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This collection of essays, unquestionably a first of its kind, examines the challenges of translating Ovid into Chinese and the emerging role Ovid's poetry has played in Chinese culture, including material culture and comparative studies in a wide international context.

The societies of the lands around the Baltic Sea underwent remarkable changes in the thirteenth century. This book examines aspects of these religious, economical, societal, and institutional innovations, such as the adaption of the Christianity, emergence of urban life, and the development of economic resources.

This volume of 21 articles and an instructive introduction extends the traditional conception of imagology as a theory and method for studying the cultural construction and literary representation of national, usually European, characters. It offers new interdisciplinary, transnational, intersectional, and intermedial perspectives.

Legal Challenges in the New Digital Age addresses important legal issues related to emerging technologies, especially, how to wedge new phenomena into old frameworks; the delegation of responsibilities to technologies and how to cope with newly created powers of manipulation.

Bangs overturns stereotypes with exciting new analyses of colonial and Native life in Plymouth Colony, of religious toleration, and of historical memory.

Snow in the Tropics offers the first comprehensive history of the independent reefer operators, companies that are dedicated to transport refrigerated products by ship, from the early 20th century to the present.

Spaces of Connoisseurship explores the 'who', 'where' and 'how' of judging Old Master paintings in the nineteenth-century British art trade, via a comparison of family art dealers Thomas Agnew & Sons ("Agnew's) and London's National Gallery.

The first full English language translation of the Qing Imperial Illustrations of Tributary Peoples, commissioned by the Qianlong emperor in 1751 as the empire approached the height of its power, this volume captures the ideological underpinnings of Qing diplomatic ceremonial.

This volume presents nine articles about the development, migration, culture and identify of the ethnic minorities in socialist China. The articles in this volume, which originally appeared in Open Times (开放时代), broadly reflect the concerns, interests and perspectives of the Chinese scholars involved in the study of China's ethnic minorities.

These studies, stemming from an international symposium at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, trace an under researched trajectory of textual development for the Hebrew Bible through the Dead Sea Scrolls, sources from late antiquity, and medieval manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah.

Lilian Mathieu shows that the TV series Columbo owes its success to its implicit but formidable political dimension, as each episode is a class struggle between a rich, famous, cultured or powerful criminal and a humble and blunderer police officer.

This book explores how ocean governance expert Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918-2002) spent decades fighting to promote her radical vision of a just ocean order in the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention.

Case studies in the dynamic, contested, exciting, constant, and ever evolving relationship between Buddhism and the state across pre-modern East Asia.

This book looks at the multidisciplinary aspects of the legal, economic, and scientific aspects of deep-sea mining, whilst, providing a rich historical background on the work and progress of the International Seabed Authority over the last 25 years of its existence.

This volume provides an exciting introduction to social wellbeing and different epistemological standpoints. Targeted at stakeholders from different fields to collectively problematise and address marginalised populations' wellbeing, this volume provides researchers' and practitioners' perspectives and applications.

In The Hebrew Bible: A Millennium, manuscripts, texts, and methods applied in Hebrew Bible studies are considered through time. The Dead Sea Scrolls, the Cairo and European Genizot, as well as Late Medieval Biblical Manuscripts are examined.

This essay provides a representation of both the theory of trauma and its applications within the biblical field.

In this volume, twelve essays by leading scholars of Mamluk history provide an informative reading and insightful analysis of the political, social and economic systems of Egypt and Syria under Mamluk rule (125-1517).

Twenty-two eminent scholars of Early Modernity offer a thorough examination of the art and the main themes of François Rabelais's work in the larger context of European humanism.

This volume explores key approaches to the method and study of biblical ethics of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament with an interdisciplinary focus.

This book addresses the right of indigenous peoples to live, own and use their traditional territories, and analyses how international law addresses this. Through its meticulous examination of the interaction between international law and indigenous peoples' land rights, the work explores several burning issues such as collective rights, self-determination, property rights, cultural rights and restitution of land. It delves into the notion of past violations and the role of international law in providing for remedies, reparation and restitution. It also argues that there is a new phase in the relationship between States, indigenous peoples and private actors, such as corporations, in the making of territorial agreements.

The horse was the essential animal for the medieval world: means of transport, a vehicle of social status and a cherished companion. This volume explores the ways in which horses shaped medieval societies.

The rise and fall of the Southern Sudanese state explained through an in-depth and empirically grounded analysis of the intersection between externally supported state-building projects and the historical process of endogenous state formation.

The book investigates, from different methodological viewpoints, the multiple ways in which medieval rulers in different areas of the Mediterranean constructed their outward appearance and communicated it by means of a variety of rituals, object-types, and media.

This book demonstrates that policy, professionalism, and pedagogy are integral to the development of the best teachers that our students deserve. The empirical quantitative and qualitative studies and narratives presented in this volume demonstrate that strong analyses are needed to drive decisions on policy and practice.

Listen to the podcast! Education was established to create employees for 19th and 20th century manufacturing models. The 21st century requires a rethink. Change is happening fast, with jobs not guaranteed as robots are taking over routines. We must prepare students for uncertainty & higher-level employment - helping them think and communicate instead of retain and recall facts for passing exams. Some curricula is either irrelevant for today or gained at the press of a button. Listening and literate talk (narratives) for collaboratively solving real problems should be the focus, not facts forgotten after tests. The book explores this important debate. Contributors are: Daryle Abrahams, Nigel Adams, Peter Chatterton, Stefano Cobello, Joanna Ebner, Pierre Frath, Irene Glendinning, Susan James, Riccarda Matteucci, Gloria McGregor, Elena Milli, Elizabeth Negus, Juan Eduardo Romero, Rosemary Sage and Emma Webster.