Publications
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La ciencia de Cervantes
(2022)
La via del conocimiento de la filosofía natural contrarreformista estuvo condicionada por la necesidad de conciliar el método escolástico con el experimental, a la luz de la evidencia de los nuevos descubrimientos científicos ...
Mit Gott rechnen
(2013)
Seit Marc Bloch und Ernst Kantorowicz ist vieles über die religiöse Legitimierung politischer Gewalt geschrieben worden, doch die Geschichte der Entscheidungsfindung ist von diesem Trend weitgehend unberührt geblieben. Wie ...
Narratology, Hermeneutics, and Midrash
(2014)
The contributions compiled in this volume comprise studies of Jewish texts – biblical, rabbinic, medieval, and modern – as well as of patristic and medieval Christian texts, and in one case, a passage of the Muslim text ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 5 (1995)
(1997)
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 ...
Biography of a Landmark, The Chora Monastery and Kariye Camii in Constantinople/Istanbul from Late Antiquity to the 21st Century
(2023)
With its reconversion to a mosque in August 2020, the former monastic church of Saint Saviour in Chora entered yet another phase of its long history. The present book examines the Chora/Kariye Camii site from a transcultural ...
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 ...
Antique Dealing and Creative Reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850-1890
(2021)
The commodification of Islamic antiques intensified in the late Ottoman Empire, an age of domestic reform and increased European interference following the Tanzimat (reorganisation) of 1839. Mercedes Volait examines the ...
Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law
(2019)
Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law, edited by S. Gialdroni, A. Cordes, S. Dauchy, D. De ruysscher and H. Pihlajamäki, offers a transdisciplinary account of the connections between merchants’ journeys, the ...
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 ...
"At the Shores of the Sky"
(2020)
Albert Hoffstädt, a classicist by training and polylingual humanist by disposition, has for 25 years been the editor chiefly responsible for the development and acquisition of manuscripts in Asian Studies for Brill. During ...
A Poetic History of the Oceans
(2022)
What is the ocean’s role in human and planetary history? How have writers, sailors, painters, scientists, historians, and philosophers from across time and space poetically envisioned the oceans and depicted human entanglements ...
Das politische Imaginäre eurasischer Fiktionsräume
(2023)
Die Studie befasst sich mit den eurasischen Repräsentationen der politischen Einheit und ihrer Reflexion in der russischen Literatur der postsowjetischen Zeit. Die Vorstellungen von einem einheitlichen eurasischen Raum ...
The Khōjā of Tanzania
(2016)
The Khōjā of Tanzania: Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity attempts to reconstruct the development of Khōjā religious identity from their arrival to the Swahili coast in the late 18th century until the ...
Social Codicology
(2024)
This study includes a wide range of contributions on the materiality and social practices of book copying, consuming, collecting, storing, venerating, discarding and preserving, both in historical and contemporary societies, ...
Theory and Practice of Polish Language Teaching
(2024)
The aim of the volume is to focus on research interests that are rarely presented in the literature on the subject and that arise from the currently perceived needs of the developing didactics of Polish as a foreign language. ...
Eschatologisches Denken und politisches Handeln in der Karolingerzeit
(2025)
In the Carolingian period, the prospect of individual death, the universal end times and the Last Judgement gave rise to a sense of taking a critical view of current conditions and governing in a reform-oriented manner. ...
The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin
(2013-01-04)
The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin offers an in-depth ethnographic account of Muslim youth’s religious identity formation and their engagement with Islam in everyday life. Focusing on Muslim women in ...
Auf verlorenem Posten?
(2024)
The "Law on the Appointment of Works Council Members to the Supervisory Board" of February 15, 1922, marked the birth of corporate co-determination in Germany. For the first time, the institutional appointment of a maximum ...
Polish Students and Alcohol
(2023)
The authors present the issue of problematic alcohol drinking in the population of university students in the Polish context based on large scale (N=4503) survey research. The study starts with the description of methodology ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 25 (2019)
(2022)
The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on ...