Literary studies: general

Fiktionalität im Artusroman des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts

Romanistische und germanistische Perspektiven

Contrary to former studies the volume focusses on the opportunities of fictional world concepts in the Arthurian narrations of the European Middle Ages apart from the factitive...

Reading Across Modern Arabic Literature and Art

Three Case Studies: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Abd al-Rahman Munif, Etel Adnan

Interrelations of literature and art, word and image, are manifold. However, they have remained largely unexplored when it comes to literature and art in the Arab world. This book...

Phthonos

Mißgunst, Neid und Eifersucht in der byzantinischen Literatur

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Die Emotion „Phthonos“ spielt in Byzanz (definiert als „Schmerz über das Wohlergehen des anderen“) eine...

Vergangenheit als Konstrukt

Mittelalterbilder seit der Renaissance

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Mittelalterbilder und ihr Weiterleben seit der Renaissance sind das Thema des Sammelbandes, der...

»Selbstbetrachtungen« und Selbstdarstellungen – »Meditations« and Representations

Der Philosoph und Kaiser Marc Aurel im interdisziplinären Licht. The Philosopher and Emperor Marcus Aurelius in an interdisciplinary light. Akten des Interdisziplinären Kolloquiums Köln 23. bis 25. Juli 2009

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Marc Aurel war römischer Kaiser und der letzte bedeutende stoische Philosoph in der Antike. Seine...

Neuere Aspekte germanistischer Spätmittelalterforschung

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Die hier publizierten Tagungsbeiträge bilanzieren und perspektivieren Aspekte der Forschung zum deutschen...

Deutsche Liebeslyrik vom Minnesang bis zu Oswald von Wolkenstein

oder die Erfindung der Liebe im Mittelalter

This initial volume of the series provides a basic introduction into the particularities of the history of mentality, language and literature in a study of the Middle Ages...

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...

Das Ende des Babylonischen Exils

Kulturgeschichtliche Epochenwende in der Literatur der letzten irakisch-jüdischen Autoren

“Das Ende des Babylonischen Exils” is the first comprehensive German-language study of Iraqi-Jewish literature. It is also the first study on the subject to consider memoirs...

Das »Nibelungenlied« und »Das Buch des Dede Korkut« – Sprachwissenschaftliche Aspekte

Beiträge zum ersten interkulturellen Symposion in Baku, Aserbaidschan, 2009

This volume of conference proceedings brings the “Kitab Dede Korkut” into the spotlight of intercultural comparative studies of medieval heroic epic poetry. The oldest and only...

»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...

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...

Äsop – Der frühneugriechische Roman

Einführung, Übersetzung, Kommentar. Kritische Ausgabe

The “Vita Aesopi,” known today as “Aesop's Fables,” characterizes the life of the legendary fabulist Aesop up through his death in Delphi with a variety of funny individual...

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 18 (2010/2011): Konrad von Megenberg (1309 bis 1374): Ein spätmittelalterlicher »Enzyklopädist« im europäischen Kontext

This proceedings places Konrad von Megenberg (1309-1374) squarely at the focal point of European cataloging. It combines contributions from Megenberg followers from different...

Johannes Hartlieb »Kräuterbuch«

Before the middle of the fifteenth century the Munich physician and author wrote an herbal that describes the medical efficacy of more than 170 drugs drawn from plants and...

Untersuchungen zum Panegyrikos auf Makarios von Tkoou und zu seiner Überlieferung

The Panegyric on the Coptic bishop Macarius († 451) of the city of Tkoou in Upper Egypt is the only complete Coptic text that reports on the Council of Chalcedon in 451 A.D. It is...

Georgische Gegenwartsliteratur

Eine Anthologie georgisch-deutsch

This anthology illustrates the literary work of the historical development of Georgia over the last 30 years for German readers. It includes in particular such works, which - to...

Jambupati-sutra

A synoptic romanized edition

The present volume is a romanized collation of four Pali manuscripts of the „Jambupati-sutra“, supplemented by Pali passages extracted from two old Thai-language versions. The...

Buddhism and Buddhist Literature of South-East Asia

Selected Papers ed. by Claudio Cicuzza

The twelve essays in this volume survey aspects of Buddhism and Buddhist literature in pre-modern South-East Asia and Thailand, drawing on Pali and vernacular texts, liturgy, and...

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...