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Buchkultur im Mittelalter
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 182.00This anthology describes the European book culture of premodern times with regard to the material publication of handwriting and early print, their contents and forms of use, as well as the preconceptions associated with them. The relationship to and differentiation from neighboring cultures, such as the Islamic world, are also taken into consideration. more...
Platonicus amor
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 105.00This analysis of the historical understanding of Marsilio Ficino?s commentary on Plato?s Symposium sets it in relationship to the philosophical interpretation of Eros in Plato and Plotinus, while at the same time providing a multi-faceted description of the place of Ficino?s philosophy in the intellectual and spiritual development of the Italian Renaissance.... more...
Riten, Gesten, Zeremonien
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00Ritualised action ? the use of gestures and ceremonial processes ? were a central means of creating and expressing social order in pre-modern societies in particular. The present volume is divided into the three core areas of liturgy, law and politics and presents an interdisciplinary view of selected aspects of the arrangement and effect of rituals.... more...
Expectations of Romance
Boydell & Brewer 2009; US$ 90.00`An important and powerful meditation on romance genre, reception and ethical/moral purpose -- amongst many other aspects of romance.' Professor ROBERT ROUSE, University of British Columbia. Medieval readers, like modern ones, differed in whether they saw more...
Cross That Dante Bears
UPF 2005; US$ 44.95An outstanding, new, and thorough interpretation of the symbolism of the cross in Dantes poetics. more...
Buchkultur und Wissensvermittlung in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 140.00Knowledge structuring and knowledge transfer are closely linked to the materiality and mediality of the book. The articles in this volume examine the phenomena of radical changes in the media from handwriting to printing to digital media; the history of books and libraries through historical perspectives of society, culture and ideas; the relationship... more...
Aus der Werkstatt Diebold Laubers
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00Diebold Lauber?s workshop in Hagenau produced hand-written illustrated texts in the first half of the 15th century. Up to now they have been studied mainly in relation to their serial production. They are thought to be ?nicely painted? but with the wording largely copied with little consideration of its content. The studies in this collection are therefore... more...
Schreibende Frauen um 1500
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 140.00The Dominican nuns of St. Katharina's Convent in St. Gallen, that was never incorporated into the order, and who joined the reform of the order in the second half of the 15th century of their own spiritual accord, dedicated themselves especially to their library and the production of manuscripts in the convent's own scriptorium. Using this as an exemple,... more...
Handschrift ? Texttypologie - Literaturgeschichte
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 252.00Smaller Middle High German rhyming couplets (bîspel, speeches, verse narratives) represent significant innovations in the literature of the 13th century. Part I of this book develops a model for their typological understanding, part II covers the history of its reception which extends well into the 16th century and part III describes the poetics of... more...
Antikes erzählen
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 112.00How is the history of antiquity told, and what is the role of narrativity in transforming the image of antiquity? This volume addresses the highly charged intersection between experience, narrative, and history that may be apprehended when we consider the great diversity of narrative practices in literature, the visual arts, and historiography. Individual... more...









