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In Painting Constitutional Law, scholars of constitutional law analyse Xavier Cortada's series May It Please the Court. Exploring new connections between contemporary art and law, they discuss how Cortada captures these foundational decisions, their people, and their events on canvas.

In Jus Post Bellum, Jens Iverson provides for the first time the Just War foundations of the concept, reveals the function of jus post bellum, and integrates the law that governs the transition from armed conflict to peace.

The fourth in this series, the Contemporary Archive of the Islamic World (CAIW), draws on the resources of Cambridge-based World of Information. The discovery of substantial oil and gas deposits, changed Qatar and its people beyond recognition.

Trade and Finance in Global Missions (16th-18th Centuries) is a collection of articles analysing the interplay between economic and Catholic missions in the early modern period and in the global context of Christian expansion.

Framing the Dialogues: How to Read Openings and Closures in Plato focuses on the intricate and multifarious ways in which Plato frames his dialogues, with a view to exploring the complex association between framework and philosophical content.

This volume gives editions of previously unpublished Coptic, Arabic and Judeo-Arabic documents, as well as historical studies based on documentary evidence from Achaemenid Bactria, Ancient South-Arabia, and Early Islamic, Fāṭimid and Mamlūk Egypt.

This Festschrift in honor of Professor Lawrence H. Schiffman, a leading authority on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Rabbinic Judaism, includes contributions by twenty of his disciples, each of whom is a scholar in their own right. The many subjects covered display a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.

Dialogangebote. Die Anrede des Kaisers jenseits der offiziellen Titulatur bietet eine Analyse der sog. inoffiziellen Titulaturen römischer Kaiser in ihren thematischen, medialen, funktionalen und sozialen Kontexten. Dialogangebote. Die Anrede des Kaisers jenseits der offiziellen Titulatur studies the so-called unofficial titulature of Roman emperors in their thematic, media, functional and social contexts.

In The Mardzong Manuscripts Agnieszka Helman-Ważny and Charles Ramble recount the discovery of a cache of Bön and Buddhist manuscripts, some over seven centuries old, in the remote Mardzong caves in Mustang, Nepal, and subsequent research on the collection.

L'ouvrage propose de réfléchir sur la richesse de la création romanesque de l'époque crépusculaire en réunissant quatorze contributions consacrées aussi bien aux classiques qu'aux auteurs rarement étudiés. Nous y (re)découvrons Casanova, Darien, d'Herdy, Tinan, Bloy, Céard, Mirbeau, Lorrain, Louÿs, Vivien, Rachilde, Mendès, Huysmans, Fleischmann. The work offers a reflection on the richness of the novels created in the fin-de-siècle period by bringing together fourteen contributions devoted both to the classics and to the rarely studied authors (Casanova, Darien, d'Herdy, Tinan, Bloy, Céard, Mirbeau, Lorrain, Louÿs, Vivien, Rachilde, Mendès, Huysmans, Fleischmann).

Perspektiven der Philosophie. Neues Jahrbuch eröffnet Forschern, denen die philosophische Begründung des Denkens wichtig ist, eine Publikationsmöglichkeit. Wir verstehen uns nicht als Schulorgan einer philosophischen Lehrmeinung, sondern sehen unsere Aufgabe darin, an der Intensivierung des wissenschaftlichen Philosophierens mitzuwirken. Besonders fördern wir den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs und laden ihn zur Mitarbeit ein.

Nonnus of Panopolis in Context III, edited by Filip Doroszewski and Katarzyna Jażdżewska, explores both old and new questions about the poet and his works ‒ the grand mythological epic Dionysiaca and the hexameter Paraphrase of St. John's Gospel.

Concept and Judgment in Brentano's Logic Lectures provides an analysis of an important feature of Brentano's philosophy in the 19th century. Relevant materials in both German and English are also included in the volume.

This volume explores Chinese religions on a global stage so as to challenge the traditional dichotomy of the western global and the Chinese local, and to add a new perspective for understanding religious modernity globally. Contributors from four different continents aim at applying a social scientific approach to systematically researching the globalization of Chinese religions.

In African Somaesthetics: Cultures, Feminisms, Politics, Catherine F. Botha brings together original research on the body in African cultures, interrogating the possible contribution of a somaesthetic approach in the context of colonization, decolonization, and globalization in Africa.

Early Modern Universities: Networks of Higher Education contains twenty essays by experts on early modern academic networks. Using a variety of approaches to universities, schools, and academies throughout Europe and in Central America, the book suggests pathways for future research.

Greek Epigraphy and Religion explores the insights provided by inscribed texts into the religious practices of the ancient Greek world. The papers study material ranging geographically from Epiros to Egypt and chronologically from the Classical to the Roman period.

The book offers an account of the economic institutions of eighteenth century Spain, analysing their fundamental role in spreading European Enlightenment culture and in the political unification and articulation of the Spanish monarchy.

In this edited volume, authors from multiple academic and creative disciplines interrogate constructionist and new materialist paradigms to assess their adequacy when analysing entanglements and weavings of gender and love in diverse contexts where discursive and material elements intra-act.

The Maẓhar al-ʿajāʾib is the devotional work written to expound upon the teachings of Aghā-yi Buzurg, a female religious master active in the early 16th century in the vicinity of Bukhara.

Opening a dialogue between the literary and filmic works produced in Central Europe and in the Anglophone world, this volume explores the role of affects and emotions such as shame, fascination and withdrawal in contemporary literature and culture.

In Transcultural Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui: A New Ulysses, Elizabeth Sabiston analyses the dominant theme of transcultural migration, or immigration, in the experimental fiction of Hédi Bouraoui. His protagonists are seen as Ulysses-figures for the postmodern age, crossing boundaries of language as well as geography

Volume 37 of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs publishes scholarly articles and essays on international and transnational law, as well as compiles official documents on the state practice of the Republic of China (ROC) in 2019.

Luis Alejandro Salas' book, Cutting Words: Polemical Dimensions of Galen's Anatomical Experiments, examines Galen's experimental writing. In four case studies, it argues that Galen exploits writing as a surrogate for live performance and, in some cases, an improvement upon it.

Cet ouvrage décrit la politique africaine du Maroc sous le règne de Mohammed VI, et démontre comment la construction d'une identité de role autour de la notion de "juste milieu" affecte les representations du Royaume de son environnement international. This book describes Morocco's African policy under the reign of Mohammed VI, and demonstrates how the construction of a role identity around the notion of "golden mean" affects the Kingdom's representations of its international environment.

The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on contemporary international legal issues.

In Staging Holiness: The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522), Sofia Zoitou offers a study of the creation, staging and perception of cultic sites and phenomena in Rhodes at a time when pilgrims to the Holy Land frequented the island.