Literature: history & criticism

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...

Wege zur Verbindlichkeit

Studien zum deutschen Roman um 1300

Ulrich of Etzenbach's "Wilhelm von Wenden", Heinrich von Neustadt's "Apollonius von Tyrland", Johann von Würzburg's "Wilhelm von Österreich", and the anonymous "Reinfried von...

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...

Vorgestellte Öffentlichkeit

Zur Genese moderner Prosa in Ägypten (1860 bis 1908)

This socio-literary study examines the relationship between processes of modernisation and reform, and new literary genres produced in Egypt of the second half of the 19th...

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...

Herzog Friedrich von der Normandie

Der altschwedische Ritterroman »Hertig Fredrik av Normandie«. Text, Übersetzung, Untersuchungen

Around 1300 the norwegian royal house ordered an unknown writer to translate a nowadays lost german source into the old swedish knight’s tale „Hertig Fredrik av Normandie“....

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...

Heldendichtung im Spätmittelalter

Überlieferungsgeschichtliche Studien zu den skriptographischen, typographischen und ikonographischen Erscheinungsformen des »Rosengarten zu Worms«

Ghislaine Grimm took up her studies at the University of Würzburg in 1993, where she graduated, too. During the years of her graduate and post-graduate studies she was an...

Individuation and the Shaping of Personal Identity

A Comparative Study of the Modern Novel

This book endeavors to contribute to comparative literary studies, especially the study of the modern novel, through its analysis of the process of individuation in four distinct...

Literarische Stoffe und ihre Gestaltung in mitteliranischer Zeit

Kolloquium anlässlich des 70. Geburtstages von Werner Sundermann

The book contains 21 contributions to a colloquium held in March 2006 in honour of W. Sundermann and dealing with various aspects of the literatures in the Middle Iranian...

Arabic Minimalist Story

Genre, Politics and Poetics in the Self-colonial Era

One of the major aims of this book is to characterize the Arabic minimalist story as a newly established genre of narrative fiction that exploits a host of “austere” techniques in...

Tierisch moralisch. Die Welt der Fabel in Orient und Okzident

Begleitschrift zur Sonderausstellung im Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg vom 22. Februar bis 1. Juni 2009

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Die Fabel gehört zu den ältesten und am weitest verbreiteten Literaturgenres der Welt. Ihre Tradition reicht von...

Von listigen Schakalen und törichten Kamelen. Die Fabel in Orient und Okzident

Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium im Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg zur Vorbereitung der Ausstellung „Tierisch moralisch. Die Welt der Fabel in Orient und Okzident“ am 22. und 23. November 2007

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Die berühmte, ursprünglich aus Indien stammende Fabelsammlung „Pancatantra“ ist in der Fassung, die ihr der...

Hevajra and Lam’bras Literature of India and Tibet as Seen Through the Eyes of A-mes-zhabs

The Hevajra Tantras and teachings of the 'Path with Its Fruit' (lam ‘bras) that originated in India have been central practices of Tibetan tantric Buddhism for a millenium. The...

Bukharan Jews in the 20th Century

History, Experience and Narration

Although the Jews of Central Asia have a long, eventful and fascinating history, the community of the Bukharan Jews attracted very little attention from researchers until...