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Stalin vs Gypsies
(2024)
In their centuries-old history, the Roma (formerly known as Gypsies) experienced many difficult moments and cruel trials from their arrival in Europe until now. The history of the Roma in the USSR is no exception in this ...
Chapter Wulfstan at Work: Recovering the Autographs of London, British Library, Additional 38651, fols. 57r–58v
(2019)
In this volume, scholars from different disciplines – Old English and Anglo-Latin literature and linguistics, palaeography, history, runology, numismatics and archaeology – explore what are here called ‘micro-texts’, i.e. ...
Xerxes and Babylonia
(2018)
In the summer of 484 BCE Babylonia revolted against Xerxes, king of Persia. In recent years, a debate has crystallized around the nature of Xerxes’ response to this challenge. This volume continues and expands this debate. ...
Gendered Peace through International Law
(2024)
Two leading feminist lawyers reflect on gender in international law to set out what a gendered peace might look like and its impact on international law in this open access book. In order to challenge orthodoxies, the book ...
Chapter The Cambridge Platonists in Continental Europe
(2019)
The present article explores Le Clerc’s relationship with Cambridge Platonism, in particular with the thought of Ralph Cudworth (1617–1688), as presented in the Bibliothèques.
Chapter Editors' Introduction
(2021)
This edited collection brings together original empirical and theoretical insights into the complex set of relations which exist between age, gender, sexualities and the media in Europe. This book investigates how engagements ...
Islamic Glass in the Making
(2022)
The ancient glass industry changed dramatically towards the end of the first millennium. The Roman glassmaking tradition of mineral soda glass was increasingly supplanted by the use of plant ash as the main fluxing agent ...
Chapter Machine Learning Models for Industrial Applications
(2021)
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Understanding Relations Between Scripts II
(2020)
The conference Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets took place in
March 2017 at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge. This was the first of a programme
of collaborative events organised as part of ...
Sri Ksetra Museum Collection Inventory
(2022)
The Sri Ksetra Museum Inventory is the most comprehensive single source of Myanmar's Pyu material culture. With artifacts dating from the early centuries of the first millennium, the inventory includes material retrieved ...
How People Compare
(2023)
This book focuses on comparison in anthropology, turning an ethnographic lens onto the diversity of comparative practice. It seeks to understand how, why and with what consequences diversely situated groups of people – ...
Chapter Recent Advances in Pre-Treatment of Plastic Packaging Waste
(2022)
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On-Surface Synthesis II
(2018)
On-surface synthesis is appearing as an extremely promising strategy to create organic nanoarchitectures with atomic precision. Molecular building blocks holding adequate functional groups are dosed onto surfaces that ...
Ciência, medicina e perícia nas tecnologias de governo
(2016)
Anthropology has been playing a central role in questioning the supposed
objective and apolitical character of scientific knowledge by underlining the socio-cultural context
and history of the constitution of any scientific ...
Il Fantasma dell’Io. La massa e l’inconscio mimetico: The Phantom of the Ego: Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious
(2018)
A ghost roams the modern world: "the ghost of the ego" With this sentence, Friedrich Nietzsche offers a diagnosis of the modern self that finds the royal road to the unconscious in mass imitation. In the footsteps of ...
The Tapuia of Northeastern Brazil in Dutch Sources (1628–1648)
(2023)
This book presents the transcriptions and annotated translations of fifteen key historical documents concerning the Tapuia indigenous people written just before and during the Dutch occupation of northeastern Brazil. The ...
Towards Interoperable Research Infrastructures for Environmental and Earth Sciences
(2020)
This open access book summarises the latest developments on data management in the EU H2020 ENVRIplus project, which brought together more than 20 environmental and Earth science research infrastructures into a single ...
Forensic Genetics in the Governance of Crime
(2020)
This open access book uses a critical sociological perspective to explore contemporary ways of reformulating the governance of crime through genetics. Through the lens of scientific knowledge and genetic technology, Machado ...
Chapter 26 Whose Transition?
(2023)
Writing in the late 1980s, Jon Fiske describes reality as “always encoded [and most especially] by the codes of our culture”. The energy transition is one of the latest sets of realities that comes with its own encoded ...
Segni, sogni, materie e scrittura dall’Egitto tardoantico all’Europa carolingia
(2023)
Segni e visioni nella letteratura di età costantiniana; un problematico compendio di ‘nome sacro’ attestato nei manoscritti copti; le funzioni intratestuali dei simboli cristiani nei papiri documentari di epoca bizantina ...
Chapter Die ‚Privaturkunde‘ im persisch-islamischen Kultur- und Rechtsbereich. Herausforderungen einer komparatistischen Diplomatik
(2019)
The European Middle Ages are generally considered to be the “age of the charter,” but there are also charters of various types handed down from other pre-modern cultures. These documents are now no longer seen as mere ...
Universality after Universalism
(2023)
The idea of universalism inherited from the French Revolution has been strongly discredited by its colonial history; today, it is also the target of nationalist attacks. What remains of it? Now available in English, Markus ...
Roma Portraits in History
(2022)
The book presents the life, visions and activities of the nascent Roma civic elite who initiated the movement for Roma civic emancipation. The book Roma Portraits in History, in the form of individual portraits, presents ...
Chapter The use of initial h- in the writing-tablets from Roman Britain
(2020)
These volumes assemble contributions presented at the XIX International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics in Munich (2017). They embrace essential topics of Latin linguistics with different theoretical and methodological ...
Chapter Predicting universal phonological contrasts
(2018)
Despite earlier work by Trubetzkoy, Jakobson and Greenberg, phonological typology is often underrepresented in typology textbooks. At the same time, most phonologists do not see a difference between phonological typology ...
Chapter Die Übersetzungen des Mönchs von Salzburg als Lieder
(2019)
The volume assembles case studies on the vernacular adaptation of Latin hymns, sequences, and antiphons in the German Middle Ages. Through selected examples, it investigates the forms and purposes for which liturgical songs ...
Chapter Analogy-Based Inference Patterns in Pharmacological Research
(2020)
Analogical arguments are ubiquitous vehicles of knowledge transfer in science and medicine. This paper outlines a Bayesian evidence-amalgamation framework for the purpose of formally exploring different analogy-based ...
Chapter What melos for Troy? Blending of Lyric Genres in the First Stasimon of Euripides’ Trojan Women
(2018)
This volume locates ancient tragic drama within a larger map of Greek lyric activity, stressing that Athenian tragedy was a vital participant in a wider song-and-performance culture. The collected essays examine the density ...
Forensic cultures in modern Europe
(2023)
This edited volume examines the performance of physicians, psychiatrists and other scientists as expert witnesses in modern European courts of law and police investigations. Its chapters discuss cases from criminal, civil ...
Chapter Significant Geographies in The Shadow Lines
(2020)
Approaches to world literature often think through binaries of local/global,
major/minor, provincial/cosmopolitan, taking them as given positions on a single world map.
To an extent, this is true of Amitav Ghosh’s ...
Minor Universality / Universalité mineure
(2023)
In times of relativism – marked by the critique of Western universalism on the one hand, and resurgent identitarian and neo-nationalistic claims to identity on the other, this volume tracks the development and relevance ...
Situating Scandinavian Poetry in the Computational Network Environment
(2023)
This book investigates how Scandinavian poetry works in the context of digital media from a historical and theoretical perspective. How do digital media intervene in poetic form? How do they remediate older forms of poetry? ...
Decor-Räume in pompejanischen Stadthäusern
(2020)
The book examines the decorative principles taking effect in the houses of Pompeii between the end of the 2nd century BCE and the early Imperial period. For the first time, individual decor phenomena are not only considered ...
Chapter Toward a Migratory Turn
(2019)
How can we think of art history as a discipline that moves process-based, performative, and cultural migratory movement to the center of its theoretical and methodical analyses? With contributions from internationally ...
Chapter 6 Dilemmas of humanitarian negotiations with the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan
(2024)
This book examines authoritarian practices in relation to humanitarian negotiations. Utilising a wide variety of perspectives and examining a range of contexts, the book considers how humanitarians assess and engage with ...
Chapter 6 Dilemmas of humanitarian negotiations with the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan
(2024)
This book examines authoritarian practices in relation to humanitarian negotiations. Utilising a wide variety of perspectives and examining a range of contexts, the book considers how humanitarians assess and engage with ...
The Future European Energy System
(2021)
This open access book analyzes the transition toward a low-carbon energy system in Europe under the aspects of flexibility and technological progress. By covering the main energy sectors – including the industry, residential, ...
Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
(2022)
Gods dwell in human environments in multiple ways. They move into imaginary spaces and explore the cosmos. This book analyzes the mapping of gods through a specific lens: their naming. By proposing this new perspective, ...
Ritual Boundaries
(2024)
In Ritual Boundaries, Joseph E. Sanzo transforms our understanding of how early Christians experienced religion in lived practice through the study of magical objects, such as amulets and grimoires. Against the prevailing ...
Le lettere di Dante
(2020)
Notwithstanding an impressive amount of secondary literature, an exhaustive study has been never devoted to the twelve letters written by Dante Alighieri after his banishment from Florence (1302–1315). This book answers ...
Social Factors in the Latinization of the Roman West
(2023)
Latinization is a strangely overlooked topic. Historians have noted it has been ‘taken for granted’ and viewed as an unremarkable by-product of ‘Romanization’, despite its central importance for understanding the Roman ...
Our Mythical Hope
(2021)
Classical Antiquity is a particularly important field in terms of “Hope studies” […]. For centuries, the ancient tradition, and classical mythology in particular, has been a common reference point for whole hosts of creators ...
Our Mythical Hope
(2021)
Classical Antiquity is a particularly important field in terms of “Hope studies” […]. For centuries, the ancient tradition, and classical mythology in particular, has been a common reference point for whole hosts of creators ...
Chapter Fragmenta poetarum Latinorum in papyris reperta: Occidente ed Oriente, testi e contesti
(2016)
The volume collates ten studies that confront the main issues of the research on Roman poetic fragments: textual criticism and interpretation, new additions to the corpus, authorship, prosody and colometry, literary genre, ...
Our Mythical Education
(2020)
Clearly, wherever myth forms part of an educational syllabus, value judgements have been made by those who chose the texts, with regard to content, approach, usage, emphases, purpose and many other elements. [...] the ...
Our Mythical Education
(2020)
Clearly, wherever myth forms part of an educational syllabus, value judgements have been made by those who chose the texts, with regard to content, approach, usage, emphases, purpose and many other elements. [...] the ...
Urban Food Sharing
(2019)
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book explores the history and current practice of food sharing. Illustrated by rich case studies from around the world, the book uses new empirical data to set an agenda ...
Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience
(2023)
In the drylands and mountains where pastoralists live, uncertainty is everywhere. In these settings, negotiating access to resources, navigating volatile markets, making use of varying social relations in times of stress, ...
Grave Reminders
(2020)
From ca. 1600 – 1000 BC, builders across southern Greece crafted thousands of rock-cut chamber tombs similar to earlier and contemporary ‘beehive’ tholos tombs. Both tomb styles were designed with multiple uses in mind, ...
Interdisciplinary Insights for Digital Touch Communication
(2020)
Communication is increasingly moving beyond ‘ways of seeing’ to ‘ways of feeling’. This Open Access book provides social design insights and implications for HCI research and design exploring digitally mediated touch ...
Chapter 12 Yoga and Meditation as a Health Intervention
(2020)
The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. The book ...
Chapter Medieval Endowment Cultures in Western India: Buddhist and Muslim Encounters – Some Preliminary Observations
(2019)
The volume analyses the encounter between Buddhist and Muslim communities in South and Central Asia during the medieval period. The articles by historians, epigraphists, philologists, art historians and archaeologists ...
Naturae cognoscere causas…
(2021)
The book prepared by students, working under tutorship of their teachers, from three Polish high schools, on the theme of Classical Antiquity and Nature, within the Our Mythical Childhood Project.
Texts: Teachers and ...
Active Rheology Control of Cementitious Materials
(2023)
This book reports on cutting-edge research within the new field of active rheology control of cementitious materials, presenting new ideas developed within the ERC Advanced Grant Project, SmartCast (hosted at Ghent ...
Homo Mimeticus II
(2024)
Second volume in the Homo Mimeticus mini-series, which advances the emerging transdisciplinary field of mimetic studies
After the linguistic and the affective turns, the new materialist and the performative turns, the ...
Naturae cognoscere causas…
(2021)
The book prepared by students, working under tutorship of their teachers, from three Polish high schools, on the theme of Classical Antiquity and Nature, within the Our Mythical Childhood Project.
Texts: Teachers and ...
Shakir M. Pashov. History of the Gypsies in Bulgaria and Europe: Roma
(2023)
The publication of this outstanding book marks the beginning of the Brill book series Roma History and Culture. The core of the present volume is an until now unpublished manuscript by Shakir Pashov (1898-1981), a Bulgarian ...
Wissenschaftskarrieren und Gender Bias
(2024)
What form does social change take with regard to equal opportunities in academic careers? How can gender bias be counteracted structurally and sustainably? The anthology pursues a double focus on this change towards an ...
Chapter Medieval Endowment Cultures in Western India: Buddhist and Muslim Encounters – Some Preliminary Observations
(2019)
The volume analyses the encounter between Buddhist and Muslim communities in South and Central Asia during the medieval period. The articles by historians, epigraphists, philologists, art historians and archaeologists ...
Grave Reminders
(2020)
From ca. 1600 – 1000 BC, builders across southern Greece crafted thousands of rock-cut chamber tombs similar to earlier and contemporary ‘beehive’ tholos tombs. Both tomb styles were designed with multiple uses in mind, ...
Shakir M. Pashov. History of the Gypsies in Bulgaria and Europe: Roma
(2023)
The publication of this outstanding book marks the beginning of the Brill book series Roma History and Culture. The core of the present volume is an until now unpublished manuscript by Shakir Pashov (1898-1981), a Bulgarian ...
Chapter 12 Yoga and Meditation as a Health Intervention
(2020)
The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. The book ...
Active Rheology Control of Cementitious Materials
(2023)
This book reports on cutting-edge research within the new field of active rheology control of cementitious materials, presenting new ideas developed within the ERC Advanced Grant Project, SmartCast (hosted at Ghent ...
Chapter 1 Reframing Yoga and Meditation Studies
(2020)
The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. The book ...
Interdisciplinary Insights for Digital Touch Communication
(2020)
Communication is increasingly moving beyond ‘ways of seeing’ to ‘ways of feeling’. This Open Access book provides social design insights and implications for HCI research and design exploring digitally mediated touch ...
Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala
(2024)
This book examines material and multi-sensorial expressions of Shiʿi Islam in diverse, and understudied demographic and geographic contexts.It engages with conceptual debates and makes several propositions that push the ...
Chapter Digital Sieves
(2019)
The subject of About Sieves and Sieving is the motif of the sieve, starting from the enigmatic portraits of Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland (1533-1603). The sieve exhibits a wide range of meanings that extends ...
Chapter 1 Reframing Yoga and Meditation Studies
(2020)
The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. The book ...
Chapter Strangers in a Foreign Language
(2018)
Since the 19th century, art historians frequently faced the challenge of writing for an international audience and thus to translate their own work in another language. The book aims to study the biographical and academic ...
Chapter Strangers in a Foreign Language
(2018)
Since the 19th century, art historians frequently faced the challenge of writing for an international audience and thus to translate their own work in another language. The book aims to study the biographical and academic ...
Monsoon
(2017)
Monsoon Assemblages is a research project funded
by the European Research Council (ERC) under
the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme (Grant Agreement No.
697873). Monsoon [+ other] Airs is ...
Towards Socially Integrative Cities
(2021)
This book is based on the results of the TRANSURBAN-EU-CHINA project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 770141. The material ...
Chapter 1 Examining the illusion of accountability
(2009)
Do EU citizens have real opportunities to hold decision-makers accountable, or does the current institutional set-up in the Union merely create an illusion of accountability? That is the central question of this volume. ...
Chapter 1 Examining the illusion of accountability
(2009)
Do EU citizens have real opportunities to hold decision-makers accountable, or does the current institutional set-up in the Union merely create an illusion of accountability? That is the central question of this volume. ...
Artes Grammaticae in frammenti
(2015)
Artes Grammaticae in frammenti collects and scrutinizes all the known Latin and bilingual (Greek-Latin and Latin-Greek) grammatical texts on papyrus (1st cent. B.C. - VIth cent. A.D) in order to add further tesserae in the ...
Towards Socially Integrative Cities
(2021)
This book is based on the results of the TRANSURBAN-EU-CHINA project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 770141. The material ...
Chapter Können Tiere irren? Philosophische Antworten aus dem 13. und 14. Jahrhundert
(2018)
The volume is a comprehensive evaluation of epistemic, practical, veridical issues from the perspective of every kind of failure, disruption, or confusion that comes under the general rubric of “error.” The analysis is not ...
Chapter 1 The Global Face of Energy Poverty
(2024)
Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South expands our collective understanding of energy poverty and deepens our recognition of the phenomenon by engaging with the lived experiences of ...
Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology
(2017)
cognitive science; semantics; language
Urban Terrorism in Contemporary Europe
(2024)
This open access book sheds light on collective practices of remembering, imagining and anticipating in relation to recent acts of urban terrorism in Europe. Analysing a range of personal and collective responses to urban ...
Chapter Historia literaria en la edad global: una lectura crítica desde América Latina
(2018)
The two volumes gather the most important findings of the nine sessions held at the AIH conference in Münster, Germany, in 2016. The contributions focus on current research trends in Spanish literary studies, cultural ...
Chapter 1 The Global Face of Energy Poverty
(2024)
Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South expands our collective understanding of energy poverty and deepens our recognition of the phenomenon by engaging with the lived experiences of ...
Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology
(2017)
cognitive science; semantics; language
Mere Bagatelles
(2024)
Engaging with previously overlooked diaries by women in Ireland, written between 1760 and 1810, this book opens new avenues concerning authorship and female agency, transforming our understanding of women’s contributions ...
Planar Maps, Random Walks and Circle Packing
(2020)
This open access book focuses on the interplay between random walks on planar maps and Koebe’s circle packing theorem. Further topics covered include electric networks, the He–Schramm theorem on infinite circle packings, ...
Chapter Urban Mining of e-Waste and the Role of Consumers
(2022)
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Chasing Mythical Beasts
(2020)
Classical Antiquity is strongly present in youth culture globally. It accompanies children during their initiation into adulthood and thereby deepens their knowledge of the cultural code based on the Greek and Roman heritage. ...
Chapter Urban Mining of e-Waste and the Role of Consumers
(2022)
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Chasing Mythical Beasts
(2020)
Classical Antiquity is strongly present in youth culture globally. It accompanies children during their initiation into adulthood and thereby deepens their knowledge of the cultural code based on the Greek and Roman heritage. ...
Curating (Post-)Socialist Environments
(2021)
In which ways are environments (post-)socialist and how do they come about? How is the relationship between the built environment, memory, and debates on identity enacted? What are the spatial, material, visual, and aesthetic ...
Selling & Collecting
(2018)
Based on the contributions given at a conference held at the University of Cagliari in September 2017, this collection of essays provides an insight into the distribution and acquisition of printed books in the sixteenth ...
Accounts and Accountability in Late Medieval Europe
(2020)
This volume stems from a conference organised in November 2018 at the
University of Bucharest in the frame of the European Research Council
project CASTELLANY ACCOUNTS, “Record-keeping, fiscal reform, and
the rise of ...
Magnifying perspectives
(2017)
Magnifying Perspectives is a festschrift for Robert Ross, Emeritus Professor of African History at Leiden University. The contributions have been written by the students and colleagues of Robert Ross, reflecting his ...
Curating (Post-)Socialist Environments
(2021)
In which ways are environments (post-)socialist and how do they come about? How is the relationship between the built environment, memory, and debates on identity enacted? What are the spatial, material, visual, and aesthetic ...