Orient statt Mecklenburg

Die Reisen des Grafen und der Gräfin von Schlieffen 1850 bis 1853

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Count Wilhelm von Schlieffen and his mother Countess Sophie von Schlieffen, née von Jagow, travelled through Egypt and Sudan in the years 1851–1853. In their travel journal, written by the Count and edited by the Countess, which was discovered in …

Im Land der Musikerlchen

Eine Geschichte zum Lauschen für große und kleine Ohren

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Genau sieben an der Zahl, nämlich das Mutige, das Schlappohrige, das Drachenmaulige, das Neugierige, das Spitznasige, das Quirlige und das Gemütliche bewohnen gemeinsam das Land der Musikerlchen und dort gibt es allerhand zu entdecken und zu erleben. Gemeinsam mit diesen …

Deutsche Gedichte zweisprachig

(Kurmanji-Kurdisch / Deutsch)

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In Deutschland leben mittlerweile 1.5 Millionen Menschen kurdischer Herkunft, doch ist der Austausch zwischen den beiden Sprachen Deutsch und Kurdisch auf künstlerisch-literarischer Ebene nur marginal. Erste literarische Werke kurdischer Autoren wurden in den letzten Jahren ins Deutsche übersetzt, eine Seltenheit …

Die einstimmigen Lieder Oswalds von Wolkenstein

Edition der Melodien und Kommentar

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Eine wissenschaftlich reflektierte Gesamtausgabe der rund 100 einstimmigen Melodien Oswalds von Wolkenstein galt viele Jahrzehnte als Desiderat. Mit dieser Publikation wird nun endlich eine angemessene Edition und Kommentierung sämtlicher einstimmiger Lieder des spätmittelalterlichen Dichters, Sängers und Komponisten Oswald von Wolkenstein …

Wege in die Geschichte durch Erzählen von Vergangenheit in der Frühen Neuzeit

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The examination of historical images in selected works from the 16th century offers a fundamental insight into how the Early Modern Period related to the past, especially the High Middle Ages; it shows, among other things, the coexistence of both …

Zwischen Tugend und Laster

Weibliche Rollenbilder in den Tragedi und Comedi des Hans Sachs

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The present study is the first to examine in detail a representative corpus of the tragedi and comedi with female protagonists written by the Nuremberg author Hans Sachs. On the basis of a precise reconstruction of the intertextual frame of …

Miniaturen mittelalterlicher Kalpasutra-Handschriften

Eine ikonographische Betrachtung mit kultur- und religionsgeschichtlichen Anmerkungen

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The focus of this study on Indian book illumination are the miniatures of six Jain Kalpasūtra manuscripts produced in western India (Gujarat and Rajasthan) as well as in Jaunpur, the capital of a Sultanate located further to the northeast, during …

Tradition and Identity: The Architecture of Greek Churches in Cyprus (14th to 16th Centuries)

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This first study of the late medieval Greek churches in Cyprus investigates over 300 buildings. It addresses the historical and artistic context of these churches, the first part containing more traditional methodological approaches such as the analysis of stylistic developments …

Wahnsinn und Ekstase

Literarische Konfigurationen zwischen christlicher Antike und Mittelalter

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›Wahnsinn‹ (insanity) is an enigmatic term with a huge variety of meanings. This variety ranges from labelling mental illnesses or behaviour which is incomprehensible, unreliable or dangerous, to positive attributes (»wahnsinnig gut« i.e. »extremely great«). In case studies, this volume …

Wir, die Balten

Einblicke in die Geschichte der baltischen Sprachen und Völker

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Das Forschungsfeld des litauischen Sprachwissenschaftlers Algirdas Sabaliauskas (1929–2016) umfasst sowohl die baltischen Sprachen als auch die baltische Sprachwissenschaft. Sein Buch /Wir, die Balten/ ist ein lehrreicher und unterhaltsamer linguistischer Spaziergang durch die Geschichte der baltischen Sprachen, der für Sprachexperten wie …

Reise durch Nubien – Fotos einer Expedition um 1900

Travels in Nubia – Photographs of an expedition around 1900

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Nubia around 1900, sunken worlds on rediscovered photographs from the Egyptian Museum Berlin; in the course of indexing the museum's photographic archive, 340 photographs from an expedition to the region between the first and second Nile cataracts have reappeared, a …

Im Land der Musikerlchen

Spielerisches Musizieren mit Kindern

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Curtain up for the funny little musicians: the curious, the pointy-nosed, the lively, the brave, the floppy-eared, the dragon-mouthed and the cosy. All of them and many more cheerful fantasy creatures populate the land of the little musicians. They playfully …

Die Kniga palomnik des Antonij von Novgorod

Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar

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This book contains the first study of the text transmission of the Kniga palomnik by Anthony of Novgorod. From the philological perspective, the edition offers a new text basis for further research into the characteristics, the transmission and reception of …

Fiktionalität trans- und intermedial

Arthurische Möglichkeitsräume in Mittelalter und Moderne

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In this dissertation the author asks if the people in the Middle Ages already had an awareness of fictionality in today’s sense. She investigates this question through a comparison between Middle High German Arthurian romances and modern Arthurian films/television series …

Le livre du Chevalier errant

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From 1394 to 1396 the Piedmontese marquis Thomas III of Saluzzo wrote a long encyclopaedic novel in French in which a knight wanders through the three allegorical worlds of Cupid, Fortuna and Lady Knowledge. Like hardly any other work of …

The Triconch House

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The Triconch House is a large, late antique peristyle house in Aphrodisias in southwestern Asia Minor. Previously known as the Bishop’s Palace, it is one of the best preserved late antique houses in the Greek East and one of several …

Shepheard’s of Cairo

The Birth of the Oriental Grand Hotel

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The book provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of the art, architecture and design of the legendary Shepheard’s Hotel of Cairo. Until recently, there had been little scholarly work on the building due to the near total absence of visual …

Die nicht-dramatischen Dichtungen des Hans Sachs

Grundlagen, Texttypen, Interpretationen

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Hans Sachs (1494–1576) is the most powerful German-language author of the 16th century with a body of work comprising more than 6200 songs. In recent decades, research on his rhyme and song poetry has been limited to individual studies and …

Von Stadtmauern und Salbtöpfen

Archäologie zur Siedlungs- und Apothekengeschichte in Biberach

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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 …

Arbeiten an Welt- und Selbstbild im ,Welschen Gast‘ Thomasins von Zerclære

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Thomasin von Zerclaere's 'Welsh Guest' is a Middle High German behavioural theory from around 1215/16, with an extensive picture cycle. At first glance, the text may appear to be a jumbled collection of individual admonitions, undergirded by recordings from encyclopaedic …