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Maria Petyt
(2015)
Based on the discovery of an unknown Latin manuscript, Maria Petyt - A Carmelite Mystic in Wartime provides surprising new information about the seventeenth century Flemish mystic Maria Petyt (1623-1677) who wrote many ...
De slimme en de domme
(1976)
The authors worked as doctors in Kalimantan between 1949 and 1959, where they were first introduced to Ngaju Dayak tales. The present anthology contains 20 tales given to them by the Rev. Munte Saha. Both the original text ...
Enough Already! A Socialist Feminist Response to the Re-emergence of Right Wing Populism and Fascism in Media
(2020)
This text analyses the rapid rise of global authoritarian populism and fascism and how these movements incorporate misogyny into their ideologies within and beyond social media. Readership: Readership includes those ...
L'Académie de Lausanne entre Humanisme et Réforme (ca. 1537-1560)
(2011)
Based on a vast body of archival sources, this book examines the development and the operations of the Lausanne Academy, the first Protestant Academy of Higher Education created in a French-speaking territory, and an ...
Free Will, Causality, and Neuroscience
(2019)
This book aims to show that recent developments in neuroscience permit a defense of free will. Through language, human beings can escape strict biological determinism. Readership: All interested in the philosophy of sciences, ...
Visions of Justice
(2016)
In Visions of Justice Paolo Sartori surveys the role of Russian colonialism in affecting the way in which Muslims in Central Asia formulated their convictions about right and wrong and became exposed to different notions ...
Exile, Diplomacy and Texts
(2020)
Exile, Diplomacy and Texts offers an interdisciplinary narrative of religious, political, and diplomatic exchanges between early modern Iberia and the British Isles during a period uniquely marked by inconstant alliances ...
Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone
(2020)
This volume offers a systematic survey of migration histories in the central transition zone between Africa, Asia and Europe from the 4th to the 15th century C.E.; Readership: All interested in the medieval history of the ...
The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire
(2016)
The present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial ...
The Principle of Equality in Diverse States
(2021)
This book examines different approaches by which states characterised by federal or decentralized arrangements reconcile equality and autonomy. In case studies from four continents, leading experts analyse the challenges ...
The Representation and Perception of Roman Imperial Power
(2003)
Ancient history: to c 500 CE
A Bibliography of South African Languages, 2008-2017
(2018)
This concise bibliography on South-African Languages and Linguistics was compiled on the occasion of the 20th International Congress of Linguists in Cape Town, South Africa, in July 2018. The selection of titles is drawn ...
Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595–1700
(2022)
This book sheds new light on the cultural encounter between China and Europe, by discussing how Chinese religion and philosophy were represented in Dutch printed works between 1595-1700.; Readership: All interested in early ...
The European Commission of the Danube, 1856-1948
(2020)
The history of the world’s second international organisation, an innovative techno-political institution established by Europe’s Concert of Powers to remove insecurity from the Lower Danube.; Readership: Historians of ...
Intra-European Litigation in Eighteenth-Century Izmir
(2021)
This book offers an account of how merchants litigated on the basis of mercantile custom as well as specific legal procedures, using an ensemble of cases brought before the Dutch consul in Izmir in the second half of the ...
Ergativity and Other Alignment Types in Neo-Aramaic
(2021)
The alignment splits in the Neo-Aramaic languages display a considerable degree of diversity, especially in terms of agreement. While earlier studies have generally oversimplified the actual state of affairs, Paul M. ...
Authority and Control in the Countryside
(2018)
Authority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage ...
Beauvoir in Time
(2020)
Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's ...
New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism
(2020)
This volume offers new approaches to some of the biggest persistent challenges in the study of esotericism and beyond. Commonly understood as a particularly “Western” undertaking consisting of religious, philosophical, and ...
Humanitarianism: Keywords
(2020)
Humanitarianism: Keywords is a comprehensive dictionary designed as a compass for navigating the conceptual universe of humanitarianism. It is an intuitive toolkit to map contemporary humanitarianism and to explore its ...
Formal Axiology and Its Critics
(2021)
Formal Axiology and Its Critics consists of two parts, both of which present criticisms of the formal theory of values developed by Robert S. Hartman, replies to these criticisms, plus a short introduction to formal ...
Walking on the Pages of the Word of God
(2019)
In Walking on the Pages of the Word of God Aron Engberg explores the religious language and identities of Zionist evangelical volunteer workers in contemporary Jerusalem, and their stories about the religious self, the ...
'Incidental' Ethnographers
(2007)
This book introduces, from an anthropological standpoint, French Catholic missionary colonial ethnographic writing from the highlands of north Vietnam and Yunnan at the turn of the 20th century, and searches for the ...
The Rights of the Child
(2023)
How can human rights for children born outside their national jurisdiction with parents deemed as terrorists be safeguarded? In what ways do children risk being discriminated in their welfare rights in Sweden when treated ...
Governing the Galleys: Jurisdiction, Justice, and Trade in the Squadrons of the Hispanic Monarchy (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)
(2019)
In Governing the Galleys, Manuel Lomas analyses the political, legal and economic impact of the development of the Spanish Navy in the Early Modern Mediterranean (sixteenth - seventeenth centuries). Readership: All interested ...
The Newest Sappho: P. Sapph. Obbink and P. GC inv. 105, Frs. 1-4
(2016)
In The Newest Sappho Anton Bierl and André Lardinois have edited 21 papers of world-renowned Sappho scholars dealing with the new papyrus fragments of poems by Sappho that were published in 2014. Readership: All interested ...
The Interpretation and Application of the Most-Favored-Nation Clause in Investment Arbitration
(2022)
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In The Interpretation and Application of the Most-Favored-Nation Clause in Investment Arbitration, Dr. ...
Power and Possibility
(2019)
Power and Possibility: Adult Education in a Diverse and Complex World explores the topic of power and possibility theoretically, historically and practically through a range of perspectives and in relation to varied areas ...
The Old-Javanese Rāmāyaṇa Kakawin
(1955)
Indonesia
Sharīʿa in Africa Today
(2020)
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 four African countries: ...
Cleanliness and culture: Indonesian histories
(2011)
Recent years have shown an increase in interest in the study of cleanliness from a historical and sociological perspective. Many of such studies on bathing and washing, on keeping the body and the streets clean, and on ...
Proeve van een Bulische spraakkunst
(1951)
Indonesia
Four Kingdom Motifs before and beyond the Book of Daniel
(2020)
The four kingdoms motif enabled writers of various cultures, times, and places, to periodize history as the staged succession of empires barrelling towards an utopian age. The motif provided order to lived experiences under ...
Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World
(2021)
The contributions to this volume address conceptualisations of poverty and precarity from the perspective of literary and cultural studies as well as linguistics and investigate the ethics and aesthetic of representing ...
Transfer of Buddhism Across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries)
(2015)
Transfer of Buddhism across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries), ed. Carmen Meinert, offers a transregional and transcultural vision for religious transfer processes in Central Asian history. It explores Buddhist ...
Islamic Sensory History
(2024)
Islamic Sensory History, Volume 2: 600–1500 presents a selection of texts translated into English from Arabic and Persian. These selected texts all offer illustrative engagements with issues related to the sensorium in ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 9 (2000)
(2004)
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 ...
Mothering, Public Leadership, and Women’s Life Writing
(2017)
In Mothering, Public Leadership, and Women’s Life Writing, Claire E. Wolfteich presents a series of case studies in Christian spirituality, bringing mothers’ autobiographical writing into focus for theological reflection. ...
Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis
(2022)
Religion is never simply there. In Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis, Mattias Brand shows where and when ordinary individuals and families in Egypt practiced a Manichaean way of life. Rather than ...
Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia
(2016)
By providing various fascinating first-hand accounts of how citizens negotiate their rights in the context of weak state institutions, Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia offers a unique bottom-up perspective ...