Kinder lieben Mittelalterfeste, verkleiden sich gerne als Ritter oder Burgfräulein. Das Mittelalt...

More than ever before do we need the critical engagement with religious tolerance. Historical per...

Was passiert, wenn man schon mehrere Jahrzehnte in der 'gelobten Welt' Amerika gelebt hat und auf...

This volume continues the critical exploration of fundamental issues in the medieval and early mo...

Wer hätte sich nicht schon mal über die lieben Mitmenschen geärgert, über sie gelacht, oder sich ...

There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sci...

Im späten 13. Jahrhundert schuf ein anonymer mittelhochdeutscher Dichter den höfischen Versroman ...

Medieval Answers to Modern Problems

A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a d...

Research on medieval and early modern travel literature has made great progress, which now allows...

Earlier theses on the history of childhood can now be laid to rest and a fundamental paradigm shi...

Some of the articles in this volume tackle theoretical issues as illustrated by translation examp...

Theophrast von Hohenheim (Paracelsus) gehörte zwar zu den herausragenden Ärzten seiner Zeit, war ...

Although the city as a central entity did not simply disappear with the Fall of the Roman Empire,...

Literatur setzt sich aus vielen verschiedenen Texten zusammen - solchen, die zum Kanon gerechnet ...

Der zweite Band der 'Theophrastus Paracelsus Studien' versammelt die Beiträge internationaler Wis...

The contributors to the present volume examine, from a wide variety of perspectives, the issues o...

Poetic reflections about the self, our society, nature, politics, values, truth, love, passion, a...

A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a d...

Deutsch: Was bedeutet ein 'Bestseller' für die Literaturgeschichte? Wie definieren wir einen solc...

Albrecht Classen presents here yet another volume of his own poetry, haiku(s), along with a selec...

The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the Middle Ages were faced with su...

This book offers the first complete English translation of the poems by the late-medieval German ...

This new volume explores the surprisingly intense and complex relationships between East and West...

Death is not only the final moment of life, it also casts a huge shadow on human society at large...

Although it is fashionable among modernists to claim that globalism emerged only since ca. 1800, ...

Despite a modern tendency to describe medieval women as suppressed and marginalized, a critical r...

All societies are constructed, based on specific rules, norms, and laws. Hence, all ethics and mo...

Das Streben nach einem guten Leben, mithin nach einem guten Tod, beherrschte schon immer die Phil...

A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a d...

Sexuality is one of the most influential factors in human life. The responses to and reflections...

After an extensive introduction that takes stock of the relevant research literature on Old Age i...

Medieval historians and literary scholars have not ignored the topic of sexual violence and rape,...

Although it seems that erotic love generally was the prevailing topic in the medieval world and t...

While most people today take hygiene and medicine for granted, they both have had their own histo...

This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies...

This book brings together, in a modern English translation, a selection of relevant medieval text...

This book offers the first complete English translation of the poems by the late-medieval German ...

Despite popular opinions of the 'dark Middle Ages' and a 'gloomy early modern age,' many people l...

Older research on the premodern world limited its focus on the Church, the court, and, more recen...

The Middle Ages were not only times of military conflicts, the formation of nations, and the rise...

Amerika ist schon ein schrulliges Land, vielleicht weil so viele Menschen aus der ganzen Welt hie...

Mit Erasmus Widmann (1572-1634) begegnen wir einem höchst bemerkenswerten, bisher aber nur von Mu...

A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a d...

Sowohl die Konstituierung von Gesellschaft als auch der Gebrauch von Sprache an sich repräsentier...

Bi- and multilingualism are of great interest for contemporary linguists since this phenomenon de...

Love, Life, and Lust in Heinrich Kaufringer's Verse Narratives

Despite the assumption that we live today in a rather rationalist and mechanized world, there rem...