Cultural studies

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 …

Schriftrollen

Untersuchungen zu deutschsprachigen und mittelniederländischen Rotuli

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This book is the first to offer a thorough examination of German-language and Middle Dutch texts transmitted in the medium of the scroll. The study attempts to focus on rotuli as a European phenomenon, and presents commented editions and analyses …

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 …

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 …

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. …

Commodus: The Public Image of a Roman Emperor

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The richly illustrated book presents a fresh argument and new evidence about the workings of the imperial image in the Antonine period, through the changing portraits of the emperor Commodus (180–192) — more than ninety survive. The study also publishes …

Große Kriege und Schlachten der Georgier

Von den Assyrienkriegen bis König Giorgi Lascha

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The most important Georgian battles (wars and battles) within three millennia are presented here in chronological order in a brief overview. The period covers the span from the first half of the 2nd millennium BC to the 13th century AD. …

Amiternum 1

Untersuchungen zur Siedlungs- und Wirtschaftsstruktur im zentralen Abruzzenraum in römischer Zeit

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Amiternum, wichtiger Zentralort der Sabiner im oberen Aterno-Tal und Geburtsstätte Sallusts, entwickelte sich seit der römischen Eroberung zu einem der bedeutendsten Zentren im mittleren Abruzzenraum. Hierbei führten spezifische naturräumliche, gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Faktoren, darunter die intensive Beteiligung an der Transhumanz, …

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 …

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 …

Der gesprengte Kreis

Max Beckmanns Schüler zwischen Realismus und Abstraktion

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Much like Max Beckmann, his master students faced defamation, marginalization, and persecution at the hands of the Nazis. A significant portion of their work was lost or destroyed during World War II, leaving little to rediscover. Furthermore, during the Cold …

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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 …

Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie

Jahrbuch der Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft e.V. Vol. 9. Spaces and Frontiers of Islamic Art and Archaeology

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The concepts of frontier, boundary, and border, and consequently of spaces and regions they delimit, have left a persistent mark on the perception of geography, whether expounded in
premodern Muslim textual sources, or by modern geostrategists. The ten essays in this …

Heinrichs von Neustadt ›Gottes Zukunft‹

Erzählen vom Heil in der Volkssprache

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This monograph is the first comprehensive study of Heinrich von Neustadtʼs religious poem ›Gottes Zukunft‹ (›Godʼs Arrival‹). It examines the transformation of religious knowledge in the vernacular and points out how Heinrich von Neustadt deals with crucial theologumena beyond the …

KartenWissen

Territoriale Räume zwischen Bild und Diagramm

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This collection of essays covers all periods of cartography’s history from antiquity to the present time, all kinds of maps from star maps and sea charts to land maps and street plans and all administrative, political, ideological, military and economic …

Thisoa am Lykaion

Ergebnisse der Forschungen

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In Arcadia, on the slope of the Lykaion Mountains and high above the Alpheios Valley, lies the ancient city of Theisoa. The fortified town was laid out after the Synoikismos of Megalopolis and was again used as a Frankish fortress. …