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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.

The famous debate between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger of 1929 in Davos was set on a global stage and, yet, inherently Eurocentric. This volume explores how the hypothetical presence of the Kyoto school founder Nishida Kitarō would have overcome this limitation.

The Southern Low Countries were among Europe's core regions for the repression of sodomy during the fifteenth century: nowhere across the Alps were more sodomites convicted at the time. This is the first comprehensive study of sodomy in this region.

From Homeric heroes, Lucifer and Faust to the phenomenology of individual and social emotions, this book unfolds historical dimensions, literary recreations and philosophical analyses of the most ambivalent emotion of pride, from worst of sins to noblest feeling.

A multi-disciplinary inquiry into the origins and influences of Matteo Ricci's World Map in Chinese from the foundation of the Jesuit Order in 1540 up to the present.

Ce livre présente l'édition, la traduction en français et l'analyse de tous les documents de chancellerie concernant les échanges diplomatiques et commerciaux entre Florence et le sultanat mamelouk (début XVe - début XVIe siècle). This book offers the edition, translation into French and analysis of all the chancery documents related to the exchanges established between Florence and the Mamluk sultanate from the third decade of the fifteenth century to the beginning of the sixteenth.

"This book integrates history, theology, and art and analyzes the Jesuits' cross-cultural mission in late imperial China. Readers will find a rich collection of resources from historical sites, museums, manuscripts, and archival materials, including previous unpublished works of art. The production and circulation of art from different historical periods and categories show the artistic, theological, and missional values of Christian art. It highlights European Jesuits, Asian Christians, transnationalism, and gives voice to Chinese Christian women and their patronage of art in the seventeenth century. It offers a rare systematic study of the relation between art and mission history"--

This book offers the first study of theological thought experiments. It advances the discussion about the religious significance of the imagination and presents a tightly argued response to debates over pluralism in the history and philosophy of science.

The book investigates the social and religious history of the Portuguese-Jewish community of Hamburg during what is arguably the most important period of its history - the second half of the seventeenth century.

A biography of American painter Ralph W. Curtis (1854-1922) who graduated at Harvard, studied art in Paris, exhibited in the salons in Paris. He met Robert Browning, Henry James, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Venetian painters at the Palazzo Barbaro, in Venice.

This book analyzes changes in religious groups in late antique Arabia, ca. 300-700 CE. It engages with contemporary and material evidence and suggests that the changes in Arabian social groups were more piecemeal than previously thought.

The six books by legendary Russian revolutionary, diplomat, espionage agent and journalist Larisa Reisner, published here together for the first time in translation, set the story of her life against the world-changing events of 1917, and accompany Brill's publication of Cathy Porter's Larisa Reisner: A Biography, published as volume 266 in the Historical Materialism book series.

Silk Road studies has often treated material artifacts and manuscripts separately. This interdisciplinary volume expands the scope of transcultural transmission, questions what constituted a "book," and explores networks of circulation shared by material artifacts and manuscripts.

Reading is one of the biggest challenges facing the South African educational system. This book investigates ways to understand improvement, illustrates educators' multilingual challenges, and examines the difficulties faced by those reading African languages.

Brings together contributions from cultural and military history to offer an examination of religious rites employed in connection with warfare across Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.

The present work is about the life, works and travels of a seventeenth-century wandering scholar through Europe and the Near East, his connections to the foremost scholars of his time, and his promotion of the study of Arabic through the oriental manuscripts that he collected.

Criteria of authenticity have long featured in New Testament studies. Some argue these tools are unique--even idiosyncratic--to Jesus research, but this study demonstrates that general historians employ similar criteria to the same effect as historians of Jesus.

This work is the first to bring together contemporaneous notations, musical treatises, literary sources, travellers' accounts and iconography, to present a synthetic picture of the emergence of Ottoman composed and improvised instrumental music from the early 17th to the mid-18th centuries.

This book is the first large-scale comparative study to provide a comprehensive portrait of indigenous religious rights around the world, both in terms of recent political advances and persistent social obstacles to the implementation of legal protections for these rights.

Exploring an array of topics, from hybridized Buddhist music to AI singers, this book introduces Japanese music in the modern era. The chapters highlight unique influences, including the transformation of traditional genres and the adoption of Western musical practices ranging from classical music to hip hop

In Ibn Taymiyya and the Attributes of God, Farid Suleiman offers a comprehensive study of Ibn Taymiyya's views on God and His attributes, contextualizing his position within the century-old debates on this fraught theological issue.

This collection of chapters tracks and explains the impact of the nine core United Nations human rights treaties in 20 selected countries, four from each of the five UN regions. Researchers based in each of these countries were responsible for the chapters, in which they assess the influence of the treaties and treaty body recommendations on legislation, policies, court decisions and practices. By covering the 20 years between July 1999 and June 2019, this book updates a study done 20 years ago.

Nouvelle édition critique et traduction française annotée de la Lettre à Marcella de Porphyre. Le philosophe néoplatonicien Porphyre (234-305) y adresse à sa femme un témoignage unique sur la manière dont une vie philosophique peut être conduite et se préserver. This book presents a new annotated and translated edition of neoplatonist 3rd-century Greek philosopher Porphyrius' Letter to Marcella. This letter, adressed to his wife, gives a unique account on the ways and principles along which a philosophical life should be led so as to perpetuate itself.

"The book approaches the conceptual background of Avicenna's account of efficient causality, outlining the positions held by him and his early interpreters (eleventh and twelfth centuries), as well as the arguments that support those positions. The first aim of the book is to show the systematic unity of the Avicennian doctrines on ontology and aetiology, highlighting the threads connecting the two. The second aim is to investigate Avicenna's influence over his intepreters, assessing continuities and discontinuties"--

The leading Western expert on Bolshevism, Lars T. Lih, gives us the first-ever study of the Bolshevik outlook from Lenin to perestroika. Vivid case-studies of individual leaders and Soviet intellectuals paint an indispensable self-portrait of Bolshevism and its grand narratives.

The volume explores clause-linkage strategies from a cross-linguistic perspective with an emphasis on asyndetic constructions. The data-driven approaches focus on areal differences and similarities in using non-finite verb forms in complex sentences in languages situated in Central and Western Siberia.

This volume tackles long-standing interpretative problems in the study of the Opening of Japan. Thinking outside of existing methods, concepts, and theories for writing about Japan and the world, the authors eschew national and global history for new organising frameworks.

Teachers and Students: Reflections on Learning in Near and Middle Eastern Cultures. Collected Studies in Honour of Sebastian Günther offers new insights into key issues related to education in the Islamicate world and beyond, including their influence on and interdependence with non-Muslim cultures.

Cet ouvrage attire l'attention sur l'émergence des nouvelles dynamiques socio-politiques chez les Syriaques orthodoxes de Turquie - désignée traditionnellement comme une communauté antique chrétienne - dans leur rapport à la société turque contemporaine et aux pays diasporiques. This book draws attention on the emergence of new socio-political dynamics among the Syriac orthodox community of Turkey - that is labelled traditionally as an antique Christian community - in its relationship to contemporary Turkish society and diasporic countries.