Löwenmensch und mehr

Die Ausgrabungen 2008–2013 in den altsteinzeitlichen Schichten der Stadel-Höhle im Hohlenstein (Lonetal), Gemeinde Asselfingen, Alb-Donau-Kreis

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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 …

Von Stadtmauern und Salbtöpfen

Archäologie zur Siedlungs- und Apothekengeschichte in Biberach

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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 …

Das unverrückbar Heilige – Jerusalems Loca Sancta in der Kreuzfahrerzeit

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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, …

Die frühhellenistische Nekropole von Alexandria-Shatby

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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 …

Reproduktion und Bild

Zur Wiederholung und Vervielfältigung von Reliefs in römischer Zeit

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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 …

Le livre du Chevalier errant

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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 …

Fiktionalität trans- und intermedial

Arthurische Möglichkeitsräume in Mittelalter und Moderne

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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 …

Der Senat und seine Kaiser im spätantiken Rom

Eine kulturhistorische Annäherung

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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 …

Transforming Sacred Spaces

New Approaches to Byzantine Ecclesiastical Architecture from the Transitional Period

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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

Islamic Ceramics from Iran, Central Asia and Afghanistan

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“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 …

Mitteilungen zur Spätantiken Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte

Identity and cultural exchange in ancient Cilicia: New results and future Perspectives Internationales Kolloquium 18. – 19. Mai 2018 in München

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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 …

Die Kniga palomnik des Antonij von Novgorod

Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar

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This book contains the first study of the text transmission of the Kniga palomnik by Anthony of Novgorod. From the philological perspective, the edition offers a new text basis for further research into the characteristics, the transmission and reception of …

C. G. Jung, die Musik und die Musiktherapie

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In der Literatur zur Psychologie C. G. Jungs werden die visuellen und narrativen Wahrnehmungs- und Ausdruckswelten ausführlich und tiefgehend erforscht und beschrieben. Der Autor, ein erfahrener tiefenpsychologisch orientierter Musiktherapeut, stellt den Zusammenhang mit der akustisch-musikalischen Ebene der Wirklichkeit als Erfahrungs- …

Die einstimmigen Lieder Oswalds von Wolkenstein

Edition der Melodien und Kommentar

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Eine wissenschaftlich reflektierte Gesamtausgabe der rund 100 einstimmigen Melodien Oswalds von Wolkenstein galt viele Jahrzehnte als Desiderat. Mit dieser Publikation wird nun endlich eine angemessene Edition und Kommentierung sämtlicher einstimmiger Lieder des spätmittelalterlichen Dichters, Sängers und Komponisten Oswald von Wolkenstein …

Die nicht-dramatischen Dichtungen des Hans Sachs

Grundlagen, Texttypen, Interpretationen

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Hans Sachs (1494–1576) is the most powerful German-language author of the 16th century with a body of work comprising more than 6200 songs. In recent decades, research on his rhyme and song poetry has been limited to individual studies and …

Der Mönch von Salzburg und das lateinische Lied

Die geistlichen Lieder in stolligen Strophen und das einstimmige gottesdienstliche Lied im späten Mittelalter

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The book studies those sacred songs of the Monk of Salzburg corpus which do not rely directly on a Latin–melodic or textual–original. These songs show the form of the canzonic stanza and have therefore been considered to belong into the …

Mystique, langage, musique : dire l’indicible au Moyen Âge

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Music has long since occupied a privileged place in mystical tradition: chants induce ecstasy, visions are accompanied by auditory perception, and above all the mystical vocabulary is shaped by metaphors, allegories and descriptions from the field of music. In this …

Das dynamische Sein bei Nicolaus Cusanus

Ein Beitrag zur Begriffsgeschichte der dynamischen Ontologie

Esse est movere - to be is to move. Contrary to our static notions of medieval philosophy, Nicolaus Cusanus in the 15th century sketches a dynamic view of the world in which creatures are independent and self-acting beings. For the …

Handbuch der Provinzialrömischen Archäologie

I. Quellen, Methoden, Ziele

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The Archaeology of the Roman Provinces is a young discipline. As an academic subject, it has rapidly achieved great successes in the field of excavation and research and has increased our knowledge to a degree that barely keeps pace with …

Kommentar zum IV. Buch des „Parzival“ Wolframs von Eschenbach

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Through the commentary of book IV of Wolfram’s Parzival a significant desideratum within Parzival-commentary has been filled. The volume at hand is particularly useful in that it concentrates decisively on text indexing while presenting comprehensive information with philological meticulousness and …