c 1500 onwards to present day

Spelling Identities

Individual Orthographic Usages in English, Nordic and Constructed Languages

This volume contains a selection of papers given at the 2nd Symposium on Linguistic Identities: Spelling, Writing and Identity, held on 29 and 30 November 2021 at the University...

Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, der Reiseführer mit Hintergrund

Heimathafen der Romantik

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In der Reihe Zeitreisen erscheint nun der Band zur Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald. Und er verspricht...

mîn sang sol wesen dîn

Deutsche Lyrik des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit: Interpretationen

The anthology presents a selection of predominantly German-language medieval poetry together with interpretations. A broad genre-typological spectrum is covered, from minnelyric...

Writing and Orthography in Non-Literary Texts from Roman Britain

A Sociolinguistic Approach

The analysis of orthographic variation and the writing habit presented in this book represented a heuristic tool for the study of the sociolinguistic scenario of Roman Britain,...

Nächstes Jahr in Jerusalem

Jüdisches Leben in Franken

"Next year in Jerusalem" is a wish, a vision of many Jews who live abroad, in the diaspora. Jews have been living in Franconia for 1000 years - tolerated, expelled, murdered - and...

Wolgast, Der Reiseführer

Herzogsstadt und Tor zur Insel Usedom mit Amt am Peenestrom

Wolgast, the old ducal town in north-eastern Germany, is more than just the "gateway to the island of Usedom". In this travel guide, art historian Reiner Sörries takes the reader...

Schicksal – Zufall – Willensfreiheit

Kontingenz im Trojanerkrieg Konrads von Würzburg

The tale of the fall of Troy is - and was already in the Middle Ages - a popular and oft-told story, and the tragic end of the war between Greeks and Trojans can be considered...

guldîne linge

Fünf Essays zu Gottfrieds Tristan

In his Tristan novel, Gottfried von Straßburg uses narrative traditions and common motifs of ancient, Celtic, French, Medieval Latin and German traditions. Furthermore, he...

Didaxe und Natur

Darstellung und Funktionalisierung der Natur in Thomasins von Zerklaere ,Welschem Gast‘, in Freidanks ,Bescheidenheit‘ und in Hugos von Trimberg ,Renner‘

Using vernacular examples from ‘didactic literature’, it is questioned which role the verbalisation of nature plays in a didactic context and which knowledge systems come together...

Wege zur Konfiguration der Zeichen-Phonem-Beziehung

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Dieser Sammelband ist der dritte der Graphematik-Buchreihe LautSchriftSprache / ScriptandSound. Er enthält...

Sei mutig wie ein Leopard...

Bildgewordener jüdischer Glaube zwischen Krakau und Czernowitz

In no other region has the Jewish faith found such graphic expression in the synagogues as in the historical landscapes of Galicia and Bukovina. Since the end of the Middle Ages...

Freiheitsbaum und Galgen. Die Mainzer Republik 1792/93

Chronologie, Dokumente mit Anmerkungen, Aufsätze zur französischen Expansionspolitik und zur Rolle der Mainzer Jakobiner

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Die Mainzer Republik – Ausdruck des Grabenbruchs der französischen Revolution in ihrer zweiten, der radikalen...

Fiktionalität trans- und intermedial

Arthurische Möglichkeitsräume in Mittelalter und Moderne

In this dissertation the author asks if the people in the Middle Ages already had an awareness of fictionality in today’s sense. She investigates this question through a...

Politik und Religion in Nordkaukasien

Das Verhältnis von Islam und Widerstand am Beispiel von Tschetschenen und Inguschen (1757–1961)

This study clarifies the question to what extent the narrative of the Chechens, which has been handed down for centuries by Russian historians, is a religious fanatic. To this...

Ingelheim von der Steinzeit bis zur Gegenwart

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Jahrtausende schon währt die wechselhafte Geschichte Ingelheims, das durch den Rhein und sein mildes...

Repräsentationen der Bibel in der Volkssprache

Studien zu den mittelalterlichen Handschriften mit deutschen Texten aus dem Zisterzienserkloster Altzelle

The Cistercian abbey Altzelle was, during the Late Middle Ages, one of the most important educational centers in the area of present-day Saxony. The libraries of Altzelle produced...

Chorographies

Les mises en discours de la ville

The city is considered one of the most significant symbols of human cultural development, in the course of which speaking and writing in the city and about the city play a very...

Von den Hieroglyphen zur Internetsprache: Das Verhältnis von Schrift, Laut und Sprache

From Hieroglyphs to Internet Language: The Relation of Script, Sound and Language

The contributions concentrate on the spelling of some Indo-European languages and the relation of writing and pronunciation; in particular they deal with: (I) the use of cuneiform...

Variation within and among writing systems

Concepts and Methods in the Analysis of Ancient Written Documents

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...

Versteckt – Verirrt – Verschollen

Reisen und Nicht-Wissen

Since the Early Modern Period, traveling becomes a central strategy enhancing knowledge. At the same time, travel seems to deliver a gateway for the incalculable and unfathomable....