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The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges Between East and West, originally written in Chinese by Rong Xinjiang and now translated into English, provides insights into previously unresolved issues concerning the interactions among the societies, economies, religions and cultures of the "Western Regions", and beyond, during the first millennium.

This book is the first comprehensive description of the Arabic variety spoken in the Iranian province of Khuzestan. It contains a detailed description of its grammar based on fieldwork data with numerous examples and a collection of authentic texts.

The volume brings together contributions by scholars working in different theoretical frameworks interested in systematic explanation of language change and the interrelation between current linguistic theories and modern analytical tools and methodology. Τhe integrative basis of all work is the special focus on phenomena at the interface of semantics and syntax and the implications of corpus-based, quantitative analyses for researching diachrony.

As a key figure in baroque Rome, Sforza Pallavicino embodies many of the apparent contradictions of his era. This examination of his life and work, covering his activities as a scholar, author and Jesuit, challenges current historical periodisations and disciplinary boundaries.

A wide-ranging, inter- and transdisciplinary approach grounded in the twin rigors of theory and history, which, through close readings assesses and analyses the significance of maps to literary texts, and which examines the ways in which the literary maps imaginary and real worlds.

Cet ouvrage propose une approche globale des reconstructions érudites et des utilisations polémiques de la philosophie de la Renaissance dans la France du XIXe siècle en centrant l'attention sur une relecture politique de la pratique historiographique à l'époque de Victor Cousin. This book offers a comprehensive approach to scholarly reconstructions and polemical uses of Renaissance philosophy in nineteenth-century France by focusing on the political implications of historiographical practice in Victor Cousin's time.

In Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Master of the Minuscule, the life and discoveries of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, father of microbiology, are described in the context of the historical events of the Dutch Golden Age and discoveries of his contemporaries.

In this volume, Hanna Vanonen offers a fresh, thorough analysis of a group of intriguing War-related manuscripts from the Second Temple times, paying attention both to their contents and to manuscripts as material artifacts.

The volume proposes a breakthrough analysis of defence rights in criminal proceedings, through the lens of a computable approach to the law. It presents a multi-level research, tackling EU law, national legislation, and case-law across the European Union.

This volume contains a new and up-to date selection of case studies which offer new insights on various topics in Indo-European linguistics, with a focus on contact, variation, and reconstruction, and with methods that straddle the divide between Linguistics and Philology.

When science's "black boxes" are pried open, its workings become accessible. Like time-travellers into history but grounded in today's cultures, learners interact directly with authentic instruments and replicas. Chapters describe educational experiences sparked through collaborations interrelating museum, school and university.

This book provides memoirs and analyses designed to help students increase their critical understanding of class from theoretical, systemic, and personal perspectives. Emphasis is placed upon the power of rhetoric to fight for equitable distribution of income and class power.

In Psalm 91 and Demonic Menace Gerrit Vreugdenhil offers a thorough analysis of Psalm 91, a text that already in its earliest interpretations has been associated with the demonic realm.

Atheism is increasing, but as a phenomenon continues to be at the fringe of current research. Atheist groups and ideologies represent a wide range of attitudes, behaviour and ways of acting towards religion. The lack of a clear definition of what being atheist (or an unbeliever) means today invites us to study the issue in greater depth. This volume represents a first attempt at understanding and scrutinizing atheism, offering both a global perspective as well as specific case studies.

The handbook offers an assessment of Gregory's activities and achievements as bishop of Rome (590-604), and considers his legacy of literary works, and their reception from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation.

Utopia in the Revival of Confucian Education investigates the classics-reading movement in contemporary Chinese society by examining how people re-forge lost bonds with tradition in the revival of Confucian education and strive towards their ideal future, while seeking to overcome the problems of the present.

In this book Bertus de Villiers offers by way of selected case studies unique insight into the design of institutions for minority protection and practical insights into contemporary minority issues.

Exegesis has ethical dimensions. This innovative essay collection, largely about Hebrew Bible/Old Testament texts, is written by an international team - all Doktorkinder of a pioneer in this area, Professor John Barton, whose 70th birthday this volume celebrates.

Das vorliegende Buch bietet erstmals eine holistische und diachrone Untersuchung aller Ehrenstatuen der römischen Provinz Sizilien. Auf Grundlage eines umfangreichen Katalogs von meist unpubliziertem archäologischen und epigraphischen Material werden Fragen zu deren Entwicklung und zum räumlichen sowie sozialen Kontext beantwortet. This book presents the first comprehensive survey of honorary statues in Sicily. A wealth of previously unpublished material reconstructs the spatial and social contexts of honorary statues, offering a unique window on urbanism and society of the first Roman province.

This volume explores different perspectives of dissent and persecution from Constantine to Michael Psellos, the reasons driving dissent and causing persecutions, as well as their perceptions and depictions in the Byzantine literature.

This pioneering work in Sino-Western exchange evinced sophisticated strategies to accommodate Christianity to the Chinese context. Featuring a critical edition of the Chinese and Latin texts, which are both translated into English for the first time. An introduction, biography, and rich annotations are provided to situate this text in its cultural and intellectual context.

In this ground-breaking work on the Ottoman town of Manastir (Bitola), Robert Mihajlovski, provides a detailed account of the development of Islamic, Christian and Sephardic religious architecture and culture as it manifested in the town and precincts.

The volume aims to combine the overall view on the role of the 2019 European Parliament elections in shaping the future European project with relevant case studies.

Articles in Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire explore what it meant to be a Sunni Muslim and how the concepts of 'tradition' and 'orthodoxy' were conceived and debated in the Ottoman empire between c. 1450 and c. 1750.

Medieval Perceptual Puzzles: Theories of Sense Perception in the 13th and 14th Centuries is an anthology of texts offering an in-depth analysis of Latin medieval theories of sense-perception. The volume offers historical and systematic approaches to themes and questions that have shaped the medieval accounts of sense-perception.