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Healing Magic and Evil Demons. Canonical Udug-hul Incantations
(2015)
This book brings together ancient manuscripts of the large compendium of Mesopotamian exorcistic incantations known as Udug.hul (Utukku Lemnutu), directed against evil demons, ghosts, gods, and other demonic malefactors ...
Greek Medical Papyri Text, Context, Hypertext
(2019)
This volume, authored by outstanding papyrologists and historians of ancient medicine, deals with topics focused on the papyrological evidence of ancient medical texts and contexts. The first part contains some new reflections ...
Lexicographie artistique
(2018)
ven if they are contradictory, the different senses give thickness and subtlety to the concept.
The journey of a notion in time and space then also contributes
to broadening our understanding of a cultural ...
Manuscripts and Archives
(2018)
The series publishes monographs and collective volumes contributing to the emerging field of manuscript studies (manuscriptology), which includes disciplines such as philology, palaeography, codicology, art history, and ...
Religious minorities, integration and the State; État, minorités religieuses et intégration
(2016)
Judaism, Christianity and Islam have coexisted in Europe for over 1300 years. The three monotheistic faiths differ in demography, in the moment of their arrival on the continent and in the unequal relations they maintain ...
Playing the Text, Performing the Future: Future Narratives in Print and Digiture
(2013)
This volume examines the structure of text-based Future Narratives in the widest sense, including choose-your-own-adventure books, forking-path novels, combinatorial literature, hypertexts, interactive fiction, and alternate ...
L’historiographie tardo-antique et la transmission des savoirs
(2015)
This volume focuses on the role played by historiography in the selection, processing and transmission of knowledge in Late Antiquity. In particular, the transmission of documents (civil and ecclesiastical, authentic and ...
After Conversion
(2016)
This book deals with the religious and ideological consequences of mass conversion in Iberia - where Jews and Muslims were forcibly converted or expelled at the end of the XVth century and beginning of the XVIth- and most ...
Staging Doubt Skepticism in Early Modern European Drama
(2019)
This volume considers the influential revival of ancient philosophical skepticism in the 16th and early 17th centuries and investigates, from a comparative perspective, its reception in early modern English, Spanish and ...
Volksschauspiele Genese einer kulturgeschichtlichen Formation
(2019)
Many types of works are characterized as folk plays: the peasant play, the passion play, the knightly drama, the tradition play, the mass festival, the anti-folk play, and the social drama. This book reconstructs the ...
Everything Flows
(2018)
This collection of essays explores the metaphysical thesis that the living world is not ontologically made up of substantial particles or things, as has often been assumed, but is rather constituted by processes. The ...
Disruption in the Arts
(2018)
The volume examines aesthetic disruptions within the various arts in contemporary culture. It assumes that the political potential of art is not solely derived from presenting its audiences with openly political content. ...
Primary Sources and Asian Pasts
(2020)
This conference volume unites a wide range of scholars from diverse fields in an effort to explore new perspectives and methods in the study of primary sources from the premodern world. It represents the culmination of the ...
Social Media in Emergent Brazil
(2017)
Since the popularisation of the internet, low-income Brazilians have received little government support to help them access it. In response, they have largely self-financed their digital migration. Internet cafés became ...
LGBTQ+ Intimacies in Southern Europe
(2023)
This Open Access book argues that Southern European countries offer valuable, though historically overlooked, knowledge regarding intimate citizenship. Guided by the fundamental sociological question of how change takes ...
Chapter The Gospel according to Mark in two Latin Mixed-text Manuscripts
(2016)
Two late eighth-century Latin gospel books have recently been identified as witnesses to the pre-Vulgate text of the Gospel according to John. In this article, their text of Mark is analysed and shown also to contain ...
Parenthesis and Ellipsis: Cross-Linguistic and Theoretical Perspectives
(2014)
This volume presents a cross-section of research addressing the interaction of two prominent areas in linguistic theory: parenthesis and ellipsis. The contributions address various theoretical questions raised by 'incomplete' ...
Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion
(2015)
The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has different salience, and is understood differently, from place to place and time ...
Context-Dependence, Perspective and Relativity
(2010)
This volume brings together original papers by linguists and philosophers on the role of context and perspective in language and thought. Several contributions are concerned with the contextualism/relativism debate, which ...
Chapter Mainland Southeast Asian languages: State of the art and new directions.
(2015)
Mainland Southeast Asia (hereafter: MSEA) can be broadly defined as the area occupied by present day Cambodia, Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam, along with areas of China south of the Yangtze River. ...
Chapter Textgemeinschaften und die Erfindung von Rivalität und Toleranz in der Kaiserzeit (2./3. Jh. n. Chr.)
(2016)
1,700 years ago, the Roman emperors Constantine and Licinius granted religious freedom – even and particularly for Christianity. The religious policy of Constantine is often associated with the modern ideal of tolerance. ...
Chapter On V2, gaps, and operators in comment and reporting parentheticals
(2015)
Parenthetical comment and reporting clauses exhibit various interesting properties, which are shown to be related. Three different word order pat-terns are attested in Dutch and German: apparent V1, V2 and V-final; the ...
Chapter 6 Optogenetic actuation, inhibition, modulation and readout for neuronal networks generating behavior in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
(2013)
Elucidating the mechanisms by which nervous systems process information and generate behavior is among the fundamental problems of biology. The complexity of our brain and plasticity of our behaviors make it challenging ...
Chapter Towards automated language classification
(2013)
In this paper, we discuss advantages of clustering approaches to automated language classification, describe distance measures used for this purpose, and present results of several proof-of-concept experiments. We advocate ...
Chapter 3 Challenges and opportunities for optochemical genetics
(2013)
The transmembrane proteins that underlie neural processing are now known at a level of detail that has greatly increased our understanding of these sophisticated molecular machines. Starting with MacKinnon’s seminal structure ...
Transactions on Modularity and Composition I
(2016)
The LNCS Transactions on Modularity and Composition are devoted to all aspects of software modularity and composition methods, tools, and techniques, covering requirement analysis, design, implementation, maintenance, and ...
Chapter Advanced Microfluidic Assays for Caenorhabditis elegans
(2016)
Gait function can be altered after incomplete spinal cord (iSCI) lesions. Muscular weakness, co‐activation of antagonist muscles, and altered muscle mechanics are likely to provoke abnormal gait and postural movements. ...
Chapter Measures of Pseudorandomness
(2013)
In the second half of the 1990s Christian Mauduit and András Sárközy [86] introduced a new quantitative theory of pseudorandomness of binary sequences. Since then numerous papers have been written on this subject and the ...
Chapter A corpus-based approach to manual simultaneity
(2013)
The purpose of this paper is to describe a corpus-based approach to the study of manual simultaneity (in particular manual holds) and our first attempt at implementing it for the Sign Language of the Netherlands (Nederlandse ...
Routledge Handbook of Climate Change Impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
(2024)
This Handbook examines the diverse ways in which climate change impacts Indigenous Peoples and local communities and considers their response to these changes.
While there is well-established evidence that the climate ...
The Leap of Faith
(2018)
This is the first book to compare the history of tax compliance in several countries (Sweden, Britain, Italy, Romania, and the United States).
The book clearly elaborates the policy lessons from the five cases explored ...
Chapter Silica-Based Nanovectors: From Mother Nature to Biomedical Applications
(2016)
Energy management in households gets increasingly more attention in the struggle to integrate more sustainable energy sources. Especially in the electrical system, smart grid systems are envisioned to be part in the efforts ...
Chapter Higher order exceptionality in inflectional morphology
(2011)
We start from the notion of ‘canonical’ inflection, and we adopt an inferential-realizational approach. We assume that we have already established the features and their values for a given system (while acknowledging that ...
Chapter 62 Doing fieldwork on the body, language, and communication.
(2013)
This chapter gives a brief and selective overview of how to approach research on bodilyand linguistic aspects of communication by doing fieldwork. Here I do not address tech-nological issues such as specific choices of ...
Lectins. Methods and protocols
(2014)
Lectins: Methods and Protocols summarizes classic lectin technologies and advanced techniques with high throughputs and sensitivities. Chapters include methods and techniques for serial lectin-affinity chromatography ...
Networks of Modernity
(2021)
This book offers a fresh perspective on the history of Germany by investigating the origins and impact of the ‘communications revolution’ that transformed state and society during the nineteenth century. It focuses upon ...
Social Media in Northern Chile
(2016)
Based on 15 months of ethnographic research in the city of Alto Hospicio in northern Chile, this book describes how the residents use social media, and the consequences of this use in their daily lives. Nell Haynes argues ...
Chapter 8 Categorising What We Study and What We Analyse, and the Exercise of Interpretation
(2018)
A lot of qualitative researchers have a healthy wariness about straightforward categorisation
and modelling endeavours undertaken by quantitative researchers. Too
often, variables and measurements are too rigid in ...
Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States
(2015)
Between 1914 and the present day the political makeup of the Balkans has relentlessly changed, following unpredictable shifts of international and internal borders. Between and across these borders various political ...
Chapter Perspectives in Glycomics and Lectin Engineering
(2014)
This chapter would like to provide a short survey of the most promising concepts applied recently in analysis of glycoproteins based on lectins. The first part describes the most exciting analytical approaches used in the ...