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 [...]

englischHardly any literary work of Classical Modernism is as well documented in its genesis as that of the Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931). This workshop report is the first to systematically examine the diverse textual interrelationships in the author's oeuvre. Three case studies on [...]

Glas: Schmuck und Alltagsgerät. Die Sammlung antiker Gläser im Martin von Wagner Museum der Universität Würzburg. Katalog zur Sonderausstellung der Antikensammlung des Martin von Wagner Museums vom 6. Juli - 7. November 2010.

Der als Sohn eines jüdischen Hoffaktors in Arolsen geborene Adalbert Friedrich Marcus hat seine Wahlheimat Bamberg als Hof- und Leibarzt der letzten Fürstbischöfe, Direktor des 1789 eröffneten Allgemeinen Krankenhauses, Reformer des Gesundheits- und Sozialwesens sowie als Mitinitiator kultureller [...]

This volume examines the aesthetic and performative dimensions of Alevi cultural heritage from past to present, in an interdisciplinary framework and using a wide range of approaches. The chapters analyse traditional, contemporary and transnational developments of Alevi cultural expression including [...]

englischThis volume offers an extensive philological study of the reports (akhbār) featuring Khadīja bt. Khuwaylid (d. 3 B. H. /619 A. D.) in the Arabic Islamic sources of various genres. Those reports are relatively limited when compared with the abundant reports featuring other prominent Islamic [...]

englischThanks to his great historical reputation, Alexander the Great remains one of the most ambivalent, controversial, yet unrivalled role models among European rulers to this day. But no other dynasty has received Alexander’s person, virtues and achievements on as large a scale as the dukes of [...]

Für die Erforschung des antiken Südarabiens in sprachlicher, historischer und kultureller Hinsicht ist die vorliegende Untersuchung von großer Bedeutung. Sie befasst sich mit neu entdeckten altsüdarabischen Schriftdokumenten, die auf Holzstäbchen eingeritzt wurden.Die hier publizierten [...]

Finden wir in mittelalterlicher christlicher Theologie eine Weltanschauung, die heute noch wichtig ist? Lassen sich politische Ideen aus Malereien entschlüsseln? Im südlichen Sauerland in den kleinen Orten Wormbach und Berghausen finden wir Kirchenfresken von komplexer Gestaltung. Im Deckengewölbe [...]

englischThe focus of the book is on the edition, translation and interpretation of official letters on the annual Nile flood sent in the 12th–15th centuries from Cairo to Syria, as well as replies and forwardings within Syria. The letters, wich are transmitted in literary sources, were composed by [...]

englischArthur Schnitzler’s relationships to the visual arts are examined for the first time systematically and in source-based special studies in the fourteen articles in this volume. Schnitzler’s staging of authorship in portrait art and photography, his aesthetic preferences in the acquisition of [...]

englischThis volume uses literary texts, films and computer games to examine how the specifically modern narrative of time-out is represented. The contributions examine time-out narratives from early Romanticism to contemporary pop and game culture: a polyphonic contribution to the cultural history [...]

englischThe First World War, a historical turning point of destruction and new beginning, has changed strategies of world politics along with military technologies, but also the field of culture and media. The literature of the Great War, shaped mostly by combatant writers, recognised authenticity [...]