Publications
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The Matter of Piety
(2020)
The Matter of Piety provides the fi rst in-depth study of Zoutleeuw’s exceptionally well-preserved pilgrimage church in a comparative perspective, and revaluates religious art and material culture in Netherlandish piety ...
Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity in a Global Context
(2022)
This volume offers a new perspective on the Horn of Africa’s Christian past and reclaims its place on the map of global Christianity.
Greening International Jurisprudence
(2013)
Greening International Jurisprudence: Environmental NGOs before International Courts, Tribunals, and Compliance Committees examines how international judicial and quasi-judicial bodies enforce international environmental ...
What Politics?
(2017)
What Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa examines the diverse experiences of being young in today’s Africa. It offers new perspectives to the roles and positions young people take to change their life ...
Economic Imperatives for Women's Writing in Early Modern Europe (Volume 2)
(2018)
Economic Imperatives for Women’s Writing in Early Modern Europe delves into the early modern history of women’s authorship and literary production in Europe taking a material turn. The case studies included in the volume ...
The state and illegality in Indonesia
(2011)
The popular 1998 reformasi movement that brought down President Suharto’s regime demanded an end to illegal practices by state officials, from human rights abuse to nepotistic investments. Yet today, such practices have ...
Marianne Werefkin and the Women Artists in Her Circle
(2016)
The volume traces the relationships between Marianne Werefkin and the women artists in her circle. Specifically focusing on issues of cosmopolitan culture, transcultural dialogue, gender roles, and the building of new ...
Politics and Aesthetics in European Baroque and Classicist Tragedy
(2016)
Politics and Aesthetics in European Baroque and Classicist Tragedy is a volume of essays investigating European tragedy in the seventeenth century, comparing Shakespeare, Vondel, Gryphius, Racine and other vernacular ...
The Demographic Evolution of Surinam 1920-1970
(1973)
Indonesia
Mannen in het draagnet
(1974)
Regional and national history
The Knowledge of Good
(2021)
This book presents Robert S. Hartman’s formal theory of value and critically examines many other twentieth century value theorists in its light, including A.J. Ayer, Kurt Baier, Brand Blanshard, Paul Edwards, Albert Einstein, ...
State and Revolution in Finland
(2018)
By analysing the experience of Finland, Risto Alapuro shows how upheavals in powerful countries shape the internal politics of smaller countries. This linkage, a highly topical subject in the twenty-first century world, ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 6 (1996)
(1998)
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 ...
Playing On: Re-staging the Passion after the Death of God
(2020)
In Playing On: Re-staging the Passion after the Death of God, Mirella Klomp shows how the Dutch playfully rediscover Christian heritage. Engaging theologically with a public Passion play, she demonstrates how precisely a ...
Forgotten People: Poverty, Risk and Social Security in Indonesia
(2015)
In Forgotten People Gerben Nooteboom describes and analyses the livelihoods and social security of peasants and migrant Madurese. It offers a new way to categorise and analyse livelihood security of marginal people in ...
Jan Company in Coromandel 1605-1690
(1962)
Indonesia
States at Work
(2014)
States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focussing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants. Readership: Anthropologists and political scientists, ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 25 (2019)
(2022)
The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on ...
Albert Jäger (1801-1891) „Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben“
(2023)
In this volume, the previously relatively unknown memoirs of the Austrian historian Albert Jäger (1801-1891) are published for the first time in a scholarly annotated edition. Through his long life, his multiple relationships ...
The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin
(2013-01-04)
The Religious Identity of Young Muslim Women in Berlin offers an in-depth ethnographic account of Muslim youth’s religious identity formation and their engagement with Islam in everyday life. Focusing on Muslim women in ...
Hakol Kol Yaakov
(2021)
Hakol Kol Yaakov: The Joel Roth Jubilee Volume contains twenty articles dedicated to Rabbi Joel Roth, written by colleagues and students. Some are academic articles in the general area of Talmud and Rabbinics, while others ...
The Twentieth Century in European Memory
(2017)
The Twentieth Century in European Memory investigates contested and divisive memories. Focusing on questions of transculturality and reception, the book looks at ways in which such memories are being shared, debated and ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 22 (2016)
(2018)
The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on ...
Time in Ancient Greek Literature
(2007)
This is the second volume of a new narratological history of Ancient Greek lietrature, which deals with aspects of time: the order in which events are narrated, the amount of time devoted to the naration, and the number ...
Femmes de spectacle (danse, opéra, théâtre)
(2024)
Comment une femme pouvait-elle s’affirmer et faire carrière dans le monde du spectacle entre 1650 et 1914 ? Dans une perspective interdisciplinaire, les quinze études réunies dans ce volume apportent des éléments de réponse ...
Ritual Dynamics and Religious Change in the Roman Empire
(2009)
This volume presents the proceedings of the eighth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on the impact the Roman Empire had on changes ...
The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture
(2015)
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, ...
Antique Dealing and Creative Reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850-1890
(2021)
The commodification of Islamic antiques intensified in the late Ottoman Empire, an age of domestic reform and increased European interference following the Tanzimat (reorganisation) of 1839. Mercedes Volait examines the ...
Etnografie van de Kaoweraw
(1962)
Indonesia
In Leijdeckers voetspoor
(1974)
Indonesia
The Struggle of Islam in Modern Indonesia
(1971)
Indonesia
Ceramics and the Spanish Conquest
(2012)
The Spanish colonization dramatically interrupted the autonomous development of ancient Mesoamerican culture. Nevertheless, indigenous societies learnt to live with the conquest. It was not only a time of crisis, but also ...
"At the Shores of the Sky"
(2020)
Albert Hoffstädt, a classicist by training and polylingual humanist by disposition, has for 25 years been the editor chiefly responsible for the development and acquisition of manuscripts in Asian Studies for Brill. During ...
Shrines in a Fluid Space: The Shaping of New Holy Sites in the Ionian Islands, the Peloponnese and Crete under Venetian Rule (14th-16th Centuries)
(2022)
In Shrines in a Fluid Space, Argyri Dermitzaki offers a study of the cultic phenomena and sites visited by late medieval pilgrims in the Ionian Sea, the Peloponnese and Crete.; Readership: All interested in the cultic ...
Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape
(2020)
In Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape Elizabeth A. Cecil presents a spatial and material history of the Pāśupata tradition and examines the formation of a Śaiva religious landscape in Early Medieval India. Readership: All ...
Nuaulu Settlement and Ecology
(1978)
This book is about the pattern of settlement and ecology of the Nuaulu, a group of sedentary swidden cultivators and hunters of southcentral Seram (Eastern Indonesia). It has three inter-related aims: to describe and account ...
Tan Malaka: strijder voor Indonesië's vrijheid
(1976)
Indonesia
A Subgrouping of Nine Philippine Languages
(1969)
Indonesia
Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law
(2019)
Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law, edited by S. Gialdroni, A. Cordes, S. Dauchy, D. De ruysscher and H. Pihlajamäki, offers a transdisciplinary account of the connections between merchants’ journeys, the ...