Publications
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The Making of Englishmen
(2013)
Making the Englishmen offers an account of how national identities were construed and contested in the post-Reformation public sphere 1550-1650. Readership: For historians of ideas primarily - it is in the history of ...
The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335)
(2010)
In the thirteenth century, the Armenians of Greater Armenia and of the Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia were invaded by Mongol nomads of the Inner Asian steppe. The ensuing Mongol-Armenian relations were varied. The Greater ...
Seventy Years of the International Law Commission
(2020)
Seventy Years of the International Law Commission: Drawing a Balance for the Future brings together voices from academia and practice to celebrate and critically evaluate the work of the United Nations International Law ...
The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam
(2022)
This second volume of the series The Presence of the Prophet, explores the growing importance of the figure of the Prophet Muhammad for questions of authority and power in many regions in early modern and modern times.; ...
Lifelong Religion as Habitus
(2016)
In this book, Helena Kupari examines the lived religion of elderly Finnish Orthodox Christian women, displaced from Karelia in the aftermath of the Second World War, through an innovative reading and application of Pierre ...
Space in Ancient Greek Literature
(2012)
The third volume of the Studies in Ancient Greek narrative deals with the narratological category of space: how is space, including objects which function as 'props', presented in narrative texts and what are its functions ...
Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800 : Linking Empires, Bridging Borders
(2014)
This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. Dutch Atlantic Connections reevaluates the role of the Dutch in the Atlantic between 1680-1800. It shows how pivotal the Dutch were for the functioning of the ...
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 ...
In the Shadow of War and Empire
(2023)
In the Shadow of War and Empire offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialisation through the lens of a mid-nineteenth-century cotton factory in the “Turkish Manchester,” the name chosen by the Ottomans ...
Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and Pilgrimage
(2016)
In Caliphate and Kingship Jo Van Steenbergen presents a revisionist cultural biography, a critical edition and an annotated translation of al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk, a summary history of the ḥağğ and Muslim rule by Egypt’s leading ...
Treasured Oases
(2022)
Dunhuang: China’s traditional northwest frontier and overland conduit of exchange with the Old World. Jao Tsung-i: China’s last great traditional man of letters, polymath, and pioneer of comparative humanistic inquiry ...
The Skandapurāṇa Volume V
(2021)
Skandapurāṇa V presents a critical edition of Adhyāyas 92-112 from the Skandapurāṇa, with an introduction and annotated English synopsis. The text edited in this volume includes the extensive myth of Viṣṇu’s manifestation ...
Overleveringen en zangen der Zuid-Toradja's
(1979)
Indonesia
Supersapientia: Berthold of Moosburg and the Divine Science of the Platonists
(2021)
This study examines the motivations and doctrinal coherence of the Commentary on the Elements of Theology of Proclus written by Berthold of Moosburg, O.P. († c. 1361/1363). It provides an overview of Berthold’s biography ...
Het Sultanaat Palembang 1811-1825
(1975)
Indonesia
Ibn Taymiyya's Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism
(2007)
This comprehensive study of Muslim jurist Ibn Taymiyya
Oblivionism
(2022)
The book offers a fundamental view on the problem of forgetting in sociology in general and within sociology of knowledge. Furthermore it focuses – as a case study – on the field of modern science. With recourse to the ...
Rural Granaries in Northern Gaul (Sixth Century BCE – Fourth Century CE)
(2019)
Rural granaries in northern Gaul (sixth century BCE – fourth century CE) offers a comprehensive account of rural grain storage and its role in the economy of a key region of the Roman Empire. Readership: All interested in ...
The Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Cultural Interchange (Expanded Edition)
(2020)
The Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Cultural Interchange—expanded beyond the special issue of Medieval Encounters from which it was drawn—centers on the magnificent treasury of San Isidoro de León to address ...
Knowledge of the Pragmatici
(2020)
Knowledge of the pragmatici analyses pragmatic normative literature in colonial Ibero-America. It explores the circulation and the functions of these media in the Iberian peninsula, New Spain, Peru, New Granada and Brazil. ...
Planter and Peasant
(1978)
Indonesia
Pragmatic Approaches to Drama
(2020)
This volume collects papers on pragmatic perspectives on ancient theatre. Scholars working on literature, linguistics, theatre will find interesting insights on verbal and non-verbal uses of language in ancient Greek and ...
The Ottoman Crimean War (1853-1856)
(2010)
This book analyzes the Crimean War from the Ottoman perspective based mainly on Ottoman and Russian primary sources, and includes an assessment of the War’s impact on the Ottoman state and Ottoman society. Readership: All ...
Head-Hunters about Themselves
(1981)
Indonesia
Islam at 250
(2020)
This volume, which pays tribute to the work of G.H.A. Juynboll, is a collection of original articles on the state of Islamic sciences and Arabic culture in the early phases of their crystallization.; Readership: Specialists ...
Ceremonial Entries, Municipal Liberties and the Negotiation of Power in Valois France, 1328-1589
(2016)
Neil Murphy considers the role the French ceremonial entry played in the negotiation between urban elites and the Valois monarchy for rights and liberties. Drawing on extensive research, he shows that ceremonial entries ...
Van Batavia naar Weltevreden; Het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappan, 1778-1867
(2009)
The Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences (Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen), was founded in 1778 to become the predecessor of the National Library and National Museum of the Republik Indonesia. It was ...
Trust in Contemporary Society
(2019)
Trust in Contemporary Society, by well-known trust researchers, deals with conceptual, theoretical and social interaction analyses, historical data on societies, national surveys or cross-national comparative studies, and ...
International Organizations and the Promotion of Effective Dispute Resolution
(2019)
This second volume of the AIIB Yearbook of International Law examines a series of overarching themes and relationships regarding the role of international organizations in promoting effective dispute resolution. Readership: ...
Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700 — 1776)
(2023)
This title is published in Open Access with the support of the University of Helsinki Library. This book takes a long-run view of the global maritime trade of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia from 1700 to American ...
Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature
(2014)
Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles explores the different attitudes toward the woman’s guilt for the expulsion from the Garden and human’s calamities and the legal ramifications ...
Male and Female and the Afro-Curaçaoan Household
(1976)
The subject of the present study concerns the relationships between men and women and the composition of household groups among the lower Afro-American strata of the society of Curaçao. The material on which it is based ...
Bilingual Europe
(2015-03-13)
Bilingual Europe presents to the reader a Europe that for a long time was ‘multilingual’: besides the vernacular languages Latin played an important role. Even ‘nationalistic’ treatises could be written in Latin. Until ...
Ancient Worlds in Film and Television
(2012)
This volume reinvigorates the field of Classical Reception by investigating present-day culture, society, and politics, particularly gender, gender roles, and filmic constructions of masculinity and femininity which shape ...
Jesuits in the North American Colonies and the United States
(2020)
Jesuits have shaped and been shaped by the history of the United States, from the colonial period through the contemporary era. Catherine O’Donnell explores the Society’s evolving adaptation and resistance to American ...
Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840-1940
(2018)
In Ordinary Jerusalem, Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire and thirty-five scholars depict the ordinary history of an extraordinary global city in the late Ottoman and Mandate periods. Utilizing largely unknown archives, ...
A Global Radical Waterfront
(2021)
This volume investigates the ambition of the Red International of Labour Unions to radicalize the global waterfront during the interwar period. The main vehicle was the International Propaganda Committee of Transport ...
Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca
(2023)
Narrating the pilgrimage to Mecca discusses a wide variety of historical and contemporary personal accounts of the pilgrimage to Mecca, most of which presented in English for the first time. The book addresses how being ...
East and West in the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century
(2016)
In East and West in the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century scholars examine from different angles to which degree the empire was still unified and whether it was perceived as such in the fourth century AD.