Publications
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Le roi, son favori et les baronset XVe siècles
(2021)
At the end of the Western Middle Ages, the new notions of the legitimacy of royal power and its exercise were made more visible by the presence of royal favourites whose figure should be reconsidered. The present study ...
Decorum und Mammon im Widerstreit?
(2022)
Entrepreneurial activity by nobles was highly debated in the European Early Modern period. Generally, it was considered socially inappropriate. Nevertheless, profit-oriented activities of the nobility were an economic ...
Tradition und Traditionsverhalten
(2021)
In Western cultural history, 'tradition' is one of the central concepts to describe processes of reception and their impact. Especially in literary studies, traditions are often claimed by stating, for example, that a ...
Von Preußen lernen?
(2021)
With the end of the Seven Years' War, a period of intensive search for reform ideas began in France an attempt to restore France's supremacy in the international state system and save the monarchy from bankruptcy. The ...
Visuelle Dimensionen des Antiziganismus
(2021)
Visual media have played a key role in the genesis of antigypsyism since the early modern period. This interdisciplinary anthology examines the central motifs and semantics of "Gypsy" images in various forms of representation ...
Modeling the Pāṇinian System of Sanskrit Grammar
(2019)
The present work is a study of the Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini from a new perspective. It attempts to explore the Pāṇinian system of Sanskrit grammar from a formal point of view and investigate the possibilities of representing ...
Passing Through Shanghai: Ethnographic Insights into the Mobile Lives of Expatriate Youths
(2016)
Passing Through Shanghai examines how children experience international mobility. Focusing on a specific yet diverse group of expatriate youths in contemporary Shanghai, the book investigates how children negotiate cultural ...
Reshaping Glocal Dynamics of the Caribbean
(2018)
The Circum-Caribbean and its diasporas constitute a space of relations and disconnections. Historically, the Caribbean served as a bridgehead for the European conquest of the Americas and a point of exchange of human beings, ...
»Daraus kündten auch die Graeci lärnen«
(2022)
In search of subsidies for the publishing of his Greek and Latin oeuvre, the Corona Anni, Professor Martin Crusius of Tübingen (1526-1607) pointed out in a letter to Johan Papius, court physician at Ansbach, that it might ...
Agonale Invektivität
(2021)
What does humanism mean, who is a humanist? Contemporaries clarified this not least through diatribes. Intellectuals who, since the middle of the fourteenth century, have regarded rhetoric as the most noble method of ...
"Mulukī Ain" of 1854
(2021)
The Mulukī Ain of 1854—the law code with constitutional features drafted at the initiative of Prime Minister Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā—is the foundational legal text for modern Nepal. It covers almost every aspect of public, ...
Vom byzantinischen zum arabischen Ägypten
(2021)
This volume contains the edition of 42 Egyptian documentary papyri from the 5th–8th century AD including translations as well as historical and philological commentary. The texts were written in Greek or Coptic, but the ...
Facilitating Cross-Border Family Life – Towards a Common European Understanding
(2021)
This volume constitutes the final study of EUFams II, a research project on European family and succession law funded by the European Commission. Its contributors present historical developments, discuss the status quo, ...
Une clôture hermétique?
(2021)
In the Middle Ages, the very existence of Benedictine monasteries was based on their proclaimed isolation from the world, a tenet diametrically opposed to their means of subsistence. Indeed, in order to extract goods from ...
Cinema as a Political Media
(2021)
Based on a comparative, transnational approach, the international group of authors focuses on the respective national interpretations of the past in Germany and Italy, as presented in the medium of film between 1945 and ...
Handbuch Europäische Sprachkritik Online
(2018)
This second volume of the “Online Handbook of Language Criticism – A European Perspective” focuses on the processes of standardisation in German, English, French, Italian, and Croatian
and investigates them in the context ...
Reading Objects in the Contact Zone
(2021)
The cultural effects of globalization constitute one of the most important challenges for the discipline of art history today. The aim of this publication is to take a critical look at art historical narratives. Based on ...
Der "Welsche Gast" des Thomasin von Zerklaere
(2022)
In 1215/1216, Thomasin von Zerklaere composed his Welscher Gast (“The Italian Guest”), the earliest comprehensive book of court etiquette written in German. Up until the Early Modern Age, the work was frequently copied and ...
Glas in der Frühen Neuzeit
(2022)
The production of glass was one of the high technologies of the early modern period. At a heat of around 1500 degrees, mixtures of sand, lime and vegetable, wood or potash were transformed into greenish, crystal-clear or ...
Universalistisches Ideal und koloniale Kontinuitäten
(2021)
When Algeria gained independence in 1962, an estimated 1 million European settlers and roughly 85 000 so called »Harkis«, muslim Algerians that served as auxiliaries in the French Army, left Algeria en route to France. ...
Marseille, Montpellier und das Mittelmeer.
(2021)
The book examines how the integration of local merchants in the south of France contributed to the commercial expansion of the cities of Marseille and Montpellier in the 12th and 13th centuries. The origin of the flourishing ...
Bausteine einer Korpusgrammatik des Deutschen: Bd. 1 (2020)
(2020)
Bausteine einer Korpusgrammatik des Deutschen (“Building blocks towards a corpus grammar of German”) is a series presenting corpus linguistic studies on German grammar conducted at the Leibniz Institute for the German ...
Taming the Poisonous
(2021)
This rich ethnographic and socio-historical account uncovers how toxicity and safety are expressed transculturally in a globalizing world. For the first time, it unpacks the “pharmaceutical nexus” of mercury in Tibetan ...
Die Münchner Residenz als kommentierte 3D-Rekonstruktion
(2024)
This study provides a new synthesis of the architectural history of the Munich Residence and its urban environment from the mid-fifteenth century to the eve of the Thirty Years’ War. It is primarily based on a systematic ...
»Es ist nur ein Dorf«
(2020)
This volume, which accompanies the exhibition of the same name, honours Leopold Mozart (1719-1787), who was not only a musician, composer and teacher, but also a well-informed observer of his time. His letters contain ...
Digital Stylistics in Romance Studies and Beyond
(2024)
Digital Stylistics is an area of research at the intersection of Literary Studies, Linguistics, Digital Humanities, and Computational Literary Studies. It is concerned with the computational and statistical analysis of ...
Bilder von Überresten
(2024)
Only vestiges of the Middle Ages remain. They embody a period that has been assigned a wide range of historical, political and cultural meanings in modern and contemporary times. In addition to texts, images have also ...
Museen digital
(2018)
Museums especially in the Anglosaxon world understand that they have to present themselves in a modern form if they want to be accepted by a younger audience. Internet, social media, virtual and augmented reality, open ...
Fürstliches Arkadien
(2021)
In academic research, princely summer residences are regarded as places of longing, where rulers sought to realize their dream of an earthly paradise and escape the constraints of courtly ceremonial. Traditionally, this ...
Handbuch Europäische Sprachkritik Online
(2018)
In this third volume of the “Online Handbook of Language Criticism – A European Perspective”, linguistic purism is being understood as both criticism of language usage on the level of
parole and criticism of forms and ...
The Psychology of Human Thought
(2019)
The “Psychology of Human Thought” is an “open access” collection of peer-reviewed chapters from all areas of higher cognitive processes. The book is intended to be used as a textbook in courses on higher process, complex ...
Ein Haus für Herkules
(2021)
Dedicated to housing courtly architectural models, Landgrave Karl founded the so-called Modellhaus at the beginning of the 18th-century, an unusual building which went on to become one of the most admired sights of its ...
Im Geisteskampf
(2024)
Dem Verlag Philipp Reclam jun. kommt als einem bildungsbürgerlichen Idealen verpflichteten und in Volksbildung und Schule fest verankerten Traditionshaus eine exponierte Rolle in der öffentlichen Meinungsbildung und in ...
Funerary Landscapes of the Late Antique “oecumene”
(2023)
This volume presents the first pan-Mediterranean panorama of Late Antique mortuary practices, combining and contextualizing an abundant dataset of archaeological and epigraphic evidence. In 17 contributions, a group of ...
Counterstrategies to the Antigypsy Gaze
(2024)
Countering antigypsyism in film is the problem field which this edited collection inaugurates. The aim is to shift the focus from antigypsyism critique and open up alongside it a new set of discussions about the artistic ...
Lords of the Mountains
(2024)
With his authoritative monograph, Lords of the Mountains. Pre-Islamic Heritage along the Upper Indus in Pakistan, Harald Hauptmann brought decades of research in the Karakoram region of northern Pakistan to an impressive ...
Nation, Militär und Gesellschaft
(2022)
The National Guard, which emerged from the Revolution, left a lasting mark on French public life and institutions. For the monarchy restored in 1814, it was an indispensable upholder of order and occupied a central place ...
Erinnerung im Umbruch
(2022)
The study traces the development of historiography surrounding the rulers in France in the 15th and early 16th centuries. In the first two parts, the focus is on the continuation and printing of the “Grandes Chroniques” ...
Prediger der Transformation
(2025)
Around 1200, a new institution of teaching and learning emerged in Paris: the university. But how was it possible that teachers came together to form a community and regulate their activities? A hitherto underestimated ...
Hofkunst im Zeichen des Humanismus
(2025)
The court of Duke Louis IX of Bavaria-Landshut (reigned 1450-1479) was one of the most influential and dazzling courts of its time. Not least because of the Landshut wedding in 1475, it is still known today. Against the ...
Kreuzzug als Selbstbeschreibung
(2020)
The reign of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy (1363–1477) might, in retrospect, suggest a link between modern and medieval features of their rule, especially with respect to the crusade projects of Philipp the Good (1419–1467). ...
» Cette reine qui fait une si piètre figure «
(2020)
Successive generations have remembered Marie de’ Medici (1575–1642), Queen of France, as an incompetent regent, obsessed with power and alleged to have murdered her husband. Moreover, historians often saw no more to her ...
Exultet in Material und Raum
(2025)
Exultet iam angelica turba coelorum! – Rejoice, choirs of angels! – these words mark the beginning of the Easter Proclamation; its opening word, Exultet, gave its name to the manuscripts in which the proclamation was ...
Europäischer Buchmarkt und Gelehrtenrepublik
(2023)
The publishing house and bookshop Treuttel & Würtz was a hub of European exchange par excellence around 1800. While the publishing house targeted a transcultural elite audience with publications by Johann Wolfgang von ...
Minoische Bild-Räume
(2020)
This volume presents a new analysis of the wall paintings discovered over a hundred years ago in one of the most important centres of Minoan culture, the palace at Knossos. Introducing the theoretical concept of Bild-Raum, ...
Marie Luise Gotheins "Geschichte der Gartenkunst"
(2020)
Marie Luise Gothein’s „A History of Garden Art“, first published in 1914 and still in print, was immediately recognized as a classic, but has so far never been brought into focus as a seminal work of the discipline. This ...
Deutsch-Französische Geschichte ; Band 6: Diesseits und jenseits der Nation
(2025)
The 19th century is widely regarded as an era of profound transformation. In both Germany and France, the period between 1815 and 1870 was shaped by diverse political, social, and cultural developments associated with the ...
"From the Australian Bush to the International Jungle"
(2023)
After World War I, membership in the League of Nations represented an important step for the British Dominions on the road to foreign policy independence. The internationalism of the League of Nations was not a purely ...
Caesarius von Heisterbach: Libri VIII miraculorum – Die „Acht Wunderbücher“
(2025)
The Cistercian Caesarius of Heisterbach (ca. 1180-1240) is one of the most renowned authors of the Middle Ages. His 'Eight Books of Miracles' (Libri VIII miraculorum) are a collection of instructional, edifying and deterrent ...
Verwandtsein und Herrschen
(2020)
Catherine de Médicis was an important political figure of the French monarchy for over 30 years. Her authority was based on her position as queen mother in relation to her children. This book explores the question of what ...
Images, Gestures, Voices, Lives
(2025)
The concept of ‘Palaeolithic art’ and its study have changed considerably in recent decades. The modern notion of ‘art’ is cross-culturally and diachronically problematic. The phenomenon cannot be reduced to material visual ...
Kreuzzug als Selbstbeschreibung
(2020)
The reign of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy (1363–1477) might, in retrospect, suggest a link between modern and medieval features of their rule, especially with respect to the crusade projects of Philipp the Good (1419–1467). ...
Le udienze di Mussolini durante la Repubblica Sociale Italiana, 1943–1945
(2020)
The calendar of Mussolini’s audiences given towards the end of fascism (the Italian Social Republic) are held at the Central State Archives. The volume, which makes it available to scholars for the first time, is enriched ...
Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives
(2025)
From climate change to global pandemics, some of the most vexing questions facing postcolonial societies are entangled with the contradictory role of science in postcolonial contexts. Science is connected to histories of ...
Economies of the Edge
(2025)
This volume offers a new perspective on trans-Eurasian connectivity between 300 BCE and 300 CE. It focuses on border regions as key sites of economic interaction and transformation. Beyond classic center-periphery models ...
Negotiating States of Mind
(2025)
Negotiating States of Mind examines melancholia's demise as a scientific concept, tracing the conceptual changes that transformed psychiatric thinking in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on Meiji Japan's adaptation ...
Bausteine einer Korpusgrammatik des Deutschen: Bd. 2 (2021)
(2021)
Bausteine einer Korpusgrammatik des Deutschen (“Building blocks towards a corpus grammar of German”) is a series presenting corpus linguistic studies on German grammar conducted at the Leibniz Institute for the German ...
Fake News im Mittelalter?
(2026)
The “post-truth era” and a new kind of threat from uncontrollable fake news have been central components in diagnoses of the present for several years. However, the question of how historically new such phenomena actually ...
Environments, Resources, and Infrastructures Between Russia and the Asia-Pacific
(2025)
The volume brings together interdisciplinary studies of the environments, resource policies, and infrastructures in the North Pacific, spanning the eighteenth century to the present. From early colonial encounters to ...
Contested Solidarities
(2025)
This volume responds to the multiple forms of oppression and their manifold casualties in the Global South, without taking recourse to a preemptive normativity promising instant identification of victims and perpetrators. ...
»Émigrés« an der Grenze
(2025)
In the chaos of the violent upheaval of 1789, tens of thousands of people decided to flee to neighbouring countries. Who were these refugees, ostracised by the revolutionaries as émigrés? How did they manage to cross the ...
I Comuni cittadini italiani
(2026)
The volume combines recent research trends, investigating the Italian city communes in light of the key concepts „actors“, „artifacts“, and „processes“. These analytical categories specifically address newly emerging and ...
Künstlersignatur und Artefakt
(2025)
In the extensive research on artists' signatures, little attention has been paid to their material, topological, and praxeological dimensions. This volume proposes a shift in focus from the texts themselves to how their ...
Reflexionsvertrauen
(2025)
As a commemorative publication for the long-standing Heidelberg professor of Systematic Theology (Ethics), Prof. Dr. Klaus Tanner, this volume brings together contributions from colleagues, students and close companions. ...
La ville jurée
(2026)
In the late Middle Ages, towns in the Rhine valley from Konstanz to Strasbourg created networks of relationships guaranteed by oath in order to build trust and solidarity between their inhabitants and secure their obedience ...
»Ernsthafte Genauigkeit und ehrende Strenge«
(2025)
This study examines musical analyses in German-language music journals from the 1760s to the 1820s with regard to their journalistic and theoretical context. Like hardly any other format of the time, these texts bundle the ...
Who Won the Sino-Nepalese War of 1791–1792?
(2026)
The book deals with the history of the last war between Nepal and China-Tibet in 1791/1792. With a wealth of newly discovered and for the first time edited and translated texts from Nepal, China and Tibet, the volume forms ...