Cultural Studies

Politics of Qat

The Role of a Drug in Ruling Yemen

Teil 1
21 x 28 cm, 880 p., 14 s/w- und 13 farbige Karten, hardback
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For Imam Yahya, one of Yemen’s last kings, qat was a delight that he praised in poems. For his adversary, the revolutionary al-Zubayri, the plant was the “devil in the shape of a tree«”. Still today the views on qat …

Mit Wissen geschmückt?

Zur bildlichen Rezeption griechischer Dichter und Denker in der römischen Lebenswelt

22.5 x 31.5 cm, 278 p., auf 52 s/w- und 2 Farbtafeln, hardback
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The relations between Greek and Roman culture constituted a continuous exchange since the Roman expansion into the Eastern Mediterranean area in the second century BC. One aspect of this phenomenon is the reception of Greek education and its visual presence …

Autorität der Autorschaft: Heinrich Glarean als Vermittler seiner Musiktheorie
17 x 24 cm, 352 p., 16 farbige Tafeln, hardback
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Die Arbeit widmet sich am Beispiel der 1547 in Basel gedruckten musiktheoretischen Schrift „Dodekachordon“ den Strategien des Schweizer Humanisten Heinrich Glarean, die dieser bei der Vermittlung seines Werkes an Studenten der Frühneuzeitlichen Universität einerseits sowie an Funktionsträger in verschiedenen von …

Neuere Aspekte germanistischer Spätmittelalterforschung
17 x 24 cm, 292 p., cloth
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Die hier publizierten Tagungsbeiträge bilanzieren und perspektivieren Aspekte der Forschung zum deutschen Spätmittelalter. Dabei kommen verschiedene Blickwinkel und methodische Ansätze zum Tragen, von der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung über die Gattungsperspektive bis hin zur weiterführenden, exemplarischen Analyse am Einzeltext. In der Summe ergeben …

Von Sieglinde Hartmann unter redaktioneller Mitarbeit von Michael Schurk

Deutsche Liebeslyrik vom Minnesang bis zu Oswald von Wolkenstein

oder die Erfindung der Liebe im Mittelalter

17 x 24 cm, 224 p., hardback
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This initial volume of the series provides a basic introduction into the particularities of the history of mentality, language and literature in a study of the Middle Ages focusing on German language and literature. The main body of the book …

Militär in Rom

Militärische und paramilitärische Einheiten im kaiserzeitlichen Stadtbild

22 x 29 cm, 184 p., paperback / softback
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In the Republican period Rome was considered a “demilitarised” zone. Under Augustus soldiers were stationed in the imperial capital for the first time, making a decisive turning point between Republic and Principate. Between 10,000 and 40,000 soldiers lived and worked …

Leben und Handeln im Alltag von Kairo

Sozialwissenschaftliche Analysen einer Gesellschaft im Umbruch

17 x 24 cm, 604 p., hardback
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Under the influence of political and social discourses as a result of 9/11 and the Orientalist allegations on the part of Arab intellectuals, Lars Gaiser developed a new action-oriented approach, which he has tested in four everyday situations: ‘enabling formation,’ …

The Joshua Roll
17 x 24 cm, 224 p., hardback
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The “Joshua Roll” (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. gr. 431), a tenth-century illuminated scroll of the first half of the Old Testament book of Joshua, is among the finest examples of Byzantine book illumination. Previously overlooked, the texts accompanying the …

By Gudrun Bühnemann with Transliterations and Translations from the Newari by Kashinath Tamot

The Life of the Buddha

Buddhist and Saiva Iconography and Visual Narratives in Artists’ Sketchbooks from Nepal

21 x 28 cm, 204 p., with dust jacket
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This book describes, analyses and reproduce line drawings from two manuscripts and a related section from a third manuscript. These are:
1. Manuscript M.82.169.2, preserved in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (circa late 19th century)
2. Manuscript 82.242-1-24, preserved in …

Westcar on the Nile

A journey through Egypt in the 1820s

21 x 27 cm, 264 p., 1 farbige Karte, 1 Stammbaum, hardback
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On November 6, 1823, four Englishmen disembarked in the harbour of Alexandria. In the succeeding ten months, they traveled up the Nile as far as the Second Cataract and, in the course of their travels, witnessed the turmoils of a …

Pitakamala. »The Garland of the Pitaka«
13 x 21 cm, 380 p., incl. CD-Rom with digital images of the “Pitakamalas” of Wat Phra Luang and Wat Ratanaram, paperback / softback
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“Pitakamala” or “The Garland of the Pitaka” is a Northern Thai text that describes the Buddhist scriptures as they were traditionally transmitted in palm-leaf manuscripts kept in temple libraries. Different versions are known. This volume, the first time a “Pitakamala” …

»Simavicarana«

A Pali letter on monastic boundaries by King Rama IV of Siam

13 x 21 cm, 104 p., paperback / softback
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“Simavicarana” presents an annotated romanized edition of a letter composed in Pali by Thera Vajiranana - that is, by King Mogkut (Rama IV) of Siam when he was a monk before he took the throne. Sent in 1844 to Thera …

Ornamentale Purpurwirkereien

De variis purpureis segmentis, paragaudis, clavis et ceteris ornamentis cum ornamento

17 x 24 cm, 1686 p., hardback
348.00 €
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The textile finds from Egypt provide a special quantitative and qualitative value to the ornamental purple textiles. They can be counted as a chief representative of ornamental work in “Coptic” art.
In some respects, this three-volume work attempts to lay the …

Von Klaus Müller mit Beiträgen von Valentin Kockel

Die Ehrenbögen in Pompeji
24 x 32 cm, 140 p., 2 Klapptafeln, hardback
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Fünf Bogenbauten zieren als Ehrenmonumente zentral gelegene Plätze Pompejis. Seit langem sind sie bekannt und finden sich auch in Rekonstruktionsdarstellungen der vergangenen zwei Jahrhunderte mehrfach und oft phantasievoll in Szene gesetzt. Ihr Baubestand wurde bis heute noch nicht näher untersucht. …

»Gott liebt das Handwerk«

Moral, Identität und religiöse Legitimierung in der mittelasiatischen Handwerks-risala

17 x 24 cm, 320 p., hardback
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The present book is the first large-scale research on the Central Asian crafts’ risala, a pre-Soviet code of conduct, and describes the crafts spiritual and social roots by drawing on oral and written sources.

Hrsg. von Martin Przybilski mit Beiträgen von Theresia Biehl, Christoph Gerhardt und Stefan Hannes Greil

Studien zu ausgewählten Fastnachtspielen des Hans Folz

Struktur – Autorschaft – Quellen

17 x 24 cm, 144 p., hardback
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At the threshold of modernism, the artisan poet Hans Folz plays a significant role as author and printer in the cultural center of Nuremberg. Part of his multifaceted oeuvre includes at least 18 carnival plays (Fastnachtspiele) that are currently being …