Latin Historical Phonology Workbook

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This book has been designed for students of Latin and Indo-European-Linguistics and can be used for university-courses or self-study in order to learn the complex issues of Latin historical phonology within a short time. The implemented one-step-method allows the user …

Übertragung. Bedeutungspraxis und ‚Bildlichkeit‘ in Literatur und Kunst des Mittelalters

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Der interdisziplinär orientierte Band vereint Studien zur mittelalterlichen Bedeutungsspraxis in Text und Bild des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit. Der Zugriff zielt auf die komplexen Bezügen sprachlicher und bildlicher Übertragungen. Mit der Öffnung konventionalisierter Metaphern- und Bildkomplexe, sowohl für Text-Bild-Relationen …

Die „Habichtslehren“ des deutschen Spätmittelalters

Eine Quellenstudie zu Sprache, Herkunft und Kulturgeschichte

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Not before their successor, the “Beizbüchlein”, was published as the very first printed book on hunting in Europe, the so-called “Habichtslehren” (“goshawk-lore”) got to some publicity and made quite remarkable impact on the development of a widespread and highly relevant …

Formgeschichte der Sangspruchdichtung des 12. bis 15. Jahrhunderts

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In spite of the widespread opinion that medieval poetry, and particularly song, is to a great extent a formal art, questions of form are often marginal in research concerning the surviving texts. By contrast, this book, based on decades of …

Ludus compleatur

Theatralisierungsstrategien epischer Stoffe im spätmittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Spiel

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This study concentrates on strategies of the theatralization of epic motifs in the late medieval and early modern play in combination with the question of the advantages which lie in a dramatic realization compared to an epic or lyric text. …

der âventiuren dôn

Klang, Hören und Hörgemeinschaften in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters

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The contributions in this volume assess the value of the acoustic in the Middle Ages and evaluate its importance in medieval literature. Although a great deal of research in Medieval Studies has focused on issues related to visuality, there has …

Das »Nibelungenlied« und »Das Buch des Dede Korkut« – Sprachwissenschaftliche Aspekte

Beiträge zum ersten interkulturellen Symposion in Baku, Aserbaidschan, 2009

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This volume of conference proceedings brings the “Kitab Dede Korkut” into the spotlight of intercultural comparative studies of medieval heroic epic poetry. The oldest and only complete manuscript version of this pre-Osman epic is preserved in the Saxon State Library …

Wege zur Verbindlichkeit

Studien zum deutschen Roman um 1300

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Ulrich of Etzenbach's "Wilhelm von Wenden", Heinrich von Neustadt's "Apollonius von Tyrland", Johann von Würzburg's "Wilhelm von Österreich", and the anonymous "Reinfried von Braunschweig", and "Lohengrin" exemplify the tradition of medieval German romantic verse around 1300. The book seeks to …

Das Arzneibuch Ortolfs von Baierland

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Around 1300, a surgeon named Ortolf – born in the duchy of Bavaria and settled in Wurzburg – wrote a textbook of medicine, which in brief covers all topics of medieval medicine – beginning with its theoretical background, then proceeding …

Monde animal et végétal dans le récit bref du Moyen Âge

Colloque international 2016

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A set of studies that offers a global vision of the literary representations of the animal and plant world in the brief narratives of the Middle Ages (fable, example, proverb, lais, etc.). The volume focuses in particular on Spanish literature, …

Medieval theories of the creative act, Théories médiévales de l’acte créatif, Theorien des kreativen Akts im Mittelalter

Fribourg Colloquium 2015, Colloque Fribourgeois 2015, Freiburger Colloquium 2015

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Essays in this volume explore medieval perceptions of the role of human creativity and the nature of creation. Drawing on examples from literature, art, music, and philosophy, and across the Western European tradition, the contributors consider how medieval craftsmen, writers, …

Repräsentationen der Bibel in der Volkssprache

Studien zu den mittelalterlichen Handschriften mit deutschen Texten aus dem Zisterzienserkloster Altzelle

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The Cistercian abbey Altzelle was, during the Late Middle Ages, one of the most important educational centers in the area of present-day Saxony. The libraries of Altzelle produced significant German-language manuscripts, which this work hopes to analyze with an orientation …

Der Kurzroman in den spätmittelalterlichen Sammelhandschriften Europas

Pan-European Romances in Medieval Compilation Manuscripts

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Kurzromane wie Floire et Blancheflor, die Melusine und die Geschichte vom gegessenen Herzen erfreuten sich im späten Mittelalter großer Beliebtheit und waren in weiten Teilen Westeuropas über Sprach- und Landesgrenzen hinweg verbreitet. Im Mittelpunkt dieses Sammelbandes steht die Frage, wie …

Deutsche Wortfeldetymologie in europäischem Kontext (DWEE)

Band 4: Religion und Ethik

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An der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig läuft seit 2007 das Projekt „Deutsche Wortfeldetymologie in europäischem Kontext - Der Mensch in Natur und Kultur“ (DWEE). In diesem Projekt wird der auf den Menschen bezogene Substantiv-Wortschatz des Deutschen vom Althochdeutschen …

Tradition and Identity: The Architecture of Greek Churches in Cyprus (14th to 16th Centuries)

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This first study of the late medieval Greek churches in Cyprus investigates over 300 buildings. It addresses the historical and artistic context of these churches, the first part containing more traditional methodological approaches such as the analysis of stylistic developments …

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 …

Cultural Interactions in Medieval Georgia

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Situated between the mountain ranges of the Caucasus, the country of Georgia was constantly exposed to contacts with both nearby cultures and such far-away realities as the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Europe. Constant political changes, including relations to and occupations …

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 …

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 …