Society & culture: general

Das Arzneibuch Ortolfs von Baierland

Around 1300, a surgeon named Ortolf – born in the duchy of Bavaria and settled in Wurzburg – wrote a textbook of medicine, which in brief covers all topics of medieval medicine –...

Orts-Wechsel

Reale, imaginierte und virtuelle Wissensräume

Focusing on the concept of ’changing places’, the essays in this anthology discuss processes of constitution, stabilization, and transformation of ’worlds of knowledge‘, covering...

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...

Gewaltprävention mit Musik: Empirische Wirkungsanalyse eines musiktherapeutischen Projektmodells

The prevention of violence is one of the major social responsibilities of the 21st century, which requires effective preventative measures on many levels. Music as a non-verbal...

Die Inschriften des Landkreises Hildesheim

The present volume presents an annotated edition of 464 German and Latin inscriptions in the district (Landkreis) of Hildesheim from the early 13th century up to 1650. The vast...

Digitale Rekonstruktionen mittelalterlicher Bibliotheken

The transposition of medieval manuscripts into the digital space gives rise to new questions and entails consequences that have to be cleared and solved. The present collection...

Straßen von der Frühgeschichte bis in die Moderne

Verkehrswege – Kulturträger – Lebensraum

Roads have been the key for the development of land and the exchange of goods and knowledge since antiquity. Connecting regions, peoples and cultures, roads have supported social...

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

Band 3: Spätantike, byzantinische und postbyzantinische Keramik

The Museum of Byzantine Art in the Bode Museum in Berlin is in the possession of over 1300 Byzantine clay vessels, and others made in the Byzantine tradition, dating from the 4th...

Märchen und Geschichten der Beduinen im Sinai

The fairy tales and stories in this book draw a colourful picture of Bedouin life and of a vanishing culture. At the same time there are parallels and stunning similarities to the...

Dismember Remember

Das anatomische Theater von Lina Saneh und Rabih Mroué

What happens if a body is dissected with words rather than physically? If what is taken apart is reassembled? What impact does this have on how we see things? This volume is the...

Arabische Musikinstrumente in der Literatur des Mittelalters

With cultural exchange taking place in various settings during the Middle Ages, European musical instruments were highly influenced by Islamic cultures. Apart from the impact of...

Übertragungsräume

Medialität und Raum in der Moderne

In this volume, whose authors explore conceptions of space from the 18th to the 20th century, focusing on the role of the body and the senses as well as the importance of the...

Die Inschriften des Bundeslandes Tirol

Teil 1: Die Inschriften der Politischen Bezirke Imst, Landeck und Reutte

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Der Band versammelt in 341 Katalognummern die mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Inschriften der...

Die Inschriften der Friedhöfe St. Johannis, St. Rochus und Wöhrd zu Nürnberg (1609-1650)

Teilband III: (1609 bis 1650). Nachträge und Berichtigungen zu den Bänden I-II (1972 und 2008)

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Der Band setzt die Edition der Inschriften der 1518 außerhalb der Mauern Nürnbergs angelegten Begräbnisplätze...

Das Buch in der Spätantike

Herstellung, Form, Ausstattung und Verbreitung in der westlichen Reichshälfte des Imperium Romanum

Modern historians describes late antiquity as a period with an own face, different from classical antiquity and Middle Ages. Development was more slowly and without crashs, also...

der âventiuren dôn

Klang, Hören und Hörgemeinschaften in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters

The contributions in this volume assess the value of the acoustic in the Middle Ages and evaluate its importance in medieval literature. Although a great deal of research in...

The Andalusian Music of Morocco

Al-Ala: History, Society and Text

This book reframes the history of the Andalusian music of Morocco by highlighting the interplay of oral and literary processes in the preservation and transmission of this...

Die Krise der technologischen Zivilisation und die asiatische Antwort

Ynhui Park diagnoses an unprecedented crisis of the global civilization which threatens the very survival of the world and of mankind. This crisis cannot be understood without...

Die Bildnisse des Tiberius

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Der erste Kaiser des Römischen Reiches, Augustus, war darauf bedacht, eine Dynastie zu begründen. Als Nachfolger...

Ciudades Mayas del Noreste del Petén, Guatemala

Análisis urbanístico y conservación

The book consists of three sections of contributions representing novel ideas focusing on the quantity, quality, and actual condition of the monumental built environment of the...