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Die Alttürkenzeit in Mittel- und Zentralasien
Archäologische und historische Studien
This study analyses aspects of the archaeology and history of the period of the Türk Qaghanats in Central Asia (ca. A.D. 550-750). A main focus is to assess the political, social...
Neuere Aspekte germanistischer Spätmittelalterforschung
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Die hier publizierten Tagungsbeiträge bilanzieren und perspektivieren Aspekte der Forschung zum deutschen...
The Life of the Buddha
Buddhist and Saiva Iconography and Visual Narratives in Artists’ Sketchbooks from Nepal
This book describes, analyses and reproduce line drawings from two manuscripts and a related section from a third manuscript. These are:
1. Manuscript M.82.169.2, preserved in...
Caucasus during the Mongol Period – Der Kaukasus in der Mongolenzeit
The anthology takes a comparative approach to reconstructing the perceptions that the Armenians and Georgians developed of their Mongol conquerors in the 13th and 14th centuries....
»... über jeden Ausdruck erhaben und schön«. Die Schweizer Reise der Familie Mendelssohn 1822
Mit Briefen der Tochter Fanny, Zeichnungen und Tagebuchauszügen
The journey of several months of the Berlin banker Abraham Mendelssohn has been described in letters by his daughter Fanny, which are published here based on a critical study of...
Conflicting Narratives: War, Trauma and Memory in Iraqi Culture
This volume deals with the Iraqi cultural production under and after Baathist rule, a research field which, in comparison to Iraqi history and politics, has attracted relatively...
Weise Frauen und geheimnisvolle Zeichen
Texte zum Volksglauben in Georgien
This volume is the first attempt to present omen and taboo texts from Georgia in a structured form, and to make this type of traditional culture accessible for systematic...
Formelhaftigkeit in Text und Bild
This volume comprises interdisciplinary papers on different subjects in the field of the humanities, which were read at a workshop of the same name at the University of Trier in...
The Baloch and Others
Linguistic, Historical and Socio-Political Perspectives on Pluralism in Balochistan
Throughout history Balochistan has been an important contact zone between the Indian Subcontinent and the Iranian Plateau. Today Balochistan is a land divided among several...
Ehrenstatuen in der Spätantike
Chlamydati und Togati
The book investigates the iconography and chronology of the late antique toga statue and the late antique Chlamys statue. Both types of honorific statuary can only be observed...
Leben und Handeln im Alltag von Kairo
Sozialwissenschaftliche Analysen einer Gesellschaft im Umbruch
Under the influence of political and social discourses as a result of 9/11 and the Orientalist allegations on the part of Arab intellectuals, Lars Gaiser developed a new...
The Joshua Roll
The “Joshua Roll” (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. gr. 431), a tenth-century illuminated scroll of the first half of the Old Testament book of Joshua, is among the...
Fibeln und Gürtelzubehör der späten römischen Kaiserzeit aus Augusta Vindelicum/Augsburg
For the first time ever is the large, manifold collection of late Roman brooches and belt fittings from the late third until the first half of the fifth century AD from the...
»Simavicarana«
A Pali letter on monastic boundaries by King Rama IV of Siam
“Simavicarana” presents an annotated romanized edition of a letter composed in Pali by Thera Vajiranana - that is, by King Mogkut (Rama IV) of Siam when he was a monk before he...
Orte – Ordnungen – Oszillationen
Raumerschaffung durch Wissen und räumliche Struktur von Wissen
The volume goes back to a transdicsiplinary conference held in December 2010 at the University of Trier. It contains articles dedicated to tree key concepts that are central to...
Ornamentale Purpurwirkereien
De variis purpureis segmentis, paragaudis, clavis et ceteris ornamentis cum ornamento
The textile finds from Egypt provide a special quantitative and qualitative value to the ornamental purple textiles. They can be counted as a chief representative of ornamental...
»Gott liebt das Handwerk«
Moral, Identität und religiöse Legitimierung in der mittelasiatischen Handwerks-risala
The present book is the first large-scale research on the Central Asian crafts’ risala, a pre-Soviet code of conduct, and describes the crafts spiritual and social roots by...
Frühbyzantinische textile Kopfbedeckungen
Typologie, Verbreitung, Chronologie und soziologischer Kontext nach Originalfunden
The analysis of archaeological textiles in order to write their ancient cultural history is still in its infancy. This study contributes to this process by cataloging more than...
Die Inschriften der Stadt Essen
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Der Band präsentiert in 188 Katalognummern die mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Inschriften aus dem...
A Mirror Reflecting the Entire World
The Pali »Buddhapadamangala« or »Auspicius Signs on the Buddha’s Feet«. Critical Edition with English Translation
The “Buddhapadamangala” is an anonymous work in the corpus of Pali literature transmitted in Siam. Its starting point is the conventional description of the wheel mark on the...