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The first systematic study of conversion to Islam among Polish women in English, this book offers insights about lived realities of female Polish converts who create dynamic strategies of managing their spoiled identities in a variety of contexts including Poland and the UK.

This book is a collection of ten case studies on lexical borrowing in Island Southeast Asia and New Guinea, a region where we find all types and levels of borrowing, from superficial influence, limited to few semantic fields, to high rates of lexical replacement.

A sweeping collection of essays that explores medieval science, art, and technology in the thirteenth century and points toward new scholarly directions for the study of medieval craft.

Although they have hardly even been studied, patristic florilegia were vital for Syriac culture. This volume rediscovers them as laboratories where the selection of old sources produced new knowledge for the changing needs of their readers across time and space.

The Renaissance witnessed an upsurge in explanations of natural events in terms of invisibly small particles - atoms, corpuscles and minima. The contributions to this volume attempt to explain this phenomenon, considering natural philosophy, medicine, alchemy and the recovery of ancient texts.

This study argues that Theodotion's Greek text of Daniel reflects a systematic revision of the Old Greek according to a Semitic source which often preserved original readings against the combined evidence of both the Masoretic Text and the Qumran scrolls.

Andreas Loewe and Katherine Firth elucidate Luther's theory and practice of the arts to reach audiences and convince them of his Reformation message using a range of strategies, including music, images and drama.

This volume addresses the interplay of ḥadīth and ethics and contributes to examining the emerging field of ḥadīth-based ethics.

An anthology of mainly 17th to early 20th-century Western published descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Spain, Turkey, India and Persia, charting decoration, dilapidation and restoration, as well as the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East.

This book explains Aristotelian astronomy, in connection with his cosmology, physics, and metaphysics. A friendly book, in which the reader celebrates the magnificent explanatory graphics. A book matured, coherent, creative, and intense, both profitable by students and scholars.

The author and six historical characters of his own choosing tell tales and guide you through the artistic and literary maze of Latin-occupied Greece. They show you patterns, influences, and dissimilar evolutions in what appears to be a 13th-14th century cultural conundrum.

This volume analyzes the responses of several European communities in South America to the call for mobilization ordered by their country of origin and the myriad impacts of the world wars on the development of their ethnic and national identities.

This volume presents a selection of primary sources--in many cases translated into English for the first time--with introductions that provide fascinating historical materials for challenging notions of the ways in which premodern and early modern Eurasian scholars dealt with plurilingualism and monolingualism.

In this commentary, Sabine Witting provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of the Second Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, 'child prostitution' and 'child pornography'.

The explosive development of the cosmic sciences in the second half of the twentieth century is explored through the evolving network of scientific traditions in the Max Planck Society, following strategies of global collaboration and competition in questioning the Universe.

How did toleration and interreligious agreements function in Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern Age? 14 scholars have the answer.

In Ecocritical Perspectives in Teacher Education, Lupinacci, Happel-Parkins, and Turner share diverse approaches, ideas, and strategies from teacher educators who address the need for teachers to recognize and understand the deeply rooted connections between unjust human suffering and environmental degradation.

This book explores two large but often ignored multilateral investment instruments: the Unified Agreement for the Investment of Arab Capital in the Arab States and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Agreement for Promotion, Protection and Guarantee of Investments Among Member States.

In Ecocritical Perspectives in Teacher Education, Lupinacci, Happel-Parkins, and Turner share diverse approaches, ideas, and strategies from teacher educators who address the need for teachers to recognize and understand the deeply rooted connections between unjust human suffering and environmental degradation.

Visual Pedagogies: Concepts, Cases and Practices takes readers on a journey through practico-theoretical experiments in thought, research and practice. Across disciplines, these authors navigate visuality to enhance pedagogical sensibility to how we observe, analyze, criticize and reflect on through visual processes.

Oil-Age Africa offers new insights and critical reflections from qualitative research on the politics, industries and communities in African oil producers.

This collective work sheds light on our understanding of the notions of expatriation and migration. The main objective is to highlight and critically examine the dichotomy that lies beyond these terms. Based on field research by authors from four continents, this book offers a global perspective on the social distinction between the same human faces.

Visual Pedagogies: Concepts, Cases and Practices takes readers on a journey through practico-theoretical experiments in thought, research and practice. Across disciplines, these authors navigate visuality to enhance pedagogical sensibility to how we observe, analyze, criticize and reflect on through visual processes.

This book combines the political and economic history of silver flows all over the world, detailing the workers, entrepreneurs, and authorities of the Spanish Empire.

This monograph offers a thought-provoking thematic examination and chronological survey of the early modern Dutch overseas colonial expansion and downfall in Asia and in South Africa, among other institutional frameworks through the VOC, stressing its colonial character rather than company and trade features.

The essays in this volume reflect on and build on the remarkable legacies of Robert Mark and Andrew Tallon, who pioneered the application of high-technology research methods to the study of Gothic architecture.

Inside Christian churches, natural light has been harnessed to underscore theological, symbolic, and ideological statements. This volume explores how the study of sunlight can reveal aspects of the design, decoration, and function of sacred spaces in the Middle Ages.

Volume 1 of Theaters and Public Sphere in a Global and Digital Society inquires theatre, in all of its accepted meanings, in its relationship with society, institutions, cultural and local norms, and the collective imagination which these reveal.

This book addresses the role of gender in the parallel processes of nation building and construction of Europe's internal hierarchies in the long nineteenth century, for the first time comparing the connected, yet different cases of Italy and Spain.