Publications
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The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual
(2016)
The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual addresses the varied modes of interaction between ancient Greek lyric poetry and the visual arts as well as more general notions of visuality. Readership: Students and scholars ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 22 (2016)
(2018)
The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on ...
Handbook of Leaving Religion
(2019)
The Handbook of Leaving Religion introduces a neglected field of research with the aim to outline previous and contemporary research, and suggest how the topic of leaving religion should be studied in the future. Readership: ...
Development as a Battlefield
(2017)
Development as a Battlefield is an innovative exploration of conflict and development, phenomena that are often regarded as ostensibly antagonistic. It invites readers to reconsider socio-political and economic developments ...
Judeans in Babylonia
(2019)
In Judeans in Babylonia, Tero Alstola presents a comprehensive investigation of deportees in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. By using cuneiform documents as his sources, he offers the first book-length social historical ...
Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question
(2018)
Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question is one of the first academic works, which examine the field of genomics from an Islamic perspective. The contributions in the volume also accommodate and interact with critical insights ...
The Body of Evidence
(2020)
In The Body of Evidence. Corpses and Proofs in Early Modern European Medicine Francesco Paolo de Ceglia offers an overview of the evolution of the science of the ‘signs of the corpse’, from necromancy to forensic medicine. ...
Children’s Constitutional Rights in the Nordic Countries
(2019)
This study explores whether and how enshrining children’s rights in national constitutions improves implementation and enforcement of those rights by comparing Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish law. Readership: ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 1 (1991)
(1992)
The Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major refereed publication dedicated to international law issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. Readership: Academics and practitioners who deal with international ...
The Making of Englishmen
(2013)
Making the Englishmen offers an account of how national identities were construed and contested in the post-Reformation public sphere 1550-1650. Readership: For historians of ideas primarily - it is in the history of ...
Art Crossing Borders
(2019)
Art Crossing Borders offers a thought-provoking analysis of the internationalisation of the art market in the long nineteenth century and its unexpected and ambiguous relation with the simultaneous rise of nationalist modes ...
Early Christians Adapting to the Roman Empire
(2020)
In Early Christians Adapting to the Roman Empire Niko Huttunen presents the positive relationship between early Christians and the Roman society. Non-Christian philosophers responded positively to Christians, Romans 13 ...
Khwadāynāmag The Middle Persian Book of Kings
(2018)
In Khwadāynāmag. The Middle Persian Book of Kings Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila analyses the lost sixth-century historiographical work of the Sasanians, its lost Arabic translations, and the sources of Firdawsī's Shāhnāme. ...
African Cities and the Development Conundrum
(2018)
This volume explores some of the complex development challenges associated with the recent and rapid pace of urbanisation across Africa. The transition from a predominantly rural to urban population over the next decade ...
Ceramics and the Spanish Conquest
(2011)
Focusing on the native ceramic technology of central Mexico during the early colonial period and the present-day, this book offers a refreshing view into the process of cultural continuity and change in the indigenous ...
Religion, Migration and Identity
(2016)
In Religion, Migration and Identity scholars from various disciplines explore issues related to identity and religion, that people - individually and communally -, encounter when affected by migration dynamics; the volume ...
The Early Reception and Appropriation of the Apostle Peter (60-800 CE)
(2020)
The Early Reception and Appropriation of the Apostle Peter (60-800 CE) investigates the interdisciplinary history of the reception of Peter from the first century up to Charlemagne, revealing as much about Peter as about ...
Lifelong Religion as Habitus
(2016)
In this book, Helena Kupari examines the lived religion of elderly Finnish Orthodox Christian women, displaced from Karelia in the aftermath of the Second World War, through an innovative reading and application of Pierre ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 20 (2014)
(2018)
The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on ...
Enough Already! A Socialist Feminist Response to the Re-emergence of Right Wing Populism and Fascism in Media
(2020)
This text analyses the rapid rise of global authoritarian populism and fascism and how these movements incorporate misogyny into their ideologies within and beyond social media. Readership: Readership includes those ...