Cultural Studies

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...

Fiktionalität im Artusroman des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts

Romanistische und germanistische Perspektiven

Contrary to former studies the volume focusses on the opportunities of fictional world concepts in the Arthurian narrations of the European Middle Ages apart from the factitive...

Skulpturengarten Wolf Spemann

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Der Skulpturengarten von Wolf Spemann in Wiesbaden ist nur einem kleinen Kreis von Kunstinteressierten bekannt....

Nachtigallen an Gottes Thron

Studien zur persischen Dichtung

To date, only a few pioneers have made classical Persian poetry and philosophy accessible to the occidental eye. During the 17th and 18th centuries, influential travellers brought...

Jordanien und Deutschland

Über die Vielfalt kultureller Brücken. Festschrift zum 50jährigen Bestehen der Deutsch-Jordanischen Gesellschaft e.V.

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Dieser länderkundliche Überblick stellt Jordanien umfassend, objektiv und sachbezogen dar. Insbesondere aktuelle...

Die Codices iconographici der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek

Teil 1: Die Handschriften des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts

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Der Fonds der »Codices iconographici« der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München umfasst spätmittelalterliche und...