ResourceCultures

How Resources Affect Societies

The final publication of the CRC 1070 ResourceCultures offers interdisciplinary insights into the questions of how resources are created, how resources are utilised, how resources are influenced by social processes and how resources in turn affect societies. Using concrete case …

L’auteur dans ses livres: autorité et matérialité dans les littératures romanes du Moyen Âge

What does the term author mean in the Romance literatures of the Middle Ages? What is its role in structuring the collection of texts attributed to it? Do the medieval written testimonies reflect the idea the author had of his …

Iran - Geschichte, Kultur und Gesellschaft

Eine praktische Landeskunde

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Iran - a beautiful country of ancient, proud culture, politically in conflict with Western states, contradictory, enigmatic and partly misunderstood. This book aims to explain Iran, its history, the state, society, social behaviour and everyday culture of the Iranians in …

Wahnsinn und Ekstase

Literarische Konfigurationen zwischen christlicher Antike und Mittelalter

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›Wahnsinn‹ (insanity) is an enigmatic term with a huge variety of meanings. This variety ranges from labelling mental illnesses or behaviour which is incomprehensible, unreliable or dangerous, to positive attributes (»wahnsinnig gut« i.e. »extremely great«). In case studies, this volume …

The ‘Place of Palms’: An Urban Park at Aphrodisias

Results of The Mica and Ahmet Ertegün South Agora Pool Project

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Excavations at Aphrodisias in the 1980s revealed an extraordinary monumental water-basin (170 x 30m) in the centre of a colonnaded square, formerly called the ‘South Agora’. A hypothesis that the complex was not an agora at all but ‘the place …

Georgien

Geographie. Geschichte. Wirtschaft

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Georgia fascinates with its diversity: between the Black Sea coast and the Caucasus peaks, between rain-soaked woodlands and dry steppes, between lush cultivated vegetation and barren pastures, there are as many variations as there are between the lively capital Tbilisi …

Kulturlandschaft Mittelrhein – 100 Jahre Mittelrheinische Gesellschaft zur Pflege der Kunst

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In dem anlässlich des 100jährigen Bestehens der „Mittelrheinischen Gesellschaft zur Pflege der Kunst“ herausgegebenen Sammelband stellen 17 Autorinnen und Autoren die Kulturlandschaft Mittelrhein umfassend vor. Der erste Teil versammelt Aufsätze zur Geschichte und Entwicklung der Kulturlandschaft, ihrer Gärten und ihrer …

Reinmarbilder

Das Textkorpus ‚Reinmar von Zweter‘ und seine Wandlungen in Überlieferung und Rezeption

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Reinmar von Zweter is the most important Sangspruch poet between Walther von der Vogelweide and Frauenlob. Within German poetry of the time, the transmission of his works is unique in two ways. A systematic collection of his Sangsprüche must have …

The Afterlife of Avestan Manuscripts: Colophons and Marginal notes

This study investigates the role of paratext in Zoroastrian scribal tradition, with a focus on the Avesta manuscripts. It examines how paratexts, such as colophons and marginal notes, contribute to organizing and interpreting the content of these manuscripts. These elements …

Die ,Bayerische Chronik‘ des Ulrich Fuetrer

Überlieferung – Textgenese – Produktions- und Wirkungsstrategie

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Die ›Bayerische Chronik‹ des Ulrich Fuetrer († um 1496) erfährt in diesem Band erstmals eine monographische Behandlung. Das bislang von der germanistischen und historischen Forschung meist unterschätzte Prosawerk wird anhand detaillierter Textanalysen erschlossen, neu bewertet und sein vielgeschmähter Autor als …

Neue Gesetze für ein besseres Leben?

Überlegungen zu Praktiken und Theorien der Gesetzgebung im Mittelalter

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The book deals with the practices and authorisations of legislation in the Middle Ages. Laws laid down norms, but they were also subject to norms. These were not only based on traditions, but also referred to goals that were to …

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 …

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 24 (2022/2023): Abbrüche – Umbrüche – Aufbrüche. Deutschsprachige Literatur zwischen 1450 und 1520

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Despite all the tendencies towards persistence, German-language literature formed and reorganised itself in many areas in the years between 1450 and 1520. While some genres and registers reached the end of their tradition or their productivity, others changed and developed …

Voicing Plurality in an Open World

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In a world characterized by mobility and dynamic formations of cultural, linguistic, and social identities, the general understanding of languages – at least in Europe – still reflects hierarchies and classifications that are based on the 19th century-based nation-state ideology. …

Paradigmen und Perspektiven einer Mediävistischen Komparatistik

Freiburger Colloquium 2021

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The publication presents the results of the interdisciplinary Freiburg Colloquium 2021 (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland) "Paradigms and Perspectives of Comparative Medieval Studies". The contributions explore the theoretical and methodological premises of historically orientated comparative research that focuses on the specific …

Endangered Iranian Languages

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This edited volume brings together work by theoretical linguists and field linguists who share a strong commitment to the scientific documentation and investigation of endangered Iranian languages. Five chapters of this volume represent the contributors’ findings on endangered Iranian languages …

Wir, die Balten

Einblicke in die Geschichte der baltischen Sprachen und Völker

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Das Forschungsfeld des litauischen Sprachwissenschaftlers Algirdas Sabaliauskas (1929–2016) umfasst sowohl die baltischen Sprachen als auch die baltische Sprachwissenschaft. Sein Buch /Wir, die Balten/ ist ein lehrreicher und unterhaltsamer linguistischer Spaziergang durch die Geschichte der baltischen Sprachen, der für Sprachexperten wie …

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 …

Aromata in der iranischen Kultur

unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der persischen Dichtung

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This volume is the result of more than 10 years' research in Persian culture from the Achaemenid period (559 B.C.) until the end of the Safavids’ time (1722 A.D.). The main concern was finding out what the sources tell us …

Diocletian’s Edict of Maximum Prices at the Civil Basilica in Aphrodisias

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Diocletian’s Edict of Maximum Prices was inscribed on the façade of the city’s Civil Basilica in AD 301. The volume presents the history and background of the Edict, the detailed archaeology of its context on the Basilica, a new consolidated …