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A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth
(2020)
A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to provide an updated scholarly introduction to all aspects of his work. Arguably the most influential secular writer of medieval ...
Man, Meaning and History
(1980)
Indonesia
The Lead Books of the Sacromonte and the Parchment of the Torre Turpiana: Granada, 1588-1606
(2023)
The Archive of the Sacromonte Abbey in Granada preserves a historical treasure: Arabic texts on a sheet of parchment and on numerous small tablets of lead, which were discovered in Granada at the end of the sixteenth century ...
The Old-Javanese Rāmāyaṇa Kakawin
(1955)
Indonesia
The Poetics of Anti-Colonialism in the Arabic Qaṣīdah
(2004)
Representing the most sustained investigation of the aesthetics of Anti-Colonialism in modern Arabic poetry, this book chronicles the evolution of a distinct poetics that sought to maintain the integrity of the qaṣīdah ...
The Lead Books of the Sacromonte and the Parchment of the Torre Turpiana: Granada, 1588-1606
(2023)
The Archive of the Sacromonte Abbey in Granada preserves a historical treasure: Arabic texts on a sheet of parchment and on numerous small tablets of lead, which were discovered in Granada at the end of the sixteenth century ...
The Phonology of Lower Grand Valley Dani
(1961)
Indonesia
Environmental dispute resolution in Indonesia
(2010)
In the last two decades, Indonesia has seen a dramatic proliferation of environmental disputes in a variety of sectors, triggered by intensified deforestation and large scale mining operations in the resource rich outer ...
The Economy of Western Xia
(2021)
This is the first introduction to the economic history of the Tangut Empire (1038-1227). Built on a wealth of economic data and evidence, it studies the economic lives and activities, laws and institutions, trade and ...
Environmental dispute resolution in Indonesia
(2010)
In the last two decades, Indonesia has seen a dramatic proliferation of environmental disputes in a variety of sectors, triggered by intensified deforestation and large scale mining operations in the resource rich outer ...
A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth
(2020)
A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to provide an updated scholarly introduction to all aspects of his work. Arguably the most influential secular writer of medieval ...
Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe
(2014)
Mental (Dis)order in the Late Middle Ages sketches the boundaries between mental, social and physical order and various states of disorder – unexpected mood swings, fury, melancholy, stress, insomnia, and demonic influence ...
The Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes
(2022)
The ninth-century Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes is the most influential historical text ever written in medieval Constantinople. Yet modern historians have never explained its popularity and power. ...
Yearbook on the African Union Volume 3 (2022)
(2024)
This is the third edition of the Yearbook on the African Union (YBAU). The YBAU is first and foremost an academic project that provides an in-depth evaluation and analysis of the institution, its processes, and its ...
Africa, the Cradle of Human Diversity
(2022)
This book brings together experts from several disciplines, reviewing and discussing our current knowledge of the complex history, biological diversity and behavioral evolution of African populations. The collection provides ...
The lands west of the lakes; A history of the Ajattappareng kingdoms of South Sulawesi 1200 to 1600 CE
(2009)
The period 1200-1600 CE saw a radical transformation from simple chiefdoms to kingdoms (in archaeological terminology, complex chiefdoms) across lowland South Sulawesi, a region that lay outside the ‘classical’ Indicized ...
Early Greek Poets’ Lives
(2010-01-09)
This book examines the formation and development of the biographical traditions about early Greek poets, focusing on the traditions of Hesiod, Stesichorus, Archilochus, Hipponax, Terpander and Sappho. The study provides a ...
The Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes
(2022)
The ninth-century Chronographia of George the Synkellos and Theophanes is the most influential historical text ever written in medieval Constantinople. Yet modern historians have never explained its popularity and power. ...
Africa, the Cradle of Human Diversity
(2022)
This book brings together experts from several disciplines, reviewing and discussing our current knowledge of the complex history, biological diversity and behavioral evolution of African populations. The collection provides ...
Early Greek Poets’ Lives
(2010-01-09)
This book examines the formation and development of the biographical traditions about early Greek poets, focusing on the traditions of Hesiod, Stesichorus, Archilochus, Hipponax, Terpander and Sappho. The study provides a ...
In praise of Prambanan; Dutch essays on the Loro Jonggrang temple complex
(1996)
In praise of Prambanan is devoted to the Hindu-Javanese temple complex of Candi Prambanan, also known by its locally more popular name of Candi Loro Jonggrang. The book has two parts. Part One is a general introduction to ...
Hege und Herrschaft
(2023)
Die Jagd strukturierte das soziale Leben an europäischen Fürstenhöfen vom Spätmittelalter bis ins 19. Jahrhundert maßgeblich mit. Vom Frühling bis in den Herbst verbrachten die Herrscher und ihre Angehörigen einen Großteil ...
Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance - Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne
(2013)
Cynthia Skenazi explores in this book a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. In Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch ...
Does the UN Model Still Work? Challenges and Prospects for the Future of Multilateralism
(2022)
Composed of original articles from academics and policy notes from practitioners, this book attempts to draw up the state of multilateralism through the UN model and identify potential ways to address its challenges and ...
De val van Sora
(1939)
Indonesia
Does the UN Model Still Work? Challenges and Prospects for the Future of Multilateralism
(2022)
Composed of original articles from academics and policy notes from practitioners, this book attempts to draw up the state of multilateralism through the UN model and identify potential ways to address its challenges and ...
Philo of Alexandria
(2012)
This volume is a further continuation of the annotated bibliographies on the writings and thought of the Jewish exegete and philosopher Philo of Alexandria prepared by Roberto Radice and David Runia for the years 1937–1986 ...
Yearbook on the African Union Volume 3 (2022)
(2024)
This is the third edition of the Yearbook on the African Union (YBAU). The YBAU is first and foremost an academic project that provides an in-depth evaluation and analysis of the institution, its processes, and its ...
EqualBITE
(2017)
EqualBITE digs into the messy reality of higher education gender issues, presenting people’s stories, experiences and frustrations and – more importantly – what can be done. University of Edinburgh students and staff share ...
Regime change and ethnic politics in Indonesia; Dayak politics of West Kalimantan
(2012)
When the Indonesian New Order regime fell in 1998, regional politics with strong ethnic content emerged across the country. In West Kalimantan the predominant feature was particularly that of the Dayaks. This surge, however, ...
Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance
(2013-11-01)
Cynthia Skenazi explores in this book a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. In Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch ...
Climate Change, Disasters and People on the Move
(2022)
Climate change is forcing us to consider the right of people to leave their disappearing homelands, and the shape this right should take. Climate Change, Disasters and People on the Move proposes international protection ...
The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture
(2014)
In The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture specialists in various fields of art history, from Early Christian times to the present, discuss in depth a series of Western artworks, artefacts, and buildings, ...
A chain of kings
(2007)
The chronicles of Gowa and Talloq are the most important historical sources for the study of pre-colonial Makassar. They have provided the basic framework and much of the information that we possess about the origins, ...
On the Old-Javanese Cantakaparwa and Its Tale of Sutasoma
(1967)
Indonesia
Regime change and ethnic politics in Indonesia; Dayak politics of West Kalimantan
(2012)
When the Indonesian New Order regime fell in 1998, regional politics with strong ethnic content emerged across the country. In West Kalimantan the predominant feature was particularly that of the Dayaks. This surge, however, ...
Defining the Identity of the Younger Europe
(2023)
Defining the Identity of the Younger Europe gathers studies that shed new light on the rich tapestry of early modern “Younger Europe” — Byzantine-Slavic and Scandinavian territories. It unearths the multi-dimensional aspects ...
Religious Experience, Secular Reason and Politics around 1945
(2024)
The emergence and downfall of fascism and the Nazi regime in the mid-twentieth century mark the definitive decline of Europe's geopolitical hegemony. The end of the Second World War is the beginning of both decolonization ...
Expectations Unfulfilled: Norwegian Migrants in Latin America, 1820-1940
(2016)
In Expectations Unfulfilled scholars from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Spain and Sweden study the experiences of Norwegian migrants in Latin America between the Wars of Independence and World War II.
Wie der Verwaltungscomputer die Arbeitsmigration programmierte
(2024)
In diesem Buch analysiert Moritz Mähr die Einführung und Entwicklung elektronischer Datenverarbeitungssysteme in der Schweizerischen Bundesverwaltung und deren Einfluss auf die Steuerung der Arbeitsmigration. Die Studie ...
A chain of kings
(2007)
The chronicles of Gowa and Talloq are the most important historical sources for the study of pre-colonial Makassar. They have provided the basic framework and much of the information that we possess about the origins, ...
The Sa'dan Toradja Chant for the Deceased
(1966)
Indonesia
The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire
(2017)
"Killed the pilgrims and persecuted them with all kinds of cruelties": Portuguese Estado da India's encounters with the hajj in the sixteenth century / Mahmood Kooria -- "The infidel piloting the true believer": Thomas ...
Collaborative Practical Theology
(2019)
In Collaborative Practical Theology, Henk de Roest documents and analyses research on Christian practices as it can be conducted by academic practical theologians in collaboration with practitioners of different kinds in ...
Secession in International Law with a Special Reference to the Post-Soviet Space
(2024)
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. International law is increasing in relevance to the topic of secession. This book demonstrates that if ...
Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models
(2019)
Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry brings together a range of innovative approaches to the question of genre, what it means, and how to think about it for Greek poetry from the eighth to the fourth centuries BCE. ...
Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021)
(2022)
Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021) is about the past and present of home-based work and homebased workers between 1800 and 2021 from a global perspective.; Readership: All interested in social and economic ...
Expectations Unfulfilled: Norwegian Migrants in Latin America, 1820-1940
(2016)
In Expectations Unfulfilled scholars from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Spain and Sweden study the experiences of Norwegian migrants in Latin America between the Wars of Independence and World War II.
Over de gewoonten en gebruiken der Soendaneezen
(1946)
Indonesia
EqualBITE
(2017)
EqualBITE digs into the messy reality of higher education gender issues, presenting people’s stories, experiences and frustrations and – more importantly – what can be done. University of Edinburgh students and staff share ...
Secession in International Law with a Special Reference to the Post-Soviet Space
(2024)
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. International law is increasing in relevance to the topic of secession. This book demonstrates that if ...
New Readings in Arabic Historiography from Late Medieval Egypt and Syria
(2021)
The present volume contributes to research on historic Arabic texts from late medieval Egypt and Syria. Departing from dominant understandings of these texts through the prisms of authenticity and “literarization,” it ...
Religious Experience, Secular Reason and Politics around 1945
(2024)
The emergence and downfall of fascism and the Nazi regime in the mid-twentieth century mark the definitive decline of Europe's geopolitical hegemony. The end of the Second World War is the beginning of both decolonization ...
Climate Change, Disasters and People on the Move
(2022)
Climate change is forcing us to consider the right of people to leave their disappearing homelands, and the shape this right should take. Climate Change, Disasters and People on the Move proposes international protection ...
Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy
(2019)
From 1957 onwards, the "Pugwash Conferences" brought together elite scientists from across ideological and political divides to work towards disarmament. Through a series of national case studies - Austria, China, ...
Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs
(2015)
Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of Indonesian cities between 1920 and 1960. In examining the multiple responses to innovations introduced by Western colonialism, the contributors ...
Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs
(2015)
Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of Indonesian cities between 1920 and 1960. In examining the multiple responses to innovations introduced by Western colonialism, the contributors ...
Conditional Freedom
(2022)
While the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political ...
Collaborative Practical Theology
(2019)
In Collaborative Practical Theology, Henk de Roest documents and analyses research on Christian practices as it can be conducted by academic practical theologians in collaboration with practitioners of different kinds in ...
Defining the Identity of the Younger Europe
(2023)
Defining the Identity of the Younger Europe gathers studies that shed new light on the rich tapestry of early modern “Younger Europe” — Byzantine-Slavic and Scandinavian territories. It unearths the multi-dimensional aspects ...
Verse and Transmutation - A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critical Editions and Studies)
(2013)
Identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous Middle English recipes for the philosophers' stone dating from the fifteenth century. Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry ...
Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy
(2019)
From 1957 onwards, the "Pugwash Conferences" brought together elite scientists from across ideological and political divides to work towards disarmament. Through a series of national case studies - Austria, China, ...
Over de gewoonten en gebruiken der Soendaneezen
(1946)
Indonesia
'The House of the Priest'
(2022)
'The House of the Priest’ presents and discusses the hitherto unpublished and untranslated memoirs of Niqula Khoury, a senior member of the Orthodox Church and Arab nationalist in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine. ...
Changing Subjects, Moving Objects
(2022)
This is a book about people caught between home and abroad, crossing imperial boundaries in southeastern Europe at the beginning of the modern age. Through a series of life stories, which the author reconstructs with the ...
The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire
(2017)
"Killed the pilgrims and persecuted them with all kinds of cruelties": Portuguese Estado da India's encounters with the hajj in the sixteenth century / Mahmood Kooria -- "The infidel piloting the true believer": Thomas ...
Wie der Verwaltungscomputer die Arbeitsmigration programmierte
(2024)
In diesem Buch analysiert Moritz Mähr die Einführung und Entwicklung elektronischer Datenverarbeitungssysteme in der Schweizerischen Bundesverwaltung und deren Einfluss auf die Steuerung der Arbeitsmigration. Die Studie ...
Writing Tamil Catholicism
(2022)
In Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with ...
The Sa'dan Toradja Chant for the Deceased
(1966)
Indonesia
Verse and Transmutation - A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critical Editions and Studies)
(2013)
Identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous Middle English recipes for the philosophers' stone dating from the fifteenth century. Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry ...
Digital Fashion Communication
(2022)
Fashion is an integral part of popular culture, closely intertwined with tales, magazines, photography, cinema, television, music and sports...up to the emergence of dedicated exhibitions and museums. Fashion is undergoing ...
Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021)
(2022)
Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021) is about the past and present of home-based work and homebased workers between 1800 and 2021 from a global perspective.; Readership: All interested in social and economic ...
Cracking Facebook
(2020)
This book presents a Facebook study on members of the Cusp Generation, or those born before the “great digital divide” of 1995. This delineation allows for a discussion on the possible socio-cultural implications of Facebook ...
Conditional Freedom
(2022)
While the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political ...
Changing Subjects, Moving Objects
(2022)
This is a book about people caught between home and abroad, crossing imperial boundaries in southeastern Europe at the beginning of the modern age. Through a series of life stories, which the author reconstructs with the ...
Writing Tamil Catholicism
(2022)
In Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with ...
Digital Fashion Communication
(2022)
Fashion is an integral part of popular culture, closely intertwined with tales, magazines, photography, cinema, television, music and sports...up to the emergence of dedicated exhibitions and museums. Fashion is undergoing ...
New Readings in Arabic Historiography from Late Medieval Egypt and Syria
(2021)
The present volume contributes to research on historic Arabic texts from late medieval Egypt and Syria. Departing from dominant understandings of these texts through the prisms of authenticity and “literarization,” it ...
The Acquisition of Africa (1870-1914)
(2016)
Over recent decades, the responsibility for the past actions of the European colonial powers in relation to their former colonies has been subject to a lively debate. In this book, the question of the responsibility under ...
The Acquisition of Africa (1870-1914)
(2016)
Over recent decades, the responsibility for the past actions of the European colonial powers in relation to their former colonies has been subject to a lively debate. In this book, the question of the responsibility under ...
Jesuit Schools and Universities in Europe, 1548–1773
(2018)
A survey of Jesuit schools and universities across Europe from 1548 to 1773 by Paul F. Grendler. The article discusses organization, curriculum, pedagogy, enrollments, and relations with civil authorities with examples ...
Pieter de Graeff (1638-1707) and his treffelyke bibliotheek
(2025)
On 9 July 1709, over 2,300 books were sold at a public auction at the shop of the publishing family Boom in Amsterdam. They comprised the ‘beautiful library’ (treffelyke bibliotheek) of the patrician Pieter de Graeff ...
Intim und respektabel
(2022-09)
The women’s movement was not only a place of political debate – a large number of activists spent most of their time among women. While “respectability” played a significant role in these circles the gradually growing ...
Educational Supervision
(2025)
The guidebook specifies the role of supervision in education, offering theoretical and practical insights that can help effectively implement supervision in educational settings. It is designed as a resource primarily for ...
Sport under Unexpected Circumstances
(2018)
Sport was an integral part of life in camps during the twentieth century, even in Nazi concentrations camps or in the Soviet Gulag. Traditionally perceived as a symbol of equality, play, and peacefulness, sport under such ...
A History of East Baltic through Language Contact
(2023)
The East Baltic languages are well known for their conservative phonology as compared to other Indo-European languages, which has led to a stereotype that the Balts developed in isolation without much contact with other ...
Semiotik der Verewigung
(2020)
This monograph systematically examines, within the intersection of literary and cultural studies as well as semiotics, intralinguistic procedures intended to record information as permanently as possible. In doing so, it ...
Baltic Iron in the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century
(2007)
This book looks at the one of the key commercial links between the Baltic and Atlantic worlds in the eighteenth century - the export of Swedish and Russian iron to Britain - and its role in the making of the modern world.; ...
Articulating the Ḥijāba: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus
(2022)
In Articulating the Ḥijāba, Mariam Rosser-Owen analyses for the first time the artistic and cultural patronage of the ‘Amirid regents of the last Cordoban Umayyad caliph, Hisham II, a period rarely covered in the historiography ...
International Law and Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts
(2012-01-01)
Sexual violence is a particular brand of evil that women have endured—more than men—during armed conflicts, through the ages. It is a menace that has continued to challenge the conscience of humanity—especially in our ...
Grading Goal Four
(2020)
Grading Goal Four explores the tensions, threats and opportunities within Sustainable Development Goal 4 on quality education, aiming to support its rights-based implementation and to build capacity for strengthened ...
The Gospel of Thomas and Plato
(2018)
In The Gospel of Thomas and Plato, Ivan Miroshnikov offers the first systematic discussion of the Platonist impact on the Gospel of Thomas, arguing that Platonism is indispensable to making sense of those sayings that have ...
Plurilingualism in Traditional Eurasian Scholarship
(2023)
Was plurilingualism the exception or the norm in traditional Eurasian scholarship? This volume presents a selection of primary sources—in many cases translated into English for the first time—with introductions that provide ...
Devotional Portraiture and Spiritual Experience in Early Netherlandish Painting | catalogue
(2019)
This is the first exhaustive catalogue of paintings with devotional portraits produced in the Low Countries between c. 1400 and 1550. This printed catalogue is an appendix to the book Devotional Portraiture and Spiritual ...
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 ...
Revolutionäre Familien
(2025)
Wie prägte das politische Selbstverständnis deutschsprachiger Revolutionsflüchtlinge nach 1848/49 ihr transatlantisches Familienleben? Und wie beeinflussten – umgekehrt – ihre Ehefrauen und Kinder den Umgang mit der ...
Internationale Bildungskooperation im Bereich Deutsch als Fremdsprache
(2024)
Collaboration research is a multidisciplinary and international research area, the complexity of which is also reflected in the multitude and diversity of face-to-face, digital and hybrid exchange formats. This includes, ...
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 ...
Children’s Constitutional Rights in the Nordic Countries
(2019)
This study explores whether and how enshrining children’s rights in national constitutions improves implementation and enforcement of those rights by comparing Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish law. Readership: ...