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This collected volume studies the history of Western translation of premodern Chinese texts from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. A range of case-studies show how translation served to disseminate key texts, enabling them to travel in time and space, and cross linguistic and cultural barriers.

This book examines ways in which risk is conceived in areas of transport, trade and environment in light of contemporary developments and concerns such as technology deployment, climate change, political upheaval, evolving geopolitics, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Interpretation and Application of the Most-Favored-Nation Clause in Investment Arbitration studies the interpretation and application of the MFN clause by investment tribunals in relation to both substantive and procedural treatment in investment treaties.

This book looks at the fall and persistence of empires from the perspective of the powers that replaced them, and compares several cases between China and the West in the first millennium CE with surprisingly similar beginnings and different outcomes.

This book provides for the first time in English a wide range of Byzantine legal sources and explains Byzantine law through these sources, thereby offering a scholarly introduction to the background and content of Byzantine law.

This volume explores how the city and the sea converse and converge in creating new forms of everyday urbanity in archipelagic and island Southeast Asia. As such, it rethinks the place of the sea in coastal cities through a mobility-inspired understanding of urbanity itself.

L'auteur soutient que les confréries soufies, en s'opposant ou en bloquant les ambitions conservatrices de l'État, participent -- entre autres instances sociales et institutions politiques de régulation --, à la consolidation et à l'amélioration de la démocratie et de la laïcité sénégalaises. The author argues that Sufi orders participate in the improvement and consolidation of democracy and secularism in Senegal. Often, in opposing or blocking the conservative ambitions of the state holders, several Sufi guides support the citizens and deepen democratic values in the country.

How international is international humanitarian law? The Laws of Yesterday's Wars 2: From Ancient India to East Africa, together with its companion volume, The Laws of Yesterday's Wars: From Indigenous Australians to the American Civil War (Brill-Nijhoff, 2021), attempts to answer that question. It offers a culture-by-culture account of various unique restrictions placed on warfare over time. Containing essays by a range of laws of war academics and practitioners, it approaches the laws of yesterday's wars from a wide cross-section of history and culture, seeking to find any common ground and to demonstrate a history of international law outside the usual confines of its 'development' by Europeans and its later 'contributions.' This volume includes studies on Japanese, Islamic and Eastern Native American rules of war.

A collection of eleven chapters which explore the question of forgery from different disciplinary angles and in varied national contexts, using the concept of performance to gain greater insight.

The queenship of the first European Renaissance queen regnant never ceases to fascinate. As fascists to feminists fight over Isabel's legacy, we ask which recyclings of her image are legitimate or appropriate. Or has this figure taken on a life of her own?

The life of legendary revolutionary fighter and journalist Larisa Reisner (1895-1926) is set against the world-shaking events of 1917, and draws on material recently released from the Soviet archives to tell her story through the memories of those close to her, her own voluminous writings, and her six books, to be published together in translation for the first time by Brill with this biography.

This book provides new perspectives on the formation of Western intellectual history by contextualizing both Christian and Jewish exegesis from Theodulf of Orléans to Rashi (800-1100).

Buddhist Encounters and Identities across East Asia offers a fascinating picture of the intricacies of regional and cross-regional networks and the complexity of Buddhist identities emerging across Asia.

A collection of stories and analysis about women, luxury, fashion and education in South-Eastern Europe in pre-modern and modern times.

This collection of articles applies concepts developed in the wake of the so-called "spatial turn" to the field of religious studies.

Transfer of Buddhism across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries), ed. Carmen Meinert, offers a transregional and transcultural vision for religious transfer processes in Central Asian history. It explores Buddhist localisations in the Tarim basin, the Transhimalaya and Tibet.

This volume comprises fifteen articles on the differing functions that purity, impurity, pollution and related categories could fulfil in Asian and European religions and societies of the 3rd to 17th century c.E. They focus processes of religious demarcation and transfer.

Religion and Secularity assembles studies on the concept of "secularity" in various cultures, thereby tracing the entangled history of the modern re-configuration of the religious field across the Eurasion continent.

About this series "Crustaceana Monographs" has been established as a series of books on carcinology in the widest sense to accommodate papers exceeding the page limit of the journal "Crustaceana." Good quality contributions are sought that will preferably fill between 300 and 500 pages, but at least 100 pages and up to 600 pages in print. It is the aim of the Publisher to publish two or three volumes per year. In all its aspects, i.e., format, editorial instructions, etc., this series is indeed intended to represent a series of books truly attached to "Crustaceana International Journal of Crustacean Research." About this volume This is a generic revision of the entire caligid family including detailed descriptions of all genera within the family along with a discussion on the taxonomic status of the Euryphoridae. Based on the type and nontype specimens, a revision of the genera of the Caligidae was conducted. The external morphology, functional morphology, life history, and host-parasite relationships of the Caligidae are presented. A key to the genera of the Caligidae and the Euryphoridae is provided. Detailed redescriptions of 31 species belonging to 24 genera are given including revised diagnoses of all 28 recognized genera. The revision will be extremely useful to copepodologists, carcinologists, parasitologists, and ichthyologists because it compiles an extensive array of information and literature into one book. Because the Caligidae, commonly known as sea lice, have become increasingly important due to their deleterious effects on fishes, especially cultured or farmed fishes throughout the world, aqua culturists have become very concerned about sea lice . This book will be an invaluable resource for all the above mentioned professionals because it will compile a voluminous amount of disparate information into one reference book and allow the non-copepodologist, as well as experts in the field, to easily identify these genera with the use of the taxonomic key. About the authors Mas Dijori studied Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A.) and California State University, Long Beach (M.A.). He was awarded his Ph.D. at the Boston University in 1983. He has published one monographic revision and 31 papers on symbiotic Copepoda, as well as seven papers on other topics. Mas Dijori is currently Division Manager of the Environmental Monitoring Division, Bureau of Sanitation, City of Los Angeles, U.S.A. Ju-shey Ho studied Zoology at the National Taiwan University (B.S.) and Biology at the Boston University (M.S.). He was awarded his Ph.D. in Biology at the Boston University in 1969. From 1970 to 2004 he worked as an assistant, research and full professor respectively at the Boston University where he is currently emeritus professor. Ju-shey Ho published one book and 246 papers on symbiotic Copepoda.

This volume focuses on a nobleman's grave found in a ninth-century building near Pohansko, an important centre of Great Moravia, to reconsider the wider frameworks of Moravian power, society, and culture.

Akkadian Loanwords in Biblical Hebrew is an in-depth examination of Hebrew words that are of Akkadian origin or transmitted via Akkadian into the Hebrew lexicon.

This volume defines allusion then identifies the 23 likely allusions in the Elihu speeches (Job 32-37) to Job 1-31. The allusiveness of the unit is a compositional feature that explains the varied evaluations of Elihu throughout interpretive history.

This study explores the careers of Agostino Patrizi, Johann Burchard, and Paris de' Grassi, who served in Rome's Office of Ceremonies (c.1466-1528). Amid heightened competition, their diverse strategies achieved personal and institutional successes and lasting impacts on the Catholic Church.