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Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Low Countries, 1450-1650
(2011)
In the early modern Low Countries, literary culture functioned on several levels simultaneously: it provided learning, pleasure, and entertainment while also shaping public debate. From a ditty in Dutch sung in the streets ...
Turning over a New Leaf
(2012)
Books before print – manuscripts – were modified continuously throughout the medieval period. Focusing on the ninth and twelfth centuries, this volume explores such material changes as well as the varying circumstances ...
Politics of Value: New Approaches to Early Money and the State
(2020)
As one of the most enduring icons of economic life, money has been a common feature and central focus in complex societies from Antiquity to the present. It gained weight as a key feature of Mediterranean economies in the ...
Environmental Protection and Transitions from Conflict to Peace
(2017)
This book is the first targeted work in the legal literature that investigates environmental challenges in the aftermath of conflict. The volume brings together academics, policy-makers, and practitioners from different ...
Caribbean Cultural Heritage and the Nation
(2023)
Centuries of intense and involuntary migrations deeply impacted the development of the creolised cultures on the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. This volume describes various forms of cultural ...
Verlichte verhalen
(2023)
By describing their present as ‘enlightened’, eighteenth-century intellectuals inevitably altered their relationship to the past. In search of an explanation for this Enlightenment, eighteenth-century authors created a ...
Making Islam Work
(2023)
The development of Islamic landscapes in Europe, is first and foremost related to Islamic authority. Religious authority relies on persuasiveness and deals with issues of truth, authenticity, legitimacy, trust, and ethics ...
Narratives in Silius Italicus’ Punica
(2023)
This study investigates the role of embedded narratives in Silius Italicus’ Punica, an epic from the late first century AD on the Second Punic War (218–202 BC). At first sight, these narratives seem to be loosely ‘embedded’ ...
Aramaic Daniel
(2022)
The first half of the book of Daniel contains world-famous stories like the Writing on the Wall. These stories have mostly been transmitted in Aramaic, not Hebrew, as has the influential apocalypse of Daniel 7. This Aramaic ...
Conditional Freedom
(2022)
While the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political ...
Traces of Contact in the Lexicon
(2023)
What can the languages spoken today tell us about the history of their speakers? This question is crucial in insular Southeast Asia and New Guinea, where thousands of languages are spoken, but written historical records ...
Reconfiguring the Land of Israel
(2024)
This book is about ways in which the land of Israel, the homeland of the most paradigmatic of all diasporas, was envisioned in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the literature of the sages. It is about the Land ...
Vernacular Books and Their Readers in the Early Age of Print (c. 1450–1600)
(2023)
This volume explores various approaches to study vernacular books and reading practices across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries. Through a shared focus on the material book as an interface between producers and users, the ...
Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia
(2023)
Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia: Texts, Traditions and Practices, 10th-21st Centuries is a collection of fourteen studies by a group of scholars active in the field of Central Asian Studies, presenting new ...
Philosophical Perspectives on Galen of Pergamum: Four Case-Studies on Human Nature and the Relation between Body and Soul
(2022)
This is a ground-breaking philosophical-historical study of the work of Galen of Pergamum. It contains four case-studies on (1) Galen’s remarkable and original thoughts on the relation between body and soul, (2) his notion ...
Ichthyology in Context (1500–1880)
(2023)
Ichthyology in Context (1500–1880) provides a broad spectre of early modern manifestations of human fascination with fish – “fish” understood in the early modern sense of the term, as aquatilia: all aquatic animals, including ...
The Power of Parables
(2023)
The Power of Parables documents the surprising ways in which Jewish and Christian parables bridge religion with daily life. This 2019 conference volume rediscovers the original power of parables to shock and affect their ...
Popular Music in Southeast Asia
(2017)
From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book ...
Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age
(2012)
The Dutch seventeenth century, a ‘Golden Age’ ridden by intense ideological conflict, pioneered global trade, participatory politics and religious toleration. Its history is epitomized by the life and works of the brothers ...
Far From the Truth
(2024)
Information and knowledge were essential tools of early modern Europe’s global ambitions. This volume addresses a key concern that emerged as the competition for geopolitical influence increased: how could information from ...
Facing Authority
(2024)
When your friends call on you to take to the streets and demand the fall of the regime, this presses a practical predicament that we all address, often implicitly, in our everyday lives: Is this regime legitimate? Facing ...
Paul and the Philosophers’ Faith
(2024)
The notion of faith experienced a remarkable surge in popularity among early Christians, with Paul as its pioneer. Yet what was the wider cultural significance of the pistis word group? This comprehensive work contextualizes ...
Hiding Making - Showing Creation
(2013)
The aim of Hiding Making - Showing Creation is twofold. In the first instance, we seek to trace the Nachleben of these studio
topoi from the nineteenth century to today, in particular focusing on
how artists have employed ...
The Rule of Dons
(2024)
Rivke Jaffe explains how despite Jamaica’s “dons” are associated with crime and violence, they have become figures of political authority and seen as legitimate leaders.
The Mobility Control Apparatus
(2025)
This book critically explores the complexities of intra-Schengen border control and migration dynamics within Europe. It provides a comprehensive analysis of how various actors, including border officials and state ...
Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives
(2018)
A synoptic interpretation of the rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Readership: All interested in the early modern global and comparative history of kingdoms and empires, rulers and ...
Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia
(2016)
By providing various fascinating first-hand accounts of how citizens negotiate their rights in the context of weak state institutions, Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia offers a unique bottom-up perspective ...
De vele kanten van leesbegrip
(2019)
This study provides an overview of what is known from research about effective education in reading comprehension. The report forms the framework for a survey of the state of the art of reading comprehension at the end of ...
Gemengde groepen in integrale kindcentra
(2019)
Deze studie is onderdeel van een groter project bestaande uit drie studies, waarin we ons richten op de vraag: wat is een goed aanbod voor doelgroepkinderen van het onderwijsachterstandenbeleid in voorschoolse voorzieningen ...
Computational Approaches to the Study of Movement in Archaeology
(2014)
Within the framework of the Excellence Cluster Topoi, a fruitful interdisciplinary debate on
space and movement over the long term has developed. The workshop “Computational approaches
to movement in archaeology” (organized ...
Towards Sustainable Global Food Systems
(2019)
environment; food; agriculture; policy; global food systems
Relatie tussen kwaliteit in de kleuterklassen en de schoolloopbaan van leerlingen
(2019)
Deze studie is onderdeel van een groter NRO project dat is uitgevoerd in het kader van het NRO-onderzoeksprogramma ‘Met onderzoek onderwijs vernieuwen’, periode 2016-2019. Het bestaat uit drie studies, waarin we trachten ...
Kans op en effecten van kleuterbouwverlenging
(2019)
Deze studie is onderdeel van een groter project bestaande uit drie studies, waarin we ons richten op de vraag: wat is een goed aanbod voor doelgroepkinderen van het onderwijsachterstandenbeleid in voorschoolse voorzieningen ...
Death revisited
(2019)
This book has been a long time in the making. When we left the field for the final time in 2009 we could only guess at what exactly we had found – we did not even have firm dates for most of the graves discovered. The ...
Computational Cognitive Modeling and Linguistic Theory
(2020)
This open access book introduces a general framework that allows natural language researchers to enhance existing competence theories with fully specified performance and processing components. Gradually developing ...
Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East
(2016)
Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East explores the many facets associated with the questions of modernity and minority in the context religious communities in the Middle East. ...
Engines of Order
(2020)
Over the last decades, and in particular since the widespread adoption of the Internet, encounters with algorithmic procedures for ‘information retrieval’ – the activity of getting some piece of information out of a ...
Transformation through destruction
(2013)
Some 2800 years ago, a man died in what is now the municipality of Oss, the Netherlands. His death must have been a significant event in the life of local communities, for he received an extraordinary funeral, which ended ...
Beter benutten van kennis uit onderzoek en onderwijspraktijk
(2019)
This research was carried out by researchers from the Kohnstamm Institute; this concerns Marianne Boogaard, Irma Heemskerk, Henk Sligte and Wouter Schenke (project leader). They conducted the study together with lecturer ...
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas
(2019)
Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas brings together 15 archaeological case studies that offer new perspectives on colonial period interactions in the Caribbean and surrounding ...