Product Description: Supplementing the two-volume edition of Hildegard von Bingen s Physica, this book systematically assembles and provides lexicographic validation for the German vocabulary (1,038 German words) in the Physica. The Index documents Hildegard s unique contribution to expanding the scope of vernacular expression during the early phase of German language development...read more

Product Description: A History of the German Language Through Texts examines the evolution of German, from the Early Medieval period to the present day.Written in a lively and accessible style, the book looks at the history of German through a wide range of texts, from medical, legal and scientific writing to literature, everyday newspapers and adverts...read more

Product Description: New manuscript discoveries have provided a greatly enhanced basis for this work of Hildegard von Bingen's on natural history and healing, which now contains twice the amount of text as the previous standard edition from 1855. The worlds of animals and plants, together with precious stones, metals and earths, are treated in their entirety from a specific medieval perspective, with a focus on the healing properties of the individual objects from the natural world...read more

Product Description: Die semantische Entwicklungsgeschichte der Modalverben ist ein Lehrstuck der historischen Semantik....