Companies active on the market and considering contractual decisions are being confronted with a practice-based phenomenon of which the legal classification is still largely unclear: the change of…

As a result of the Internet, new forms of selling and distributing music have developed that are increasingly replacing the traditional distribution channels. This development is a challenge not…

The point of origin for this work is the question: to which extent the “universal succession by virtue of the transaction” can be made useful for the business transation. The…

Are we allowed to do what we are able to do? What principles should we use to decide?These questions have accompanied medical treatment from the beginning. Yet they are particularly salient when…

The normative limitations to the investigation of the truth in criminal trials represent the most complex and controversial subject matter in criminal procedural law. It concerns one of the oldest…

In light of the current popularity enjoyed by the subject of religion and questions about the consequences arising from this situation, especially for practical theology, the early essays on the…

The six volumes of the German Constitutional Documents encompass more than 100 texts from Napoleonic times to the St. Paul's Church Constitution of 1849. They are published as part of the series…

The present study is concerned with the textual history of the Books of Samuel and of Kings, about which scholars have still not been able to agree. Various textual forms can be identified in…

This is the initial volume in a new series entitled Ars medicinae: The Science of Medicine and Human Salvation. The name of the association behind the series is Initiative Gesundheit (Health…

Millennium transcends boundaries - between epochs and regions, and between disciplines. Like the Millennium-Jahrbuch, the journal Millennium-Studien pursues an international, interdisciplinary…

The volume examines the interrelationships between the history of medicine and literature from the 17th until the 19th centuries. The papers in the volume analyse these interrelationships using…

The work presented here is a historical commentary on an ancient biography of one of the Persian Great Kings (Artaxerxes II, reigned 404-359 BC). The author was the Greek scholar Plutarch (c. AD…

This commentary on the 6th book of the Iliad concentrates on the interpretation of two episodes which have received a great deal of scholarly attention: the encounter between Diomedes and Glaukos…

The central section of Empedocles, On Nature I is reconstructed by combining the Strasburg Papyrus of Empedocles with a series of quotations from Simplicius that comes from the same section…

This Festschrift celebrates the 65th birthday of Dieter Geuenich, who held the Chair of Medieval History at the University of Duisburg-Essen from 1988 to 2008; it contains 41 papers dedicated to…

The papers in this volume deal with the relationship between social and private law. The fundamental question of the relationship between state care and civil rights and liberties is placed in…

This study examines classic modern texts - elements of a 'visionary' poetology -, which on the one hand connect with an idealistic poetics of memory, and on the other create a new tradition. Rilke…

A statement is true, when what is said is actually the case. Heidegger is often accused of wanting to undermine this triviality as well as criteria of rational thinking and speaking along with it…

While writing a word, everybody will have paused for a moment to think about the correct spelling. It is just this behaviour which the present book studies using modern technology. As…

Nature is not only stable and static but also unstable and dynamical ‑ this has been shown by physics during the last 40 years. Today, instabilities are regarded as productive and creative…

Using the Roman province of Macedonia as an example, this work presents a critical analysis of the generally held opinion among social historians that the society of the Roman Empire was based on…

The study examines the influence of 17th century grammarians on the standardisation of the German written language. It is based on a corpus of handwritten records and on the theoretical writings…

Die chinesische Literatur kann im 20. Jahrhundert dank der Wandlung Chinas zum Nationalstaat die Isolation überwinden und in den Dialog mit der Weltliteratur eintreten. Keine andere Epoche ist…

This encyclopaedia, compiled around 530 AD, is more or less the Byzantine Encyclopaedia Britannica of the ancient world. It lists some 3,600 names of places, mountains, lakes, rivers,…

For the latinist Manfred Fuhrmann (1925-2005) translation was an integral part of making Antiquity accessible. On the basis of examples of his reflections and translations (above all Cicero)…

The anonymous author of the Syriac Book of Steps, a contemporary of St. John Chrysostom, is more deliberate than his predecessor, Aphrahat, in portraying the Apostle as the authentic interpreter…

In the rich reception history of Dionysius Areopagita (approx. 500 AD), the writing  On the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy is the only text that has not been given philosophical attention. The…

Der Deutsche Idealismus gehört zu den bedeutendsten und wirkungsmächtigsten Epochen der neuzeitlichen Philosophie. Die Verständigung über den Begriff der Philosophie und über das, was philosophische…

This practice-oriented description of hormonal treatment is a must for every gynecologist dealing with endocrine dysfunctions. Beginning with basic principles of endocrinology the book treats such…

Millennium überschreitet Grenzen, Grenzen zwischen den Epochen und regionalen Räumen wie auch Grenzen zwischen den Disziplinen. Die Schriftenreihe Millennium-Studien ist, genauso wie das Jahrbuch,…

The constitution, transmission and preservation of all knowledge about antiquity have always been highly mediated acts. As an epoch long past, antiquity can only be constituted through the…

Everyone talks about orientation, but there have been hardly any attempts since Kant to say exactly what orientation is. It is the most everyday thing, the point from which all things depart and…

The study is located at the interface of text linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatic stylistics and system theory. It is the first to analyse what is known as the Red Army Faction's 'Info'…

On the occasion of his 65th birthday, one of the most prominent German rhetoricians, literary critics and publicists, Gert Ueding, was honoured with a festschrift by the School of Rhetoric at the…

The Early Modern Age (15th–18th cents) saw the appearance of a vast number of Latin plays. The papers collected in this volume analyse exemplars of individual dramas or complexes of dramas…

This book offers a succinct and comprehensible presentation of what religion is about and how it is related to other intellectual areas (particularly to science). It emphasizes the practical side…

The history of the Berlin Chamber of Industry and Commerce mirrors the history of Berlin. The author recounts the history of the Chamber, embedding it in the political, social and economic context…

The fate of the Trojan priest Laokoon was related in Antiquity by, among others, Sophocles, Virgil and Quintus Smyrnaeus. The rediscovery of the Laokoon statue group in Rome in 1506 led to…

This study investigates the presentation, evaluation, and literary appropriation of sport, physical education, and physical exercise in the works of Robert Musil. In Musil’s day the modern…

This volume is the first comparative study of the political tools employed by the Popes and the perception of the Papacy in different regions, so combining the perspectives of the Roman center…

The goal of this book is to compare the various versions of Thomas Hobbes' famous and influential theory of the state of nature, and to emphasize their differences. This should provide a better…

This study deals with the origins of kingship among the Germanic speaking barbarians. Its starting point is a long overdue methodical review of the old view that the kingship of the Migration…

The 15 articles in this volume are dedicated to the analysis of fundamental cultural developments between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Archaeologists and historians offer new…

How do animals make themselves move? Unlike most modern theories, Aristotle answers this question through a general theory of animal movement valid for both humans and animals. This book…

The present volume contains writings by the renowned Marburg Old Testament scholar Otto Kaiser on the theology, anthropology and ethics of the Book of Ecclesiastes, or Kohelet, and on The Wisdom…

This book contrasts Nietzsche's and Levinas' deconstructions of Greco-European thought and their critiques of morality. Through examining their approaches to deconstruction, the author reveals the…

The present volume provides an overview of the present state of knowledge of the archaeology of the Early and High Middle Ages. A comprehensive account is given of the most recent…

The six volumes of the German Constitutional Documents  encompass more than 100 texts from Napoleonic times to the St. Paul's Church Constitution of 1849. They are published as part of the…

This work is to be understood from the systematic perspective as an extension of John Rawl’s Theory of Justice . Constituting a normative vanishing-point, the individual’s moral self-…