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This volume deepens our understanding of Jacob Böhme's texts and contexts and facilitates future research. It encompasses sections on the text-centered approach to Böhme, facets of his environment, and aspects of his influence which bring latent features of his writings to light.

The Church as Safe Haven conceptualizes the rise of Chinese Christianity as a new civilizational paradigm that encouraged individuals and communities to construct a sacred order for empowerment in modern China.

This volume contains annotated translations of anecdotes, on musicological and socio-cultural topics, from al-Iṣbahānī's The Grand Book of Songs. Includes music theory and treatises; instruments; composition techniques; education and transmission; vocal and instrumental performances; solo and ensemble music; improvisations; emotions; dances; social status.

In a first edition and translation of The Arabic Life of Antony attributed to Serapion of Thmuis, Elizabeth Agaiby demonstrates how the redacted account bears witness to the reinterpretation of the religious memory of Antony in the Coptic Orthodox Church.

In Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative fourteen specialists study, from literary, linguistic and historical angles the textual strategies that the Greek historian Herodotus and the Roman historian Livy employ in their accounts of two famous battles in ancient history

Ancient Readers and their Scriptures explores the ways that ancient Jews and Christians interpreted the Hebrew Bible in antiquity, focusing on the processes of reading that are preserved in the textual and material record of the corpora that engage Jewish scripture.

An ethical re-presentation of trauma demands attention to the power relations embedded in the events which cause such harm. By attending to the details of what happened, our understanding of events can transform and uncover pathways to recovery and new strengths.

In Zinc for Coin and Brass Hailian Chen offers the first comprehensive history of Chinese zinc over the long eighteenth century. This book covers a wide range of topics including Qing China's political economy, material culture, environment, technology, and society.

This book examines the other from experiences of migrants and refugees to terrorist labels to constructions of the local. We find that inclusive and exclusive identities are often arbitrarily defined along ambiguous lines, yet with tangible and deeply political consequences.

Featuring contributions by preeminent scholars of early China, Confucius and the Analects Revisited: New Perspectives on Composition, Dating, and Authorship advances and examines debates surrounding the history of the Confucian Analects.

Dans La littérature transculturelle franco-persane, Esfaindyar Daneshvar discute l'évolution de l'écriture franco-persane qui aboutit progressivement au transculturalisme littéraire. Les oeuvres renferment les clés du mécanisme de leur évolution en lien avec la société d'accueil, la langue et la modernité. In his book, La littérature transculturelle franco-persane, Esfaindyar Daneshvar discusses the evolution of Franco-Persian writing, which gradually developed into literary transculturalism. The writings he discusses contain the keys to understanding that evolution, in the context of the host society and language, and modernity.

This book is a modern exploration of how we engage with fashion today through the fields of Fashion, Dress, Material Culture, Fashion Management & Communication.

This volume explores the sense and sensibility of madness in literature and the arts. As madwomen and madmen venture into unchartered or prohibited terrain, they disrupt normalcy. Yet, they may also unleash the liberatory and transformative potential of unrestrained madness.

In The World Upside Down Vincent Robert-Nicoud offers an account of the topos of the world upside-down in sixteenth-century French literature and visual culture with reference to the social, political, and religious turmoil of the period.

In Biological Time, Historical Time, 19th century scientific and literary works are analysed with regard to their mutual interactions, special focus being placed on concepts and dimensions of time.

Nature Conservation in Southern Africa. Morality and Marginality: Towards Sentient Conservation? proposes ways to study linkages between the marginality, subjectivity and agency of both human and animals, promoting a new approach to conservation referred to as 'sentient conservation'.

Production, Distribution and Appreciation: New Aspects of East Asian Lacquer Wares presents a comprehensive study on various new aspects of lacquer ware in China, Korea and Japan.

In this book Linzhu Wang offers an insightful analysis of the rights of China's minorities from the perspective of self-determination.

This volume consists of multiple original comprehensive scholarship about and approaches to the history of the fortresses of Ghana and Benin. It suggests an alternative approach and view on them.

This volume examines the culture of Canadian Jews, with particular attention to their European roots. The essays address Yiddish literature, writings of authors working in French and English, as well as contemporary Jewish life. Cet ouvrage collectif examine la culture des juifs canadiens, originaires de l'Europe de l'Est. Les essais portent sur la littérature yiddish, l'écriture des juifs de langue française et anglaise ainsi que la vie juive contemporaine au Canada.

Annotated Texts in Beṭṭa Kurumba presents interlinearised texts in a Dravidian language of southwestern India. The texts are accompanied by a grammatical sketch and a glossary. Together with rich linguistic data, they provide cultural information about a highly understudied community.

This volume is a multi-disciplinary contribution to contemporary and historical dynamics that shape the vibrant cultural, political, economic and social world of Mozambique. Comprising a global range of scholars, the book serves as a generous introduction to Mozambique.

This volume captures the diversity of approaches in crusade scholarship, which often cross cultures and academic disciplines. Essays by the contributors study the role of art and architecture, liturgy, legal practice, literature, and politics in the institution of crusade.

The essays in The Philosophy of Spirituality address spirituality as a subject of philosophical interest independent of religion and respecting diverse spiritual traditions: African, atheist, Indigenous, Indian, Stoic, and Sufic perspectives, as well as Western analytic and continental views.

Puisant dans la psychologie et la suicidologie, cet ouvrage de Michèle Bacholle examine comment des récits d'écrivains français contemporains endeuillés après suicide exposent le rôle de la famille et de l'Histoire dans ce deuil particulier and comment l'écriture permet une restructuration de soi.Using sources in psychology and suicidology, Michèle Bacholle's book examines how contemporary French writers, survivors of another person's suicide, use their narratives to underline the influence of family and History in this specific kind of mourning, and how writing enables self-restructuration.

In "A Russian-Yakut-Ewenki Trilingual Dictionary" by N.V. Sljunin, José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente offers the philological edition of a nineteenth-century source of two indigenous languages from Siberia.

This study brings together various disciplines: hermeneutics, literary theory, philosophy of science, aesthetics, etc. to reflect on the issue of reference and narrative knowing from the perspective of Ricoeur's hermeneutics.

This 28-chapter volume provides a comprehensive legal, economic and political analysis of the Belt and Road (BRI) initiative that has emerged since 2013 as the major facet of China's international economic policy.