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In Exceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain Elena del Río Parra brings together a myriad of criminal accounts to examine the aesthetic and rhetorical construction of violent murder and its cultural stance in early modern Spain.

This volume aims to show through various case studies how the interrelations between Jews, Muslims and Christians in Iberia were negotiated in the field of images, objects and architecture during the Later Middle Ages and Early Modernity.

The Arab Thieves examines the development of Arabic outlaw literature via a critical edition and comparative study of ten outlaw biographies compiled by the ninth/fifteenth-century Egyptian historian al-Maqrīzī.

As a catalyst to an ongoing destabilization of 'evil' within philosophical and political paradigms, this volume contains a collection of essays from different disciplines to address the question of 'evil'.

This work explores the phenomenon of happiness from a variety of angles. The papers discuss the nature and conditions of happiness, methodological questions, policies and discourses, and the significance of specific factors, like landscapes or educational environments, for happiness.

In Migration Journeys to Israel, psychologist/anthropologist Gadi BenEzer examines the neglected subject of journeys of migrants and refugees, focusing on the experience and meaning of such journeys for Jews migrating to Israel from around the world during the 20th century.

From Document to History, edited by Carlos Noreña and Nikolaos Papazarkadas, presents a series of new studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy, highlighting the contribution of documentary evidence to our understanding of ancient Greek and Roman history.

Michael T. Coughlin theorizes the possibility of interpreting art and architectural form as an index for Logos in Early Modern Italy, while simultaneously proposing a theory about the origin of Freemasonry from a historical perspective.

A Companion to Medieval Lübeck offers a new archaeological, historical and art historical as well as architectonical perspective on the medieval history of the city of Lübeck from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries.

Empathy is sometimes a surprisingly evasive emotion. It is in appearance the emotion responsible for stitching together a shared experience with our common fellow. This volume looks for the common ground between the results of Digital Media ideas on the subject, fields like Nursing or Health and Social Care, Psychiatry, Psychology, and Philosophy, and finally even in Education, Literature and Dramatic Performance.

This volume showcases a variety of innovative approaches to the study of Muslim societies and cultures, inspired by and honouring Gudrun Krämer and her role in transforming the landscape of Islamic Studies.

Musical Culture in the World of Adam de la Halle explores the 13th-century composer's music, drama, and poetry in the context of his urban environment. The authors use approaches from musicology, history, art history, and literary studies.

Heirs of the Apostles is a collection of studies on the history and culture of Arabic-speaking Christian communities, offered to Sidney H. Griffith on his eightieth birthday.

The book describes historical interests of the Åland Strait, analyses legal regimes and uses of the Åland Strait over time, and assesses the role of the Åland Strait from the Russian empire through the cold war to the 21st century.

This volume offers a critical inquiry into the ever-evolving notion of cultural heritage and the way it has been made accessible, governed, and protected by the institutional, operational, and legal structures of the European Union.

The book provides one of the first accounts of AML/CFT legislation in Australia, sets the international policy context, and outlines key international legal obligations. It assesses its effectiveness and its contribution to the erosion of democracy.

Fundamentals of Public International Law, by Giovanni Distefano, provides an overview of public international law's main principles and fundamental institutions.

Why was scholar Hadriaan Beverland banished from Holland in 1679? This book answers this question by positioning Beverland's sexual studies in their historical context for the first time, examining how his radical works challenged the intellectual, ecclesiastical, and political elite of Dutch Republic.

War, rape, domestic violence, child sexual abuse and loss challenge all those affected to find ways to come to terms with and transcend their experience. This book strives to offer new understandings.

In this first book-length study of imperial villages, Beat Kümin provides unprecedented insights into the micro-political cultures of rural communities and popular desires for local autonomy in the pre-modern German lands.

Régis Lefort envisage le phénomène de renversement, que ne cesse de convoquer Bernard Vargaftig dans son oeuvre, comme une esthétique poétique, comme l'identité même du poème. Commençant par le dernier vers et remontant jusqu'au premier, le poète creuse la langue du poème pour en identifier la source. Régis Lefort investigates how the phenomenon of reversal, present throughout the writing of Bernard Vargaftig, constitutes a poetic aesthetic and the very identity of the poem. Beginning with the last line and working back to the first, the poet burrows deep into the language of the poem to identify its source.

In this volume, which is a spin-off of the special issue of the journal Global Responsibility to Protect (vol.10/1-2, 2018), eighteen academics and practitioners examine the intersections of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle and the theory and practice of child protection.

In this volume Chris Callow provides a critical reading of the evidence for changes in Iceland's socio-political structures from its colonisation to the 1260s when leading Icelanders swore oaths of loyalty to the Norwegian king.

This book presents a contemporary focus on significant issues in STEM teaching, learning and research that are valuable in preparing students for a digital 21st century. The book chapters cover a wide spectrum of issues and topics using a wealth of research methodologies and methods.

In The Battle for Central Europe the best specialists of the respective fields give a comprehensive overview of the Ottoman-Habsburg imperial rivalry in Central Europe in the age of Süleyman the Magnificent.

The Labour of Words in Higher Education: is it Time to Reoccupy McPolicy? critically examines a widespread tendency in university policy to attribute the academic labour of staff and students to strategies, technologies and socially constructed buzz phrases.

Border Lives offers an in-depth account of how people in Arsal, a northeastern town on the border of Lebanon with Syria, experienced postwar sociality, and how they grappled with living in the margins of the Lebanese state in the period following the 1975-1990 war.

This book analyses conflict patterns in independent East Timor. It argues that understanding the role of local level actors and the dynamics of sub-national conflict is integral to understanding national level conflict and the contours of contemporary political power.