Tibetan Pastoralists and Development

Negotiating the Future of Grassland Livelihoods

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The unique pastoralist economy, society, and culture on the Tibetan plateau has experienced profound changes during the 20th century: An ever closer integration into the Chinese state, a wide array of policies directed at ‘development’, modernization, and urbanization, and dramatic …

Chorographies

Les mises en discours de la ville

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The city is considered one of the most significant symbols of human cultural development, in the course of which speaking and writing in the city and about the city play a very special role. The interdisciplinary volume Chorographies. Les mises …

Lexikon der iberischen Inschriften | Léxico de las inscripciones ibéricas

Monumenta Linguarum Hispanicarum. Band V, 2

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This new volume in the Monumenta Linguarum Hispanicarum series (MLH V.2), written by N. Moncunill and J. Velaza, provides an annotated glossary of the Iberian language as known through its epigraphic corpus. Although inserted in its corresponding place of MLH, …

Kleine Schriften zu Themen, Werken und Theorien der älteren deutschen Literatur

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On the occasion of the 65th birthday of Freimut Löser, professor in ordinary for German language and medieval literature and holder of the Chair for German Language and Literature at the University of Augsburg, this volume with a selection of …

Die byzantinische Sakralarchitektur der Dunklen Jahrhunderte

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Die Dunklen Jahrhunderte, die Zeit zwischen Spätantike und Mittelalter, gelten als dorniges Terrain der byzantinischen Architekturgeschichte. So überrascht es nicht, dass diese Epoche meist als bloße Vorstufe mittel- und spätbyzantinischer Entwicklungen abgetan wird. Eine neue Perspektive, die nicht nur Nachfolgendes, …

Arbeiten an Welt- und Selbstbild im ,Welschen Gast‘ Thomasins von Zerclære

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Thomasin von Zerclaere's 'Welsh Guest' is a Middle High German behavioural theory from around 1215/16, with an extensive picture cycle. At first glance, the text may appear to be a jumbled collection of individual admonitions, undergirded by recordings from encyclopaedic …

Belles Lettres. Les figures de l’écrit au Moyen Âge / Figurationen des Schreibens im Mittelalter

Colloque fribourgeois 2017

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The publication is the result of the Freiburg Colloquium 2017 on the topic "Belles Lettres. Figurationen des Schreibens im Mittelalter". The publication deals with the various phenomena of the design of medieval manuscript pages and takes an interdisciplinary approach.

Aus den Tiefenschichten der Texte

Beiträge zur turko-iranischen Welt von der Islamisierung bis zur Gegenwart

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Being case studies, the contributions to this volume highlight various aspects of the Turco-Iranian world starting from the Islamization in the 7th century up to the present day. Covering the broad geographical spectrum spanning from the Bosporus via Upper Mesopotamia …

Die jungen Kosmopoliten

Prozesse von Aneignung und Abgrenzung in der zeitgenössischen türkischen Literatur

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Young authors from Turkey question boundaries, they are challenging borders between nations, between humans, between times. Their works reflect a new zeitgeist which is often shaped by contradictions, but instead of trying to dissolve these contradictions, withdrawing to one's own …

Atene e il sacco di Silla

Evidenze archeologiche e topografiche fra l’86 e il 27 a.C.

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The work investigates the building history of Athens between the siege and ransacking by Sulla in 86 BC and the establishment of the province of Archaia in AD 27.
After an introductory chapter about the historical background of the event, each …