englischThis year’s issue of Limbus contains essays which deal with the subject of murder in highly diverse ways. These contributions include the perspectives of legal philosophy in the 19th and 20th centuries, modern criminalistics, literary history and Marxist philosophy, among others. In literary [...]

englischNiklas Holzberg, who until his retirement in 2011 was a professor of Classics at the University of Munich, offers a collection of twenty-three papers on Roman poetry of the Augustan age and the early imperial era. Published between 1997 and 2019 in periodicals and anthologies, fifteen of [...]

englischDe miseriis studiosorum declamatio by Lucas Geizkofler is an artful disquisition that illuminates the disastrous situation of students in the 16th century. This book offers the first complete edition of this neo-Latin student lament, which is not only amusing to read, but also has a high [...]

englischLanguage is not only a means of communication, but also shapes and limits our understanding of the world. Modernity’s realisation of this fact has led the study of language to increasingly examine its own tool critically, which in turn has led to remaining silent, that is, deliberately [...]

englischThis study examines the theory of the novel and the conceptualisation of gender as having been inextricably intertwined since the inception of the former and the rise of modernity. Authors of these theories sought to address not only the relatively young genre of the novel, but also the [...]

englischAnyone who reads is automatically directly involved in a world of encounters with words and texts. Literary studies endeavours to make this world accessible, which consists of posing questions and offering answers to them and of setting tasks and providing solutions to them in the field of [...]