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German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 49-75, January 2025.Abstract In Rathlef's and Ziegler's plays the need for human rights becomes tangible through the seemingly Other, disrupting the quotidian order of the (bourgeois) realm. The plays explore racial premises placed in close relationship with intertextual correlates, in particular bourgeois tragedies where the female protagonists embody complex moral ...
Claudia Nitschke
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German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 16-30, January 2025.ABSTRACT In the Middle Ages, the divine order was considered the standard of law. Natural law was thus derived from the divine order. In the Enlightenment, the problem of determining the content of natural law unambiguously, i.e., independently of personal viewpoints, was well known.
Christoph Schmitt‐Maass
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Trans-germanic peculiarities of preterite-present verbs
Актуальні проблеми української лінгвістики: теорія і практика, 2020 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/APULTP.2020.40.140-155 This article contains systematic and detailed analysis of morphological and semantic parameters of Germanic preterite-present verbs, dividing them into major and minor subgroups.
Andriy Botsman, Olga Dmytruk
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Seen and named in narratives: denizens of hell in the early Middle Ages
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 474-502, November 2024.This article discusses a special type of narrative: encounters with named individuals in hell. The catchment is broad (Homer to Dante) but the focus is on the early Middle Ages. Philological and literary techniques elucidate and reinterpret a number of important visionary texts, Anglo‐Saxon, Merovingian, and Carolingian. Boniface, Ep. 115 re‐emerges as
Danuta Shanzer
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‘Punitive’ Expeditions in German Colonial Contexts in Africa
History, Volume 109, Issue 386-387, Page 308-334, September 2024.Abstract The debate on the restitution of African cultural heritage has brought greater attention to the history of colonial violence, especially to the dispatch of so‐called ‘punitive’ expeditions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
YANN LeGALL
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Who in the world are the Heruli?1
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 284-305, August 2024.The history of the Heruli represents a historical conundrum. Because of the poor state of the sources, caution is required when analysing this subject. However, the peculiarity of the case encourages us to rethink the way we conceive of and describe migrations in Late Antiquity.
Salvatore Liccardo
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 387-411, August 2024.Contradictions over the meaning of adoration (adoratio) in Theodulf of Orléans’ Opus Caroli regis contra synodum have been used to minimize the role of mistranslation in the late eighth‐century Greek–Latin dispute over images. This study, however, scrutinizes the contested meaning of adoration in the original manuscript to expose tensions among ...
Huw Foden
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Recensión / Review: TORRENT i ALAMANY-LENZEN, Aina e URÍA FERNÁNDEZ, Lucía (2020): Spanisch-deutsches Wörterbuch der Redewendungen. Hamburgo: Buske. ISBN 978- 3-87548-965-1; 1629 páxs. [PDF]
Cadernos de Fraseoloxía Galega, 2022 Carmen Mellado Blanco
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German Life and Letters, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 315-331, July 2024.Abstract In the time preceding, during, and following the revolution in France, Germany, and other European nations in 1848/49, numerous women writers actively participated in the fight for freedom and democracy. However, their involvement manifested in diverse forms.
Renata Dampc‐Jarosz
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Queerness, Affekte und Eigensinn in Grimmelshausens Courasche (1670)
The German Quarterly, Volume 97, Issue 2, Page 130-149, Spring 2024.Abstract Ausgehend von der Überlegung, dass Grimmelshausens Courasche (1670) trotz einer konservativen Botschaft ein epistemisch subversives Sujet bietet, analysiert der Beitrag den Roman mithilfe von Sara Ahmeds queerer Affekttheorie. Grimmelshausens Protagonistin geht einen bösen Weg, der sie weit von den vorgeschriebenen Pfaden der christlichen ...
Alrik Daldrup
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