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Calendars in the Making investigates the Roman and medieval origins of several calendars we are most familiar with today, including the Christian liturgical calendar, the Islamic calendar, and the week as a standard method of dating and time reckoning.

Dans cet ouvrage Claire Olivier s'intéresse à la manière dont l'écrivain, cinéaste, photographe et plasticien Jean-Philippe Toussaint, expérimente la puissance des images pour composer en ce début du XXIe siècle une oeuvre singulière fondée sur des relations transesthétiques. In this book, Claire Olivier analyses how the writer, filmmaker, photographer and plastic artist Jean-Philippe Toussaint experiments with the power of images to create, in the 21st century, a singular work based on transaesthetic relationships.

In Women and Gender in a Lebanese Village: Generations of Change, Nancy W. Jabbra presents a detailed analysis of change in gender roles in a Christian community in rural Lebanon.

In Europe and Europeanness Isabella Walser-Bürgler offers an account of the formation of early modern Europe (c. 1400-1800) based on the most common source material of the time, Neo-Latin texts.

This critical appreciation of Thomas Kelly (1893-1941) and his classic A Testament of Devotion (1941) examines the Quaker mystic's life and devotional writings, often by comparison with Augustine, whose Confessions was a touchstone for him.

This book examines the complex relationships of civil society and Christianity in Greater China. Different authors investigate to what extent Christians demonstrate the quality of civic virtues and reflect on the difficulties of applying civil society theories to Chinese societies.

With A Glimpse into Medical Practice among Jews around 1500: Latin-German Pharmaceutical Glossaries in Hebrew Characters extant in Ms Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Cod. Or. 4732/1 (SCAL 15), fols. 1a-17b, Gerrit Bos and Klaus-Dietrich Fischer present an edition of two unique medieval lists of medico-botanical terms in German and Latin, written in Hebrew characters.

The aim of this volume is to raise and discuss questions about the different approaches to the study of pre-modern Arabic anthologies from the perspectives of philology, religion, history, geography, and literature.

In Plutarch. De facie quae in orbe lunae apparet, Luisa Lesage Gárriga offers a new critical edition with English translation of one of Plutarch's most fascinating treatises, and yet one of the least known to the wider public.

In Dematerialization and the Social Materiality of Art Elize Mazadiego interprets experimental art practices that negated the object's primacy, developing new materialities rooted in Argentina's changing social life and transformative experiences of modernization in the 1950s and 1960s.

Honouring Erica Cruikshank Dodd, Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds analyzes aspects of the constructed narratives and reconstructed realities of the visual-material record of diverse Mediterranean faith communities from medieval into contemporary times.

In The Interpersonal Metafunction in 1 Cor 1-4, James D. Dvorak analyzes the interpersonal meanings encoded in the text and the social function they fulfill in realigning the readers to the values that Paul expects all Jesus-followers to live by.

This volume offers a cross-period (14th-19th century) European comparison of different property regimes brought into conversation with inheritance patterns and resulting gender-specific negotiations and conflicts.

What are we to think of a God who, according to the book of Job, is complicit in the death of seven sons and three daughters "for no reason" (Job 2:3)? Job's response to his friends centers the eighteen essays in this collection: "Look at me and be appalled" (Job 21:5).

This volume investigates the complex relationship between language and identity of the peoples speaking Romance languages in the Balkans, offering a thorough sociolinguistic and anthropological account on this crossroads region.

Trust in Contemporary Society, by well-known trust researchers, deals with conceptual, theoretical and social interaction analyses, historical data on societies, national surveys or cross-national comparative studies, and methodological issues related to trust. The authors illuminate contemporary issues of trust and distrust.

In Revelation in the Qur'an Simon P. Loynes presents a semantic study of the Arabic roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y, which sheds new light on the modalities of revelation in the Qur'an.

Polish Jews in Israel: Polish-Language Press, Culture, and Politics is an in-depth study of the cultural and intellectual achievements of Polish Jews in Israel, with particular emphasis on the Polish-language press.

In Theologising with the Sacred 'Prostitutes' of South India, Eve Rebecca Parker theologises with the Dalit women who from childhood have been dedicated to village goddesses and used as 'sacred' sex workers.

Ford Madox Ford's literary relations with Joseph Conrad are closely and systematically examined in this volume in order to determine the nature of the various kinds of help Ford claimed to have given his famous friend and collaborator.

The classicist and historian Alan Cameron (1938-2017) was one of the scholars who most contributed to the refoundation of late-antique studies. In this tribute fourteen new studies, which range from the first century AD to the ninth, pay him homage.

In The Regime of Islands Reframed, Clive Schofield examines the definition of islands and other insular features under the international law of the sea with particular reference to the South China Sea case between China and the Philippines which has served to reframe understanding of this contentious area of international law.

This book contains an innovative approach to the semantics and diachronic source of cognitive verbs across a representative array of the world's languages.

In Freedom through Submission Johannes Renders explores Danish-Muslim statements on human freedom, analysing the Muslim community's attempts to reconfigure a public debate that pits freedom against islam.

Cultural Pearls from the East offers persuasive insights on Muslim-Arab culture and its evolving intellectual features and literary tests, from the dawn of Islam to modern times.

In The Palermo Convention at Twenty: Institutional and Substantive Challenges experts with different backgrounds discuss the institutional features of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Supplementing Protocols, the developments of the treaty system and its suitability to address the multifarious forms of contemporary transnational organized crime.

The mission of the The Italian Yearbook of International Law is to make available to the English-speaking public the Italian contribution to the literature and practice of international law. Volume XXIX (2019) opens with a Symposium on the challenges to multilateralism in international trade law. As in every volume the following sections feature Articles, Notes and Comments, Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, Italian Practice of International Law and Bibliographies.