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»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...
Die Merseburger Zaubersprüche
The study represents the first extensive monograph on these significant Old High German texts. The controversial linguistic material is examined etymologically while questions...
Frühchristliche Reliquiare im Kontext von Kultstrategien, Heilserwartung und sozialer Selbstdarstellung
This study for the first time provides a comprehensive analysis of early Christian reliquaries in the context of their meaning and various uses. Taking into account all documented...
Plants in Early Buddhism and the Far Eastern Idea of the Buddha-Nature of Grasses and Trees
From Turfan to Ajanta
Festschrift for Dieter Schlingloff on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday
Spezialisierung und Professionalisierung
Träger und Foren städtischer Außenpolitik während des späten Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit
The volume documents the findings of an international conference held in Trier in cooperation with the "Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftliches Forschungszentrum" and the A 9 project...
Aromata in der iranischen Kultur
unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der persischen Dichtung
This volume is the result of more than 10 years' research in Persian culture from the Achaemenid period (559 B.C.) until the end of the Safavids’ time (1722 A.D.). The main...
Symbolische Repräsentation und Wirklichkeit nomadischen Lebens
This essay collection brings together contributions from two research colloquia of the Collaborative Research Center “Difference and Integration. The interaction between nomadic...
The Sherpa »Dumji« Masked Dance Festival
An ethnographic description of the ›great liturgical performance‹ as celebrated annually according to the tradition of the Lamaserwa clan in the village temple of Gonpa Zhung, Solu
Kafka – Ein jüdischer Schriftsteller aus arabischer Sicht
The book is devoted to the subject of the Arab reception of Franz Kafka between 1939 and today. The study focuses on the examination of Kafka and his work in the form of...
Mittelalterliche Handschriften in Greifswalder Bibliotheken
Verzeichnis der Bestände der Bibliothek des Geistlichen Ministeriums (Dombibliothek St. Nikolai), der Universitätsbibliothek und des Universitätsarchivs
The catalogue describes 174 manuscripts of the late medieval period (ca. 1250 - end of the 16th centuries), now held by the Church Library Saint Nicolas (Geistliches Ministerium)...
Iconografía de la Cultura Tolita
Lecturas del discurso ideológico en las representaciones figurativas del Desarrollo Regional
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Unter den vorspanischen Kulturen Ecuadors ist die Kultur von Tolita für ihre detailreich ausgearbeiteten Figuren...
In cooperation with: Schlegelmilch, Ulrich
Persius-Scholien
Die lateinische Persius-Kommentierung der Traditionen A, D und E
The Latin medieval commentaries of the Roman satirist Persius (AD 34- 62), gathered from obscure ancient material, are published here for the first time in critical editions of 3...
Compiled by: Meyn, Wolfgang
Kulturen am Rande Mesopotamiens: von West-Kleinasien bis zum Kaspischen Meer
Katalog der Sammlung der Abteilung »Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des Vorderen Orients« an der Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
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Seit dem Eintreffen der Sammlung am Institut für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des Vorderen Orients 1998 wird...