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Drawing especially on new data from archaeology, history, art history and cultural or social anthropology, this book offers a new vision of the origins of the Bohemian state. It is based both on interpretation of evidence not sufficiently taken into consideration up to now, and on research results of a wide range of international scholarship.

This volume is in honour of Dani le Guinot (Mus um National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France), and was born out of our admiration for Dani le s immense contributions to her discipline. She has helped reawaken interest on the systematics of brachyuran decapods crustaceans, the true crabs. Furthermore, she has significantly helped to redefine the study of the complete evolutionary process in crabs. A total of 35 of her colleagues have contributed to this volume, submitting papers on those aspects of the Brachyura to which Dani le, herself, has significantly contributed taxonomy, evolution, morphology, palaeontology and general biology of crabs. This volume is but a small tribute to a highly respected colleague and friend from the active band of researchers that she has helped so much over the years.

"Dipterists hav always been at the vanguard of taxonomic progress. [...] Dipterists were among the first entomological communities to complete comprehensive regional catalogs, [...] interactive keys to families, and an interactive digital anatomical atlas. [...] And of course the greatest theoretical advances in taxonomy since Linnaeus and Darwin were led by a dipterist, Willi Hennig. Well, they have done it again." ""Diptera Diversity" has many more far-reaching implications for students of biodiversity than the title might at first suggest. Biogeographers, ecologists, ecosystem scientists, conservation biologists, comparative biologists generally, and especially taxonomists - without regard to taxon speciality - are well advised to read and contemplate this landmark volume. The sweeping breadth of topics and issues raised is quite unusual for any single volume. The fact that these are raised in the context of an empirically-rich tome based on a hyper-diverse taxon of worldwide importance is simply unprecedented." [From the foreword by Quentin D. Wheeler]

A shaman chants to make the sun rise in the Apatani valley, high in the eastern Himalayas. A comparative analysis of this oral text, its ritual context and performer reveal the core ideas of local society, including fertility and cohesion.

Japanese anime plays a major role in modern popular visual culture and aesthetics, yet this is the first study which sets out to put today's anime in historical context by tracking the visual links between Edo- and Meiji- period painters and the post-war period animation and manga series 'Gegegeno Kitaro' by Mizuki Shigeru.

The history of development cooperation has attracted very little research to date. This volume offers an innovative interpretation by considering the history of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, which has been in existence for over forty years now.

The study of pastoral care in the Middle Ages has seen a resurgence in recent years. Scholars are making an effort to understand the significant role pastors (secular and religious) had in the shaping of medieval society at large and so from several angles: theology, preaching, catechesis, and the analysis of many other useful sources such as confessional literature, Episcopal visitation records, monastic cartularies and the like. This work has helped eliminate or refine certain clich s about the medieval pastor, modern and medieval, as the bumbling parson who can barely make his way through the Sunday Mass. 17 scholars from North America and Europe present new scholarship in the field of medieval pastoral care, showing the many ways in which pastoral care came to play such an important role in the day to day lives of medieval people, whether through the regular preaching of sermons, or through the confessional, or with regard to the pastoral care of monks and nuns and even the pastoral care of the clergy. And it aims to encourage the continued expansion of this field.

Making use of postclassical narratology this book proposes a reading experience of the Apocalypse that underlines the role of the reader or listener for meaning creation and interpretation, based on their own life experiences and the imagistic quality of the text.

Islam and Rationality offers an account of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī as a rational theologian who created a symbiosis of philosophy and theology and infused rationality into Sufism, and how his work was received by later Muslim, Christian and Jewish scholars.

This work examines the history of Quranic Arabic. Using manuscript and medieval literary evidence, it uncovers the earliest Hijazi Arabic layer of the text, and describes its evolution into the Classical Arabic canonical reading traditions.

This book offers a sample of the wide and varied research in youth studies in the Ibero-American context. The different contributions gathered in this volume show how young Latin Americans and Spaniards develop their lives in societies characterized by complexity and inequalities.

The Impact of European Imperial Influences, Economic Rivalries, and Religious Tension on Muslim-Christian Relations during the 1860 CE Riot in Damascus

During the eighteenth century the Spanish Bourbon monarchs attempted to transform Spanish America. This study analyses the efforts to transform frontier missions, and the consequences and particularly demographic consequences for the indigenous peoples that lived on the missions.

In Regulating Vessel Discharges on the International and EU Level, Alexander Proelss and Valentin J. Schatz use the examples of scrubber washwater, sewage and ballast water to offer a detailed analysis of the regulation of marine and freshwater pollution caused by discharges from vessels.

Brill's Companion to Theocritus offers an up-to-date guide to a thorough understanding of Theocritus' literary output. Exploring his corpus from a variety of novel perspectives, it presents a detailed account of the intricacy of Theocritus' poetic art.

This close analysis of Kang's conception of a compatible and complementary relationship between scientific knowledge and 'true religion' exemplified by his Confucian religion (kongjiao) contributes to a richer understanding of this subject in China and in a more global context.

What is the contemporary status of a perceived "European" identity? This book addresses the complex negotiations around the lingering shadow of Eurocentrism, now increasingly challenged by intra-European crises and by the emergence of autonomously non-European perceptions of Europe.

Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm offers a highly relevant and needed introduction to the various interpretations and applications of the trusteeship ethical theory as developed by the Moroccan philosopher Taha Abderrahmane (b. 1944). يُقدم كتاب "الأخلاق الإسلامية ونسق الائتمانية" دراسات نقدية مقارنة للنظرية الأخلاقية الإسلامية المعاصرة كما طورها الفيلسوف المغربي طه عبد الرحمن (و. 1944م)، وتتميز هذه الدراسات بأنها تأتي من حقول وتخصصات متعددة.

In Napoleon and the Operational Art of War, the leading scholars of Napoleonic military history provide the most authoritative analysis of Napoleon's battlefield success and ultimate failure in a work that features the very best of campaign military history.

People and Institutions in the Roman Empire examines the lived experience of individuals within Roman state and social institutions including army, law, religion, arena, and baths. In so doing it contextualizes Garrett Fagan's contributions to our understanding of Roman history.

In À l'ombre des grandes puissances de Mésopotamie. Une histoire du Sūhu à l'époque néo-assyrienne, Philippe Clancier studies this region of the Euphrates, on the border of the Assyrian and Babylonian influence zones, at the beginning of the 1st millennium BC.

Regional Urban Systems in the Roman World offers comprehensive reconstructions of the urban systems of large parts of the Roman Empire. In accounting for region-specific urban patterns it uses a combination of diachronic and synchronic approaches.

Ethiopia In Theory examines the literature of the Ethiopian student movement of the 1960s in tandem with the movement's afterlife, to reflect on the connection between theory and practice in the context of dramatic social change.

In Living under the Evil Pope, Martina Mampieri presents the Hebrew Chronicle of Pope Paul IV, written in the second half of the sixteenth century by the Italian Jewish moneylender Benjamin Neḥemiah ben Elnathan (alias Guglielmo di Diodato) from Civitanova Marche.

This volume contains 17 essays on the subjects of text, canon, and scribal practice. It provides an overview of the Qumran evidence for text and canon of the Bible, an essay on the development of Hebrew and thematic studies.