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Phoenixes, textiles, and religious paintings
Imagine a Chinese phoenix shimmering on a 14th-century silk chasuble or a 15th-century Italian painting. How did this exotic motif travel so far? This book traces the journey of fenghuang-themed silks along the Silk Road, their encounter with the Christian phoenix, and their use in Catholic litur...
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Learned discourses on the indigenous in fennoscandia and beyond, c. 1500–1800
Northernmost Europe was central to several salient questions preoccupying the minds of the early modern Republic of Letters. Both laity and learned elites strove to understand the physical geography and ethnic composition of these vast borderlands, whose indigenous populations were especially int...
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Memory studies in latin america: a handbook
With this handbook we offer you a historical and conceptual map of the labors of memory in Latin America and the Caribbean from the mid-1970s to the present from a multidisciplinary perspective. The first part offers an overview of the constitutive violences that have triggered memory initiatives...
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Radical republicanism in early modern europe
Radical Republicanism in Early Modern Europe challenges the conventional narrative of republican political thought by shifting the spotlight from familiar, moderate figures to the often-overlooked radicals who pushed the boundaries of early modern republicanism. By applying the lens of “radical ...
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Memory studies in east asia: a handbook
This peer-reviewed interdisciplinary handbook illuminates how memories of war, colonialism, displacement, authoritarianism, and environmental crisis shape contemporary East Asia. Bringing together international scholars from across memory studies, history, anthropology, art history, media studies...
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Pedagogies of salvation
Pedagogies of Salvation asks questions that yoga studies and the emergent social sciences of yoga rarely confront: what actually happens in yoga studios? How do people practice, and how does yoga shape the wider lives of teachers and practitioners? What forms of embodied selfhood emerge through t...
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Kūkai’s poetics of enlightenment
Kūkai (774–835) is a pivotal figure in the history of Japanese culture, as the founder of Shingon Buddhism. He was also a brilliant writer of literary Sinitic (classical Chinese). His first extant composition, Ultimate Meaning of the Three Teachings, is a reevaluation of China’s Three Teachings (...
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A medieval introduction to theology. the prohemium to the lectures on the sentences of giles of rome, oesa (d. 1316)
This book presents the first edition and translation of Giles of Rome’s Prohemium to his lectures on the Sentences of Peter Lombard (Paris, 1276-1277), together with an extensive introduction. Giles was a student of Thomas Aquinas, yet forged his own path, thereby establishing a distinct late med...
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English, power, and inequality
What happens when a global language takes root in a postcolonial society? This book explores how English operates in Bangladesh, showing how linguistic imperialism, linguistic influentialism, and oppression shape education, culture, and opportunity. Through surveys, interviews, and phonetic analy...
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The everyday politics of language in the humanitarian experience: an arabic-english glossary
Discover The Everyday Politics of Language in the Humanitarian Experience, an innovative bilingual glossary that sheds light on the vital role of language in humanitarianism. Centering the experiences of Arabic- and/or English-speaking practitioners, volunteers, researchers, and displaced people,...
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Richard kilvington on willing, sinning, geometry, and time
Richard Kilvington was one of the most talented Oxford Calculators. His influence on late medieval philosophy and theology remains unquestionable. This volume presents a critical edition of questions 5 and 6 of Kilvington’s Questions on the Sentences, complete with an introduction. The volume she...
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Handbook of language policies in east asia
What do written characters, classrooms, and chatrooms have in common? They’re all part of China’s century-long adventure in modernizing its language. The Handbook of Language Planning and Policy in China brings together stories of how Putonghua rose to national fame, how minority languages naviga...
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Gramsci in russia
Antonio Gramsci’s time in revolutionary Russia is one of the most neglected and misunderstood, but pivotal, periods of his life. The current volume provides new research on this formative period, detailing Gramsci’s intense engagement with early Soviet leaders and explaining the importance of thi...
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Eadmer of canterbury
This book represents the first volume of essays entirely devoted to celebrated monastic author Eadmer of Canterbury (c. 1060–1120s). Showcasing new research from the fields of medieval manuscript studies, medieval intellectual, ecclesiastical, and political history, medieval literature, theology,...
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God and nature
A distinctively modern problem, the relation of revelation and reason remains a crucial topic for theology today. Yet, in the Christian tradition as in contemporary discourse, multiple models of distinguishing and relating the two persist. This study examines the dogmatic insights of Herman Bavin...
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Jalāl al-dīn al-dawānī’s commentary on ʿaḍud al-dīn al-ījī’s creed
ʿAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī (d. 756/1355) and Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī (d. 908/1502) were leading exponents of Ashʿarite philosophical theology in their respective eras, and Dawānī’s Commentary on Ījī’s Creed came to serve as a key advanced-level ʿaqīda and uṣūl al-dīn textbook in Sunni madrasas througho...
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Climate-based judicial review and liberal democracy
The monograph brings together climate protection, climate litigation, democratic processes and legal theory. It assesses how climate-related judicial review impacts liberal democracy, with particular attention to the separation of powers. Based on a selection of significant climate cases, the boo...
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Jerome's translation of psalms 90–106 iuxta hebraeos in light of descriptive translation studies
This monograph takes the reader straight into the workspace of one of history's most influential translators: Jerome of Stridon. Focusing on the Latin translation of Psalms 90–106, Martijn Jaspers addresses a deceptively simple question: how did Jerome translate these Hebrew Psalms into Latin? Dr...
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Refugee law and criminal prosecution
When refugees from certain conflict-affected regions apply for asylum, authorities ask another question: could the applicant also be responsible for serious international crimes such as war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide? As states expand the use of universal jurisdiction, immigratio...
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“hordes of locusts” or “lyving angells”?
From the gallows of Tyburn to the pulpits of Farm Street, English Jesuits, whether lauded or lamented, have featured prominently in England's religious, theological, and cultural landscapes since the arrival of Edmund Campion, Robert Persons, and Ralph Emerson in 1580. Within 45 years, the small ...
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Rhetorics of southern place
With an engaging selection of memoirs and critical analyses, this book builds on previous scholarship in Southern and Critical Media Literacy Studies. Dynamic memoirs model life and auto-ethnographic writing, and the chapters as a whole provide insight into the material conditions in which people...
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Tunisia
The present book shows that the Tunisian civil society in its different manifestations can not only look back to a long history, but has also navigated a series of authoritarian political regimes, providing Tunisia ever again with perspectives for democratic development. Our book shows not only w...
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Wealth, value and the invaluable
This book offers a social and ecological critique of contemporary capitalism by revisiting political economy, from Aristotle to Smith and Ricardo, and its radical critique by Marx. Labor is the only creator of value that acquires social recognition through monetary exchange, whether market-based ...
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Taking centre stage
Taking Centre Stage offers a rich international perspective on amateur theatre, student theatre, and theatre for young audiences. Balancing rigorous scholarship with artistic practice, the book invites researchers and practitioners to redefine the boundaries of the theatrical experience in these ...
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Biographies and liberation in africa
Our examination of the biographies in African historiography reveals a tension between the less studied biographies of “ordinary” heroes and the more canonical “approach to the personal stories of "great men" and, now increasingly, great women. Over the last two decades, the biographies of person...
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Critical posthumanism in contemporary fiction
This book is a posthumanist reading of a large number of novels for all the ways in which they call into question the nature of the human. It examines Deep Time fiction, the climate bildungsroman, subsurface fiction and the fiction of Artificial Beings, identifying several variants of posthumanis...
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Leonardo da vinci — lines of force
“Lines of Force" can mean more than the literal marks on a page, including conceptual and symbolic meanings—lines of influence—which manifest in the perspectives and approaches of different fields. Authors illuminate the natural, mechanical, emotional, technical, stylistic, spiritual, and archite...
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The great arch: english state formation as cultural revolution
Corrigan and Sayer's pioneering analysis of English state formation from the eleventh to the late nineteenth centuries profoundly challenges conventional wisdoms, showing that state formation is cultural revolution and moral regulation is fundamental to state power. Forty years after its original...
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Homemaking
Homemaking: A Spatial and Sensory Inquiry across Disciplines offers an expansive interdisciplinary study of home, homeland, and belonging across art history, literature, sociology, architecture, urban studies, film, cultural geography, gender studies, and migration studies. Moving across domestic...
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Translation and the global fifties
People, texts, and ideas traveled across the Iron Curtain and back again, even during the 1950s. As radical leftist African Americans struggled with oppression in the US, they found an audience on the other side of the Iron Curtain, in Czechoslovakia. This book uses a transnational lens to uncove...
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A companion to premodern parish studies
From the High Middle Ages, a network of parishes emerged all over Europe and beyond. Originally serving religious functions, these territorial communities soon became hubs of social, economic, political and cultural exchange involving both laity and clergy. In a pioneering survey, this collection...
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Christian translations of the qurʾān and polemics against islam
A pioneering project at the crossroads of classical and digital humanities. This groundbreaking volume introduces the first structured method for exploring how Christians translated, interpreted, and contested the Qurʾān—from the late antique Mediterranean to early modern Europe. . It uncovers n...
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Handbook of biblical manuscripts and manuscripts’ collections: syriac biblical manuscripts
For the first time, a single volume compiles the complete descriptions, characteristics, and other information on the most important Syriac biblical manuscripts, including those from the Peshitta tradition (with illustrations), as well as the Syro-Hexapla, Syro-Lucianic, and the version of Jacob ...
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Unreadability and speculative fiction
Unreadability is a crucial but largely overlooked device in literary writing. Its aesthetic potential is particularly prominent in speculative fiction, where the irreducible materiality of print can become a focus of innovation in representing otherness (the unknown, the unthinkable, the monstrou...
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Milde’s international air law and icao
Drawing on Dr. Michael Milde’s 25 years of experience in ICAO and more than 25 years of experience in the classroom as a beloved professor, Milde’s International Air Law and ICAO, 5th edition (revised by Prof. Jae Woon Lee, who was Milde’s student), presents the legal landscapes of international ...
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Collect their stories
What does it cost—and what sustains—a woman who follows the Spirit’s call into leadership when the path is narrow, contested, and often unseen? Drawing on in-depth interviews with credentialed women leaders in the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, this book listens closely to their lived experien...
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Palm wine, railways and gold
Palm Wine, Railways, and Gold reinterprets the early 20th-century rainforest in southern Côte d’Ivoire as a technological landscape. It examines the relationships among people, technology, nature, and empire, set against environmental constraints and imperial ambition. Challenging plantation-cent...
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A human god? a comparative analysis of anthropomorphisms in the hebrew and greek pentateuch
What does it mean when God “walks” or “stretches out a hand,” and what becomes of such images in Greek? This book offers the first systematic study of anthropomorphism in the Septuagint Pentateuch. It tests the common claim that translators suppressed human-like depictions of God. Drawing on a fu...
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Hybrid memory
This volume shows that memory today is postdigitally hybrid, shaped by the interaction of agencies and practices that graduate between those of a more digital and less digital character. It interrogates the digital inflection of what and how we remember, and argues that memory always stretches ac...
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Radical adult education
This book scrutinises the transformative potential of adult education in addressing the challenges posed by current global challenges. Displacement, poverty, violent conflict, climate change, polarised politics, a weakening of human rights and widening inequality become sites where contributors e...
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From ēthos to aḫlāq
It is well known that translations from Greek into Arabic played a crucial role in the development of philosophical thought in the Islamic world. Yet the trajectory of the transmitted concepts and theories in Islamic thought remains underexplored. Centering on moral philosophy, this book examines...
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Machiavelli and the anatomy of passions
Despite the long-standing image of him as a cool and rational thinker, Machiavelli keenly understood that passions perform a key function in politics: ambition, anger, fear, hope, and love are just some of the emotions that inhabit the works of Niccolò Machiavelli. Nonetheless, his thoughts on pa...
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Spiritual investment in the world: jewish theologies of worldliness
What does it mean to have a spiritual investment in the world? This collective volume, comprising nineteen essays written by leading specialists in Jewish thought, attempts to answer this question by offering voices coming from the sources of Judaism. It is the first ever volume to explore all sh...
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The transformation of wage labour under statutory regulation in england (1349–1563)
After the Black Death of 1349 in England, wage labour relations replaced feudal bondage to become the dominant form of employing labour in agriculture and construction. The statutes, setting maximum wage day-rates until the Statute of Artificers in 1563, are a contemporary testimony to the develo...
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Ritualists and rhetoric
Bimo ritualists in Liangshan (Nimu), Sichuan Province, are working to sustain and expand the Nuosu-Yi animistic cosmology amid rapid, state driven modernisation. Moving between mist shrouded or sun lit mountain landscapes, vibrant marketplaces, and bustling valley cities, bimo creatively negotiat...
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The politics of script and language
For over a millennium, sinographs and Literary Sinitic dominated written communication across East Asia. Yet within the span of a single century, their prominence unraveled. This edited volume explores how the seismic upheavals of the twentieth century, especially the turbulent currents of imperi...
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The legal framework and social consequences of free movement of persons in the european union
This book marks thirty years of progress in realizing the free movement of persons in the European Union. Its origins are to be found in a conference held at King's College, London, organised by the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association and the Centre of European Law at King's College, Londo...
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Comparing esoteric practices from a global perspective: experiments in collaborative authorship
This volume is a collection of cross-disciplinary papers co-authored by scholars from different academic fields. Readers will be intrigued to discover unexpected parallels between contemporary practices across diverse cultural and religious contexts. These include, for example, the casting of lot...
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Words of the luminaries
Discovered at Qumran and comprising a prayer for each day of the week, the Words of the Luminaries offers new perspectives on prayer during the Second Temple period and on Jewish and Christian liturgy after the temple’s destruction in 70 CE. Dated well before the sectarian settlement at Qumran, i...
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Tibetan manuscripts and rituals of the royal bön priests of mustang, nepal
The book explores a unique collection of manuscripts of the Tibetan Bon religion. The loose-leaf and sewn books, cards and individual sheets of paper belong to the Drangsong family, the chaplains of the royal house of Mustang, once an autonomous Tibetan kingdom and now a district of Nepal. Most a...
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Amsterdam: sovereignty and legal agency of a 17th-century commercial city
This volume examines the sovereignty and autonomy of the city of Amsterdam in the seventeenth century. Amsterdam was part of the institutional landscape of the county of Holland and the Dutch Republic, though its economic power encompassed the globe and elevated its political clout at home. Analy...
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Mythographie in england 1330-1450
Between 1330 and 1450, a versatile body of mythographic texts emerged in England: in letters and sermons, commentaries, treatises and poems, a narrative cosmos centred around Ovid’s Metamorphoses came to live again. This was not only due to antiquarian interests. The recourse to ancient myth serv...
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Theology and society in the second and third centuries of the hijra. volume 6.2: texts xxii-xxxv
Theology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of Islam. Originally pub...
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Digital humanities for arabic and islamic studies
In Digital Humanities for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Maxim Romanov proposes a bold vision for bringing Arabic and Islamic Studies fully into the digital age. Building on the vast OpenITI corpus—over a billion words spanning 1,400 years—Romanov demonstrates how computational tools can illuminate ...
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Migration narratives in the early modern mediterranean (1450–1850)
Migration Narratives in the Early Modern Mediterranean (1450–1850) is a collection of essays providing a fascinating insight into the migration experiences of different Mediterranean people who found themselves forced to leave their places of origin during the ‘long’ early modern period. The rati...
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Introduction to international transitional justice law
With the development of transitional justice, international transitional justice law has been growing and has become a branch of international law. On the one hand, practices and mechanisms, mainly to respond to international law violations in times of transition or after an armed conflict, have ...
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Islam, marxism, and social change
What happens when a Palestinian communist intellectual refuses to abandon Islamic heritage to his ideological opponents? Emile Tuma (1919–1985) — historian, activist, and editor of Al-Ittihad — spent decades arguing that Islam's history of rebellion, from the Zanj slave revolt to the Qarmatian mo...
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Nonnus of panopolis in context v
This volume collects the proceedings of the fifth conference in the Nonnus of Panopolis in Context series, bringing together twenty-seven contributions by leading specialists in Late Antique Greek poetry. The essays explore many aspects of the poetic production of Nonnus of Panopolis - the Dionys...
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Peripheral struggles and urban commoning in brazil and south-to-north
This book deepens our understanding of urban struggles in a variety of socio-spatial contexts and at different scales. It reveals the commonalities and differences between Brazil and other countries in the Global North. The reader will find reflective stories ranging from land occupations and cre...
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The jerusalem temple after the exile
The book assembles and analyzes the literary and archaeological information regarding the temple that stood in Jerusalem from 515-20 BCE. The chapters in the book are ordered chronologically and focus attention on what the sources report about the structures in the temple complex, the functions ...
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New perspectives in plant ethics
Plant ethics is not a hyper-specialised theoretical niche, but rather one expression of a growing awareness of human responsibilities towards living beings, ecosystems, and present and future societies. This awareness cuts across disciplines such as moral philosophy and environmental ethics, agro...
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Expanding contexts: shifting horizons in islamic art and architecture
This book explores the concept of the “context” in the study of Islamic art history. The chapters discuss new conceptual models and approaches for analyzing the historical contexts of works of art and architecture. The articles were first presented at the 8th Biennial Symposium of the Historians ...
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A companion to don juan manuel
This volume offers a rigorous and up-to-date collection of studies of Don Juan Manuel’s life, works, and cultural impact, the first in nearly 50 years. Alongside a comprehensive overview of key debates in Juan Manuel studies, including issues of authorship, manuscript transmission, Latin and Semi...
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Teaching and learning in a neo-liberal open-distance e-learning university in post-apartheid south africa
Open and distance learning is growing rapidly worldwide, with many African ODeL institutions serving over 300,000 students at the forefront. While this model aims to expand flexible access to education, it is increasingly driven by neoliberal, capitalist, and competitive agendas rather than epist...
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Leitfaden zur einführung in die paläontologie der wirbellosen
Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Leitfaden zur Einführung in die Paläontologie der Wirbellosen" verfügbar.
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Visual pedagogies for the early years
Visual pedagogies are ubiquitous in the early years, but their fundamental role in shaping the way learners are represented has yet to be seen. This book invites readers to re-view the possibilities by asking ‘what is’, 'what if’ and ‘what could be’. You will be taken on a journey that potentiate...
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Access norms in tension
Unequal access to educational materials is a persistent structural problem in the global South. Barriers to access, including those posed by copyright, affect marginalised groups acutely. To what extent does law create the problem of unequal access, and how may law operate to mitigate it? To answ...
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States’ responses to the foreign terrorist fighters phenomenon
Following the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, tens of thousands of foreigners traveled to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State and other terrorist organizations. These individuals have been referred to as ‘foreign terrorist fighters’ (FTFs). What made the mobilization of such indivi...
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The special grammar of traditional literature: studies building upon albert lord’s special grammar
The volume demonstrates how useful Lord’s term “special grammar” can be when applied to various literatures, including Homeric epic, ancient Egyptian literature, biblical literature, Latin classics, and Serbo-Croatian epic. Lord’s intuition about “special grammar” is also confirmed by careful com...
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The phd and beyond
What do doctoral students really need to know—but are rarely told—about the ins and outs of academic life? Originating from an Australian Higher Degree by Research symposium, this edited volume brings together doctoral candidates, early career researchers, supervisors, and journal editors to shar...
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Higher education in times of war and crisis
How do higher education systems endure war, and what enables them to continue teaching, learning, and research under extreme disruption? This volume answers these questions through a multiple case-study approach spanning contemporary (Ukraine, Israel), historical (World War II, Yugoslavia), and a...
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Christian-muslim relations. a bibliographical history volume 25 thematic essays (1600-1914)
Christian-Muslim Relations/i>, Volume 25 (CMR 25) Thematic essays (1600-1914) is a further volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the 7th century to the early 20th century. The chapters within it illustrate the range, complexity, and dynamics of interaction betwee...
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Ranks of the divine seekers
This is an unabridged, annotated, translation of the great Damascene savant and saint Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s (d. 751/1350) Madārij al-Sālikīn. Conceived as a critical commentary on an earlier Sufi classic by the great Hanbalite scholar Abū Ismāʿīl of Herat, Madārij aims to rejuvenate Sufism’s Q...
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Ranks of the divine seekers
This is an unabridged, annotated, translation of the great Damascene savant and saint Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s (d. 751/1350) Madārij al-Sālikīn. Conceived as a critical commentary on an earlier Sufi classic by the great Hanbalite scholar Abū Ismāʿīl of Herat, Madārij aims to rejuvenate Sufism’s Q...
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The archeiomarxists: the other communists of interwar greece (1919 – 1936)
Who were the Archeiomarxists—the “forgotten” communists of interwar Greece? This book brings them back into history. Through workers’ lives and struggles, you encounter bakers, shoemakers, tobacco workers, and war veterans who shaped a militant political culture beyond the official communist move...
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“hear, baruch, the word”
This collection of essays on the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch, or 2 Baruch, pushes the boundaries of current scholarship on ancient Jewish apocalyptic literature. It investigates the rich lives of the manuscripts that carry the text of 2 Baruch. It reads 2 Baruch in the broader context of ancient ...
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Regional industrialization in china, ca 1933
In China historical data are in short supply and, even when they are not, their quality is low. In this book, the authors deal with these issues in ca. 1933, which is the first year in which historical data, and information on data quality, at a more extensive scale became available. Besides data...
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Corporate social responsibility and human rights in africa
This book provides a detailed overview of the challenges and opportunities related to corporate social responsibility by bringing together multiple perspectives on the issues of human rights and environmental justice in Africa. Emphasising the link between corporate social responsibility and the ...
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Ancient thought in the mega-text of zhou changes, analects, and zuo zhuan
In his posthumous magnum opus, Scott Davis demonstrates how the compilers of three of the Chinese classics—the Yijing (Book of Changes), Lunyu (Confucian Analects), and Zuo zhuan (Zuo Tradition)— strategically deployed certain motifs and images as structuring elements, thereby melding these texts...
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A revolt against liberalism
This is the first study to provide a comprehensive picture of the revolt brought about by American radical historians in the 1960s and 1970s. With the turbulent sixties as a backdrop, the work of radical luminaries like Eugene Genovese, Herbert Gutman, Staughton Lynd, William Appleman Williams an...
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Endangered and marginalized languages in east and southeast asia
East and Southeast Asia are home to remarkable linguistic diversity, yet this diversity is increasingly under threat as political, economic, cultural, and other social transformations reshape the region. This volume brings together two introductory chapters and ten country-focused studies—coverin...
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Writing acadia
The phenomenal development of writing and literary creation among the francophone communities of eastern Canada has gone largely unnoticed and unprobed outside the fragmented land of Acadia. Writing Acadia attempts for the first time to observe from a distance the invention of literature in oral ...
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Literary communication from consensus to rupture
This study, the first of its kind in English, sets out to analyse literature as a form of social communication by considering developments in literary theory and practice in the German Democratic Republic in the Honecker era. Attention focuses on the changes in the discourses of literary theory a...
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Chinese overseas in the covid-19 pandemic
This volume explores how the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped the lives of Chinese Overseas across Europe, North America, and Oceania. Through empirical case studies, it examines latest transformations within Chinese diasporas in terms of identity building, resilience strategies, anti-Asian racism, and...
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The birth of venetian istria
How was Venetian Istria born and under what circumstances? This book takes you inside the diplomatic trenches where the Commune of Venice and the Patriarchate of Aquileia spent over a century arguing, fighting, and bargaining over who would rule over a patch of Istrian communes that had subjected...
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Africa yearbook volume 22
The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa – all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, S...
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The disruption of thought
Human thought is undergoing a fundamental transformation as technology simultaneously rewires our biological neural networks, cultural thinking patterns, and technological cognitive extensions. This "Three Streams" disruption represents both humanity's greatest challenge and an unprecedented oppo...
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Education for possible futures: rethinking teaching, learning, and justice in a changing world
Education systems worldwide face unprecedented challenges shaped by technological change, social inequalities, sustainability concerns and evolving educational needs. This edited volume brings together international scholars who examine how teaching, learning, leadership, assessment and education...
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Images of the nation
This collection of case studies investigates the significance and function of national identity. The authors see national consciousness in terms of the circumstances in which it arose, and in terms of the meaning which it had for a specific group or individual. Representations of the nation could...
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Fighting social injustices through teacher collaboration
We really can make a difference in teachers’ lives worldwide. From such a shared assumption, this book reminisces two research communities’ worlds — the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT) and the Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices (S-STEP) — comin...
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Horeb
Horeb: Studies in Rabbinic Culture invites you into the evolving study of rabbinic culture across antiquity and the modern period. It asks how rabbinic texts, practices, and communities take shape, how they change across time and place, and how they continue to shape Jewish thought today. You enc...
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Reviving the god
While cuneiform ritual texts dealing with the initiation of the divine image in ancient Mesopotamia were extensively studied and discussed, the ancient Mesopotamian ritual texts dealing with the restoration of the divine image were hardly investigated. This book aims to fill this gap. It presents...
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Tea in and after empire
Tea in and After Empire invites a conversation between the past and present by asking how since the eighteenth century, imperial structures, practices, ideologies, and interactions among diverse empires and their many components continue to shape tea’s meanings, values, and practices. The a...
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Reviving the holy marvels of the kami
This book examines the life, teachings, and practice methods of Honda Chikaatsu (1822-1889), clarifying their origins and discussing their impact and early dissemination, with particular focus on two important early proponents, the Shinto shrine priests Nagasawa Katsutate (1858-1940) and Miyagish...
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Lautréamont et sand
Lautréamont et Sand? Bizarre accouplement, dira-t-on. Selon la tradition, Sand serait le plus idéaliste et le plus moralisateur des écrivains; Lautréamont, au contraire, serait le plus satanique, le plus sadique, le plus nihiliste. Pour saper cette opposition, Peter Dayan commence par démontrer l...
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2 corinthians
2 Corinthians is the most personal of all Paul’s letters in which he had to defend his apostleship and the gospel message itself from ‘false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ’ (2 Cor 11:13). Paul emphasizes that what distinguishes him from these false apostles, is hi...
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The contractual monarchy of the iberian world
This volume analyzes the Spanish monarchy as a political construction grounded in negotiation and as a balance of power across multiple institutional spheres. Focusing on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the volume examines the contractual character of the Spanish monarchy as a confederat...
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Seven medical summaries by abū l-faraǧ b. aṭ-ṭayyib
Elite medical education in eleventh-century Baghdad was largely text driven. Complex scholarly and textual practices define the writings of Abū l-Faraǧ Ibn aṭ-Ṭayyib (d. 1043), chief physician at the main hospital in Baghdad. This critical edition of seven of his medical summaries for advanced st...
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Churches, northern ireland, and the second world war
American troops sent to Northern Ireland in 1942 were warned against discussing religion and politics with their hosts. Historical writing on wartime Northern Ireland appears to have partially heeded that advice by focusing on politics to the near-exclusion of religion. This book, the first detai...
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The sage and the way: essays on daoism
The Sage and the Way: Essays on Daoism brings together recent, cutting-edge work by leading figures in contemporary Daoist Studies in honor of one of the field’s foremost scholars, Fabrizio Pregadio. The carefully curated essays are organized along four major thematic axes: Daoist traditions, inn...
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