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 ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 1 (1991)
(1992)
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 ...
Rebellion under the Banner of Islam
(1981)
The Darul Islam rebellion, striving for the establishment of an Islamic State of Indonesia, broke out in several areas since 1949. The author describes each of these Darul Islam rebellions and identifies some of the factors ...
Investigating Understanding
(2024)
With a fresh and innovative perspective, Leonie Kirchhoff introduces an interdisciplinary xamination of literary understanding, drawing upon cognitive, educational, and literary studies. At the heart of the study is a ...
Symbolic Anthropology in the Netherlands
(1982)
Indonesia
Private World(s): Gender and Informal Learning of Adults
(2015)
This book is the third production from the ESREA Gender network and, once more, an opportunity to let the readers discover, or to know more, for a better understanding of questions related to gender and adult learning. It ...
Oost-Soemba
(1940)
Indonesia
Bridging between Research and Practice
(2014)
This book presents a fresh approach to bridging the perceived gap between academic and classroom cultures. It describes a unique form of research partnership whereby Cambridge University academics and school teachers ...
Private World(s): Gender and Informal Learning of Adults
(2015)
This book is the third production from the ESREA Gender network and, once more, an opportunity to let the readers discover, or to know more, for a better understanding of questions related to gender and adult learning. It ...
Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 2, 2023
(2023)
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 ...
Inklusive Verwaltung
(2014)
Die Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste ist eine Vereinigung der führenden Forscherinnen und Forscher des Landes. Sie wurde 1970 als Nachfolgeeinrichtung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung ...
Het passieve werkwoord in de Indonesische talen
(1952)
Indonesia
Nuaulu Religious Practices; The frequency and reproduction of rituals in a Moluccan society
(2012)
How religious practices are reproduced has become a major theoretical issue. This work examines data on Nuaulu ritual performances collected over a 30 year period, comparing different categories of event in terms of frequency ...
Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature
(2022)
Investigating the importance of casuistry in a variety of genres in early modern Spain, this volume fills a significant gap in the scholarship, and calls for a re-thinking of the development of early modern Spanish literature ...
Breaching the Bronze Wall: Franks at Mamluk and Ottoman Courts and Markets
(2020)
Breaching the Bronze Wall deals with the idea that the words of honorable Muslims constitute proof and that written documents and the words of non-Muslims are of inferior value. Thus, foreign merchants in cities such as ...
Canonisation as Innovation
(2022)
Canonisation is fundamental to the sustainability of cultures. This volume is meant as a (theoretical) exploration of the process, taking Eurasian societies from roughly the first millennium BCE (Babylonian, Assyrian, ...
Researching and Transforming Adult Learning and Communities: The Local/Global Context
(2016)
The chapters of this volume reflect ongoing research in the field of adult education and learning in and with communities. At the same time the work of the authors presented here offers a very vital reflection of the work ...
In het land van de overheerser
(1986)
Met de aanwezigheid van Surinamers en (in kleinere aantallen) Antillianen in ons land is men hier sinds de jaren zestig vertrouwd geraakt. Over dit onderwerp is ook veel geschreven. Minder bekend is de geschiedenis van de ...
Covenant: A Vital Element of Reformed Theology
(2021)
Covenant: A Vital Element of Reformed Theology provides a multi-disciplinary reflection on the theme of the covenant, from historical, biblical-theological and systematic-theological perspectives. The interaction between ...
Becoming Human
(2020)
The book Becoming Human: Li Zehou’s Ethics offers a critical introduction and in-depth analysis of Li Zehou’s moral philosophy and ethics. Li Zehou, who is one of the most influential contemporary Chinese philosophers, ...
De vestiging der Nederlanders ter kuste Malabar
(1943)
Indonesia
War Traditions from the Qumran Caves
(2022)
In this volume, Hanna Vanonen offers a fresh view to the Milhamah and Sefer ha-Milhamah manuscripts by producing a thorough close-reading analysis of them, paying attention not only to their contents but also to manuscripts ...
In search of a path; An analysis of the foreign policy of Suriname from 1975 to 1991
(2011)
In search of a path An analysis of the foreign policy of Suriname from 1975 to 1991
Roger Janssen
The foreign policy of small states is an often neglected topic, which is particularly the case when it comes to Suriname. ...
Climate Change Integration in the Multilevel Governance of Italy and Austria
(2022)
How can subnational governments best integrate climate change considerations across policy areas? Which factors contribute to successful integration? With a specific focus on transport, spatial planning policies, and energy ...
Reading Greek and Hellenistic-Roman Spolia
(2023)
Plundering and taking home precious objects from a defeated enemy was a widespread activity in the Greek and Hellenistic-Roman world. In this volume literary critics, historians and archaeologists join forces in investigating ...
From Laṅkā Eastwards; The Rāmāyaṇa in the Literature
(2011)
The Kakawin Ramayana, arguably the oldest Old Javanese epic text in Indic metres (circa 9th century AD), holds a unique position in the literary heritage of Indonesia. The poem has retained a remarkable vitality through ...
Das Schülerbild der Religionspädagogik
(2024)
The study focuses on the implicit image of pupils being constructed within a certain pedagogical and didactical context as well as its influence on pedagogical approaches and didactical choices. Analysing and de-constructing ...
Enough Already!
(2020)
This text will explore the re-assertion of right-wing populist and fascist movements as presented and distributed in the media. In particular, attacks on immigrants, women, minorities, LGBTQ people are increasing at a ...
Global Citizenship Education
(2024)
Global citizenship education is an essential topic in an increasingly interconnected world. Indeed the need for inclusive and globally conscious education, embedded in cosmopolitanism, is recognised as a way to prepare ...
Norse Revival
(2016)
Norse Revival examines international Germanic Neopaganism (Asatru). It investigates its origins in German ultra-nationalist movements around 1900, its attempt to gain respectability since the 1970s and its intersections ...
Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks
(2010)
This book examines catalysts for Buddhist formation in ancient South Asia and expansion throughout and beyond the northwestern Indian subcontinent to Central Asia by investigating symbiotic relationships between networks ...
Drie Asmat-dialecten
(1963)
Indonesia
From Laṅkā Eastwards; The Rāmāyaṇa in the Literature
(2011)
The Kakawin Ramayana, arguably the oldest Old Javanese epic text in Indic metres (circa 9th century AD), holds a unique position in the literary heritage of Indonesia. The poem has retained a remarkable vitality through ...
Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm: Taha Abderrahmane’s Philosophy in Comparative Perspectives
(2021)
Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm explores the emerging ethical theory examines the development of this modern Islamic theory of the trusteeship paradigm as developed by the Moroccan philosopher Taha Abderrahmane ...
Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm: Taha Abderrahmane’s Philosophy in Comparative Perspectives
(2021)
Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm explores the emerging ethical theory examines the development of this modern Islamic theory of the trusteeship paradigm as developed by the Moroccan philosopher Taha Abderrahmane ...
Adat Atjèh
(1958)
Indonesia
Adat Atjèh
(1958)
Indonesia
Islamic States in Java 1500-1700
(1976)
Indonesia
The Political System of the Atoni of Timor
(1971)
Indonesia
The Khilafat Movement in India 1919-1924
(1972)
Indonesia
Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World
(2016)
Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World makes an important contribution to the field of Muslims in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. This volume of essays marks eighty years since the death of ...
Gender, ritual and social formation in West Papua; A configurational analysis comparing Kamoro and Asmat
(2010)
This study, based on a lifelong involvement with New Guinea, compares the culture of the Kamoro (18,000 people) with that of their eastern neighbours, the Asmat (40,000), both living on the south coast of West Papua, ...
Music and its Narrative Potential
(2024)
“Music and its Narrative Potential” is a book about musical stories. It is a collection of thoughts on how music evokes narratives through its own medium-specific strategies. This book is a versatile consideration of ...
Development of Writing Skills in Individuals with Learning Difficulties
(2017-11-01)
This volume highlights writing development and its relation to other cognitive domains, such as language and reading, for individuals who struggle to acquire writing proficiency, including those with specific learning ...
Religion, Migration and Identity
(2016)
In Religion, Migration and Identity scholars from various disciplines explore issues related to identity and religion, that people - individually and communally -, encounter when affected by migration dynamics; the volume ...
Potosí in the Global Silver Age (16th—19th Centuries)
(2023)
Potosí (today Bolivia) was the major supplier for the Spanish Empire and for the world and still today boasts the world's single-richest silver deposit. This book explores the political economy of silver production and ...
Irritating Experiments
(2005)
One of the great medical controversies of the Enlightenment was the European debate on motion, sensation, and animal experimentation provoked by Albrecht von Haller’s treatise on irritability and sensibility (1752). ...
Proeve van een Bulische spraakkunst
(1951)
Indonesia
A Living Systems Theory of Vocational Behavior and Development
(2014)
The Living Systems Theory of Vocational Behavior and Development (LSVD) explains and illustrates the processes by which individuals construct their work experiences, vocational pathways and career patterns through episodes ...
Religion, Migration and Identity
(2016)
In Religion, Migration and Identity scholars from various disciplines explore issues related to identity and religion, that people - individually and communally -, encounter when affected by migration dynamics; the volume ...
Potosí in the Global Silver Age (16th—19th Centuries)
(2023)
Potosí (today Bolivia) was the major supplier for the Spanish Empire and for the world and still today boasts the world's single-richest silver deposit. This book explores the political economy of silver production and ...
Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity
(2013)
This volume contains a selection of essays based on papers presented at a conference organized at Yale University and hosted by the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) and the International ...
Sonic Modernities in the Malay World : A History of Popular Music, Social Distinction and Novel Lifestyles (1930s – 2000s)
(2014)
Sonic Modernities analyses the interplay between the production of popular music, shifting ideas of the modern and, in its aftermath, processes of social differentiation in twentieth-century Southeast Asia.
The Citizenship Experiment
(2019)
Focusing on the United States, France and the Dutch Republic in the revolutionary 1790s, The Citizenship Experiment explores the convergence and divergence of Atlantic citizenship ideals in light of the Haitian Revolution ...
Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity
(2013)
This volume contains a selection of essays based on papers presented at a conference organized at Yale University and hosted by the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) and the International ...
Hiobs Begegnung
(2024)
Das Theodizeeproblem stellt den Gottesglauben in Frage. Wie ist dieser angesichts des Leidens in der Welt zu rechtfertigen? Jede Antwort auf diese Frage steht in der Gefahr, das Leid zu verharmlosen oder dem Einwand nicht ...
Music and its Narrative Potential
(2024)
“Music and its Narrative Potential” is a book about musical stories. It is a collection of thoughts on how music evokes narratives through its own medium-specific strategies. This book is a versatile consideration of ...
All Things Arabia
(2020)
By employing the innovative lenses of ‘thing theory’ and material culture studies, this collection brings together essays focused on the role played by Arabia’s things - from cultural objects to commodities to historical ...
Shakir M. Pashov. History of the Gypsies in Bulgaria and Europe: Roma
(2023)
The publication of this outstanding book marks the beginning of the Brill book series Roma History and Culture. The core of the present volume is an until now unpublished manuscript by Shakir Pashov (1898-1981), a Bulgarian ...
Irritating Experiments
(2005)
One of the great medical controversies of the Enlightenment was the European debate on motion, sensation, and animal experimentation provoked by Albrecht von Haller’s treatise on irritability and sensibility (1752). ...
Education for Democratic Intercultural Citizenship
(2019)
Education for Democratic Intercultural Citizenship (EDIC) is very relevant in contemporary societies. Seven European universities are working together in developing a curriculum to prepare their students for this important ...
Hiobs Begegnung
(2024)
Das Theodizeeproblem stellt den Gottesglauben in Frage. Wie ist dieser angesichts des Leidens in der Welt zu rechtfertigen? Jede Antwort auf diese Frage steht in der Gefahr, das Leid zu verharmlosen oder dem Einwand nicht ...
Shakir M. Pashov. History of the Gypsies in Bulgaria and Europe: Roma
(2023)
The publication of this outstanding book marks the beginning of the Brill book series Roma History and Culture. The core of the present volume is an until now unpublished manuscript by Shakir Pashov (1898-1981), a Bulgarian ...
Sonic Modernities in the Malay World : A History of Popular Music, Social Distinction and Novel Lifestyles (1930s – 2000s)
(2014)
Sonic Modernities analyses the interplay between the production of popular music, shifting ideas of the modern and, in its aftermath, processes of social differentiation in twentieth-century Southeast Asia.
The Citizenship Experiment
(2019)
Focusing on the United States, France and the Dutch Republic in the revolutionary 1790s, The Citizenship Experiment explores the convergence and divergence of Atlantic citizenship ideals in light of the Haitian Revolution ...
Education for Democratic Intercultural Citizenship
(2019)
Education for Democratic Intercultural Citizenship (EDIC) is very relevant in contemporary societies. Seven European universities are working together in developing a curriculum to prepare their students for this important ...
The Nimboran Language
(1965)
Indonesia
Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala
(2024)
This book examines material and multi-sensorial expressions of Shiʿi Islam in diverse, and understudied demographic and geographic contexts.It engages with conceptual debates and makes several propositions that push the ...
A Living Systems Theory of Vocational Behavior and Development
(2014)
The Living Systems Theory of Vocational Behavior and Development (LSVD) explains and illustrates the processes by which individuals construct their work experiences, vocational pathways and career patterns through episodes ...
All Things Arabia
(2020)
By employing the innovative lenses of ‘thing theory’ and material culture studies, this collection brings together essays focused on the role played by Arabia’s things - from cultural objects to commodities to historical ...
The Nimboran Language
(1965)
Indonesia
Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at The Imperial Court (2 Vols.)
(2019)
Dirk Jacob Jansen provides an overview of the life and career of the sixteenth-century cosmopolitan courtier, architect and antiquary Jacopo Strada. Readership: All interested in Austrian and Italian Renaissance archtecture, ...
Jacopo Strada and Cultural Patronage at The Imperial Court (2 Vols.)
(2019)
Dirk Jacob Jansen provides an overview of the life and career of the sixteenth-century cosmopolitan courtier, architect and antiquary Jacopo Strada. Readership: All interested in Austrian and Italian Renaissance archtecture, ...
Chapter 6 Digital Editing and the Greek New Testament
(2016)
The textual tradition of the Bible has inspired many of the most significant
developments, principles and methodologies in editorial practice, from the
parallel texts and critical symbols of Origen’s Hexapla in the early ...
Chapter 6 Digital Editing and the Greek New Testament
(2016)
The textual tradition of the Bible has inspired many of the most significant
developments, principles and methodologies in editorial practice, from the
parallel texts and critical symbols of Origen’s Hexapla in the early ...
Javanese Literature since Independence
(1979)
Indonesia
The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire
(2019)
The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire discusses ways in which notions, practice and the ideology of justice impacted on the Roman Empire through three main themes: the emperor and justice, justice in a dispersed empire ...
Renewable Energy Arbitration – Quo Vadis?
(2023)
Based on analysis of 21 arbitral awards rendered in the “Spanish saga” cases, this book discusses the current challenges faced by international investment law in the renewable energy sector, addressing questions such as ...
Tradition and Power in the Roman Empire
(2024)
This volume focuses on the interface between tradition and the shifting configuration of power structures in the Roman Empire. By examining various time periods and locales, its contributions show the Empire as a world ...
ARJUNAWIWĀHA
(2008)
The Arjunawiwāha is one of the best known of the Old Javanese classics. This volume presents a new text, based on Balinese manuscripts, with a complete translation, building on the work done by earlier writers. An introduction ...
De systematiek der Javaanse pronomina
(1960)
Indonesia
De systematiek der Javaanse pronomina
(1960)
Indonesia
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 ...
The Shaping of Professional Identities
(2024)
This thought-provoking research anthology adopts a postmodern stance and fills in a gap of knowledge for the education of professional development in teacher education, health sciences and the arts. Allowing subjectivity ...
Negotiating Asylum
(2000)
How is access to asylum and other forms of extraterritorial protection regulated in the European Union? Is the EU acquis in these areas in conformity with international law? Which tools does international law offer to solve ...
ARJUNAWIWĀHA
(2008)
The Arjunawiwāha is one of the best known of the Old Javanese classics. This volume presents a new text, based on Balinese manuscripts, with a complete translation, building on the work done by earlier writers. An introduction ...
Modes of Philology in Medieval South India
(2016)
In Modes of Philology in Medieval South India, Whitney Cox rethinks the textual practices of a diverse collection of scholars and poets writing in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Prakrit in far southern India between the 11th and the ...
Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in The Middle East, 1850-1950
(2020)
From the early phases of modern missions, Christian missionaries supported many humanitarian activities, mostly framed as subservient to the preaching of Christianity. This anthology contributes to a historically grounded ...
Galen's Treatise Περὶ Ἀλυπίας (De indolentia) in Context
(2019)
This volume offers a multi-disciplinary approach to the “new” Galen text De indolentia, discovered in 2005. It addresses Galen’s literary production, his medical and philosophical contribution, the Antonine plague, the ...
Local Voices, Global Debates
(2024)
What is the role of local Caribbean individuals and communities in creating and perpetuating archaeological heritage? How has archaeological knowledge been integrated into education plans in different countries? This book ...
Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity
(2022)
Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise ...