Publications
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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 ...
Unfree Lives
(2024)
This first detailed study of slavery in medieval Yemen examines the lives of women and men who were enslaved as children and then placed in various subaltern positions - from domestic servant to royal concubine, from ...
The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews
(2009)
In The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews the author explains how Christians with Jewish ancestry went within less than forty years from having a leading role in the foundation and development of the Society of Jesus to ...
China: Promise or Threat?
(2017-03-30)
In China: Promise or Threat? Helle compares the cultures of China and the West through both private and public spheres. For China, the private sphere of family life is well developed while behaviour in public relating to ...
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 ...
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, ...
Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion
(1975)
Indonesia
Sja'ir Perang Mengkasar
(1963)
Indonesia
Habsburg als Touristenmagnet
(2021)
Betätigten sich die Habsburger durch ihre alpinen Reisen als frühe Influencer? Ursula Butz untersucht den Einfluss dieser Reisen auf den lokalen Fremdenverkehr der Kurorte Bad Ischl, Meran und Reichenau an der Rax und auf ...