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Privilege, Memory and Perpetuity
(2024)
The texts which this book brings together build on a key theme of the VINCULUM project, envisaged from the outset as one to be developed collaboratively between outside researchers and members of the team: the study of the ...
Imagining and organising kinship
(2024)
This book deals with kinship as an intrinsic element of the social agency of entails. In a broad chronological scope, from the first manifestations of entailment in the 14th century to 1700, it explains how entail founders ...
Entailment identity
(2024)
This book is about identity, one that no longer exists and can only be understood through an exercise in historicisation and otherness. Entailment identity refers to the way in which identity was built, transmitted and ...
Power
(2024)
This book focuses on power, one of the components that characterise entails as corporate bodies. It analyses how entailment practices and social power functioned, combined and rivalled each other and what was the role of ...
Vínculo do Mês
(2024)
Hybrid Labour
(2025)
This book advances the debate on the hybrid areas of labour by taking the case of work arrangements that destabilise the dichotomies between standard and non‑standard work and between self‑employment and dependent employment. ...
Plotinus on Individuation
(2025)
New translation and first running commentary in English of Plotinus’s V. 7 [18].
No other Neoplatonic text has sparked as much debate as Ennead V. 7 [18] of Plotinus, ‘On the question of whether there are also Forms ...
Talking Images
(2024)
This innovative collection offers a holistic portrait of the multimodal communication potential of images from the Upper Paleolithic through to today, showcasing image-based creativity throughout the centuries. The volume ...
The Political Economy of Hungarian Authoritarian Populism
(2024)
This book emphasises the importance of state-business relations and external capital for structuring and strengthening authoritarian populism in Hungary. It argues these capitalist relations are crucial to understanding ...
Regulating Interracialized Intimacies
(2025)
This book explores the role of the law in the social construction of ‘race’ and ‘mixture’ within and beyond the borders of Europe. It focuses on ‘interracialized’ intimacies, that is, the intimate relations of subjects ...
Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory
(2025)
This volume explores a wide range of structural phenomena in typologically diverse heritage languages using current Minimalist theoretical approaches. Heritage languages have been the focus of extensive research in the ...
From the ‘White Paper’ of the Tuscany Region to Replicable Best Practices in the Reception of Persons in Need of International Protection
(2024)
The volume “From the ‘White Paper’ of the Tuscany Region to Replicable Best Practices in the Reception of Persons in Need of International Protection” presents a selection of best practices implemented in the Tuscany region ...
A Memória dos Vínculos
(2024)
The Hybrid Face
(2023)
This original and interdisciplinary volume explores the contemporary semiotic dimensions of the face from both scientific and sociocultural perspectives, putting forward several traditions, aspects, and signs of the human ...
Chapter 8 Female Activism, Tribalism, and Shame in the Arabian Gulf
(2024)
Shame and guilt have been two dominant disciplining practices against female activists in the Middle East in general and the Arabian Gulf in particular. The violation of women’s bodies including sexual harassment, allegations ...
Ancient Greek Purism
(2024)
This volume investigates the cultural, linguistic, and historical roots of Atticism: the purist movement that in the Imperial age promoted 5th-century Attic as a literary linguistic standard. The status-building of Attic ...
Czechoslovakia at the World’s Fairs
(2024)
Exhibitions; interwar central Europe; modernity; minorities; diaspora; eugenics; world’s fairs; Czechoslovakia
Tombo das Capelas da cidade de Évora e das Vilas de Montemor-o-Novo, Alcáçovas, Viana, Redondo, Cabeção, Mora e Lavre; Vínculos das Provedorias da comarca de Évora e Estremoz, séculos XV-XIX = Inventory of the chapels of the city of Évora and towns of Montemor-o-Novo, Alcáçovas, Viana, Redondo, Cabeção, Mora and Lavre; Entails of the provedorias da comarca of Évora and Estremoz, 15th-19th centuries
(2024)
This book contains, in its first part, the transcription of the Tombo das Capelas da Cidade de Évora and the towns of Montemor-o-Novo, Alcáçovas, Viana, Redondo, Cabeção, Mora and Lavre, a 16th century document kept in the ...
Women and Work in the North-Eastern Adriatic
(2025)
The volume offers a comparative and transnational exploration of women's work in the twentieth century, concentrating especially on the turbulent periods after both World Wars and the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s. The spatial ...
Re-mapping World Literature
(2018)
The concept at issue in this book is Weltliteratur, or World Literature. Theoretical
frameworks usually view the now-famous epistolary exchange between Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe and the young Johann Peter Eckermann as ...
Ciência, medicina e perícia nas tecnologias de governo
(2016)
Anthropology has been playing a central role in questioning the supposed
objective and apolitical character of scientific knowledge by underlining the socio-cultural context
and history of the constitution of any scientific ...
Playful Mapping in the Digital Age
(2016)
From Mah-Jong, to the introduction of Prussian war-games, through to the emergence of location-based play: maps and play share a long and diverse history. This monograph shows how mapping and playing unfold in the digital ...
Monsoon
(2017)
Monsoon Assemblages is a research project funded
by the European Research Council (ERC) under
the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme (Grant Agreement No.
697873). Monsoon [+ other] Airs is ...
Soulless Matter, Seats of Energy
(2016)
Soulless Matter, Seats of Energy: Metals, Gems and Minerals in South Asian Traditions investigates the way in which Indian culture has represented inorganic matter and geological formations such as mountains and the earth ...
Chapter The Price of Uncertainty in Present-Biased Planning
(2017)
The tendency to overestimate immediate utility is a common cognitive bias. As a result people behave inconsistently over time and fail
to reach long-term goals. Behavioral economics tries to help affected individuals
by ...
Web and Internet Economics
(2017)
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE 2017,
held in Bangalore, India, in December 2017.
The 28 full and 6 short papers presented ...
Un monastero sul mare
(2016)
The remains of the monastery of San Quirico stand on the slopes of Poggio Tondo, a hill not far from the ancient city of Populonia. They overlook the Tyrrhenian Sea, dotted with the islands of the Tuscan archipelago. Field ...
Unequal Family Lives
(2018)
Across the Americas and Europe, the family has changed and marriage is in retreat. To answer the question of what's driving these changes and how they impact social and economic inequality, progressives have typically ...
Selling & Collecting
(2018)
Based on the contributions given at a conference held at the University of Cagliari in September 2017, this collection of essays provides an insight into the distribution and acquisition of printed books in the sixteenth ...
The Many Paths of Change in International Law
(2023)
How does international law change? How does it adapt to meet global challenges in an accelerated social and political context? The question is crucial for any account of international law, but it is not very well understood. ...
The Visual Memory of Protest
(2023)
Social movements are not only remembered in personal experience, but also through cultural carriers that shape how later movements see themselves and are seen by others. The present collection zooms in on the role of ...
Chapter 18 Disability in translation
(2021)
The chapter surveys the possible intersections between the fields of translation studies and disability studies. The exploration begins with an overview of the various definitions of disability, which leads to the discussion ...
Chapter Introduction: Beyond translation and medicine
(2021)
The chapter surveys the possible intersections between the fields of translation studies and disability studies. The exploration begins with an overview of the various definitions of disability, which leads to the discussion ...
Buddhism in Central Asia II
(2022)
The ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia. ...
Changing Subjects, Moving Objects
(2022)
This is a book about people caught between home and abroad, crossing imperial boundaries in southeastern Europe at the beginning of the modern age. Through a series of life stories, which the author reconstructs with the ...
Industrial Artificial Intelligence Technologies and Applications
(2023)
The advances in industrial edge artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming the way industrial equipment and machines interact with the real world, with other machines and humans during manufacturing processes. These ...
Mediterranean Seafarers in Transition
(2022)
This volume discusses the effects of industrialization on maritime trade, labour and communities in the Mediterranean and Black Sea from the 1850s to the 1920s. The 17 essays are based on new evidence from multiple type ...
New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World
(2023)
Did you know that many reputed Neo-Latin authors like Erasmus of Rotterdam also wrote in forms of Ancient Greek? Erasmus used this New Ancient Greek language to celebrate a royal return from Spain to Brussels, to honor ...
Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia
(2022)
The world as seen by a Qur’an specialist in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Our book tells a dramatic story of ’Abd al-Majid al-Qadiri, a Muslim individual born in the Kazakh lands and brought up in the Sufi environment ...
The New Production of Expert Knowledge
(2024)
This Open Access book offers a novel perspective on the role of quantification in the making of education utopias through an analysis of expert knowledge and its producers. Drawing on empirical findings from the European ...
New Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine in Berlin
(2022)
The famous German excavations between 1906 and 1908 of Elephantine Island in Egypt produced some of the most important Aramaic sources for understanding the history of Judeans and Arameans living in 5th century BCE Egypt ...
Scattering Amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory
(2024)
This open access book bridges a gap between introductory Quantum Field Theory (QFT) courses and state-of-the-art research in scattering amplitudes. It covers the path from basic definitions of QFT to amplitudes, which are ...
Hispaniola - Hell or Home?
(2020)
Grand Narratives of colonization, especially ones related to the Spanish and Portuguese Americas, began circulating soon after 1492. The danger of these Grand Narratives is that they are often mistaken as reality and eclipse ...
Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling
(2023)
Characters are a vital aspect of today’s transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in our popular media ...
The Libri Feudorum (the ‘Books of Fiefs’)
(2023)
The Libri Feudorum (the ‘books of fiefs’) are the earliest written body of feudal customs in Europe, codified in northern Italy c.1100-1250, which gave rise to feudal law as a branch of civil law. Their role in shaping ...
Shakir M. Pashov. History of the Gypsies in Bulgaria and Europe: Roma
(2023)
The publication of this outstanding book marks the beginning of the Brill book series Roma History and Culture. The core of the present volume is an until now unpublished manuscript by Shakir Pashov (1898-1981), a Bulgarian ...
Culture-bearing Women
(2019)
The study examines the fiction of Black Women’s Renaissance. It focuses on the novels of the 1980s, which appreciated “culture-bearing” mothers as reproducers of the nation, to analyze the vexed relationship between cultural ...
Naturae cognoscere causas…
(2021)
The book prepared by students, working under tutorship of their teachers, from three Polish high schools, on the theme of Classical Antiquity and Nature, within the Our Mythical Childhood Project.
Texts: Teachers and ...
De viris mulieribusque illustribus
(2019)
Teachers and Students from the Schools involved in the Project: Barbara Bibik & the students from Nicolaus Copernicus University Academic Junior and Senior High School in Toruń, Janusz Ryba and the students from Bartłomiej ...
Living with Uncertainty
(2008)
The last few years have seen a major rethinking of some of the hallowed assumptions of range ecology and range management practice. This book examines the management of policy implications of this new ecological thinking ...
Visual Histories of Occupation
(2021)
This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the European Research Council. Asking what does foreign occupation look like and how does occupation shape visual expression and ...
Our Mythical Hope
(2021)
Classical Antiquity is a particularly important field in terms of “Hope studies” […]. For centuries, the ancient tradition, and classical mythology in particular, has been a common reference point for whole hosts of creators ...
Religiöser Wandel in muslimischen Gesellschaften
(2022)
Processes of individualization in Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Senegal and Tunisia are central to current social dynamics and form the key theme of the present volume. The central question is how social transformations inform the ...
Chapter Editors' Introduction
(2021)
This edited collection brings together original empirical and theoretical insights into the complex set of relations which exist between age, gender, sexualities and the media in Europe. This book investigates how engagements ...
Culture as Soft Power
(2022)
Including a thorough literature review and a number of case studies referred to cultural institutions and organisations, this book sheds light on different usages of culture as a source of soft power. Through an innovative ...
Homo Mimeticus
(2022)
Genealogy of one of the most ancient and
influential concepts in western thought: Mimesis
Imitation is, perhaps more than ever, constitutive of human originality. Many things have changed since the emergence of an ...
Labouring with large stones
(2021)
This book explores the cost, expressed in labour, of constructing fortifications during the Late Bronze Age in Greece (ca. 1600 – 1050 BCE). The underlying question for this study is whether the cost of large scale ...
Chasing Mythical Beasts
(2020)
Classical Antiquity is strongly present in youth culture globally. It accompanies children during their initiation into adulthood and thereby deepens their knowledge of the cultural code based on the Greek and Roman heritage. ...