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Komodo
(1982)
Indonesia
The Secret of Time: Reconfiguring Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls
(2023)
This book contributes to the rethinking of the Dead Sea Scrolls as an essential and integral part of Judaism in the Greco-Roman period. The Qumran manuscripts attest to the reconfiguration of Jewish wisdom concepts in this ...
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès: The Essential Political Writings
(2014)
The edition contains all of Sieyès's "Essential Political Writings" during the revolutionary decade (1789-1799), among them his famous pamphlet What is the Third Estate? as well as the less well known, but no less important ...
The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800–1950
(2020)
In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic emerged in Catholic Europe. While cases of stigmatisation had been reported since the thirteenth century, this era witnessed the development of the ‘stigmatic’: young women ...
Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany
(2007)
Using the example of Eichstätt, this book challenges current witchcraft historiography by arguing that the gender of the witch-suspect was a product of the interrogation process and that the stable communities affected by ...
Drug Policies and Development
(2020)
The 12th volume of International Development Policy explores the relationship between international drug policy and development goals, both current and within a historical per-spective. Contributions address the drugs and ...
The Land between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300–1700
(2022)
The Land Between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300-1700 focuses on the strong riverine ties that connect the seas of the Mediterranean system (from the Western Mediterranean through the ...
Schutz und Andacht im Islam: Dokumente in Rollenform aus dem 14.–19. Jh.
(2020)
Schutz und Andacht im Islam befasst sich mit handschriftlichen Dokumenten in Rollenform, die zwischen dem 14. und 19. Jh. entstanden sind. Die vorgestellten Belegstücke stammen aus unterschiedlichen geographischen Kontexten: ...
Plotinus on Beauty
(2022)
Although Plotinus’ two treatises on beauty could be taken to reflect an evolution in his thought, a careful examination shows that he consistently argues for a conception of beauty as the illuminated unity in multiplicity ...
The Family System of the Paramaribo Creoles
(1974)
Indonesia
Armenia through the Lens of Time
(2023)
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. From pilgrimage sites in the far west of Europe to the Persian court; from mystic visions to a gruesome ...
Aristotle's Ethics in the Italian Renaissance (ca. 1300-1650)
(2002)
This volume studies the teaching of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics (the standard textbook for moral philosophy) in the universities of Renaissance Italy. Special attention is given to how university commentaries on the ...
African Cities and the Development Conundrum
(2018)
This volume explores some of the complex development challenges associated with the recent and rapid pace of urbanisation across Africa. The transition from a predominantly rural to urban population over the next decade ...
From Accelerated Accumulation to the Socialist Market Economy
(2017-03-15)
The book is based on the hypothesis that a systematic analysis of the Chinese economic discourse is necessary in order to understand the underlying logic of Chinese economic development. The majority of works on the subject ...
The Land of the English Kin
(2020)
Twenty-nine studies, covering a wide range of themes, present the most up-to-date thinking on the history, archaeology and toponymy of Anglo-Saxon England, with particular attention to Wessex, in honour of Professor Barbara ...
Migrants and Religion: Paths, Issues, and Lenses
(2020)
Despite the worldwide dramatic spread of religious-based discriminations, persecutions, and conflicts, both official data and academic literature have underestimated their role as a root cause of contemporary migrations. ...
The Future of Ocean Governance and Capacity Development
(2018)
The International Ocean Institute – Canada has compiled more than 80 insightful essays on the future of ocean governance and capacity development, based largely on themes of its Training Program at Dalhousie University in ...
Sharīʿa in Africa Today
(2013)
Sharīʿa in Africa Today. Reactions and Responses explores how Islamic law has influenced relations between Muslims and Christians, through a series of case studies by young African scholars working in Sudan, Nigeria, Kenya ...
The African-Jamaican Aesthetic
(2017)
The African-Jamaican Aesthetic explores the ways in which diasporic African-Jamaican writers employ cultural referents aesthetically in their literary works to challenge dominant European literary discourses; articulate ...
Athanasius Raczyński (1788–1874). Aristocrat, Diplomat, and Patron of the Arts
(2022)
This book depicts the long rich life and wide ranging work of Count Athanasius Raczyński (1788–1874). By exploring his complex personality, his processes of thought and his accomplishments, it reveals a man at once a wealthy ...
The Struggle of Islam in Modern Indonesia
(1971)
Regional and national history
International Submarine Cables and Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction
(2017)
In International Submarine Cables and Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction, Douglas R. Burnett and Lionel Carter closely examine the relationship between trans-oceanic submarine cables and biodiversity in ...
The Paradox of ASEAN Centrality: Timor-Leste Betwixt and Between
(2023)
ASEAN, as being on the very core of this matter, deserves close attention through the case of Timor-Leste for understanding international strategic inclusion-exclusion dynamics. The manuscript we provide tackles this case ...
Sinophone Southeast Asia
(2021)
This volume explores the diverse linguistic landscape of Southeast Asia’s Chinese communities. Based on archival research and previously unpublished linguistic fieldwork, it unearths a wide variety of language histories, ...
Early Modern Litterae Indipetae for the East Indies
(2023)
During the early modern period, thousands of Jesuits across Europe wrote individual applications for appointments in the “Indies” directly to the superior general of the Society of Jesus in Rome. Known today as litterae ...
Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva
(2020)
In Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva, Sartori and Abdurasulov show that in Khorezm prior to Sovietization the dispensation of justice according to Islamic law depended mostly on a group of officials ...
Scholars in Action (2 vols)
(2013)
In Scholars in Action, an international group of 40 authors open up new perspectives on the eighteenth-century culture of knowledge, with a particular focus on scholars and their various practices.; Readership: All interested ...
Enough Already!
(2020)
This text will explore the re-assertion of right-wing populist and fascist movements as presented and distributed in the media. In particular, attacks on immigrants, women, minorities, LGBTQ people are increasing at a ...
Norse Revival
(2016)
Norse Revival examines international Germanic Neopaganism (Asatru). It investigates its origins in German ultra-nationalist movements around 1900, its attempt to gain respectability since the 1970s and its intersections ...
Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature
(2022)
Investigating the importance of casuistry in a variety of genres in early modern Spain, this volume fills a significant gap in the scholarship, and calls for a re-thinking of the development of early modern Spanish literature ...
Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article
(2020)
This volume edited by Tabea Ihsane focuses on different aspects of the distribution, semantics, and internal structure of nominal constituents with a “partitive article” in its indefinite interpretation and of potentially ...
Sacrifice in Modernity
(2020)
Sacrifice seems to belong to a religious context of the past. In Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity it is demonstrated how sacrificial themes remain an essential element in our post-modern society. The ...
War Traditions from the Qumran Caves
(2022)
In this volume, Hanna Vanonen offers a fresh view to the Milhamah and Sefer ha-Milhamah manuscripts by producing a thorough close-reading analysis of them, paying attention not only to their contents but also to manuscripts ...
Nuaulu Religious Practices; The frequency and reproduction of rituals in a Moluccan society
(2012)
How religious practices are reproduced has become a major theoretical issue. This work examines data on Nuaulu ritual performances collected over a 30 year period, comparing different categories of event in terms of frequency ...
Climate Change Integration in the Multilevel Governance of Italy and Austria
(2022)
How can subnational governments best integrate climate change considerations across policy areas? Which factors contribute to successful integration? With a specific focus on transport, spatial planning policies, and energy ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 1 (1991)
(1992)
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 ...
In het land van de overheerser
(1986)
Met de aanwezigheid van Surinamers en (in kleinere aantallen) Antillianen in ons land is men hier sinds de jaren zestig vertrouwd geraakt. Over dit onderwerp is ook veel geschreven. Minder bekend is de geschiedenis van de ...
Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity
(2017)
Women and Knowledge in Early Christianity offers a collection of essays that deal with perceptions of wisdom, femaleness, and their interconnections in a wide range of ancient sources, including papyri, Nag Hammadi documents, ...
Trajectories of State Formation across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West-Asia
(2020)
Constructed around seven extensively contextualized case studies, Trajectories of State Formation across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West-Asia offers a critical trans-dynastic understanding of the socio-political histories ...
Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 2, 2023
(2023)
The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles that seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines ...
Bima Swarga in Balinese Wayang
(1981)
The aim of the author's research was to study 1) the thematic elements and the composition of the plays (lelampahan wayang), and 2) their religious and cultural background. She concentrates on one particular play: the story ...
Canonisation as Innovation
(2022)
Canonisation is fundamental to the sustainability of cultures. This volume is meant as a (theoretical) exploration of the process, taking Eurasian societies from roughly the first millennium BCE (Babylonian, Assyrian, ...
Jan Verschueren's Description of Yéi-Nan Culture
(1982)
Joannis Cornelis Verschueren (1905-1970) worked as a Roman Catholic missionary in southern Irian from 1931 until 1970. In the 1950s he wrote a number of papers on the Y
Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion
(1975)
Indonesia
Antisemitism in North America
(2016)
In Antisemitism in North America, leading scholars offer a wide variety of perspectives on why the Jews in North America have sometimes faced considerable bigotry but have, in general, found a home far more hospitable than ...
Jesuit Libraries
(2022)
The Society of Jesus began a tradition of collecting books and curating those collections at its foundation. These libraries were important to both their European sites and their missions; they helped build a global culture ...
Politics and Cultures of Liberation
(2018)
Politics and Cultures of Liberation: Media, Memory, and Projections of Democracy focuses on mapping, analyzing, and evaluating memories, rituals, and artistic responses to the theme of “liberation.” The contributors offer ...
The Heritage of Arung Palakka
(1981)
Indonesia
Qarakhanid Roads to China
(2022)
Qarakhanid Roads to China takes readers on a large-scale adventure with envoys and merchants, monks and artists, men and women along the Silk Roads and beyond.
Where Shrimp Eat Better than People
(2022)
East, South and Southeast Asia are home to two-thirds of the world’s hungry people, but they produce more than three-quarters of the world’s fish and nearly half of other foods. Through integration into the world food ...
Pesher and Hypomnema: A Comparison of Two Commentary Traditions from the Hellenistic-Roman Period
(2017)
In Pesher and Hypomnema Pieter B. Hartog compares ancient Jewish commentaries on the Hebrew Bible with papyrus commentaries on the Iliad. Hartog shows that members of the Qumran movement adopted classical commentary writing ...
A History of Population Health
(2020)
In A history of Population Health Johan P. Mackenbach offers a comparative study of trends in 40 specific diseases in Europe and their explanation, focusing on the causes of the spectacular improvements in people’s health ...
Daily Life for the Common People of China
(2018-10-28)
In this book Ronald Suleski introduces a new category of source material, ''chaoben'' 抄本, for understanding the lives of China’s semi-literate masses before 1950. It links the documents now flooding the antiques markets ...
Chapter 3 Visible Prowess?: Reading Men’s Head and Face Wounds in Early Medieval Europe to 1000 CE
(2015)
The spectacle of the wounded body figured prominently in the Middle Ages, from images of Christ’s wounds on the cross, to the ripped and torn bodies of tortured saints who miraculously heal through divine intervention, to ...
The power of prophecy; Prince Dipanagara and the end of an old order in Java, 1785-1855
(2008)
National hero, Javanese mystic, pious Muslim and leader of the ‘holy war’ against the Dutch between 1825 and 1830, the Yogyakarta prince, Dipanagara (1785-1855, otherwise known as Diponegoro), is pre-eminent in the pantheon ...
Administration, Prosopography and Appointment Policies in the Roman Empire
(2001)
Readership: All those interested in Roman history (also at the local level in communities in the Roman Empire), the history of ancient Greek and Roman religions, the representation of power of Roman emperors, and the ...
Preterit Expansion and Perfect Demise in Porteño Spanish and Beyond
(2016)
In this book, Guro Nore Fløgstad shows how the Preterit category has expanded in Porteño Spanish, and sheds new light on the outcome of the competition between Perfects and Preterits in Romance, and beyond. Readership: All ...
Religion and Conflict Attribution
(2015)
Religion in a pluralistic society can play a dual role with regard to conflict. It can promote either violence or peace. Religion and Conflict Attribution examines the causes of interreligious conflict as perceived by ...
Religion and Conflict Attribution
(2014)
Religion in a pluralistic society can play a dual role with regard to conflict. It can promote either violence or peace. Religion and Conflict Attribution examines the causes of interreligious conflict as perceived by ...
De kraton van Majapahit
(1948)
Indonesia
Reducing Emissions of Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
(2023)
Short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), including methane, black carbon, hydrofluorocarbons, and tropospheric ozone, have become part of climate policy debates. Discussion has revolved around the potential of their mitigation ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 11 (2003-2004)
(2006)
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 ...
Animal Rationality
(2018)
In Animal Rationality: Later Medieval Theories 1250-1350, Anselm Oelze offers the first comprehensive and systematic exploration of theories of animal rationality in the later Middle Ages. Readership: Everyone interested ...
Planters against Peasants
(1982)
Indonesia
Paths and Rivers; Sa’dan Toraja Society in Transformation
(2009)
Fieldwork extending over a thirty-year period provided materials for this book. Paths and Rivers offers an unusually deep and broad picture of the Sa’dan Toraja as a society in dynamic transition over the course of the ...
Stepping Back and Looking Ahead: Twelve Years of Studying Religious Contact at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Bochum
(2023)
This book includes a collection of articles by leading researchers on the topic of religious contact in the study of religion. Resulting from the final conference of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Dynamics in the History of ...
Vision, Narrative, and Wisdom in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran
(2019)
This volume is a collection of scholarly articles on the Aramaic Dead Sea scrolls, some of the oldest and most fascinating literary compositions among the ancient Jewish manuscripts found in the Qumran caves. Readership: ...
Learning across Generations in Europe: Contemporary Issues in Older Adult Education
(2014)
Learning across Generations in Europe: Contemporary issues in older adult education constitutes an important book in the emergent field of study of older adult learning. The book gives a clear and wide overview on the ...
A Love Letter to the Many
(2024)
South Africa was the hope of the world. It had an impressive and rich tradition of left politics. At the heart of post-apartheid democracy-making was a revolutionary nationalist ANC, the oldest Communist Party in Africa, ...
Snow in the Tropics
(2019)
Snow in the Tropics offers the first comprehensive history of the independent reefer operators, companies that are dedicated to transport refrigerated products by ship, from the early 20th century to the present. Readership: ...
In het land van de overheerser
(1986)
Indonesia
Heart Speaks unto Heart
(2021)
Both Newman and Stein present a mature response to the challenges of their eras. In like manner they reflect splendid examples of genuine persons in the grip of disrupting cultural trends. They show the primacy of individual ...
Catalogue of Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Leiden University and Other Collections in the Netherlands
(2012)
The present catalogue is the fourth and final volume in a series that covers the Turkish manuscripts preserved in public libraries and museums in the Netherlands. This volume gives detailed descriptions of Turkish manuscripts ...
Principles of Islamic International Criminal Law
(2011)
The goal of this book is to minimize the misunderstandings and conflicts between International law and Islamic law. The objective is to bring peace into justice and justice into peace for the prevention of violations of ...
Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question
(2018)
Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question is one of the first academic works, which examine the field of genomics from an Islamic perspective. The contributions in the volume also accommodate and interact with critical insights ...
Researching and Transforming Adult Learning and Communities: The Local/Global Context
(2016)
The chapters of this volume reflect ongoing research in the field of adult education and learning in and with communities. At the same time the work of the authors presented here offers a very vital reflection of the work ...
Conditional Freedom
(2022)
While the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political ...
Reading Greek and Hellenistic-Roman Spolia
(2023)
Plundering and taking home precious objects from a defeated enemy was a widespread activity in the Greek and Hellenistic-Roman world. In this volume literary critics, historians and archaeologists join forces in investigating ...
Breaching the Bronze Wall: Franks at Mamluk and Ottoman Courts and Markets
(2020)
Breaching the Bronze Wall deals with the idea that the words of honorable Muslims constitute proof and that written documents and the words of non-Muslims are of inferior value. Thus, foreign merchants in cities such as ...
Esther Tellermann
(2022)
Cette première monographie consacrée à l'œuvre d’Esther Tellermann met en lumière, à travers des textes de 1999-2019 dont le lyrisme décentré s’ouvre à l’Autre, un regard novateur sur des réalités intérieures et extérieures, ...