Society & culture: general

Das Bild der Stadt Rom im Frühmittelalter

Papststiftungen im Spiegel des »Liber Pontificalis« von Gregor dem Dritten bis zu Leo dem Dritten

Franz Alto Bauer’s book examines papal patronage from Gregory III (731 to 741) to Leo III (795 to 816), during the time in which Rome became the center of an independent papal...

Mitteilungen zur spätantiken Archäologie und byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte

Akten des Symposiums »Austausch diplomatischer Geschenke in Spätantike und Byzanz« in München vom 28. Februar bis 1. März 2002

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Anthony Cutler, Silver across the Euphrates. Forms of Exchange between Sasanian Persia...

Paulinus Nolanus und die Basilica Nova in Cimitile / Nola

Studien zu einem zentralen Denkmal der spätantik-frühchristlichen Architektur

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Das christliche Pilgerheiligtum des hl. Felix in Cimitile/Nola (nordöstlich von Neapel gelegen) ist in...

Governing the Holy City

The Interaction of Social Groups in Jerusalem between the Fatimid and the Ottoman Period

The history of Jerusalem during the Islamic Middle Ages was not confined to the foundation of sanctuaries, and the struggle over their control – even if these aspects could not be...

Leben in der Stadt. Oberitalien zwischen römischer Kaiserzeit und Mittelalter

Abitare in città. La Cisalpina tra impero e medioevo. Kolloquium am 4. und 5. November 1999 in Rom

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In der Spätantike erlebten die Städte im Kernland des Römerreiches einen tiefgreifenden Wandel: Mit der...

Die Nibelungen

Sage – Epos – Mythos

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Der Band bildet die Summe der gegenwärtigen Forschung zu den Nibelungen und eröffnet Perspektiven für künftige...

Die Christianisierung der spätrömischen Welt

Stadt, Land, Haus, Kirche und Kloster in frühchristlicher Zeit

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Nachdem die Christliche Archäologie jahrzehntelang ihr Interesse auf die Wechselbeziehung zwischen den großen...

Die humanistischen Triviums- und Reformationshandschriften der Codices Palatini Latini in der Vatikanischen Bibliothek

Cod. Pal. lat. 1461 bis 1914

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Mit dem vierten Band der „Kataloge der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg“ wird die wissenschaftliche...

Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey

Supplement and Index

This volume represents a supplement to the first volume, which appeared in 1989, and provided the documentation on which TAVO maps A VIII 14 a-b (Republic of Turkey: Rural Ethnic...

Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey

(Unveränderter Nachdruck)

This detailed handbook contents of a catalogue of ethnic groups, surveys, lists by villages and administrative districts, essays on selected groups by contributing authors, and...

Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey

This detailed handbook contents of a catalogue of ethnic groups, surveys, lists by villages and administrative districts, essays on selected groups by contributing authors, and...

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 Macht der Darstellung

Gender, sozialer Status, historiographische Re-Präsentation: Zwei Frauenbiographien aus der frühen Abbasidenzeit

͑Ulayya bint al-Mahdī (160−210/ 777−825), the younger sister of the Caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd, and ͑Arīb (181−277/ 797−890), a first enslaved, later manumitted woman, are...

Stadtentwicklung und Migration im Südjemen

Mukalla und die hadhramitische Auslandsgemeinschaft

The study analyses the interrelation between urban development and migration, taking the coastal town of Mukalla (South Yemen) as an example. The study explores the importance of...

Das Wagnis Tradition

Arabische Wege der Theatralität

“There is no independent Arab theatre; the Arabs adopted this genre from Europe.” For a long time this was the predominant thesis in Europe and the Arab world. But what is theatre...

The Economy of Safavid Persia

Although there are some studies which deal with particular economic issues there has not - until now - been a study dealing with the Safavid economy as a system per se. The...

Mit goldenem Siegel

Über Briefe, Schreiber und Boten im Sahname

This book examines the secretarial work at the pre-Arab Persian courts as described by Ferdowsi in the Šāhnāme. The work of scribes and messengers and the letters themselves are...

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...

Sokotra

Mensch und Natur

Sokotra in the Indian Ocean is one of the best preserved tropical islands. This copiously illustrated volume presents the unique and evolutionarily interesting flora and fauna of...

Lexikon georgische Mythologie

This volume aims to give an introduction to Georgian mythology, which is an important element of the cultural treasure of this people. It offers an overview of baisc concepts,...