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An investigation of the complex image-text relationships between frontispieces and illustrated title pages with the following texts in European books published between 1500 and 1800.

This book investigates into the dynamics between international incitement prohibitions and international standards on freedom of religious speech, with a special focus on the potential incitement prohibitions harbour for the protection of the rights of LGBT+ people

The volume is dedicated to Berthold of Moosburg's commentary on Proclus' Elements of Theology. This overlooked work from the 14th century proposed, as an alternative to the prevailing Aristotelian metaphysics, a superior wisdom of the Good articulated within the Platonic tradition, both pagan and Christian.

In International Law and Transition to Peace in Colombia, César Rojas-Orozco offers an account on the role of international law shaping the Colombian search of peace, using jus post bellum as the analytical framework to understand such a role.

In Educating the Catholic People, Salomoni offers a new perspective on the pedagogical, institutional, and political innovations introduced in Italy by religious teaching congregations between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.

Kids Those Days is a collection of interdisciplinary research into medieval childhood. Contributors investigate abandonment and abuse, fosterage and guardianship, criminal behavior and child-rearing, child bishops and sainthood, disabilities and miracles, and a wide variety of other subjects related to medieval children.

Studies on the Intersection of Text, Paratext, and Reception brings together the latest research on how the fields of textual criticism, manuscript studies, and reception history can and should inform one another.

A survey of the history of one of the most important biblical texts in the history of Christian spirituality while exploring original pathways for research.

European Perceptions of China and Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative analyses current European approaches to China through studies of media, student cohorts, political and social elites, and cultural attitudes. As the BRI advances, these approaches become increasingly relevant.

In Threading the Sovereign's Needle: A Philosophical Deconstruction of an Investor-State Tribunal's Authority to Award Interim Relief in Relation to Criminal Proceedings, Alexander G. Leventhal shows that, rather than a diffuse set of contradictory decisions, these cases obey a coherent philosophy. More than that, however, he explains the reasons behind the results in the rich case law on point.

Grieving, Brooding, and Transforming explores troubling biblical and historical texts in regards to their portrayal of women and calls for readers to identify the Spirit's work of grieving over brokenness, brooding over chaos, and transforming the creation.

Eighteenth-century Spain drew on the Enlightenment to reconfigure its role in the European balance of power. As its force and its weight declined, Spanish thinkers discouraged war and zealotry and pursued peace and cooperation to reconfigure the international Spanish Empire.

An introductory guide to modern scholarship on post-Classical Greek elegy and lyric.

This study explores theological themes visible within the writings of James Nayler, and locates them within their radical religious context. There is a powerful Christological vision at the heart of Nayler's religious thought that engendered a practical theology with radical political, economic, and ecological implications.

The volume collects a series of groundbreaking new studies which delve into the work of Franz Rosenzweig and assess its enduring yet still unacknowledged value for Epistemology, Aesthetics, Moral and Political Philosophy, going far beyond Theology and Philosophy of Religion.

Brill's Companion to Classics in the Early Americas opens a window onto classical receptions across the Hispanophone, Lusophone, Francophone and Anglophone Americas during the early modern period, examining classical reception as a phenomenon in transhemispheric perspective for the first

Beckett's Voices / Voicing Beckett uses 'voice' as a prism to investigate Samuel Beckett's work across a range of texts, genres, and cultures. Twenty-one international contributors evaluate Beckett's contemporary artistic legacy in relation to music, media, performance, and philosophy.

"Religious Freedom: Social-Scientific Approaches" offers original research on religious freedom from around the globe. The volume addresses the issues related to defining and understanding the concept of religious freedom with interdisciplinary methods and by incorporating sociological thinking as a constituent part of this analysis.

Theatre practitioners, artists, academics, yogis and anyone interested in how the notion of Self-realisation augmented arts-making methodologies will find many interesting themes in this multi-layered performance research project, which includes the scripts of three publicly presented, critically acclaimed theatrical productions.

As the world is changing at an extremely rapid pace, this book discusses how higher education needs to innovate to maintain its core values while responding to multiple crises, local demands and global needs, threats and opportunities.

As the world is changing at an extremely rapid pace, this book discusses how higher education needs to innovate to maintain its core values while responding to multiple crises, local demands and global needs, threats and opportunities.

Inspired by non-fiction volumes of essays, this volume is a compilation not of scholarly text, but instructional vignettes of educators from all sectors sharing the greatest lesson they learned from their mentor that was never taught, but was rather observed.

Inspired by non-fiction volumes of essays, this volume is a compilation not of scholarly text, but instructional vignettes of educators from all sectors sharing the greatest lesson they learned from their mentor that was never taught, but was rather observed.

In this volume, contributors advance the theories and praxis of Critical Digital Literacies. Aimed at literacy, teacher education, and English Education practitioners, this volume explores critical practices with digital tools, with a pronounced focus on social justice.

In this volume, contributors advance the theories and praxis of Critical Digital Literacies. Aimed at literacy, teacher education, and English Education practitioners, this volume explores critical practices with digital tools, with a pronounced focus on social justice.

Decentering Comparative Analysis in a Globalizing World aims to renew the comparative method by questioning the inherited comparative categories. By varying the analytical perspectives in different empirical and social sciences fields, this volume opens new spaces for the comparative method.

This essay relates together, in a clear and concise manner, four major groups of grammatical meanings -- evidentiality for information source, egophopricity for access to knowledge, mirativity for expectation of knowledge, and epistemic modality for attitude to knowledge.