This work is an edition and literary-critical study of a Manichaean text in Sogdian known as the Āzandnāmē, or Parable-Book. The first part is a new and expanded edition of the Sogdian text with English translation and philological commentary. The second part, and main contribution, is a literary-critical study of the individual parables of the Āzandnāmē as well as of the genre of parables with the framework of Manichaean literature as a whole.

Im Gegensatz zur aktiven Musiktherapie, bei der Patienten selbst auf Instrumenten spielen, wurde die rezeptive Musiktherapie lange vernachlässigt. Zum ersten Mal stellen zwanzig namhafte Autoren verschiedene Formen rezeptiver Musiktherapie in Theorie und Praxis vor. Das Spektrum der methodischen Ansätze rezeptiver Musiktherapie und ihrer Anwendungsbereiche ist breit: funktionale Entspannungsarbeit mit Hilfe von Musik, tiefenpsychologisch fundierte imaginative Psychotherapieansätze mit und durch Musik und der Einsatz von Musik in der frühesten Lebenszeit. Zahlreiche Fallbeispiele aus der Behandlung psychischer, sozialer und organischer Erkrankungen runden den Band ab.

Today, Niko Pirosmani (1865-1919) is considered one of the most important painters in the history of 20th century art. As a self-taught, penniless vagabond and artist in life, his work was characterised by a uniqueness that was fed exclusively by the painter's rich spiritual world. His clear, flawless and immediate perception of the world and a childlike honesty broke academic boundaries and inspired the avant-gardists of his time. Fame and recognition nevertheless eluded him throughout his life. On the basis of eyewitness accounts, newspaper articles, protocols, and, for the first time, sources that previously fell victim to communist censorship, the author sheds new light on Pirosmani's legendary life and finds answers to previously unsolved questions. He creates a fascinating and also contradictory portrait, which he embeds in the wide range of cosmopolitan social life in Georgia's capital Tbilisi at the turn of the century. We meet more or less famous personalities of the time, writers, poets, painters, politicians, shopkeepers, owners of taverns and pubs, and many more

Einhundertdreißig Weihaltäre im Bild vorgestellt und epigraphisch interpretiert für eine unbekannte keltische Gott, deren Name – Deus Lar Berus Breus – bisher völlig unbekannt war. Das ist das Ergebnis einer deutsch-galicischen Grabung auf einem Fels-Plateau hoch über dem Atlantischen Ozean in Sicht der „ría de Vigo“ und der Cies-Inseln in spanischen Galicien. Ein uraltes Heiligtum – romanisiert in der römischen Kaiserzeit – ein eisenzeitliches „castro“ und ein deutlicher Hinweis auf die „Renaissance“ des einheimischen Keltentums in der Spätantike werden in diesem Band vorgestellt.

Thomas Müntzer was the first among the reformers to not only hold Mass and the daily prayer in German, but to set these liturgical forms down in print, allowing them to be distributed around the city of Allstedt, Germany. In the years 1523 and 1524, several writings appeared in quick succession, including "Ordnung und Berechnung des Deutschen Amtes zu Allstedt" (Order and Calculation by the German Office of Allstedt), which introduced a German liturgy and sought to replace the Latin version. But in contrast to German Mass itself, the translation of German Mass texts do not stem from the impulses of the reformers, but find their roots in the late Middle Ages. This study focuses on the hand-written translations dating from the early 14th Century to 1516. This temporal restriction is necessary, as from the beginning of the reform movement the liturgy not only translated, but also changed and celebrated texts, thus distancing them more and more from their Latin originals. Mathias Henkel examines both the reception of the translations, as well as their form and function. An edition and a transcription of most texts round out the study.