Social & cultural history

Tugendlehre und Wissensvermittlung

Studien zum ,Welschen Gast’ Thomasins von Zerklaere

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By centering the category ‘knowledge’, this book offers a new analytical access to Thomasin von Zerklære’s Welscher Gast. In doing so, it can be observed that various areas of knowledge are used to convey a kind of ethical orientational knowledge, …

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 …

Bestattungssitten zwischen Tradition und Modifikation

Kulturelle Austauschprozesse in den griechischen Kolonien in Unteritalien und Sizilien vom 8. bis zum 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr.

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This study focuses on cultural exchange and aspects of acculturation, which go back to the Greek settlement in Lower Italy and Sicily and result from the coexistence of the Italic and Sicilian population and the Greek settlers.
The development of tomb …

Konrad von Würzburg ,Trojanerkrieg‘ und die anonym überlieferte Fortsetzung

Kritische Ausgabe

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Konrad’s von Würzburg ‘Trojanerkrieg’ - only fragmentary preserved because of its author’s death in 1287 and finally completed by an anonymous writer at the beginning of the 14th century- was one of the most-read books of that time and it …

La necropoli di Vetulonia nel periodo orientalizzante

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Excavations in the late 19th and early 20th century in the cemetery of the Etruscan city of Vetulonia unearthed many opulent ‘princely graves’ dating to the Orientalizing period (end of the 8th – beginning of the 6th century BC). However, …

Ingelheim von der Steinzeit bis zur Gegenwart

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Jahrtausende schon währt die wechselhafte Geschichte Ingelheims, das durch den Rhein und sein mildes Klima
bereits in Früh-, Römer- und Merowingerzeit besiedelt wurde, Karl den Großen zum Bau seines berühmten monumentalen Regierungspalastes anregte und sich in seiner mittelalterlichen Blütezeit zum höfischen …

Die Entwicklungstendenzen des Passivs in der georgischen Schriftsprache

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This monograph analyses the grammatical, pragmatic, communicative and lexical-stylistic functions of different subgroups of synthetic dynamic passives in Georgian. They differ from the standard average European type, and the complexity of Georgian verbal diathesis is of a more general linguistic …

Zur Hypotaxe in den Kartvelsprachen

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This book deals with the problem of hypotactic structures in the Kartvelian, videlicet, South Caucasian languages and represents a comprehensive study of speech reporting in these languages. The most dominant member of this language family, Georgian, which takes recourse to …

Thomas von Cantimpré ›Liber de naturis rerum‹

Kritische Ausgabe der Redaktion III (Thomas III) eines Anonymus

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Auf der Grundlage der Enzyklopädie „Liber de natura rerum“ des Dominikaners Thomas von Cantimpré wurde im 13. Jahrhundert von einem anonymen Redaktor die sog. ‘Thomas-III’-Version gefertigt. Aus Interesse an den Naturdingen selbst hat er das vorgefundene Material exzerpiert, neu aufbereitet …

Fokuspartikeln und Wortstellung im Georgischen

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The topic of the book is the so called “Focus particles” and their interaction with the word order regularities in Georgian, as the most prominent representative of the south caucasian or Kartvelian language family of the official language of the …

Kleine Schriften zu Themen, Werken und Theorien der älteren deutschen Literatur

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On the occasion of the 65th birthday of Freimut Löser, professor in ordinary for German language and medieval literature and holder of the Chair for German Language and Literature at the University of Augsburg, this volume with a selection of …

Die Kammergräber von Tarent

Untersuchungen zur Grabarchitektur und Ausstattung vom 4. bis zum 1. Jahrhundert v. Chr.

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The Hellenistic chamber tombs of Taranto represent by far the largest group of known Hellenistic burial chambers in the ancient Mediterranean. In the sixth volume of the Italiká series, the chamber tombs constructed between the 4th and 1st century BC …

Von Stadtmauern und Salbtöpfen

Archäologie zur Siedlungs- und Apothekengeschichte in Biberach

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The results of two excavations at very different locations in the medieval townscape of Biberach are being published in the volume at hand. Fresh insights into the beginning of the settlement, the development in the outskirts as well as into …