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In Incunabula in Transit Lotte Hellinga explores trade in early printed books in the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Material evidence (typography, illumination, binding) and historical context deepen understanding of the evolving book trade. Eighteenth-century collectors changed early patterns of ownership.

In World Trade Systems of the East and West, Geoffrey C. Gunn profiles Nagasaki's historical role in mediating the Japanese bullion trade, especially silver exchanged against Chinese and Vietnamese silk.

The Sanskrit Yasna Manuscript S1 contains the facsimile images of the manuscript S1 together with an introduction written by Leon Goldman.

Covering all facets of musical life in sixteenth-century Venice, the Companion addresses the city's institutions (churches, confraternities, and academies), public and private occasions of music making, musicians and instrument makers, and the rich variety of musical genres.

The Nature of Kingship c. 800-1300. The Danish Incident by Nils Hybel presents the first comprehensive history of the changeable nature of monarchial power in Danish territories from the Viking Age to the Central Middle Ages.

In Inter-state Water Law in the United States of America: What Lessons for International Water Law?, Rhett Larson offers lessons for international water law based on the successes and failures of inter-state water apportionment in the United State of America.

An examination of postcolonial studies as a revolutionary discourse that presses for a vigorous postcolonializing of the Bible. With an assessment of previous work in the field, intersectional work with sexuality, terrorism, technology, and ecology are set as future tasks.

From Single Sign to Pseudo-Script by Ben Haring presents a well-documented and illustrative example of the use and development of identity marks, whose unique and universal features are brought out by a combination of Egyptological, comparative and theoretical approaches.

In Roman Ingarden's Philosophy of Literature Wojciech Chojna makes Ingarden's philosophy of literature more consistent with Husserl's phenomenology and more immune to both absolutism and relativism. The latter is overcome not through falling back on essentialism but from within itself.

Care of the Self: Ancient Problematizations of Life and Contemporary Thought, by Lívia Flachbartová, Pavol Sucharek, and Vladislav Suvák, focus on different manifestations of "taking care of the self" present in ancient and contemporary thought.

In Hope and Otherness, Jakob Wirén explores the place and role of the religious other in contemporary Christian, Muslim and Jewish eschatology.

Seen and Unseen explores how visual mediums construct visual cultures that create limited perspectives of issues and groups, specific to this volume, the representation of Islam and Muslims. It deals with fixed and stereotypical visual representations and explores alternative and challenging representations that are reconstructing existing belief systems.

Plotinus and the Moving Image offers the first philosophical discussion on Plotinus' philosophy and film. It discusses Plotinian concepts like "the One" and "the intelligible" in a cinematic context, relates Plotinus' theory of time to the modern time-image, and finds Neoplatonic contemplation in Contemplative Cinema.

In Death in Documentaries: The Memento Mori Experience, Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter suggests that documentaries are an especially apt form of contemporary memento mori; that is, documentaries offer transformative experiences for a viewer to renew one's consciousness of mortality.

This book offers a wide range of fresh and original contributions by a distinguished group of scholars. It will be recognized as a major scholarly publication by all those interested in Islamic and Iranian intellectual history and philosophy and those working in the field of comparative philosophy.

Climate Change and Cultural Transition in Europe is an account of Europe's share in the making of global warming, which considers the past and future of climate-society interactions.

Dancer, Nun, Ghost, Goddess explores the Tale of the Heike episode of the dancers Giō and Hotoke, which first appeared in the fourteenth century and went on to inspire, in often unpredictable ways, countless artistic productions in subsequent centuries.

Shahnama Studies III offers new insights into the reception of the Shahnama or Book of Kings, composed by the Persian poet Firdausi in the 10th-11th century in eastern Iran.

In The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic: Unattended Moments, editors Simone Celine Marshall and Carole M. Cusack have assembled a collection of studies on Modernist authors that are original, thought-provoking and often delightful.

In Justifying Christian Aramaism Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman explores how Christian scholars of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century justify their study of the Targums, the Jewish Aramaic translations of the Hebrew Bible.

The Africa Yearbook is a reliable source of reference covering major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends of all sub-Saharan states - all related to developments in one calendar year.

By scrutinizing every possible Persian and European written source on the subject, Negar Habibi discusses the paintings known as farangi sāz, and in particular those of ʿAli Qoli Jebādār, one of Iran's most important Safavid artists of the 2nd half of the 17th century.En resserrant plusieurs sources écrites persanes et européennes, Negar Habibi discute des peintures connues sous le nom de farangi sāzi, spécialement celles de ʿAli Qoli Jebādār, l'un des artistes emblématiques de la 2ème moitié du XVIIe siècle.

An interdisciplinary group of scholars evaluates the global discourse on Early Modern European art.

In Re-Imagining Abraham Megan Warner challenges traditional views concerning (semi-)Deuteronomistic editing in Genesis, arguing on the basis of close readings that the presence of D-like elements points not to sympathy with the theology of D, but rather revision of it.

La restauration de la création se propose d'examiner le statut des animaux dans la pensée chrétienne ancienne et médiévale selon une perspective eschatologique, centrée sur la question du salut des animaux dans le projet divin.La restauration de la création aims to examine the status of animals in ancient and medieval Christian thought following an eschatological perspective, that is, focusing on the question of the salvation of animals according to the divine plan.

In The Aghlabids and their Neighbors an international group of scholars present the latest research on the history, art, architecture, archaeology, and numismatics of a major early Islamic dynasty, illuminating their place within medieval social and economic networks.

Al-Maqrīzī's (d. 845/1442) last work, al-Ḫabar ʿan al-basar, was completed a year before his death. This volume, edited by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, covers the history of pre-Islamic Iran from the Creation to the Parthians.

In The Chinese Annals of Batavia Leonard Blussé and Nie Dening open up a veritable treasure trove of Chinese archival sources about the autonomous history of the Chinese community of Batavia.

In Formation of a Religious Landscape: Shi'i Higher Learning in Safavid Iran, Maryam Moazzen offers the first systematic examination of Shi'i educational institution and practices by exploring the ways in which religious knowledge was produced, authenticated, and transmitted in the second half of Safavid rule (1588-1722).

In this volume in honor of Moshe J. Bernstein, students and colleagues offer their latest research on scriptural interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls and other literature, and on related themes.