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

Colour Schemes in Roman Architecture

Aesthetics, Semantics, and Regional Appropriation

240 p., E-book
98.00 €
Series: Material Appropriation Processes In Antiquity
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Roman architecture was characterised by a rich palette of colours, achieved through the use of natural coloured stones and painting. This conference volume is the first book entirely dedicated to the polychromy of architectural orders in the Roman provinces. Its …

Wahnsinn und Ekstase

Literarische Konfigurationen zwischen christlicher Antike und Mittelalter

164 p., E-book
78.00 €
Series: Imagines Medii Aevi. Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur Mittelalterforschung
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›Wahnsinn‹ (insanity) is an enigmatic term with a huge variety of meanings. This variety ranges from labelling mental illnesses or behaviour which is incomprehensible, unreliable or dangerous, to positive attributes (»wahnsinnig gut« i.e. »extremely great«). In case studies, this volume …

›Naturheiligtümer‹ im westlichen Kleinasien.

Natur in sakralen Kontexten von der Archaik bis zum Ausgang des Hellenismus

194 p., E-book
Open Access

Caves, rocks, springs and trees shaped ancient cult practice to a great extent and were important, sometimes legitimising components of Greek sanctuaries. They could even constitute the actual sanctuary itself. Since such natural sanctuaries were not per se precursors of …

Spelling Identities

Individual Orthographic Usages in English, Nordic and Constructed Languages

190 p., E-book
69.00 €
Series: LautSchriftSprache - ScriptandSound
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This volume contains a selection of papers given at the 2nd Symposium on Linguistic Identities: Spelling, Writing and Identity, held on 29 and 30 November 2021 at the University of Stavanger, Norway. It also features two specifically commissioned contributions. The …

Das severische Vexillationskastell Myd(---) und die spätantiken castra Madensia / Gheriat el-Garbia am limes Tripolitanus (Libyen)

II Ausgrabungen und Untersuchungen im Kastell, im Steinbruch, in den Heiligtümern und am Beobachtungsturm 2009-2010

712 p., E-book
118.00 €
Series: Münchner Beiträge zur Provinzialrömischen Archäologie
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The Roman fort of Gheriat el-Garbia is located 280 km south of Tripoli in the pre-desert, above an oasis, on the central route into the Fezzan. Along with Bu Ngem and Ghadames, it is the largest of the new vexillation …

Des Kaisers neue Bücher

Mittelalterliche Handschriften der Bamberger Kaiser-Heinrich-Bibliothek in 50 Porträts

196 p., E-book
29.95 €
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Die Staatsbibliothek Bamberg bewahrt als ihr kostbarstes Erbe die frühmittelalterlichen Handschriften, die als Stiftungen Kaiser Heinrichs II. (973–1024) bei der Bistumsgründung nach Bamberg gelangten. Aus Anlass des 1000. Todestags des Kaisers werden 50 ausgewählte Codices, also etwa ein Drittel des …