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This volume explores social practices of framing, building and enacting community in urban-rural relations across medieval Europe, Arabia and Asia. Its contributions compare social practices and visions of community in textual, visual and material culture in a global medieval perspective.

In this volume Sabina Widmer analyses neutral Switzerland's foreign policy in Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, and Somalia during the armed conflicts and regime changes of the late 1960s and 1970s, in a context of global Cold War and decolonisation.

A tracing of the dynamics of the relationship between Faith and Philosophy throughout Western intellectual history, following the dynamics of Tertullian's ancient question: "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" In the conclusion the author presents his own approach to this question.

Dans Samuel Beckett dans les marges du surréalisme, Bernard-Olivier Posse propose une relecture de la posture auctoriale de Samuel Beckett en interrogeant l'ambiguïté de sa relation avec le mouvement français, faite d'appropriation et de rejet ponctuels.

Remembering the Holocaust in Germany, Austria, Italy and Israel: "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" as a Historical Quest offers an account on post-war coming-to-terms with the Holocaust tragedy in some European countries, such as Germany, Austria, and Italy.

This book presents a repertoire of conventionalized co-speech gestures used by Hausa speakers from northern Nigeria.

An account of the practice of producing illustrated thesis prints in the seventeenth-century Southern Low Countries.

The acceleration of globalization and the rise of China are among the most important events in the 21st century. Globalization is a double-edged sword for human society. There is a strong belief among the international community that global governance is the most effective solution to most of our global problems. In this volume Chinese scholars contribute to the study of global governance by exploring ways to effectively face the tough challenges brought by globalization, such as economic prosperity, environmental issues, and global security.

This volume presents a Construction Grammar account of Old English argument structure that integrates modern cognitive corpus linguistics and traditional philological work.

In Equality and Anti-Discrimination: The Road to Equal Rights in China, Professors Liu Xiaonan and Wang Liwan collecte experienced scholars in the field of anti-discrimination law to conduct deep discussions on the manifestations, causes, and solutions of discrimination issues in China.

A re-examinination of the Catholic Church's response to Reformation-era iconoclasm by reconstructing debates about sacred images held in the fifteen years preceding the Council of Trent's image decree (1563). The volume contains editions and translations of the original texts.

Explores a core medieval myth, the tale of an Arthurian knight called Wigalois, and the ways it connects the Yiddish-speaking Jews and the German-speaking non-Jews of the Holy Roman Empire.

Barbara Kaminska argues that visual imagery was central to premodern disability discourses and shows how interpretations of miracle stories served to justify expectations toward the impaired and the poor.

This volume presents the results of the fourteenth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire'. It focuses on the ways in which Rome's dominance influenced, changed, and created landscapes, and in which ways (Roman) landscapes were narrated and semantically represented.

The book analyses from a comparative perspective the exploration of territories, the histories of their inhabitants and local natural environments, covering different regions in Europe, the Americas and Asia, during the long eighteenth century.

This volume addresses the interdependencies between visual technologies and epistemology with regard to our perception of the medical body. The contributions investigate medical bodies as historical, technological and political constructs, constituted where knowledge formation and visual cultures intersect.

This book revisits the narrative of the Amphiareion through comprehensive analysis of its monuments; it exposes the sanctuary's function as an arena for political rediscovery and intercommunal association for individuals and communities within Attica and central Greece.

Muslim women are often spoken about or over - rarely are they engaged as experts. For the first time, this book interrogates the way Australian Muslim women understand, experience, and fight for agency on their own terms.

In this volume, Ottmar Ette unfolds a theory and practice of the Literatures of the World from a fractal and multi-perspective point of view.

This book offers an account of how merchants litigated on the basis of mercantile custom as well as specific legal procedures, using an ensemble of cases brought before the Dutch consul in Izmir in the second half of the eighteenth century.

Knowledge, Patents, Power offers a sophisticated analysis of patenting practices in the early modern Dutch Republic and their detailed legal framework, as well as the uses of expert knowledge not only in producing inventions but in evaluating them for patent purposes.

This is the first full-length case study of medical migration from a particular country and over a significant period of time. It concentrates upon Ireland who exported around forty per cent of her medical graduates from 1860 to 1960.

The book presents a multifaceted analysis of the social security system in the Balkan states and offers a comprehensive overview and recommendations on social problems in the region.

An examination of instances, experiences, and spaces of early modern privacy. It opens new avenues to understanding the structures and dynamics that shape early modern societies through examination of a wide array of sources, discourses, practices, and spatial programmes.

This book expertly illustrates the important process of authentic assessment and evaluation in the construction and dissemination of educational knowledge. One of the key strengths of this book is the diversity of contexts in which the various aspects of assessment are evidenced and discussed.

From around 1660 to his death in 1723, George Whitehead was a leader in the struggle for toleration, the development of the Quaker organisation, and the adaptation of Quaker theology to the needs of the time.

This book expertly illustrates the important process of authentic assessment and evaluation in the construction and dissemination of educational knowledge. One of the key strengths of this book is the diversity of contexts in which the various aspects of assessment are evidenced and discussed.

Drawing on a thousand years of European travel writing and mapmaking, Dym suggests that after centuries of text-based itineraries and on-the spot directions guiding travelers and constituting their reports, maps in the fifteenth century emerged as tools for Europeans to support and report the results of land and sea travel. With each succeeding generation, these linear journey maps have become increasingly common and complex, responding to changes in forms of transportation, such as air and motor car 'flight' and print technology, especially the advent of multi-color printing. This is their story.

The publication proposes to investigate the arts from the inside, namely, their common foundations: the rules for artistic creation, the processes that involve artists in their activities, the forms that they can achieve. An inquiry about art-making and artistic practices.