German Language and Literature

Deutsche Wortfeldetymologie in europäischem Kontext (DWEE)

Band 5: Wirtschaft

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An der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig läuft seit 2007 das Projekt „Deutsche Wortfeldetymologie in europäischem Kontext - Der Mensch in Natur und Kultur“ (DWEE). In diesem Projekt wird der auf den Menschen bezogene Substantiv-Wortschatz des Deutschen vom Althochdeutschen …

Figures

Lettres, chiffres, notes et symboles au Moyen Âge

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Dedicated to the question of the sign, this volume brings together the three plenary lectures given by Daniel Heller-Roazen (Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Princeton), Michel Pastoureau (History and History of Art, EPHE Paris) and Susan Rankin (Musicology, Cambridge), at the …

De l’homme à l’univers

Conceptions anthropologiques et image du monde selon Pierre d’Ailly

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The work of Pierre d'Ailly (1350-1420) is a reflection of the intellectual questions of the late Middle Ages. His texts reveal a pronounced interest in the comprehensive order that connects man with the universe. This study reconstructs the intellectual approach …

Petrus de Alvernia. Scriptum super III-VIII libros Politicorum Aristotelis

Edizione, introduzione e note

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This is the first critical edition of the most significant medieval commentary on Books III-VIII of Aristotle’s Politics. This commentary was intended as a continuation of Thomas Aquinas’s literal commentary on Books I-III of the Politics. It was highly influential …

Die Gebete Johanns von Neumarkt und die deutschsprachige Gebetbuchkultur des Spätmittelalters

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Johann von Neumarkt (ca. 1310-1380) created a corpus of German-language prayers that is reconstructed on the basis of the manuscript tradition. A stylistic study as well as detailed interpretations of the contents, taking into account the source material, outline the …

Wege in die Geschichte durch Erzählen von Vergangenheit in der Frühen Neuzeit

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The examination of historical images in selected works from the 16th century offers a fundamental insight into how the Early Modern Period related to the past, especially the High Middle Ages; it shows, among other things, the coexistence of both …

Zwischen Tugend und Laster

Weibliche Rollenbilder in den Tragedi und Comedi des Hans Sachs

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The present study is the first to examine in detail a representative corpus of the tragedi and comedi with female protagonists written by the Nuremberg author Hans Sachs. On the basis of a precise reconstruction of the intertextual frame of …

International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction

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The journal, first published in 2004, covers the field of historical comparative linguistics and comparative reconstruction, particularly of Indo-European languages, though others such as the Tungusic and North-West Caucasian families are also addressed. Attention is also devoted to philological investigations …

Sigismunde Uhtke. Der weibliche Eremitenblick auf das Theater der Welt

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Der weibliche Eremitenblick auf das Theater der Welt, edited for the first time, introduces the Silesian writer Sigismunde Uhtke who, at the threshold of modernity, sketches a progressive model of femininity, designed to shape decisively the transformation of self and …

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 20 (2014/2015): Das Geistliche Spiel des europäischen Spätmittelalters

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In recent years, the presentation and communication of contents of faith that are valuable to create identities through the audio-visual media of theatre, at a time when there was hardly any other kind of ‘mass media’, has received increasing attention. …

Die ,Vierzig Myrrhenbüschel vom Leiden Christi'

Untersuchung, Überlieferung und Edition

The Middle High German treatise ›Forty Bundles of Myrrh of Christ's Passion‹ combines traditional exegesis of the Song of Songs with detailed instructions for the correct contemplation of the Passion of Christ by means of fictive dialogues. The treatise, which …

Neue Zeitung für Einsiedler

Mitteilungen der Internationalen Arnim-Gesellschaft. Band 14, 2018

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Achim von Arnim’s Zeitung für Einsiedler (Tröst Einsamkeit) was published from April to August 1808 as »an attempt of a new kind of Journal« and is still considered today as »one of the most innovative journals of the literary romantic …

Neue Zeitung für Einsiedler

Magazin der Internationalen Arnim-Gesellschaft. Band 15, 2020

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Achim von Arnim’s Zeitung für Einsiedler, published in Heidelberg in 1808, represents one of the most original journals of the romantic era. The Neue Zeitung für Einsiedler, the publication of the International Arnim-Society, offers an important contribution to the current …

International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction

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The journal, first published in 2004, covers the field of historical comparative linguistics and comparative reconstruction, particularly of Indo-European languages, though others such as the Tungusic and North-West Caucasian families are also addressed. Attention is also devoted to philological investigations …

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 …

Peiraikos’ Erben

Die Genese der Genremalerei bis 1550

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Der Band fasst die Ergebnisse der gleichnamigen internationalen Tagung zusammen. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem SFB 804 der Technischen Universität Dresden konnten neue Erkenntnisse in der kunsthistorischen Forschung gewonnen werden. Von der Frage nach der Genese des Genrebildes bis hin zur …

Wissensraum Film

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The present volume „Wissensraum Film“ („Film as Knowledge Space”) concentrates on two aspects: knowledge and spaces in film. Main focus lies on the relevance of a relational concept of space in analyzing filmic production of knowledge: How does film create …

Konversion in Räumen jüdischer Geschichte

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Der Band dokumentiert die Beiträge der wissenschaftlichen Tagung ‚Konversion in Räumen jüdischer Geschichte‘. Die Beiträge befassen sich mit den vielfältigen Orts-, Blick- und Rollen-Wechseln und untersuchen, was konkrete oder symbolische Formen des Kulturkontakts für einzelne oder ganze Gruppen an Veränderungen …

Intrigen – Die Macht der Möglichkeiten in der mittelhochdeutschen Epik

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This study provides a precise definition of the term ‘intrigue’, which has not been a defined term in the medieval studies so far. The analysis is based on a selection of Middle High German novels and epics from the 12th …

Orte – Ordnungen – Oszillationen

Raumerschaffung durch Wissen und räumliche Struktur von Wissen

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The volume goes back to a transdicsiplinary conference held in December 2010 at the University of Trier. It contains articles dedicated to tree key concepts that are central to the 'spatial turn'-discussion in the framework of the historically oriented cultural …