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A critical reappraisal of an important but neglected seventeenth-century English writer. Waller's works, particularly his collection of Poems (1645), drew high praise from, and influenced, a number of well-known contemporary and future poets.

Adding to the momentum of Lascasian Studies, this interdisciplinary effort of seventeen scholars offers sophisticated explorations of colonial Latin American and early modern Iberian studies.

The book gives a first-time structured overview of trade-related aspects of international economic law and comparative commercial law, including dispute resolution, in the Eurasian region. It is focused on the countries in the Caucasus, Central Asia, as well as Russia.

The Matter of Mimesis offers a rich and interdisciplinary perspective on how and why we use materials to copy, from the human body to the entire cosmos, from prehistory to the present day.

A controversial self-taught shepherd who violated the rules of literary decorum to reveal the dark side of the Scottish margins. Through a strategic use of nineteenth-century stereotypes of femininity and masculinity he lays bare the intersection with class and ethnicity in Scotland.

In the interwar period potential future military conflict seemed particularly devastating for military and civilian society alike, thanks to developments in chemical, air and armoured warfare. This study analyses how a small state, the Netherlands, approached this conundrum and aimed to survive a future war.

The book is the first corpus-based and complete description of Dolgan, a Turkic Language from the Taymyr Peninsula (Russia), analyzing its grammatical structure from a language-internal perspective. It aims at documenting the language and making it accessible for a wide range of potential users.

The book presents a critical edition and translation of a newly discovered early Irish legal text on lost and stolen property, Aidbred, and also includes editions of two other texts concerning property found on land, Heptad 64, and at sea, Muirbretha.

This collection presents fresh evidence and new perspectives on the diverse ways in which women created and interacted with cultures of song between c. 600 and c. 1500.

This volume provides deep insights into the dynamics and processes of knowledge creation and transfer in the Middle Ages by analysing the manuscript Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 - an important textual witness for the creation of the Decretum Gratiani.

This volume contains work by scholars actively publishing on origin legends across early medieval western Europe, from the fall of Rome to the high Middle Ages. Its thematic structure creates dialogue between texts and regions traditionally studied in isolation.

The Spirit throughout the Canon brings together leading Pentecostal biblical scholars from across the world as it accounts for the appearance of the divine Spirit from the Pentateuch to the Apocalypse in a defining work for Pentecostal pneumatology.

This ground-breaking study of Stravinsky's spirituality presents a new view of his music as unified, challenging the current view which describes it as often discontinuous and static. Stravinsky's spirituality is the origin of his radical restoration of time in music.

Anthology of Noonomy: Fourth Technological Revolution and Its Economic, Social and Humanitarian Consequences' suggests original research approaches based on discussion on the theory of noonomy.

This volumes presents the first urban history of science, technology, and medicine in Lisbon, 1840-1940. It reveals how science, technology and medicine permeated even the most unlikely aspects of the urban landscape in an environment that was simultaneously a port city, scientific capital and imperial metropolis.

Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change investigates the evolving nature of postcolonial literatures and criticism in response to the global, regional, and local environmental transformations brought about by anthropogenic climate change.

Thirteen original essays explore the qualities and challenges of urban life (in Europe, Asia, and the Americas) from a variety of disciplinary perspectives that illustrate the aesthetic, cultural, and political roles of bodies in the city streets.

'Retro' is not only a pervading phenomenon in today's Western culture but has informed cultural history for some centuries and thus gives momentousness to the subject of the present volume, namely literary texts and musical compositions which, for various reasons and with multiple functions, 'make it old'.

Combining meticulous analysis with macroscopic interpretation, this book pioneers in studying the Sinicizing process of Buddhist disciplinary rituals as they spread from India to China in the medieval period.

Arab Traders in their Own Words explores for the first time the largest corpus of merchant correspondence to have survived from the Ottoman period. The mostly Christian traders of the Syrian and Egyptian provinces lived through one of the most turbulent intersections of Ottoman and European imperial history

Featuring articles by an all-star, international lineup of scholars, this book offers the first sustained, comparative study of two discoveries of immense significance for the history of ancient Judaism and Christianity: the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices.