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 …

Spielformen des Lyrischen im späten Mittelalter

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The contributions in this anthology shed light on the thematic and poetic diversity of lyrical speech in the German late Middle Ages. The focus is on the productive engagement with genre and discourse traditions, the play with language, religious semantics …

mîn sang sol wesen dîn

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 …

Byzantinische Malerei. Bildprogramme – Ikonographie – Stil

Symposion in Marburg vom 25. bis 29. Juli 1997

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Die Wandmalereien und Mosaiken des Byzantinischen Reiches sind hier bisher nur unzureichend bekannt. Anlässlich des Marburger Symposiums entstand dieser Band, der verschiedene Aspekte der byzantinischen Malerei vorstellt.

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 …

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 …

Fiktionalität im Artusroman des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts

Romanistische und germanistische Perspektiven

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Contrary to former studies the volume focusses on the opportunities of fictional world concepts in the Arthurian narrations of the European Middle Ages apart from the factitive dictate. It examines phenomena of narration that opened spaces of story-telling to French …

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 …

Formelhaftigkeit in Text und Bild

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This volume comprises interdisciplinary papers on different subjects in the field of the humanities, which were read at a workshop of the same name at the University of Trier in 2008. For the first time, the papers focus on the …

Staatsbürgerschaft an der Grenze

Die georgischsprachigen Ingiloer in Aserbaidschan

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The present book “Citizenship at the Border. The Georgian-speaking Ingiloys in Azerbaijan” ethnographically explores, on the one hand, the relationship between state and citizens in general and, on the other hand, the role of ethnicity and minority status of a …

Die altpersischen Inschriften der Achaimeniden

Editio minor mit deutscher Übersetzung

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In this book may be found a complete edition and German translation of the Old Persian texts of the mostly trilingual cuneiform inscriptions of the Persian kings from the Achaemenid dynasty. Only the minor corpora of vase inscriptions and those …

Persius-Scholien

Die lateinische Persius-Kommentierung der Tradition B

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With the edition of the „tradition B“ of the Latin medieval Persius commentaries the edition of all Persius scholia ( from 9th – 16th century 75 testimonies) is completed (vol. I: tradition A, D, E, 2009; vol. II: tradition C, …

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 …

Octavians unentbehrliche Helfer

Die Männer hinter seinem Aufstieg zum Augustus

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Das an ein breites Publikum gerichtete Buch führt durch einen der wichtigsten Abschnitte der römischen Geschichte: den Aufstieg von Caesars Adoptivsohn Octavian zum Augustus, zum ersten römischen Kaiser. Im Unterschied zu den zahlreichen Augustus-Biographien richtet es jedoch sein Augenmerk nicht …

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 …

Nächstes Jahr in Jerusalem

Jüdisches Leben in Franken

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"Next year in Jerusalem" is a wish, a vision of many Jews who live abroad, in the diaspora. Jews have been living in Franconia for 1000 years - tolerated, expelled, murdered - and they have always dared to make a …

Saints cavaliers

Culte et images en Géorgie aux IVe–XIe siècles

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This is the first archeological, iconographical and hagiological study, based on the unpublished archaeological research findings, that attempts to measure the importance of the Georgian environment for the genesis of this theme and for a broad understanding of the cult …