Peru

The Northern Río Grande de Nasca Drainage between 1500 BCE and 1532 CE

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The cultures thriving during the course of the millennia on the arid Peruvian South Coast between the valleys of Chincha and Yauca had a crucial impact on the history of the Central Andes in general. Important local cultures such as …

Ritual und Religion im archaischen Sizilien

Formations- und Transformationsprozesse binnenländischer Kultorte im Kontext kultureller Kontakte

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This work centres on the detailed examination of inland ritual sites dating from the Archaic period in Sicily (late 8th to early 5th centuries BC), which is based on an emic perspective of the indigenous people. It aims to offer …

Kapitelle des 11.-13. Jahrhunderts im Veneto

als Nachgestaltungen antiker und spätantik/frühbyzantinischer Modelle und das „revival“ im Kirchenbau

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Im Säulenschmuck von mittelalterlichen Kirchen und Palästen in den Orten des Veneto wurden Kapitelle römisch-antiker und frühbyzantinischer Zeit wiederverwendet. Dazu kommen u. a. mittelalterliche Kapitelle, die als Nachahmungen der älteren anzusehen sind und an denen eine eigene Formsprache zu finden …

Saints cavaliers

Culte et images en Géorgie aux IVe–XIe siècles

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This is the first archeological, iconographical and hagiological study, based on the unpublished archaeological research findings, that attempts to measure the importance of the Georgian environment for the genesis of this theme and for a broad understanding of the cult …

Die Mauern von Syrakus

Das Kastell Euryalos und die Befestigung der Epipolai

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Die traumatischen Erfahrungen der Syrakusaner aus dem Belagerungskrieg 414/413 v. Chr. durch die Athenerstreitmacht führten bei einer neuerlichen Bedrohung der Stadt durch Karthago dazu, das im Norden über dem Stadtgebiet gelegene Hochplateau Epipolai mit einer Mauer zu schützen. So entstand …

Der Körper in der Musiktherapie

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The genealogical section of this book discusses the deep historical connections between music therapy and therapeutic work with the body. The praxeological part deals with current methodological and theoretical approaches and the implementation of physicality in concrete music therapy procedures. …