Im Zuge der archäologischen Untersuchungen und Beobachtungen, die während der letzten über 200 Jahre in Salzburg durchgeführt wurden, kam eine große Menge italischer Terra Sigillata zutage. Der umfangreiche Fundbestand wird im vorliegenden Band analysiert. Der Schwerpunkt der Arbeit liegt in der Frage der Entwicklung Salzburgs von augusteischer Zeit bis in das mittlere 1. Jahrhundert n. Chr., als die Siedlung unter Kaiser Claudius zur Stadt (municipium) erhoben wurde. Darüber hinaus werden die Verkehrsverbindungen und Belieferungsstrukturen untersucht, über die diese Keramik von Italien über die Alpen an die Salzach gelangte.

Interrelations of literature and art, word and image, are manifold. However, they have remained largely unexplored when it comes to literature and art in the Arab world. This book aims at introducing interarts studies to Middle Eastern studies and, at the same time, hopes to widen the horizon of interarts studies, which represents an interdisciplinary field of research in comparative literature. The book focuses on three case studies, examining the rapport of Arab writers, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1920–1994), Abd al-Rahman Munif (1933–2004) and Etel Adnan (b. 1925), with art, be it as an art critic, an art lover, or an artist in his/her own right. It then sets out to read selected literary texts relationally, across the fields of literature and art, breaking with conventional ways of reading as well as seeing.

Der „Kompaktkurs Kurdisch (Kurmancî) mit CD“ liefert in 19 Kapiteln praxis-orientiert Grundkenntnisse des Kurdischen. Jedes Kapitel besteht aus einem authentischen Text, Vokabelangaben, Grammatikerklärungen sowie Übungen. Die Texte sowie mehrere Übungen zur Aussprache können über die mitgelieferte Audio-CD gehört werden. Die Bilder und Grafiken dienen der Veranschaulichung der Textinhalte. Der Kompaktkurs eignet sich für alle, die im Selbststudium oder im Sprachkurs das Kurdische (auch ohne Vorkenntnisse) lernen oder ihre Kenntnisse vertiefen möchten. Ein umfangreicher Anhang mit Schlüssel, einem Vokabelverzeichnis Kurdisch-Deutsch und Deutsch-Kurdisch, einer Liste der beiden Verbstämme sowie einem Grammatikindex runden den Band ab.

The present study is the first to examine in detail a representative corpus of the tragedi and comedi with female protagonists written by the Nuremberg author Hans Sachs. On the basis of a precise reconstruction of the intertextual frame of reference of each of the plays, taking into account both the enormously diverse literary sources and Sachs’ own topically related poems in the form of master songs and narrative poems, the author’s dramaturgical methods are explored more precisely. The "serious" drama in particular turns out to be a formidable virtual arena for exhibiting creative female attributes and the female potential for action, bringing out frequently subliminal contradictions to the normative claim to validity of the attached moral instruction. Conversely, in other cases, the moral message also ties in with the literary discourse, for example by tracing female vices back to male misconduct. Seen as a whole, the author's attempt to negotiate new, more reciprocally conceived ways of dealing with the sexes within the framework of the Lutheran-patriarchal marriage model and the socio-political order that it supports becomes apparent.

Pastoral Morocco explores the mobility of people and livestock in the context of neo-liberal globalization. Mobility is defined as a strategy to maintain and enhance access to resources, and hence comprehended as a strategy of pastoralists to cope with insecurity and new risks. Pastoral livelihoods in Morocco are, as the authors point out, increasingly shaped by processes unfolding outside the realm of animal production, for instance by dynamics of labor migration, changing property rights, and new means of communication. This volume examines local consequences of agro-pastoral restructuring. It investigates, for example, the invention of pastoral cooperatives, analyzes territorial changes triggered by urbanization and new spaces of enterprises, assesses the importance of cross border trade and sheep-commodity chains, scrutinizes the complexity and vulnerability of livelihood portfolios and it ultimately inquires the genealogy of conflicts over pastures. Pastoral Morocco draws on intensive empirical fieldwork and captures the regional diversities of the country. It is the first English language volume that combines Moroccan and European expertise about the changing world of mobility and insecurity that Moroccan pastoralists inhabit.

Through investigations of manuscripts, this book explores important aspects of the life of Badîʿ al-Zamân al-Hamadhânî’s Maqâmât. The broad concerns of the book are divided into three sections: authorship, texts, and contexts. Each chapter in this volume investigates hitherto unstudied textual materials related to al-Hamadhânî’s Maqâmât that adds to our understanding of the text, its history, and the literary culture that created it.