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La ciencia de Cervantes
(2022)
La via del conocimiento de la filosofía natural contrarreformista estuvo condicionada por la necesidad de conciliar el método escolástico con el experimental, a la luz de la evidencia de los nuevos descubrimientos científicos ...
Mit Gott rechnen
(2013)
Seit Marc Bloch und Ernst Kantorowicz ist vieles über die religiöse Legitimierung politischer Gewalt geschrieben worden, doch die Geschichte der Entscheidungsfindung ist von diesem Trend weitgehend unberührt geblieben. Wie ...
Narratology, Hermeneutics, and Midrash
(2014)
The contributions compiled in this volume comprise studies of Jewish texts – biblical, rabbinic, medieval, and modern – as well as of patristic and medieval Christian texts, and in one case, a passage of the Muslim text ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 5 (1995)
(1997)
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 ...
Biography of a Landmark, The Chora Monastery and Kariye Camii in Constantinople/Istanbul from Late Antiquity to the 21st Century
(2023)
With its reconversion to a mosque in August 2020, the former monastic church of Saint Saviour in Chora entered yet another phase of its long history. The present book examines the Chora/Kariye Camii site from a transcultural ...
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès: The Essential Political Writings
(2014)
The edition contains all of Sieyès's "Essential Political Writings" during the revolutionary decade (1789-1799), among them his famous pamphlet What is the Third Estate? as well as the less well known, but no less important ...
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 ...
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 ...
Drug Policies and Development
(2020)
The 12th volume of International Development Policy explores the relationship between international drug policy and development goals, both current and within a historical per-spective. Contributions address the drugs and ...
"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 ...
A Poetic History of the Oceans
(2022)
What is the ocean’s role in human and planetary history? How have writers, sailors, painters, scientists, historians, and philosophers from across time and space poetically envisioned the oceans and depicted human entanglements ...
Das politische Imaginäre eurasischer Fiktionsräume
(2023)
Die Studie befasst sich mit den eurasischen Repräsentationen der politischen Einheit und ihrer Reflexion in der russischen Literatur der postsowjetischen Zeit. Die Vorstellungen von einem einheitlichen eurasischen Raum ...
The Khōjā of Tanzania
(2016)
The Khōjā of Tanzania: Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity attempts to reconstruct the development of Khōjā religious identity from their arrival to the Swahili coast in the late 18th century until the ...
Social Codicology
(2024)
This study includes a wide range of contributions on the materiality and social practices of book copying, consuming, collecting, storing, venerating, discarding and preserving, both in historical and contemporary societies, ...
Theory and Practice of Polish Language Teaching
(2024)
The aim of the volume is to focus on research interests that are rarely presented in the literature on the subject and that arise from the currently perceived needs of the developing didactics of Polish as a foreign language. ...
Eschatologisches Denken und politisches Handeln in der Karolingerzeit
(2025)
In the Carolingian period, the prospect of individual death, the universal end times and the Last Judgement gave rise to a sense of taking a critical view of current conditions and governing in a reform-oriented manner. ...
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 ...
Auf verlorenem Posten?
(2024)
The "Law on the Appointment of Works Council Members to the Supervisory Board" of February 15, 1922, marked the birth of corporate co-determination in Germany. For the first time, the institutional appointment of a maximum ...
Polish Students and Alcohol
(2023)
The authors present the issue of problematic alcohol drinking in the population of university students in the Polish context based on large scale (N=4503) survey research. The study starts with the description of methodology ...
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 ...
Otmars Welten
(2025)
Im Jahr 719 übernahm der alemannische Kleriker Otmar als Abt die Verantwortung für die religiöse Gemeinschaft am Grab des heiligen Gallus. Unter ihm entwickelte sich das Kloster St. Gallen zu einem Zentrum mit überregionaler ...
Die Trierer Kirche und die Trierer Bischöfe in der ausgehenden Antike und am Beginn des Mittelalters
(2019)
Der vorliegende Band führt das Projekt einer völligen Neuerarbeitung der Trierer Bischofsregesten weiter. Er erfasst für die Bischöfe von (Felix) Mauricius bis Sabaudus, also in etwa für das 5. bis 6. Jahrhundert, das ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Cultural Identity and Education of University Students in Selected East-Central Countries
(2021)
In Polish and Czech pedagogy, there have not been many studies on the social, cultural and educational functioning of academic youth in a culturally diversified environment. The analysis of identity behaviours presented ...
Domestic Courts and the Interpretation of International Law
(2019)
In Domestic Courts and the Interpretation of International Law, Odile Ammann examines the methodology and reasoning which domestic courts, including Swiss courts, use to interpret international law. She argues that ...
Grenze/Granica
(2024)
The German-Polish border: borderland as a space of art and transition
Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition. Volume One: Sense Perception
(2022)
The trilogy Forms of Representation in the Aristotelian Tradition investigates how Aristotle and his ancient and medieval successors understood the relation between the external world and the human mind. It gives an equal ...
The Great War and the Anthropocene
(2024)
This volume places the Eastern, especially the Austro-Russian, fronts of the Great War centre stage, examining the little-known environmental and spatial dimensions in the history of the war. The focus is particularly on ...
Stuben und Säle
(2024)
Estates-based state parliaments were a long-standing phenomenon of the Habsburg Monarchy. Using seven examples from the Austrian and Bohemian lands and with multiple comparative perspectives, this monograph examines in ...
Selling Sex in the City
(2017)
Selling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution that takes a long historical approach which covers a time period from 1600 to the 2000s. The overviews in this volume examine sex work in more than twenty ...
A Structural Commentary on the So-Called Antilegomena
(2025)
The structural approach facilitates exposure of the elements of eschatological teaching characteristic of 2 Peter’s author with its correct or incorrect interpretation. Narratives drawn from Jewish tradition aim to show ...
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 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, ...
Reconfiguring the Land of Israel
(2024)
This book is about ways in which the land of Israel, the homeland of the most paradigmatic of all diasporas, was envisioned in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the literature of the sages. It is about the Land ...
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices
(2022)
The discoveries of Coptic books containing “Gnostic” scriptures in Upper Egypt in 1945 and of the Dead Sea Scrolls near Khirbet Qumran in 1946 are commonly reckoned as the most important archaeological finds of the twentieth ...
Rome and the Worlds beyond its Frontiers
(2016)
Rome and the Worlds Beyond Its Frontiers examines interactions between those within and those beyond the boundaries of Rome, with an eye to the question of contested identities and identity formations. Readership: All ...
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.
Volk oder Religion?
(2016)
Mit der Durchsetzung der Nationalstaatsidee seit dem ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert geriet die traditionelle jüdische Gemeinschaft in Europa in eine Krise. Die jüdische Gemeindeautonomie wurde sukzessive abgeschafft, die Juden ...
Moral Design and Green Technology
(2025)
Welcome to the Anthropocene, the era in which humans have put a tangible mark on our planet. But also the era in which humans and technology have the potential to shape the necessary transitions towards a sustainable world. ...
Die Erfindung des Hungerstreiks
(2023)
Hungerstreiks gehören zu den bedeutendsten Protestformen der Gegenwart. Das Buch untersucht ihre »Erfindung« und Etablierung in den USA in transnationaler Perspektive. Eng an den Akteur:innen und ihren Lebenswelten orientiert, ...
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 ...
Christlich-akademische Judentumsforschung im Dienst der NS-Rassenideologie und -Politik
(2021)
80 Jahre nach dem „Sondereinsatz“ des Tübinger Privatdozenten Karl Georg Kuhn in Warschau, zur „Inspektion“ der Bibliothek der Jüdischen Gemeinde und zur „Untersuchung des ostjüdischen Problems, solange die Gelegenheit ...
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 ...
The Autonomy of the Åland Islands
(2024)
Published on occasion of the 100 year anniversary of the Åland Islands’ autonomy, this book brings up and discusses a number of challenging issues, from constitutional and international law perspectives, concerning both ...
Phänomenale Adäquatheit und Irreduzibilität des Bewusstseins
(2020)
1. Situierung der Dissertation Die Dissertation befasst sich in allgemeiner Hinsicht mit dem so genannten «hard problem» der Philosophie des Geistes. Dieses wird als die moderne Version des schwierigsten Teils des ehemaligen ...
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 ...
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 ...
Anthologisches Schreiben
(2022)
„Anthologisches Schreiben“ untersucht, wie Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Walter Benjamin und Rudolf Borchardt ihre schriftstellerische Praxis als Traditionspolitik begreifen und modellieren. Die Analyse zeichnet die mind map ...
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 ...
The Surviving Remnant
(2024)
This volume features 72 documents (in Yiddish, English, Hebrew, and German) created between 1945 and 1949, that complicate standard representations of the highly variegated community of Jewish Displaced Persons (DPs) in ...
Illegal Annexation and State Continuity
(2022)
This volume, now in its second and revised edition, deals with the legal status of the three Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - as a consequence of the illegality of the Soviet annexation in 1940-1991. It ...
Identifikationspotenziale in den Psalmen
(2019)
Ausgezeichnet mit dem Kardinal-Innitzer-Förderungspreis 2017.
Wie ist es möglich, dass Lesende in literarische Texte einsteigen und diese »hautnah« miterleben? Von dieser Frage ausgehend erforscht Sigrid Eder die ...
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 ...
Fleischwissen
(2024)
Fleischproduktion und Fleischkonsum stehen seit Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts zunehmend in der Kritik. Gesundheit, Tierethik und Klimawandel sind wesentliche Gründe. Fleisch ist sowohl zu einer Metapher für einen rücksichtslosen ...
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 ...
The Distributed Image
(2023)
The ubiquity of digital images is an effect of their distributive versatility. They can be stored almost indefinitely, transmitted instantaneously, reproduced without any effort, visualized in many ways, datafied and ...
African Thresholds: Borders and Places of Passage in Africa, c.1450 to Present
(2025)
The Open Access publication of this book has been made possible by the Swiss National Science Foundation. What is a border, and why does it exist? Reappraising a key idea from Arnold van Gennep’s Les rites de passage, this ...
Scholarship in Action: Essays on the Life and Work of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936)
(2022)
The Dutch scholar Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857–1936) was one of the most famous orientalists of his time. He acquired early fame through his daring research in Mecca in 1884-85, masterly narrated in two books and ...