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Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe Encounters, Not…
This first volume of the series “Dynamics in the History of Religions” reviews the opening conference of the "Käte Hamburger Kolleg” at the Ruhr-University Bochum. The first section concentrates on the formation of what later come to be termed "world religions" through inter-religious contact, the second part focuses on the significance of interreligious contacts also during their expans…
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- 978-90-04-22535-0
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Dynamics in the History of Religions, Volume: 1
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The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadān = A Description and Quantitative Analys…
This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC. It offers a description and analysis of the language of the inscriptions and the variation attested within them. It is the first work to perform a systematic study of the linguistic variat…
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- 9789004512634
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- 342hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume: 110
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The Visionary Preaching of Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534) = Ritual, Revelation,…
Step into the world of 16th-century Castile, where a devout community of Franciscan women preserved the public preaching of their visionary abbess, Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534), through writing. This groundbreaking book uncovers how her sermons were recorded, explores the materiality of the surviving codices, and reveals their role in the controversial censorship and blocking of Juana’s canon…
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- 9789004495944
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- 304 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- The Medieval Franciscans, Volume: 25
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The Unknown Neighbour = The Jew in the Thought of Isidore of Seville
This book provides a detailed analysis of Isidore of Seville's attitude towards Jews and Judaism. Starting out from his anti-Jewish work De fide catholica contra Iudaeos, the author puts Isidore's argument into the context of his entire literary production. Furthermore, he explores the place of Isidore's thinking within the contemporary situation of Visigothic Spain, investigating the political…
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- 9789047408925
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- The Medieval Mediterranean, Volume: 59
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The Twentieth Century in European Memory = Transcultural Mediation and Reception
The Twentieth Century in European Memory investigates contested and divisive memories of conflicts, world wars, dictatorship, genocide and mass killing. Focusing on the questions of transculturality and reception, the book looks at the ways in which such memories are being shared, debated and received by museum workers, artists, politicians and general audiences. Due to amplified mobility and c…
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- 9789004352353
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- 364 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- European Studies, Volume: 34 European Studies, Volume: 34
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The Transformation of Economic Life under the Roman Empire = Proceedings of t…
Did a Roman imperial economy exist under the Late Republic, the Roman Principate and the Later Roman Empire? And if so, what type of economy was it? Another equally important question is: did the Roman Empire, by specific actions, the creation of infrastructures, or its very existence, trigger a transformation of economic life in the regions which it dominated? Or was the Empire a marginal affa…
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- 9789004401624
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- 288 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Impact of Empire, Volume: 2
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The Texts and Contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108 = The S…
The late thirteenth-century, monolingual Oxford manuscript, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108, bears singular importance to medieval studies, for it preserves and anthologizes unique versions of several seminal Middle English texts, including South English Legendary, Havelok the Dane, and King Horn and Somer Soneday. While critics have traditionally classified these poems by genre, this book …
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- 9789004192249
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- 368 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts, Volume: 6
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The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe
This volume brings together the leading experts in the history of European Oriental Studies. Their essays present a comprehensive history of the teaching and learning of Arabic in early modern Europe, covering a wide geographical area from southern to northern Europe and discussing the many ways and purposes for which the Arabic language was taught and studied by scholars, theologians, merchant…
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- 9789004338623
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- 366 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- The History of Oriental Studies, Volume: 3
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The Tapuia of Northeastern Brazil in Dutch Sources (1628–1648)
This book presents the transcriptions and annotated translations of fifteen key historical documents concerning the Tapuia indigenous people written just before and during the Dutch occupation of northeastern Brazil. The selected documents vary widely in type, including letters, descriptions, reports, first-person declarations, diaries, and transcripts of interrogations, thereby showcasing diff…
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- 9789004543645
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- 308 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- The Early Americas: History and Culture, Volume: 11
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The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717…
Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso’s The Spanish Monarchy and the Creation of the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1739) argues that the pace and character of the most salient Bourbon reform introduced in Spanish America in the early eighteenth century were determined by relations between New Granadan elites and authorities in Spain, reflected changes in European geopolitical configurations, and echo…
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- 9789004308794
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- 340 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Early American History Series, Volume: 6
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