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In A Grammar of Makary Kotoko, Sean Allison provides a thorough description of Makary Kotoko - a Chadic language of Cameroon, framing the discussion within R.M.W. Dixon's functional/typological approach known as Basic Linguistic Theory.

In The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600--1800, Phillip Reid shows how ordinary commercial vessels reflected the risk management strategies of those who designed, built, bought, and sailed them.

The Dynamics of Intertextuality in Plutarch explores the numerous aspects and functions of intertextual links both within the Plutarchan corpus itself (intratextuality) and in relation with other authors, works, genres or discourses of Ancient Greek literature (interdiscursivity, intergenericity, intermateriality).

The fifteen essays in A Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea offer an interdisciplinary overview of Ethiopia-Eritrea's Christian, Islamic, and local-religious societies, in their inter-regional context, from circa the 7th to the mid-16th century.

The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927 is a thorough and original exploration of place and space in the work of the Hispanic vanguards; a transatlantic study that will surely join international discussions on space and modernism.

The Transnational Cult of Mount Wutai explores the pan-East Asian significance of sacred Mount Wutai from the Northern Dynasties to the present.

Contributing to the vigorous discussion of the viability of syntactic reconstruction, this volume offers methods for identifying i) cognates in syntax, and ii) the directionality of syntactic change, thus providing historical syntacticians with evidence that syntactic reconstruction is indeed both theoretically and practically feasible.

Conflict Management in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, 1000-1800 offers a comparative long-term perspective on the complexity of various approaches to conflict management by those involved in long-distance trade across political and jurisdictional boundaries.

The Yahuda Collection, bequeathed to the National Library of Israel by the polymath scholar Abraham Shalom Yahuda (d. 1951), is a multifaceted collection of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscripts. Efraim Wust's groundbreaking Arabic catalogue synthesizes the Islamic and Western scholarly traditions.

Click Consonants is an indispensable volume for those who want to explore cutting-edge research on the linguistics of this remarkable yet oft-overlooked class of consonants.

In Data Innovations for Transboundary Freshwater Resources Management: Are Obligations Related to Information Exchange Still Needed?, Christina Leb discusses how technology innovations disrupt the conventional methods of data and information exchange and the potential impact this may have on international water law.

This volume presents a selection of papers on the reign of Fernando III, king of Castile from 1217 until 1252, with a particular focus on the military, political and religious history of his reign.

Alongside annals, chronicles were the main genre of historical writing in the Middle Ages. Their significance as sources for the study of medieval history and culture is today widely recognised not only by historians, but also by students of medieval literature and linguistics and by art historians. The series The Medieval Chronicle aims to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds.

The essays collected in Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination deal with the issues hidden in the Chinese conception of fate as represented in literary texts and films, with a focus placed on human efforts to solve the riddles of fate prediction.

The Crisis of Citizenship in the Arab World provides crucial insights into the current political, social and cultural crisis in the Middle East and North Africa by analysing histories, concepts, and practices of citizenship and the mechanisms that undermined them.

Culture of Boredom is a collection of essays by well-known specialists reflecting from philosophical, literary, and artistic perspectives. The goal is to clarify the background of boredom, and to explore its representation through forgotten cross-cutting narratives.

Introduction to Generative Syntax provides the student with a comprehensive overview of all major developments in generative syntax since its inception in the 1950s and until the present time.

Over the past fifty years the individual differences tradition in psychology has offered rich insights into religious education, as offered within schools, religious communities and households, during childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Leslie J. Francis offers an overview and assessment of this contribution.

In Isaiah, Penner provides an introduction, transcription, translation, and commentary to the Greek translation of Isaiah in the Codex Sinaiticus.

The fundamental intuition of this essay is that liturgical theology does not simply deal with Christian rituals, festivals and sacraments, but with the core of faith itself: God, world, the Christ event, tradition, Church, and redemption.

Chinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949 offers a panoramic study of Chinese reflections on "progress," its multifaceted expressions, contesting interpretations, highly optimistic implications, but also the criticism it encountered.

In The Excommunication of Elizabeth I, Aislinn Muller examines the excommunication and deposition of Queen Elizabeth I of England by the Roman Catholic Church, and its political afterlife during her reign.

In Early Christians Adapting to the Roman Empire Niko Huttunen presents the positive relationship between early Christians and the Roman society. Non-Christian philosophers responded positively to Christians, Romans 13 belongs to the ancient political tradition, and Christian soldiers recognized the empire.

This study deals with the most radical of the badīʿ ("novel") poets of the ʿAbbāsid period, Abū Tammām. After a critique of classical badīʿ theory it proposes a redefinition of the new poetry as an exegetical metapoesis and on that basis provides analyses, accompanied by original translations, of five of Abū Tammām's most celebrated political odes and of extensive selections from his renowned anthology, the Ḥamāsah.

This book offers an in-depth history of Calvinism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1548-1648. It traces the development of polity, liturgy, piety and church discipline. Bem questions the prevailing narrative of decline post 1570 and argues that the three Reformed Churches in fact continued to develop and flourish until the 1630s.

This book presents a collection of new studies on the political aspects of Aristophanes' comic plays, produced in Athens in the latter half of the 5th century BCE.