Cultural Studies

Von Mekka bis Berlin

Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte des islamischen Friedhofs

In this book the Islamic burial culture is presented extensively on the basis of their cemeteries, mausoleums and grave architecture from its beginnings at the time of Muhammad...

Diagramm und Text. Diagrammatische Strukturen und die Dynamisierung von Wissen und Erfahrung

Überstorfer Colloquium 2012

Diagrams, of which Isidore’s cosmological rota is perhaps the best example, are marked by their potential for abstraction. This same potential means that they lend themselves to a...

Wissensraum Film

The present volume „Wissensraum Film“ („Film as Knowledge Space”) concentrates on two aspects: knowledge and spaces in film. Main focus lies on the relevance of a relational...

Boote, Burgen, Bischarin

Heinrich Schäfers Tagebuch einer Nubienreise zum zweiten Nilkatarakt im Jahre 1900

In 1900 five German scholars travelled to the region of the second cataract to study pharaonic fortifications and pursue ethnographic research in Nubia. Surplus funds from the...

Konversion in Räumen jüdischer Geschichte

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Der Band dokumentiert die Beiträge der wissenschaftlichen Tagung ‚Konversion in Räumen jüdischer Geschichte‘....

Der „Zug über Berge“ während des Mittelalters

Neue Perspektiven der Erforschung mittelalterlicher Romzüge

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Der Band betrachtet das Thema „Romzug“ seit dem 10. Jahrhundert. Dabei analysieren die Beiträge die Wirkung...

Malkurs Chinesische Blumenmalerei

Schritt für Schritt mit Lili Yuan

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Die Kunst der chinesischen Tuschemalerei, die auf einer über fünftausendjährigen Tradition chinesischer...

Orts-Wechsel

Reale, imaginierte und virtuelle Wissensräume

Focusing on the concept of ’changing places’, the essays in this anthology discuss processes of constitution, stabilization, and transformation of ’worlds of knowledge‘, covering...

Digitale Rekonstruktionen mittelalterlicher Bibliotheken

The transposition of medieval manuscripts into the digital space gives rise to new questions and entails consequences that have to be cleared and solved. The present collection...

A Critical Edition of the Tibetan Translation of the Mahaparinirvana-mahasutra

The Mahāparinirvāṇa-mahāsūtra, the great sūtra on the parinirvāna of the Buddha, narrates the legends of the last time of the Buddha’s life in a particular way, which differs from...

Märchen und Geschichten der Beduinen im Sinai

The fairy tales and stories in this book draw a colourful picture of Bedouin life and of a vanishing culture. At the same time there are parallels and stunning similarities to the...

Arabische Musikinstrumente in der Literatur des Mittelalters

With cultural exchange taking place in various settings during the Middle Ages, European musical instruments were highly influenced by Islamic cultures. Apart from the impact of...

Übertragungsräume

Medialität und Raum in der Moderne

In this volume, whose authors explore conceptions of space from the 18th to the 20th century, focusing on the role of the body and the senses as well as the importance of the...

Divrigi

Unterwegs zur türkischen Mystik in Stein

Since the medieval building complex consisting of the Friday mosque and the psychiatric hospital was declared “World Cultural Heritage Site” in 1986 the small provincial town of...

Nomad Aristocrats in a World of Empires

The papers published in this volume go back to a conference held November 2011 in Hamburg. The conference was built around the question of domination: of nomads over sedentary...

Das Buch in der Spätantike

Herstellung, Form, Ausstattung und Verbreitung in der westlichen Reichshälfte des Imperium Romanum

Modern historians describes late antiquity as a period with an own face, different from classical antiquity and Middle Ages. Development was more slowly and without crashs, also...

Mittelalter-Renaissance auf der Bühne

Wiederaufleben des mittelalterlichen Dramas und Theaters in der Neuzeit

The study is devoted to tracing the reanimation of medieval drama and theatre in Germany in modern times. Based on a collection of more than 3000 documented performances the...

Die Krise der technologischen Zivilisation und die asiatische Antwort

Ynhui Park diagnoses an unprecedented crisis of the global civilization which threatens the very survival of the world and of mankind. This crisis cannot be understood without...

Formgeschichte der Sangspruchdichtung des 12. bis 15. Jahrhunderts

In spite of the widespread opinion that medieval poetry, and particularly song, is to a great extent a formal art, questions of form are often marginal in research concerning the...

Utilidad y decoro

Zeremoniell und symbolische Kommunikation in den „Leges Palatinae“ König Jacobs III. von Mallorca (1337)

The theme of the conference proceedings is the question, whether in the 14th century in one of the Catalan kingdoms there has been a first European ceremony or whether it is a...