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This volume focuses on the connections of Arabic-speaking Christians with Eastern-European Christians in Ottoman times, it discusses the circulation of literature, models, iconography, and knowhow between the Middle East and Eastern Europe, and presents new research devoted to them.

Languages formed by adults without formal instruction, a product of language contact, likely replicate the emergence of grammars in hereditary languages. The phenomena attested in such languages provide new insights into how grammatical forms and meanings emerge in languages.

This volume brings together some of the best new works on armed Jews in the Americas. Links between Jews and their ties to weapons are addressed through multiple cultural, political, social, and ideological contexts, thus breaking down longstanding, stilted myths in many societies about Jews and weaponry.

This innovative study combines readings of contemporary literature, art, and performance to explore the diverse and complex directions of contemporary Jewish culture in Israel and the diaspora.

This volume is the first to adopt systematically a comparative approach to the role of ancient texts and traditions in early modern scholarship, science, medicine, and theology. It offers a new method for understanding early modern knowledge.

The Emergence of Pastoral Authority in the French Reformed Church, c.1555-c.1572 offers an account of the issues and ambiguities connected to the implementation of the authority of the first generation of Geneva-trained French Reformed pastors.

Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century: Embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution explores responsive and innovative pedagogies arising from findings of research and practitioner experiences, globally. This book clarifies concepts and issues that surround teaching and learning for the 21st century.

In Theatre and Its Other, Elisa Ganser revisits a telling debate on the intertwined natures of dance and dramatic acting; preserved in Abhinavagupta's eleventh-century commentary on the Nāṭyaśāstra, it reflects complex historical shifts in aesthetic theory and performance practice.

This volume includes a selection of the most significant essays on Plutarch published by Paola Volpe Cacciatore, Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Salerno and current President of the International Plutarch Society.

In Interpreting the Qurʾān with the Bible, R. Michael McCoy III examines the reception of the Arabic Bible in tafsīr literature by analyzing Ibn Barraǧān's (d. 546/1141) and al-Biqāʿī's (d. 885/1480) methods of scriptural engagement.

This book contains a comprehensive study of constructional splits and alignment typology, especially ergativity, as found in the Neo-Aramaic languages spoken in the Mesopotamian region of West Asia.

A new collection of medieval Mendicant sermons. The preacher's handling of themes drawn from the liturgical readings, Advent to Easter, achieves a competent fusion of exegetical traditions and preaching innovation.

This interdisciplinary volume is a 'one-stop location' for the most up-to-date scholarship on figurines in the Iron Age from Phoenicia, Philistia, Jordan, and Israel/Palestine and their wider contexts in the Mediterranean (particularly Cyprus), Syria and Egypt.

This book is an account of the rise of definite and indefinite articles in Danish, Swedish and Icelandic, as documented in a choice of extant texts from 1200-1550.

The long European tradition of self/other stereotyping has fed into politically virulent Identity Politics as Europe itself is experiencing a crisis in its multilateralist project. This volume teases out the underlying forcelines and repertoires and addresses some salient manifestations.

The first study, along with edition and translation, of Chrysostomus Javelli's epitome of the Liber de bona fortuna (1531), a work permitting insight into the early modern understanding of fortune, fate, and free will.

A study into the role of visual and material culture in shaping early modern emotional experiences, c. 1450-1800

Investor State Arbitration In A Changing World Order addresses challenges and reform proposals that dominate contemporary discussion of investor state arbitration. The authors argue that, although important for the institution's development, current reforms are insufficient to guarantee investor state arbitration's survival. Instead, if international investment arbitration is to survive and flourish, national governments must distribute more equally the benefits of international investment and trade.

This volume contains a selection of the edited and in some cases translated papers presented at the first South-South Human Rights Forum held in Beijing. The conference was jointly sponsored by the State Council Information Office and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The event drew hundreds of participants, mainly scholars and government officials from developing countries and international organizations. Its main theme was "Building a Human Community with a Shared Future", which built on a proposal launched by President Xi Jinping. The papers are mostly short and often policy-oriented, offering a unique insight into the thinking and planning associated with this South-South exchange and thus a wealth of information of interest to scholars. The topics covered emerge primarily from development-related issues, such as the rights to food, education, health and poverty reduction. Though much of the volume thus focuses on economic and social rights and the right to development, civil and political rights are also discussed in the context of the need for legal guarantees for the exercise of human rights and judicial protection of rights.

This volume offers the first comprehensive account of the monetary logic of early medieval conflict resolution embodied in the payment of wergild or blood money, showing how wergild developed a multifaceted role in legal society.

A comprehensive and systematic overview of the life and career of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, a key Renaissance figure.

This book offers an internalist view on the history of astrology by studying the case of S. Belle, an astrologer who lived in late fifteenth-century France. It addresses his methods of work, his process of learning, and his practice.

Gregory of Nyssa's Homilies on the Our Father, edited by Matthieu Cassin, Hélène Grelier-Deneux and Françoise Vinel, offers an English translation, the edition of a 15th century Latin translation and twenty-seven studies on this major text of the 4th century.

This book offers a new interpretation of Aeschylus' tragic tetralogy Lycurgeia and Naevius' tragedy Lycurgus, the two most important texts that shaped the tradition of the myth about Lycurgus' resistance against the god Dionysus.

This volume offers an account on the global activities of the International Propaganda Committee of Transport Workers and the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers to radicalize the maritime transport workers during the interwar period.

The essay advocates a theory of the musical work as a "social object" which is based on a trace informed by a normative value. Such a normativity is explored in relation to three ways of fixing the trace: orality, notation and phonography.

Choreonarratives rethinks dance's potential for narrating stories and explores new intersections between perspectives of classicists, dance scholars, and dance artists. Discussions of ancient and modern examples enlighten dance's capacity to represent storyworlds, rewrite traditional narratives, and inspire new ones.