Ansichten des Krieges

Kampfreliefs klassischer und hellenistischer Zeit im Kulturvergleich

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The study is dedicated to the visual language and the messages of reliefs showing images of battle and fight, which provided the contemporary viewers with models of explanation for their own cognition. The analysis of 195 reliefs from Athens, Lycia, …

Persius-Scholien

Die lateinische Persius-Kommentierung der Traditionen A, D und E

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The Latin medieval commentaries of the Roman satirist Persius (AD 34- 62), gathered from obscure ancient material, are published here for the first time in critical editions of 3 of the 5 anonymous traditions. This project, serving also as a …

Biblia Sacra figuris expressa

Mnemotechnische Bilderbibeln des 15. Jahrhunderts

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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 the Holy Bible. The author analyses the complex mnemotechnic method and …