This volume provides a unique introduction to the most topical issues, advances, and challenges in medieval horse history. Medievalists who have a long-standing interest in horse history, as well as those seeking to widen their understanding of horses in medieval society will fi…
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This monograph lays the groundwork for a new approach of the characterization of the Homeric Helen, focusing on how she is addressed and named in the Iliad and the Odyssey and especially on her epithets. Her social identity in Troy and in Sparta emerges in the words used to addr…
From the early 1790s until after the turn of the century, a very productive but also controversial exchange took place between Reinhold and Fichte. Though many key aspects of post-Kantian philosophy were discussed, the philosophical confrontation between Reinhold and Fichte is m…
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In spite of the importance of Wang Wei's poetry in the history of Chinese literature, no one has attempted a complete translation of all of his surviving poems; moreover, even though he was known for his skill in composing prose pieces in the recognized genres of his day (especi…
Das Zeitungswesen erlebte im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert einen bemerkenswerten Aufschwung: Tageszeitungen setzten sich als Alternative zu den schon bestehenden Wochenzeitungen durch und erweiterten das Textsortenspektrum. Die "Zeitungssprache" übte auf die Entwicklung des Deutschen …
For the first time, this volume presents an overview of the East Prussian publishing industry from its 17th century beginnings through the end of the Second World War based on extensive source materials. It presents information on over 2,000 periodicals, and on publishers, print…
When scholars discuss the medieval past, the temptation is to become immersed there, to deepen our appreciation of the nuances of the medieval sources through debate about their meaning. But the past informs the present in a myriad of ways and medievalists can, and should, use t…
Early modern princely courts were not only inhabited by humans, but also by a large number of animals. This coexistence of non-human living beings had crucial impacts on the spatial organization, the social composition and cultural life at these courts. The contributions enrich …
This book discusses the 3rd?11th century developments that led to the formation of the three Scandinavian kingdoms in the Viking Age. Wide-ranging studies of communication routes, regional identities, judicial territories, and royal sites and graves trace a complex trajectory of…
This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken some 450 km offshore from the mainland of Papua New Guinea. The language is remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, and with little hist…
Das 'Handbuch Sprache in der Geschichte' beleuchtet die Rolle, die dem Sprechen und Schreiben in Deutsch im Laufe der Sprachgeschichte zugeschrieben wurde. Die Geschichtlichkeit von Sprache erschließt sich so aus dem überlieferten Sprachbewusstsein bzw. dem Gebrauchsspektrum der…
The late medieval German trade with the North Atlantic islands, in the margins of the Hanseatic trade network, has received only limited scholarly attention. Merchants from predominantly Hamburg and Bremen established direct trade relations with these islands in the late 15th ce…
The augmentation of urban spaces with technology, commonly referred to as 'Media Architecture', has found increasing interest in the scientific community within the last few years. At the same time architects began to use digital media as a new material apart from concrete, glas…
