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Alisa van de Haar sheds new light on the debates regarding the form and status of the vernacular in the early modern Low Countries, where both French and Dutch were spoken as local tongues.

In a rigorously researched biography and through graceful prose, Daniela Spenser narrates the life of Vicente Lombardo Toledano, a man who reflects the complexity of post-revolutionary Mexico, the hopes it awoke as much as the failed projects it left behind.

Reformation and the Practice of Toleration examines the remarkable religious toleration that characterized Dutch society in the early modern era. It shows how this toleration originated, how it functioned, and how people of different faiths interacted, especially in 'mixed' marriages.

Lothar Peter traces the intellectual history of the Marburg School, one of the most influential bastions of Marxist thought in post-war West Germany alongside the Frankfurt School, and situates it in the political developments of its time.

Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel offers new interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives on industrialization and societal transformation in early-twentieth-century Luxembourg by analyzing social-educational initiatives and various technologies of modernity and their effects.

Karl Kautsky on Democracy and Republicanism contains the first English-language translations of important political works by Kautsky. Ben Lewis demonstrates how Kautsky's programmatic conclusions were positively influenced by Marx and Engels - especially the lessons they drew from the Paris Commune.

An exploration of the early modern manuals on travelling (Artes apodemicae), which originated in the sixteenth century, when it became communis opinio among intellectuals that an extended tour abroad was an indispensable part of humanist, academic and political education.

The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire discusses ways in which notions, practice and the ideology of justice impacted on the Roman Empire through three main themes: the emperor and justice, justice in a dispersed empire and differentiation of justice.

In Karl Rahner, Culture and Evangelization, Anthony Mellor outlines a process of contemporary evangelisation which seeks to develop modes of public "mystagogical conversation" by engaging the religious imagination and draw upon personal experiences of transcendence and religious sensibility.

Set against the framework of modern political concerns, Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame considers the various forms of treachery in a variety of sources, including literature, historical chronicles, and material culture creating a complex portrait of the development of this high crime.

Nira Stone (1938-2013) contributed to the understanding of mediaeval Armenian art and painting. Her interest ranged over a millennium of artistic expression, and over such fields of creativity as manuscript painting, frescos, and mosaics. The volume contains her published papers and one made newly public.

An investigation into the various ways in which Renaissance writers comment on, present, and defend their own works, and at the same time themselves in Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, and the Dutch Republic.

The dematerialization of contemporary artworks is only apparent. They highlight their link with contract and a character proper to the artworks of all times and types: a document dimension. As a consequence, this is not a break with traditional art.

This monograph discusses and analyzes the basic elements of notification under the Watercourses Convention and the World Bank policies and practice, and identifies comparators and synergies between the two instruments.

Timescapes of Waiting explores the intersections of temporality and space by examining various manifestations of spatial (im-)mobility. The articles approach these spaces perspectives - including such as history, architecture, law and literary and cultural studies.

This volume offers diverse insights on the practice of torture. Spanning history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, and theology, the book explores how torture has been and continues to be woven into the fabric of modern society.

Providing extensive documentation, the book examines the mechanics, trials and tribulations of plundering the Ottoman East for private and public collections in Europe. It helps document the continuing debate about the ethics of museum collections.

In Diamond Sutra Narratives, Chiew Hui Ho explores Diamond Sutra devotion and its impact on medieval Chinese religiosity, uncovering the complex social history of Tang lay Buddhism through the laity's production of parasutraic narratives and texts.

Through theoretical discussions, presentations of literary works, cultural artefacts and artistic performances, as well as descriptions of novel therapeutic approaches, Topography of Trauma engages in rethinking and re-examining trauma to address the transformed self and empowering post-traumatic developments.

In Secularising the Sacred, Mishory offers an account of Zionist Israeli artists-designers' visual corpus and artistic lexicon of Jewish-Israeli icons as an anchor for the emerging "civil religion," through a process of giving visual form to Zionist ideas and myths.

This volume focuses on Muslims in Finland, Greece, Ireland and Portugal. It highlights how Muslim experiences can be understood in relation to country's particular historical routes, political economies, and post-colonial legacies. It also reveals that country particularities shaping European Muslim experiences cannot be understood independently of global dynamics.

In Adapting Watercourse Agreements to Developments in International Law Maria A. Gwynn offers an account of the need to align watercourses agreements to the current standards and principles of international law, thereby increasing prospects for achieving sustainable development.

This volume reviews the current state of research on the most important Ephesian projects offering evidence for religious activity during the Roman period. The essays cover a wide range of materials and question traditional understandings of material culture in Ephesos.

In The Price and Promise of Specialness, Jin Li Lim revises narratives on the overseas Chinese and the People's Republic of China by analysing 'overseas Chinese affairs' in New China's first decade as a function of a larger political economy.

This book discusses the celebrated church of the Holy Cross of Alt'amar founded by King Gagik of Vaspurakan and built in the tenth century. It analyzes this church from multiple perspectives, such as the contemporary intellectual climate, biblical exegesis, historiography, royal ideology, patronage of relics, medieval architecture and art.

Worship and Social Engagement in Urban Aboriginal-led Australian Pentecostal Congregations: (Re)imagining Identity in the Spirit conducts ethnographic research into three Australian Pentecostal congregations with Aboriginal senior leadership pastor couples.