For the first time ever is the large, manifold collection of late Roman brooches and belt fittings from the late third until the first half of the fifth century AD from the provincial capital Augusta Vindelicum/Augsburg documented and typologically analysed. The find contexts and the spatial distribution in the urban area was also assessed. The so called crossbow brooches and the different belt fittings were mainly used by civil servants and soldiers of the late Roman army. The finds are a significant reference group for the Roman Alpine and Danube provinces and prove the presence of Roman administration and military in Augsburg up to the second quarter or the mid fifth century AD.

The transposition of medieval manuscripts into the digital space gives rise to new questions and entails consequences that have to be cleared and solved. The present collection offers a selection of projects that have been presented at a conference in January 2013 in Trier. By compiling these different approaches with their special aims, questions and methods, an overview over the current situation concerning digitizing projects and succeeding consequences and developments should be given.

In 409 BC, the Greek colonial town Selinous in Sicily was conquered by the Carthaginians and fell under Punic governance. Having primarily functioned as a military base during the decades following the conquest, Selinunt began to flourish once again towards the end of the fourth century. The reconstruction, as characteristic changes in town planning, housing and building technologies illustrate, was oriented towards Punic tradition in contrast to the original Greek town. In this study, the residential development in Punic Selinunt in the fourth and third centuries BC is presented comprehensively for the first time and re-evaluated with regard to acculturation; this includes an analysis of individual features with regard to their orientation towards either Greek or Punic tradition. This relation presents the Hellenization of Punic culture in a fresh light.

Die hier publizierten Tagungsbeiträge bilanzieren und perspektivieren Aspekte der Forschung zum deutschen Spätmittelalter. Dabei kommen verschiedene Blickwinkel und methodische Ansätze zum Tragen, von der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung über die Gattungsperspektive bis hin zur weiterführenden, exemplarischen Analyse am Einzeltext. In der Summe ergeben die hier versammelten Beiträge in ihrer Kombination aus Global- und Gattungsperspektive sowie exemplarischer Einzeltextanalyse eine facettenreiche Sicht auf die deutsche Literatur des Spätmittelalters und die Methoden ihrer Erforschung.

Dieser Band erschließt das dichterisch-musikalische Werk der Hildegard von Bingen, von der über 70 Gesänge und ein geistliches Spiel bekannt sind – sie verfasste sowohl die Texte als auch die Melodien. Der „Riesencodex“ der Hessischen Landesbibliothek in Wiesbaden, der aus 481 Pergamentblättern besteht, entstand vermutlich zu ihren Lebzeiten und bewahrt ihr Werk in einer Art „Gesamtausgabe“: Neben den Gesängen umfasst er ihre theologischen Schriften und den Briefwechsel. Die Ausgabe schlüsselt den Inhalt des Gesangsteils auf und erläutert das Gesangsrepertoire. Weitere Abbildungen dokumentieren die bekannten Hildegardschen Gesänge mit musikalischer Notation. Die Notenbeispiele in moderner Umschrift ermöglichen einen Einblick in das faszinierende Wechselspiel zwischen Text und Musik, Variantenverzeichnisse runden das Werk ab. Ferner diskutiert der Band die Entstehung und die mögliche liturgische Verwendung der Gesänge. Ein Glossar und ausführliche Literaturhinweise ermöglichen die Vertiefung des Themas.

This book is a description and an analysis of the sung poetry of the Ismailis from Tajik Badakhshan and is based on material collected during fieldwork in the Pamir Mountains, in the south-east of the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan. The Ismailis of Badakhshan have a rich religious and poetic tradition which has largely been handed down orally. The book contains an extensive anthology containing transcripts of the poetry recorded during fieldwork. This poetry, both in Persian and in Pamir languages, has never been published before.

This volume focuses on the veneration of the prophet Muhammad in Central Asia towards the end of the 19th century. It presents three text that praise the birth of the prophet: the "Mawludu ’n-nabi“ by Hilwati (1858–1921), a work by the poet Halis, and the „Na’t“ by Tïnïslïq-oghlï (1903).