L’auteur dans ses livres: autorité et matérialité dans les littératures romanes du Moyen Âge

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What does the term author mean in the Romance literatures of the Middle Ages? What is its role in structuring the collection of texts attributed to it? Do the medieval written testimonies reflect the idea the author had of his …

The ‘Place of Palms’: An Urban Park at Aphrodisias

Results of The Mica and Ahmet Ertegün South Agora Pool Project

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Excavations at Aphrodisias in the 1980s revealed an extraordinary monumental water-basin (170 x 30m) in the centre of a colonnaded square, formerly called the ‘South Agora’. A hypothesis that the complex was not an agora at all but ‘the place …

Georgien

Geographie. Geschichte. Wirtschaft

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Georgia fascinates with its diversity: between the Black Sea coast and the Caucasus peaks, between rain-soaked woodlands and dry steppes, between lush cultivated vegetation and barren pastures, there are as many variations as there are between the lively capital Tbilisi …

Kulturlandschaft Mittelrhein – 100 Jahre Mittelrheinische Gesellschaft zur Pflege der Kunst

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In dem anlässlich des 100jährigen Bestehens der „Mittelrheinischen Gesellschaft zur Pflege der Kunst“ herausgegebenen Sammelband stellen 17 Autorinnen und Autoren die Kulturlandschaft Mittelrhein umfassend vor. Der erste Teil versammelt Aufsätze zur Geschichte und Entwicklung der Kulturlandschaft, ihrer Gärten und ihrer …

Reinmarbilder

Das Textkorpus ‚Reinmar von Zweter‘ und seine Wandlungen in Überlieferung und Rezeption

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Reinmar von Zweter is the most important Sangspruch poet between Walther von der Vogelweide and Frauenlob. Within German poetry of the time, the transmission of his works is unique in two ways. A systematic collection of his Sangsprüche must have …

The Afterlife of Avestan Manuscripts: Colophons and Marginal notes

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This study investigates the role of paratext in Zoroastrian scribal tradition, with a focus on the Avesta manuscripts. It examines how paratexts, such as colophons and marginal notes, contribute to organizing and interpreting the content of these manuscripts. These elements …

Die ,Bayerische Chronik‘ des Ulrich Fuetrer

Überlieferung – Textgenese – Produktions- und Wirkungsstrategie

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Die ›Bayerische Chronik‹ des Ulrich Fuetrer († um 1496) erfährt in diesem Band erstmals eine monographische Behandlung. Das bislang von der germanistischen und historischen Forschung meist unterschätzte Prosawerk wird anhand detaillierter Textanalysen erschlossen, neu bewertet und sein vielgeschmähter Autor als …

Neue Gesetze für ein besseres Leben?

Überlegungen zu Praktiken und Theorien der Gesetzgebung im Mittelalter

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The book deals with the practices and authorisations of legislation in the Middle Ages. Laws laid down norms, but they were also subject to norms. These were not only based on traditions, but also referred to goals that were to …

Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, der Reiseführer mit Hintergrund

Heimathafen der Romantik

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In der Reihe Zeitreisen erscheint nun der Band zur Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald. Und er verspricht wirklich eine Zeitreise von den dänischen Mönchen, die das Kloster Eldena als Keimzelle der Stadt gegründet hatten, über die Zugehörigkeit zum Herzogtum Pommern, zu …

Voicing Plurality in an Open World

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In a world characterized by mobility and dynamic formations of cultural, linguistic, and social identities, the general understanding of languages – at least in Europe – still reflects hierarchies and classifications that are based on the 19th century-based nation-state ideology. …

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 24 (2022/2023): Abbrüche – Umbrüche – Aufbrüche. Deutschsprachige Literatur zwischen 1450 und 1520

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Despite all the tendencies towards persistence, German-language literature formed and reorganised itself in many areas in the years between 1450 and 1520. While some genres and registers reached the end of their tradition or their productivity, others changed and developed …

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 …

Diocletian’s Edict of Maximum Prices at the Civil Basilica in Aphrodisias

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Diocletian’s Edict of Maximum Prices was inscribed on the façade of the city’s Civil Basilica in AD 301. The volume presents the history and background of the Edict, the detailed archaeology of its context on the Basilica, a new consolidated …

Der gesprengte Kreis

Max Beckmanns Schüler zwischen Realismus und Abstraktion

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Much like Max Beckmann, his master students faced defamation, marginalization, and persecution at the hands of the Nazis. A significant portion of their work was lost or destroyed during World War II, leaving little to rediscover. Furthermore, during the Cold …

Der strahlende Berg

Geschichten aus Fukushima

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The book describes in detail, realistically and comprehensibly, how the people in Fukushima experienced the disaster and came to terms with it. However, the author does not assign the characters in his stories only a passive role, but through them …

ukrayins‘ki pisni

Traditionelle ukrainische Volks- und Kinderlieder

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The University Medicine Essen has been in contact with Ukrainian doctors since the start of the Ukraine war and has been delivering supplies for emergency medical aid to the Ukraine. Many children with severe cancer are treated further at the …

„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 …

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 …

Middle Byzantine Aphrodisias: The Episcopal Village, AD 700–1250

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This study addresses the settlement at Aphrodisias, known to its medieval inhabitants as Karia, from the eighth through thirteenth centuries. Important bodies of archaeological data, including numismatics, funerary archaeology and liturgical sculpture are presented for the first time. The volume …

Nächstes Jahr in Jerusalem

Jüdisches Leben in Franken

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"Next year in Jerusalem" is a wish, a vision of many Jews who live abroad, in the diaspora. Jews have been living in Franconia for 1000 years - tolerated, expelled, murdered - and they have always dared to make a …