Historia

These books present current work on the archaeology of burial and memorial in late antiquity, with insights from excavation, science, and texts, from DNA to perfume traces, mausolea to relic translation, tomb robbing to statue spoliation, in East ...

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Racial passing has fascinated thousands of American readers since the end of the nineteenth century. But what about Jews passing for gentiles? This book examines this unique phenomenon, exploring issues such as Whiteness, Americanness, gender, and...

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Can a scientific instrument be regarded as a failure? Why and how? By shelling light on the complexity of these questions, the volume marks a step forward in the way historical scientific instruments can be analysed and displayed.

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Marxism and Medieval Studies examines the Marxist attitudes in East Central European historiography and archaeology for the first time. It covers the co-existence of Marxist methodology with other methodologies between the 1950s and 1970s in the l...

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By examining a wide range of copy-specific features of individual books, the volume showcases how books were produced in incunabula period, and subsequently used and transformed during their long journeys till they fell into their current owners' ...

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The story of the mitre began during the 11th-century church reform movements and was, surprisingly, inspired by a popular pastime. After a thousand years of bare heads, the Church finally had an official hat, signaling newly-structured internal dy...

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A study, including annotated translations, of materials associated with the Daoist mountain hermit and eventual immortal Chén Tuán 陳摶 (Xīyí 希夷 [Infinitesimal Subtlety]; d. 989). Includes explorations of Daoist view...

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This edited volume explores the development of the European book world between 1650 and 1750, concentrating on changes in publishing strategies, practices of censorship, the circulation of second-hand books and the building of libraries.

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How do contemporary communities in the Caribbean engage with their past? This book answers this by bringing local Caribbean voices to talk about archaeological heritage. Each chapter discusses how local researchers create bridges between archaeolo...

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Christianity is more than a religion. Like Judaism and Islam, it is a people-- Christianus populus --and a civilization. This book explores different aspects of the legal, religious, and clerical culture of the Christian people in Later Catholic E...

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Weaving together archival sources, material culture and the visual arts, this book sheds new light on how the cittadini or middling sorts constructed and shaped their identity through social networks and artistic patronage in early modern Venice.

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This book is a powerful contribution to ways of thinking about the formation of organisational models in early medieval Western Europe: it breaks new ground in the field by interrogating the legal systems from a continuity-angle.

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Written by an international team of leading scholars, both new and established, this multi-disciplinary book features cutting edge research on both familiar and little-known authors of medieval military literature and sets the groundwork for futur...

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This case study of John Boles (1661-1731) illustrates how one can write comprehensive biographies of Irish Quakers, most of whom have hitherto remained anonymous. Sources are analysed, genealogical charts constructed, and individuals' contribution...

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From a global historical perspective and drawing on a vast array of sources, this innovative study of cultural nationalism in British India discusses Romantic nationalist traits such as the relationship between language and identity, historicism, ...

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This book offers a critical history of connections between West and East Asia in the first millennium CE, documenting important diplomatic, commercial, religious, and cultural contacts that shaped the evolution of Chinese civilization.

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In 2022, a conference of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies took place in Leuven ("Half a Century of Neo-Latin Studies"). This volume publishes the event's proceedings which deal with a broad range of fields, including l...

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Muslims, Christians, and Jews throughout the Mediterranean but especially in medieval Iberia engaged in polemic and disputation. The Arabic text, The Book of Disputation , edited and studied here is doubly important: it is written by a Mudejar (su...

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Hercules Performed explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles - the Roman Hercules - on the western stage from the sixteenth century to the present day, focusing on live theatre, including tragedy, comedy and musical drama.

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Paul of Aleppo journeyed with his father, Patriarch Makarios III ibn al-Za'im, in Constantinople, Moldavia, Wallachia, and the Cossack's lands in 1652-1654. This book contains his travel notes preceded by his record of the patriarchs of the Church...

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This volume depicts methods and concepts of calculated ethics and mathematized moral life at main universities in Europe of the late Middle Ages which originated at the University of Oxford in the works of Richard Kilvington.

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The first part of the long-awaited fourth volume of André Wink's monumental Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World introduces a new perspective on the rise of the dynasty of the Great Mughals and the transition of the Indo-Islamic world fro...

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The third part of an annotated translation of a full record of the papal legation of Maillard de Tournon to China (1705-1710), a crucial event in the history of Christianity and European-Chinese relations, written by Kilian Stumpf, a Jesuit missio...

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The sweeping changes engendered by Oman's 1970 coup produced a new political and economic structure that was created by and for Sultan Qaboos. The initially haphazard construction matured into a durable structure that continues under Sultan Haitham.

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The book is a critical edition of the text with an English translation and commentary of Proclus' On the Hieratic Art .

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This book deals with autobiographical discourse in Flavius Josephus' Jewish War . By evaluating Josephus' self-characterisation within a first-century Roman context, it sheds new light on this writer's historiographical methods and his deep knowle...

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More than a Church investigates the economic roles of late antique churches. Taking Cyprus as a case study, the book analyzes how churches doubled as important sites for the production of a range of agricultural and artisanal goods.

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This book studies the research perspective in which the literary inhabitants of Late Antique and medieval Constantinople remembered its past and conceptualised its existence as a Greek city that was the political capital of a Christian Roman state.

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This book is an edited collection on one of Plato's most dramatic as well as most complex dialogues, where a defence of the philosopher's way of life is carried out against the background of interconnected rhetorical and political stances of the t...

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Karl Marx was a radical critic of power. This book reconstructs the complex paths through which he, against the background of the mechanisms of capitalist accumulation and relations of exploitation, confronts the history and topicality of social a...

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