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This is an original collection of essays that contribute to a developing appreciation of persuasion across ancient genres (mainly oratory, historiography, poetry) and a wide diversity of interdisciplinary topics (performance, language, style, emotions, gender, argumentation and narrative, politics).

In Creating Resistances: Pastoral Care in a Postcolonial World, Melinda McGarrah Sharp studies the concept of resistance to outline what postcolonial pastoral care can look like in practice, particularly for people who feel more removed from the urgency of today's postcolonial realities.

Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry brings together a range of innovative approaches to the question of genre, what it means, and how to think about it for Greek poetry from the eighth to the fourth centuries BCE.

À travers le prisme du nom propre et sa référentialité, Réalités pseudonymes explore la trame de la réalité dans la littérature et les arts à l'heure où les sociétés glissent de modalités analogiques à des modalités numériques de la médiation. Through the lens of the proper name and its referential mechanisms, Réalités pseudonyms explores the fabric of reality in French literature and arts as societies shift from analog to digital modalities of mediation.

This volume is concerned with the emergence of Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus. Five papers relate to Cappadocia and east Anatolia, the others to the bishops of Constantinople, the city of Sagalassus in Pisidia, Caria and Cyprus.

Anarchism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Arts and Politics in Perspective offers a fresh approach to the encounter of the classical anarchisms (1860s-1940s) and the artistic and literary avant-gardes of the same period, probing its dimensions and limits.

In Counter-Terrorism Financing: International Best Practices and the Law, Nathalie Rébé offers a new comprehensive framework for CTF worldwide and reviews the strengths and weaknesses of current regulations and policies.

Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds seeks to be a crucial contribution to the history of medieval connectedness.

In The Agency of Empire: Connections and Strategies in French Expansion (1686-1746) Elisabeth Heijmans places directors and their connections at the centre of the developments and operations of French overseas companies.

A Grammar of Pévé describes and examines a wide range of linguistic forms and functions found in Pévé, a Chadic language spoken in parts of the Republic of Chad and the Republic of Cameroon.

Roads through Mwinilunga provides a historical appraisal of social change in Northwest Zambia from 1750 until the present. Focussing on agricultural production, mobility, consumption, and settlement patterns, Iva Pesa reassesses existing explanations of social change in Central Africa.

The volume Gaining and Losing Imperial Favour in Late Antiquity studies fundamental dynamics of the political culture of the Later Roman Empire (4th and 5th centuries A.D.) by examining how people rose in and fell from the emperor's favour.

In The Fatimids and the Sea (909-1171), David Bramoullé shows how in medieval times an Ismaili dynasty of Caliphs used the sea to develop and justify its claims of control over the Muslim world. Dans les Fatimides et la mer (909-1171), David Bramoullé montre comment à à l'époque médiévale une dynastie musulmane de rite ismaélien utilisa la mer pour se développer et justifier ses prétentions à contrôler le monde musulman.

A comprehensive and innovative analysis of Soviet literary and cinematic children's canon. Marking the centennial of Soviet cultural production for children, it reviews the rich and dramatic history of Soviet children's books, films, and animation and explores their importance for contemporary Russian audiences.

A unique collection of contemporary book and performance reviews of Joseph Conrad's three plays, The Secret Agent, One Day More, and Laughing Anne.

Knowledge and Profanation offers numerous instances of learned profanation, committed by scholars ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the early nineteenth century, as well as several antique predecessors.

In this book, Mikhail Epstein offers a systematic theory of modalities (possible, actual, necessary) and their impact on the philosophy and culture of modernity and postmodernity, focusing on the creative potentials of possibilistic thinking for the humanities.

Building the Canon through the Classics. Imitation and Variation in Renaissance Italy (1350-1580) explores the multiple facets of the formation of the literary canon in Renaissance Italy through the analysis of its complex relationship with the Classics.

This volume is a collection of essays whose diversity of insights and methodologies facilitates a kaleidoscopic look at a universally-recognizable cluster of phenomena and experiences of fear, anxiety, horror, and terror that often defy straightforward categorization or even description.

In five letters (to Henry VIII and three prelates), a Lucian-style underworld satire on European wars and Turkish aggression, and two translations from Isocrates, Vives assesses obstacles to peace and how to overcome them. Latin texts and first-time English translations.

Evolution and Popular Narrative argues that an evolutionary approach to popular narrative provides an incisive index into human nature. The contributors explore various media and genres to gauge the interdependency of human nature and culture in our aesthetic appreciation.