englischThe idea of ›popularity‹ is rarely traced back beyond the 20th century and into the discourses of the time around or before 1800. Nevertheless, questions of popularity and the popularization of knowledge already form an integral part of Enlightenment debates in the 18th century: My study [...]

Daniel Casper von Lohenstein, ein von den Zeitgenossen gefeierter, von der Nachwelt aber vergessener Autor, erzählt in seinem Roman über den "Großmüthigen Feldherrn Arminius" und dessen Frau Thußnelda (1689/90) die frühe "deutsche" Geschichte zur Zeit der Varusschlacht, vordergründig in einer [...]

englischSappho from Lesbos, born in the seventh century BC, was the first canonical female voice in Europe. From antiquity on she was appreciated in art/ artistically received, even if – or perhaps precisely because – her biography lies in the dark and most of her poetry is lost. To this day, the [...]

englischThe book contains the lectures of a Tankred- Dorst-colloquium that took place in 2018 at the University of Bamberg in cooperation with the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Tankred Dorst, who died in 2017, is one of the most important dramatists of post-war literature. The playwright's work [...]

englischThis publication explores the presence of the shared heritage and interdependence of poetry composed around the theme of wine in diverse literary traditions of the Islamic world. The specialist contributions discuss multiple aspects of the literary polyphony of wine in the pre-modern Arabic, [...]

englischHow did intellectual elites, who had acquired their position and formed their self-conception within the Ottoman Empire, deal with its loss and change? This question is discussed by looking at their representations of Southeast Europe in Ottoman and Turkish travel literature. The study [...]

englischIt is a widespread belief that Husserl’s conception of time obstructs the way to understanding world-time in a heideggerian sense. Unfolding world-time as one of the main topics of the last phases of Husserl’s analyses of time shall refute this criticism. The process of concretization of the [...]

englischWhereas early modern cathedral chapters have mostly been studied as electoral bodies of prince-bishops and noble corporations, this study examines the administrative and governmental practices of the Bamberg cathedral chapter from the perspective of the history of knowledge. Its active [...]

Die Studie fokussiert Texte, die häufig unter den aus Wertungshandlungen entstandenen Termini ‚Unsinns-‘ und ‚Nonsenspoesie‘ rubriziert werden, und problematisiert die damit verbundene Tendenz zur Homogenisierung literarischer Artefakte, die zwar similäre ästhetische Verfahren erkennen lassen, aber [...]

englischThe Franconian Friedrich Rückert is not only one of the most productive German-language poets of the 19th century, but also one of the most important mediators between the literatures of the Orient and the Occident in Europe because of his numerous translations. He was able to read a total [...]

„Resilienz“ ist heute ein Modewort. Doch das Phänomen existierte bereits vor seinem Begriff, und zwar als eine Grundeigenschaft des Menschen. Die Resilienzforschung arbeitet psychische „Schutzfaktoren“ heraus, die Belastungen durch Stresssituationen mindern und dabei helfen, Widerstandskräfte [...]

englischThis historiographical study deals with the transformation of heroic images of German and French soldiers and officers during the Seven Years' War and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. A culture of sensitivity, levée en masse and intensive forms of opinion management on the part of [...]