Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 25 (2025) Die Stadt in Literatur und Kunst - Kunst und Literatur in der Stadt

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Mit dem Titel ‚Die Stadt in Literatur und Kunst – Kunst und Literatur in der Stadt‘ verfolgt der Band einen zweifachen Ansatz. Aufgenommen werden Überlegungen der jüngeren ‚Urban Sciences‘, die insbesondere die Umsetzung von imaginären Stadtbildern und -vorstellungen in Kunst …

Von Buddha bis Hafiz – Aufsätze zu Indologie und Iranistik

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In the first part of this work are described the religion and art of Buddhism as well as ancient and late medieval weapons. The second part consists of aspects of Iran's material culture, presented from historical and literary sources, especially …

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 …

The Textile Centre Akhmim-Panopolis (Egypt) in Late Antiquity. Material Evidence for Continuity and Change in Society, Religion, Industry and Trade

Proceedings of the international conference organised by Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in cooperation with Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Göttingen, 28–30 September 2017

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The fourth occasional paper in the Studia Panopolitana series focuses on Akhmîm-Panopolis as one of Egypt’s major textile centres. The volume contains the proceedings of the international conference »The Textile Centre Akhmîm-Panopolis (Egypt) in Late Antiquity. Material Evidence for Continuity …

Handbuch der Iranistik Band 1

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Das „Handbuch der Iranistik“ (HdI) fasst den aktuellen Stand und Tendenzen der iranistischen Forschung zusammen und stellt deren wichtigste Disziplinen und Themenbereiche umfassend dar. Dabei orientiert sich das HdI an einer breit aufgestellten, integrativen, jedoch immer philologisch und empirisch fundierten …

Azandname

An edition and literary-critical study of the Manichaean-Sogdian Parable-Book

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This work is an edition and literary-critical study of a Manichaean text in Sogdian known as the Āzandnāmē, or Parable-Book. The first part is a new and expanded edition of the Sogdian text with English translation and philological commentary. The …

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 …

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 …

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 23 (2020/2021): (V)erdichtete Leben. Literarische Lebensmuster in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit

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‚(V)erdichtete Leben‘ meint den Status von (auto)biographischer Literatur zwischen ‚wirklichem’ Leben und seiner literarischen Funktionalisierung. Unter diesem Aspekt widmet sich der aktuelle Tagungsband der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft der Frage nach der Relevanz von (Auto)biographie als Gattung und Textbestandteil im Mittelalter …

A Grammar of Şirvan Tat

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A Grammar of Şirvan Tat is a grammatical description of a dialect of Tat, a non-written Iranian language spoken in the Caucasus. The project draws on a corpus of Tat spontaneous speech, as well as tales, legends, anecdotes and other …

Re-enacting the Past

A Cultural History of the School of gTsang smyon Heruka

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This book is devoted to the study of the so-called “School of gTsang smyon,” i.e. the religious community that gathered around the Tibetan master gTsang smyon Heruka (1452–1507). Looking at a broad range of historical sources and reconstructing the religious …

A Turquoise Coronet

Studies in Persian language and literature in honour of Paola Orsatti

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Paola Orsatti is currently professor at La Sapienza University in Rome. In the course of a long and distinguished academic career combined with an impressive record of dedicated teaching, she has made significant contributions to the study of classical Persian …

A Dictionary: Christian Sogdian, Syriac and English

2nd edition, revised and completed

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Many works of Syriac literature, including some now lost, were translated into Sogdian, a language of the Iranian family. This Dictionary makes the whole material accessible to both Iranists and Syriacists, giving a full semantic and morphological analysis of the …

Central Periphery? Art, Culture and History of the Medieval Jazira (Northern Mesopotamia, 8th-15th centuries)

Papers on the Conference held at the University of Bamberg, 31 October–2 November, 2012

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The medieval Jazira has still to offer a multitude of topics for research. As a crossroads in which artistic currents from different regions met, it is unique in the history of the Near East, and at the same time, as …

Ritual und Religion im archaischen Sizilien

Formations- und Transformationsprozesse binnenländischer Kultorte im Kontext kultureller Kontakte

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This work centres on the detailed examination of inland ritual sites dating from the Archaic period in Sicily (late 8th to early 5th centuries BC), which is based on an emic perspective of the indigenous people. It aims to offer …

Textbuch modernes Persisch

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The Textbook Modern Persian contains thirty selected readings about contemporary Iran from various disciplinary perspectives. Each chapter of the book includes an introduction to the topic, a rating of the complexity of the text, the philological acquisition of lexical fields …

The Mukri Variety of Central Kurdish

Grammar, Texts, and Lexicon

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This volume presents the documentation and description of the Mukri variety of the Central Kurdish, spoken in north western Iran. The volume contains background information on the dialect and the speech community, ten texts with English translations, two interlinear morphemic …

Rasn Yast

The Avestan Hymn to ‘Justice’

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This book contains a critical edition of the Avestan language composition known as the Rašn Yašt, or ‘Hymn to Justice’. The text is accompanied by an English translation, philological commentary and glossary. In addition, the main themes of the Rašn …

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 22 (2018/2019): Romania und Germania. Kulturelle und literarische Austauschprozesse in Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit

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Der Kultur- und Literaturtransfer zwischen dem romanischen Sprachraum und den deutschsprachigen Ländern gehört zu den Grundbedingungen der hochmittelalterlichen deutschen Literatur. Entsprechende Einflüsse sind ebenfalls im Spätmittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit noch produktiv, wurden bislang aber noch nicht systematisch untersucht. …

Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft

Band 21 (2016/2017): Sangspruchdichtung zwischen Reinmar von Zweter, Oswald von Wolkenstein und Michel Beheim

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Der von überwiegend professionellen Autoren des späten 12. bis ausgehenden 15. Jahrhunderts ausgeübte Spruchsang, gesungene Strophen und Lieder religiösen, didaktischen, politischen Inhalts, ist eine der wichtigsten Gattungen der deutschen Dichtung des Mittelalters. Die literar- und musikhistorische Forschung befasst sich gerade …