300 Jahre Robinson Crusoe

The year 2019 marked the 300th anniversary of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. His novel was a huge success right away and was soon followed by bootlegs and translations. With the robinsonade, an independent genre of adventure literature was born. These contributions examine the novel within the context of bookselling history, provide new interpretations, and shed light on its multifaceted adaptation history up into the twenty-first century

Die Interaktion von Herrschern und Eliten in imperialen Ordnungen des Mittelalters

At both the center and periphery of empire, patterns of access to imperial centers developed quite differently according to membership in different elite groups. The persistence of imperial systems may have depended on the successful maintenance of such options for access. This volume examines imperial orders from this perspective in Europe, the Middle East, India, and China, from late antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages