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This richly illustrated volume is devoted to Anglo-German cultural transfer in 18th and 19th century landscape architecture, including articles on Prince Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau…
Die Buchedition Verfassungen der Welt vom späten 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts ist die vollständigste und wissenschaftlich fundierteste Sammlung ihrer Art. Sie enthält…
Under the National Socialist regime, Theodor Heuss was rapidly forced onto the defensive. He lost nearly all his public offices and posts, yet as a publicist Heuss continued to defend his liberal…
The commemorative publication Sociological Jurisprudence adheres in content and form to the tradition of Gunther Teubner’s body of work. The contributions engage themselves with his…
Why is Christianity so stubborn in its rejection of same-sex sexuality? The Bible does not give an unequivocal answer to this question. The key to the explanation is to be found rather in the…
The volume contains the papers from an international symposium held in 2007 by the Göttingen Graduate School on Images of Gods – Images of God – World Views: Polytheism…
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum / Latinorum an international colloquium was held on the subject “Ancient Medicine at the…
The epochs of Enlightenment and Weimar Classicism as constructs of literary studies have become problematic. The literary discourse itself reveals phenomena of simultaneity which questions the…
With this account of the Cistercian ‑ later Benedictine ‑ Convent of St Aegidian in Munster, the Germania Sacra series again returns to the Diocese of Munster. This time, the Series…
Nowadays there is a tension between science and religion which is scarcely capable of resolution. This has a long tradition, going back to Antiquity and the Middle Ages - as too does its…
Moses Maimonides (1138–1204) supported a concept of the Messiah which was radically new within the Jewish tradition. The author of the present volume examines whether and to what extent this…
The commentary offers a manageable guide to all those that apply the Co-determination Act . This work distinguishes itself by clarity, practical reasoning, and understandable language. The focus…
Not many other legal fields are experiencing the kind of dynamic development like that which is currently taking place in the field of European private law. The systematic penetration of the…
Up-to-date information on some 2,000 institutions and approx. 4,000 persons in public life in Saarland: authorities and departments of local, state and federal administration; jurisdiction;…
May 2009 sees the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Basic Law (Constitution) of the Federal Republic of Germany. To mark this occasion, the Foundation is publishing two keynote speeches…
The philosophy of the Enlightenment still greatly influences our thinking today. This is especially true of Immanuel Kant, whose writings on moral philosophy, theory of law, philosophy of history…
The papers in this volume on the practical theology of aging aim to engage with fundamental discourses in gerontology to reflect on central aspects of aging such as corporality, wisdom, memory,…
Millennium transcends boundaries - between epochs and regions, and between disciplines. Like the Millennium-Jahrbuch, the journal Millennium-Studien pursues an international, interdisciplinary…
The present volumes contain annotated registers providing the first comprehensive overview of the holdings of medieval and early modern German-language manuscripts in the most important archives…
The fight against HIV and Aids involves not only medical issues, but also raises fundamental ethical questions. Hence, rather than approaching the socially significant subject of HIV/Aids…
In this book, authors from a variety of disciplines examine how the interpretative disciplines deal with the lack or loss of certainty for their signs and texts. The focus is on forms of…
This biographical handbook contains 3650 short biographies of administration and justice officials working in Prussian provincial and central public authorities between 1740 and 1806/15. Apart…
Up-to-date information on some 5,500 institutions and approx. 8,000 persons in public life in Hesse: authorities and departments of local, state and federal administration; jurisdiction;…
The goal of this book is to provide readers interested in questions about medical research with orientation concerning the latest controversial developments in gene and stem cell research. It…
The current financial crisis is preoccupying business and politics like no prior crisis. The economic effects are being felt on global, European, and national levels and are forcing governments to…
The volume presents a collection of papers by well-known scholars from a variety of disciplines. It is based on the findings of the 2006 Freiburg Colloquium, which concerned itself for the first…
The end of the 19th century, which declared progress and the technical and scientific mastering of life as guiding maxims, saw a human capacity moving into prominence - the force of will. In the…
This work was published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the VG WORT. It begins with an introduction to the collecting society's development and goes on to describe the collecting society's…
Christa Frateantonio follows a new line of research in this study of Pausanias’ Periegesis, his historical and geographical description of Greece. Her underlying premise is that it is…
This report presents and analyses the legal instruments established for the protection of intellectual property in the shipbuilding industry which could be applied to ship design - the aesthetic…
This book provides up-to-date information on topics including the care of breast cancer patients, medical prevention, new diagnostic procedures, operating strategies (including neurosurgery) as…
E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was a universally gifted artist, musician, lawyer and writer whose fantastic tales and romantic fairy stories have had a decisive influence on world literature. This…
This book gives a concise introduction into Jewish Law as a whole and its development within the different denominations of Judaism. It offers an overview of betrothal, engagement and marriage,…
The work of the German Federal Constitutional Court has a significant effect on all three branches of government. While public interest and the media primarily focus their attention on spectacular…
A commercial tenant's interest in the retention of the rented item can be of paramount importance. In the event of landlord insolvency, the landlord's demands fade into the background and the…
This book describes the whole field of endoprosthetics, with all its potential, for practicing clinicians. The following aspects are dealt with in particular: indications and contraindications,…
The volume deals with popular German-Jewish and Yiddish culture from the second half of the 19th century until the post-war era. Main issues are the participation of German-Jews in modern mass…
The debate on the use and drawbacks of the sociology of literature unleashed by Bourdieu’s seminal work “The Rules of Art” was mainly conducted here on an abstract level. The…
This study, which links into the most recent research on Karl Barth, deals with the significance of prayer for Karl Barth's theology. A key role is played in the analysis by the term 'reciprocity…
The Banking Law Day 2008 in Mainz dedicated itself to the topic of consumer protection in the credit business and compliance in the banking industry. Speakers from the fields of business, practice…
The success of the insolvency proceeding for the insolvency creditor and the attainment of the insolvency goals are decisively dependent on the aptitude and ability of the insolvency administrator…
Carl Andresen (1909–1985) posed questions of continuing relevance: what was the attitude of early Christianity to the intellectual history of antiquity, how did it categorize theology and…
The volume is concerned with Imperial Germany's identity as a colonial power from the perspectives of language history and discourse analysis. The formation of identity as a colonising power…
This volume combines a number of approaches to the history of the conflict between religions and cultures. Contributions from history, art and legal history, as well as Judaistic studies deal with…
Annette Hoff examines agricultural information contained in the oldest Danish, Swedish, English, Irish and Frankish law books to present an important study of the development of cultivation…
In April 2004 a conference on Late Antique hilltop settlements was organised in Freiburg im Breisgau to mark excavations at such sites, in the Black Forest by the University of Freiburg and in…
In the Middle Ages, imaginative re-use was made of architectural components from classical antiquity such as columns, capitals, cornices, and even statues, sarcophagi, reliefs and inscriptions…
This collected volume contains thirteen papers by Hanns Christof Brennecke demonstrating how Christianity in the Imperial Age and Late Antiquity is embedded in the context of the Imperium Romanum…
This monograph takes the example of the German Franciscans to examine the role of mendicant friars in social change in the late Middle Ages. In the later Middle Ages, the mendicant friars…
The study examines late medieval society's cultural practice in dealing with texts, enquiring into how in a principally oral society texts are made public, stored, damaged or even destroyed.…
The Mudil Codex from the late 4th century contains the Biblical Psalms in Coptic. However, the text differs significantly from familiar versions of the Psalms, giving rise to the question of…
The volume presents theoretical frameworks, conceptual explications and concrete research perspectives in the subject area of 'Media of collective memory.' Representatives of various…
This study presents the first analysis of all the heptadically structured models of Jewish history from the time of the Second Temple. Christoph Berner, Georg-August-Universität G…
The anonymous tale of Alexander and Semiramis harks back to a Persian-Ottoman version of Turandot material reworked according to the conventions of late Byzantine literary romance. Both…
The Anthropological Difference deals with the animal mind in early modern philosophy and the problem of the anthropological difference between humans and animals. Starting from Montaigne…
The articles on life and work of Immanuel Kant are expressions of a contemporary, critical understanding of Kant. They give the reader courage to enter into a fruitful debate with the…
This new volume contains addenda and corrigenda to the first three volumes, together with an overall index of names. It concludes the four-volume bibliography of works on Nietzsche’s…
The volume develops a new perspective for the thematic field of “Cultural Memory” or “Cultures of Remembering”. Working from a systematisation and critique of…
Violence and the forms of its representation are a long neglected central element of Classical Greece. After reviewing the history of the 5th century BC with its intensive experience of violence…
Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) has been attracting increasing attention for several years now. Working from the moral philosophy of Adam Smith, who is known principally as…
In everyday morality, “naturalness” definitely continues to be a positively charged term. It plays a significant role wherever technical progress opens up natural processes…
Kant'slectures on moral philosophy from the1770's is an important commentary and complement to 'Groundworks of the Metaphysics of Morals'. Based on the Kaehler notes, this newly edited version of…
Boathouses, built for the protective storage of watercraft, have a centuries old tradition that is archaeologically proven. Used in great numbers in Scandinavia and the North Atlantic even today,…
With a global growth in the demand for energy, secure and economical energy supplies play a key role in human development. Based on present-day energy supply technology, our knowledge of…
How is the aesthetic appreciation of objects to be understood? According to Kant, not as a case of cognitive knowledge. Using the free play of cognitive ability, he provides an answer which…
The portrayal of conflicts transmits norms governing the mutual behaviour of men and women. This critical literary study identifies patterns of conflictual processes in such disparate 17th…
The self-image of the Federal Republic of Germany was always reflected in the treatment of its capital, Bonn. To start with, Bonn's architecture remained as visibly provisional as the Federal…
[Doing Things for Reasons] What exactly are the reasons for our actions, and how are they related to the results of these actions? The conventional doctrine is that these reasons are mental…
Time and the human concept of time shape our practical everyday lives as well as the sciences. The contributors reflect on the concept of time and time horizons in various disciplines. They…
The current ethical challenges have shown the limits of the currently dominating types of ethics which are focused on rules and principles. Accordingly, approaches to an ethics based on the…
Present-day medievalists regard it as an undisputed fact that Arabic culture – especially science – influenced the Latin Middle Ages in a multitude of ways. However,…
This dictionary of the discourse of guilt lists those keywords of the early postwar period that were especially relevant within the context of the discourse of guilt. They are words that victims,…
The most important source for the situation on the Upper Rhine in Late Classical Antiquity is to be found in the Notitia Dignitatum, a register of all the offices and honours of the Late Roman…
This third Part (62) of Volume VIII (Mammalia) of the Handbook of Zoology completes the series on bats. In this volume Erwin Kulzer presents the biology of bats, drawing on the profound…
This is the first comprehensive German-language account of global developments from the preliminaries to the Second World War up to the present. Mindful of the central significance of global…
Transcending both disciplinary boundaries and the boundary between theory and practice, this is the first book to present a summary of the present-day debate on the emotions in the arts . The…
After the First World War, the Catholic Church was forced on the defensive by totalitarian mass-movements in both Italy and Germany. Fascism and National Socialism challenged Catholicism's…
Although literature gained its autonomy around 1800, it has since then continually engaged in a poetologically relevant discourse with the alien system of science. The present volume examines this…
We still follow the definitions of Nature already laid down by Aristotle and Descartes who saw Nature as being delineated from the non-natural (e.g. culture, technology). Schiemann defends the…
This biography is more than just a description of the life and works of one of the co-founders of Hittite studies. The discovery of his scholarly estate in 2002, which includes above all…
In this analysis of mythological paintings in the houses of Pompeii, Katharina Lorenz produces a stimulating model of the contextual relationship between observer and object in the early Roman…
“The sacrificing of Isaac” (Genesis 22) was subjected to intensive interpretation by the various religious denominations in the early modern age. The contributors to this volume…
This study presents Nietzsche's knowledge of non-Christian religions and extra-European cultures acquired during his education, together with his early encounter with religious studies. The…
The focus of this work is the legal expression of the copyright owner's personal right to maintain the integrity of his work in Germany and the USA. The law must provide the necessary protection…
In Catholicism, ‘Marian apparitions’ such as those at Lourdes belong to the most spectacular cases of religious mass phenomenon. A prominent case occurred in 1983 in Peñablanca,…
A presentation of the development of the Saxon criminal codes in the 19th century is the goal of this work. It focuses on the codification efforts since 1811, the respective effective versions of…
Ductoscopy is a relatively recent, minimally invasive special procedure for the early detection of breast cancer. It enables the inspection of the milk ducts to the eighth ramification thus…
The present volume undertakes a systematic study of the ancient texts testifying to St Peter’s time in Rome. It evaluates inter alia texts by Early Christian Church teachers (Justin Martyr,…
The main focus of the present collected volume is placed on early medieval personal names, which are examined for their value as sources both for linguists and for historians. There is a…
In this book the individual occupational diseases are described with regard to clinical picture (diagnosis, therapy, course), need for intervention, prospects of integration, gradual…
Following an introduction to the development of cultural property protection and a definition of terms, this work addresses international and European provisions in order to provide an overview of…
In 30 BC, Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) conquered Egypt, after which he appointed his friend, the poet and general Gaius Cornelius Gallus as first prefect of the new Roman province.…
The collection of rulings publishes the administration of justice by governmental courts in the Federal Republic of Germany pertaining to the relationship of church and state, and also regarding…
This volume combines twenty-six contributions on Byzantine literature in which well-known Byzantine scholars approach subjects from epistolography, historiography, hagiography, philology and…
This collection offers an extensive framework of comparative and individual studies assessing the place of Luke-Acts in the historiography of ancient Judaism and the Greco-Roman world, whilst also…
Dem eigentlichen Homerkommentar, der im jeweils zweiten Faszikel eines Bandes geboten wird, geht im jeweils ersten Faszikel der griechische Text (von M . L. West) und die Übersetzung von J…
Friedrich Nietzsche held France in high esteem throughout his life. France was at the same time the country in which he allowed himself to believe to be understood. Nietzsche and France…
In Late Antiquity, and above all in the fourth century, far-reaching changes took place in the political, social and religious environments. The pagan authors of the Roman East (the Emperor Julian…
In a broad sweep, the Greek Studies treat important moments in Greek history from its beginnings up to the 4th century BC. Working in collaboration with the Old Testament scholar Klaus Seybold…