Literature

Phthonos

Mißgunst, Neid und Eifersucht in der byzantinischen Literatur

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Die Emotion „Phthonos“ spielt in Byzanz (definiert als „Schmerz über das Wohlergehen des anderen“) eine besondere Rolle: Sie ist das Böse an sich. Einerseits ist Phthonos die negative und aggressive Leidenschaft, die sich durch Heuchelei, Verleumdung sowie Mord äußert und …

La seconda epistola ad Ammeo di Dionigi di Alicarnasso

Studi sulla tradizione manoscritta

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In this book, Alessandra Palla provides the first comprehensive investigation into the manuscript tradition of the Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ De thucydidis idiomatibus, commonly known as Epistula ad Ammaeum II. The extensive study of all the manuscripts and the innovative results …

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 …

Writing as Re-enchantment: The Arabic and Turkish Novel’s Neo-Sufi Response to Secular Modernity

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This study examines the revival of Sufism in the Arabic and Turkish novel during the second half of the 20th century. A picture is drawn where Sufism forms a main source of literary inspiration and becomes a mode to establish …

Das Janus-Prinzip

Fortschritt durch Rücksicht

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The Roman god Janus can still be a role model for us today. His double look forwards and backwards teaches us that retrospection is also necessary for sustainable progress. Retrospection has a double meaning in this context: it describes looking …

Spielformen des Lyrischen im späten Mittelalter

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Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes werfen Schlaglichter auf die thematische und poetische Vielfalt lyrischen Sprechens im deutschen Spätmittelalter. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die produktive Auseinandersetzung mit Gattungs- und Diskurstraditionen, das Spiel mit Sprache, religiöser Semantik und ästhetischen Konventionen, Übergänge und Modulationen im …

Der strahlende Berg

Geschichten aus Fukushima

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The book describes in detail, realistically and comprehensibly, how the people in Fukushima experienced the disaster and came to terms with it. However, the author does not assign the characters in his stories only a passive role, but through them …

Karoline von Günderrode

Eine Annäherung an die Lebensgeschichte der Dichterin und an ihre Spuren in Winkel ab 1806

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Im Band 1 der Schriften aus dem Brentano-Haus präsentiert die Autorin bekannte und neue Quellen sowie ausgewählte Fachliteratur zur bewegten Lebensgeschichte der Karoline von Günderrode (1780-1806). Die philosophische Dichterin der Frühromantik widersprach vehement Geschlechterrollenfixierungen, ersehnte stets freies selbstbestimmtes Leben und …

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 …

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 …

Der Tannhäuser

Untersuchungen zur Selbstbezüglichkeit seiner Lyrik und kommentierte Neuedition

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Tannhäuser has established a very unique profile as an author of 13th century medieval German literature. Not only did he experiment with literary genres and test their limits; his poetry is also defined by complex self-referential patterns. This study on …

„Mio corpo venga sepolto in terra sancta“ - Genese und Verbreitung eines Wunderberichts des 13. Jahrhunderts

Die Blutacker in Jerusalem, der Heilige Acker in Akkon und der Camposanto zu Pisa

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The book is about the emergence and spread of the miracle report about a supernaturally rapid decomposition of corpses at specific burial sites, so-called holy fields (Campus Sanctus). How is it that in the last third of the 13th century …

Persius-Scholien

Die lateinische Persius-Kommentierung der Traditionen A, D und E

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The Latin medieval commentaries of the Roman satirist Persius (AD 34- 62), gathered from obscure ancient material, are published here for the first time in critical editions of 3 of the 5 anonymous traditions. This project, serving also as a …

Mystique, langage, image : Montrer l’invisible Mystik, Sprache, Bild: Die Visualisierung des Unsichtbaren

The experience of transcendence, especially when it concerns the direct encounter with God, exceeds every human possibility of expression. Only pictorial expression is able to make visible, at least approximately, what is invisible to the human eye and the human …

Das Andachtsbüchlein aus der Sammlung Bouhier

(Montpellier, Bibliothèque Universitaire Historique de Médecine, H 396) Studie und kommentierte Edition

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This small-size manuscript, probably produced in the second quarter of the fourteenth century in eastern central Germany, is here studied in depth for the first time. The manuscript is without any known parallels as regards its structure: illustrated with coloured …

The manuscript transmission of Platos laws (books I and V)

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The study is dedicated to a detailed evaluation of the existing manuscript evidence of Plato's Nomoi as well as to the explanation of the textual tradition of this work. The mutual relationships of the existing textual witnesses are explored in …

The Maqāmāt of Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī

Authorship, Texts, and Contexts

Through investigations of manuscripts, this book explores important aspects of the life of Badîʿ al-Zamân al-Hamadhânî’s Maqâmât. The broad concerns of the book are divided into three sections: authorship, texts, and contexts. Each chapter in this volume investigates hitherto unstudied …

Neue Zeitung für Einsiedler

Magazin der Internationalen Arnim-Gesellschaft. Band 16, 2022

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The Neue Zeitung für Einsiedler is an interdisciplinary journal that offers innovative approaches to the works of well-known German Romantic writers and introduces newly discovered sources and texts that provide material for further investigation of topics pertinent to contemporary discourse.

Giovanni Boccaccios ,De casibus virorum illustrium’ in Deutschland

Studien zur Überlieferung und Rezeption eines frühhumanistischen Werkes im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert

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Giovanni Boccaccio's 'De casibus virorum illustrium' - an early humanist collection of biographies of famous men and women of world history in Latin - was one of the most widely read works of the great Italian author throughout Europe in …

Oscillating Bodies

Understanding Tunisian Society through its Novels (1956-2011)

Oscillating Bodies reads together the depiction of human bodies in arabophone and francophone Tunisian novels. This produces an understanding of Tunisian society from the country’s independence in 1956 until the revolutionary upheavals of 2010/2011. It appears as a society that …