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Between 1600 and 1750 Ottoman Turkish music differentiated itself from an older Persianate art music and developed the genres antecedent to modern Turkish art music. Based on a translation of...

Was begegnet sich eigentlich unter den Stichworten >MystikRomantik Romantik ist eine Epoche der Kunst und auch der Philosophie, die sich dagegen wehrt, dass die ihr vorangehende Epoche der Aufkl?rung...

The studies included in Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual -- written in honor of Professor Demetrios Yatromanolakis, a pioneering and influential scholar -- shed new light on a variety of...

One of the most influential works of the Islamic-Arabic library, Nahj al-Balaghah is al-Sharif al-Ra?i's (d. 406/1016) compendium of the orations, letters, and wisdom sayings of ?Ali (d. 40/661)...

Aside from the prominent perpetrators such as Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele or Klaus Barbie, there were numerous other cases of Nazis and Nazi sympathizers from Germany and Austria who ended up in...

New Discourses in Medieval Canon Law Research offers a new narrative for medieval canon law history which avoids the pitfall of teleological explanations by taking seriously the multiplicity of legal...

The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Nicole Oresme, a mathematician, philosopher, and theologian, stood as one of...

A Brill Sense Bestseller! What if everything you thought you knew about Black people generally, and educating Black children specifically, was based on BS (bad stats)? We often hear things like,...

Obstinate Star is a history of Puerto Rico's independence struggle against Spanish and U.S. colonialism. From the time of the Napoleonic Wars, it traces the movement's currents, within and beyond the...

Of Books, Barns, and Boardrooms: Exploring Praxis through Reflexive Inquiry is at once scholarly and deeply personal. A rich weave of learning moments across multiple contexts-- formal education,...

In service to their unique demographic of learners, developmental reading and writing instructors must steadfastly teach basic literacy skills to a diverse student population with varying degrees of...

Origins of Osiris and His CultAuthor: John Gwyn GriffithsPublisher: BrillPublication Date: 29373Number of Pages: 290 pagesBinding: ReligionISBN-10: 9004060960ISBN-13: 9789004060968

The cosmological-meteorological writings of Paracelsus (1493-1541), presented here for the first time in the most reliable German versions with facing-page translations and thorough text-based and...

These essays by Paul Mattick were written during periods of radical activity and address themes still critical for us today--the devastation of war-torn areas and the abject destitution to which...

Pauline Christianity takes a fresh perspective on the composition and reception of Luke-Acts in relation to the category 'Pauline Christianity' as it has been used to describe traditions,...

Performing Arguments: Debate in Early English Poetry and Drama proposes a fresh performance-centered view of rhetoric by recovering, tracing, and analyzing the trope and tradition of aestheticized...

Philosophy in antiquity was conceived not as mere theory but as a way of life; but it lost its 'practicist' cast through a process that begins in the patristic era and peaks with its conversion into...

This book contains 15 essays by philosophers, theologians and historians from the Netherlands, France, Italy, England and the United States on Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), the French Protestant who...

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...

Winner of the 2024 Th?odore Reinach Prize, awarded by the Association des ?tudes Grecques and of the 2024 Prix Bordin from the Acad?mie fran?aise, awarded by the Acad?mie des Inscriptions et...

Wounded pride of the hero motivated one of the primal poems, pride of the angel caused his downfall and hubris of man cost him his expulsion from earthly paradise and the sale of his soul to the...

This book traces the pictorial and ideological traditions behind printers' devices, placing the usage of these unassuming compositions in the broader cultural context early modern Poland-Lithuania: a...

The present edited volume offers a collection of new concepts and approaches to the study of mobility in pre-modern Islamic societies. It includes nine remarkable case studies from different parts of...

The first in-depth scholarly study in English of the Japanese performance medium kamishibai, Sharalyn Orbaugh's Propaganda Performed illuminates the vibrant street culture of 1930s Japan as well as...

In Prophet, Intermediary, King: The Dynamics of Mediation in the Biblical World and Old Babylonian Mari, Julie B. Deluty investigates the mediation of prophecy for kings in biblical narratives and...

This book challenges us to 'think anew' about teaching and teacher education. It explores the nature of quality in teaching and teacher education, and addresses emerging and potentially redefining...

Queering the Vampire Narrative offers classroom-ready original essays that continue our explorations of vampires as representations of the cultural Other, which builds on the work of our previous...

This volume advances the critical study of exegetical, doctrinal, and political authority in Shiʿi Islam. Naive dichotomies of "reason" and "esotericism" in Islamic Studies have often...

Recovering Environmental and Economic Traditions in the Islamic World is an interdisciplinary volume that interrogates varied approaches to environmental and economic thought in classical Islam and...

Scholarship surrounding the standard varieties of Ancient Greek (Attic, the Koine, and Atticistic Greek) focused from its beginnings until relatively recently on determining fixed uniformities or...