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The printed life’s work of the founding father of German sociology is being made available in a complete edition for international teaching and research. This volume is the seventh of…
Separatism has become an important issue in international politics, as events like the fall of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia have demonstrated. This book investigates whether the secession of…
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 (…
From a religious-historical perspective this work investigates the message and theology of the so-called Book of the Watchers (1 Enoch 1-36) as a separate book of early Judaism of the third…
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…
This volume completes the series of three volumes comprising the Handbook of Prussian History. The chronological emphasis is on the Early Modern Period (16th-18th cent.). State and politics are…
Zu den interessantesten und aufschlussreichsten Themen der historischen Forschung gehört der Transformationsprozess, in dessen Verlauf sich aus dem spätantiken Imperium Romanum das Byzantinische…
Copyright contract law mainly serves to protect the creator in particularly 'hazardous situations'. The reasoning behind the particular need for protection is seldom discussed. Dedicated to this…
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…
In the Middle Ages Italy was one of the most diversified regions in Europe. The Italian and German authors of this volume look at the integrating and des-integrating role of the Papacy in the…
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…
In her book 'Incarnation and Creation', Anne Käfer investigates the relationship between incarnation of God and His creation as the three theologians Luther, Schleiermacher and Karl Barth…
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…
The Handbuch des Antisemitismus (Handbook of Anti-Semitism) compiles existing knowledge on the phenomenon of Judaeophobia throughout the ages and across the world. The second volume contains more…
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…
Because of their chronology and geographical distribution, double-plate fibulas – pins for closing clothing – have long been regarded as a clear archaeological indicator for the…
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…
The 70th birthday of Heiko Steuer, Professor of Pre- and Protohistory at Freiburg University from 1984 to 2005, and for many years one of the editors of the Reallexikon der Germanischen…
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…
The study demonstrates how Heinrich von Kleist's work can be understood as a literary translation of an engagement with the problems of moral philosophy from the Enlightenment. Received wisdom has…
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…
As Internet use in private households continues to increase, so too do the number of consumers making purchases over the Internet. Against this background, this works considers consumer…
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…
Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Quellen zur Geschichte der Bistümer Reims und Trier seit dem 8. Jahrhundert. Am Anfang stehen wesentliche Angaben zur Geschichte dieser Bistümer im…
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 work reflects on the life and work of jurist Friedrich Karl von Strombeck, who was predominantly active as a jurist in the region of Braunschweig in the 18th century. Special consideration…
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 volume presented here is a collection of the contributions to an author’s colloquium with Walter Burkert, which was held in November 2007 in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research at…
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…
The focus of this work is the development and content analysis of the draft of 1922, also known as the “Radbruch Draft”, which refers to the draft's central author, the German Reich'…
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…
This work attempts a detailed explanation of Temme's influence on the criminal procedural field while taking into account the political relationships of the time. Karoline Peters, Hagen.
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…
Anti-Jewish sentiment and prejudice are not a fringe-group phenomenon. In recent years the inhibition threshold for expressing anti-Semitic content in public has become lower, with Israel often…
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…
This study by Professor Dr. Matthias Herdegen, sponsored by the Institute of Banking Law at the University of Cologne and available in English and German, is devoted to the organization of the…
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 second volume of letters to Pestalozzi covers the years between 1805 and 1809 and contains almost 400 letters. In the Napoleonic era in Europe 'education of the people' became an important…
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 preface of Hegel's Philosophy of Right ends with a memorable image: “When philosophy paints its gray on gray, one form of life has grown old, and with gray on gray it cannot be…
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…
This book is a response to a desolate and insufferable state of research. The German academic study of historical criminal law practically ignored the criminal code “Riforma della…
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. …
A real companion, this book deals with menstrual disorders in women and divides them appropriately into various life stages, from the neonatal period to post menopause. Gunther Gö…
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…
Present-day research is gradually finding a new approach to Isocrates, the 4th-century Greek orator who due to the influence of Plato was largely neglected in the 19th and part of the 20th…
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…
This work systematically considers the breach of rules by football referees in accordance with international and national sports law. This subject matter is of current interest and is being…
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…
Despite many expulsion attempts in the 16th century, the Frankfurt community advanced to become the center of the Jewish world in the Early Modern Age in the German-speaking region. Cilli Kasper…
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…
For the diabetic, the wrong shoes can result in serious health consequences culminating in the amputation of the foot. The 2nd, completely revised edition of this work presents new approaches of…
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…
This second volume of the 'Theophrastus Paracelsus Studies' presents a collection of papers by international scholars from a variety of disciplines. They illuminate the factors from the history of…
An elementary introduction to the philosophy in mathematics. Thomas Bedürftig, Leibniz University Hannover; Roman Murawski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Posnan, Poland.
The commentary is a special edition of the commentary on §§ 105-160 of the German Commercial Code (Handelsgesetzbuch) from Staub's Großkommentar zum Handelsgesetzbuch (…
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…
The formation of anthropological knowledge in the Early Modern Age arose from the interaction of the disciplines of psychology, anatomy, physiology and natural law which set up a fundamental…
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…
Maria Marcinkowska-Rosó? provides the first detailed study of the conception of thought and knowledge in the didactic poem by Parmenides of Elea, one of the most important early Greek philosophers…
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…
Culture is a uniquely human property. Although precursors to cultural practices are found in other animals, these precursors differ in kind from the conditions of human culture that have emerged…
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…
This study is the first comprehensive analysis of the literary and literature-theoretical work of Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698-1783). It draws a new profile of the proponent of the Zurich…
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…
In the Middle Ages, Boethius’ “Consolatio Philosophiae” is one of the most influential philosophical works from Late Antiquity. It was frequently commented on and translated.…
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…
Who isn't familiar with the fascinating events surrounding E.T.A. Hoffmann's famous Mademoiselle de Scuderi? The historical incidents portrayed in the novella were once famously recounted by…
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…
After a decade of editorial work on the new historical-critical edition of the works of Ludwig Achim von Arnim (Weimar Arnim Edition, WAA), this volume collects the philological, literary,…
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…
Goethe wrote Faust II and Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years over a period of decades. Both works thematize the beginning of the 19th century as an epochal shift marking the end of century…
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,…
Friedrich Loofs was professor of church history at the University of Halle from 1888 to 1927. Alongside his work as a scholar and teacher, he was very active as a pastor and in the political and…
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…
A detailed reconstruction of Kierkegaard's concept of recognition has been lacking until now in Kierkegaard research. This book attempts to derive Kierkegaard's implicit concept of recognition…
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…
Normative ethics concerns the criticism and justification of morality, law, and other systems of norms. This book develops a normative ethical theory based on individuals and offers a “…
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…
What constitutes the meaning of a linguistic expression: the mental states of the language user or external factors? Locke appears to assume the simple thesis that words primarily signify…
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…
Until now, August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767-1845), has not received as much research attention as his more well-known brother Friedrich Schlegel. Besides focusing on August Schlegel’s life…
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…
Joachim Vogel, Universität Tübingen; Tonio Walter, Universität Regensburg; Wilhelm Schmidt, Bundesgerichtshof, Leipzig; Juliane Krause, Staatsanwaltschaft Hof.
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…
Kirsten Graalmann-Scheerer, Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Bremen; Hans Hilger, Bundesministerium der Justiz, Bonn.
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…
Auftakt und Kernstück des Bandes ist Wielands wohl beliebtester satirischer Roman, Die Geschichte der Abderiten (1774-1776). Das Werk erscheint hier erstmals wieder in seiner ursprü…
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…
In the Corpus Aristotelicum there are 18 passages where it can be shown that Aristotle quotes statements that are formally opposite to the fundamental Euclidean theorem of the sum of the angles…
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 volume contains studies on the interdisciplinary exploration of the intermedial interpretation of the New Testament narrative material concerning Golgotha in the Early Modern Age. Special…
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…
Wittgenstein’s concept of a “language game” brings out how knowledge and ability are interwoven. Human actions are distinguished by their entanglement in a language game ‑…
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,…
Wax anatomical models, pathological specimens, obstetrical instruments, art objects, manuscripts: Since 2002 scientists and curators of the collection of the Medical History Museum of the…
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…
A disputation is an academic debate with fixed rules. Both in oral and written form it was a characteristic feature of university life of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. As genre and…
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…
E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was a universally gifted artist, musician, lawyer and writer whose fantastic tales and romantic fairy stories have had a decisive influence on world literature. This…