Publications
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A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth
(2020)
A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to provide an updated scholarly introduction to all aspects of his work. Arguably the most influential secular writer of medieval ...
Episches Erzählen bei Goethe als Reflexion auf moderne Zeitlichkeit
(2022)
Die Gattung des Epos gilt gemeinhin als die Antithese moderner Literatur. Wenn zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts das Epische restituiert wird und dabei insbesondere seine Erzählökonomie der Entschleunigung hervorgehoben wird, ...
Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa
(2018)
The essays in Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa offer a critical reflection on the often more competitive than cordial relationships between Jesuit and Protestant missionaries in nineteenth- and early ...
Gathering Souls: Jesuit Missions and Missionaries in Oceania (1668–1945)
(2019)
This essay deals with the missionary work of the Society of Jesus in today’s Micronesia from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. In order to understand the Jesuits’ evangelization project of gathering souls in the ...
Florilegia Syriaca: Mapping a Knowledge-Organizing Practice in the Syriac World
(2023)
From the 6th century onwards, Syriac patristic florilegia – collections of Greek patristic excerpts in Syriac translation – progressively became a prominent form through which Syriac and Arab Christians shaped their knowledge ...
Topographie des Reiches Gottes
(2020)
In der „Sammlung auserlesener Materien zum Bau des Reiches Gottes“ und ihren Fortsetzungsserien, eine der erfolgreichsten pietistischen Zeitschriften des 18. Jahrhunderts, wurden Nachrichten aus aller Welt publiziert, die ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 12 (2005-2006)
(2007)
The Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major refereed publication dedicated to international law issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. Readership: Academics and practitioners who deal with international ...
Adult Education Policy and the European Union: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
(2014)
The European Union is now a key player in making lifelong learning and adult education policy: this is the first book to explore a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives researchers can use to investigate its ...
Founding Territorial Cults in Early Japan
(2023)
The first book that deals with the territorial cults of early Japan by focusing on how such cults were founded in ownerless regions. Numerous ancient Japanese myths and legends are discussed to show that the typical founding ...
Roman Rule and Civic Life: Local and Regional Perspectives
(2004)
Ancient history: to c 500 CE
The Orient in Utrecht: Adriaan Reland (1676-1718), Arabist, Cartographer, Antiquarian and Scholar of Comparative Religion
(2021)
Adriaan Reland (1676-1718), Arabist, Cartographer, Antiquarian and Scholar of Comparative Religion covers the intellectual achievements of a remarkable man: Adriaan Reland, professor of Oriental languages (1701) and Hebrew ...
Trust in Contemporary Society
(2019)
Trust in Contemporary Society, by well-known trust researchers, deals with conceptual, theoretical and social interaction analyses, historical data on societies, national surveys or cross-national comparative studies, and ...
Indian Islamic Architecture
(2007-01-12)
The British scholar John Burton-Page contributed numerous formative articles on Indian Islamic architecture for the Encyclopaedia of Islam over a period of 25 years. Assembled here for the first time, these offer an ...
Remaking Communities and Adult Learning
(2022)
What responses is adult education providing to the great global problems: climate change and the environment, populism and racism, gender inequality, social and economic inequality? The ESREA Research Network between Local ...
Neue Urbanität – Konzepte zur Stadt der Zukunft
(2025)
Since 2008, more people worldwide have been living in cities than in rural areas and the end of this form of urbanization is far from imminent. This development began as early as the Renaissance with the conception of ...
The Power to Pardon in Medieval and Early Modern Christian Europe
(2025)
In medieval and early modern Christian Europe, the power to exercise pardon over rigor of justice was one of the strongest manifestations of sovereignty and, as such, it was almost ubiquitous. For merciful rulers, pardoning ...
The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739)
(2016)
In The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739), Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso analyzes the politics behind the most salient Bourbon reform introduced in Spanish America during the early ...
Context and Catholicity in the Science and Religion Debate
(2020)
Based on a thorough study of the ‘lived theology’ of Christian students and university professors in Abidjan, Kinshasa and Yaoundé, this book proposes a theoretical framework that makes an intercultural and interdisciplinary ...
The Impact of Imperial Rome on Religions, Ritual and Religious Life in the Roman Empire
(2006)
The fifth volume Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, 200 BC-AD 476) focuses on the impact of imperial Rome on religion, treating connections between Roman expansion and religion; the imperial impact on local cults; priests, ...
International Organizations and the Promotion of Effective Dispute Resolution
(2019)
This second volume of the AIIB Yearbook of International Law examines a series of overarching themes and relationships regarding the role of international organizations in promoting effective dispute resolution. Readership: ...