Publications
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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 ...
On the Margins
(2020)
This title is available in its entirety in Open Access. Living on the margins of German society, Jews and Muslims in interwar Berlin explored common ground. Based on a number of private archives, the study discusses ...
Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 3
(2022)
This volume gathers contributions on key concepts elaborated in the Platonic tradition (Proclus, Plotinus, Porphyry or Sallustius) and reconsidered by Arabic (e.g. Avicenna, the Book of Causes), Byzantine (e.g. Maximus the ...
Treason
(2019)
Set against the framework of modern political concerns, Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame considers the various forms of treachery in a variety of sources, including literature, historical ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 19 (2013)
(2017)
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 ...
Ways of the Scientific World-Conception. Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath
(2024)
Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) and Otto Neurath (1882-1945) had a decisive influence on the development of the scientific world view of logical empiricism. Their relationship was marked by mutual intellectual stimulation, close ...
Doing Interpretation
(2021)
Wer interpretiert, tut etwas. Dieser schlichte Umstand trat mit dem practice turn verstärkt in den Fokus hermeneutischer bzw. interpretationstheoretischer Debatten. Wo steht die Diskussion heute? Wohin soll sie sich bewegen? ...
A Bibliography of Sign Languages, 2008-2017
(2018)
This concise bibliography on Sign Languages was compiled on the occasion of the 20th international Congress of Linguists in Cape Town, South Africa, in July 2018. The selection of titles is drawn from the Linguistic ...
Experten der Erschließung
(2021)
Der Glaube an die Segnungen, aber auch die Zwangsläufigkeit des technischen Fortschritts entwickelte sich in der Phase des Hochimperialismus zu einer wirkmächtigen Ideologie, von der auch deutsche Ingenieure profitierten. ...
Texts, Transmissions, Receptions
(2015)
The papers collected in this volume study the function and meaning of various kinds of narrative texts from the perspective of New Philology, Linguistics, Iconography and Reception studies. Their purpose is to understand ...
News in Early Modern Europe
(2020)
News in Early Modern Europe – Currents and Connections, edited by Simon Davies and Puck Fletcher, presents significant new research on the production and dissemination of news in early modern Europe. Interdisciplinary in ...
Timing and Time Perception: Procedures, Measures, & Applications
(2018)
Timing and Time Perception: Procedures, Measures, and Applications is a one-of-a-kind, collective effort to present -theoretically and practically- the most utilized and known methods on timing and time perception. Readership: ...
Peaceful Maritime Engagement in East Asia and the Pacific Region
(2022)
Peaceful Maritime Engagement in East Asia and the Pacific Region includes contributions from the most influential figures in the law of the sea to provide context and direction for developing maritime governance in East ...
Catalogue of Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Leiden University and Other Collections in the Netherlands. Minor Collections.
(2012)
From as early as the 1600s, Dutch scholars and scholarship have displayed a keen interest in the studies of the Islamic world. Over the centuries, they have collected a wealth of source texts in various languages, Turkish ...
The Impact of the United Nations Human Rights Treaties on the Domestic Level: Twenty Years On
(2024)
This collection of chapters tracks and explains the impact of the nine core United Nations human rights treaties in 20 selected countries, four from each of the five UN regions. Researchers based in each of these countries ...
Global Antisemitism
(2020)
The essays are written by scholars from a wide array of disciplines, intellectual backgrounds, and perspectives, and address the conference’s two inter-related areas of focus: global antisemitism and the crisis of modernity ...
Texts, Transmissions, Receptions
(2014)
The papers collected in this volume study the function and meaning of various kinds of narrative texts from the perspective of New Philology, Linguistics, Iconography and Reception studies. Their purpose is to understand ...
The Citizenship Experiment
(2019)
Focusing on the United States, France and the Dutch Republic in the revolutionary 1790s, The Citizenship Experiment explores the convergence and divergence of Atlantic citizenship ideals in light of the Haitian Revolution ...
A Living Systems Theory of Vocational Behavior and Development
(2014)
The Living Systems Theory of Vocational Behavior and Development (LSVD) explains and illustrates the processes by which individuals construct their work experiences, vocational pathways and career patterns through episodes ...
Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity
(2022)
Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise ...
Philo of Alexandria
(2011)
This volume, prepared with the collaboration of the International Philo Bibliography Project, is the third in a series of annotated bibliographies on the Jewish exegete and philosopher Philo of Alexandria. It contains a ...