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The central theme of Alastair Hamilton's nineteen articles is the Western acquisition of knowledge of the Arab and Ottoman world in the early modern period.

This volume explores the interface between morphosyntax and semantics-pragmatics in the domain of referential and quantificational nominal expressions, by means of synchronic and diachronic case studies from Romance and Germanic languages.

Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China offers readers an overview of the French MEP's activities in China and provides insights into the significant and complex cross-cultural encounter of the Catholic Church and Chinese society

In Ancient Egyptian Letters to the Dead: The Realm of the Dead through the Voice of the Living Julia Hsieh investigates the beliefs and practices of communicating with the dead in ancient Egypt as evidenced through extant Letters and provides detailed textual analysis.

Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c. 900-1900 is a collection of studies that investigate various types of unfreedom in the wider Black Sea area in the medieval and early modern periods.

The book represents the largest treasure trove of fragments of medieval Hebrew manuscripts found in book-bindings in Italian libraries and archives. It presents a complete bibliography and several articles by the leading scholars in the field bringing to light a large number of new discoveries.

Medieval chronicles are significant sources not just for the study of history, but also for the fields of literature, linguistics and art history. These papers, with broad chronological and geographical range, represent current approaches in the study of medieval historiography.

Founded in 910 by Duke William of Aquitaine, the abbey of Cluny rose to prominence in the eleventh century as the most influential and opulent center for monastic devotion in medieval Europe. While the twelfth century brought challenges, both internal and external, the Cluniacs showed remarkable adaptability in the changing religious climate of the high Middle Ages. Written by international experts representing a range of academic disciplines, the contributions to this volume examine the rich textual and material sources for Cluny's history, offering not only a thorough introduction to the distinctive character of Cluniac monasticism in the Middle Ages, but also the lineaments of a detailed research agenda for the next generation of historians. Contributors are: Isabelle Rosé, Steven Vanderputten, Marc Saurette, Denyse Riche, Susan Boynton, Anne Baud, Sébastien Barret, Robert Berkhofer III, Isabelle Cochelin, Michael Hänchen, Gert Melville, Eliana Magnani, Constance B. Bouchard, Benjamin Pohl, and Scott G. Bruce.

This book explores the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature, an important Jewish homiletic genre prevailing in late antiquity and early Byzantine Palestine. Originating in the culture of the study house, and addressing the synagogue audience, this literature allows us to follow the reception of the rabbinic culture in the wider Jewish society.

This is a wide-ranging study of numbers as a social and cultural phenomenon in ancient Greece, revealing both the instrumentality of numbers to polis life and the complex cultural meanings inherent in their use.

Prognostic Dreams, Otherworldly Saints, and Caliphal Ghosts: Hoca Saʿdeddīn Efendi's (d. 1599) "Selimname" comprises a critical edition, English translation, and a facsimile of his hagiographic work on controversial Ottoman sultan Selim I ("the Grim").

In Émigré Voices Lewkowicz and Grenville present twelve oral history interviews with men and women who came to Britain as Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria in the late 1930s, many of whom known for their enormous contributions to British culture.

The study of the Syriac magical traditions has largely been marginalised within Syriac studies, with the earliest treatments displaying a disparaging attitude towards both the culture and its magical practices. This volume demonstrates the incredible riches contained within the Syriac magical traditions.

This comprehensive description and penetrating analysis of the understanding and perception of smallpox, the encouragement of inoculation, and the varied responses highlights the broad cohort of enlightened Germans battling against smallpox before Edward Jenner's discovery of vaccination.

The Brigands' Song is a unique testimony to the experiences of ordinary men - and women - during wartime in pre-modern China.

This work investigates the different writing materials in use in Egypt during the 11th century and the reason for their diversity.

An examination of how debates originating in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns informed a broader exploration of the relation between past and present in various realms of eighteenth-century thought.

The localized Chinese languages of Southeast Asia, most of which are endangered, provide rich illustrations of linguistic innovation, hybridity, and shared language history that are of great interest to scholars as well as the communities themselves.

Centred on the changing fortunes of the Ethiopian Christian community in Jerusalem around 1900, this book takes the reader to the heart of the political, diplomatic and religious affairs that exercised the city's multinational population.

The book discusses citizenship in the contemporary world; as a concept, as an ideal, as a policy and as a goal to be achieved from the perspective of different academic disciplines.

This volume aims to offer a wide examination of the ways in which ancient rhetoric has been adopted, adapted, imitated, contested, admired and criticised in representative genres, cultures and spatiotemporal contexts, from antiquity through Byzantine culture, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to the 21st century CE.

Combining intellectual history with current concerns, this volume brings together fourteen essays on the past, present and possible future applications of the legal fiction known as the state of nature.

An account of the Rosicrucian manifestos, and in particular their call for a general reformation, in relation to medieval and early modern traditions and reform programs.

Twelve essays examine the spread of Hellenism in central, northern, and eastern Europe between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries.

Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise the present and try to shape the future.

The first book dedicated to the propagation of the Mass in late Imperial China unfolds dynamic interactions between this essential Catholic ritual and various cultural expressions in Chinese society, including traditional religion, architecture, art, literature, government, and theology.

Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021) is about the past and present of home-based work and homebased workers between 1800 and 2021 from a global perspective.

This book reconstructs Benjamin Bowen Carter's (1771-1831) experience learning Chinese in Canton, describes his interactions with European sinologists, traces his attempts to promote Chinese studies to his compatriots, and forces a rewriting of the earliest years of US-China relations.

This volume is the first book publication which focuses on conceptualization and polysemy of 'eye'. It encompasses a wide variety of languages to evidence cross linguistic similarities and differences in the semantic extensions of the eye.

This book brings together works by specialists from various areas of the social sciences to reflect on the presence of China in Portugal and in Portuguese-speaking territories. From the first Chinese coolies that migrated to the former Portuguese colonies more than 100 years ago, to the current investments along the Belt and Road Initiative, we take the pulse of this historic, social, political and economic presence and flows, that continues to renew and reinvent itself in the face of the challenges of contemporaneity.