Middle Ages

Meier, Rahel

„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...

Editor: Wetzel, René; Wuidar, Laurence; Gedigk, Katharina
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...

Bayard, Marc

Das dynamische Sein bei Nicolaus Cusanus

Ein Beitrag zur Begriffsgeschichte der dynamischen Ontologie

Esse est movere - to be is to move. Contrary to our static notions of medieval philosophy, Nicolaus Cusanus in the 15th century sketches a dynamic view of the world in which...

Edited by Jürgen Tubach and Markus Mode in Cooperation with Guliko Sophia Vashalomidze

Arms and Armour as Indicators of Cultural Transfer

The Steppes and the Ancient World from Hellenistic Times to the Early Middle Ages

The contributions in this volume give an impression of contemporary archaeological, art historical, and historical research in military equipment of and under the influence of...