Publications
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The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews
(2009)
In The Jesuit Order as a Synagogue of Jews the author explains how Christians with Jewish ancestry went within less than forty years from having a leading role in the foundation and development of the Society of Jesus to ...
A chain of kings
(2007)
The chronicles of Gowa and Talloq are the most important historical sources for the study of pre-colonial Makassar. They have provided the basic framework and much of the information that we possess about the origins, ...
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 ...
Chapter 6 Digital Editing and the Greek New Testament
(2016)
The textual tradition of the Bible has inspired many of the most significant
developments, principles and methodologies in editorial practice, from the
parallel texts and critical symbols of Origen’s Hexapla in the early ...
Renegotiating boundaries
(2007)
For decades almost the only social scientists who visited Indonesia’s provinces were anthropologists. Anybody interested in politics or economics spent most of their time in Jakarta, where the action was. Our view of the ...
The Ottoman Crimean War (1853-1856)
(2010)
This book analyzes the Crimean War from the Ottoman perspective based mainly on Ottoman and Russian primary sources, and includes an assessment of the War’s impact on the Ottoman state and Ottoman society.
Tense and Text in Classical Arabic
(2018-05-06)
This study undertakes to examine the problem of the tenses in Classical Arabic. While aware of the long tradition which shaped the discussion of this subject, and building, in fact, on some important insights offered by ...
International Law and Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts
(2012-01-01)
Sexual violence is a particular brand of evil that women have endured—more than men—during armed conflicts, through the ages. It is a menace that has continued to challenge the conscience of humanity—especially in our ...
Indian Islamic Architecture
(2007-01-12)
The British scholar John Burton-Page contributed numerous formative articles on Indian Islamic architecture for the Encyclopaedia of Islam over a period of 25 years. Assembled here for the first time, these offer an ...
CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean
(2018-01-01)
CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions provides case studies on archaeology, objects, cuneiform texts, and online publishing, digital archiving, and preservation.
Eleven chapters present a rich ...
A world of water: Rain, rivers and seas in Southeast Asian histories
(2007)
Water, in its many guises, has always played a powerful role in shaping Southeast Asian histories, cultures, societies and economies. This volume, the rewritten results of an international workshop, with participants from ...
Human Rights and the Environment
(2011-01-01)
The book examines the genesis and development of environmental rights (or the Right to Environment) in international law and discusses their philosophical, theoretical and legal underpinnings in the context of sustainable ...
Dionysos in Archaic Greece
(2006-01-01)
An interpretation of the god Dionysos as seen by Greek vase painters before the golden age of classical culture, which will help understand his wide popularity beyond wine consumption, which lasted until the end of antiquity.
Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750
(2018-11-01)
Women were fundamental actors in early modern Low Countries society, playing major roles in the dynamic environment of economic, artistic, and cultural exchange of both the Catholic Southern Netherlands and the Protestant ...
Development of Writing Skills in Individuals with Learning Difficulties
(2017-11-01)
This volume highlights writing development and its relation to other cognitive domains, such as language and reading, for individuals who struggle to acquire writing proficiency, including those with specific learning ...
Proyección de la Escolástica jesuita española en el pensamiento británico
(2024)
Spanish Jesuits such as Francisco Suárez (1548–1617), José de Acosta (1540–1600), Pedro de Ribadeneira (1526-1611) and Juan de Mariana (1536-1624) had a powerful impact on English thinkers of the magnitude of John Locke ...
Cultuur als antwoord
(1973)
Indonesia
Meanings and Functions of the Ruler's Image in the Mediterranean World (11th – 15th Centuries)
(2022)
The book investigates, from different methodological viewpoints, the multiple ways in which medieval rulers in different areas of the Mediterranean constructed their outward appearance and communicated it by means of a ...
The Human Right to Citizenship
(2022)
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the right to citizenship in international and regional ...
Imagining Chinese Medicine
(2018)
A remarkable journey through Chinese medical illustrations from the earliest illustrated manuscripts to advertising and comic books. Senior and emerging scholars from Asia, Europe and the Americas rethink the history of ...
The Idea of Economic Constitution in Europe
(2022)
Behind the controversies that have marked the history of the idea of Economic Constitution emerges the highly political issue of the room for manoeuvre left to public authorities in the economic sphere. The notion thus ...
Environmental Change and African Societies
(2019)
Environmental Change and African Societies contributes to current debates on climate change from the perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities. It charts past and present environmental change in different ...
Buddhism in Central Asia I
(2020)
Buddhism in Central Asia (Part I): Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage, 6-14th Centuries deals with the various strategies of legitimation and the establishment of sacred space and pilgrimage among both ...
After Conversion
(2016)
This book deals with the religious and ideological consequences of mass conversion in Iberia - where Jews and Muslims were forcibly converted or expelled at the end of the XVth century and beginning of the XVIth- and most ...
The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World
(2017)
The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World asks how the central sociolinguistic notions of language ideology and diglossia are affected by the rapidly increasing amount of writing in the Arabic vernacular. Readership: ...
Implementing International Watercourses Law through the WEF Nexus and SDGs
(2020)
Implementing International Watercourses Law through the WEF Nexus and SDGs: An Integrated Approach Illustrated in the Zambezi River Basin offers an innovative approach to the governance of shared watercourses and the ...
WTO Law and Trade Policy Reform for Low-Carbon Technology Diffusion
(2021)
In WTO Law and Trade Policy Reform for Low-Carbon Technology Diffusion, Zaker Ahmad puts a spotlight on the crucial importance of dismantling market barriers and offering incentives to improve clean technology access and ...
Controversial Poetry 1400–1625
(2020)
How to deal with conflicts? Poetry played a crucial role in dealing with religious and political conflicts from 1400 until 1625. All over Europe there was a lively debate. Controversial poetry presents historical controversies ...
Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires
(2011)
"In recent decades the history of premodern states and empires has undergone major revision. At the heart of this process stood the court, encompassing the household as well as government institutions. This volume for the ...
Qing Imperial Illustrations of Tributary Peoples (Huang Qing zhigong tu)
(2022)
Commissioned by the Qianlong emperor in 1751, the Qing Imperial Illustrations of Tributary Peoples (Huang Qing zhigong tu 皇清職貢圖), is a captivating work of art and an ideological statement of universal rule best understood ...
The Early Reception and Appropriation of the Apostle Peter (60-800 CE)
(2020)
The Early Reception and Appropriation of the Apostle Peter (60-800 CE) investigates the interdisciplinary history of the reception of Peter from the first century up to Charlemagne, revealing as much about Peter as about ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 18 (2012)
(2016)
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 ...
Das Werk im Werk
(2022)
Werke, die sowohl einzeln als auch simultan aufgeführt werden können, schaffen Möglichkeiten das „Werk“ neu zu denken. Denn die monologisch geschlossene Anlage des einzelnen Werks wird durch ein weiteres Werk geöffnet und ...
Integration in Rome and in the Roman World
(2013)
Integration in the empire under the political control of the city of Rome, her princeps, and the different authorities in the provinces includes processes of inclusion and exclusion. They are explored from juridical, ...
Art Crossing Borders
(2019)
Art Crossing Borders offers a thought-provoking analysis of the internationalisation of the art market in the long nineteenth century and its unexpected and ambiguous relation with the simultaneous rise of nationalist modes ...
Translating Early Modern Science (Volume 51)
(2017)
Translating Early Modern Science explores the roles of translation and the practices of translators in early modern Europe. In a period when multiple European vernaculars challenged the hegemony long held by Latin as the ...
Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia
(2021)
In Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia Esperanza Alfonso and Javier del Barco offer an edition and comprehensive study of the first Hebrew-vernacular biblical glossary-commentary produced in medieval Iberia ...
Nagaoka
(2008)
This comprehensive account of the Nagaoka capital discusses the capital's construction and layout, and investigates the motivations behind the establishment and abrupt abandonment of Nagaoka within the context of Kanmu's ...
Beyond Empire and Nation; The Decolonization of African and Asian societies, 1930s-1960s
(2012)
The decolonization of countries in Asia and Africa is one of the momentous events in the twentieth century. But did the shift to independence indeed affect the lives of the people in such a dramatic way as the political ...
The Skandapurāṇa III
(2013)
Skandapurāṇa III presents a critical edition of the Vindhyavāsinī Cycle (Adhyāyas 34.1-61, 53-69) from the Skandapurāṇa , with an introduction and annotated English synopsis.The work is currently only available in print ...
New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World
(2023)
Did you know that many reputed Neo-Latin authors like Erasmus of Rotterdam also wrote in forms of Ancient Greek? Erasmus used this New Ancient Greek language to celebrate a royal return from Spain to Brussels, to honor ...
Due Process and Fair Trial in EU Competition Law
(2021)
In Due Process and Fair Trial in EU Competition Law, Cristina Teleki addresses the complex relationship between Articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Article 6 of the European ...
Norms beyond Empire
(2021)
Norms beyond Empire seeks to rethink the relationship between law and empire by emphasizing local normative production. Its ten chapters explore normative production by focusing on case studies from the Iberian empires in ...
Governing New Guinea; An oral history of Papuan administrators, 1950-1990
(2012)
This is the first time that indigenous Papuan administrators share with an international public their experiences governing their country. These administrators were the brokers of development. After graduating from the ...
Following the Cap-Figure in Majapahit Temple Reliefs
(2013)
This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. This publication provides a new understanding of the religious function of the East Javanese temples. The study of the cap-figures and their symbolism yields ...
Die Stiftung von Autorschaft in der neulateinischen Literatur (ca. 1350-ca. 1650)
(2014)
This monograph throws new light on the question of authorship in the Latin literature of the early modern period. It shows that authorship was not something to be taken for granted in an empathic sense, but was chiefly to ...
Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Low Countries, 1450-1650
(2011)
In the early modern Low Countries, literary culture functioned on several levels simultaneously: it provided learning, pleasure, and entertainment while also shaping public debate. From a ditty in Dutch sung in the streets ...
Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia
(2018)
The developments in Russian official symbolical, cultural and social policies as well as the contradictory trajectories of important cultural, social and intellectual trends in Russian society after the year 2000. Readership: ...
Faith in African Lived Christianity
(2019)
Faith in African Lived Christianity brings together anthropology and theology in the study of how faith shapes the understanding of social life in Africa. It offers discussions on positionality, method, and political, ...
The Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History, c. 1550-1750
(2018)
In The Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History, William A. Pettigrew and David Veevers reinterpret the role of Europe’s overseas corporations in early modern global history, uncovering their unique global sociology ...
The Wolio Language
(1988)
Language: history and general works
Religions and Trade
(2013)
Religions and Trade carves new pathways into the world of religious dynamics. In this array of essays a number of international scholars investigate the ways in which eastern and western religions were formed and transformed ...
How India Clothed the World
(2009)
Cloth has always been the most global of all traded commodities. It is an illuminating example of the circulation of goods, skills, knowledge and capital across wide geographic spaces. South Asia has been central to the ...
Unraveling the Nagoya Protocol
(2014)
The Nagoya Protocol is an unprecedented international environmental agreement that equally addresses development, distributive justice, and environmental sustainability. With a balanced view of the various possible ...
Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue
(2020)
In Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue, Ellen Breitholtz presents a novel and precise account of reasoning from an interactional perspective. The account draws on the concepts of enthymemes and topoi, originating in Aristotelian ...
At the edges of states; Dynamics of state formation in the Indonesian borderlands
(2012)
Set in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, this study explores the shifting relationships between border communities and the state along the political border with East Malaysia. The book rests on the premises that remote ...
A Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale
(2015)
This volume constitutes the first reference grammar of the Hasidic Hebrew hagiographic tales composed in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Eastern Europe. It presents a thorough survey of Hasidic Hebrew orthography, ...
Women and Crime in Post-Transitional South African Crime Fiction
(2020)
In this ground-breaking study, Sabine Binder analyses the complex ways in which female crime fictional victims, detectives and perpetrators in South African crime fiction resonate with widespread and persistent real crimes ...
From Capture to Sale
(2007)
Based on exceptionally rich private papers of Portuguese slave traders, this study provides unique insight into the diet, health and medical care of slaves during their journey from Africa to Peru in the early seventeenth ...