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Flavius Josephus and Artwork of Roman Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Flavius Josephus and Artwork of Roman Antiquity and the Early Middle Age demonstrates how the writings of the first-century Judaean historian influenced the genesis, nature and...
Cilicia as Sacred Landscape in Late Antiquity
A Journey on the Trail of Apostles, Martyrs and Local Saints
Cilicia as Sacred Landscape in Late Antiquity is a journey of discovery of the rich religious landscape of Cilicia in Asia Minor in Late Antiquity, with its contrasting and...
Editor: Newid, Mehr Ali; Mumm, Peter-Arnold
Nachtigallen an Gottes Thron
Studien zur persischen Dichtung
To date, only a few pioneers have made classical Persian poetry and philosophy accessible to the occidental eye. During the 17th and 18th centuries, influential travellers brought...
Die Inschriften des Landkreises Weilheim-Schongau
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Der Band enthält 340 Editionen von Inschriften und Inschriftengruppen des Landkreises Weilheim-Schongau von der...
Deutsche Messübersetzungen des Spätmittelalters
Untersuchungen auf der Grundlage ausgewählter Handschriften und vorreformatorischer Drucke
Thomas Müntzer was the first among the reformers to not only hold Mass and the daily prayer in German, but to set these liturgical forms down in print, allowing them to be...
»Christus und die minnende Seele«
An Analysis of Circulation, Text, and Iconography
The late medieval verse dialogue ‘Christus und die minnende Seele’ portrays the journey of the soul as the bride of Christ toward mystical union in a series of 20 to 24 individual...
Zarathushtra and his Antagonists
A Sociolinguistic Study with English and German Translation of His Gathas (SZ)
Buddhist Iconography and Ritual in Paintings and Line Drawings from Nepal
This book is divided into three sections. The first section introduces one specific tradition of Siddhas transmitted by artists from Nepal. This artistic legacy, which is related...
Die Geburt des Propheten Muhammad
Drei Dichtungen aus Mittelasien
This volume focuses on the veneration of the prophet Muhammad in Central Asia towards the end of the 19th century. It presents three text that praise the birth of the prophet: the...
Hevajra and Lam’bras Literature of India and Tibet as Seen Through the Eyes of A-mes-zhabs
The Hevajra Tantras and teachings of the 'Path with Its Fruit' (lam ‘bras) that originated in India have been central practices of Tibetan tantric Buddhism for a millenium. The...
Bankettgebäude in griechischen Heiligtümern
The consumption of sacrificial meat was a central part of Greek cult festivals. People used to dine outdoors or in temporary structures specifically built for the festivals....
Catalogue des manuscrits de la fondation Georges et Mathilde Salem (Alep, Syrie)
The library of the George & Mathilde Salem Foundation (Aleppo, Syria) is one of the most important private collections of manuscripts in the Syrian Arab Republic. It contains 547...
Kult und Kommunikation
Medien in Heiligtümern der Antike
Media research has become a common subject and method for various academic fields. But there is, so far, no such study dealing with media research in the field of archaeology....
Die vestalischen Jungfrauen in der römischen Kaiserzeit
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In dieser Studie werden erstmals sämtliche Zeugnisse zur Geschichte der stadtrömischen Vestalinnen von der...
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...
Verwandtschaft, Religion und Geschlecht im Aserbaidschan
The book relies on a 15months field research in an Azerbaijan village and treats gender spe-cific ideologies in the two domains of kinship and religion. It is shown, that the...
Die illustrierten Homilien des Johannes Chrysostomos in Byzanz
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Das Werk ist die erste systematische Studie der illustrierten Homilien des wohl bedeutendsten byzantinischen...
Zisterzienserabt und Skriptorium
Salem unter Eberhard I. von Rohrdorf (1191 bis 1240)
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In einer ausführlichen paläographischen und kunsthistorischen Untersuchung werden hier die Handschriften...
Buchmalerei in Freiburg im Breisgau
Ein Zisterzienserbrevier aus dem frühen 14. Jahrhundert. Zur Geschichte des Breviers und seiner Illumination
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Diese Studie behandelt eine reich illuminierte zisterziensische Brevierhandschrift, entstanden in Freiburg im...
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...