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The Müteferrika Press
(2025)
This book provides an overview of the activity and the output of the first Turkish press in the Ottoman Empire. Known as the Müteferrika Press, it was founded in Istanbul and was operated most actively from 1726 until 1747. ...
Literature and Mnemonic Migration
(2025)
This book explores the travel of historical memory from one culture to the other via the medium of literature. In contemporary Europe, many writers have migrant background and represent the experience of migration as an ...
Tier-Mensch-Relationen
(2025)
Female Authority and Holiness in Early and Medieval Christianity
(2025)
This collective volume investigates the connection between women’s holiness and the notion of time from a diachronic perspective. By looking at temporality as intertwined with the construction of social and gendered roles, ...
Challenges and Solutions in Ethnographic Research
(2020)
Challenges and Solutions in Ethnographic Research: Ethnography with a Twist seeks to rethink ethnography ‘outside the box’ of its previous tradition and to develop ethnographic methods by critically discussingthe process, ...
Ratnakūṭa Studies, Volume I
(2024)
Indian Mahāyāna Buddhist traditions produced hundreds of scriptures and treatises, only a small number of which have received serious scholarly attention. The present volume inaugurates the Buddhist Open Philology Project ...
Papusza / Bronisława Wajs. Tears of Blood
(2024)
Ratfale Jasfa (Romani: ‘Tears of Blood’) is a poem by the Romani poet Papusza (Bronisława Wajs) who survived the German occupation and the Second World War in Volhynia, currently Ukraine. It is also one of the earliest ...
Mimetic Posthumanism
(2024)
It is tempting to affirm that on and about November 2022 (post)human character changed. The revolution in A.I. simulations certainly calls for an update of the ancient realization that humans are imitative animals, or homo ...
Miniatures
(2025)
This book is the first of its kind to present readers with the rich and innovative source base deployed by scholars studying everyday life in the modern era. Twenty-eight researchers from diverse intellectual and disciplinary ...
Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West
(2024)
This volume explores Latinization, local languages, and literacies in the Roman West, focusing on the Iberian Peninsula, Gaul, the Germanies, and Britain in the later Iron Age and Roman period. We use a combination of ...
The Politics of Unpaid Labour
(2025)
This book introduces a theory of the politics of unpaid labour, advancing our understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. Arguing that this theory can help address the inequalities perpetuating the ...
Dismantling Barriers and Advancing the Right of Persons with Disabilities to Participate in Cultural Life
(2025)
The right to participate in cultural life is profoundly rooted in international human rights law, and, with regard to persons with disabilities, it is enunciated in Article 30 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons ...
Medieval Mount Athos between Wealth and Poverty
(2024)
These collected studies dedicated to the Orthodox monastic center of Mount Athos during the Middle Ages paint a compelling picture of the Holy Mountain’s monastic communities as economic actors. Mount Athos’ rich archival ...
International Disinformation
(2024)
Dive into the world of disinformation with this groundbreaking book. Uncover how Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) shapes modern politics and society, and how it impacts your own life. Explore answers ...
Conversion, Leadership and Identity of the Evangelical Roma in Bulgaria
(2024)
Combining historical and ethnographic approaches in her pioneering study, Magdalena Slavkova offers an insightful contribution to our understanding of Romani evangelicalism. The phenomenon appeared at the beginning of the ...
Refashioning the Renaissance
(2025)
This book investigates how fashion developed among ordinary Europeans in the early modern period and transformed the ‘look’ and experience of fashion – visually and materially – at popular levels of society. Combining ...
Ownership Regimes in the Iberian World (1500–1850)
(2025)
Explore a new perspective on land relations with Ownership Regimes, which shifts focus from traditional legal views to socio-historical contexts. This book reveals how land holding was influenced by diverse practices, ...
Sino-Iranian and Sino-Arabian Relations in Late Antiquity
(2024)
What type of exchanges occurred between West and East Asia in the first millennium CE? What sort of connections existed between Persia and China? What did the Chinese know of early Islam? This study offers an overview of ...
Interpretation of Customary International Law
(2024)
In international law interpretation is ubiquitous. However, whereas in the case of treaty interpretation, this process has been codified in Articles 31-33 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, the interpretation ...
Islamic Sensory History
(2024)
Stalin vs Gypsies
(2024)
In their centuries-old history, the Roma (formerly known as Gypsies) experienced many difficult moments and cruel trials from their arrival in Europe until now. The history of the Roma in the USSR is no exception in this ...
Against the Fetishisation of Plural Time
(2025)
It has become an unflinching belief that time is plural and temporal multiplicity is the best framework to study the relationship between time and society. Through a critical reading of existing scholarship, Sinha questions ...
Towards Effective Flow Control and Mitigation of Shock Effects in Aeronautical Applications
(2025)
This open-access book reports on both experimental and numerical findings from the H2020-funded project TEAMAero (Towards Effective Flow Control and Mitigation of Shock Effects in Aeronautical Applications). It covers novel ...
Venture Builders and the Creation of Scaleups
(2025)
This open access book explores the potential of venture-builders, which is a groundbreaking model for creating startups from scratch. Unlike traditional accelerators or incubators, venture-builders leverage structured ...
Spinning the Cosmos
(2025)
This open access book investigates the epistemological concept of and the knowledge transfer interwoven with the moveable paper wheels found in medieval and early modern books—the so-called “volvelles.” The earliest known ...
The Future of Humans and Emotional Machines
(2025)
This book explores human‑machine interaction in Japan, providing a new focus on how and in what form people build affective bonds to new technologies. To gain insights into the feelings, identities, fears, and desires of ...
The Euthalian Tradition of the New Testament: A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts
(2025)
The Euthalian tradition is a complex and pervasive set of late ancient prefaces, lists, divisions, and other paratexts transmitted alongside Acts, the Catholic Epistles, and Pauline Epistles, preserved (at least in part) ...
Modern China in Flux
(2025)
This transformative volume bridges the rich texture of modern China's history with the innovative realm of network analysis, bringing forth a fresh perspective that captures the heartbeat of a nation in flux. By leveraging ...
American Philosophy and the Intellectual Migration
(2025)
In the 1930s, the rise of fascism forced dozens of philosophers to flee to the United States. How did immigrant scholars such as Rudolf Carnap, Max Horkheimer, and Alfred Schütz influence the development of philosophy? And ...
Intentional Invisibilization in Modern Asian History: Concealing and Self-Concealed Agents
(2025)
Concealing Agents addresses the invisibilization and concealment of people, knowledge and ideas in history and historiography. With studies ranging from modern to contemporary history, language and translation studies, and ...
The Students and Their Books
(2025)
In the practices of teaching and learning in the academy of the early modern age, epochal factors intervene, such as the rupture of the religious-ideological unity of the West, the spread of the printing press, the rise ...
Chapter 8 “One Woman Started It All”. Gendered Approaches to the Governance of Knowledge in Post-War Greece
(2025)
This innovative volume analyzes the historical entanglement of gender, technosciences, and government/governance. Situated at the crossroad of women and gender studies, science and technology studies, and political sociology, ...
Icons, Ornaments, and Other Charms of Christian Arabic Books
(2025)
This edited volume collects the proceedings of the second of two conferences organized by the Typarabic project. It presents the research results of the project, with a focus in this second volume on decorative features ...
Nicholas of Methone, Reader of Proclus in Byzantium
(2025)
This volume is the first complete study of the 12th-century CE Byzantine philosopher Nicholas of Methone, offering a critical examination of a key moment in 11th–12th-century Byzantine philosophy. Although traditionally ...
Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World
(2025)
This volume explores what aspects of contemporary rural life as deeply globalized – and thus implicated in the ongoing, destructive unfolding of colonialism and capitalism – are highlighted and obscured in social, political, ...
Santo Antão
(2025)
The volume delves into the multifaceted history of Lisbon's Jesuit College of Santo Antão, tracing its evolution from its establishment to the eventual suppression of the Society of Jesus. This scholarly work examines an ...
Contacts of Languages and Peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite World
(2025)
During the 1st millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia acted as a melting pot and crossroads of languages, cultures and peoples. The political map of the world changed after the collapse of the Bronze Age, the horizon of ...
An Unruly Classic, Kalīla and Dimna and Its Syriac, Arabic, and Early Persian Versions
(2024)
In this collected volume, members of the Kalīla and Dimna project discuss, from different perspectives, a core aspect of their work with this textual tradition: the study of variation and mutability. The aim is to shed ...
Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context
(2024)
Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context examines the translation and reception of Russian literature as a world-wide process. This volume aims to provoke new debate about the continued currency of Russian ...