Publications
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The Renewal of Medieval Metaphysics
(2021)
This is the first volume exclusively devoted to the Expositio by Berthold of Moosburg (c.1295-c.1361) on Proclus’ Elements of Theology. The breadth of its vision surpasses every other known commentary on the Elements of ...
Making Islam Work
(2023)
The development of Islamic landscapes in Europe, is first and foremost related to Islamic authority. Religious authority relies on persuasiveness and deals with issues of truth, authenticity, legitimacy, trust, and ethics ...
The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi
(2020)
The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi explores the life and teachings of ʿImād al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī (d. 711/1311), a little-known Ḥanbalī Sufi master from the circle of Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328). The first part of this book ...
Oblivionism
(2022)
The book offers a fundamental view on the problem of forgetting in sociology in general and within sociology of knowledge. Furthermore it focuses – as a case study – on the field of modern science. With recourse to the ...
Die europäische Integration und die Kirchen
(2010)
Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg begann Europa zusammenzuwachsen. Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge internationaler Autoren, die aus historischer oder theologischer Sicht die Haltung der Päpste (Pius XII.), der englischen Kirche ...
Entrepreneurship in Africa (Volume 15)
(2017)
Historically, entrepreneurs have always played a central role in the development of nation states. Aside from rentier states, which depend extensively on the availability of mineral resource rents, most economically ...
Pragmatic Approaches to Drama
(2020)
This volume collects papers on pragmatic perspectives on ancient theatre. Scholars working on literature, linguistics, theatre will find interesting insights on verbal and non-verbal uses of language in ancient Greek and ...
Qahal und Ekklesia
(2024)
Politics begins with people assembling. An inquiry into types and functions of assemblies is therefore an inquiry into one of the most fundamental questions of political theory. In the present volume, that question is ...
Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature
(2014)
Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles explores the different attitudes toward the woman’s guilt for the expulsion from the Garden and human’s calamities and the legal ramifications ...
The Challenge of Radicalization and Extremism
(2022)
This interdisciplinary volume on The Challenge of Radicalization and Extremism: Integrating Research on Education and Citizenship in the Context of Migration addresses the need for educational researchers to place their ...
Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance
(2013-11-01)
Cynthia Skenazi explores in this book a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. In Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch ...
Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca
(2023)
Narrating the pilgrimage to Mecca discusses a wide variety of historical and contemporary personal accounts of the pilgrimage to Mecca, most of which presented in English for the first time. The book addresses how being ...
Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions
(2020)
Academic study of the tantric traditions has blossomed in recent decades, in no small measure thanks to the magisterial contributions of Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson, until 2015 Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics ...
Schreibberatung
(2024)
What challenges must writing consultants meet when working in an academic context? What characterizes language-sensitive writing consulting? Writing consultants support writers in developing their academic writing skills ...
Romantik
(2019)
“Romantik. Journal for the Study of Romanticisms” is a multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of romantic-era cultural productions and concepts. The journal promotes innovative research across disciplinary borders. ...
Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change
(2019)
Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change critically appraises current animal use in science and discusses ways in which we can contribute to a paradigm change towards human-biology based approaches. ...
Male and Female and the Afro-Curaçaoan Household
(1976)
The subject of the present study concerns the relationships between men and women and the composition of household groups among the lower Afro-American strata of the society of Curaçao. The material on which it is based ...
In Search of Singularity
(2022)
In Search of Singularity introduces a new “compairative” methodology that seeks to understand how the interplay of paired texts creates meaning in new, transcultural contexts. Bringing the worlds of contemporary Polish and ...
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, ...
Chinese Families Upside Down: Intergenerational Dynamics and Neo-Familism in the Early 21st Century
(2021)
Chinese Families Upside Down offers the first systematic account of how intergenerational dependence is redefining the Chinese family. The authors make a collective effort to go beyond the conventional model of filial piety ...
Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models
(2019)
Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry brings together a range of innovative approaches to the question of genre, what it means, and how to think about it for Greek poetry from the eighth to the fourth centuries BCE. ...
Cracking Facebook
(2020)
This book presents a Facebook study on members of the Cusp Generation, or those born before the “great digital divide” of 1995. This delineation allows for a discussion on the possible socio-cultural implications of Facebook ...
Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840-1940
(2018)
In Ordinary Jerusalem, Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire and thirty-five scholars depict the ordinary history of an extraordinary global city in the late Ottoman and Mandate periods. Utilizing largely unknown archives, ...
Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 1, 2022
(2022)
The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles that seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines ...
Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913
(2015)
In Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913, Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation and maintenance of boundaries and spaces in South ...
End-of-Life Care, Dying and Death in the Islamic Moral Tradition
(2022)
Modern biomedical technologies managed to revolutionise the End-of-Life Care (EoLC) in many aspects. The dying process can now be “engineered” by managing the accompanying physical symptoms or by “prolonging/hastening” ...
Multiple Loyalitäten und Transterritorialität
(2024)
Die Forschungen zur Diplomatie der Frühen Neuzeit haben in den letzten Jahren die strukturellen Unterschiede zur modernen Diplomatie herausgearbeitet. Simultane Loyalitätsbeziehungen zu verschiedenen Fürstenhäusern und ...
Knowledge of the Pragmatici
(2020)
Knowledge of the pragmatici analyses pragmatic normative literature in colonial Ibero-America. It explores the circulation and the functions of these media in the Iberian peninsula, New Spain, Peru, New Granada and Brazil. ...
A Literary History of Medicine
(2024)
A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the ...
Das Tagebuch von Leo Thun-Hohenstein (1825–1842)
(2023)
The edition of Leo Thun-Hohenstein's diary allows an intimate look at the early years of the later reformer of Austrians education system. Dealing with foreign cultures and questioning social norms characterized Thun's ...
Global Public Goods and Sustainable Development in the Practice of International Organizations
(2023)
This volume examines in an innovative and applied perspective the interdependence between the role of international organizations, the existence of global public goods and the need of sustainable development. Moreover, it ...
The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture
(2014)
In The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture specialists in various fields of art history, from Early Christian times to the present, discuss in depth a series of Western artworks, artefacts, and buildings, ...
Staging Holiness: The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522)
(2020)
In Staging Holiness: The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522) Sofia Zoitou offers a study of the history of relic collections, devotional rituals, and sites invested with special meaning on Rhodes, during a time when ...
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, ...
Meanings of Community across Medieval Eurasia
(2016)
How did Christianity, Islam and Buddhism frame the emergence and significance of particular communities in medieval Eurasia? This volume of well-linked comparative studies addresses the terminology of community, genealogies, ...
Animals in Stone
(2008)
The art history of South Asia covers a time span of roughly four and a half thousand years. During this period, a vast number of animal stone sculptures has been produced, ranging from the pre-historic period till today ...
The Post-Secular City
(2022)
“The Post-Secular City” is the first attempt to systematically map and assess the recent debate about secularization. “The Post-Secular City” examines the alleged shift from a “secular” to a “post-secular” dispensation ...
Discourses of Decline
(2021)
This volume explores the relevance of decline within the republican tradition. The essays in this volume focus on the Dutch Republic during the revolutionary era, as well as early modern Spain and Venice, the German ...
Hybrid Threats and the Law of the Sea
(2022)
Hybrid Threats and the Law of the Sea debates the practice of states that have resorted to discriminatory navigational restrictions or aggression against foreign ships and aircraft in densely navigated straits. The book ...
The Crisis of Causality
(1995)
The Crisis of Causality deals with the reaction of the Dutch Calvinist theologian Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) to the New Philosophy of René Descartes (1596-1650). Voetius not only criticised the Cartesian idea of a ...