Publications
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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 ...
De val van Sora
(1939)
Indonesia
An Outline of the Recent History of Indonesian Criminal Law
(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 ...
Islam and the making of the nation: Kartosuwiryo and political Islam in twentieth-century Indonesia
(2012)
For decades, scholars of Indonesia have rejected the religious claims of the Darul Islam movement, interpreting the antagonism between the Islamic state and Soekarno’s republic as a fight for power, self-assertion, or land ...
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 ...
Commentaar op de Salasilah van Koetai
(1956)
Indonesia
Nicholas of Cusa and Islam
(2020)
This collection of essays explores the complex relations between Christians and Muslims at the dawn of the modern age. It begins by examining two seminal works by Nicholas of Cusa: De pace fidei, a dialogue seeking peace ...
The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire
(2016)
The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire assembles a series of papers on key themes of Roman mobility and migration, discussing i.a. the mobility of the army, of the elite, of women, and war-induced mobility ...
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 ...
Life at Maripaston
(1973)
The Matawai Maroon Johannes King (ca. 1830-1898) taught himself to read and write at an advanced age. He wanted to bridge the gap between the generations by publishing his Book of Horrors (Skrekiboekoe) and the present ...
Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East
(2016)
Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East explores the many facets associated with the questions of modernity and minority in the context religious communities in the Middle East. ...
Man, Meaning and History
(1980)
Indonesia
Frontiers in the Roman World
(2011)
This volume presents the proceedings of the ninth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on different ways in which Rome created, changed ...
Georges Sorel’s Study on Vico
(2019)
This English translation of Sorel’s Study on Vico opens the way to a radical re-evaluation not only of Sorel’s trajectory, but of his French intellectual contexts, and the anarcho-syndicalism he is sometimes said to represent ...
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 ...
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 ...
Religious Minorities in the Middle East
(2011)
Focusing on the situation of both Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities in the Middle East, this volume offers an analysis of various strategies of resilience and accommodation from a historical as well a contemporary ...
Music and Knowledge: A Performer's Perspective
(2017)
This book illustrates the acquisition of knowledge in a musician’s performative practice, and how this can contribute to the development of Artistic Research. Readership: Educational Researchers and their students
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 ...
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). ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 8 (1998-1999)
(2003)
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 ...
Property in Social Continuity
(1979)
This book deals with the property and inheritance system of the matrilineal Minangkabau of West Sumatra in the context of legal pluralism.
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 ...
Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age
(2012)
The Dutch seventeenth century, a ‘Golden Age’ ridden by intense ideological conflict, pioneered global trade, participatory politics and religious toleration. Its history is epitomized by the life and works of the brothers ...
Ceramics and the Spanish Conquest
(2011)
Focusing on the native ceramic technology of central Mexico during the early colonial period and the present-day, this book offers a refreshing view into the process of cultural continuity and change in the indigenous ...
The Sa'dan Toradja Chant for the Deceased
(1966)
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. ...
De systematiek der Javaanse pronomina
(1960)
Indonesia
Narratives at Play in Aeschylus
(2025)
The strong presence of embedded narratives in Aeschylus is often explained as a sign of the immaturity of the tragic genre in his time. Narratives at Play in Aeschylus analyses narrative features which were ostensibly ...
Time Distortions in Mind
(2015)
Time Distortions in Mind brings together current research on temporal processing in clinical populations to elucidate the interdependence between perturbations in timing and disturbances in the mind and brain. For the ...
Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation
(2019)
In Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation, Carl Sharif El-Tobgui offers a comprehensive analysis of Ibn Taymiyya’s ten-volume magnum opus, Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql, elucidating its author’s foundational reconstitution ...
Redefining the Standards in Attic, Koine, and Atticism
(2024)
Scholarship surrounding the standard varieties of Ancient Greek (Attic, the Koine, and Atticistic Greek) focused from its beginnings until relatively recently on determining fixed uniformities or differences between them. ...
The Impact of the Roman Empire on Landscapes
(2022)
This volume presents the results of the fourteenth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire'. It focuses on the ways in which Rome's dominance influenced, changed, and created landscapes, and in which ways ...
Sino-Iranian and Sino-Arabian Relations in Late Antiquity
(2024)
What type of exchanges occurred between West and East Asia in the first millennium CE? What sort of connections existed between Persia and China? What did the Chinese know of early Islam? This study offers an overview of ...
Academia in Crisis
(2019)
This book dissects current commercial, capitalist and fast cultures in universities. It argues that there is no turning back, nor marching on. Under the present regimes ruling universities, all that is left is reflection ...
Handbook of Megachurches
(2020)
This innovating edited volume provides a broad but detailed overview of a relatively recent significant development in church organisation, the megachurch. Its aim is to capture empirically and theoretically the megachurch ...
Dialectics of Spontaneity
(2015)
In Dialectics of Spontaneity, Zhiyi Yang examines the aesthetic and ethical theories of Su Shi, the primary poet, artist, and statesman of Northern Song. Readership: All interested in Chinese literature, aesthetics and ...
Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and After
(2016)
This title, in its entirety, is available online in Open Access. This volume explores the ways childhood was experienced, lived and remembered in the late Ottoman Empire and its successor states in the late nineteenth and ...
Choral Societies and Nationalism in Europe (Volume 9)
(2015)
This wide-ranging contribution to the study of nationalism and the social history of music examines the relationship between choral societies and national mobilization in the nineteenth century. From Norway to the Basque ...
Private Libraries and their Documentation, 1665–1830
(2023)
The essays in Private Libraries and their Documentation revolve around the users and contents of early modern private book collections, and around the sources used to document and study these collections. They take the ...
Art Outside the Lines
(2011)
This collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of East German art, film, literature, music, and museum studies, seeks to renegotiate the artistic legacy of the German Democratic Republic. Combining a ...
Ichthyology in Context (1500–1880)
(2023)
Ichthyology in Context (1500–1880) provides a broad spectre of early modern manifestations of human fascination with fish – “fish” understood in the early modern sense of the term, as aquatilia: all aquatic animals, including ...
Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, and Change
(2016)
Tibetan Printing: Comparisons, Continuities and Change is the first publication that brings together leading experts from different disciplines to discuss the introduction of printing in Tibetan societies in the context ...
Socially Responsible Higher Education
(2021)
Is higher education contributing to our global crises? Does it offer stories of hope? The editors feature authors and viewpoints from often excluded groups of emerging scholars and parts of the world seldom read in literature ...
The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture
(2018)
This volume explores the various strategies of construing appropriate pasts in scholarship, literature, art, architecture and literature, in order to create “national”, regional or local identities, in late medieval and ...
Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500–1800)
(2021)
Print, in the early modern period, could make or break power. This volume addresses one of the most urgent and topical questions in early modern history: how did European authorities use a new medium with such tremendous ...
Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism
(2023)
Film festivals around the world are in the business of making experiences for audiences, elites, industry, professionals, and even future cultural workers. Cinema and the Festivalization of Capitalism explains why these ...
Can We Read Letters? Reflections on Fundamental Issues in Reading and Dyslexia Research
(2015)
The authors use these fundamental analyses and definitions to shed new light on the ‘balanced approach to reading instruction’, ‘reading fluency’ and other key concepts. The book also deals with problems in the definition ...
The Body of Evidence
(2020)
In The Body of Evidence. Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine Francesco Paolo de Ceglia offers an overview of the evolution of the science of the ‘signs of the corpse’, from necromancy to forensic medicine. ...
Early Christians Adapting to the Roman Empire
(2020)
In Early Christians Adapting to the Roman Empire Niko Huttunen presents the positive relationship between early Christians and the Roman society. Non-Christian philosophers responded positively to Christians, Romans 13 ...
Religious Discourse in Modern Japan
(2014)
Religious Discourse in Modern Japan explores the transportation of the Western concept of “religion” in in the modern era; the emergence of discourse on Shinto, philosophy, and Buddhism; and the evolution of the academic ...
Time Distortions in Mind
(2015)
Time Distortions in Mind brings together current research on temporal processing in clinical populations to elucidate the interdependence between perturbations in timing and disturbances in the mind and brain. For the ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 13 (2007)
(2009)
International law
The Years of Jesuit Suppression, 1773–1814: Survival, Setbacks, and Transformation
(2019)
The years leading up to the suppression of the Jesuits and the forty-one years, beginning in 1773, of the actual suppression, are analysed here, with special attention to individuals not usually covered in works dealing ...
The Societal Unconscious
(2019)
The Societal Unconscious sets a new broad horizon for in-depth understanding of learning in everyday life. The psychosocial approach re-integrates the societal and the psychodynamic dimensions in analyzing adult learners ...
Directions for Travellers on the Mystic Path
(1977)
Indonesia
A Handbook of the Aramaic Scrolls from the Qumran Caves
(2022)
This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls from the caves of Qumran. These nearly one hundred scrolls open a window onto a vibrant period of Jewish history for which we previously ...