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The Conflict of Voices in the Poetry of Dennis Brutus and Mahmud Darwish
A Comparative Study
A comparative analysis of the work of the South African poet Dennis Brutus (1924-2009) and the Palestinian poet Maḥmūd Darwīsh (1942-2008), this study aims to demonstrate how a...
Muhammad Iqbal’s Romanticism of Power
A Post-Structural Approach to His Persian Lyrical Poetry
A study of the Persian poetry of Muḥammad Iqbāl (1877-1938), today Pakistan’s national poet, this work identifies the position his poems occupied between tradition and modernity,...
Martyrdom in Literature
Visions of Death and Meaningful Suffering in Europe and the Middle East from Antiquity to Modernity
This book aims to achieve a deeper understanding of the very human phenomenon of martyrdom by analysing in detail its highly varied re-enactments in European and Middle Eastern...
Writers and Rulers
Perspectives on Their Relationship from Abbasid to Safavid Times
Nine essays explore the ways in which individual Arabic and Persian authors between the 9th and 17th centuries (with examples drawn from the Abbasid to the Safavid dynasties)...
Medizinische Fachprosa aus Mähren
Sprache – Kultur – Edition
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Gegenstand der Untersuchung sind medizinische Texte, die aus dem 15. Jahrhundert stammen und die in der...
Musker und Phryger
Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte Anatoliens vom 12. bis zum 7. Jahrhundert v. Chr.
This book, a commentary to the TAVO-map B IV 8 „Eastern Mediterranean and Mesopotamia around 700 B. C.“, deals with the solution of the question of the identity and identification...
Medieval Painting in the Lebanon
Christians in Lebanon have been painting their churches ever since the time of Christ but their work is largely unknown. Presently, the larger study of Byzantine painting has...
Heilquellen in der deutschen Wissensliteratur des Spätmittelalters
Zur Genese und Funktion eines Paradigmas der Wissensvermittlung am Beispiel des »Tractatus de balneis naturalibus« von Felix Hemmerli und seiner Rezeption
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Das Buch behandelt die Genese einer wissensvermittelnden Textgattung, die im spätmittelalterlichen Italien...
Crossings and Passages in Genre and Culture
Crossings and Passages in Genre and Culture scrutinizes the fascinating and diverse wanderings forms of artistic expression, in particular literature, have taken through different...
Die Inschriften des Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreises I (Boppard, Oberwesel, St. Goar)
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Der Band erfasst in 465 Katalognummern die kommentierten Inschriften des östlichen Teils des heutigen...
Ägyptische Mumienmasken in Würzburg
The department of ancient art in the Martin von Wagner Museum in Würzburg houses a most remarkable collection of twelve mummy masks that was donated by the private collector...
Editor: del Olmo Lete, Gregorio
Catalogue des manuscrits conservés dans la bibliothèque de l’archevêché grec-catholique d’Alep (Syrie)
Manuscrits arabes-chrétiens de l’archevêché grec-catholique d’Alep
This catalogue is typical of an ecclesiastic library belonging to a theological institution devoted to the training of priests. It is an invaluable testimony for the study of the...
Würzburg, der Große Löwenhof und die deutsche Literatur des Spätmittelalters
Tagung vom 9. bis 12. Oktober 2002
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Im Oktober 2002 widmete sich eine interdisziplinäre Tagung den literarischen, bildungs- und...
Leben in der Stadt. Oberitalien zwischen römischer Kaiserzeit und Mittelalter
Abitare in città. La Cisalpina tra impero e medioevo. Kolloquium am 4. und 5. November 1999 in Rom
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In der Spätantike erlebten die Städte im Kernland des Römerreiches einen tiefgreifenden Wandel: Mit der...
Brückenschläge
Eine integrierte »turkoarabische« Romangeschichte (Mitte 19. bis Mitte 20. Jahrhundert)
Brückenschläge (Building Bridges) is the first detailed and systematic comparison of two modern Middle Eastern literatures, taking the novel genre as a paradigm. The study’s...
In cooperation with: Schöler, Stefan
Stone Age Sites and their Natural Environment
The Capital Area of Northern Oman. Part III
This volume presents the data and interpretations which served as a basis for part 4 (Stone Age Settlements on the Coast of Ra’s al-Hamra. Masqat, Oman) of TAVO Map B I 8 dealing...
Buchmalerei in Freiburg im Breisgau
Ein Zisterzienserbrevier aus dem frühen 14. Jahrhundert. Zur Geschichte des Breviers und seiner Illumination
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Diese Studie behandelt eine reich illuminierte zisterziensische Brevierhandschrift, entstanden in Freiburg im...
Editor: Heinzle, Joachim; Klein, Klaus; Obhof, Ute
Die Nibelungen
Sage – Epos – Mythos
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Der Band bildet die Summe der gegenwärtigen Forschung zu den Nibelungen und eröffnet Perspektiven für künftige...
Crisis and Memory
The Representation of Space in Modern Levantine Narrative
This volume explores the literary representation of social and political crises that have punctuated the second half of the 20th century in the Middle East. From the creation of...
Die Inschriften der Stadt Hildesheim
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Der zweiteilige Band enthält die kommentierte Edition der Texte von insgesamt 959 Inschriftenträgern aus der...