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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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International Law and Chemical, Biological, Radio-Nuclear (CBRN) Events : Tow…
The volume investigates to what extent the international and European Union legal frameworks applicable to Chemical, Biological and Radio-Nuclear (CBRN) events are adequate to face current challenges. It is innovative in many aspects: it adopts an all-hazard approach to CBRN risks, focusing on events of intentional, accidental and natural origin; it explores international obligations according …
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- 978-90-04-50799-9
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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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- 356 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Impact of Empire, Volume: 50
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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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- 278 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies in Central European Histories, Volume: 64
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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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Time Distortions in Mind = Temporal Processing in Clinical Populations
Time Distortions in Mind brings together current research on aspects of temporal processing in clinical populations, in the ultimate hope of elucidating the interdependence between perturbations in timing and disturbances in the mind and brain. Such research may inform not only typical psychological functioning, but may also elucidate the psychological consequences of any pathophysiological dif…
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- 9789004230699
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- 406 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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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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Theological Libraries and Library Associations in Europe = A Festschrift on t…
During the past 50 years, theological libraries have confronted secularisation and religious pluralism, along with revolutionary technological developments that brought not only significant challenges but also unexpected opportunities to adopt new instruments for the transfer of knowledge through the automation and computerisation of libraries. This book shows how European theological libraries…
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- 500 hlm,: ill, lamp; 21 cm
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