History

Although scriptural discourses in late antiquity are eminently characterized by forms of wisdom thinking, wisdom is not yet an established category in Qur'anic and Islamic studies. The contributors to this volume explore traces of wisdom thinking, teaching, and interpretation in an interreligious perspective from the Hebrew Bible to the gospels and Hellenistic and late antique literature, and ask for its continuing presence in the context of Islam.

This volume contains three sources and studies drawn from the late medieval records of the Benedictine convent of Lüne near Lüneburg - the edition of the statute book with the rites of admission to the monastic community, the diary of the prioress Mechthild Wilde about her own election, and a study on the networks of the Lüne provosts, especially with regard to their acquisition of benefices.

Jan Schröder's Recht als Wissenschaft has quickly become a new classic on the history of legal methodology. The contributors to the present volume provide a commentary on Schröder's book by taking a critical look at its narratives and periodisations. In doing so, they attempt to inspire and lay the foundations for future research.

Anselm's Cur Deus homo is one of the most influential theological writings of the Middle Ages, yet modern scholarship has often viewed it with suspicion. Jonathan Flämig demonstrates that many objections lose their validity once the treatise is read through the lens of Anselm's concept of order, thereby rehabilitating his doctrine of atonement.