Publications
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Komodo
(1982)
Indonesia
The Secret of Time: Reconfiguring Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls
(2023)
This book contributes to the rethinking of the Dead Sea Scrolls as an essential and integral part of Judaism in the Greco-Roman period. The Qumran manuscripts attest to the reconfiguration of Jewish wisdom concepts in this ...
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès: The Essential Political Writings
(2014)
The edition contains all of Sieyès's "Essential Political Writings" during the revolutionary decade (1789-1799), among them his famous pamphlet What is the Third Estate? as well as the less well known, but no less important ...
The Devotion and Promotion of Stigmatics in Europe, c. 1800–1950
(2020)
In the nineteenth century a new type of mystic emerged in Catholic Europe. While cases of stigmatisation had been reported since the thirteenth century, this era witnessed the development of the ‘stigmatic’: young women ...
Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany
(2007)
Using the example of Eichstätt, this book challenges current witchcraft historiography by arguing that the gender of the witch-suspect was a product of the interrogation process and that the stable communities affected by ...
Drug Policies and Development
(2020)
The 12th volume of International Development Policy explores the relationship between international drug policy and development goals, both current and within a historical per-spective. Contributions address the drugs and ...
The Land between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300–1700
(2022)
The Land Between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300-1700 focuses on the strong riverine ties that connect the seas of the Mediterranean system (from the Western Mediterranean through the ...
Schutz und Andacht im Islam: Dokumente in Rollenform aus dem 14.–19. Jh.
(2020)
Schutz und Andacht im Islam befasst sich mit handschriftlichen Dokumenten in Rollenform, die zwischen dem 14. und 19. Jh. entstanden sind. Die vorgestellten Belegstücke stammen aus unterschiedlichen geographischen Kontexten: ...
Plotinus on Beauty
(2022)
Although Plotinus’ two treatises on beauty could be taken to reflect an evolution in his thought, a careful examination shows that he consistently argues for a conception of beauty as the illuminated unity in multiplicity ...
The Family System of the Paramaribo Creoles
(1974)
Indonesia