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Tradition and Power in the Roman Empire = Proceedings of the Fifteenth Worksh…
This volume focuses on the interface between tradition and the shifting configuration of power structures in the Roman Empire. By examining various time periods and locales, its contributions show the Empire as a world filed with a wide variety of cultural, political, social, and religious traditions. These traditions were constantly played upon in the processes of negotiation and (re)definitio…
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- 9789004537460
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- Impact of Empire, Volume: 50
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Traces of Ink = Experiences of Philology and Replication
Traces of Ink. Experiences of Philology and Replication is a collection of original papers exploring the textual and material aspects of inks and ink-making in a number of premodern cultures (Babylonia, the Graeco-Roman world, the Syriac milieu and the Arabo-Islamic tradition). The volume proposes a fresh and interdisciplinary approach to the study of technical traditions, in which new results …
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- 9789004444805
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- Nuncius Series, Volume: 7
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Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance = Responses to Religious Pluralism …
Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance challenges the narrative of a simple progression of tolerance and the establishment of confessional identity during the early modern period. These essays explore the lived experiences of religious plurality, providing insights into the developments and drawbacks of religious coexistence in this turbulent period. The essays examine three main groups of a…
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- 9789004371309
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- Studies in Central European Histories, Volume: 64
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Time and the Ancestors = Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art
In Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art, Maarten Jansen and Aurora Pérez present new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico. Combining iconographical analysis with the study of archaeological contexts, historical sources and living cultural traditions, they shed light on central symbols and values of the religious heritage of indigenous peoples, paying spe…
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- 9789004340527
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- The Early Americas: History and Culture, Volume: 5
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Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, and Change
In Tibetan Printing: Comparisons, Continuities and Change the editors publish the results of the workshop “Printing as an Agent of Change in Tibet and beyond” held at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in November 2013. This is the first study of the social and cultural history of Tibetan book technology that takes materials, living traditions and cross-cultural comparisons into consideration. Br…
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- 9789004316256
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- 610 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, Volume: 39
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Through the Prism of Gender and Work = Women’s Labour Struggles in Central …
This book examines women’s activism in and beyond Central and Eastern Europe and transnationally within and across different historical periods, political regimes, and scales of activism. The authors explore the wide range of activist agendas, repertoires, and forums in which women sought to advocate for their gender and labour interests. Women were engaged in trade unions, women-only orga…
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- 9789004682481
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- 616 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 51
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Thomas Erastus and the Palatinate = A Renaissance Physician in the Second Ref…
This study is the first monograph to attempt a synthetic treatment of the career of Thomas Erastus (1524-1583). Erastus was a central player in the conversion of the Electoral Palatinate to Reformed Christianity in the early 1560s and a co-author of the Heidelberg Catechism. In the church discipline controversy of the 1560s and 1570s, Erastus opposed the Calvinist effort to institute a consisto…
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- 9789004523197
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- 544 hlm,: ill, lamp; 21 cm
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- Brill's Series in Church History, Volume: 48
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Theologians and Contract Law = The Moral Transformation of the Ius Commune (c…
The Roman legal tradition is the ancestor of modern contract law but there is no agreement as to how and when a general law of contract emerged. Wim Decock’s thesis is that an important step in this evolution was taken by theologians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They transformed the Roman legal tradition (ius commune) by insisting on the moral foundations of contract law. Theol…
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- 9789004232853
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- Studies in the History of Private Law, Volume: 9/4 Legal History Library, Volume: 9/4
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The Years of Jesuit Suppression, 1773–1814: Survival, Setbacks, and Transfo…
The forty-one years between the Society of Jesus’s papal suppression in 1773 and its eventual restoration in 1814 remain controversial, with new research and interpretations continually appearing. Shore’s narrative approaches these years, and the period preceding the suppression, from a new perspective that covers individuals not usually discussed in works dealing with this topic. As well a…
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- 9789004423374
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- Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies
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Elisabeth Mann Borgese and the Law of the Sea
In the late twentieth century, as the United Nations struggled to come up with a new legal system for the oceans, one woman saw the opportunity to promote radical new ideas of justice and internationalism. Ocean governance expert Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918–2002) spent decades working with the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention. Throughout this sprawling series of global conferences, s…
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- 978-90-04-51144-6
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Legal History Library
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