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Law and Language in the Middle Ages
Law and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the encounter between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective. The essays explore how legal language expresses and advances power relations, along with the ways in which the language of law legitimates power. The wide geographical and chronological scope showcases how power, legitimacy and language interact, moving the discussion b…
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- 978-90-04-37576-5
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- 328 pp.
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- Medieval Law and Its Practice, Volume: 25
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L'Académie de Lausanne entre Humanisme et Réforme (ca. 1537-1560)
The Lausanne Academy was the first Protestant Academy in a French-speaking territory, created twenty years before the one in Geneva. In the 1540’s, the Lausanne Academy developed a new model for higher education that influenced the entire Calvinist world. Far from forming only pastors, it attracted the sons of Swiss and European Protestant elites through its advanced trilingual education (Lat…
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- 978-90-04-21073-8
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- 628 pp.
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- Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Volume: 41
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Kurdish Studies Archive : Vol. 2 No. 1 2014
Kurdish Studies Archive publishes the content of volumes 1 to 10 of Kurdish Studies. This interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal was dedicated to publishing high-quality research and scholarship. Since 2023 the journal has been continued as the new Kurdish Studies Journal, published by Brill, and focuses on research, scholarship, and debates in the field of Kurdish studies in a multidiscip…
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- 978-90-04-70653-8
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Tradition, Transmission, Transformation = Proceedings of Two Conferences on P…
This volume is the outcome of two conferences held at the University of Oklahoma in 1992 and 1993 which dealt with issues of transmission and subsequent cultural transformations that occurred in the premodern histories of mathematics and science. Some twenty contributors explore transmission from a variety of perspectives, including the role of language and other facets of culture in the trans…
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- 9789004625747
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- 591 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Collection de Travaux de l'Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences, Volume: 37
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Karel van Mander and his Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting : Firs…
Written by the poet-painter Karel van Mander, who finished it in June 1603, the Grondt der edel, vry schilderconst (Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting) was the first systematic treatise on schilderconst (the art of painting / picturing) to be published in Dutch (Haarlem: Paschier van Wes[t]busch, 1604). This English-language edition of the Grondt, accompanied by an introductory monog…
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- 978-90-04-52307-4
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- cloth with dustjacket, 484 pages, 33 full-color illustrations
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- Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, Volume: 62
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Karbala in the Taʿziyeh Episode, Shiʿi Devotional Drama in Iran
“I am not Shemr, this is not a dagger, nor is this Karbala,” recites the arch-antagonist as a taʿziyeh performance begins. Verisimilitude is not the endeavour; this is a devotional offering that stirs lament for the the Shiʿi martyrs by representing events crucial to sacred history. But what does that retelling entail? Through study of four of its main episodes—from their long inter-fem…
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- 978-90-04-71614-8
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- xii, 260 pp., incl. 11 fc illus.
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- Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate World, Volume: 15
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Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) : Dutch Playwright in the Golden Age
Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) was the most prolific poet and playwright of his age. During his long life, roughly coinciding with the Dutch Golden Age, he wrote over thirty tragedies. He was a famous figure in political and artistic circles of Amsterdam, a contemporary and acquaintance of Grotius and Rembrandt, and in general well acquainted with Latin humanists, Dutch scholars, authors and …
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- 978-90-04-21883-3
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- Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe, Volume: 1
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John Buridan Quaestiones super libros De generatione et corruptione Aristotel…
John Buridan (d. 1361) was one of the most talented and influential philosophers of the late Middle Ages. His fame extended far into the seventeenth century and underwent a revival in the twentieth century, when the French physicist Pierre Duhem rediscovered his manuscripts and wrote studies about them. So far, very few of Buridan's works have been edited. Two different questions commentaries o…
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- 978-90-04-18586-9
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- x, 270 pp.
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- Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science, Volume: 14
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Jesuits and Islam in Europe
This volume chronicles Jesuit efforts to engage with Muslim populations in Christian Europe, such as the Moriscos, as well as the work of Jesuit missionaries in Muslim territory, such as Constantinople. It provides insights into the activities of the Society of Jesus along the eastern frontier of the Ottoman Empire, and tracks the careers of individual Jesuits such as Tomás de León and Antoni…
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- 978-90-04-51731-8
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- viii, 116 pp.
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- Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies
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Jesuit Libraries
The Society of Jesus began a tradition of collecting books and curating those collections at its foundation. These libraries were important to both their European sites and their missions; they helped build a global culture as part of early modern European evangelization. When the Society was suppressed, the Jesuits’ possessions were seized and redistributed, by transfer to other religious or…
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- 978-90-04-51737-0
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- vi, 115 pp.
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- Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies
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