c 1000 CE to c 1500

Politische Lyrik in Europa vom 12. bis zum 15. Jahrhundert

Freiburger Colloquium 2023

17 x 24 cm, 256 p., cloth
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The volume presents the proceedings of the 2023 international conference held in Fribourg (Switzerland), examining the emergence of a European tradition of political lyric between the twelfth-century renaissance and the fall of Constantinople. The essays – written in the four …

Muslimisches Leben unter christlicher Herrschaft

Sizilien zur Zeit der normannischen Könige (1060/61 bis 1189)

17 x 24 cm, 144 p., cloth
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Norman Sicily (1060/61-1189) was a crossroads of Latin-Western, Byzantine-Eastern and Islamic-Oriental cultures. The examination of primarily Arab-Islamic sources brought to light insights into Muslim life and its organisation during Christian-Norman rule in Sicily. In the process, it became clear that …

Mit Beiträgen von Thomas Blank, Moheddine Chaouali, Constanze Höpken, Heike Möller, Peggy Morgenstern, Sebastian Prignitz, Fabian Riebschläger und Ina Seiler

Der ‚Kaiserkulttempel‘ von Simitthus

Architektur, Funde und Interpretation eines frühkaiserzeitlichen Podiumtempels in der Provinz Africa Proconsularis

21 x 29.7 cm, 206 p., 4 Beilagen, hardback
110.00 €
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The volume “The Imperial Cult Building of Simitthus: Architecture, Finds, and Interpretation of an Early Imperial Podium Temple in the Province of Africa Proconsularis” consolidates four decades of archaeological research on the imperial cult temple in Simitthus, Tunisia. Thanks to …

Der Symbolismus des zwölften Jahrhunderts

Per visibilia ad invisibilia

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In dem an geistigen Bewegungen reichen zwölften Jahrhundert erscheint neben der in Frankreich entwickelten neuen Klassik und neben der von Paris ausstrahlenden Scholastik auch eine symbolistische Literaturgruppe, die besonders im Sacrum Imperium Verbreitung findet. Ihr führender Kopf ist der aus …

Marmor Numidicum

Gewinnung, Verarbeitung und Distribution eines antiken Buntmarmors

21 x 29.7 cm, 474 p., 18 Tafeln, hardback
179.00 €
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The marmor numidicum, also known as Giallo antico, is one of the most widespread colored marbles of antiquity, quarried in Simitthus, today Chimtou in Tunisia. The aim of this work is to present for the first time a holistic case …

Paradigmen und Perspektiven einer Mediävistischen Komparatistik

Freiburger Colloquium 2021

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The publication presents the results of the interdisciplinary Freiburg Colloquium 2021 (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland) "Paradigms and Perspectives of Comparative Medieval Studies". The contributions explore the theoretical and methodological premises of historically orientated comparative research that focuses on the specific …

Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie

Jahrbuch der Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Vol. 9. Spaces and Frontiers of Islamic Art and Archaeology

17 x 24 cm, 168 p., hardback
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The concepts of frontier, boundary, and border, and consequently of spaces and regions they delimit, have left a persistent mark on the perception of geography, whether expounded in
premodern Muslim textual sources, or by modern geostrategists. The ten essays in this …

„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

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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 Sanctus). How is it that in the last third of the 13th century …

Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie

Jahrbuch der Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Vol. 8

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Volume 8 of the Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie, edited by Markus Ritter and Nourane Ben Azzouna, with Sabiha Göloğlu, presents fresh research from the Ernst Herzfeld colloquia in Vienna and Strasbourg. The first part deals with architecture and …

Mystique, langage, image : montrer l’invisible Mystik, Sprache, Bild: Die Visualisierung des Unsichtbaren
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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 make visible, at least approximately, what is invisible to the human eye and the human …

Die illuminierten Handschriften französischer Herkunft in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek

Vom 15. Jahrhundert bis um 1540 plus flämische und niederländische Handschriften

Teil 2
23.5 x 31.5 cm, 568 p., cloth
398.00 €
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This volume concludes the comprehensive description of all French manuscripts in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich that are decorated with book decoration, whereby the closely related Dutch and Flemish manuscripts were also included for stylistic reasons. Compared to vol. 7/1, the …

Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie

Jahrbuch der Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Vol. 6, Encompassing the Sacred in Islamic Art

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To what extent has Islam as a religion shaped the art and material culture of the Middle East and North Africa? How is Islamic religion, in turn, informed by art and material culture? Under the title "Encompassing the Sacred", papers …

Die illuminierten Handschriften französischer Herkunft in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek

Teil 1: Vom 10. bis zum 14. Jahrhundert, Anhang: Die illuminierten Handschriften englischer und spanischer Herkunft

Teil 1
23.5 x 31.5 cm, 676 p., cloth
348.00 €
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The volume of the scientific catalogues of the Bavarian State Library does not only include all the manuscripts from the 10th to the end of the 14th century with French illumination, but Ulrike Bauer-Eberhardt also describes in it all the …

Von Beate Schmid und Birgit Kulessa Mit Beiträgen von Johanna Banck-Burgess, Ulrich Klein, Petra Kröneck und Elisabeth Stephan

Von Stadtmauern und Salbtöpfen

Archäologie zur Siedlungs- und Apothekengeschichte in Biberach

21 x 29.7 cm, 419 p., 85 Tafeln und 9 doppelseitige Pläne, hardback
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The results of two excavations at very different locations in the medieval townscape of Biberach are being published in the volume at hand. Fresh insights into the beginning of the settlement, the development in the outskirts as well as into …