Publications
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Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models
(2019)
Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry brings together a range of innovative approaches to the question of genre, what it means, and how to think about it for Greek poetry from the eighth to the fourth centuries BCE. ...
Cracking Facebook
(2020)
This book presents a Facebook study on members of the Cusp Generation, or those born before the “great digital divide” of 1995. This delineation allows for a discussion on the possible socio-cultural implications of Facebook ...
Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840-1940
(2018)
In Ordinary Jerusalem, Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire and thirty-five scholars depict the ordinary history of an extraordinary global city in the late Ottoman and Mandate periods. Utilizing largely unknown archives, ...
Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 1, 2022
(2022)
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 ...
Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913
(2015)
In Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913, Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation and maintenance of boundaries and spaces in South ...
End-of-Life Care, Dying and Death in the Islamic Moral Tradition
(2022)
Modern biomedical technologies managed to revolutionise the End-of-Life Care (EoLC) in many aspects. The dying process can now be “engineered” by managing the accompanying physical symptoms or by “prolonging/hastening” ...
Multiple Loyalitäten und Transterritorialität
(2024)
Die Forschungen zur Diplomatie der Frühen Neuzeit haben in den letzten Jahren die strukturellen Unterschiede zur modernen Diplomatie herausgearbeitet. Simultane Loyalitätsbeziehungen zu verschiedenen Fürstenhäusern und ...
Knowledge of the Pragmatici
(2020)
Knowledge of the pragmatici analyses pragmatic normative literature in colonial Ibero-America. It explores the circulation and the functions of these media in the Iberian peninsula, New Spain, Peru, New Granada and Brazil. ...
A Literary History of Medicine
(2024)
A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the ...
Das Tagebuch von Leo Thun-Hohenstein (1825–1842)
(2023)
The edition of Leo Thun-Hohenstein's diary allows an intimate look at the early years of the later reformer of Austrians education system. Dealing with foreign cultures and questioning social norms characterized Thun's ...
Global Public Goods and Sustainable Development in the Practice of International Organizations
(2023)
This volume examines in an innovative and applied perspective the interdependence between the role of international organizations, the existence of global public goods and the need of sustainable development. Moreover, it ...
The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture
(2014)
In The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture specialists in various fields of art history, from Early Christian times to the present, discuss in depth a series of Western artworks, artefacts, and buildings, ...
Staging Holiness: The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522)
(2020)
In Staging Holiness: The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522) Sofia Zoitou offers a study of the history of relic collections, devotional rituals, and sites invested with special meaning on Rhodes, during a time when ...
Girjjohallat girjáivuođa - Embracing Diversity
(2024)
Unveil the dynamic world of Sami education across Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia in this book. This vital volume presents cutting-edge research from top scholars, enriching teacher education with innovative, ...
Meanings of Community across Medieval Eurasia
(2016)
How did Christianity, Islam and Buddhism frame the emergence and significance of particular communities in medieval Eurasia? This volume of well-linked comparative studies addresses the terminology of community, genealogies, ...
Animals in Stone
(2008)
The art history of South Asia covers a time span of roughly four and a half thousand years. During this period, a vast number of animal stone sculptures has been produced, ranging from the pre-historic period till today ...
The Post-Secular City
(2022)
“The Post-Secular City” is the first attempt to systematically map and assess the recent debate about secularization. “The Post-Secular City” examines the alleged shift from a “secular” to a “post-secular” dispensation ...
Discourses of Decline
(2021)
This volume explores the relevance of decline within the republican tradition. The essays in this volume focus on the Dutch Republic during the revolutionary era, as well as early modern Spain and Venice, the German ...
Hybrid Threats and the Law of the Sea
(2022)
Hybrid Threats and the Law of the Sea debates the practice of states that have resorted to discriminatory navigational restrictions or aggression against foreign ships and aircraft in densely navigated straits. The book ...
The Crisis of Causality
(1995)
The Crisis of Causality deals with the reaction of the Dutch Calvinist theologian Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) to the New Philosophy of René Descartes (1596-1650). Voetius not only criticised the Cartesian idea of a ...