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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...

Die Inschriften des Landkreises Schwäbisch Hall II

Altkreis Schwäbisch Hall und Limpurger Land

In 1518 catalog articles, the volume contains the inscriptions of the old district of Schwäbisch Hall and the north-eastern part of the former district of Backnang from the...

Die Inschriften der Stadt Meißen

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Die Inschriftenüberlieferung der Stadt Meißen, die dieser zweiteilige Band in einer kommentierten Edition...

Thisoa am Lykaion

Ergebnisse der Forschungen

In Arcadia, on the slope of the Lykaion Mountains and high above the Alpheios Valley, lies the ancient city of Theisoa. The fortified town was laid out after the Synoikismos of...

Die altpersischen Inschriften der Achaimeniden

Editio minor mit deutscher Übersetzung

In this book may be found a complete edition and German translation of the Old Persian texts of the mostly trilingual cuneiform inscriptions of the Persian kings from the...

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 Landshut

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Der Band widmet sich den Inschriften der Stadt Landshut in ihren heutigen Gemeindegrenzen. Erfasst wurden alle...

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...

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...

Octavians unentbehrliche Helfer

Die Männer hinter seinem Aufstieg zum Augustus

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Das vorliegende an ein breites Publikum gerichtete Buch führt durch einen der wichtigsten Abschnitte der...

Etruskische Heiligtümer des 8.–5. Jhs. v. Chr. als Wirtschaftsräume und Konsumptionsorte von Keramik

While many aspects of Etruscan religion are intensively discussed and studied through current conferences, publications and fieldwork, general research and an overview of the...

Bauern und Banausen

Darstellungen des Handwerks und der Landwirtschaft in der griechischen Vasenmalerei

Vase painting is one of the most important sources of information regarding labour in the ancient world. This comprehensive iconographic study focuses on the depiction of...

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...