Deutsche Liebeslyrik vom Minnesang bis zu Oswald von Wolkenstein

oder die Erfindung der Liebe im Mittelalter

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This initial volume of the series provides a basic introduction into the particularities of the history of mentality, language and literature in a study of the Middle Ages focusing on German language and literature. The main body of the book …

Hartmann von Aue: „Gregorius“

und die Wiederkehr des Ödipus-Mythos im Mittelalter

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With Gregorius, written around 1190, Hartmann von Aue created a masterpiece of courtly saintly life that builds on the tradition of French sources while enriching it with original, mythical elements. Hartmann vividly portrays the extreme twists of an Oedipal destiny …

A Grammar of Early Judaeo-Persian

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Early Judaeo-Persian (EJP) is the form of Persian that was spoken by Jews, and written in Hebrew script, in ca. the 8th-12th centuries C.E. Most EJP manuscripts have been found in the Cairo Geniza from the late 19th century onwards. …

Nachtigallen an Gottes Thron

Studien zur persischen Dichtung

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To date, only a few pioneers have made classical Persian poetry and philosophy accessible to the occidental eye. During the 17th and 18th centuries, influential travellers brought goods, travelogues and translations back from Persia. Around 1800, enthusiasm for the oriental …

Deutsche Messübersetzungen des Spätmittelalters

Untersuchungen auf der Grundlage ausgewählter Handschriften und vorreformatorischer Drucke

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Thomas Müntzer was the first among the reformers to not only hold Mass and the daily prayer in German, but to set these liturgical forms down in print, allowing them to be distributed around the city of Allstedt, Germany. In …

Rex Imago Christi

Der Dom von Monreale – Bildsprache und Zeremoniell in Mosaikkunst und Architektur

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Dieses Buch setzt neue methodische Maßstäbe in der Bewertung der historischen Quellenlage des wohl aufwendigsten und aufsehenerregendsten Baus des 12. Jahrhundert. Ausstattung und Architektur werden sowohl nach ihrem technischen und bauarchäologischen Befund befragt als auch im Zusammenhang ihrer liturgischen Funktionen …

Byzantinischer Schmuck des 9. bis frühen 13. Jahrhunderts

Untersuchungen zum metallenen dekorativen Körperschmuck der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit anhand datierter Funde

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Byzantine luxury objects have been neglected in research for a long time, despite the legendary reputation they already held during the Middle Ages. This volume analyses the gold, silver and bronze jewellery of the 9th to early 13th centuries in …

Der mittelalterliche Burgstall Turenberc/Druisheim

Archäologische Untersuchungen 2001 bis 2007 am römischen Militärplatz Submuntorium/Burghöfe an der oberen Donau

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The archaeological site of Burghöfe is known mainly for the Roman fort and not for its medieval castle. Excavations from 2001 to 2007 established a first picture of the medieval history of the site. By the 9th or 10th century …