Cultural Studies

Der Symbolismus des zwölften Jahrhunderts

Per visibilia ad invisibilia

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In dem an geistigen Bewegungen reichen zwölften Jahrhundert erscheint neben der in Frankreich entwickelten neuen...

Hartmann von Aue: „Gregorius“

und die Wiederkehr des Ödipus-Mythos im Mittelalter

With Gregorius, written around 1190, Hartmann von Aue created a masterpiece of courtly saintly life that builds on the tradition of French sources while enriching it with...

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...

El exemplum bíblico: historia sagrada e ideología laica en la España medieval

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Die Bibel spielte eine grundlegende Rolle bei der Entwicklung der volkssprachlichen Literaturen. Einer ihrer...

ResourceCultures

How Resources Affect Societies

The final publication of the CRC 1070 ResourceCultures offers interdisciplinary insights into the questions of how resources are created, how resources are utilised, how resources...

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

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...

Iran - Geschichte, Kultur und Gesellschaft

Eine praktische Landeskunde

Iran - a beautiful country of ancient, proud culture, politically in conflict with Western states, contradictory, enigmatic and partly misunderstood. This book aims to explain...

Georgien

Geographie. Geschichte. Wirtschaft

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...

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“...

The Afterlife of Avestan Manuscripts: Colophons and Marginal notes

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...

Neue Gesetze für ein besseres Leben?

Überlegungen zu Praktiken und Theorien der Gesetzgebung im Mittelalter

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...

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...

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

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

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...

Paradigmen und Perspektiven einer Mediävistischen Komparatistik

Freiburger Colloquium 2021

The publication presents the results of the interdisciplinary Freiburg Colloquium 2021 (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland) "Paradigms and Perspectives of Comparative Medieval...

Der gesprengte Kreis

Max Beckmanns Schüler zwischen Realismus und Abstraktion

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...

Der strahlende Berg

Geschichten aus Fukushima

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...

ukrayins‘ki pisni

Traditionelle ukrainische Volks- und Kinderlieder

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...

„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

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...

Mystique, langage, image : montrer l’invisible Mystik, Sprache, Bild: Die Visualisierung des Unsichtbaren

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...

Nächstes Jahr in Jerusalem

Jüdisches Leben in Franken

"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...