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Eine Neubewertung der Weihung anatomischer Votive in Latiums Heiligtümer
The study focuses on the phenomenon of anatomical votives dedicated into the sanctuaries of ancient Latium (Italy) in the 4th to 1st cent. BC. These anatomical votives have...
Heinrichs von Neustadt ›Gottes Zukunft‹
Erzählen vom Heil in der Volkssprache
This monograph is the first comprehensive study of Heinrich von Neustadtʼs religious poem ›Gottes Zukunft‹ (›Godʼs Arrival‹). It examines the transformation of religious knowledge...
Die römische Kaiservilla Pausilypon
Gesamtanlage und Bauten des oberen Plateaus
The villa Pausilypon is situated on the Bay of Naples and represents one of the few examples of its kind, that can clearly be assigned to the Roman emperors for a period of at...
Von Blüten und Krisen
Eine wirtschaftsarchäologische Studie zum kaiserzeitlichen Südetrurien
The book is focused, on the one hand, on a historiographical analysis of the theoretical and methodological modelling of the structure and performance of the Roman economy. On the...
In cooperation with: Dally, Ortwin; Schunke, Torsten; Prokof'ev, Roman V.
Praktiken der Aneignung
Kulturelle Kontakte im nordöstlichen Azovraum vom späten 7.–3. Jh. v. Chr.
Once a Greek settlement was founded near the delta of the Don (Russian Federation) in the last quarter of the 7th century B.C., long-term contacts were established with poleis on...
Der Tannhäuser
Untersuchungen zur Selbstbezüglichkeit seiner Lyrik und kommentierte Neuedition
Tannhäuser has established a very unique profile as an author of 13th century medieval German literature. Not only did he experiment with literary genres and test their limits;...
„Mio corpo venga sepolto in terra sancta“ - Genese und Verbreitung eines Wunderberichts des 13. Jahrhunderts
Die Blutacker in Jerusalem, der Heilige Acker in Akkon und der Camposanto zu Pisa
The book is about the emergence and spread of the miracle report about a supernaturally rapid decomposition of corpses at specific burial sites, so-called holy fields (Campus...
Die Inschriften der Stadt Wismar
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Die Inschriftenüberlieferung beginnt in der Hansestadt Wismar in der zweiten Hälfte des 13. Jahrhunderts und...
Morgantina Studies VII. The City Plan and Political Agora
Results of the excavations conducted by Princeton University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Virginia
The orthogonal city plan was adopted in the mid-fifth century BCE and implies a democratic constitution. Almost entirely excavated, Morgantina’s large agora offers a detailed...
Geistliche Lesespiele
Exemplarische Lektüren mittelalterlicher Passions- und Weihnachtsspiele im Kontext ihrer Überlieferung
Many medieval religious plays survive in manuscripts without reference to theatrical performance; rather, they are presented as literary texts in their own right. A series of case...
In cooperation with: Brusa, Julia; Gisselbaek, Robert; Pinieri, Mirko
Mystique, langage, image : Montrer l’invisible Mystik, Sprache, Bild: Die Visualisierung des Unsichtbaren
The experience of transcendence, especially when it concerns the direct encounter with God, exceeds every human possibility of expression. Only pictorial expression is able to...
Das Andachtsbüchlein aus der Sammlung Bouhier
(Montpellier, Bibliothèque Universitaire Historique de Médecine, H 396) Studie und kommentierte Edition
This small-size manuscript, probably produced in the second quarter of the fourteenth century in eastern central Germany, is here studied in depth for the first time. The...
Heiligtümer im Bereich von Stadtmauern und Stadttoren
Festkolloquium aus Anlass des 100jährigen Jubiläums der Kerameikosgrabung des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts in Athen
On the occasion of the celebration of 100 years of excavations conducted by the German Archaeological Institute in Athens in the Kerameikos site, a colloquium was organized in...
Studies on the Urban History of Meninx (Djerba)
The Meninx Archaeological Project 2015–2019
This volume offers a synthesis of the multifaceted results of a Tunisian-German research project carried out at the ancient seaport of Meninx on Djerba. Geophysical prospection...
Giovanni Boccaccios ,De casibus virorum illustrium’ in Deutschland
Studien zur Überlieferung und Rezeption eines frühhumanistischen Werkes im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert
Giovanni Boccaccio's 'De casibus virorum illustrium' - an early humanist collection of biographies of famous men and women of world history in Latin - was one of the most widely...
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...
Das ‚Briefbuch‘ der Strassburger Johanniterkommende Zum Grünen Wörth
Untersuchungen und Edition
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Das ‚Briefbuch‘ diente im Kloster Zum Grünen Wörth als Grundlage zur Herausbildung einer Gemeinschaftsidentität....
Héritages platoniciens et aristotéliciens dans l’Orient et l’Occident (IIe-XVIe siècles)
The aim of bringing together these works in this volume is to explore, through specific studies, the reception of certain aspects of Neoplatonism and Aristotelianism in Patristics...
In cooperation with: Goller, Detlef; Hufnagel, Sabrina
Mediävistische Perspektiven im 21. Jahrhundert
Festschrift für Ingrid Bennewitz zum 65. Geburtstag
The Festschrift includes many papers of national and international students, colleagues and friends of Ingrid Bennewitz about her many research and work interests:...
Jenseits der Dichotomie von Text und Bild
Verfahren der Veranschaulichung und Verlebendigung in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit
This volume brings together the research findings of a DFG network of Germanists and art historians. The focus is on processes of visualisation and vivification in the sister arts...