How did the Eastern European and Soviet states write their respective histories of art and architecture during 1940s–1960s? The articles address bo...

The Germanist, linguist, Protestant theologian, polyhistor and minority politician Adolf Schullerus established a versatile network during his life...

The literary scholar, cultural mediator and publicist Arnost Vilém (Ernst Wilhelm) Kraus dealt in a variety of ways with the social and societal re...

The peasant comedy text type and the fictional literary conversations it contains are among the most important sources that allow conclusions to be...

This volume of the "Low German Studies" series, which focuses on linguistics and cultural studies, is dedicated to the historical word formation of...

Sexual practices between humans and animals caused fear and horror in the early modern period. As a devilish sin and crime against nature, "bestial...

So far, biographical reference works, which experienced a veritable boom in the course of the long 19th century, have only been insufficiently exam...

Does unlimited power have a detrimental effect on the human psyche? In any case, this notion is widespread in the popular discourse of modern socie...

The attraction of crises keeps going an entire sector of the media industry. Authors, painters, photographers and directors tell fascinating storie...

While cotton was a world-changing good in the early modern period, for producers, merchants, and consumers, it was but one of many different fabric...

The present study turns to representations of creation in texts that are regarded as early and earliest surviving testimonies of European vernacula...

Was the Alexandrian Schism a mere marginal phenomenon in England? Certainly not. Political men like the bishop and royal confidante Arnulf von Lisi...

About 100 years after the Sachsenspiegel was created, the university-trained lawyer Johann von Buch, following the example of the Glossae Ordinaria...

The Dutch Republic was unique in early modern Europe in many ways. The high level of urbanization, the low number of illiterates and religious tole...

Unter strengster Geheimhaltung begann 1939 im Rahmen des nationalsozialistischen 'Euthanasie'-Programms die Erfassung und Begutachtung aller Psychi...