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In Gyōnen's Transmission of the Buddha Dharma in Three Countries Ronald S. Green and Chanju Mun offer a translation and assessment of Gyōnen's perspective. They describe the innovated doctrinal classification system he created and suggest his political motivation for doing so.

In Esotericism and Narrative: The Occult Fiction of Charles Williams, Aren Roukema looks through the portal of Charles Williams's fantastic fiction, analyzing the author's narrative translations of ritual experiences with modern magic, kabbalah and spiritual alchemy.

This article seeks to define 'water culture' in Roman society by examining literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, while understanding modern trends in scholarship related to the study of Roman water.

Sacred Thresholds. The Door to the Sanctuary in Late Antiquity offers a far-reaching account of liminal spaces within Christian and pagan sanctuaries, with interdisciplinary and diachronic perspectives on the experience of those who crossed from the worldly to the divine, both physically and symbolically.

Classical Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Medieval Rhetors and Their Art 400-1300, with Manuscript Survey to 1500 CE is a completely updated version of John Ward's much-used doctoral thesis of 1972, and is the definitive treatment of this fundamental aspect of medieval and rhetorical culture.

The Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences gives a detailed and systematic description of all the Persian manuscripts kept in the Library.

The studies collected in the present volume constitute the first attempt at tackling the different aspects of the "problem of the instant of change", a physical and logical problem that was intensely debated by late medieval philosophers and became popular again in the second half of the twentieth century.

In The Human Right to Water in Latin America, Anna Berti Suman investigates the development of the right to water and of water law in the Latin American context, illustrating the Latin American contribution in stimulating the social, political, and economic debate on the right to water, regionally and worldwide.

Moving from tourism to health propaganda, marriage to beauty contest, mass communication to music, Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period offers a vibrant and dynamic picture of the region which goes beyond state borders.

Seven studies document the transformation of Egypt through the dynamic fourth century, and the inauguration of the Ptolemaic state. After Alexander the Great, Ptolemy son of Lagus established himself as ruler. Continuity and change marked the Egyptian-Greek encounter.

A collection of essays on the nature of contextual theology, criteria for orthodoxy, prophetic dialogue, conversion, culture and other relevant topics as Christian faith and particular contexts encounter one another.

Dans La Miniature, dispositif artistique et modèle épistémologique, divers artistes contemporains et spécialistes en architecture, littérature ou psychologie clinique s'interrogent sur les nouvelles fonctions ludiques, didactiques, cognitives, artistiques de la miniature depuis le début des années 1960. In La miniature, dispositif artistique et modèle épistémologique, contemporary artists and specialists in architecture, literature and clinical psychology focus on the new playful, cognitive, didactic and artistic functions of the miniature since the early 1960s.

The special issue contributes new perspectives on the structure of transnational criminal justice. Investigating the law, politics and practices that structure the dynamics of this form of justice, the contributions critically examine how it functions and has impact.

Multiple accounts of how theories of human psychology and of image-making influenced each other in a decisive period in the history of philosophy and art.

Winner of the 2020 Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize. In Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire, Lara Blanchard examines the writing of interiority in paintings of women, considering correspondences to examples of erotic poetry and how such works address the concerns of artists, patrons, and viewers.

In Proving Discriminatory Violence at the European Court of Human Rights Jasmina Mačkic explores the engagement of a fundamental European institution with the phenomenon of discriminatory violence, namely, the European Court of Human Rights.

Media, Ideology and Hegemony provides what Raymond Williams once called the "extra edge of consciousness" that is absolutely essential to create, both on and offline, a better, more open, more equitable, and more democratic world.

Exploring Nature's Texture brings together a collection of internationally-known group of artists, theologians, anthropologists and philosophers to look at the imaginative possibilities of using the visual arts to address the breakdown of the human relationship with the environment.

Co-operativism and Local Development in Cuba consists of a series of pathbreaking essays on the role of co-operativism, and the new co-operatives, in the democratic transformation of Cuba and the government's plan to update the model.

Generosity and Refugees: The Kosovars in Exile is a political and social history engaging with the dimensions of generosity via a study about Kosovar refugees fleeing to Australia during the 1999 war in the former Yugoslavia.

Ocean Law Debates: The 50-Year Legacy and Emerging Issues for the Years Ahead offers historical perspectives on the ocean-law debates of the 1960s and after, leading to the signing of UNCLOS in 1982, along with perceptive analyses of various key current-day issues, including climate change, biodiversity in the Area Beyond National Jurisdiction, seabed mining, genetic prospecting, and the geopolitics of Marine Protected Areas.

A collection of essays by an international team of scholars, Archival Afterlives explores the posthumous fortunes of scientific and medical archives in early modern Britain. It demonstrates the sustaining importance of archival institutions in the growth of the "New Sciences."

A group of 17 international experts examines continuities and discontinuities in the culinary cultures of the Ottoman Empire, East-Central Europe and the Balkans from the 17th to the 19th century.

Professor György Kara, an outstanding member of academia, celebrated his 80th birthday recently. His students and colleagues commemorate this occasion with papers on a wide range of topics in Altaic Studies, with a focus on the literacy, culture and languages of the steppe civilizations.