This volume offers a comprehensive presentation of European insolvency law and considers questions relating to the cross-border insolvency proceeding. Due to the European Insolvency Regulation (…

This study takes as its subject the polemical text attributed to Hippocrates On Ancient Medicine , which challenges the views of the causes and treatment of illness prevalent at the time of its…

Zu den interessantesten und aufschlussreichsten Themen der historischen Forschung gehört der Transformationsprozess, in dessen Verlauf sich aus dem spätantiken Imperium Romanum das Byzantinische…

Unlike the monographic treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, these anthologies contain shorter papers on topics from the disciplines of the Academy. The first anthology…

For many years Cassius Dio’s Romaika (c. AD 160 - c. AD 230) has served as a quarry for the reconstruction of lost sources and the historical narrative. The view of the Roman Republic…

This study opposes the widely-held opinion that stage directions in 18th century German dramas are of minor importance.Apart from canonical dramas by Lessing, Lenz, Goethe and Schiller, it also…

This new handbook provides private-practice and hospital gynecologists with a practical guide for advising and treating patients in the case of maternal disease during pregnancy. More than 100…

Negotiations between management and the special negotiating bodies of employees are conducted according to the same rules for the European Company (SE), the European Cooperative Society (SCE), and…

Individual remembering and forgetting is, as we know, not subject to conscious intention, but is part of a collective process of remembering which is formed in part by cultural change. Thus…

Operative hysteroscopy represents an important extension of operative gynecology. The benefits of this endoscopic technique, however, are balanced by its high demands on the operator. It requires…

This study investigates the conditions of legitimate rule and argues that legitimacy can only be realized in a tiered global order. It criticizes theories of justice, democratic theory, legal…

The procedure for penalty orders is highly significant to the practice of law. This work reveals that the procedure for penalty orders arose out of a conflict of competence between the police…

This collected volume contains the life stories of 21 significant jurists that considerably affected the development of criminal law over the past few decades and contributed to the influence of…

The yearbook focuses on Jean Paul and his work as well as on the literature, arts, culture and aesthetics of his age. At regular intervals, the yearbooks also present excerpts from hitherto…

This work focuses on one of the most striking archaeological phenomena of the Early Middle Ages in Europe, the so-called “Reihengräberfelder” (cemeteries with graves in rows). The…

The relationship between religion and politics has received increased attention in recent time. For religious traditions, this increased attention has been cause to reflect on their position…

For the first time, possible legal insolvency issues pertaining to check payments from the viewpoint of the individual persons participating in check payment transactions are comprehensively…

Elvis, David Bowie, Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson, Frank Zappa, Madonna? the history of pop music is also always a history of stage performances. The Pop Concert as a Para-theatrical Form is the…

The new regulations in §§ 208 ff. of the German Insolvency Act (InsO) aimed to create the necessary legal basis for the performance of proceedings with insufficient assets. The…

The cultural history of a city between the Late Middle Ages and the Thirty Years WarThis book contains 19 essays on the cultural history of Augsburg in the 15th and 16th centuries. During this…

Volume 2 of this handbook comments on the protection of cultural goods from the civil law perspective and examines the ways and means of restitution for cultural goods obtained illegally. …

The Cistercian Abbey of Marienfeld, founded by a group of Westphalian noblemen in 1185, is considered to be one of the most important monasteries of the Diocese of Münster. Due to the…

With his talk of the ”death of God“, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche presented a diagnosis of the future that is both problematic and highly topical. Although this had been the…

The author reconstructs the development and particular structure of early humanist moral philosophy. The humanists overcame scholastic philosophy through the development of a new style of…

Die Einstellung Konstantins des Großen zum Christengott und die Motive und Ziele der Politik des Kaisers gegenüber den Christen und ihrem Klerus sind bis heute umstritten. In Auseinandersetzung…

This work focuses on the set of problems surrounding the classification of movable state cultural goods under cultural property law in the event of state succession. What happens to a state's…

An elementary introduction to the philosophy in mathematics. Thomas Bedürftig, Leibniz University Hannover; Roman Murawski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Posnan, Poland.

Volume I begins with a basic introduction into the general topic, in order to present the handbook's scope and implications and to specify the various situations where it is applicable in…

With the newly revised 3rd edition, this standard work on measures of enforcement law has been brought up to date. The commentary deals in depth with such topics as voluntary and compulsory…

Written by renowned experts in the field, this book provides a systematic survey of the current research situation and the need for further research on the place names of the different regions…

The oncological and psychological care of women cancer patients is part of the day-to-day work of a gynecologist. In practice, the gynecologist must be able to give competent answers to…

Around 1800 there is a new symbolisation and narration of ‘internal spaces’, spiritual and psychic processes, states or relationships which do not lend themselves to direct observation…

Sexual criminal offenses manifest themselves in many different forms in practice as well as under the law. This work addresses the forms of criminally punishable sexual violence, which are today…

This collection illuminates the concept of  “Bildung” in the works of Fichte, Schiller, Humboldt, and Nietzsche. Besides seeking to work out the theoretical contour of aesthetic…

Banking Law Day 2009 in Frankfurt focused on the topics “Implementation of the Payment Services Directive under Civil Law” and “The Financial Market Crisis and the…

This collection of essays analyzes a systematic question: To what extent does Kierkegaard fall back upon positions of Fichte in his dispute with Hegel? The contributions explore this question,…

The intention of this volume is to investigate into the dimensions of the cultural practice of the copying of ancient art. Copies as the primary ‒ the original? ‒ that claims to…

This study explores a famous chapter of university, scholarly and family history, placing it in context for the first time. The Buxtorf family, which originated from Westphalia, held the Chair…

This publication focuses on the quality of life and care of members of the German Multiple Sclerosis Society (DMSG), Berlin, who have fallen ill with the disease. The up-to-date information…

Although the emperor’s wreath is omnipresent in Roman art, little attention has been paid to it in classical scholarship, a gap filled by the present work. With recourse to archaeological…

This volume consists of collected individual studies occurring in context of the Athanasius Werke (the works of Athanasius of Alexandria), dealing with the 'Pseudo-Athanasiana', the reception of…

Volume 1, divided into three part volumes covers the history of the German book trade during the empire. It focuses on the conditions and developments, the growth of publishing and publishing…

In this volume of papers 19 authors demonstrate on the basis of selected examples how Virgil’s works, and above all his Aeneid, have been received by modern authors. The examples span six…

Nature, on its own, does not reveal itself as landscape. Rather, the concept of landscape develops in the perspective of the beholder, who assigns it expressiveness and significance. The visual…

Ulrich von Liechtenstein is the composer and author of numerous minne songs, writings on the theory of courtly love and a fictitious autobiography (as a servant of women). He is best known for…

This book examines how knowledge is created in key areas of day-to-day practice with the aid of linguistic means. Using examples from medicine, law, teaching/learning interactions and mass media…

The contributions presented here discuss the possibilities and conditions of finding a consensus about the meaning of literature. First, the existing diversity of approaches to literary theory,…

This literary study examines representations of social communication in the European literature of the 12th to the 16th centuries. It describes the social constellations and communicative…

Until now an overview of the history of linguistics during the 20th century has been lacking. With this book, Wolfgang Wildgen fills this gap. Starting with the predecessors of Saussure, the…