Formelhaftigkeit in Text und Bild

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This volume comprises interdisciplinary papers on different subjects in the field of the humanities, which were read at a workshop of the same name at the University of Trier in 2008. For the first time, the papers focus on the …

People from the Desert

Pre-Islamic Arabs in History and Culture

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“People from the Desert. Pre-Islamic Arabs in History and Culture” provides a collection of text-based studies that investigate different aspects of the history, culture and literature of the pre-Islamic period. It presents detailed studies of the poetry of Imruʼl-Qays, al-Shanfara, …

Leben und Handeln im Alltag von Kairo

Sozialwissenschaftliche Analysen einer Gesellschaft im Umbruch

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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,’ …

Ehrenstatuen in der Spätantike

Chlamydati und Togati

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The book investigates the iconography and chronology of the late antique toga statue and the late antique Chlamys statue. Both types of honorific statuary can only be observed from the Theodosian period (late-4th century) onwards. The phenomenon will be explained …

Villa und christlicher Kult auf der Iberischen Halbinsel in Spätantike und Westgotenzeit

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This volume examines important complexes of late antique and Visigothic villas in rural areas throughout the Iberian peninsula with regard to the process of Christianization, apart from the urban centres that have been the main subject of research so far. …

Das »Bairisch-österreichische Buch von Troja«

(»Buch von Troja II«). Kritische Ausgabe

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With this volume, Heribert A. Hilgers and Heinz Thoelen present a critical edition of one of the most noteworthy and outstanding late medieval German prose epics about Troy, which has been prepared on the basis of all surviving manuscripts. The …

Erlebte Ethnologie

Ein Rückblick auf die Geschichte der Universitäts-Ethnologie in Leipzig 1951 bis 1993

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In seiner „Erlebten Ethnologie“ gibt Dietrich Treide einen Rückblick auf ein sehr wesentliches Kapitel der Geschichte des ältesten deutschen Instituts für Völkerkunde, auf die Universitäts-Ethnologie in Leipzig nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg bis zur Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands und weitere vier Jahre darüber …

Die Inschriften der Stadt Halle an der Saale

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Der Band präsentiert in 530 Katalogartikeln und einem Anhang die mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen, sowohl original erhaltenen als auch abschriftlich überlieferten Inschriften aus dem heutigen Stadtgebiet von Halle. Erfasst sind alle Inschriften vom hohen Mittelalter bis zum Jahr 1650. Zu den …

Frühe Quellen zum buddhistischen Stufenweg in Tibet

Indische und tibetische Traditionen im »dPe chos« des Po-to-ba Rin-chen-gsal

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During the 11th and 12th centuries, Tibetan culture underwent fundamental changes. It was during this period that Buddhism became firmly rooted on the Tibetan plateau and its major traditions originated. At the same time, Tibetan Buddhist teachers and scholars created …

Westcar on the Nile

A journey through Egypt in the 1820s

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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 …

Fibeln und Gürtelzubehör der späten römischen Kaiserzeit aus Augusta Vindelicum/Augsburg

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For the first time ever is the large, manifold collection of late Roman brooches and belt fittings from the late third until the first half of the fifth century AD from the provincial capital Augusta Vindelicum/Augsburg documented and typologically analysed. …

Die Basilica Aemilia am Forum Romanum

Der kaiserzeitliche Bau und seine Ornamentik

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The Basilica Aemilia in the Forum Romanum is one of the most important buildings of ancient Rome due to its location, size and architecture. It is also especially well preserved in comparison with many other ancient buildings, and yet it …

Krise und Wandel

Süditalien im 4. und 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr. Internationaler Kongress anlässlich des 65. Geburtstages von Dieter Mertens

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During the fourth and third centuries BC, Sicily and South Italy were the site of almost incessant conflicts between their indigenous peoples, Greek settlers, Punic colonists, and Roman conquerors. Their cities and villages offer great opportunity for the study of …

Pitakamala. »The Garland of the Pitaka«

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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

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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 …

Orte – Ordnungen – Oszillationen

Raumerschaffung durch Wissen und räumliche Struktur von Wissen

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The volume goes back to a transdicsiplinary conference held in December 2010 at the University of Trier. It contains articles dedicated to tree key concepts that are central to the 'spatial turn'-discussion in the framework of the historically oriented cultural …

Christliche Archäologie compact

Ein topographischer Überblick. Europa – Asien – Afrika

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“Christian archaeology compact” is the first overview of the whole of the archaeological places and certifications of this discipline. The framework extends geographically from the British islands to Ethiopia and from Morocco to China and temporally from 1. to the …

Das Ende des Babylonischen Exils

Kulturgeschichtliche Epochenwende in der Literatur der letzten irakisch-jüdischen Autoren

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“Das Ende des Babylonischen Exils” is the first comprehensive German-language study of Iraqi-Jewish literature. It is also the first study on the subject to consider memoirs written after 2003 as well as novels published by Iraqi Muslim authors, and offers …

Die illuminierten Handschriften italienischer Herkunft in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek

Teil 1: Vom 10. bis zur Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts

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The illuminated manuscripts from Italy which are held in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München date from the pre-Carolingian period up to the 16th century. The oldest codices have already been described in the catalogue of illuminated pre-Carolingian and Carolingian manuscripts (Katharina …

Die Ehrenbögen in Pompeji

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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. …