The volume presents the first edited version in existence of the autobiography of the mystic spiritualist Friedrich Breckling (1629-1711), which has come down to us in manuscript form. The…

Neo-Scholastic metaphysics plays an outstanding role in 17th century philosophy. The beginnings of the modern scientific view of the world originate from precisely the same time. With reference…

The historical significance of religious heterodoxies in the early modern age - both the forgotten and the subsequently influential - for the development of European thinking can hardly be…

The first printed collection of riddles in German, the so-called »Straßburger Rätselbuch«, ran to 39 known editions covering a period of 280 years from 1510 to 1789. This…

The progress towards an 'information society' confronts media teaching with new challenges and also puts this discipline more squarely in the centre of ongoing discourse on media ethics,…

Advertising texts are utility texts confronting us in large numbers day in, day out. The present volume looks at the forms they take, their nature and the way(s) they operate. Proceeding from a…

The volume offers a systematic introduction to the theory of and research into media communication. The concept suggests itself as a reflection of the way in which personal communication and…

The volume is designed as an introduction to scholarly research on the book, approaching it as the basic and leading medium in early-modern and modern communication systems. The various aspects…

Das Buch hat einführenden Charakter: es will Fernsehen im Spektrum der modernen Medien verstehen, zunächst anhand der elementaren Leistungen und Bedingungen des historisch veränderlichen '…

The »Dictionary of Yiddish Loan-Words in German Dialects« documents contact between the German and Yiddish languages, with special reference to German dialects. The material was taken from…

The proceedings cover new perspectives in the field of lexicography, including both theoretical and practical topics, and new aspects of special and bilingual dictionaries. The volume also…

The proceedings cover new perspectives in the field of lexicography, including both theoretical and practical topics, and new aspects of special and bilingual dictionaries. The volume also…

In commercial lexicography, the aspect of dictionaries as saleable commodities determines the laws governing lexicographic action. Accordingly, the planning and ordering of dictionaries is…

The study focuses on problems posed by the differentiation of equivalents in German-English dictionaries for German users. Alongside a theoretical discussion of equivalence relations and…

The Thirteenth Blaubeuren Symposium was dedicated to the discussion of the changing face of the ridiculous and the changing functions of laughter since the Middle Ages. The contributions focus…

This study is concerned with the latest developments in the relationship between literature and the natural sciences. The first part revolves around a critical engagement with the 'science wars…

The study deals with the thematic combination of 'sexuality and death' in order to explore the functional-structural relationship between literary and cultural discourses and its historical…

This is part of the first systematic study of the formation of non-compound nouns and adjectives in Old and Middle Irish. It is divided into three sections: I. primary stem-formations; II.…

This collection contains papers held at a symposium concerning the present state of Celtic studies, particularly in Germany. Various aspects of Celtic literatures and languages are discussed,…

Shakespeare's stage world is a deeply royal world, with royal characters featuring in all his plays. But how did Shakespeare depict his princes? Which of the traditions of the day, established…

On 27 April 1997, Prof. Dr. Drs. h.c. Max Pfister, editor of the 'Lessico etimologico italiano' (LEI) and the 'Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie' (ZrP) and former president of the 'Société…

The 'History of Spanish Literature' is designed not only to encourage the reader's interest in Spanish literature itself, but also to provide an introduction to current academic discussion on…

The articles in this festschrift for the Romance studies scholar Gerhard Ernst (Regensburg) concentrate on topics that have been a constant preoccupation of his research and teaching throughout…

In this festschrift marking the 65th birthday of the Chemnitz Romance studies scholar Harro Stammerjohann, 24 of his friends and colleagues deal with questions pertaining to French and Italian…

The present study investigates the vocabulary used in some 1,000 archive documents dating from the period between 1685 and 1735/40 and produced by Waldenses (Vaudois) settling in South-West…

This study sees itself as a contribution to a history of communication, with special reference to changes in the textual norms operative in one individual language in a period marked by…

As far back as 1979, Lothar Wolf called for a study of the special terms employed by Italian printers and typographers when printing was still in its infancy. One of the aims of the present work…

Tracing in-scriptions of subjectivity in texts from 13th and 14th century France necessarily implies inquiring into the process of subjectification they reflect. From the 'Roman de la Rose' in…

This study examines the earliest grammars of Portuguese from a variety of perspectives, including intention, target audiences, definition of grammar, views on language, and linguistic…

Honorius Augustodunensis' »Elucidarium« is probably one of the most widely disseminated medieval texts on the subject of religious knowledge outside of academic theology. But both in itself and…

The study provides a critical etymological discussion on the common nouns frequently referred to in the literature as Celtic. Distinctions are drawn between genuinely Celtic and dia-Celtic on…

The third and final supplement to volumes 21-23 of the FEW (Walther von Wartburg's »Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch« = Etymological Dictionary of French) proposes new, in some cases…

The study is dedicated to the exploration of the language employed in Old French official documents from the Luxembourg area. First, it provides an edition of all the original documents in Old…

The Islamic era on the Iberian peninsula brought many innovations with it, most of them adopted together with their Arab designations. Part One examines the Hispano-Islamic and Christian urban…

In contrast to prevalent scholarly opinion on the subject, this book proceeds on the assumption that early Italian love poetry is the linguistic aspect of a veneration ritual that was an…

Whereas in Spanish the tradition of three demonstrative pronouns remains unbroken, the paradigms of modern Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese are exclusively dual in this respect. The dyad…

The 'profile' of a word is understood here as the totality of the semantic, combinatory, and grammatical features determining its specific communicative potential. The book provides profiles of…

Which factors can be regarded as essential for the prosodic differentiation of oral text varieties? The study investigates this question on the basis of a corpus of French and Italian recordings…

A number of the vernacular texts stemming from the reign of Alfonso X (king of Castile and León from 1252-1284) discuss the numerous purported etymologies of individual words. This study…

The aim of the study is to identify typical usages and functional profiles of French and Italian demonstratives used for endophoric reference (mostly anaphoric and cataphoric) and to classify…