Publications
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Muḥammad and His Followers in Context
(2024)
This title is published in Open Access with the support of the University of Helsinki Library. The book surveys and analyzes changes in religious groups and identities in late antique Arabia, ca. 300-700 CE. It engages ...
Becoming Human
(2020)
The book Becoming Human: Li Zehou’s Ethics offers a critical introduction and in-depth analysis of Li Zehou’s moral philosophy and ethics. Li Zehou, who is one of the most influential contemporary Chinese philosophers, ...
The Making of Human Dignity in Christian Antiquity
(2024)
The book examines the late ancient history of one pivotal concept of contemporary culture, that of human dignity, with the view to identifying the moment in history when European culture worked out a systematic category ...
Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700 — 1776)
(2023)
This title is published in Open Access with the support of the University of Helsinki Library. This book takes a long-run view of the global maritime trade of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia from 1700 to American ...
Confucian Relationism and Global Ethics
(2023)
Environmental disasters, unequal distribution of resources, viral pandemics, and other types of trans-national disasters, are global crises that cannot be solved within the narrow framework of individual nation-states. ...
A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth
(2020)
A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to provide an updated scholarly introduction to all aspects of his work. Arguably the most influential secular writer of medieval ...
Texts, Transmissions, Receptions
(2014)
The papers collected in this volume study the function and meaning of various kinds of narrative texts from the perspective of New Philology, Linguistics, Iconography and Reception studies. Their purpose is to understand ...
Crises and the Roman Empire
(2007)
This volume presents the proceedings of the seventh workshop of the international thematic network Impact of Empire, which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on the impact that crises had on the ...
Reading Proclus and the <i>Book of Causes</i> Volume 1
(2019)
Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes: Western Scholarly Networks and Debates, Volume 1 provides a fresh account, based on previously unknown documents, of the diffusion of Hellenic and Islamic thought in the Latin West ...
Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe
(2019)
The Viennese Jesuit astronomer Maximilian Hell was a nodal figure in the eighteenth-century circulation of knowledge. This study of his career sheds light on the Enlightenment, Catholicism, reform in the Habsburg monarchy, ...
The Law of the Seabed
(2020)
The Law of the Seabed offers a timely analysis of the most pressing legal questions raised by the use and protection of natural resources on and underneath the world’s seabeds. Readership: University students, lecturers, ...
The Future of Ocean Governance and Capacity Development
(2018)
The International Ocean Institute – Canada has compiled more than 80 insightful essays on the future of ocean governance and capacity development, based largely on themes of its Training Program at Dalhousie University in ...
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 ...
The Impact of the Roman Army (200 B.C. – A.D. 476): Economic, Social, Political, Religious and Cultural Aspects
(2007)
This sixth volume of the network Impact of Empire offers a comprehensive reading on the economic, political, religious and cultural impact of Roman military forces on the regions that were dominated by the Roman Empire. ...
Norse Revival
(2016)
Norse Revival examines international Germanic Neopaganism (Asatru). It investigates its origins in German ultra-nationalist movements around 1900, its attempt to gain respectability since the 1970s and its intersections ...
States at Work
(2014)
States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focussing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants. Readership: Anthropologists and political scientists, ...
The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire
(2016)
The Impact of Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire assembles a series of papers on key themes of Roman mobility and migration, discussing i.a. the mobility of the army, of the elite, of women, and war-induced mobility ...
Ancient Worlds in Film and Television
(2012)
This volume reinvigorates the field of Classical Reception by investigating present-day culture, society, and politics, particularly gender, gender roles, and filmic constructions of masculinity and femininity which shape ...