What is considered a strength in one context can become a weakness in other contexts - and vice versa. For many processes of life as well as human interaction, however, an interplay between strong and weak elements is necessary. The 22nd issue of the research magazine RUPERTO CAROLA shows what this means in different scientific contexts.
The publishing house and bookshop Treuttel & Würtz was a hub of European exchange around 1800. For the first time, this study examines the working and influence of the publishing bookshop and embeds it in the cultural-historical context.
Vers 1800, la librairie et maison d’édition Treuttel & Würtz était une plaque tournante des échanges européens. Pour la première fois, cette étude examine le fonctionnement et l’influence de l‘entreprise Treuttel & Würtz et les replace dans le contexte historique et culturel.
With the expansion of trading routes, pilgrimage, and missionary endeavours in the 13th century, Latin travel literature emerged as a distinctive genre like never before. To highlight the importance of this genre, this volume outlines and explores current and future research trajectories.
The ‘Seven Sages of Rome’ was one of the most widely distributed story matters of premodernity. It was transmitted in at least 30 languages from Arabic to Russian across Asia, Europe and the Middle and Near East from the 11th to the 19th centuries. This issue focuses on the similarities and differences between the various versions.
To which extent was and is the centre of Russia successful or how did or does it fail in integrating a region as far away from the centre as the Russian Far East in its state structures. This is one of the central questions addressed from various perspectives in the first volume of the new series "Russia and the Asia-Pacific".
This volume presents the first pan-Mediterranean panorama of Late Antique mortuary practices, combining and contextualizing an abundant dataset of archaeological and epigraphic evidence. This book fundamentally reshapes our understanding of mortuary habits and the commemoration of the dead during the transitional phase of the Long Late Antiquity.
This book deals with a neglected area of the judicial reappraisal of the Nazi regime: the handling of the crimes against the Central and Eastern European Roma minority.
The second issue of Apocalyptica follows the approach of examining apocalypses as fantasies and speculations that tell us something about the state of past, present and future worlds.
School is a culturally diverse educational space. In order for students to learn with and from each other, teachers' cultural competences are in demand. Therefore, the ninth issue of the heiEDUCATION JOURNAL explores the questions of what meaning, what points of connection and what benefit transculturality has as a concept for (prospective) teachers? To which extent can (future) school teachers find meaning, inspiration and practical benefit in the notion of transculturality?
The 21st issue of the research magazine RUPERTO CAROLA is about the beginning of life to its end, it is about reproductive and palliative medicine, disappearing glaciers, the end of languages, chronic pain, initials in medieval manuscripts or the life and death of galaxies and much more.
On old age and ageing: Case Studies from Gerontological and Humanistic Perspectives offers new insights into the topic of ageing research.
Vecchiaia e invecchiamento: Case Studies from Gerontological and Humanistic Perspectives offre nuovi spunti di riflessione sul tema della ricerca sull'invecchiamento.
Spatial, cultural and legal - the authors of the ninth volume of the Online-Schriften des DHI Rom. Neue Reihe deal with selected cases of the transgression of borders in the Middle Ages.
Gli autori del nono volume della serie Pubblicazioni online del DHI Roma. Nuova serie affrontano casi selezionati di trasgressione dei confini spaziali, culturali e legali nel Medioevo.
Friedrich Carl Kaiser's dissertation, submitted in 1962, is the only monograph to deal systematically with the life and work of the court musician Carl Stamitz (1745-1801). Until now, it was only available in the form of deposit copies, which were distributed among a few libraries and differed from one another. The present edition now offers a reliable reading edition.
From Plato to contact linguistics, Steve Pagel tells the story of the study of language contact and shows how critical historiographical studies can help advance current debates.
What are the prerequisites of cosmological thinking? How do cosmologies inscribe themselves in the intellectual, theoretical, political, ethical and practical contexts of their time? What perspectives do they open up for the future? The authors answer these questions in several case studies ranging from prehistory to present-day Earth system science.
Counting sticks, letters and pawned objects: the new issue of "Das Mittalalter” (The Middle Ages) shows in nine case studies on various objects that credit in the Middle Ages was not limited to a certain social or economic class.
The Lecture Notes Physics are growing: "General Relativity", "Cosmology", "Tooltips" and "Statistical Physics" are the titles of the first four scripts by Björn Malte Schäfer, Professor of Astrophysics at Heidelberg University.
As heroine, sexualized or as a form of criticism on military service: Israeli female soldiers are a popular and controversially discussed motif in photography. Jihan Jennifer Radjai-Bründl examines aspects of visual language and aesthetics in the cultural-historical discourse of Zionism as well as stereotypes such as that of the 'beautiful Jewess'.
Transfert culturel franco-saxon: À l’époque augustéenne (1694–1763), la ville de Dresde, résidence saxonne, devient un centre culturel du Saint-Empire. De nouveaux réseaux de personnes et de nouvelles voies commerciales mettent en place des transferts de connaissances, parmi lesquels les liens avec la France jouent un rôle prépondérant.
Franco-Saxon cultural transfer: In the Augustan era (1694–1763), the Saxon residence city of Dresden developed into a cultural centre of the Holy Roman Empire. New networks and trade routes set knowledge transfers in motion, with connections to France taking on a prominent role.
Vãbāhā is one of the 16 main monasteries of Patan, located in one of the three royal cities of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. The authors present the history of the Buddhist monastic courtyard and its objects along with 42 inscriptions, dating from 1596 CE to 2021.
Louis XIV's absolutist rule, which began in 1661, was preceded by a period of intensive building activity of ascended state and financial elites in France. Among the most important of these estates was the château of Vaux-le-Vicomte (built for Nicolas Fouquet), which serves as a case study for the interaction between social mobility and art.
A topic that has received little attention in the historiography of Nepal: This source book examines selected documents and legal texts on slavery in Nepal from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
The new publishing programme went online just in time for Advent. Whether history, literature, linguistics or natural sciences, art or philosophy – we make excellent research visible. And we have counted ...
Read more about The<a href="https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/heiup/en/static/medien/Programm_heiUP_2022-23.pdf"> heiUP programme 2022/23</a> is online - We have cracked the 100 mark!The beheading of Conradin of Swabia, the grandson of Frederick II, in Naples in October 1268 marked the end of the Hohenstaufen dynasty. This volume commemorates the last male Staufer and the myth that developed around him even during his lifetime.
How can research in the context of teacher education and general subject-specific research be better linked than before? This is the question posed by the authors of the eighth issue of heiEducation Journal.
Inga Lewenhaupt, former museum director of the Drottningholm Theatre Museum Foundation and co-author of "Fürstliches Arkadien: Sommerresidenzen im 18. Jahrhundert" from the series Schriften zur Südwestdeutschen Hofmusik , was allowed to hand over a copy of the book to the Swedish Queen.
Read more about A present for Queen Silvia of swedenMany periodisation schemes have their roots in Europe. As part of the colonial encounter they have been translated into new temporal authenticities in the Americas, Asia and Africa. In considering case studies from different parts of the world, the aim of this volume is to uncover some of the dynamics behind particular uses of periodisation schemes, as concepts for ordering the past.
The first issue of the new journal Apocalyptica is online. The interdisciplinary and international peer-reviewed academic journal is published by the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University. The journal publishes incisive analyses from diverse perspectives regarding the end of worlds.
To disseminate Lutheran teaching among Greek-speaking Christians - that was the aim of Professor Martin Crusius of Tübingen. For more than thirty years, Crusius endeavoured to establish the essentials for a Greek Lutheranism and to send them - sometimes by adventurous paths – to their recipients.
Issue de la Révolution, la garde nationale a durablement marqué l’opinion publique et les institutions françaises. Axel Dröber se penche sur l’histoire de la garde nationale sous la Restauration et la monarchie de Juillet. Il étudie les différentes formes d’organisation des citoyens armés et leurs relations avec l’administration et le gouvernement.
The National Guard, which emerged from the Revolution, left a lasting mark on French public life and institutions. Axel Dröber traces the history of the National Guard during the Restoration and the July Monarchy. He examines the organisational forms of the armed citizens and their relationship to the administration and government.
Glass is a fascinating material that offered enormous potential for innovation in the early modern period. The authors of this volume provide interdisciplinary insights into the history of early modern glass objects, from production in the first glassworks to the diverse historical forms of use and the preservation and presentation of baroque glass in museums.
In the anniversary issue, 18 scientists report on their research work: the spectrum of topics ranges from personality development in adulthood, acceptance of compromises in politics or new biomaterials for joint regeneration to interdependencies in the field of tension between hardware and software.
From the sounds of music to the sounds of craftsmanship, the noise of war to the silence of monasteries: the authors of the current issue of "The Middle Ages" examine the various acoustic dimensions of the literature, historiography, music and art of the Middle Ages.
A plea for dialectological field research: The volume contains a collection of articles whose data were collected primarily with this laborious but important research method.
From the history of a medieval clothing item to glassmaking in Renaissance Venice to culinary memoirs, the topics in the current issue of The Journal of Transcultural Studies are as diverse as the perspectives from which they are considered.
Virtues and vices, manners at table, duties of a good ruler or advice on gifts of love: The Welsche Gast (“The Italian Guest”), written by Thomasin von Zerklaere in the years 1215/1216, is the earliest comprehensive book of court etiquette written in German. The authors of this volume examine the work and its impressive illustrations from the perspectives of various disciplines.
Not only for medical students: In the new volume of the Lecture Notes series Bernd Alt-Epping, Director of Palliative Medicine at Heidelberg University Hospital, provides insights into the necessities and possibilities of comprehensive palliative medical support.
The 'Gypsy' phantasm on the big screen: This study from the series Antiziganismusforschung interdisziplinär examines commonalities in 'Gypsy' representations in over 150 European and US cinema films.
It appears reductive to define the historical processes that characterised central and eastern Europe in medieval and modern times as a deviation or involution from the starting point of the western European model and outcomes, or as patent backwardness of the former compared to the latter. This book presents recent research, focusing on several territories and their economic, social and cultural relations with the Italian Peninsula, and offers thought-provoking new insights.
New approaches to the interpretation of late antique and early medieval texts – The various contributions in this volume investigate how authors and movements of the time used narrative as a vehicle for their ideas and how they operated in literarised spaces. Moreover, this book is about how researchers today construct narratives about the periods they study.
Thomas Schwitter reconstruit de nombreuses étapes de l’évolution des "Grandes chroniques de France" et s'intéresse également à des ouvrages créés dans leur environnement et qui n'ont guère été étudiés jusqu'à présent. L’étude se focalise sur la représentation de la guerre civile française (1407-1435) et du conflit avec les rois d'Angleterre, qui y est lié, ainsi que sur la lutte des différents partis pour la souveraineté d'interprétation de ces décennies.
What does baroque poetry have to do with the themes of existence of elderly people? The reader of this book will also find out. But first and foremost, it is about numerous aspects that shape the lives of old people, about the prerequisites for contentment in old age, about the feeling of being used, about dealing with one's own limits, about creativity and mental health. In addition, the authors ask about the quality of care and the socio-cultural structure of services for the elderly and analyse the representation of age in the media in international comparison.
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" - but what was before that? These and other questions on the topic of RAUM & ZEIT (SPACE & TIME) lead the 21 authors of the research magazine "Ruperto Carola" not only into the Old Testament, but also into the depths of space, into complex biological processes, to modern sporting competitions or to Einstein's theory of relativity.
When Pope Innocent XI set out to abolish nepotism in the allocation of ecclesiastical offices, this also affected his own nephew Livio Odescalchi (1652-1713). But he found his way to considerable prestige, influence and wealth even without a cardinal's hat. Roberto Fiorentini analyses Odescalchi's eventful life in the light of a considerable quantity of archival documents, some of which are completely unpublished.
It was socially inappropriate, but economically necessary: This volume examines the economic actions of the nobility in early modern Europe using various examples and shows that this entrepreneurial engagement in economic processes should not be underestimated.
Authors and editors can now apply for DFG funding of up to 5,000 euros for monographs that result from a DFG-funded project. The requirements for funding by the Open Access Monographienfonds must be met.
From the perspective of various disciplines, the authors of this issue analyse normative expectations that schools are confronted with today. Topics include health education, education for sustainable development and political education in the field of tension between self-positioning and the imperative of neutrality. Among other things, they ask to what extent normative educational claims contribute to students developing competences for a successful lifestyle, but also to what extent they are to be regarded as problematic.
Read more about heiEDUCATION Journal: <a href="https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/heied/issue/view/2412"> Schule und Normativität: Kompetenzen gelingender Lebensführung in Lehrer:innenbildung und Schule </a>The second volume of the „Bausteine einer Korpusgrammatik des Deutschen“ is online. The aim of the series is to use corpus linguistic methods to capture the diversity and variability of German grammar at a high resolution and at the same time to ensure that the study results are verifiable.
With their branch networks and partners, the Florentine banks dominated international monetary transactions of the 15th century. The merchant bankers from Tuscany dominated the cashless processing of large transfers of money from all over Europe to the Roman Curia. Kurt Weissen examines how curia bankers connected Germany to this payment system via Bruges and Venice.
Visual media have played a key role in the genesis of antigypsyism since the early modern period. This interdisciplinary anthology examines the central motifs and semantics of "Gypsy" images in various forms of representation such as literature, visual art, photography, postcards, opera, theatre, comics, film and computer games.
La guerre de Sept Ans a été un désastre pour la renommée de la France. S’est alors engagée une discussion intensive sur des idées de réforme afin que soit restaurée la primauté de la monarchie française dans le système international des États et que le pays soit sauvé de la faillite. Dans quelle mesure l’État prussien, perçu comme un modèle de réussite, pouvait-il servir de référence dans ce débat sur les réformes?
Étant donné qu'au Moyen Âge, la proximité particulière avec le souverain s'exprimait souvent dans le langage de l'amour et dans des gestes de proximité physique et d'intimité, on avait l'impression que le roi, par inclination homosexuelle, accordait une influence excessive à son favori. Le présent ouvrage reconsidère la figure du favori et la rend compréhensible et tangible dans sa signification au-delà du cas individuel.
Childlessness is mentioned in numerous medieval sources; coping strategies included medical, religious, and social measures. Yet there were also people who consciously chose a life without offspring. By looking at a complex web of sociability, religion, and desire through the lens of childlessness, this issue illustrate the complexity, diversity and multiplicity of historical concepts of gender, body, and family.
Dedicated to housing courtly architectural models, Landgrave Carl founded the so-called Modellhaus at the beginning of the 18th-century - one of the most admired sights of its time. Through recently discovered plans, files, and contemporary travel memoirs, Sebastian Fitzner retraces the story of this building and its collection which lasted almost a century.
The first volume of the new series "Kulturelles Erbe: Materialität – Text – Edition (KEMTE)" is online. What is tradition and how can one adequately speak about literary traditions? - The authors approach these questions by discussing its theoretical capacity on the basis of case studies from various constellations throughout literary and cultural history.
Authors from different disciplines write on a common topic. That is the concept of the Studium Generale lecture series. Whether political scientist and advisor to the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), economist, psychologist or dance dramaturge and literary scholar - they all present their very own view on the topic of "resources" in the current volume.
Dans le volume 121 des Pariser Historischen Studien, Stephan Nicolussi-Köhler ouvre une perspective totalement nouvelle sur l'histoire du commerce à longue distance dans le sud de la France au Moyen Âge. Il explique ses origines non seulement avec l'établissement des dominations croisées en Orient, mais l'explore directement à leur source, les circuits commerciaux actifs dans l’arrière-pays des villes portuaires. Dans le cadre d'enquêtes micro-historiques, il met en lumière des liens jusqu'alors inconnus entre les différents acteurs économiques.
The final report of the EUFams II project funded by the European Commission is intended to contribute to the uniform and consistent application of European family and succession law. The aim of the project was to assess the functionality and effectiveness of European family and inheritance law, to identify possible problems and to propose solutions.
This year, the 53rd Deutscher Historikertag (German Historians' Conference) will take place digitally via a conference platform. heiUP is represented in the digital library with twelve publications.
Read more about Deutscher Historikertag from 5 to 8 OctoberThe second issue of Cursor_, the journal for explorative theology, is about the question of what "Christian identity" is and how early Christianity succeeded in forming Christian identity in ethnically mixed groups? It is about individual and collective identities and whether identity formation must always lead to exclusion or appropriation of the other? A topic with numerous facets and with a lot of conflict potential.
What does humanism mean, who belongs to the humanists? This was clarified by contemporaries, not least through diatribes. The authors of the 17th volume of the “Beihefte” (supplements) to the journal “Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung" examine in an interdisciplinary synopsis these mutual personal disparagements as a means of asserting one's own positions.
In this volume of the “Heidelberger Jahrbücher Online” on the topic of "Intelligence" edited by Rainer Matthias Holm-Hadulla, Joachim Funke and Michael Wink, scientists from various disciplines - from mathematics, biology, medicine, and psychology to culture, economics, and politics - address a variety of current issues and search for interdisciplinary solutions.
Au Moyen Âge, les abbayes bénédictines justifiaient leur existence par leur isolement du monde. Mais pour survivre, les abbayes devaient échanger des biens ou des services avec leur environnement politique et économique en dehors des murs du monastère. Jérôme Verdoot examine ce paradoxe de la vie monastique à travers l'exemple des moines qui ont vécu à l'abbaye Saint-Pierre de Lobbes (Hainaut, Belgique) du VIIe à la fin du XIVe siècle.
The research magazine Ruperto Carola presents current research topics at Heidelberg University. Under the title „Verbinden & Spalten“, the current issue deals, among other things, with the effects of the Corona pandemic on our society, molecular death complexes and progress in Alzheimer's research.
Princely summer residences are regarded as places of longing where rulers sought to realise their dream of an earthly paradise and escape the constraints of court ceremonial. The authors of the fifth volume of Schriften zur Südwestdeutschen Hofmusik examine the music that was made in summer residences in German-speaking countries as well as in Italy, Spain, England, Sweden and Russia.
Avec l'indépendance de l'Algérie en 1962, environ 85 000 musulmans qui avaient soutenu l'armée française pendant la guerre ont quitté le pays pour la France. Anna Laiß analyse la difficile recherche par les "harkis" et leurs descendants de leur place dans la République française.
From now on, the journal „Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung“ at heiUP: in the familiar print version and now also for free download. The Association of Medievalists takes the digital transformation of its journal as an opportunity to ask about the state of its discipline in 2021 and to develop future perspectives in the current issue.
Read more about Jetzt im Open Access: <a href="https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/mial/issue/view/2411"> Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung </a>Insights into Social Life in the Late Antique Nile Valley: Volume 2 of Studien und Texte aus der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung includes the edition of 42 previously unpublished Egyptian papyrus documents from the 5th to 8th centuries AD with translation and a historical-linguistic commentary.
Johann Stamitz was a figurehead of Mannheim court music: the new volume of Schriften zur Südwestdeutschen Hofmusik is based on the symposium "Die Familie Stamitz und die europäische Musikermigration im 18. Jahrhundert" (The Stamitz Family and European Musicians' Migration in the 18th Century), to which not only experienced experts but also young scholars were explicitly invited to present their research results.
The cultural effects of globalization constitute one of the most important challenges for the discipline of art history today. Based on transcultural object biographies, the ninth volume of Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality brings together analyses of objects and images that circulate in transcultural contact zones: their histories of origin, circulation and perception slice through space and time. The histories of these objects and images thus demonstrate how knowledge and understanding can be generated, communicated or also challenged in cultural contact zones.
The Mulukī Ain of 1854, Nepal's first legal code, covers nearly all aspects of criminal, private, public, religious, and customary law. The authors of the second volume of Documenta Nepalica translate and examine this unique source for 19th-century life in Nepal and for the place of Hindu jurisprudence in the legal cultures of South Asia.
Computer games create spaces, landscapes and worlds. This anthology presents diverse approaches to the topics of space, architecture, perception of and worldbuilding in computer games and their media-specific properties. The contributions depart from the beaten tracks of media and game studies also expand discourses of neighbouring disciplines with new insights and aspects.
Mercury is toxic. But it is also a component of many Asian medicines. While the United Nations is working to reduce mercury emissions, Tibetan medical practitioners are "taming" the poison. Volume 7 of Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality shows how different views of toxicity and safety are expressed transculturally in a globalizing world.
"It closes a gap in garden literature" - With this justification, the jury of the German Garden Book Prize awarded first place in the garden history category to the book published in 2020 "Marie Luise Gothein's 'Geschichte der Gartenkunst'. The Image of the Garden as Text" by Karin Seeber.
Read more about German Garden Book Award 2021 for Karin SeeberThe new lecture notes from the Lecture Notes series builds on the core courses in theoretical physics and provides the methods for understanding astrophysics theoretically. The Lecture Notes are aimed at students of STEM subjects, but also offer interested readers from other subjects clear insights into exciting STEM topics.
The current issue of the Ruperto Carola research magazine presents contributions by 24 scientists from a wide range of disciplines on the topic of "Friend & Foe". From vital proteins that can become the organism's enemy, to musically expressed enmity, to a psychological examination of a disturbed perception of friend and foe - each contribution provides fascinating insights into exciting research work at Heidelberg University.
Films tell stories - and they tell of the social and political circumstances of their creation. This can be seen particularly well in the German and Italian postwar films studied by the international group of authors of the new volume of the Online-Schriften des DHI Rom. Neue Reihe| Pubblicazioni online del DHI Roma. Nuova serie. How do the filmmakers process the Fascist and the National Socialist past? How do they portray the other?
With the title “Self-Reassurances”, this sixth issue regards the ongoing process of self-reflection as a quality feature of teacher education, which finds expression in a probing attitude towards one’s own subject, a self-reflective stance towards oneself, and in an experimental curiosity about communication and transfer. Following historical, theoretical, and empirical approaches, the essays collected here contribute new insights, questions, and suggestions to this discussion.
The new Journal of Transcultural Studies is online. The thematic section comprises three articles devoted to the transcultural memories of Mediterranean port cities. This issue is complemented by Anne Ring Petersen's thought-provoking plea against hegemonic, monocultural notions of community and her investigation of the role public art and culture can play in the collective reimagining of cultural citizenship, home and belonging.
Films shape our perception of the world. This also applies to Antiziganism, which is still taken for granted on the screen today. Scientists, filmmakers and human rights activists pursue this problem and deal with questions of ethics, strategies of subversion and Antiziganism in comparison to other resentments besides concrete examples of Antiziganistic depictions.
A descriptive, consistently corpus-based academic grammar of German, aimed at a professional linguistic audience, does not yet exist. The scientists at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language are therefore working on individual components of such a grammar and publishing them in the new publication series "Bausteine einer Korpusgrammatik des Deutschen". In the spirit of open science, components of the scientific process are freely accessible and usable.
The von Portheim Foundation and its Ethnological Museum look back on an eventful history. One hundred years after the foundation was established by Victor and Leontine Goldschmidt, Margarete Pavaloi, director of the museum, and the ethnologist Stefan Dietrich provide insights into the history of the foundation from its first successful years, through its plundering by the Nazis, to its new beginning after the war.
The calendar of Mussolini’s audiences given towards the end of fascism are held at the Central State Archives. This volume of the Online-Schriften des DHI Rom makes it accessible for scientific research and reconstructs the content of the conversations. Now online in its second, extended and revised edition.
The works of art on the walls of the Palace of Knossos are fascinating witnesses to the late Bronze Age life in this imposing complex. In detailed case studies, Ute Günkel-Maschek reconstructs and analyses the pictorial spaces of three important palace areas and provides insights into the rituals, ideas and people once associated with them.
Pendant près de trente ans, Catherine de Médicis a été une figure politique centrale de la monarchie française. Son autorité reposait sur sa position de reine mère. Julia Heinemann examine ce que la parenté signifiait pour Catherine de Médicis et ses descendants. Les lettres que s’écrivaient la mère et les enfants révèlent la parenté comme un répertoire flexible de la pensée et de l'action politiques.
Karin Seeber's study of the intellectual and aesthetic concepts of Marie Luise Gothein's "History of Garden Art" from 1914 shows how fundamentally historiography is influenced by the challenges of the time. The volumes reflect man's confrontation with his environment. The book is published as an enhanced book. In a short interview Karin Seeber answers three questions about this special format.
Read more about Marie Luise Gotheins „Geschichte der Gartenkunst“. Das Bild des Gartens als TextDans le présent volume des Pariser Historische Studien, Eric Burkart examine les projets de croisade de Philippe III de Bourgogne (1419–1467) dans le cadre de sa politique de statut. L’étude s’appuie sur trois traités de Jean Germain († 1461), que ce dernier a écrits en tant que chancelier de l’ordre de la Toison d’or; elle innove sur le plan méthodologique en combinant une méthode d’analyse séquentielle empruntée à la recherche sociale reconstructive avec une perspective analytique du discours, en l’employant pour examiner le programme texte-images des manuscrits du Moyen Âge tardif.
What will it look like, the city of tomorrow? This is the question the authors of the new volume of the lecture series Studium Generale at the University of Heidelberg ask themselves. Representatives of different disciplines such as architecture and literature, geography and health, anthropology and planning, as well as environmental science and energy contribute to an exchange about a city by people for people.
Going beyond the framework of a mere “Festschrift” in cumulative terms, this newly published volume aims at contributing to recent discussions in the subject area of Middle Eastern studies focusing on individual and autobiographical voices discernible in pre-modern and contemporary Muslim societies. This approach reflects Prof Susanne Enderwitz’ seminal works on the topics of autobiography/autofiction and Islamicate expressions of identity.
Hand prostheses that are controlled by thoughts or cars that travel without a driver - is the machine replacing the human being? What makes the two different, where they learn from each other and how they can complement each other is shown by 16 articles written by 24 scientists from the University of Heidelberg in the research magazine "Ruperto Carola" on the key topic of MACHINE & HUMAN.
In July 2015 Heidelberg University Publishing's (heiUP) first book appeared; meanwhile over 70 publications display the heiUP imprint (see official Press Information). We would like to thank all authors who have accompanied us on this journey. In an interview, publishing director Dr. Veit Probst and managing director Dr. Maria Effinger talk about five years of heiUP, the future of publishing and the epochal change that they are helping to shape with the young publishing house.
Read more about heiUP celebrates its fifth anniversaryDevelopmental processes on a small scale (cell growth) and on a large scale (from the big bang to the universe) that lead to discoverable structures: Astonishing developments can be seen in many areas! Be it hypotheses about the coming into being of the Old Testament, the emergence of all life on this planet from a primordial cell, the development of cancer or the formation of human character in the course of ontogenesis. The Corona pandemic also shows a typical developmental course. These topics are examined from the colourful perspective of a comprehensive university in this newly published volume of the "Heidelberger Jahrbücher Online", edited by Joachim Funke and Michael Wink.
In her work, Quafaa Qaddioui describes and compares the grammatical organization of negation expressions in contemporary German and modern High Arabic. She uses the two novels "Sommerstück" by Christa Wolf and "Bayna al-Qasrayn" (Engl. "Between the Palaces") by Naǧib Maḥfūẓ as a data basis for this.
Avec les deux ouvrages de Miriam Régerat-Kobitzsch, sur Marie de Médicis dans l’historiographie européenne du XIXe siècle, et de Christian Wenzel, sur les débats de sécurité pendant les guerres de Religion françaises, l’Institut historique allemand (IHA) publie sa collection „Pariser Historische Studien“ pour la première fois sous forme hybride chez heiUP. Le volume 115, „Cette reine qui fait une si piètre figure“ de Régerat-Kobitzsch, examine la réception mouvementée, au XIXe siècle, de Marie de Médicis, dont l‘image de reine incapable et obsédée par le pouvoir a survécu au temps. La monographie de Wenzel, „Ruine d’estat”, volume 116 de la collection renommée, retrace le large débat sur la sécurité et son influence décisive sur les conflits entre 1557 et 1589, et montre la complexité des concepts de sécurité de l’époque moderne. Avec la publication des „Pariser Historische Studien“ chez heiUP, l’IHA poursuit son objectif de rendre immédiatement et gratuitement accessibles d’excellents travaux dans ses domaines de recherche, d’accroître la visibilité de la collection et de promouvoir de jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs.
This special issue examines the potential of social media for learning/teaching scenarios with an emphasis on the intersection of language didactic and media pedagogic perspectives in (foreign) language teaching. Going beyond a focus on the uses and misuses of social media in the classroom, the issue is concerned with the competencies that make critical and self-determined users.
In couple relationships, in traffic, in the social media - violence is everywhere. The contributions to the new volume of the event series Studium Generale of the University of Heidelberg look at aggression from very different perspectives. Has humanity become more violent? How can we counter aggression and does it perhaps have positive sides?
The new volume of the Pubblicazioni online del DHI Roma, nuova serie, published in Italian, deals with Pietro Gasparri (1852-1934), a central figure of the government of the church in the 20th century. Gasparri was a famous lawyer, an esteemed university professor and a capable papal diplomat. From November 1914 to January 1930 he headed the Foreign Minister and the Roman Curia at a crucial time in the history of Europe and the Papacy. The contributions bundle the results of research seminars on “The International Policy of the Holy See”, which were held in Rome between 2013 and 2016 in collaboration with the Università europea di Roma and the Institut catholique de Paris.
On their European tour, the composer Leopold Mozart, his wife and children also made a stop in Schwetzingen. As a well-informed observer of his time, his letters about staying in the Palatinate summer residence are invaluable. The authors follow his observations in the newly published volume from the series "Writings on South-West German Court Music" and relate them to the knowledge of their respective disciplines. This creates a comprehensive picture of the Palatinate summer residence of 1763, a focus of music history in the third quarter of the 18th century.
“They Cannot Boss Me Around” - The new volume of Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality "Caring for old age" is concerned with narratives about ageing in its transcultural dimension. The focus lies on South Asia. What are notions of "good ageing" and good care while the regions in question have experienced deep environmental, social and familial shifts? The paper with the above cited sentence deal for example with the changing conditions in Indian care homes. With contributions about the situation in Nepal and Sri Lanka, also eurocentric aspects of ageing studies are beeing questioned in this volume, edited by Christiane Brosius und Roberta Mandoki.
The theological Open Access journal Cursor_ invites people from various fields of practice, interested lay people and academic theologians to engage in discourse. As a journal for explorative theology, it faces up to the exchange in the social media - and thus enters "Neuland"!
Opera unites the arts. Just like the scenic performance and the architecture. In the 17th and 18th centuries, both formed essential components of stately representation. This volume of the series Höfische Kultur interdisziplinär explains the manifold connections between music theatre and the courtly space in an architectural, political-cultural and social sense.
The new Journal of Transcultural Studies is online and looks for the latest trends in the exhibition of Asia-Pacific artifacts in museums. The current volume 10 is published in memory of Rudolf Wagner, Professor of Sinology at the University of Heidelberg and co-editor of the journal, who died in 2019.
They underwent multiple training courses in the artistic, craft, military and scientific fields, and then went on to pursue sometimes remarkable careers as master builders. Anna-Victoria Bognár provides insights into the professionalisation of the architectural profession in the Holy Roman Empire in the early modern period.
Language institutions, such as the Accademia della Crusca or the Académie française, have promoted language-cultivating, language-standardizing and language-critical debate to varying degrees in individual languages. The fourth volume of the Handbook of Language Criticism offers a comparative presentation of how – in the cases of the national languages mentioned here – state legitimated institutions or institutions not commissioned by the state dedicate themselves to the task of language cultivation.
The Swiss humanist and lawyer Melchior Goldast of Haiminsfeld made the most important medieval poetry manuscript in German, the 'Codex Manesse', known to a wider public for the first time around 1600. Goldast made extensive notes on the manuscript. He quoted and edited them in his printed works. Michael Wolbring offers deep insights into the work of Goldast and his motivation.
The authors of "Testing the Margins of Leisure - Case Studies on China, Japan and Indonesia" address the design and role of leisure in Asian countries. Leisure time is becoming more and more important not only for the individual, but also from an economic point of view. This sixth volume of "Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality" complements the eurocentric view of leisure research that has prevailed so far.
The development and implementation of human rights is an amazing process. But even today, not all people can rely on their rights being respected. For this reason and in view of the worsening political situation worldwide, the Studium Generale has dedicated itself to the topic of human rights in its lecture series of the summer semester 2017. The new volume summarises the papers of speakers from different disciplines.
In what way is the common European foreign and security policy affected by the Brexit referendum? How does Russia look at Europe? And isn’t it about time to found a new Europe altogether? The authors of the new volume to the lecture series Studium Generale of the University of Heidelberg shed light on major challenges and open up new perspectives.
Einstein's theory of general relativity is still the valid theory of gravity, built upon simple principles and relating the geometry of space-time to its matter-energy content. These lecture notes by Matthias Bartelmann firstly introduce the reader to the underlying physical principles and the necessary mathematical tools taken from differential geometry. The subsequent discussion of cosmological models and black holes is concluded by two applications of general relativity to astrophysics.
Heinrich Zoepfl, Heidelberg Professor of Legal History and Constitutional Law, worked in the turbulent times of "Vormärz", the "German Revolution" of 1848/49 and the foundation of the Reich in 1870/71. The volume "Heinrich Zoepfl (1807-1877). Heidelberger Universitätsprofessor und Rechtsgutachter", edited by Dorothee Mußgnug and Michael Stolleis, is dedicated to the life and work of the legal expert who has almost fallen into oblivion today.
„Latin and Arabic: Entangled Histories“, volume 5 in the series „Heidelberg Studies in Transculturality“, explores the many dimensions and ramifications of Latin-Arabic interrelations both from macro-historical as well as from micro-historical perspectives. Visions of history marked by the binary opposition of “Islam” and “the West” tend to ignore these important facets of Euromediterranean interrelations, as do historical studies that explain complex transcultural processes without giving attention to their linguistic dimension.
The fourth issue of the heiEDUCATION Journal brings together a variety of contributions that address the topic of ‘teaching as a practice’ through either a hands-on, empirical, or theoretical perspective. In line with the topic’s current relevance for teacher education, the volume offers an insight into the broad spectrum of research in this field that touches on issues concerning the subject disciplines, their didactics, educational sciences, or a combination of these.
The Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at the Heidelberg University can look back on a long and eventful history. The Heidelberg physicists Joachim Heintze ✝, Maarten DeKieviet and Jörg Hüfner trace the history of physics and astronomy at the University of Heidelberg from its beginnings in 1386 to the present.
The "Psychology of Human Thought", edited by Robert J. Sternberg and Joachim Funke, is an open access collection of peer-reviewed chapters from all areas of higher cognitive processes. The book is intended to be used as a textbook in courses on higher process, complex cognition, human thought, and related courses.
Anand Mishras work is a study of the Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini from a new perspective. It attempts to explore the Pāṇinian system of Sanskrit grammar from a formal point of view and investigate the possibilities of representing it in a logical, explicit and consistent manner.
On the occasion of the opening of the Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) on 25 June 2019, scholars from Heidelberg will present their favourite pieces from the Ethnological Museum of the von Portheim Foundation under the title The Scholar's Choice. The exhibition catalogue, edited by Axel Michaels and Margareta Pavaloi, is published by heiUP and is available both online (Open Access) and as a printed book.
From early modern to modern times, drawing was firmly anchored in the realities of European society as a cultural technique . Based on this fact, Drawing Education – Worldwide! asks for the first time about the significance of drawing and drawing education in other cultural areas.
This Special Issue on “Bildung and Identity” is based on the 5-event lecture series “HSE Expert Forum”, which was conducted at the Heidelberg School of Education between 2017 and 2018. The guest editors of this volume, Stefanie Samida and Christiane Wienand, have rounded off a selection of talks from the Expert Forum with three further contributions that discuss the multifarious and complex interdependencies of Bildung and identity as key concepts of Teacher Education.
For the first time in the long history of the annual exhibitions at Heidelberg University Library, the accompanying catalogue will be published by our own publishing house. For the exhibition Show & Tell. Students offer insight into the private collection Erik Jayme, students at the Institute for European Art History at Ruperto Carola under the direction of Prof. Dr. Henry Keazor selected more than 50 paintings and graphic works as well as objects of craftsmanship - from the early modern period to modernism to contemporary works - from the collection of the Heidelberg jurist Prof. Dr. Dr. mult. Erik Jayme.
In this edition the guest editors, Andrea Rota and Oliver Krüger, invite us to reflect on the dynamic relationships between religion, media, and community. The special issue returns to a fundamental question of social theory concerning the constitution of human bonds in religious contexts but extends the investigation beyond the analysis of face-to-face interaction to discuss the various roles played by media and mediated communication.
In "Coptica Palatina" 25 editions of Coptic literary, magical texts, private letters, as well as legal and administrative documents are presented by young scholars taking part in an International Summer School for Coptic Papyrology in Heidelberg in 2012. The texts originate from different regions of Middle and Upper Egypt and are datable to the 6th–12th centuries CE.
The latest double issue of the Journal of Transcultural Studies deals with transcultural aspects and legal, institutional and political issues in Japan, China, Vietnam and Korea in the decades before and after 1900.
The topics of standardization and linguistic criticism as well as linguistic purism and linguistic criticism are dealt with in the latest editions of HESO. Vol. 2 focusses on standardization processes in German, English, French, Italian and Croatian, while Vol. 3 highlights linguistic purism as a critique of different structures and elements of a language.
What effects does climate change have and how should science, politics and society deal with it? 23 scientists from the University of Heidelberg answer these and other exciting questions about the hot topic "HEISS & KALT" in a total of 16 contributions to the current issue of the research magazine Ruperto Carola.
Inside the latest volume of Online – Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet you will find insightful contributions on the topics of religion on the internet (by Maria Sharapan and Franz Winter), religion and gaming (By Benjamin Jozef Banasik, Heidi Rautalahti and Michaela Šimonová) and religion and virtual reality (by Stefan Piasecki).
Due to their high material value and their meaningful iconography, Aegean signet rings have already attracted considerable attention in research - however, an overall consideration of this extremely complex archaeological genre and its diverse functions within the Minoan-Mycenaean administration and society was lacking so far. In "Die goldenen Siegelringe der Ägäischen Bronzezeit" not only preserved rings but also imprints of signet rings on sealings are systematically investigated for the first time.
Religion and Aesthetic Experience: Drama – Sermons – Literature by Sabine Dorpmüller, Jan Scholz, Max Stille and Ines Weinrich highlights the transcultural dimensions of the theoretical foundations of religious aesthetics across different regions and genres.
The latest part of the Lecture Notes by R. Rannacher, Numerik linearer und konvexer nichtlinearer Optimierungsaufgaben, is based on courses to “Numerical Mathematics” given by the author at the Universities in Saarbrücken and Heidelberg. In the present part basic concepts of numerical methods are presented for solving linear optimization problems (so-called “Linear Programming”).
Working. Living. Computer. tracks down questions about the appearance of the future in an highly developed scientific socialism. The book by Oliver Sukrow analyses these imaginative worlds of socialist dreams and desires in image, architecture, and texts.
The interdisciplinary volume Reshaping Glocal Dynamics of the Caribbean (edited by Anja Bandau, Anne Brüske and Natascha Ueckmann) seeks to explore how (non)circulation of ideas occurred historically in the glocal production of knowledge in and about the Caribbean. The “concept of the Caribbean” is highlighted by 33 contributions, that focus on Academic and Artistic Approaches, Arts and Visual Studies, Environment and Sustainability, Migration and Knowledge Circulation and Entangled Histories and Memories.
The DHIP (Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris) will soon be publishing the Pariser Historische Studien open access on heiUP!
If you are interested in publishing open access come visit us at the International Open Access Week from October 22nd - October 26th in the "Handschriftenlesesaal" of the University Library Heidelberg (starting at 1 pm)!
In the article „Crossmediales Publizieren bei Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP)“ Maria Effinger, Frank Krabbes and Dulip Withanage present the digital publication opportunities of Heidelberg University Publishing.
The introductory volume Numerical Linear Algebra is based on courses within a multi-semester cycle on “Numerical Mathematics” given by the author at the Universities in Saarbrücken and Heidelberg. In the present volume basic concepts of numerical methods are presented for solving linear optimization problems. For facilitating self-learning the book contains theoretical and practical exercises with solutions collected in the appendix.
heiEDUCATION Journal is a new interdisciplinary and multi-institutional scientific Online Journal edited by the Heidelberg School of Education. The Heidelberg School of Education is a corporate, inter-universitarian institution of the Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg and the University of Heidelberg.
Twelve visions of Entre Mers—Outre-mer are presented in this volume, that focusses on the connectivity by and definition of the sea, searoutes and people living in close connection to shores or harbor towns. The volume starts in Antiquity and ends in the so-called Atlantic Age (16th century A. D.). In geographical terms, the focus of the articles is situated in the Mediterranean and its (cultural) connection to the Indian Ocean and thereby sheds new light on two highly frequented “Sea-scapes”.
In the latest issue of Heidelberger Jahrbücher Online, 12 contributors from different disciplines of humanities and science highlight the topics “mobility” and its counterpart, “immobility” as crucial part of human and animal behavior. At the same time, the issue focusses on different means of transport and different modes of adaptions to “mobile” and “non-mobile” situations.
A journey through the international world of art museums: Brooklyn Museum, Tate, Rijksmuseum, Städel: The book presents art museums which approach the digital sphere in a creative manner. In this way they try to cope with both their mission to educate and to entertain.
The third part of the lecture course "Analysis" by Rolf Rannacher treats the Riemann integral over lines and surfaces and the integral formulas of Gauß and Stokes. Further, the Lebesgue integral and the corresponding function spaces are introduced.
Analysis 2 is based on lectures within a three-semester course on "Real Analysis" given by the author at Heidelberg University. The present second part is devoted to the classical calculus of differentiation and integration for functions of several real variables.
Increasing urbanization processes and growing migration levels from rural areas to urban regions will lead to two thirds of the world’s population living in metropoles by the year of 2050. The 12th edition of the Ruperto Carola – STADT & LAND is meant to encourage thinking about the effects of these changes on life in growing metropoles. These effects range from climate change to rising stress levels. How can we create and shape a life worthwhile living in rapidly changing spheres?
Grammar and Corpora 2016 presents recent developments and advances, firstly, in corpus-oriented grammar research with a special focus on Germanic, Slavic, and Romance languages and, secondly, in corpus linguistic methodology as well as the application of corpus methods to grammar-related fields. The proceedings volume was edited by Eric Fuß, Marek Konopka, Beata Trawiński und Ulrich H. Waßner (Institute for the German Language in Mannheim).
The book vividly traces the long and eventful history of the department of Anesthesiology at Heidelberg University Hospital, ranging from the first narcosis pioneers in the 19th century up to the modern-day anesthesiology. Die Kunst der Narkose, edited by Manuael Obermaier, Markus A. Weigand and Florian Meister, is published as a Festschrift on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the department of Anesthesiology.
Visualisierung sprachlicher Daten: Visual Linguistics – Praxis – Tools, edited by the linguists Noah Bubenhofer and Marc Kupietz, reflects on the theoretical basics of scientific visualizations in linguistics, shows practical examples and introduces visualization tools.
Studies in Historical Documents from Nepal and India opens the new series Documenta Nepalica - Book Series, published by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in collaboration with the National Archives, Nepal. The volume is the outcome of the conference “Studying Documents in Premodern South Asia and Beyond: Problems and Perspective”, held in October 2015 in Heidelberg.
The new volume in the series Studium Generale is dedicated to the subject of water. Water is life, a scarce resource, a good, and a cause of conflicts all around the world: Correspondingly diverse are the main research areas and the expertise of the researchers, who were invited to Heidelberg to speak in the framework of Studium Generale on the subject of water in winter term 2015/2016.
Süddeutsche Hofkapellen im 18. Jahrhundert forms the first volume in the series Schriften zur Südwestdeutschen Hofmusik, and is edited by the Forschungsstelle Südwestdeutsche Hofmusik of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. It documents the current state of research on the most important court chapels, as well as selected smaller aristocratic chapels in southern Germany during the eighteenth century.
Analysis 1 by Rolf Rannacher is based on lectures within a three-semester cycle on "Real Analysis" given by the author at Heidelberg University. The present first part is devoted to the classical calculus of differentiation and integration for functions of one real variable.
The new special issue of “Online – Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet”: Religion to go! sets off to explore the field of religion within mobile internet environments, mobile application, augmented realities and everything in between – and the retroactive effects of the new mobility on our notion of religion and religious practice.
In every area of life, we are constantly challenged to distinguish between appearance and reality, between facts on the one hand, and errors and lies on the other. The new edition of “Ruperto Carola” takes up different aspects of this theme, and illuminates how appearances can be deceptive.
Vol. 3 of the series "Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality", edited by Markus Viehbeck, investigates the hill station of Kalimpong and the larger Eastern Himalayan borderlands as a paradigmatic case of a “contact zone” (Marie Louise Pratt), which enabled a variety of encounters between different cultures and nations.
The Online Handbook of Language Criticism in European Perspective offers a comparative perspective of language criticism in European language culture. Central concepts of language criticism are covered descriptively in the handbook. The goal is to present a conceptual history of European language criticism.
Numerik 3, the fourth part of the lecture cycle “Numerische Mathematik“, is devoted to problems in Continuum Mechanics, especially in Structural and Fluid Mechanics, and their numerical solution by finite element methods.
Joanna Jaritz’s book Proust Cinématographe – wie Raoul Ruiz Proust las, takes a new look at the metapoetic program of Proust “A la Recherche du Temps perdu”. It turns out that the novel of the nineteenth century anticipated the concepts of modern cinema on a surprisingly broad scale.
