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Processes of Cultural Change and Integration in the Roman World is a collection of studies on the mechanisms by which interaction occurred between Rome and the peoples that became part of its Empire between c. 300 BC and AD 300.

Nomads on Pilgrimage: Mongols on Wutaishan is a social history of the Mongols' pilgrimages to one of the main Buddhist mountain of China in late imperial and Republican times (1800-1940).

The 2015 issue highlights both global and local realities in religious adherence, from the demographics of the world's atheists to the emigration of Christians from the Middle East. Other case studies include inter-religious marriage patterns in Austria, Muslim immigration to Australia, and methodological challenges in counting Hasidic Jews.

In Nūbat Ramal al-Māya in Cultural Context, Carl Davila offers an edition and translation of the texts of this suite in the Moroccan Andalusian music, supported by critical apparatus and substantial commentary on its historical, literary and linguistic features.

Liberation from suffering is an underlying subject in Indian doctrinal and philosophical history. This book is a study of Dharmakīrti's discussion on the topic according to Manorathanandin, the last commentator on the Pramāṇavārttika in the Sanskrit cosmopolis.

Cellini's Perseus and Medusa and the Loggia dei Lanzi: Configurations of the Body of State explores the role that maternal influence played in the formation of Cosimo I de' Medici's absolutist state.

This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access.In Muslims in Interwar Europe, various contributors argue that Muslims constituted a group of engaged actors in the European and international space of that time.

The remarkable volume collects essays and studies on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and its application. Its aim is to offer a series of contributions, made by distinguished scholars and legal experts, on the Charter considered as a living legal instrument, with a view to understanding whether, five years after its entry into force and fifteen years after its first proclamation, it is being taken seriously, and whether its use and effective impact within the legal orders and practice of the European Union and Member States can realistically improve in the coming years.The contributions are structured and organized around three main themes, "The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights as a LegalInstrument: General Issues", "The Charter and Social Rights", and "Assessing the Legal Impact of the Charter at the National Level". Scholars and experts participating in the book have conducted, under the supervision of its editor, extensive and in-depth analysis on the many issues raised by each of these themes. The result is a fascinating and varied collection of essays that combines high academic quality with great practical usefulness.

This volume deals with the depictions of animal sacrifice from ancient Greece, full catalogues of which are included. The relevant aspects of Greek sacrifice are studied on the basis of an analysis and interpretation of these representations, combined with the pertinent textual data.

This is a case study of the Cult of the Sebastoi that was established in the city of Ephesus by the province of Asia during the late first century CE. It served as a prototypical manifestation of socio-religious developments during the late first and early second centuries in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Most studies of Graeco-Roman magic focus on the Greek texts. Stimulated by important recent finds of Latin curse-tablets, this collection of essays for the first time tries to define the nature and extent of the originality of magical practice in the Latin West

Based on the visual and textual evidence, this volume concentrates on the artistic, intellectual, religious, and socio-political importance of divine images as media of communication in the polytheistic cosmos of ancient Greece and Rome.

In The Ethiopian Homily on the Ark of the Covenant, Amsalu Tefera offers a critical edition and English translation of a lengthy fifteenth century Ethiopian text which recounts the activities of the Ark, interpreting them primarily in a Mariological manner.

The Changing Landscape of Global Financial Governance and the Role of Soft Law provides interdisciplinary perspectives on the changing landscape of global financial governance by exploring the impact and role of soft law, directly or as a precursor of hard law, pertaining to financial governance.

In The Crown, the Court and the Casa da Índia, Susannah Humble Ferreira re-evaluates the place of the overseas expansion in the policies of the Portuguese Crown in the so-called 'Age of Discoveries'.

In Europe and the Americas: Transatlantic Approaches to Human Rights, leading scholars offers new insight into topical human rights in Europe and the Americas, providing a basis for debating human rights values across the Atlantic.

The Character of Christian-Muslim Encounter is a Festschrift in honour of David Thomas, Professor of Christianity and Islam at the University of Birmingham. Over 30 essays pay tribute to this scholar by engaging topics within his own academic fields.

In Alain Chartier: Père de l'éloquence française contributors explore the diverse literary production of this influential late-medieval writer, whose concern with personal and political ethics and renovation of poetic form inspired generations of writers, and still resonate with modern readers.

Between Jerusalem and Europe: Essays in Honour of Bianca Kühnel analyses how Jerusalem is translated into the visual and material culture of Europe, and in what ways European encounters with the city have shaped its holy sites.

The Observant reform of the religious orders remains one of the most important yet understudied religious movements of the later Middle Ages. This volume provides scholars with a current, synthetic introduction to the field, and suggests new avenues for future scholarship.

This volume presents the first critical edition of books I & II of the final redaction of John Buridan's Questions Commentary on Aristotle's Physics. The edition is accompanied by a detailed guide to the contents of Buridan's questions.

Description de l'Afrique et de l'Espagne offers a partial edition of the Arabic descriptive geography by Abu ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad al-Idrīsī (d. c. 560 AH/1165 CE) entitled Kitāb Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī' khtirāq al-āfāq. Originally published by Brill in 1866, this edition of the Arabic text concerning Africa and the Iberian Peninsula by R. Dozy and M.J. de Goeje was based on the Paris and Oxford manuscripts. It includes a translation into French, with notes, a glossary (Arabic-French), and Index.

The Orality and Textuality in the Iranian World provides important evidence of textual culture's intimate, extensive, and ongoing interaction with the realm of orality, mapping out new areas and foci of research in Iranian Studies.

This volume offers the readers a diversity of insight into how multimodality works in texts, and the effects different modes have on generating and understanding meaning.