englischǦamāladdīn Ibn Nubātah al-Miṣrī (686-768/1287-1366) left a lasting mark on Mamluk literature and poetry and was considered by both his contemporaries and subsequent generations to be an unsurpassed author worthy of emulation. During his time as secretary in the Damascus chancellery, he wrote [...]

englischThe customers of the Mühldorfer Kramer Franciscus Schmidt had their purchases written: The debt books therefore give an insight into the assortment of goods, which ranged from stockings, fabrics and ribbons to spices and dried fish. Schmidt's customers were mainly citizens, craftsmen and [...]

englischThe original preserved monumental Hellenistic cult group in the sanctuary of the goddess Despoina in Lycosura is of high importance for the archaeological research. Pausanias is considered as the only literary source about the cult group, which was created by the artist Damophon and was [...]

englischThis volume contains the first printed edition with notes and commentaries of the section on Martin Heidegger's ‘Sein und Zeit’ from Charles Malik's 1937 philosophy doctoral thesis at Harvard University. Malik's pioneering text stands as one of the earliest Anglophone analytic, [...]

englischFor decades, the Maoist New People's Army in the Philippines has been fighting exploitation and poverty. In the 1980s, several Catholic priests joined and shaped it. One faction pursued national revolution, while another emphasized the preservation of indigenous culture. Conrado Balweg [...]

englischBased on a corpus of twelve wills of Catholic, Lutheran, and Calvinist sovereigns of three territories of the Holy Roman Empire from the period of the Confessional Age, this study investigates the influence of the confession of the testator princes on the use of language in their wills. For [...]