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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 ...
Microhistories of Technology
(2023)
In this open access book, Mikael Hård tells a story of how people around the world challenged the production techniques and products brought by globalization. Retaining their autonomy and freedom, creative individuals ...
Labouring with large stones
(2021)
This book explores the cost, expressed in labour, of constructing fortifications during the Late Bronze Age in Greece (ca. 1600 – 1050 BCE). The underlying question for this study is whether the cost of large scale ...
Chapter 22 Towards a Better Understanding 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 ...
Microhistories of Technology
(2023)
In this open access book, Mikael Hård tells a story of how people around the world challenged the production techniques and products brought by globalization. Retaining their autonomy and freedom, creative individuals ...
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 ...
Chapter 22 Towards a Better Understanding 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 ...
Chapter 2 Identifying Energy-Poor Households, Experiences from the Global North
(2024)
Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South </em>expands our collective understanding of energy poverty and deepens our recognition of the phenomenon by engaging with the lived experiences 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 ...
A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction
(2023)
This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book analyzes how both readers and ...
Chapter 2 Identifying Energy-Poor Households, Experiences from the Global North
(2024)
Living with Energy Poverty: Perspectives from the Global North and South </em>expands our collective understanding of energy poverty and deepens our recognition of the phenomenon by engaging with the lived experiences of ...
Labouring with large stones
(2021)
This book explores the cost, expressed in labour, of constructing fortifications during the Late Bronze Age in Greece (ca. 1600 – 1050 BCE). The underlying question for this study is whether the cost of large scale ...
Muuttuvat suomalaiset äänimaisemat
(2017)
Muuttuvat suomalaiset äänimaisemat (Transforming Finnish Soundscapes, eds Heikki Uimonen, Meri Kytö & Kaisa Ruohonen) is a collection of research essays and texts that study the sonic environment and how it is experienced. ...
Navigating Uncertainty
(2024)
Uncertainties are everywhere. Whether it's climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technologies, we don't know what the future will hold. For many contemporary challenges, navigating uncertainty – ...
Chapter Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics
(2020)
This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances ...
Scattering Amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory
(2024)
This open access book bridges a gap between introductory Quantum Field Theory (QFT) courses and state-of-the-art research in scattering amplitudes. It covers the path from basic definitions of QFT to amplitudes, which are ...
Chapter Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics
(2020)
This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances ...
Chapter Servant Testimonies and Anglo-Indian Homes in Nineteenth-Century India
(2018)
Our house is our corner of the world (G. Bachelard) Houses and homes prove complex and powerful concepts, invoking places, persons, emotions, and fantasies. This book, with photographs from Maurice Weiss, demonstrates how ...
Governing the Sustainable Development Goals
(2022)
This open access book conceptualises the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures that connect numbers, networks and governing paradigms.The book approaches quantification not merely as a tool for governing, ...
Scattering Amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory
(2024)
This open access book bridges a gap between introductory Quantum Field Theory (QFT) courses and state-of-the-art research in scattering amplitudes. It covers the path from basic definitions of QFT to amplitudes, which are ...
Chapter 1 Presence, Museums, and Immersive Technologies
(2024)
Recently there has been a re-articulation of the concept of ‘presence’, which has evolved into an important trend in the humanities. Despite the many cross-disciplinary endeavours to define what ‘presence’ is, it proves a ...
Jesuit and English Experiences at the Mughal Court, c. 1580–1615
(2022)
This open access book reconstructs and examines a crucial episode of Anglo-Iberian diplomatic rivalry: the clash between the Portuguese-sponsored Jesuit missionaries and the English East India Company (EIC) at the Mughal ...
Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators
(2021)
This book showcases a multidisciplinary set of work on the impact of regulatory innovation on the scale and nature of tax evasion, tax avoidance, and money laundering. We consider the international tax environment an ...
Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators
(2021)
This book showcases a multidisciplinary set of work on the impact of regulatory innovation on the scale and nature of tax evasion, tax avoidance, and money laundering. We consider the international tax environment an ...
The New Production of Expert Knowledge
(2024)
This Open Access book offers a novel perspective on the role of quantification in the making of education utopias through an analysis of expert knowledge and its producers. Drawing on empirical findings from the European ...
Chapter 1 Presence, Museums, and Immersive Technologies
(2024)
Recently there has been a re-articulation of the concept of ‘presence’, which has evolved into an important trend in the humanities. Despite the many cross-disciplinary endeavours to define what ‘presence’ is, it proves a ...
The New Production of Expert Knowledge
(2024)
This Open Access book offers a novel perspective on the role of quantification in the making of education utopias through an analysis of expert knowledge and its producers. Drawing on empirical findings from the European ...
Jesuit and English Experiences at the Mughal Court, c. 1580–1615
(2022)
This open access book reconstructs and examines a crucial episode of Anglo-Iberian diplomatic rivalry: the clash between the Portuguese-sponsored Jesuit missionaries and the English East India Company (EIC) at the Mughal ...
Governing the Sustainable Development Goals
(2022)
This open access book conceptualises the Sustainable Development Goals as epistemic infrastructures that connect numbers, networks and governing paradigms.The book approaches quantification not merely as a tool for governing, ...
The Lead Books of the Sacromonte and the Parchment of the Torre Turpiana: Granada, 1588-1606
(2023)
The Archive of the Sacromonte Abbey in Granada preserves a historical treasure: Arabic texts on a sheet of parchment and on numerous small tablets of lead, which were discovered in Granada at the end of the sixteenth century ...
The Lead Books of the Sacromonte and the Parchment of the Torre Turpiana: Granada, 1588-1606
(2023)
The Archive of the Sacromonte Abbey in Granada preserves a historical treasure: Arabic texts on a sheet of parchment and on numerous small tablets of lead, which were discovered in Granada at the end of the sixteenth century ...
Chapter XBot: A Cross-Robot Software Framework for Real-Time Control
(2021)
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Chapter Multilingualism, Multiscripturalism, and Knowledge Transfer in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Graeco-Roman Judaea
(2018)
How did ancient communities approach the concept of religious knowledge? Was it something to be shared with all, or was it the provenance of certain initiates? This volume of collected essays illustrates a range of approaches ...
Chapter XBot: A Cross-Robot Software Framework for Real-Time Control
(2021)
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Libraries in the Manuscript Age
(2023)
Ancient, medieval and modern libraries in various regions (the Muslim world, East Asia, Byzantium, Western Europe) are known only by the manuscripts they kept or documents that shed light on their history. Through case ...
Libraries in the Manuscript Age
(2023)
Ancient, medieval and modern libraries in various regions (the Muslim world, East Asia, Byzantium, Western Europe) are known only by the manuscripts they kept or documents that shed light on their history. Through case ...
World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise
(2019)
In view of the current crisis of globalization, this book aims to interrogate one of its key concepts in the past decades: World Literature. In a historical moment where the established focus on transnational identities, ...
Arabic-Type Books Printed in Wallachia, Istanbul, and Beyond
(2024)
This volume brings together studies focusing on the history of printing in the Ottoman Empire and the Romanian Principalities in the 18th century across a variety of linguistic and confessional communities. It gives ...
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 ...
Chapter 4 Theatre for Influence
(2024)
Emerging from the superpowers’ covert attempts to counter their political and ideological influence without direct military confrontations, the Cold War was also enacted in the cultural sphere of many third world countries, ...
Chapter 12 NIGERIAN FILM AUDIENCES ON THE INTERNET
(2022)
This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, ...
World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise
(2019)
In view of the current crisis of globalization, this book aims to interrogate one of its key concepts in the past decades: World Literature. In a historical moment where the established focus on transnational identities, ...
Arabic-Type Books Printed in Wallachia, Istanbul, and Beyond
(2024)
This volume brings together studies focusing on the history of printing in the Ottoman Empire and the Romanian Principalities in the 18th century across a variety of linguistic and confessional communities. It gives ...
Chapter Hesperia, a Database for Palaeohispanic Languages; and AELAW, a Database for the Ancient European Languages and Writings. Challenges, Solutions, Prospects
(2019)
This miscellaneous volume collects contributions on nineteen projects dealing with Digital Epigraphy – they are diversified in geographic and chronological context, for script and language, and for typology of digital ...
Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice
(2023)
Girls, gender and identity in comicsSugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice offers an innovative, wide-ranging and geographically diverse book-length treatment of girlhood in comics. The various contributing authors and artists ...
Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice
(2023)
Girls, gender and identity in comicsSugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice offers an innovative, wide-ranging and geographically diverse book-length treatment of girlhood in comics. The various contributing authors and artists ...
Chapter Hesperia, a Database for Palaeohispanic Languages; and AELAW, a Database for the Ancient European Languages and Writings. Challenges, Solutions, Prospects
(2019)
This miscellaneous volume collects contributions on nineteen projects dealing with Digital Epigraphy – they are diversified in geographic and chronological context, for script and language, and for typology of digital ...
Changing Subjects, Moving Objects
(2022)
This is a book about people caught between home and abroad, crossing imperial boundaries in southeastern Europe at the beginning of the modern age. Through a series of life stories, which the author reconstructs with the ...
Chapter 4 Theatre for Influence
(2024)
Emerging from the superpowers’ covert attempts to counter their political and ideological influence without direct military confrontations, the Cold War was also enacted in the cultural sphere of many third world countries, ...
Chapter 12 NIGERIAN FILM AUDIENCES ON THE INTERNET
(2022)
This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, ...
Writing Tamil Catholicism
(2022)
In Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with ...
Changing Subjects, Moving Objects
(2022)
This is a book about people caught between home and abroad, crossing imperial boundaries in southeastern Europe at the beginning of the modern age. Through a series of life stories, which the author reconstructs with the ...
Writing Tamil Catholicism
(2022)
In Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with ...