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In this book, Christopher Hart provides a comprehensive description of an applied form of Cognitive Linguistics in Cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis (Cognitive CDA).

"In Political Theology the "Modern Way": The Case of Jacques Almain (d. 1515), Shaun Retallick provides the first monograph on this late medieval philosopher-theologian and conciliarist, and his thought. He demonstrates that Almain's political theology, of which ecclesiology is a sub-discipline, is strongly impacted by the Via moderna. At the heart of his political theology is the individual and his or her will. Yet, the individual is rarely viewed in isolation from others; there is a strong emphasis on community and on the religious and secular bodies through which it is realized. But these bodies, including the Church, are understood in collectivist rather than corporatist terms, which tends to a quite radical form of conciliarism"--

Early modern Japanese graphic narratives (kusazōshi) have found their go-to guide: this edited volume is the first in English to treat them in the round, uncovering fresh research avenues for the specialist and advancing provocations around comics, manga, and the literary.

"Business News in the Early Modern Atlantic World explores the creation, dissemination, and consumption of a specific type of news, 'business news', within early modern commercial news networks. The volume contains eleven case studies, written by scholars from a range of disciplines, which span the breadth of the early modern Atlantic from the first appearance of serial corantos in the seventeenth century to the United States' Declaration of Independence in the late eighteenth century. These expert contributions showcase the range of innovative methodological and theoretical approaches which can be used to study business news, including social network analysis, textual analysis, and qualitative methods"--

This book shows how artists since the fifteenth century have given shape to the strange and often human-made environment in the Netherlands. It gathers essays that show the sensitivity to nature's materials in landscape painting, cartographic practice, the ecological practices of early modern artists, the relationship between landscapes, politics, and animals, and land art and its eco-critical potential in the late 20th twentieth century.

This authoritative Commentary drafted by scholars of the Academic Network on the European Social Charter and Social Rights (ANESC) is intended for researchers studying socio-economic rights in Europe, legal practitioners, civil society organisations, trade unions and ministerial staff engaging with the procedures of the European Committee of Social Rights. The text is compiled by a large body of expert contributors, working together with an Editorial Board, under the supervision of a Scientific Committee, which reviews the quality of each chapter. The Scientific Committee is composed of the most respected experts on the European Social Charter and Social Rights in Europe. The Commentary offers 106 Chapters, organized in 8 Volumes, some of which are focused on the substantive state obligations and the jurisprudence of the European Committee of Social Rights, others on the procedures that state representatives, international bodies and applicants must follow to engage with the system of the European Social Charter. Volume 3, which encompasses Articles 11 to 19, examines critical ESC welfare rights for the general population and specific groups of people against the jurisprudence of the European Committee of Social Rights and other international standards.

The present volume will serve its purpose if it consolidates the view of early modern Catholic book culture as an autonomous field of investigation and encourages further research and discussion.

Confronting Kabbalah offers a captivating look into the little-known library of Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter. This study paints a vivid picture of a man with a unique perspective on Kabbalah and it explores how Christian Hebraists in the sixteenth century collected Jewish books.

This volume is the first systematic survey of the environmental and climatic history of the Byzantine empire.

The first book that focuses on the founding of territories as a main motif of Japanese mythology and argues for paying more attention to the territorial cults and their basically horizontal world view in general.

One of the most influential works of the Islamic-Arabic library, Nahj al-Balāghah is al-Sharīf al-Raḍī's (d. 406/1015) compendium of the orations, letters, and wisdom sayings of ʿAlī (d. 40/661). This meticulously researched critical edition and lucid, annotated translation showcase the eloquence and power of this celebrated collection.

This book offers a counternarrative for the formation of Islamic architecture presented as five microhistories c. 632-705. Structured around phenomena of embodied audience, it offers a reinterpretation of the history of the mosque, palace, and shrine.

Advancing Critical Pedagogy and Praxis Across Educational Settings brings together a collective of educators, scholars, and community members to share their stories of critical collaborations and ways in which critical mutualism was enacted to honor schools and communities.

This book analyzes the parallel definitions, substantive and procedural obligations and institutional arrangements relevant to the protection and preservation of shared inland water ecosystems found in IWL and relevant multilateral environmental agreements, particularly the Ramsar and Biodiversity Conventions.

Adult Education in India explores the contents, methods and multi-dimensional tools available for students, research scholars, teachers, and practitioners interested in the field of Adult and Lifelong Learning in India and across the globe.

Existing scholarship on World Christianities tends to privilege the local and the regional. In addition to offering an explanation for this tendency, the editors and contributors of this volume also offer a new perspective. An Introduction, Afterword and case-studies argue for the importance of transregional connections in the study of Christianity worldwide. Returning to an older post-war conception of 'World Christianity' as an international, ecumenical fellowship, the present volume aims to highlight the universalist, globalising aspirations of many Christians worldwide. While we do not neglect the importance of the local, our aim is to give due weight to the significant transregional networks and exchanges that have constituted Christian communities, both historically and in the present day. Contributors are: J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Naures Atto, Joel Cabrita, Pedro Feitoza, David C. Kirkpatrick, Chandra Mallampalli, David Maxwell, Dorottya Nagy, Peter C. Phan, Andrew Preston, Joel Robbins, Chloe Starr, Charlotte Walker-Said, Emma Wild-Wood.

"Supplements to Novum Testamentum publishes monographs and collections of essays that make original contributions to the field of New Testament studies. This includes text-critical, philological and exegetical studies, and investigations which seek to situate early Christian texts (both canonical and non-canonical) and theology in the broader context of Jewish and Graeco-Roman history, culture, religion and literature"--

The current scientific literature contains reviews and articles on specific aspects of pig production and farm animal welfare. This book is intended to be a reference text that covers all aspects of pig production, on the basis of scientific results. This work contains current, easy-to-understand scientific reviews on animal welfare with over 700 specific references to animal welfare. All aspects of animal welfare with respect to pigs are discussed, from genetic selection and breeding to transportation and slaughter. This work was written by scientific experts renowned for their knowledge and work in the area of pig welfare. Their common goal was to provide an in-depth review and empirical assessment of pig production concepts, knowledge and techniques in use today. Through scientific examples, the authors explain how improving animal welfare increases profitability. This work is intended for academics, researchers, students, animal welfare associations, industry and anyone who is involved in the production chain or concerned about the welfare of pigs being raised on farms.

Universities are not only economic engines but societal ones. This book interrogates the embeddedness of Higher Education (HE) systems in national social contracts, and discusses how their renegotiation is at play in the organisation of students' access to universities.Structured around the central concept of the social contract, the growing recognition of the role of HE in its implementation, and regulations governing both individual and collective access, Higher Education in Societies: A Multiscale Perspective, explores the shifting mission of HE over the years from one thought to produce an elite to one of distributive justice by presenting research at the macro, meso and micro levels. In bringing together researchers from different countries, continents, and disciplines to study the same issue through a multiscale analysis, this book forms the starting line for further theoretical and methodological debate on the value of weaving together different approaches to the study of HE, including historical, comparative, sociological, organisational, institutional, quantitative, and qualitative.

Queering the Vampire Narrative offers classroom-ready original essays demonstrating the intersections of queer, feminist, and critical race theories with the popular culture icon of the vampire, who is a figure consistently unravelling cultural norms particularly the stability of gender and sexuality categories.

Queering the Vampire Narrative offers classroom-ready original essays demonstrating the intersections of queer, feminist, and critical race theories with the popular culture icon of the vampire, who is a figure consistently unravelling cultural norms particularly the stability of gender and sexuality categories.

"Rudolf Bahro, Wolfgang Harich and Robert Havemann were probably the best-known critics of the DDR's ruling Socialist Unity Party. Yet they saw themselves as Marxists, and their demands extended far beyond a democratisation of real socialism. When environmental issues became more important in the West in the 1970s, the Party treated it as an ideological manoeuvre of the class enemy. The three dissidents saw things differently: they combined socialism and ecology, adopting a utopian perspective frowned upon by the state. In doing so, they created political concepts that were unique for the Eastern Bloc. Alexander Amberger introduces them, relates them to each other, and poses the question of their relevance then and now"--

A unique study of Liszt's approach to literary art; an exploration and reconstruction of his method of work with poetry and music in his songs for voice and piano.

This Handbook includes numerous contributions from some of the most well-regarded researchers in Cognitive Semantics and it aims to provide the most comprehensive coverage of the field to date.

In this volume Joshua Paul Smith challenges the long-held belief that the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles were written by a gentile Christian. Instead, Smith argues that the author of these texts was educated and socialized within a Hellenistic Jewish context.

Dragoș Andrei Giulea delineates a new map of Arian debate's theoretical trajectories, envisioning Constantinople 381 as a synthesis of two theological paradigms generated at the councils of Antioch 268 and Nicaea 325.

This book is an account of the variation between two possessive constructions in Danish and Swedish: the s-genitive and the prepositional construction. Present-day corpus data, as well as historical data (corpus texts from 1250-1550) are explored.

"The historian of the Christians" this is how Ibn Ḫaldūn referred to his Coptic predecessor al-Makīn Ibn al-ʿAmīd. His universal chronography is finally available in a critical edition and annotated translation.

In this book, Sui-Wai Cheung unmasks the murky story of copper coins in Ming China, revealing how emperors and statesmen perceived and used the copper coins at their disposal, and exposing the impecunious reality of the Sons of Heaven.