Publications
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The Wallachian Gold-Washers
(2023)
This is the first monograph on the history of the Rudari people of Romania and the first mapping of their settlements. The Rudari are a population which has traditionally inhabited the Balkan area and much of Central Europe. ...
The Author as Annotator
(2022)
What literary and social functions do self-annotations (i.e. footnotes and endnotes that authors appended to their own works) serve? Focussing on Alexander Pope’s Dunciads and a wide selection of Lord Byron’s poems, Lahrsow ...
New Readings in Arabic Historiography from Late Medieval Egypt and Syria
(2021)
The present volume contributes to research on historic Arabic texts from late medieval Egypt and Syria. Departing from dominant understandings of these texts through the prisms of authenticity and “literarization,” it ...
Narratives of Kingship in Eurasian Empires, 1300-1800
(2017)
An exploration of the constructions of authority in Eurasian empires in fictional texts of various genres, showing remarkable parallels, and the fluidity of literary material as a repository of cultural/political values. ...
De Hikajat Atjéh
(1958)
Indonesia
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 ...
The Diary of Heinrich Witt (10 vols.)
(2015)
The diary of Heinrich Witt (1799-1892) is the most extensive private diary written in Latin America known to us today. Written in English by a German migrant who lived in Lima, it is a unique source for the history of Peru, ...
Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature
(2018)
This is the fourth volume in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. The book deals with the narratological concepts of character and characterization and explores the textual devices used for purposes of characterization ...
Ethnicity and the Colonial State
(2015)
Ethnicity and the Colonial State compares the choices of community leaders in three different West African groups (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), with regard to “selling” their identifications to the colonial rulers. The book ...
Everyday Crime, Criminal Justice and Gender in Early Modern Bologna
(2021)
Female protagonists are commonly overlooked in the history of crime; especially in early modern Italy, where women’s scope of action is often portrayed as heavily restricted. This book redresses the notion of Italian women’s ...
Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements
(2021)
The Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements offers a multinational study of Islam, its variants, influences, and neighbouring movements, from a multidisciplinary range of scholars. These chapters highlight the diversity ...
Grammar of the Sentani Language
(1965)
Indonesia
The Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts
(2010)
This handbook surveys and describes the illustrated Mixtec manuscripts that survive in Europe, the United States and Mexico.
The Carib Language
(1968)
Indonesia
The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual
(2016)
The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual addresses the varied modes of interaction between ancient Greek lyric poetry and the visual arts as well as more general notions of visuality. Readership: Students and scholars ...
Writing Development in Struggling Learners
(2017)
In Writing Development in Struggling Learners, international researchers provide insights into the development of writing skills from early writing and spelling development through to composition, the reasons individuals ...
Expectations Unfulfilled: Norwegian Migrants in Latin America, 1820-1940
(2016)
In Expectations Unfulfilled scholars from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Spain and Sweden study the experiences of Norwegian migrants in Latin America between the Wars of Independence and World War II.
Practicing Safe Sects
(2018)
In Practicing Safe Sects F. LeRon Shults provides scientific and philosophical resources for having “the talk” about religious reproduction: where do gods come from – and what are the costs of bearing them in our culturally ...
Scorsese and Religion
(2019)
Scorsese and Religion explores and analyzes the religious vision of filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s oeuvre, showing that Scorsese cannot be properly understood without reflecting on the ways that his religious interests are ...
Secession in International Law with a Special Reference to the Post-Soviet Space
(2024)
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. International law is increasing in relevance to the topic of secession. This book demonstrates that if ...