From Germania Inferior to Arabia Petraea

New Perspectives on Roman Legionary Camps

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The volume brings together contributions on legionary camps from various regions of the Roman Empire and illustrates how the Roman military organised the protection of its troops, both temporarily during wartime activities and permanently at key locations within the empire …

Die Gitarre im psychotherpeutischen Raum

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This book invites readers to rediscover the guitar and its therapeutic power. It explores the experience of vibrations, materials, postures, and the movements of strumming and plucking – as well as the guitar’s special resonance in the therapeutic relationship.
The focus …

Dichten über den Himmel

Disziplinäre und interdisziplinäre Blicke auf ein Leitthema der deutschsprachigen Literatur des Mittelalters

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Das Wissen über den Himmel speist sich im Mittelalter aus vielen Quellen, wobei einige Wissensbestände dadurch problematisch werden, daß sie auf heidnischer Wissenschaft fußen. Aber auch die Bibel ist voll von Himmelsstellen, die sich allerdings mit jeder neuen Übersetzungssprache neu …

Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie

The Arts and Archaeology of Funerary Cultures in Islam

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The 10th volume of the Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie offers an overview of the extent and complexity of funerary culture in Islamic contexts as attested by visual and material evidence, and the variety of methodological approaches and disciplinary …

Wortgewandte Wappen

Inszenierungsformen des Heraldischen in der mittelalterlichen Literatur

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Heraldic signs, which have become ornamental remnants of our cultural heritage, retain a striking presence that gestures toward their former symbolic and discursive power. Coats of arms have also found their way into literature, yet their poetic potential remains underexplored. …

Gnomologium Byzantinum

Studien zur Überlieferung und den Quellen, Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentar

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The critical edition (sub-volume II.1) together with several apparatuses (critical apparatus, descendants, parallels, similes, source), faithfully reproduces two redactions of the early Byzantine corpus of sayings named Gnomologium Byzantinum, replacing the older partial and ‚fictional‘ editions by Wachsmuth and Schenkl. …

Konkurrenz und Charisma. Porträts in der politischen Kultur des antiken Griechenland

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The political context for the creation of portraits and the way they were handled affected their appearance in different ways. The book deals with varying facets of this topic for ancient Greece from the Archaic to the end of the …

El exemplum bíblico: historia sagrada e ideología laica en la España medieval

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Die Bibel spielte eine grundlegende Rolle bei der Entwicklung der volkssprachlichen Literaturen. Einer ihrer wichtigsten Beiträge ist das biblische Exemplum, d. h. die Gesamtheit der von der Bibel und den Apokryphen inspirierten Anekdoten, die den religiösen Diskurs und später die …

Mitteilungen zur Spätantiken Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte

The Spoliated Past: Heritage, Antiquarianism, and Byzantine Material Culture Across Time and Space

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The articles in this volume seek to shed new light on frequently overlooked archaisms and acts of spoliation. This book is about ideas, style, and material objects, their reuse and repurposing in the Eastern Roman Empire and after its end …

Lernen als inneres Wachstum

Zur Bedeutung der Psychotherapie mit künstlerischen Medien für ein zukunftsgerechtes Bildungssystem

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Our education system works at the basis of society for future developments. However, it is one-sidedly oriented towards the promotion of rational forms of intelligence and little towards creative human education. As a rule, artistic subjects are only marginal phenomena. …