c 1500 onwards to present day

Spelling Identities

Individual Orthographic Usages in English, Nordic and Constructed Languages

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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 …

Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, der Reiseführer mit Hintergrund

Heimathafen der Romantik

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In der Reihe Zeitreisen erscheint nun der Band zur Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald. Und er verspricht wirklich eine Zeitreise von den dänischen Mönchen, die das Kloster Eldena als Keimzelle der Stadt gegründet hatten, über die Zugehörigkeit zum Herzogtum Pommern, zu …

mîn sang sol wesen dîn

Deutsche Lyrik des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit: Interpretationen

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The anthology presents a selection of predominantly German-language medieval poetry together with interpretations. A broad genre-typological spectrum is covered, from minnelyric to proverbs and mastersong to spiritual-mystical song poetry from the period from the 12th to the 15th century. The …

Vergangenheit als Konstrukt

Mittelalterbilder seit der Renaissance

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Mittelalterbilder und ihr Weiterleben seit der Renaissance sind das Thema des Sammelbandes, der interdisziplinäre Forschungsbeiträge aus historisch arbeitenden Kulturwissenschaften vereint. Im Vordergrund steht die Frage nach den Konstruktionsprinzipien und Bausteinen der Mittelalterbilder, die sich als Artefakte erweisen und Einsicht in …

Writing and Orthography in Non-Literary Texts from Roman Britain

A Sociolinguistic Approach

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The analysis of orthographic variation and the writing habit presented in this book represented a heuristic tool for the study of the sociolinguistic scenario of Roman Britain, sketching the different micro-histories of Latinization according to a new, ground-breaking, perspective. As …

Nächstes Jahr in Jerusalem

Jüdisches Leben in Franken

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"Next year in Jerusalem" is a wish, a vision of many Jews who live abroad, in the diaspora. Jews have been living in Franconia for 1000 years - tolerated, expelled, murdered - and they have always dared to make a …

Wolgast, Der Reiseführer

Herzogsstadt und Tor zur Insel Usedom mit Amt am Peenestrom

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Wolgast, the old ducal town in north-eastern Germany, is more than just the "gateway to the island of Usedom". In this travel guide, art historian Reiner Sörries takes the reader on a journey through time from prehistoric settlement to post-reunification …

Martyrdom in Literature

Visions of Death and Meaningful Suffering in Europe and the Middle East from Antiquity to Modernity

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This book aims to achieve a deeper understanding of the very human phenomenon of martyrdom by analysing in detail its highly varied re-enactments in European and Middle Eastern literatures. Despite its divergent historical, religious, philosophical or political circumstances, there does …

Schicksal – Zufall – Willensfreiheit

Kontingenz im Trojanerkrieg Konrads von Würzburg

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The tale of the fall of Troy is - and was already in the Middle Ages - a popular and oft-told story, and the tragic end of the war between Greeks and Trojans can be considered anchored in cultural memory. …

guldîne linge

Fünf Essays zu Gottfrieds Tristan

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In his Tristan novel, Gottfried von Straßburg uses narrative traditions and common motifs of ancient, Celtic, French, Medieval Latin and German traditions. Furthermore, he incorporates aspects of material culture and contemporary scholarly knowledge. This book’s five essays can be read …

Didaxe und Natur

Darstellung und Funktionalisierung der Natur in Thomasins von Zerklaere ,Welschem Gast‘, in Freidanks ,Bescheidenheit‘ und in Hugos von Trimberg ,Renner‘

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Using vernacular examples from ‘didactic literature’, it is questioned which role the verbalisation of nature plays in a didactic context and which knowledge systems come together in its textualisation. The work demonstrates how talking about nature enables a dynamic amalgamation …

Sei mutig wie ein Leopard...

Bildgewordener jüdischer Glaube zwischen Krakau und Czernowitz

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In no other region has the Jewish faith found such graphic expression in the synagogues as in the historical landscapes of Galicia and Bukovina. Since the end of the Middle Ages the living conditions of the Jewish population had deteriorated, …

Wege zur Konfiguration der Zeichen-Phonem-Beziehung

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Dieser Sammelband ist der dritte der Graphematik-Buchreihe LautSchriftSprache / ScriptandSound. Er enthält Beiträge der Graphematik-Tagung an der LMU München im November 2018.
Außer zwei theoretischen Abhandlungen, die eine einheitlichere Terminologie für Beschreibung und Analyse von Verschriftungsprozessen entwickeln, liegt der Blickwinkel auf …

Von den Hieroglyphen zur Internetsprache: Das Verhältnis von Schrift, Laut und Sprache

From Hieroglyphs to Internet Language: The Relation of Script, Sound and Language

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The contributions concentrate on the spelling of some Indo-European languages and the relation of writing and pronunciation; in particular they deal with: (I) the use of cuneiform letters in Hittite and of hieroglyphs in Luvian; (II) writing systems and phonological …

Variation within and among writing systems

Concepts and Methods in the Analysis of Ancient Written Documents

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The present volume, edited by Paola Cotticelli Kurras and Alfredo Rizza, deals with the variation within the systems of writing focusing on various aspects: the metalanguage of the discipline, the methods of analysis, the history of writing, its adaptation in …

Versteckt – Verirrt – Verschollen

Reisen und Nicht-Wissen

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Since the Early Modern Period, traveling becomes a central strategy enhancing knowledge. At the same time, travel seems to deliver a gateway for the incalculable and unfathomable. Contributions to this addition seek to explore how this type of non-knowledge appears …

Orts-Wechsel

Reale, imaginierte und virtuelle Wissensräume

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Focusing on the concept of ’changing places’, the essays in this anthology discuss processes of constitution, stabilization, and transformation of ’worlds of knowledge‘, covering a wide range of thematic and historical perspectives from the European Middle Ages to the 21st …

Deutsche Wortfeldetymologie in europäischem Kontext (DWEE)

Band 3: Mensch und Mitmensch

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Im Projekt „Deutsche Wortfeldetymologie in europäischem Kontext“ wird der auf den Menschen bezogene Substantiv-Wortschatz des Deutschen vom Althochdeutschen bis zur Gegenwartssprache nach Wortfeldern gegliedert in semantischer und etymologischer Hinsicht untersucht und in seinen europäischen Bezügen dargestellt.

Deutsche Wortfeldetymologie in europäischem Kontext (DWEE)

Band 2: Der Mensch im Alltag

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Im Projekt „Deutsche Wortfeldetymologie in europäischem Kontext“ wird der auf den Menschen bezogene Substantiv-Wortschatz des Deutschen vom Althochdeutschen bis zur Gegenwartssprache nach Wortfeldern gegliedert in semantischer und etymologischer Hinsicht untersucht und in seinen europäischen Bezügen dargestellt.

Repräsentationen der Bibel in der Volkssprache

Studien zu den mittelalterlichen Handschriften mit deutschen Texten aus dem Zisterzienserkloster Altzelle

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The Cistercian abbey Altzelle was, during the Late Middle Ages, one of the most important educational centers in the area of present-day Saxony. The libraries of Altzelle produced significant German-language manuscripts, which this work hopes to analyze with an orientation …