As a contribution to the archaeological research on polychromy, this study analyses the written sources on the colouration of ancient sculpture. It addresses all types of materials, from clay to chryselephantine works. The texts refer not only to techniques of representation and conservation procedures, but in particular to the artists‘ intentions behind colouration and the meaning attributed to it by the ancient viewer.

This is a collection of samples for the decoration of books, like ornaments for initials and borders, decorative script, etc. The text in vol. II gives interesting notes in the collection and shows how Stephan Schriber might have found the parts of his sample-books in various libraries.

Im Zuge der kunsthistorischen Bearbeitung der illuminierten Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München – bei der bereits von der Autorin alle italienischen Handschriften beschrieben und einem chronologischen und geographischen Muster unterworfen wurden – werden nun die französischen Handschriften mit Buchschmuck systematisch erfasst. Dabei beinhaltet der erste Teil mit Text- und Tafelband alle französischen Handschriften vom 10. bis zum 14. Jh. Im Anhang wird auch der Gesamtbestand der spanischen und englischen Handschriften vorgestellt, wobei gerade letztere mit ihrer Dekoration während des sog. Channel Style um 1200 engstens in den nordfranzösischem Stilformen verwachsen und teilweise sogar nur durch andere Kriterien von jenen zu trennen sind. Ein herausragendes Beispiel englischer Buchkunst ist der berühmte, im 1. Drittel des 13. Jhs. in Oxford ausgestattete Goldene Münchener Psalter.

The book is about a comparative view of two health systems, especially with regard to music and music therapy, but also with regard to the image of man and medical approaches. Chinese students study in western countries, e.g. music therapy, and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is also spreading there. In the meantime, it also plays an important role at several German university hospitals. This book builds on this. It presents Ying Tian's master's thesis, written as part of the master's programme in music therapy at the University of Augsburg, in which, starting from the traditional Chinese understanding of health and the role of music in it, she draws a bow to the treatment of psychological problems in the modern health system, the situation of clinical music therapy and training in this field. This is framed by short texts on the role of the body in Western psychotherapy, relational aspects in Chinese psychotherapy, the application of TCM in Western countries and its use in the context of the Chinese health care system. TCM in Western countries and its connection with music, as well as an interview with a German music therapy university teacher, Prof. Decker-Voigt. In this way, a holistic picture of the current situation and its history should emerge with regard to the topic.

Focusing on the concept of ’changing places’, the essays in this anthology discuss processes of constitution, stabilization, and transformation of ’worlds of knowledge‘, covering a wide range of thematic and historical perspectives from the European Middle Ages to the 21st century. Objects as eclectic as church buildings, panel paintings, etchings, pieces of narrative and dramatic literature, motion pictures and TV genres serve to illustrate how access to as well as the interpretation of ’stocks of knowledge‘ is determined by spatial orders and their oscillations.

Hans Sachs (1494–1576) is the most powerful German-language author of the 16th century with a body of work comprising more than 6200 songs. In recent decades, research on his rhyme and song poetry has been limited to individual studies and shorter summaries. At first, this volume presents the poetological foundations of his work. Sachs' own highly developed awareness of forms, genres, and themes sets the starting point for a presentation of his poetry according to text types in their sources, processing patterns, and in their direction in Nuremberg, which was becoming Protestant, and Germany. The different medial realizations in writing, picture and imagery, reading and singing give a diversified face to the texts from ancient, biblical and medieval tradition, which are made accessible here in an overview and by examples.

These conference proceedings explore the encounter of human and animal nature from a philological, historical and archaeological perspective in areas such as the body, myth, religion and cult, politics and philosophy. Ancient texts and images present a broad variety of approaches to the question of how, if at all, to define the boundaries between both species. At the same time it becomes evident, how strongly the conception of both humans and animals were shaped by anthropomorphism, so that a distinction between both is in the end impossible.

Ronald E. Emmerick’s Handbook of Khotanese consists of two parts: his Introduction to Khotanese, tried and tested with students over the years and here made available in print for the first time; and a systematic survey of Khotanese and the closely related Tumshuqese language. The Introduction, completed with additional chapters by the editors, offers a gradual and comprehensive introduction to Old Khotanese, with translation exercises. Late Khotanese is introduced in the final chapter of the course.