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Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down
(2021)
This volume offers a bold restatement of the importance of social history for understanding modern revolutions. The essays collected in Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down provide global case studies examining:
- changes ...
Reformation, Revolution, Renovation
(2022)
An account of the Rosicrucian manifestos, and in particular their call for a general reformation, in relation to medieval and early modern traditions and reform programs.; Readership: All interested in early modern ...
Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600)
(2023)
This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries. Through a shared focus on the material book as an interface between producers and users, the ...
Chapter 5 Galen in Byzantine iatrosophia
(2019)
Within the academic community there are a number of common and widespread
prejudices about the nature of iatrosophia. Iatrosophia are usually
regarded as vernacular compilations of medical texts lacking structure or ...
Pacifism, Politics, and Feminism
(2019)
This anthology explores the many and varied connections between pacifism, politics, and feminism. Each topic is often thought about in academic isolation; however, when we consider how they intersect and interact, it opens ...
Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel
(2019)
Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel offers new interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives on industrialization and societal transformation in early-twentieth-century Luxembourg ...
Roma Writings
(2021)
The book focuses on the early period of Roma publishing (from the nineteenth century until the Second World War) when the first original texts, fiction and media publications authored by Roma appeared.Based on extensive ...
The Making of a Mosque with Female Imams
(2022)
In the last decade a number of women-led mosques have emerged in Europe and North America. In The Making of a Mosque with Female Imams Jesper Petersen documents the serendipitous, yet predictable, emergence of the Mariam ...
Mediterranean Seafarers in Transition
(2022)
This volume discusses the effects of industrialization on maritime trade, labour and communities in the Mediterranean and Black Sea from the 1850s to the 1920s. The 17 essays are based on new evidence from multiple type ...
Childhood Cultures in Transformation
(2020)
This book investigates and uncover paradoxes and ambivalences that are actualised when seeking to make the right choices in the best interests of the child. The 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child ...
Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, Volume 2
(2020)
Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, published in three volumes, is a fresh, comprehensive understanding of the history of Neoplatonism from the 9th to the 16th century. The impact of the Elements of Theology and the ...
The Skandapurāṇa Volume IV
(2018)
Skandapurāṇa IV presents a critical edition of Adhyāyas 70-95 from the Skandapurāṇa , with an introduction and annotated English synopsis.
The text edited in this volume includes the myths of Viṣṇu’s manifestation as the ...
The Logic of the Laws
(1975)
This study is directed towards providing basic background material for the understanding of South Sumatran social organisation. To this end, four legal codes from the first half of the nineteenth century are presented and ...
An Invisible Thread
(2024)
In Toledo in 1529, a converso named Pedro de Cazalla declared that the connection between man and God was but a thread and that it should not be mediated by the Church. Hardly an isolated phenomenon, Cazalla’s inner ...
The Conceptualization of Equality and Non-discrimination as Legal Standards
(2024)
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the central concepts figuring in equality and non-discrimination standards across jurisdictions: formal and substantive equality, direct and indirect discrimination, reasonable ...
Insects and Colors between Art and Natural History
(2024)
This book explores how European naturalists and artists perceived, investigated, and presented the relationship between insects and colors from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. The contributors to this ...
Eighteenth-Century Indian Muraqqaʿs
(2024)
Fourteen essays and one appendix discuss numerous eighteenth-century Indo-Persianate albums ( muraqqaʿs) consisting of folios with paintings, calligraphic pieces, and elaborate decorative margins. These albums – now in ...
The Library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār
(2024)
This study is the first to examine the history and composition of the library of Aḥmad Pasha al-Jazzār (d. 1804), the famous governor of northern Palestine in the late eighteenth century, on the basis of the inventory of ...
The Preaching of the Third Crusade (1187–1192)
(2025)
This book offers the first broad investigation of the preaching and mobilization of the Third Crusade (1187-92), straddling around 200 sermon texts as well as 100 manuscripts. It addresses the major problem that “crusade ...
Military Healthcare and the Early Modern State, 1660–1830 : Management − Professionalisation − Shortcomings
(2025)
This volume demonstrates novel ways to study military health care in Europe from the 1660s to the 1830s. The book uses a sociocultural mode to scrutinize the impact of values, habits and behaviour on the quality and ...
Klosterneuburger Traditionsbuch
(2025)
The “Klosterneuburg Traditionsbuch”, which is now kept in the Augustinian canons' archive, contains over 800 records of the canonry's legal transactions, ranging from its foundation by the Babenberg Leopold III and his ...
Empathie und Perspektivenwechsel in interreligiösen Begegnungen
(2024)
How can the ability to empathise and change perspectives be fostered in primary school children through interreligious encounters? This doctoral thesis offers a comprehensive theoretical foundation (Part I), an empirical ...
The Raghupañcikā of Vallabhadeva Being the Earliest Commentary on the Raghuvaṃśa of Kālidāsa
(2024)
For more than a millennium, Kālidāsa’s poem “Lineage of the Raghus” ( Raghuvaṃśa) has been acknowledged as one of the masterpieces of Sanskrit literature. Thousands of manuscripts transmit it, and dozens of pre-modern ...
Sikh News in India, 1864-1924
(2024)
This handbook, divided into four volumes, presents the first English translations of newspaper articles about the Sikhs published in the weekly press reports for Punjab between 1864 and 1924. Covering press material from ...
Saved from Desert Sands
(2024)
Saved from Desert Sands, edited by Kelsey Granger and Imre Galambos, unites historians, codicologists, art historians, archaeologists, and curators in the study of material culture on the Silk Roads. The re-discovery of ...
Adalbert Stifter
(2024)
This volume provides evidence that the work of Adalbert Stifter is permeated by forms of violence and "(Ver-)Führung". The study shows that although Stifter's texts are infused with attempts to appease violence, at the ...
The Preaching of the Third Crusade (1187–1192)
(2024)
This book delivers the first substantial study of the preaching of the Third Crusade (1187-92). It assembles c.200 sermon texts and c.100 manuscripts, to understand the explosive dynamic of mobilization in the Latin West. ...
Girjjohallat girjáivuođa - Embracing Diversity
(2024)
Unveil the dynamic world of Sami education across Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia in this book. This vital volume presents cutting-edge research from top scholars, enriching teacher education with innovative, ...
Physics in Minerva’s Academy
(2025)
This monograph explains how, in the aftermath of the battle over René Descartes’ philosophy, Newton’s natural philosophy found fertile ground at the University of Leiden. Newton’s natural philosophical views and methods, ...
Storyworlds in Short Narratives
(2024)
This interdisciplinary and comparative volume offers a systematic approach to the early Greek tale. Bringing similarities and differences between ancient Greek and early Byzantine tales to the fore, this volume thus creates ...
Fragments of Languages
(2024)
The book deals with the concept of fragmentation as applied to languages and their documentation. It focuses in particular on the theoretical and methodological consequences of such a fragmentation for the linguistic ...
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 ...
Un piccolo esempio. La psicagogia matematica di Platone
(2024)
‘Let me give you a simple example of what I mean, and you will see the rest for yourself.’ This is how Plato usually introduces mathematical examples to illustrate important philosophical puzzles. The research presented ...
Knowing - Unknowing
(2024)
This book emerges at a time when critical race studies, postcolonial thought, and decolonial theory are under enormous pressure as part of a global conservative backlash. However, this is also an exciting moment, where new ...
Ownership Regimes in the Iberian World (1500–1850)
(2025)
Explore a new perspective on land relations with Ownership Regimes, which shifts focus from traditional legal views to socio-historical contexts. This book reveals how land holding was influenced by diverse practices, ...
Aufbruch in Grenzen
(2024)
The volume examines the development of the role and profession of Catholic women from the 1960s to the 1980s in the Federal Republic of Germany. Based on the example of the Catholic University of Applied Sciences of North ...
International Children’s Rights Instruments
(2024)
This collection is an essential supplement to the recent academic handbooks on children’s rights studies and international children's rights law. Over the years, the international legal framework on children's rights has ...
Placemaking in Practice Volume 2
(2024)
Starting from theoretical concepts and experiences, the volume is interested in a variety of methods, techniques, approaches and conceptualisations that shape these engagements as well as different methodologies. Engage ...
Recovering Environmental and Economic Traditions in the Islamic World
(2024)
Recovering Environmental and Economic Traditions in the Islamic World is an interdisciplinary volume that interrogates varied approaches to environmental and economic thought in classical Islam and in a few contemporary ...
Promoting the “Human” in Law, Policy, and Medicine
(2024)
Professor Bartha Maria Knoppers stepped down from the Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine at McGill University in April 2024, a post she held for more than 20 years. Professor Knoppers consistently prioritized ...
Sterbehilfe als Liebestod
(2024)
Contemporary literature and film often explore how illness impacts romantic relationships: Faced with the imminent or experienced death of the loved one, the healthy partner refuses to outlive them, echoing the long-standing ...
Antiquarianismus in Rom
(2024)
Die vorliegende Monographie entwirft eine literaturgeschichtliche Gesamtdarstellung des römischen Antiquarianismus vom 2. Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis zum 3. Jahrhundert n. Chr. Ausgangspunkt ist die begrifflich-konzeptuelle ...
Sikh News in India, 1864-1924
(2024)
This handbook, divided into four volumes, presents the first English translations of newspaper articles about the Sikhs published in the weekly press reports for Punjab between 1864 and 1924. Covering press material from ...
Sikh News in India, 1864-1924
(2024)
This handbook, divided into four volumes, presents the first English translations of newspaper articles about the Sikhs published in the weekly press reports for Punjab between 1864 and 1924. Covering press material from ...
Estate Planning by Agreement in the Sources of Roman Law
(2025)
The present book encompasses various legal phenomena pertaining to wealth transfer mortis causa in the world of Roman law. It demonstrates that succession in property rights could be realised by agreements of various kinds, ...
Karbala in the Taʿziyeh Episode, Shiʿi Devotional Drama in Iran
(2024)
“I am not Shemr, this is not a dagger, nor is this Karbala,” recites the arch-antagonist as a taʿziyeh performance begins. Verisimilitude is not the endeavour; this is a devotional offering that stirs lament for the the ...
The EU Internal Market in the Next Decade – Quo Vadis?
(2024)
This essential collection of essays delves into the European Union's Internal Market, offering a thorough analysis inspired by the Council of the European Union's pivotal 2024 conclusions. The book outlines a strategic ...
The Fragile Juggernaut
(2024)
Whether loving or hating it, many visualize capitalism as an unstoppable juggernaut. For those of us who would defeat it, we must identify its weaknesses. Fortunately, Marx and Engels’ writings on “crisis” reveal them. ...
Transzendentales Ägypten
(2024)
Specific and characteristic ideas about death, transcendence, and afterlife emerged in ancient Egypt’s melting pot: Cultural discourses encountered at the intersection between Egyptian, Roman-Hellenistic, Jewish, Christian, ...
Medieval Mount Athos between Wealth and Poverty
(2024)
These collected studies dedicated to the Orthodox monastic center of Mount Athos during the Middle Ages paint a compelling picture of the Holy Mountain’s monastic communities as economic actors. Mount Athos’ rich archival ...
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 ...
Conversion, Leadership and Identity of the Evangelical Roma in Bulgaria
(2024)
Combining historical and ethnographic approaches in her pioneering study, Magdalena Slavkova offers an insightful contribution to our understanding of Romani evangelicalism. The phenomenon appeared at the beginning of the ...
Placemaking in Practice Volume 3
(2024)
Dive into The Future of Placemaking and Digitization: Emerging Challenges and Research Agenda a collaborative exploration of placemaking's potential in a digitized era. This volume delves into inclusive strategies and ...
Collecting Practices and Opisthographic Collections in Qumran and Herculaneum
(2024)
In Collecting Practices and Opisthographic Collections in Qumran and Herculaneum, Ayhan Aksu offers a new perspective on practices of collection in both the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Herculaneum papyri. This study focuses ...
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, ...
Recht und Gerechtigkeit?
(2024)
This book analyzes the significance of the legal and narrative responses to crimes against humanity in Yugoslavia. It provides a comprehensive overview of the development of Yugoslav war crimes law and identifies key actors ...
The Globalization of Netherlandish Art
(2024)
Is there a special place for the Low Countries in art history’s current debates on global mobility? How should we conceive of the globalization of Netherlandish art in the early modern period, and in what ways does the ...
Nicole Oresme, Questiones in Meteorologica de prima lectura
(2024)
Nicole Oresme, a mathematician, philosopher, and theologian, stood as one of the most original and influential thinkers of the Late Middle Ages. This volume presents the critical edition of Oresme's earliest work, his first ...
Translating Technology in Africa. Volume 2: Technicisation
(2024)
This volume revisits one of the great challenges of our time - the global circulation of technology and the resulting technicisation. Together, the introductory essay and six case studies argue that while circulation ...
Histories of Spiritual Traditions in China
(2024)
Discover China's rich spiritual history through the monumental works of polymath Jao Tsung-i, presented in English for the first time. Throughout his far-reaching discussions of Chinese religious history ranging from ...
A Chinese Reformer in Exile
(2024)
A Chinese Reformer in Exile is an encyclopaedic reference work documenting the exile years of imperial China’s most famous reformer, Kang Youwei, and the political organization he mobilized in North America and worldwide ...
The Historical Landscape of Ancient Kalabría
(2024)
This book focuses on Kalabría as an ancient land of Italy from its origin to the early Middle Ages. The place name referred to the Salento peninsula, also called Messapia, as part of present-day Puglia and later to the ...
Enduring Encounters: Maps of Japan from Leiden University Library
(2024)
While Asian and Western cartographies are often considered separate traditions, maps of Japan kept in Leiden University Libraries often show a commonality of method and purpose. Despite the expulsion of Phillip Franz von ...
Tea, Fragrance, and Music
(2024)
This book explores one of the central questions among many disciplines: how communities are formed. It investigates this question through the perspectives of scholar-artist communities in Northern Song China. You will learn ...
Key Classical Works on Islamic Ethics
(2024)
This book transcends the narrow philosophical concept of ethics confined to the Greek model, demonstrating that “Islamic ethics” is an interdisciplinary field. It encompasses both theoretical and practical ethics, incorporating ...
International Disinformation
(2024)
Dive into the world of disinformation with this groundbreaking book. Uncover how Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) shapes modern politics and society, and how it impacts your own life. Explore answers ...
From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit
(2024)
This collection of essays celebrates 50 years since the founding of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library. Three generations of scholars contributed their research and memories from ...
Sikh News in India, 1864-1924
(2024)
This handbook, divided into four volumes, presents the first English translations of newspaper articles about the Sikhs published in the weekly press reports for Punjab between 1864 and 1924. Covering press material from ...
The Politics of Multifaith
(2024)
In this book, Ryszard Bobrowicz discusses why seemingly neutral rooms, multi-faith spaces, were subject to contestations from, and clashes between, their users, their managers, and those shaping policies concerning them. ...
Continuity and Change in Ancient Umbrian Cult Places
(2024)
What difference did the Roman expansion make in the transformation of ancient Italy? With its conservative nature and abundance of material evidence, the religious sphere represents a unique lens through which we can study ...
Velázquez, Painter & Curator
(2024)
This book is the first to address the curatorial career of Diego Velázquez, painter to King Philip IV of Spain and chamberlain of his royal palace. It investigates the role that Velázquez played in overseeing the display ...
Western Subanon Grammar
(2024)
Western Subanon Grammar is the first ever comprehensive description of Western Subanon, a highly endangered indigenous Austronesian minority language in the southern Philippines. Written by a native speaker and the result ...
Plato’s Power
(2025)
What do we mean when we say that something has power? Plato's dialogues are probably the first philosophical corpus to address this question. Powers are causes; they account for how events happen. They are properties that ...
Iconic Turn in den christlichen Konfessionen
(2025)
Visual imagery has always been part of Christianity, whereby the different ways in which Christian denominations deal with images has become an identity marker, oscillating between icon and aniconism. With the iconic turn ...
Networks, Poetics and Multilingual Society in the Early Modern Baltic Sea Region
(2024)
The literarisation of the early modern Baltic Sea region was a long and complex process with varying trajectories for different vernacular languages. This volume highlights the interaction of local social and cultural ...
Human–Bug Encounters in Multispecies Networks
(2024)
While providing a basis for all ecosystems, bugs such as insects and arachnids also destroy crops and indirectly kill humans and other animals by the millions. This book illuminates the many ways in which human lives affect ...
The Mapping of a Russian War: The Atlas of the Principality of Polatsk by Stanisław Pachołowiecki (1580)
(2024)
This volume is a comprehensive analysis of the Atlas of the Principality of Polatsk (1580), one of the oldest cartographic representations of the military conflict between Russia (Muscovy) and the Western world. Its author, ...
Papusza / Bronisława Wajs. Tears of Blood
(2024)
Ratfale Jasfa (Romani: ‘Tears of Blood’) is a poem by the Romani poet Papusza (Bronisława Wajs) who survived the German occupation and the Second World War in Volhynia, currently Ukraine. It is also one of the earliest ...
Federalism and the Law of Diversity
(2025)
The volume offers new and unexplored perspectives on federalism and its relationships with diversity accommodation. It represents the first structured attempt to use federal theory and practice to frame several phenomena ...
Jade-Carving Chisel and Luminous Ocean
(2024)
Jao Tsung-i’s scholarship illuminated the development of classical Chinese literature from antiquity through the end of the Qing dynasty. In this volume, eight interviews with and essays by Jao are translated faithfully ...