Egyptology from the First World War to the Third Reich: I...
Only recently has Egyptology started examining ideology and its implications for our self-understanding and understanding of ancient Egypt, Egyptology, and the past as a whole. This edition presents aspects of ideology, scholarship, and individual biographies from World War I to the "Third Reich".
62,00 CHF
Die Bibel Bei Den Manichäern Und Verwandte Studien Von Al...
This volume contains the until-now unpublished dissertation "Die Bibel bei den Manichaern" and three related articles of Alexander Bohlig (*1912 + 1996), who was one of the leading scholars in Manichaean studies. Der Band enthalt die bis dato unpublizierte Dissertation "Die Bibel bei den Manichaern" sowie drei weitere Artikel zum Thema Manichaismus von Alexander Bohlig (*1912 + 1996), der einer ...
160,00 CHF
Iohannes de Garlandia: Carmen de Misteriis Ecclesie
While teaching at the university of Paris, John of Garland, in addition to more ambitious works, wrote several didactic texts. His "Misteria Ecclesie" treat with didactic brevity: the symbolism of the church-buildings, the ecclesiastical order of the clergy, vestments, liturgy, the canonical year, the Eucharist. His source is a treatise of Ps.- Hugo of St. Victor.
155,00 CHF
The Kindertransport to Britain 1938/39: New Perspectives
This volume examines the Kindertransport to Britain 1938/39. The seventeen contributions provide various new perspectives, which are investigated for the first time in this volume. Chapters focus on the Kindertransport in British historiography, on the identity development of specific groups of Kindertransportees, on the Kindertransportees' further migration pattern, and on Kindertransport literature. Further contributions include a comparative study of Kindertransportees ...
124,00 CHF
Neuplatonisches Gedankengut in Den Homilien Über Die Seli...
This volume thoroughly analyses the Neoplatonic sources and background of Gregory of Nyssa's eight "Homilies on the Beatitudes" and thus complements the first commentary of the homilies published in "Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae" vol. 52.
212,00 CHF
Ungeteiltheit - Oder Mystik ALS Ab-Grund Der Erfahrung: E...
This book pursues an in-depth discussion between Eckhart's mysticism and Henry's radical or material phenomenology of life.
190,00 CHF
Philologischer, Historischer Und Liturgischer Kommentar Z...
Philologischer, historischer und liturgischer Kommentar zum 8. Buch der Johannis des Goripp offers an in-depth study of the 8th book of the Johannis plus a monograph-style introduction to all aspects of the poem.
165,00 CHF
The Self in Transition: East German Autobiographical Writ...
Taking as its starting point the work of Professor Dennis Tate, this volume brings together essays which explore varieties of East German autobiographical writing before, during and after German unification. The volume examines the invention and re-invention of the self through literature in response to historical change, analysing how authors have negotiated social transition in the East German context. Many ...
137,00 CHF
German-speaking Exiles in the Performing Arts in Britain ...
This volume focuses on the contribution of German-speaking refugees from Nazism to the performing arts in Britain, evaluating their role in broadcasting, theatre, film and dance from 1933 to the present. It contains essays evaluating the role of refugee artists in the BBC German Service, including the actor Martin Miller, the writer Bruno Adler and the journalist Edmund Wolf. Miller ...
136,00 CHF
Art, Intellect and Politics: A Diachronic Perspective
The volume explores the relationship of artists and intellectuals from ancient Greece to modern times.
280,00 CHF
Erzählte Welten Im Richterbuch: Narratologische Aspekte E...
A title that offers an analysis of the narrated worlds in the Book of Judges which reveals a polyphonic discourse shaping the (re)construction of this period of Israel's past. Refusing any one-sided interpretation, it remains a retrospection between admiration and disconcertment.
187,00 CHF
The Care of the Elderly in the Ancient Near East
Material support in old age: how did the various cultures of the Ancient Near East counter this problem? Surprisingly, this problem has hardly been discussed before and consequently this volume is the first work to concentrate on this important social topic.A group of scholars convened to study the strategies used when there was no son at hand to 'honour father ...
198,00 CHF
