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Maria Petyt
(2015)
Based on the discovery of an unknown Latin manuscript, Maria Petyt - A Carmelite Mystic in Wartime provides surprising new information about the seventeenth century Flemish mystic Maria Petyt (1623-1677) who wrote many ...
De slimme en de domme
(1976)
The authors worked as doctors in Kalimantan between 1949 and 1959, where they were first introduced to Ngaju Dayak tales. The present anthology contains 20 tales given to them by the Rev. Munte Saha. Both the original text ...
Enough Already! A Socialist Feminist Response to the Re-emergence of Right Wing Populism and Fascism in Media
(2020)
This text analyses the rapid rise of global authoritarian populism and fascism and how these movements incorporate misogyny into their ideologies within and beyond social media. Readership: Readership includes those ...
L'Académie de Lausanne entre Humanisme et Réforme (ca. 1537-1560)
(2011)
Based on a vast body of archival sources, this book examines the development and the operations of the Lausanne Academy, the first Protestant Academy of Higher Education created in a French-speaking territory, and an ...
Free Will, Causality, and Neuroscience
(2019)
This book aims to show that recent developments in neuroscience permit a defense of free will. Through language, human beings can escape strict biological determinism. Readership: All interested in the philosophy of sciences, ...
Visions of Justice
(2016)
In Visions of Justice Paolo Sartori surveys the role of Russian colonialism in affecting the way in which Muslims in Central Asia formulated their convictions about right and wrong and became exposed to different notions ...
Exile, Diplomacy and Texts
(2020)
Exile, Diplomacy and Texts offers an interdisciplinary narrative of religious, political, and diplomatic exchanges between early modern Iberia and the British Isles during a period uniquely marked by inconstant alliances ...
Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone
(2020)
This volume offers a systematic survey of migration histories in the central transition zone between Africa, Asia and Europe from the 4th to the 15th century C.E.; Readership: All interested in the medieval history of the ...
The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire
(2016)
The present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial ...
The Principle of Equality in Diverse States
(2021)
This book examines different approaches by which states characterised by federal or decentralized arrangements reconcile equality and autonomy. In case studies from four continents, leading experts analyse the challenges ...