Social & cultural history

Organizing an Urban Way of Life in the Steppe

Water, Agriculture, Townscape and Economy in the Early Islamic Town of Kharab Sayyar

Organizing an Urban Way of Life in the Steppe – Water, Agriculture, Townscape and Economy in the Early Islamic Town of Kharab Sayyar.
As the third volume in this series,...

Kleine Schriften zu Themen, Werken und Theorien der älteren deutschen Literatur

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Anlässlich des 65. Geburtstags des Augsburger Ordinarius für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur des Mittelalters...

Ingelheim von der Steinzeit bis zur Gegenwart

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Jahrtausende schon währt die wechselhafte Geschichte Ingelheims, das durch den Rhein und sein mildes...

La necropoli di Vetulonia nel periodo orientalizzante

Excavations in the late 19th and early 20th century in the cemetery of the Etruscan city of Vetulonia unearthed many opulent ‘princely graves’ dating to the Orientalizing period...

Die Entwicklungstendenzen des Passivs in der georgischen Schriftsprache

This monograph analyses the grammatical, pragmatic, communicative and lexical-stylistic functions of different subgroups of synthetic dynamic passives in Georgian. They differ...

Tugendlehre und Wissensvermittlung

Studien zum ,Welschen Gast’ Thomasins von Zerklaere

By centering the category ‘knowledge’, this book offers a new analytical access to Thomasin von Zerklære’s Welscher Gast. In doing so, it can be observed that various areas of...

Zur Kur an den Nil

Die Ägyptenreise von Max und Otto Meyerhof im Winter 1900/01

„Zur Kur an den Nil“ is the commented edition of a travelogue from winter 1900/01 written by the German-Jewish Ophthalmologist and Orientalist Max Meyerhof (1874-1945). It was...

Die innere Uhr des Menschen

Jürgen Aschoff (1913–1998), Wissenschaftler in einem bewegten Jahrhundert

Jürgen Aschoff (1913-1998) was an outstanding scientist of the 20st century. He became internationally recognised through the discovery of the internal clock in humans and is one...

Thomas von Cantimpré ›Liber de naturis rerum‹

Kritische Ausgabe der Redaktion III (Thomas III) eines Anonymus

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Auf der Grundlage der Enzyklopädie „Liber de natura rerum“ des Dominikaners Thomas von Cantimpré wurde im 13....

Überlieferungsgeschichte transdisziplinär

Neue Perspektiven auf ein germanistisches Forschungsparadigma

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Die Überlieferungsgeschichte gehört zu den bedeutendsten Forschungsparadigmata, welche die Altgermanistik resp....

Ritual und Religion im archaischen Sizilien

Formations- und Transformationsprozesse binnenländischer Kultorte im Kontext kultureller Kontakte

This work centres on the detailed examination of inland ritual sites dating from the Archaic period in Sicily (late 8th to early 5th centuries BC), which is based on an emic...

Der Tod ist die Pforte zum Leben

Die Geschichte des Friedhofseingangs vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart

On the basis of about 300 examples, the history of the cemetery entrance in urban as in rural context from the Middle Ages to the Present traced including the Jewish and Islamic...

Konrad von Würzburg ,Trojanerkrieg‘ und die anonym überlieferte Fortsetzung

Kritische Ausgabe

Konrad’s von Würzburg ‘Trojanerkrieg’ - only fragmentary preserved because of its author’s death in 1287 and finally completed by an anonymous writer at the beginning of the 14th...

Nomad Military Power in Iran and Adjacent Areas in the Islamic Period

The papers in this anthology shed light on the political and military role and importance of nomadic groups in Iran and adjacent areas, using historical case studies that cover...

Fokuspartikeln und Wortstellung im Georgischen

The topic of the book is the so called “Focus particles” and their interaction with the word order regularities in Georgian, as the most prominent representative of the south...

Boote, Burgen, Bischarin

Heinrich Schäfers Tagebuch einer Nubienreise zum zweiten Nilkatarakt im Jahre 1900

In 1900 five German scholars travelled to the region of the second cataract to study pharaonic fortifications and pursue ethnographic research in Nubia. Surplus funds from the...

Antike Bauornamentik

Grenzen und Möglichkeiten ihrer Erforschung

The present book collects the results of a conference, held at Munich in 2011. The single papers deal with limits and possibilities of analysing ancient architectural decoration....

Bestattungssitten zwischen Tradition und Modifikation

Kulturelle Austauschprozesse in den griechischen Kolonien in Unteritalien und Sizilien vom 8. bis zum 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr.

This study focuses on cultural exchange and aspects of acculturation, which go back to the Greek settlement in Lower Italy and Sicily and result from the coexistence of the Italic...

Nomad Aristocrats in a World of Empires

The papers published in this volume go back to a conference held November 2011 in Hamburg. The conference was built around the question of domination: of nomads over sedentary...

Die Kujuji-Stiftungen in Tabriz

Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Jalayiriden (Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar)

The Kujuji-foundations from 780/1380 are a vivid testimony to an outstanding personality in Tabriz during the Jalayerid period. Their founder, Khwaja Shaikh Kujuji, appears in the...