The 9/11-attacks and the war on terror have altered the perception of Islam in the West. Particularly those countries once associated with the rich history of Mesopotamia and Persia have become subject to an antagonizing discourse (cf. Axis of ...read more
Before the International Copyright Act of 1891 was passed, the American literary marketplace was saturated with unauthorized reprints of British texts. Neither British nor American authors had any legal claim ...read more
Provincial assemblies were a widespread phenomenon in both the eastern and western provinces of the Roman Empire. Their official function was tending to the provincial imperial cult. Research on the ...read more
At the economic crossroad of the eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus provides an ideal case study for the investigation of changing trade networks in the eastern Mediterranean during Late Antiquity. This chapter ...read more
to be completed / Joint PhD with the Università degli Studi di Palermo / Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rosa Rita Marchese / Researcher: Giovanni Sampino.read more
This PhD deals with the semantics of two major parts of the Bantu verbal system, namely derivation and tense/aspect, from a comparative and diachronic perspective. With respect to derivation, the ...read more
The wider Lower Congo region in Central Africa is home to the Kikongo language cluster (KLC), a vast cluster of regiolects spoken in four neighbouring countries: Angola including Cabinda, the ...read more
In the first half of the seventeenth century natural philosophers looking for alternatives to the then dominant Aristotelian physics often took simple material objects and contrivances to offer important lessons ...read more
This project will systematically relate scripting of rituals of conflict, reconciliation and social integration to societal developments in the Central Medieval West (tenth-twelfth centuries). So far, scholarship has been determined ...read more