Welcome to the Reichert Media Library

Here, we offer our high-quality monographs, textbooks and manuals in the fields of archaeology, oriental studies, history, musicology, music therapy, linguistics, art history, book and library science as well as facsimile editions of important medieval and early modern manuscripts and incunabula – all conveniently and securely available as eBooks. In addition to our current publications, our Media Library also holds a large part of our backlist, which we are constantly expanding, as well as additional material such as our TAVO maps, music and video files for various titles and audio files for selected language textbooks. Happy browsing!

New releases

Herausgegeben von der Deutschen Musiktherapeutischen Gesellschaft. Redaktion: Hanna Schirmer

Jahrbuch Musiktherapie / Music Therapy Annual

Band 5 (2009) Musiktherapie und emotionale Differenzierung / Vol. 5 (2009) Music Therapy and Emotional Differentiation

204 p., E-book
Open Access

This volume deals with emotional differentiation, with differentiation of affects, and with regulation of affects in music therapy. Therapists generally address their attention to the manner in which the emotional expression changes, is refined, or is broken in the course …

Herausgegeben von der Deutschen Musiktherapeutischen Gesellschaft. Bis Band 3 (2007) Jahrbuch Musiktherapie herausgegeben vom Berufsverband der Musiktherapeutinnen und Musiktherapeuten in Deutschland e.V. (BVM). Redaktion: Hanna Schirmer

Jahrbuch Musiktherapie / Music Therapy Annual

Band 4 (2008) »Drittes Reich«, Zweiter Weltkrieg und danach – Spuren der Vergangenheit / Vol. 4 (2008) Third Reich, World War II and Thereafter – Traces of the Past

214 p., E-book
Open Access

This volume of the Music Therapy Annual focuses on the therapy of patients with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) caused by war, forced displacement, serious accidents and natural disasters.

Herausgegeben vom Berufsverband der Musiktherapeutinnen und Musiktherapeuten in Deutschland e.V. (BMV). Redaktion: Hanna Schirmer

Jahrbuch Musiktherapie / Music Therapy Annual

Band 3 (2007) Kultursensibilität und Musiktherapie / Vol. 3 (2007) Therapeutic Sensivity to Culture Specific Issues

224 p., E-book
Open Access

This volume is dedicated to the encounter with people from other cultures. Almost daily we are confronted with news about terror and violence, less often we read about reconciliation. But often music can build a bridge. For example, an annual …

Herausgegeben vom Berufsverband der Musiktherapeutinnen und Musiktherapeuten in Deutschland e.V. (BMV). Redaktion: Hanna Schirmer

Jahrbuch Musiktherapie / Music Therapy Annual

Band 2 (2006) Schöpferisches Potential der Musiktherapie vor dem Hintergrund gegenwärtiger Rahmenbedingungen / Vol. 2 (2006) Creative Potential and Current Practice Settings

224 p., E-book
Open Access

From the contents:
Barbara Keller, Cornelia Klären, Ursula Pfefferle: Musik auf Rädern GbR – ambulante Musiktherapie – Gründung und Etablierung eines Dienstleistungsunternehmens und Erfahrungen aus der musiktherapeutischen Arbeit mit alten Menschen

Pia Neiwert: Musiktherapeutische Methoden in der beruflichen Weiterbildung

Cynthia A. Briggs, Susan …

Herausgegeben vom Berufsverband der Musiktherapeutinnen und Musiktherapeuten in Deutschland e.V. (BMV). Redaktion: Hanna Schirmer

Jahrbuch Musiktherapie / Music Therapy Annual

Band 1 (2005) Forschung und Entwicklung / Vol. 1 (2005) Research and Development

196 p., E-book
Open Access

The title "Research and Development" was chosen for the first issue of the "Jahrbuch Musiktherapie", a motto that will never lose its relevance. In this yearbook, contributions are published that deal with the respective topic or individual aspects of it …

Purpur in Byzanz

Privileg und Würdeformel

288 p., E-book
49.00 €
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As a supplement to the studies mentioned above and in response to the persistent desideratum of the few pictorial sources that have been analysed, this work focuses on the significance of purple fabric and purple colour in pictorial works and …

Impermanent Monuments, Lasting Legacies: The Dār al-Khilāfa of Samarra and Palace Building in Early Abbasid Iraq

216 p., E-book
129.00 €
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This book offers a new interpretation of early Abbasid palaces as “impermanent monuments.” Synthesizing an array of sources, ranging from archaeological finds and classical Arabic literature to modern studies on the social and intellectual history of Islamic civilization, it reveals …

Von Ludwig Paul With the cooperation of Pejman Firoozbakhsh

An Analytical Bibliography of New Iranian Languages and Dialects

Based on Persian publications since ca. 1980

448 p., E-book
98.00 €
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This bibliography is a collection of ca. 3,600 publications on new West Iranian languages and dialects (except Persian) that have been published in Iran since the revolution of 1979. It includes works on languages and dialects, e.g., grammars, dictionaries, and …

Thomas von Cantimpré ›Liber de naturis rerum‹

Übersetzung des Textes der Redaktion III (Thomas III) eines Anonymus

395 p., E-book
98.00 €
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Based on the encyclopaedia "Liber de natura rerum" by the Dominican Thomas of Cantimpré, the so-called 'Thomas III' version was produced by an anonymous editor in the 13th century. Out of interest in natural things themselves, he excerpted the found …

Zurück zur Wurzel – Struktur, Funktion und Semantik der Wurzel im Indogermanischen

Akten der Tagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 13. bis 16. September 2016 in Wien

348 p., E-book
98.00 €
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“Back to the Root” constitutes the proceedings of the 15th Fachtagung of the Indogermanische Gesellschaft, held in Vienna 13-16 September 2016. The 23 papers cover various topics of the Indo-European root, its constituents and properties, as well as various studies …

Mitteilungen zur Spätantiken Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte 8-2021

Imaginum orbis. Bilderwelten zwischen Spätantike und Byzanz. Festschrift anlässlich des 80. Geburtstags von Johannes G. Deckers

304 p., E-book
49.00 €
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This book is a commemorative publication on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. Johannes G. Deckers, former professor of Byzantine art history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. The volume brings together a total of 18 contributions by …

International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction

296 p., E-book
39.90 €
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The journal, first published in 2004, covers the field of historical comparative linguistics and comparative reconstruction, particularly of Indo-European languages, though others such as the Tungusic and North-West Caucasian families are also addressed. Attention is also devoted to philological investigations …

Die Sammlung Kiseleff im Martin-von-Wagner-Museum der Universität Würzburg

Teil I: Ägyptische und koptische Antiken

856 p., E-book
89.00 €
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In 1982, in the 400th year of the second founding of the Julius Maximilian University Würzburg, Alexander Kiseleff (1919–2002) donated a large part of his private collection of Greek and Egyptian antiquities to the University of Würzburg, eventually bequeathing the …