In einem ersten, theoretischen Teil enthält diese Studie eine ausführliche Auseinandersetzung mit aktuellen Forschungsentwicklungen auf den Gebieten der Biographischen Forschung,…

The Paul Zsolnay publishing house was established in Vienna in the late fall of 1923. It was Austria's leading literary publisher in the years between the two World Wars and focused on…

The present study sets out to reformulate problems posed by the socio-historical explanation of literature by regarding them in terms of systems theory. It shows how, under the pressure of…

Augsburg's 'Allgemeine Zeitung' was a product of the famous Cotta publishing house of Stuttgart. As an economic enterprise it had to ensure its profitability while at the same time living up to…

Various literary magazines for women started appearing in the late 18th century in German-speaking countries, at least ten of them written and published solely by women. By going public in this…

Until well into the present century, and in the face of all existing statistics, there was a widely held belief reflected in scientific writings, literature, journalism and accepted folk…

With analyses of the diaries of Haller, Gellert, Lavater, La Roche, von der Recke, Goethe, Leisewitz, Lichtenberg, etc., and taking full account of culture-historical aspects, the media, and…

The volume analyzes writers as intellectual figures in public discourse. The first section is devoted to the origins of the term 'intellectual' and the theory of intellectualism since the late…

This volume brings together the proceedings of a symposium to mark the retirement of Eda Sagarra from the Chair of German (founded 1776) at Trinity College Dublin. It addresses the themes of her…

The volume inquires into the formal aspects and the achievements of genealogical thinking in the Middle Ages and early modern age with reference to art history, early German studies and the…

The book rests on advanced concepts central to systems theory and semiology, i.e. Niklas Luhmann's theory of the structural link between consciousness and communication and C.S. Peirce's triadic…

The volume addresses methodological questions raised by a sociological and socio-historical approach to literary history and tests them in ten studies on the theory and practice of the…

With more than 2,000 daily issues between 1933 and 1940, the »Pariser Tageblatt« / »Pariser Tageszeitung« is one of the key sources for research on the political, cultural, and everyday life of…

Drawing upon more than 500 literary and journalistic texts, this study is the first post-war discussion of the phenomenon of German enthusiasm for Switzerland across a period of 150 years. The…

This collection assembles articles pursuing a programmatic combination of approaches from media studies and cultural studies. A critical discussion of rival approaches based on a purely…

How did (German) literary studies function in the period of National Socialist dictatorship? What consequences did the incisive political and social changes have on the subject-matter,…

After 1933, on a scale hitherto largely unreflected in literary research, German exiles engaged with the phenomenon of National Socialist anti-Semitism. This engagement ranged from the…

Klopstock's mythological skating odes are an especially graphic instance of his role as a key poet in the literary revolution that took place in the 18th century. In their rhythmic complexion…

The works of Jurek Becker are paradigmatic for the study of socialist control over literary life in the GDR. The censorship-based administration of this area of social reality was effectively…

The underlying belief informing the German utopian novel in the first half of the 20th century was that technological progress would create a strong Germany and a better world. The genre-…

The lexicon pertaining to Brother Berthold's »Rechtssumme« is an integral part of the overall edition. Its function is to provide a dictionary of definitions based on the three…

The edition of the First Commandment in the exegesis of the Decalogue by Ulrich von Pottenstein (? 1416) provides scholarly access to the most monumental document of late medieval Latin-…

The present study deals with the reception of the works of Meister Eckhart during the first half of the 15th century at the Benedictine monastary of Melk (Austria). Eckhart's work is to be found…

The German »Macer«, translated into Thuringian dialect in the first half of the thirteenth century, is the earliest extensive herbal in German. It treats 97 herbs in an equal number of chapters…

The prose legendry »Lives of the Saints« written in the Dominican monastery in Nuremberg around 1400 was the most widely disseminated vernacular legendry of the European Middle Ages. It has been…

Konrad von Megenberg, canon of Regensburg cathedral, wrote his »Book of Nature« between 1348 and 1350. It has come down to us in approx. 150 manuscripts, which makes it one of the most popular…

Around the year 1060 Williram von Ebersberg wrote a commentary on the Song of Solomon that was the most widely read commentary of its kind in the German Middle Ages. Here a critical textual…

The 'Triumphus humanae stultitiae vel Tylus Saxo' (1558), the first poem in Latin of the Eulenspiegel stories, is made available here for the first time in a modern edition with commentary,…

This is the first scholarly edition of the High German prose rendering of the French source text by Renaud de Montauban in the 1535 Simmern version. The anonymous author is Johann II of Simmern…

The figure of the Cynic philosopher Diogenes is not only a source of recurrent fascination for authors of classical Antiquity and modernism, but also - and especially - for the Middle Ages and…

This biography of Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616-1679) draws on hitherto largely untapped source material to describe the life and work of the Silesian poet and city councillor of…

The volume assembles the papers given at the international and interdisciplinary conference »Concept and Problem of Philology 1580-1730« held in July 1998. They provide insight into the…

Key events like the discovery of America, the collapse of denominational unity, the increasing significance of new trade relations, and the centralization of state power stand for the complex…

The volume provides the first detailed account of the history of the scholarly society Deutsche Gesellschaft in Leipzig from its beginnings (1697) to the new start (ca. 1730) under the…

The »Indulgentiae ecclesiarum urbis Romae« was the most important guide for late medieval pilgrims to Rome. It describes Rome's seven main churches (and selected others), making special…

The 'arch-humanist' Konrad Celtis (1459-1508) is not only a key figure in the history of humanism north of the Alps but can legitimately claim to be one of the originators of modern-age German…

The series »Documenta Mnemonica« will comprise a total of 8 volumes providing access to the sources on memorial philosophy and art from antiquity to the early modern age. Volume I is…

The study inquires into the social conditions governing literary life in 18th century Hessen-Darmstadt as an example of such connections at the time. The approach is empirical and based on…

The study focuses on the largely neglected anonymous flysheet »Der gestryfft Schwitzer Baur«, printed in 1522 by Pamphilus Gengenbach in Basel. Following an outline of the conditions governing…

In terms of its impact, the Reformation Geneva Psalter is one of the most significant literary and musical works of the 16th century. Thanks not least to the consummate sensitivity of their…

From the Middle Ages onwards, St. Catherine of Alexandria was considered a leading figure in Christian education due to her rhetorical triumph over 50 heathen philosophers. The three dramas…

In 1499 Kaspar Hochfeder of Metz published the German prose romance »Florio und Bianceffora«, a translation of Boccaccio's early work »Il Filocolo«. In engaging with the work's specific…