Messapisch
Concise description of the Messapic language (phonology, morphology, syntax) on the basis of the Messapic epigraphic corpus. Analysis of selected Messapic inscriptions. Extensive bibliography.
Concise description of the Messapic language (phonology, morphology, syntax) on the basis of the Messapic epigraphic corpus. Analysis of selected Messapic inscriptions. Extensive bibliography.
The Hellenistic chamber tombs of Taranto represent by far the largest group of known Hellenistic burial chambers in the ancient Mediterranean. In the sixth volume of the Italiká series, the chamber tombs constructed between the 4th and 1st century BC …
This volume concentrates on episodes in Middle High German literature in which identity becomes ambiguous through the using of disguises. In this way, these episodes are not underestimated as droll story elements but are actively used to explain how identity …
North Africa is one of the most populated Regions in the Roman Empire. At the beginning of the 3. Cent. A.D. a tremendous agglomeration of cities was located in Africa proconsularis which had a very individual urban culture. This book …
Misbâh ul-arvâh, or The Lantern of Spirits, is a comparatively little known Sufi didactic Persian poem written in the 12th century by the next to unknown Shaikh Shams ud-dîn Muhammad b. Îl-Tughân Bardasîrî Kirmânî. It is not a very long …
The Triconch House is a large, late antique peristyle house in Aphrodisias in southwestern Asia Minor. Previously known as the Bishop’s Palace, it is one of the best preserved late antique houses in the Greek East and one of several …
In this work, the Authors provide an analysis of the entire verbal system of Pashto, the language of some 50 million speakers in Afghanistan, Pakistan and diasporas. As an Iranian language, Pashto verbs share some main behaviours with the other …
Kein anderer Kaiser herrschte in den drei Jahrhunderten zwischen Augustus und Konstantin dem Großen so lange wie Antoninus Pius. Trotzdem gehört dieser Kaiser zu den am wenigsten bekannten – schließlich kann seine Regentschaft weder Intrigen am Kaiserhof noch Verschwörungen im …
Wissen entsteht nicht unabhängig von Räumen, sondern ist schon in seiner Formierung selbst an Prozesse der Verräumlichung gebunden. Historisch zunächst als visuelle Differenz konstruiert, spielt für die Konstruktion rassischer Unterschiede die Dimension des Raumes ebenfalls eine zentrale Rolle.
The Hohlenstein in the Lonetal (Lone valley) is part of a group of caves in the Swabian Alb, in which the oldest known evidence of figurative art in the history of man have been found and which have been UNESCO …
The results of two excavations at very different locations in the medieval townscape of Biberach are being published in the volume at hand. Fresh insights into the beginning of the settlement, the development in the outskirts as well as into …
Jerusalem's immovable loca sancta - the places sanctified by Christ's presence - were last fundamentally remodelled in the Crusader period, adapting them to the demands of the new age. This new approach resulted from a combination of innovation and historicity, …
Nach der Gründung durch Alexander den Großen wuchs Alexandria schnell zu einer Großstadt neuen Typs. Menschen ganz unterschiedlicher Herkunft schufen sich einen neuen Lebensraum und neue gesellschaftliche Strukturen. Das älteste bekannte Begräbnisgelände der Stadt ist die Nekropole von Shatby, die …
The ancient (re-)production of images seen through a cultural-historical perspective is at the heart of this study, which, by the means of case studies, examines the specific situational conditions and various influences concerning the production of relief images in the …
From 1394 to 1396 the Piedmontese marquis Thomas III of Saluzzo wrote a long encyclopaedic novel in French in which a knight wanders through the three allegorical worlds of Cupid, Fortuna and Lady Knowledge. Like hardly any other work of …
In this dissertation the author asks if the people in the Middle Ages already had an awareness of fictionality in today’s sense. She investigates this question through a comparison between Middle High German Arthurian romances and modern Arthurian films/television series …
This study focusses on the Roman Senate and its relation to the Emperors, taking a long-term perspective. The starting point is the observation, that the senators as a body held their sessions continuously from the 1st to the 6th century …
Die Kirchen der Dunklen Jahrhunderte, der Zeit zwischen Spätantike und Mittelalter, wurden lange Zeit recht stiefmütterlich behandelt. Zwar hat man sich schon früh für die in dieser Zeit vollzogenen nachhaltigen Veränderungen interessiert und nach deren Ursachen geforscht, doch wurden die …
“From Ordinary to Luxury” is based on the glazed and unglazed pottery from The Bumiller Collection and is a profound study of Iranian and Central Asian ceramics. The Bumiller set is not a collection of masterpieces, but gives an insight …
The publication on Rough Cilicia "Identity and cultural Exchange in Ancient Cilicia: New Results and Future Perspectives" combines the results of a workshop held at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in May 2018. It contains a series of individual studies that …