Published to coincide with the 700-year anniversary of her death, Busse-Wilsons study caused a storm of controversy. Translated for the first time into English, this book reintroduces to a contemporary audience this long-forgotten but still provoca...Loe edasi...
This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a fully-fledged discipline....Loe edasi...
Examining the functions of Sixteenth-century Flemish painter Joachim Beuckelaer strange and new subject matter, Goldstein situates his paintings and those of his closest Italian follower, Vincenzo Campi, in the physical space of the dining room....Loe edasi...
Processes of making in early modern Europe were both tacit and embodied.This volume focuses on the body of the maker to ask how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, and reconstructing illuminate early modern assumptions and understandin...Loe edasi...
This book applies the term cultural security not exclusively to state- or institution-implemented processes, but also considers the indigenous, bottom-up, and inside-out mechanisms of establishing and maintaining communal cultural security of an eth...Loe edasi...
This book explores the adversarial world of feminist activism by Muslim women within highly mediated environments (social media, screenwriting, documentary filmmaking, YouTube), focusing on agency, bodily integrity, and familial obligations....Loe edasi...
The study adds a new focus on female letter writing, the formation of social networks, and the gender dynamics at play in the households and communities of early modern Florence and Tuscany....Loe edasi...
This volume uses ceramic studies across multiple spatial and diachronic scales to provide new insights into the connectivity of ancient Mediterranean communities....Loe edasi...
The handwritten and printed missionary books of the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru were key instruments designed to help study Indigenous languages. This volume considers these missionary books....Loe edasi...
Monuments of Diverse Heritage in Early America: Placemaking and Preservation by Black, Indigenous, and Jewish Peoples explores a more inclusive history of preserving public historic sites....Loe edasi...
Max Webers classical notion of enchantment serves in this book to highlight the clash and rewiring of ethical and cosmological codes in European and Indian early modern cultural encounters from the 16th century onward....Loe edasi...
Controversial Monuments: Personifying the Continents from the 18th to the 21st century explores how enduring representations of the continents continue to resonate in today’s visual and cultural imagination....Loe edasi...
This book offers the first systematic examination of the ways in which the notion of love has been introduced, adapted, and engineered as a political discourse for the building and rebuilding of a secular modern nation, appropriating Confucianism, C...Loe edasi...
The seven articles in this edited volume address the complex meanings that visual representations of plants and animals gained in early modern China and Japan. They aim to understand animals and plants in the new contexts of empirical and epistemolo...Loe edasi...
This book argues that the fundamental foundation of Hobbess political philosophy in Leviathan is wise, generous, loving, sincere, just, and valiantin sum, magnanimousstatecraft, whereby sovereigns aim to realize natural justice, manifest as eminent...Loe edasi...
Aesops Heritage explores the evolution of the Aesopian fable in France and the Low Countries (1500-1800), examining the intricate relationship between text, illustration, and education. New light is shed on some well-known and lesser-known f...Loe edasi...
This book introduces and collects for the first time Charles S. Peirce’s writings for Baldwin’s Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology. As one of America’s most significant thinkers, this volume showcases Peirce’s vital role in shaping the le...Loe edasi...
The mapping of the Netherlands East Indies was, first and foremost, meant to serve as an instrument for the government to keep its inhabitants under control and tap its resources. Only after 1900, in studies to alleviate poverty, did the colonial su...Loe edasi...
Caravaggios art is subjected to a political interpretation that draws on Erasmuss writings to explain his paintings. According to Erasmuss Philosophia christiana, in contrast to Gabriele Paleottis Discorso intorno alle immagini sacre e profane o...Loe edasi...
In Objects, Commodities and Material Cultures, the interdisciplinary community of specialists around the Amsterdam Centre for the Study of Early Modernity innovatively explores the diverse early modern world of objects How did objects...Loe edasi...
This volume provides important insights it draws the outlines of a new field of scholarship at the crossroads of the social histories of punishment and labour and on the ways through which they can be studied....Loe edasi...
This book discusses the mishu (staff member, secretary) system and the operation of the Chinese Communist Party between 1921 and 2022, focusing on the systems impact on high-level politics and decision-making during four key periods....Loe edasi...
This book examines the wide and important geographical tradition that arose from the description of the world in the Imago mundi a medieval encyclopedic bestseller, almost unrivalled in popularity from its composition in the 1110s well into the a...Loe edasi...
This study attempts to thoroughly grasp and re-think Luthers and Calvins notions of common priesthood without the ministerial, to understand better and to shed light upon the necessary mutual relationship between both ministerial and common priestho...Loe edasi...
This book presents a comprehensive account of how archaeology in Africa evolved, was challenged, and reimagined. Moving from nineteenth-century antiquarianism through independence to today, the book dismantles dark continent myths, foregrounds Afric...Loe edasi...
The alienation generated in modern capitalist societies has a corrosive effect on social cohesion and democratic deliberation. This thesis stresses the importance of citizenship education in combating alienation in order to achieve a democratic and...Loe edasi...
The aim of this book is to augment the contemporary case for a realist conception of theology: It a rms the possibility of knowing something about God and argues on that basis that it is possible to formulate propositions that are true....Loe edasi...
This book examines the relationship between education, schools, and Confucian classical studies during the late Qing and early Republican periods.The imperial examination system could not accommodate Western learning. Then, Chinese learning...Loe edasi...
This book offers the first comprehensive study of medieval and modern debates on the nature of touch its objects, limits, and operations from the mid thirteenth century to the early twentieth century. Spanning the period from the rise of Aristotel...Loe edasi...
The first English language history of Chinas Most Important Battle in World War II In April 1944, Imperial Japan launched Operation Ichigo to secure a transport route linking Japanese forces in northern China and Southeast Asia, while el...Loe edasi...
This study considers whether phenomenology, as in the French philosophy of the later part of the twentieth century, can be applied fruitfully to the preparation of the sermon or homily. It is structured in two parts: a conceptual foundation that is...Loe edasi...
This volume explores the global circulation of practices, technologies, and ideas identified as East Asian in alternative therapies and spiritual practices since the 1970s. Case studies range from the incorporation of traditional Chinese medicine in...Loe edasi...
Tadeas Hajek of Hajek (15261600), Latinized as Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hagek/Hayek, was a key figure in early scientific debates not only in his native Bohemia. In this volume, the contributors study various aspects of Hayeks thought to present a less...Loe edasi...
The book brings into relief Kojèves original contributions as a legal thinker through a series of critical dialogues and debates about law and right between Kojève and other influential contributors to legal scholarship across the humanities and soc...Loe edasi...
The alienation generated in modern capitalist societies has a corrosive effect on social cohesion and democratic deliberation. This thesis stresses the importance of citizenship education in combating alienation in order to achieve a democratic and...Loe edasi...
This book presents a comprehensive account of how archaeology in Africa evolved, was challenged, and reimagined. Moving from nineteenth-century antiquarianism through independence to today, the book dismantles dark continent myths, foregrounds Afric...Loe edasi...
This collection focuses on the revolutionary philosophy of Archeworks: ethics is embedded in all architecture and design and all architecture and design should serve a social good. Stanley Tigerman and Eva Maddox, the cofounders of Archeworks and it...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on alternative definitions of landscape in archaeology, particularly those that explicitly address landscapes political aspects....Loe edasi...
A prose work interspersed with poetry, Le Printemps dYver was highly popular in its day, seeing thirty editions between 1572 and 1635. This modern English translation constitutes the first complete translation of the original French text....Loe edasi...
This book explores the implications of Charles Taylor’s analysis of secularity for the work of humanities education in Christian institutions of higher learning. At the heart of this collection of essays is a central question: how...Loe edasi...
Professor Dr Fuat Sezgin meticulously documented the scientific writings and advances achieved by Muslim scholars. His celebrated Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), the largest bio-bibliography for the Arabic literary tradition in ge...Loe edasi...
Across shifting empires and today’s digital frontiers, Liu examines the Chinese concept of tianxia—the ancient vision of “all under heaven”—as it promises harmony while organizing domination.This book moves through maps, rituals, fro...Loe edasi...
This book offers the first comprehensive study of how Jesuit libraries were created, organised, and used across early modern Europe and throughout the overseas missions. Drawing on a broad range of archival and printed sources, including administrat...Loe edasi...
This book discusses the medical knowledge system in the pre-Qin period and its specific development during the Han Dynasty, drawing on related accounts in non-medical literature as background evidence and analyzing in detail the texts of the current...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197825327)
This volume contains a selection of essays on the structure and methods of normative ethics by eminent philosopher Shelly Kagan. Its successor, Rethinking Intrinsic Value: And Other Essays on the Good, collects essays on value, well-being, a...Loe edasi...
This study attempts to thoroughly grasp and re-think Luthers and Calvins notions of common priesthood without the ministerial, to understand better and to shed light upon the necessary mutual relationship between both ministerial and common priestho...Loe edasi...
This book examines the wide and important geographical tradition that arose from the description of the world in the Imago mundi a medieval encyclopedic bestseller, almost unrivalled in popularity from its composition in the 1110s well into the a...Loe edasi...
This book discusses the mishu (staff member, secretary) system and the operation of the Chinese Communist Party between 1921 and 2022, focusing on the systems impact on high-level politics and decision-making during four key periods....Loe edasi...
The handwritten and printed missionary books of the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru were key instruments designed to help study Indigenous languages. This volume considers these missionary books....Loe edasi...
This volume uses ceramic studies across multiple spatial and diachronic scales to provide new insights into the connectivity of ancient Mediterranean communities....Loe edasi...
The study adds a new focus on female letter writing, the formation of social networks, and the gender dynamics at play in the households and communities of early modern Florence and Tuscany....Loe edasi...
This book explores the adversarial world of feminist activism by Muslim women within highly mediated environments (social media, screenwriting, documentary filmmaking, YouTube), focusing on agency, bodily integrity, and familial obligations....Loe edasi...
This book applies the term cultural security not exclusively to state- or institution-implemented processes, but also considers the indigenous, bottom-up, and inside-out mechanisms of establishing and maintaining communal cultural security of an eth...Loe edasi...
Processes of making in early modern Europe were both tacit and embodied.This volume focuses on the body of the maker to ask how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, and reconstructing illuminate early modern assumptions and understandin...Loe edasi...
Examining the functions of Sixteenth-century Flemish painter Joachim Beuckelaer strange and new subject matter, Goldstein situates his paintings and those of his closest Italian follower, Vincenzo Campi, in the physical space of the dining room....Loe edasi...
This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a fully-fledged discipline....Loe edasi...
Monuments of Diverse Heritage in Early America: Placemaking and Preservation by Black, Indigenous, and Jewish Peoples explores a more inclusive history of preserving public historic sites....Loe edasi...
Max Webers classical notion of enchantment serves in this book to highlight the clash and rewiring of ethical and cosmological codes in European and Indian early modern cultural encounters from the 16th century onward....Loe edasi...
Controversial Monuments: Personifying the Continents from the 18th to the 21st century explores how enduring representations of the continents continue to resonate in today’s visual and cultural imagination....Loe edasi...
This volume provides important insights it draws the outlines of a new field of scholarship at the crossroads of the social histories of punishment and labour and on the ways through which they can be studied....Loe edasi...
In Objects, Commodities and Material Cultures, the interdisciplinary community of specialists around the Amsterdam Centre for the Study of Early Modernity innovatively explores the diverse early modern world of objects How did objects...Loe edasi...
Caravaggios art is subjected to a political interpretation that draws on Erasmuss writings to explain his paintings. According to Erasmuss Philosophia christiana, in contrast to Gabriele Paleottis Discorso intorno alle immagini sacre e profane o...Loe edasi...
The mapping of the Netherlands East Indies was, first and foremost, meant to serve as an instrument for the government to keep its inhabitants under control and tap its resources. Only after 1900, in studies to alleviate poverty, did the colonial su...Loe edasi...
This book introduces and collects for the first time Charles S. Peirce’s writings for Baldwin’s Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology. As one of America’s most significant thinkers, this volume showcases Peirce’s vital role in shaping the le...Loe edasi...
Aesops Heritage explores the evolution of the Aesopian fable in France and the Low Countries (1500-1800), examining the intricate relationship between text, illustration, and education. New light is shed on some well-known and lesser-known f...Loe edasi...
This book argues that the fundamental foundation of Hobbess political philosophy in Leviathan is wise, generous, loving, sincere, just, and valiantin sum, magnanimousstatecraft, whereby sovereigns aim to realize natural justice, manifest as eminent...Loe edasi...
The seven articles in this edited volume address the complex meanings that visual representations of plants and animals gained in early modern China and Japan. They aim to understand animals and plants in the new contexts of empirical and epistemolo...Loe edasi...
This book offers the first systematic examination of the ways in which the notion of love has been introduced, adapted, and engineered as a political discourse for the building and rebuilding of a secular modern nation, appropriating Confucianism, C...Loe edasi...
