Publications
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Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives
(2018)
A synoptic interpretation of the rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Readership: All interested in the early modern global and comparative history of kingdoms and empires, rulers and ...
Of Worlds and Artworks
(2024)
The present volume brings together contributions which explore artworks – including literature, visual arts, film and performances – as dynamic sites of worlding. It puts emphasis on the processes of creating or doing ...
Frisian Land Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Freeska Landriucht
(2023)
Around 1485, the age-old compilation of Old Frisian customary law, partly dating back to the 11th century, was put into print. Latin glosses were included in the text with references to Canon and Roman law. This gloss ...
Quranic Arabic
(2022)
This work examines the history of Quranic Arabic. Using manuscript and medieval literary evidence, it uncovers the earliest Hijazi Arabic layer of the text, and describes its evolution into the Classical Arabic canonical ...
Grammar of the Sentani Language
(1965)
Indonesia
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 ...
Ports, Piracy and Maritime War
(2013-01-01)
In Ports, Piracy, and Maritime War Thomas K. Heebøll-Holm presents a study of maritime predation in English and French waters around the year 1300. Following Cicero, pirates have traditionally been cast as especially ...
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 ...
A Guide to the Heavens
(2023)
This is the first monographic study of the reception of Herman Hugo's emblem book Pia desideria (1624) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It discusses ten different translations and adaptations, showing how the engravings, ...
Otherness and National Identity in 19th-Century Spanish Literature
(2022)
Which were the mechanisms by which certain groups were positioned at the margins of national narratives during the nineteenth century, either via their exclusion from these narratives of through their incorporation into ...