A set of studies that offers a global vision of the literary representations of the animal and plant world in the brief narratives of the Middle Ages (fable, example, proverb, lais, etc.). The volume focuses in particular on Spanish literature, but it also includes other Romance languages and Latin literature.

Musik spricht Menschen ganzheitlich an - besonders auf nonverbale und emotionale Weise. Durch ihre Eigenschaften eignet sie sich optimal als Ausdrucks- und Kommunikationsmedium, über das sich Beziehung entwickeln kann. Diese Besonderheiten fordern dazu auf, Musik als Medium in der Sozialen Arbeit einzusetzen. Ihr Einsatz scheint notwendig, wenn Menschen über Sprache und Kognition längst nicht mehr, noch nicht oder noch nicht wieder erreicht werden können. Für professionelles soziales Handeln kann Musik als Ressource erfolgreich und mit großem Nutzen eingesetzt werden. Sie unterstützt nachweislich insbesondere Kinder in einer gesunden sozialen Entwicklung nachhaltig. Unter den heutigen gesellschaftlichen Lebensbedingungen ist eine solche Förderung für Kinder von zentraler Bedeutung. Das Buch untersucht zudem die Wirkungsweisen von Musik und die psychosoziale Entwicklung von Kindern.

Anlässlich des 65. Geburtstags des Augsburger Ordinarius für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur des Mittelalters Freimut Löser erscheint mit diesem Band eine Auswahl seiner kleinen Schriften. Die siebzehn Aufsätze spiegeln ein abwechslungsreiches Œuvre: Studien zu Artusroman, Minnesang, Sangspruchdichtung, Literatur des Spätmittelalters und Literaturtheorie – die Beiträge dokumentieren ein breit gefächertes Forschungsinteresse und vielfältige methodologische Fragestellungen, denen sich Löser neben seinen beiden großen Forschungsschwerpunkten kontinuierlich gewidmet hat.

The consumption of sacrificial meat was a central part of Greek cult festivals. People used to dine outdoors or in temporary structures specifically built for the festivals. Several sanctuaries, however, also included permanent buildings furnished with dining couches to accommodate the sacred meal. These so-called sacred banquet halls used to be an integral part of the infrastructure of the sanctuaries starting from the seventh century B.C. to the Hellenistic period. The author considers their architectural form, their placing within the sacred space and the literary sources in order to examine the functional context of these buildings and to identify the select group of worshippers who was admitted to dine in those rooms.

The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Near Eastern Literatures and participates in their ongoing dialogue with literary theory. It presents 19 different readings of Arabic, Persian and Turkish works from the classical and modern periods, throwing new light on the texts as well as discussing chosen theoretical models, their applicability, and interconnection.

The book describes in detail, realistically and comprehensibly, how the people in Fukushima experienced the disaster and came to terms with it. However, the author does not assign the characters in his stories only a passive role, but through them he repeatedly lets confidence and humor flash. Special features are that the Buddhist view of life and death runs through all the works like a red thread, and that the typical Japanese fundamental attitude to nature experiences its revelation in the stories and their protagonists.

Dedicated to the question of the sign, this volume brings together the three plenary lectures given by Daniel Heller-Roazen (Philosophy and Comparative Literature, Princeton), Michel Pastoureau (History and History of Art, EPHE Paris) and Susan Rankin (Musicology, Cambridge), at the 7th doctoral course of the Institute of Medieval Studies of the University of Fribourg (3-5 September 2018), and is introduced by a critical essay by Marion Uhlig (French Medieval Languages and Literatures, Fribourg). The articles focus on the figures handwritten on the manuscript page, seen as a space of interaction between content and form.

This study focusses on the Roman Senate and its relation to the Emperors, taking a long-term perspective. The starting point is the observation, that the senators as a body held their sessions continuously from the 1st to the 6th century in the Curia Iulia/Diocletiana, a highly symbolic place in Roman mythical history. Visual, archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic and literary findings and records provide evidence of the complexity of role-playing and entangled interactions, which dictated the cooperation between SPQR and Caesares Augusti Imperatores throughout the centuries. By situational adaptions and accumulations of exempla of the past the two protagonists managed to maintain a precarious, varying, but perpetuated balance of powers. The Senate of Rome and the Roman Emperors were mutually dependent and intrinsically linked, forming a specific, bipolar authority structure, which was essential for the self-concept of the Roman State.