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This volume of articles in English by an international team of scholars presents new critical perspectives on the first principles of J.G. Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre and some of the key sub-disciplines of his philosophy.

The Philosophy of Brentano has as its goal to explore the significance and impact of Franz Brentano's thought, to promote a deepening of the ongoing renaissance of interest in Brentano, and to advance the project of understanding Brentano's actual philosophical positions and correcting entrenched misunderstandings.

Starting from the little reliable information available, Riccarda Suitner conducts an exciting investigation of the authors, production, illustrations, circulation and plagiarism of a series of anonymous "dialogues of the dead" in the intellectual world of the early eighteenth century, proposing a new image of the German Enlightenment.

This book explores the life and times of Jón Halldórsson, bishop of Skálholt (1322-39), a Dominican who had studied the liberal arts and canon law in Paris and Bologna, and provides a snapshot with wider implications for understanding of medieval literacy.

In The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction, Richard van Leeuwen challenges conventional perceptions of the development of 20th-century prose by arguing that Thousand and One Nights, as an intertextual model, has been a crucial influence on authors who have contributed to shaping the main literary currents in 20th-century world literature, inspiring new forms and concepts of literature and texts.

The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition offers an account of the Jewish perspective of "the stranger" from the sixteenth century until today in history, philosophy, literature and sociology.

This critical overview of the field of film and religion distinguishes three complementary approaches: the study of film as text, the investigation of how film affect audiencs, and the consideration of film and religion as agents in cultural processes. The overview concludes with a reflection on theories and methodologies of the field and some possibilities for future development.

Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism explores influences of Jewish apocalypticism and mysticism on the development of Eastern Christian theology, demonstrating that recent studies of apocalyptic literature, the Qumran Scrolls, Gnosticism, and later Jewish mysticism throw new and welcome light on the sources and continuities of Orthodox spirituality and liturgy.

An innovative perspective on the relationship between philosophy and the Bible. The early modern philosophers' interpretations of the Scriptures allow deciphering the breeding ground of the freedom of philosophizing, the theological-political debate, and the new conception of nature.

Reforming the United Nations - Fit for Purpose at 75? - examines the efforts of Secretary-General, António Guterres, to improve the aging organisation. Priorities centred on development, peace, and management. The reform was respectable but did not address fundamental problems.

This book provides a comprehensive picture of Venice's shipping industry from the days of glory to its definitive decline, challenging the accepted hierarchy of the political, economic, and environmental factors impacting the history of the maritime republic.

"Machiavelli is known chiefly for The Prince, but his main considerations on politics are in his most profound and later work Discourses on Livy, the complexity, length and style of which have often discouraged new readers and interpreters of Machiavelli, despite its historical and theoretical importance. For this reason, the Discourses has not been given the attention it deserves. This volume of newly commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on Machiavelli overcomes this gap. It is the first collective volume dedicated specifically to this work, ranging over topics such as Machiavelli's republicanism, the relation between liberty and tyranny, the role of religion, his conception of history, his writing style, his view of society as a plural and conflictive body, his suggestion of how a free state should be organized, or his notions of the people and virtáu. Contributors include: Jâerâemie Barthas, Thomas Berns, Alessandro Campi, J. Patrick Coby, Marie Gaille, Marco Geuna, Mark Jurdjevic, Cary J. Nederman, Gabriele Pedulláa, Diogo Pires Aurâelio, Fabio Raimondi, Andre Santos Campos, Miguel Vatter, and Camila Vergara"--

In this book James Nafziger covers emerging topics of cultural heritage law, particularly at the international level, by focusing primarily on the numerous work products of the International Law Association's Committee on Cultural Heritage Law.

This book presents a historical overview of colonial Mexico City and the important role it played in the creation of the early modern Hispanic world.

Wars of Position analyses the UK left's most public periodical under Thatcherism: Marxism Today. It connects the periodical's political-ideological and cultural transformation via its relationship with the Communist Party, production, distribution, publicity, media relations, cultural coverage, design, and writing style.

Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests is a showcase of new discoveries in an exciting and rapidly developing field: the study of the transition from Late Antiquity to Early Islam. The Arab conquests are shown to have changed both the Arabian conquerors and the conquered.

In De Tamerlan à Gengis Khan, Matthieu Chochoy traces the stages in the construction of knowledge about the so-called Tartar Empire through French historical works produced between the 16th and 18th centuries. Dans De Tamerlan à Gengis Khan, Matthieu Chochoy retrace les étapes de la construction d'un savoir sur de ce que l'on nommait l'empire tartare à travers les oeuvres historiques françaises produites entre le XVIe et le XVIIIe siècle.

This is the first book in English on Chinese animation and socialism that introduces the insider viewpoints of socialist animators at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio. A timely and useful reference book for researchers, students, animators, and fans interested in Chinese and even world animation.

The fifth volume of the Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative deals with speech: it discusses the types, modes and functions of speech in narrative, the boundaries between speech and narrative context, and the absence of speech (silence).

This volume examines the cultural construction of national identities from a transnational perspective by focusing on the role of international exhibitions. Between 1851 and 1958 nations became a "brand" through the global display platform of the world fair.

In The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides Gerrit Bos offers new English translations of three major and six minor medical treatises by Maimonides (1138-1204), based on the original Arabic texts and collected in one volume for the first time.

In Reflecting Mirrors, East and West Enrico Boccaccini investigates the transcultural phenomenon of advice literature for rulers, commonly referred to as Mirrors for Princes, by bringing together, for the first time, texts from multiple literary traditions.

This book offers the first coherent discussion of confiscations and fines in the Roman Republic. By combining literary, epigraphic and archaeological sources it reassesses the role of financial penalties in the Roman economy and society, moving beyond the analysis of their legalistic technicalities.

This book applies a novel method of critical reading of Lumen Gentium and Mystici Corporis in combination with redaction-historical analysis to channel the Second Vatican Council's modest attempts at pneumatological renewal into a more open and receptive faith practice and theology.

The first detailed historical study of Barbara of Cilli (1392-1451), Hungarian, Roman-German and Bohemian queen through her marriage to King (later Emperor) Sigismund of Luxembourg, known today as the "Black Queen", yet an influential and exceptional queen in her own time.

In this first monograph on the Hexaemeron of Anastasius of Sinai Dimitrios Zaganas firmly establishes its authenticity, investigates its genesis and date, offers detailed analysis of its sources, and studies its allegorical exegesis of Gen. 1-3. Dans cet ouvrage, le premier consacré à l'Hexaemeron d'Anastase le Sinaïte, Dimitrios Zaganas établit fermement son authenticité, examine sa genèse et sa datation, propose une analyse détaillée de ses sources et étudie son exégèse allégorique de Gen. 1-3.