Religion & beliefs

Jesus, Joseph and Job

Reading Rescriptings of Religious Figures in Lebanese Women’s Fiction

Joseph, Jesus and Job are all immediately recognizable religious figures in both Christianity and Islam who have been incorporated into a range of artistic and literary projects...

Die Illustrationen im Admonter Nonnenbrevier von 1180

Marienkrönung und Nonnenfrömmigkeit. Die Rolle der Brevierillustration in der Entwicklung von Bildthemen im 12. Jahrhundert

At the Styrian Benedictine Monastery Admont a breviary was made for the local nunnery in 1180. Its exceptionally rich initial furnishing that presumably was created with the...

Three-Vow Theories in Tibetan Buddhism

A Comparative Study of Major Traditions from the Twelfth through Nineteenth Centuries

Since the 12th century, a central feature of Buddhism in Tibet was its harmonizing of tantric practice with the moral codes of monastic discipline and Bodhisattva altruism. All...

Iranische Geistlichkeit zwischen Utopie und Realismus

Zum Diskurs über Herrschafts- und Staatsdenken im 20. Jahrhundert

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Ist die religiöse Vernunft in der Lage, der Herausforderung gerecht zu werden, die die Moderne für den Islam...

The Architecture of Decani and the Role of Archbishop Danilo II

This book re-evaluates the position of the fourteenth-century church of Deçani Monastery within the particular historical context. The author discloses the organizational pattern...

Bildlichkeit und Bildorte von Liturgie

Schauplätze in Spätantike, Byzanz und Mittelalter

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Liturgien führen Himmel und Erde zusammen. Sie sind umfassende Kommunikationsgeschehen, die sich auf vielfältige...

Facsimile Edition Series Vol. 3: A Buddhist Correspondence: The Letters of Lo-chen bSod-nams rgya-mtshoMonograph Series Vol. 3: Life and Travels of Lo-chen bSod-nams rgya-mtsho

Biblia Sacra figuris expressa

Mnemotechnische Bilderbibeln des 15. Jahrhunderts

Mnemonic Bibles are a particular variant of the late-medieval visual art of memory. Clerics tried to memorize with the help of this special mnemotechnic tool the entire content of...

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst. Bestandskataloge

Band 2: Werke der Alltagskultur. Teil 1: Menasampullen

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Seit dem Beginn christlicher Wallfahrt verlangten Pilger nach „gesegneten Andenken“. Während echte Reliquien...

Rescued Armenian Treasures from Cilicia

Sacred Art from the Museum in Antelias, Lebanon

The Christian-Armenian culture in Cilicia came to its end by the genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the times of World War I. During the deportations, the monastic...

Jakob Wimpfeling. Lob des Speyrer Doms. Laudes ecclesiae Spirensis

Faksimile der Inkunabel von 1486. Pfälzische Landesbibliothek Speyer, Inc. 141

The cathedral of Speyer was the subject of a panegyric poem written 1486 by the Alsatian humanist Jakob Wimpfeling. The poem is an important source for the history of...

Facsimile Edition Series Vol. 1: The Oldest Block Print of Klong-chen Rab-’byams-pa’s Theg mchog mdzod. Vol. 2: Four Unknown Mahamudra Works of the Bo-dong-pa School.Monograph Series Vol. 2: Early Buddhist Block Prints from mang-yul Gung-thang

Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies

Held in Cambridge, 11th to 15th September 1999. Mediaeval and Modern Persian

The second volume of the Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies brings together 34 papers in English, French and German, grouped thematically under the...

Ägypten in spätantik-christlicher Zeit

Einführung in die koptische Kultur

The word “Coptic”, which is derived from the Greek word for Egypt, stands for the local Egyptians from a Greek perspective as opposed to the Greeks, Romans and Arabs who migrated...

Im Spiegel des Mythos. Bilderwelt und Lebenswelt

Lo specchio del mito. Immaginario e realtà. Akten des internationalen Kolloquiums, Rom vom 19. bis 20. Februar 1998

Representations of Greek myths are a fundamental constant in cultures of the classical ancient world. From the early period of the Greek polis up until the late Caesar period, in...

Cîteaux 1098 bis 1998

Rheinische Zisterzienser im Spiegel der Buchkunst

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Mit der Gründung von Cîteaux wurde eine neue Ära der jahrhundertelangen Beziehung zwischen dem Rheinland und...

Fünf Palästina-Pilgerberichte aus dem 15. Jahrhundert

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Der hier vorgelegte Band enthält fünf erstmalig veröffentlichte Berichte mittelalterlicher Pilger von ihren...

Hildegard von Bingen – Lieder

Riesencodex (Hs. 2) der Hessischen Landesbibliothek Wiesbaden fol. 466 bis 481v

The „Riesencodex“ of the Hessische Landesbibliothek Wiesbaden includes sacred songs and the liturgical drama Ordo Virtutum of Hildegard of Bingen, as well as her theological and...

Der Kult von Demeter und Kore auf Sizilien und in der Magna Graecia

Pictures of human sacrifices as well as all kinds of acts of violence at holy places can be seen on numerous Etruscan burial monuments from the 4th to the 1st century BC. Although...

Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies

Held in Cambridge, 11th to 15th September 1995. Old and Middle Iranian Studies

The 3rd European Conference of Iranian Studies, at which more than 130 papers were presented, was held in Cambridge in 1995. A selection of the best contributions will be...