Linguistic and Cultural Aspects of Script Systems

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The present volume contains the contributions presented at the sixth LSS-conference, held in April 2025 in France, and Attests to the diversity of graphematical approaches, encompassing both theoretical perspectives and detailed empirical case studies. The thematic focus of this issue …

Heilkunde im Habit

Heilkundliches Wissen und Krankenpflege in den Lüneburger Frauenklöstern im 15. / 16. Jahrhundert

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Was wissen wir über Heilkunde in spätmittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern? Gab es Nonnen, die einen Beitrag zu den heilkundlichen Diskursen ihrer Zeit leisteten? Die Studie arbeitet am Beispiel der sog. Lüneburger Frauenklöster heraus, dass die Heilkunde am Übergang zur Frühen Neuzeit zur …

On a Day of a Month of the Fire Bird Year: Festschrift for Peter Schwieger on the occasion of his 65th birthday

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Pragmatisches Schriftgut

Bau-, Schuld- und Rechnungsbücher im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit

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Das Anlegen von Bau-, Schuld- und Rechnungsbüchern setzt konkrete Anlässe oder Zielsetzungen voraus, wie z. B. Bauvorhaben, die Kontrolle von Ausgaben oder die Dokumentation von Zahlungen. Insofern lassen sich diese speziellen Bücher des pragmatischen Schriftguts als Werkzeuge verstehen, die geschaffen …

Die Sprachform der homerischen Epen

Faktoren morphologischer Variabilität in literarischen Frühformen: Traditionen, Sprachwandel, sprachliche Anachronismen

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One of the most salient characteristics of the Homeric language is its morphological variability. Ever since Witte and Parry, the meter and the formulaic diction have been believed to be the major factors conditioning the linguistic diversity of Homer’s epics. …

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 25 (2025) Die Stadt in Literatur und Kunst - Kunst und Literatur in der Stadt

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Mit dem Titel ‚Die Stadt in Literatur und Kunst – Kunst und Literatur in der Stadt‘ verfolgt der Band einen zweifachen Ansatz. Aufgenommen werden Überlegungen der jüngeren ‚Urban Sciences‘, die insbesondere die Umsetzung von imaginären Stadtbildern und -vorstellungen in Kunst …

Gnomologium Byzantinum

Studien zur Überlieferung und den Quellen, Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentar

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The critical edition (sub-volume II.1) together with several apparatuses (critical apparatus, descendants, parallels, similes, source), faithfully reproduces two redactions of the early Byzantine corpus of sayings named Gnomologium Byzantinum, replacing the older partial and ‚fictional‘ editions by Wachsmuth and Schenkl. …

International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction

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The journal, first published in 2004, covers the field of historical comparative linguistics and comparative reconstruction, particularly of Indo-European languages, though others such as the Tungusic and North-West Caucasian families are also addressed. Attention is also devoted to philological investigations …

Spelling Identities

Individual Orthographic Usages in English, Nordic and Constructed Languages

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This volume contains a selection of papers given at the 2nd Symposium on Linguistic Identities: Spelling, Writing and Identity, held on 29 and 30 November 2021 at the University of Stavanger, Norway. It also features two specifically commissioned contributions. The …

Discourse Pragmatics and Prosodic Reconstruction

A New Approach to Prosodic Structure in Herodotus' Histories and Beyond

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The aim of this book is to establish prosodic reconstruction – especially of higher prosodic units such as the intonational or prosodic phrase – as a new subfield of historical-comparative linguistics. Incidentally, it develops a new model for capturing the …

Ein Schatzhaus indischer Erzählkunst – Die Erzählliteratur der Jainas

Band 1: Ein „Lesebuch“ originalsprachlicher Texte

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Der Jainismus, eine der drei großen in Indien entstandenen Religionen, hat eine Erzählliteratur hervorgebracht, die von seltener Fülle und vielleicht von einzigartigem Einfallsreichtum ist. Das Interesse, das die Erzählungen und Erzählstoffe der Jainas alleine für sich genommen und dann auch …

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. …

Von Buddha bis Hafiz – Aufsätze zu Indologie und Iranistik

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In the first part of this work are described the religion and art of Buddhism as well as ancient and late medieval weapons. The second part consists of aspects of Iran's material culture, presented from historical and literary sources, especially …

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 …

International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction

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The journal, first published in 2004, covers the field of historical comparative linguistics and comparative reconstruction, particularly of Indo-European languages, though others such as the Tungusic and North-West Caucasian families are also addressed. Attention is also devoted to philological investigations …

La seconda epistola ad Ammeo di Dionigi di Alicarnasso

Studi sulla tradizione manoscritta

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In this book, Alessandra Palla provides the first comprehensive investigation into the manuscript tradition of the Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ De thucydidis idiomatibus, commonly known as Epistula ad Ammaeum II. The extensive study of all the manuscripts and the innovative results …

Persius-Scholien

Die lateinische Persius-Kommentierung der Tradition B

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With the edition of the „tradition B“ of the Latin medieval Persius commentaries the edition of all Persius scholia ( from 9th – 16th century 75 testimonies) is completed (vol. I: tradition A, D, E, 2009; vol. II: tradition C, …

International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction

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The journal, first published in 2004, covers the field of historical comparative linguistics and comparative reconstruction, particularly of Indo-European languages, though others such as the Tungusic and North-West Caucasian families are also addressed. Attention is also devoted to philological investigations …

„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 …

Writing and Orthography in Non-Literary Texts from Roman Britain

A Sociolinguistic Approach

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The analysis of orthographic variation and the writing habit presented in this book represented a heuristic tool for the study of the sociolinguistic scenario of Roman Britain, sketching the different micro-histories of Latinization according to a new, ground-breaking, perspective. As …