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Involving Readers : Practices of Reading, Use, and Interaction in Early Moder…
This volume explores how and by whom early modern Dutch Bibles were used. Through a detailed analysis of paratextual features and readers’ traces in over 180 surviving Bible copies, Renske Hoff shows how individuals manifested their faith in owning, reading, and personalising the Bible, in a period characterised by religious turmoil. From nuns and countesses to tailors and merchants: Bibles …
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- 978-90-04-69652-5
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- xviii, 332 pp.
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- Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 129
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Intra-European Litigation in Eighteenth-Century Izmir : The Role of the Merch…
Scholars have long debated the use of law to settle international trade disputes in the early modern period. In this book, Tijl Vanneste uses the case study of commercial litigation before the Dutch consular court of Izmir to argue that merchants relied on a particular blend of mercantile customs, which he calls ‘the merchants’ style’, and specific legal forms and procedures, laid down in…
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- 978-90-04-49823-5
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- Approx. 390 pp.
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- Mediterranean Reconfigurations, Volume: 4
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Time in Ancient Greek Literature = Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, Volume 2
This is the second volume in a series of volumes which together will provide an entirely new history of ancient Greek (narrative) literature. Its organization is formal rather than biographical. It traces the history of central narrative devices, such as the narrator and his narratees,time, focalization, characterization, and space. It offers not only analyses of the handling of such a device b…
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- '9789047422938
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- 556 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 291
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The State and Illegality in Indonesia
The popular 1998 reformasi movement that brought down President Suharto’s regime demanded an end to illegal practices by state officials, from human rights abuse to nepotistic investments. Yet today, such practices have proven more resistant to reform than people had hoped. Many have said corruption in Indonesia is "entrenched". We argue it is precisely this entrenched character that require…
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- 9789004253681
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- 340 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume: 269/1 Power and Place in Southeast Asia, Volume: 269/1
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The Skandapurāṇa Volume IIb = Adhyāyas 31-52. The Vāhana and Naraka Cycles
Skandapurāṇa IIb presents a critical edition of Adhyāyas 31-52 from the Skandapurāṇa, with an introduction and English synopsis. The text edited in this volume includes central myths of early Śaivism, such as the destruction of Dakṣa's sacrifice and Śiva acquiring the bull for his vehicle. Also included is an extensive description of the thirteen hells (Naraka).
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- 9789004277137
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- 384 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Belt and Road Initiative: Past, Present, Future
This open access book presents the main theme which advances the significance of cultural dialogue between China and Europe. The essence of the historical ties between China and Europe has resurfaced, much because of the Belt and Road Initiative launched in 2013 by China’s President Xi Jinping. The Belt and Road Initiative aims to bring China closer to Europe, Africa, and other parts of the w…
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- 978-981-96-1128-7
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- XVII, 317
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Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film
This open access book defines the cinematic Gothic as an aesthetics of memory and exile. Guided by three intersecting concepts – memory, travelling, and touch – it suggests that the cross-border movements of exiles, émigrés, and professional travellers had a crucial impact on the emergence, development, and dissemination of the Gothic. This approach expands the canon to overlooked films, …
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- 978-3-031-73628-5
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Palgrave Gothic
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Complicities
This Open Access book offers a model of the human subject as complicit in the systems that structure human society and the human psyche which draws together clinical research with theory from both psychology and the humanities to advance a more social just theory and practice. Beginning from the premise that we cannot separate ourselves from the systems that precede and formulate us as subjects…
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- 978-3-030-79675-4
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology
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Bordieuan Field Theory as an Instrument for Military Operational Analysis
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book uses Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory as a lens through which to examine military operations. Novel in its approach, this innovative text provides a better, more nuanced understanding of the modern ‘battlespace’, particularly in instances of prolonged low-intensity conflict. Formed in two parts, this book primarily explores th…
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- 978-3-319-65352-5
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- New Security Challenges
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Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses complicated the contemporary bodily status quo, which increasingly demanded an appearance of physical …
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- 978-3-030-78589-5
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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