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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays presents new insights into what shaped and constituted the Renaissance and early modern views of fate and fortune. It argues that these ideas were emblematic of a more fundamental argument about the self, society, and the universe and shows that their influence was more widespread, both geographically and thematically, than hitherto assumed.Trade Review“A valuable panorama of themes and perspectives on the subject.” Per Landgren, University of Oxford. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 2 (Summer 2023), pp. 748–749.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Note on Contributors Introduction: Not Simple Twists of Fate  Ovanes Akopyan Part 1: The Concept of Fate in Philosophy and Theology 1 Renaissance Consolations: Philosophical Remedies for Fate and Fortune  John Sellars 2 Coluccio Salutati and the Humanist Critique of Fate  Paul Richard Blum 3 Fate, Providence, and Fortuna in Giordano Bruno’s Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast  Elisabeth Blum 4 Fortune and Fate in the Philosophy of Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655): Balancing between Freedom and Necessity  Jo Coture Part 2: Political and Social Context 5 Fate and Fortune in Machiavelli’s Anatomy of the Body Politic  Guido Giglioni 6 “Fortune is a Mistresse”: Figures of Fortune in English Renaissance Poetry  Orlando Reade 7 The Game of Art and Chance: Lottery, Fortune, and Fatum in the Low Countries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries  Sophie Raux Part 3: Artistic Considerations 8 Renaissance Iconology of Fate  Damiano Acciarino 9 Fortune, Fate and Providential Design in Georges de La Tour  Dalia Judovitz 10 Ptolemy, Fortune, and Politics: A Case of the Reception of Western Scholarship in Early Modern Russia  Ovanes Akopyan Bibliography Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Medieval Genoa introduces non-specialists to recent scholarship on the vibrant and source-rich medieval history of Genoa. Focusing mostly on the eleventh to fifteenth centuries, the volume positions the city of Genoa and the Genoese within the broader history of the Italian peninsula and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. Thematic contributions highlight the interdependence of local, regional, and international concerns, and serve as a helpful corrective to the traditional overemphasis of Florence and Venice in the English-language historiography of medieval Italy. The volume thus offers a fresh perspective on the history of medieval Italy—as well as a handy introduction to the riches of the Genoese archives—to undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in related fields. Contributors are Ross Balzaretti, Carrie E. Beneš, Denise Bezzina, Roberta Braccia, Luca Filangieri, George L. Gorse, Paola Guglielmotti, Thomas Kirk, Sandra Macchiavello, Merav Mack, Jeffrey Miner, Rebecca Müller, Antonio Musarra, Sandra Origone, Giovanna Petti Balbi, Valeria Polonio, Gervase Rosser, Antonella Rovere, Stefan Stantchev, and Carlo Taviani.Trade Review"[This is] a work that emphasizes connections between the Genoese local and remote, comprehensively fleshed out in the book's maps, figures, glossary, and eighteen essay-length chapters... the text remains accessible throughout, aimed for an audience familiar with but not necessarily expert on the material at hand... the collection pushes the reader to see the Genoa beyond its designated latitude and longitude, to understand, in this post-spatial-turn world, that the Genoa of the middle ages was conceptualized, exported, and even commoditized by its inhabitants and interlocutors throughout the medieval Mediterranean and beyond. Benes's collection does what few recent works of Italian medieval history dare to do, that is, to recognize and detail how the inhabitants of the peninsula were connected to each other and to the far-flung artistic, cultural, intellectual, and political environments in which they and their cities played significant roles. It is a model I hope other Italianists will follow, one that re-centers the peninsula, its inhabitants, and those who passed through it within the larger discussion of medieval history." Laura K. Morreale, in The Medieval Review 19.04.10. "The contributors to this volume have created an invaluable guide to the history and historiography of medieval Genoa; I wish that it had been available when I was a graduate student. [...] This companion presents a well-rounded introduction to Genoese history that should help diversify the avenues of future research in productive ways.[...] This volume succeeds as both an introduction for newcomers to the study of Genoa and a reference for experts". Hannah Barker, Renaissance Quarterly , 73 (2), pp. 671-672. "Carrie E. Beneš' Companion is a wonderful, high-caliber, and heavyweight compendium of medieval Genoa. It provides the reader with not only useful starting points and indications of primary sources but also excellent appraisals of the state of research, as well as succinct overviews on complex theme. [...] A very comprehensive and thorough guide, this will no doubt be a most useful starting and reference point; a passage obligé not only for scholars embarking on research on Genoa but also for seasoned specialists of Genoese history". Georg Christ, in Speculum, 96 (3), July 2021.

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Book SynopsisIn The Peking Gazette: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Chinese History, Lane J. Harris introduces an extraordinary collection of primary sources covering China’s long nineteenth century (1793-1912) that allows readers to understand how the Manchu emperors and the multiethnic subjects of the Great Qing Empire experienced this tumultuous period.Trade Review“I continue to be particularly impressed by the way that the questions force readers to analyze the documents. This reader is really set up to create a dialogue between teachers and students as they work through the documents. I am also even more aware after this reading about how this reader may serve a launch pad for research projects by students. This provides a real possibility that students can develop a real primary based investigation. Crucial to this is how the editor also made great efforts to include list of other contemporaneous publications in the readings sections. Having additional documents for the reader available digitally is a great feature. This will extend the advantage of the reader as a whole.” Edward McCord, George Washington UniversityTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Qing Reign Periods Terms of Measurement, Units of Currency, and Bureaucratic Titles Introduction 1 The Macartney Audience, 1793 2 The Last Will and Testament of the Qianlong Emperor, 1799 3 The Case against Heshen, 1799 4 The Downfall of a Governor-General in the White Lotus Rebellion, 1800 5 The Eight Trigrams Rebellion, 1813 6 An English Barbarian Ship, 1832 7 The Opium Debate, 1836 8 The Opium War, 1839–1842 9 Surviving the Taiping Rebellion, 1850–1864 10 The Coup d’état of 1861 11 End of the Miao Rebellions, 1872 12 The Incredible Famine, 1876–1879 13 Imperial Rainmaking Practices, 1875–1879 14 The Dalai Lama and the Qing Empire, 1879–1910 15 Crime and Punishment 16 Honoring Old Age 17 Honoring the Gods 18 The Cult of Female Chastity 19 “True Stories” of Filial Piety 20 “Tribute” Missions to the Qing Empire 21 The Making of Taiwan Province, 1872–1887 22 The Sino-French War, 1884–1885 23 Anti-Missionary Violence, 1891–1899 24 The Sino-Japanese War, 1894–1895 25 The Hundred Days’ Reforms, 1898 26 The Return of the Empress Dowager Cixi, 1898 27 The Boxer Uprising, 1899–1900 28 New Policies Reforms, 1901–1911 29 The 1911 Revolution 30 The Abdication, 1912 Chinese Name List

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Book SynopsisIn The Scottish Enlightenment Abroad, Janet Starkey examines the lives and works of Scots working in the mid eighteenth century with the Levant Company in Aleppo, then within the Ottoman Empire; and those working with the East India Company in India, especially in the fields of natural history, medicine, ethnography and the collection of Arabic and Persian manuscripts. The focus is on brothers from Edinburgh: Alexander Russell MD FRS, Patrick Russell MD FRS, Claud Russell and William Russell FRS. By examining a wide range of modern interpretations, Starkey argues that the Scottish Enlightenment was not just a philosophical discourse but a multi-faceted cultural revolution that owed its vibrancy to ties of kinship, and to strong commercial and intellectual links with Europe and further abroad.Trade Review"The Scottish Enlightenment Abroad provides a scholarly, remarkably wideranging and thorough guide to the intellectual ferment of the eighteenth century and to the achievements of Alexander and Patrick Russell as physicians, natural historians, orientalists, collectors of Arabic manuscripts and recorders of scientific and social phenomena." Robert Irwin in Times Literary Supplement 26 April 2019. "I learned a great deal about this intriguing family and hope to read at least one if not both editions of The Natural History of Aleppo at some point. The book also made me think more broadly about the Scottish Enlightenment beyond the mayor players - the Hutchesons, Humes, Smiths and so on..." Arby Ted Siraki in The Newsletter of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Spring 2019.

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Book SynopsisJustice Blindfolded gives an overview of the history of “justice” and its iconography through the centuries. Justice has been portrayed as a woman with scales, or holding a sword, or, since the fifteenth century, with her eyes bandaged. This last symbol contains the idea that justice is both impartial and blind, reminding indirectly of the bandaged Christ on the cross, a central figure in the Christian idea of fairness and forgiveness. In this rich and imaginative journey through history and philosophy, Prosperi manages to convey a full account of the ways justice has been described, portrayed and imagined. Translation of Giustizia bendata. Percorsi storici di un'immagine (Einaudi, 2008).Trade Review“In this suggestive and original study, Adriano Prosperi traces the evolving iconography of Justice from the medieval period to the modern day, drawing on legal treatises, theological texts, pamphlets, plays, sermons, and over one hundred images ranging from manuscript illuminations to modern tattoos, with the bulk of them from the thirteenth through the seventeenth centuries.” Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 606–608.Table of ContentsContents Preface to the Italian Edition Preface to the English Edition List of Figures 1 Scale and Sword, Eyes and Blindfold: the Attributes of Justice 2 Justice, That is to Say God 3 The Blindfold 4 Jesus, Barabbas and the Good Thief 5 Justice and Grace 6 Miracles and Salvation 7 The Divine Eye of the Law 8 Changes in Symbols 9 The Veil of Justice and the Risks of the Limelight Index

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Book SynopsisThe book consists of transcriptions and summary translations of two texts in, mostly, Ottoman Turkish, the first of which is the recently discovered second volume of the diary of the German orientalist Karl Süssheim, covering the years 1903-08 which he mostly spent in Istanbul. The second text is a printed memoir of a Young Turk officer called İsma’il Hakkı, in which the latter discusses his life, political engagement and the resulting problems. Süssheim met İsma’il Hakkı in Cairo in 1908 and kept in contact with him later. The texts offer a lively picture of Istanbul and Cairo in the early years of the 20th century, the repressive regime of Sultan Abdulhamid II and the heady days of the Young Turk revolution of July 1908.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  The Historical Context  About the Authors  About the Texts 1 Karl Süssheim, Diary, Volume 2  Istanbul 1902–1906 I  Istanbul 1902–1906 II—Travel in Anatolia 1904  Istanbul 1902–1906 III—Back in Istanbul 1904–1906  Interlude: Germany and France (January–July 1906)  Istanbul 1902–1906 IV—Second Period in Istanbul 1906  Germany, England, France (January 1907–March 1908)  Journey to Istanbul (March 1906)  Istanbul (March–April 1908)  Journey to Cairo (April–May 1908)  Cairo (May–August 1908) 2 İsmail Hakkı Bey, For the Sake of the Fatherland  Prologue  Autobiography  The Main Text  Two Digressions 3 Transcription: Karl Süssheim, Diary, Volume 2 4 Transcription: İsmail Hakkı Bey, For the Sake of the Fatherland Bibliography Index of Proper Names

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Book SynopsisFrom Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries). Destruction and Construcion of Societies offers a multi-perspective view of the filiation of different colonial and settler colonial experiences, from the Medieval Iberian Peninsula to the early Modern Americas. All the articles in the volume refer the reader to colonial orders that extended over time, that substantially reduced indigenous populations, that imposed new productive strategies and created new social hierarchies. The ideological background and how conquests were organised; the treatment given to the conquered lands and people; the political organisations, and the old and new agricultural systems are issues discussed in this volume. Contributors are David Abulafia, Manuel Ardit, Antonio Espino, Adela Fábregas, Josep M. Fradera, Enric Guinot, Helena Kirchner, Antonio Malpica, Virgilio Martínez-Enamorado, Carmen Mena, António Mendes, Félix Retamero, Inge Schjellerup, Josep Torró, and Antoni Virgili.Trade Review''El presente libro ofrece una colección de catorce colaboraciones de valor desigual tanto en la calidad como en el enfoque''. Juan Francisco Maura in Bulletin of Spanish Studies 106,4 (2019).Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables List of Contributors One Conquest, Two Worlds: An Introduction  Félix Retamero and Josep Torró Part 1: The Organisation of the Conquests: Political, Military and Financial Aspects 1 Partners-in-arms. Medieval Military Associations:From the Iberian cabalgada to the American entrada  Josep Torró 2 Council and Urban Militias in the Crown of Aragon during the 13th Century:From Conquering Militias to Monetary Exemptions  Enric Guinot 3 War and Booty as Incentives for Emigration:Tortosa and al-Andalus (12th–13th Centuries)  Antoni Virgili 4 Medieval Factors in the Conquest of America:Organisation and War Practices in the Incursions into Darién  Carmen Mena García 5 On the Use of Terror, Cruelty and Violence in the Spanish Conquest of the Americas:Some Thoughts  Antonio Espino-López Part 2: The Agrarian Organisation of the New Colonial Societies 6 Feudal Conquest and Colonisation:An Archaeological Insight into the Transformation of Andalusi Irrigated Spaces in the Balearic Islands  Helena Kirchner 7 The Agrarian Model of Valencian Moriscos  Manuel Ardit Lucas† 8 Iberian Colonisations and Water Distribution Systems (15th–16th c.):A Comparative Approach  Félix Retamero and Virgilio Martínez-Enamorado 9 Commercial Crop or Plantation System?:Sugar Cane Production from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic  Adela Fábregas-García 10 Early Colonial Utilization and Management in Peru  Inge Schjellerup Part 3: The Political Organisation of the New Colonial Societies. The Management of the Conquered Populations and Lands 11 Servants, Slaves or Subjects?:Jews, Muslims and Indians as Royal Property  David Abulafia 12 The Kingdom of Granada:Between the Culmination of a Process and the Beginning of a New Age  Antonio Malpica 13 Portugal, Morocco and Guinea:Reconfiguration of the North Atlantic at the End of the Middle Ages  António de Almeida Mendes

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to analyze the genesis and evolution of late Gothic painting in the Crown of Aragon and the rest of the Hispanic kingdoms, examining this phenomenon in relation to the whole context of Europe in the second half of the fifteenth century. The authors consider the influence of the Flemish primitive movement on the art produced by their Spanish colleagues, the artistic relations and interchanges with the Netherlands and other countries, and the introduction and development of the Flemish language in the Spanish lands. The book also examines altarpieces, considering topics such as changes in shape and structure and liturgical links, along with offering stylistic analyses supported by new technologies. Contributors are Joan Aliaga, Maria Antonia Argelich, Marc Ballesté, Judith Berg Sobré, Carme Berlabé, Eduardo Carrero, Ximo Company, Francesca Español, Francesc Fité, Montserrat Jardí, Nicola Jennings, Fernando Marías, Didier Martens, Isidre Puig, Nuria Ramón, Pedro José Respaldiza, Stefania Rusconi, Tina Sabater, Albert Sierra, Pilar Silva, Lluïsa Tolosa, Alberto Velasco, and Joaquín Yarza (†).Table of ContentsContents Avant-propos List of Figures  Joaquin Yarza Luaces (†) List of Contributors Introduction: Late Gothic Painting in the Crown of Aragon and the Hispanic Kingdoms  Alberto Velasco Gonzàlez and Francesc Fité Llevot Part 1: Introductory Papers 1 L’obra de Flandes dans les territoires de la couronne d’Aragon. Marché et importations artistiques entre 1450 et 1500  Francesca Español Bertran 2 Some Questions About the Flemish Model in Aragonese Painting (1440-1500)  Alberto Velasco Gonzàlez 3 Bartolomé Bermejo and the Painting Business in the Crown of Aragon  Judith Berg Sobré 4 Late Gothic Painting in Majorca  Tina Sabater 5 Valencia and Late Gothic Painting  Ximo Company 6 Les Primitifs flamands et leur ‘réception’ dans la peinture castillane de la fin du Moyen ge  Didier Martens 7 On Hispano-Flemish Painting in the Kingdom of Castile  Pilar Silva Maroto Part 2: Contributions 8 Bermejo in Daroca  Fernando Marías 9 St. John the Baptist: A Work by the Juan de la Abadía Workshop at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (Barcelona)  Montserrat Jardí Anguera 10 The Sales of Art Works from the Monastery of Sijena (Huesca) During the Twentieth Century: Late Gothic Painting  Carmen Berlabé 11 Late-Gothic Mural Painting at the Beginning of the Renaissance in the Aran Valley: Unha and Arties  Albert Sierra i Reguera 12 Identifying the Hand Involved in a Man of Sorrows Produced in the Workshop of the Master of Artés  Nicola Jennings and Isidro Puig 13 Valencian Late-Gothic Painting Documents: Contributions of the Medieval and Modern Research Center (CIMM, Polytechnic University of Valencia and University of Lleida)  Ximo Company, Joan Aliaga, Lluïsa Tolosa, Isidro Puig, Núria Ramón, Stefania Rusconi and Maria Antonia Argelich 14 Liturgy as Visual Argument: Monastic Churches and Retrochoirs in Donor Imagery by the Master of Sopetrán (Prado Museum)  Eduardo Carrero Santamaría 15 A Resurrection by the Master of Portillo: Underlying Drawings  Isidro Puig Sanchis and Marc Ballesté Escorihuela 16 Late Gothic Mural Paintings in the Monastery of San Isidoro del Campo, Seville  Pedro José Respaldiza Lama Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Animal Rationality: Later Medieval Theories 1250-1350, Anselm Oelze offers the first comprehensive and systematic exploration of theories of animal rationality in the later Middle Ages. Traditionally, it was held that medieval thinkers ascribed rationality to humans while denying it to nonhuman animals. As Oelze shows, this narrative fails to capture the depth and diversity of the medieval debate. Although many thinkers, from Albert the Great to John Buridan, did indeed hold that nonhuman animals lack rational faculties, some granted them the ability to engage in certain rational processes such as judging, reasoning, or employing prudence. There is thus a whole spectrum of positions to be discovered, many of which show interesting parallels with contemporary theories of animal rationality.Trade Review"Cette approche, à la fois historique et systématique, de la rationalité animale aboutit à une étude passionnante, dont le propos, agrémenté de nombreux exemples, allie la clarté à l’élégance. Nul doute que cette étude maîtrisée d’un corpus et d’un réseau de questions originaux constitue une contribution majeure à l’histoire de la philosophie médiévale". Véronique Decaix, Bulletin de Philosophie Medievale, 21 (3), (2020).Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 What are and Why Study Later Medieval Theories of Animal Rationality? 2 How to Study Later Medieval Theories? 3 Structure and Key Questions Part 1: Animals and Rationality in the Middle Ages Introduction to Part 1 4 The Role of Animals in the Middle Ages 5 Animal Souls and Sensory Cognition 6 Human Souls and the Triad of Intellectual Operations 7 Grey Areas Part 2: Universal Cognition and Concept Formation Introduction to Part 2 8 Estimation, Conceptualisation, and Categorisation (Thomas Aquinas) 9 Intentions and Quiddities (Albertus Magnus) 10 Elevated Intentions and Common Forms (Pseudo-Peter of Spain) 11 Vague Particulars as Universals (Roger Bacon) 12 Universal Desire and Experience (John Buridan) 13 General Mental Representations (Peter of John Olivi) Part 3: Judging Introduction to Part 3 14 The Idea of Sensory Judgments 15 Natural Judgments (Thomas Aquinas) 16 Erroneous Judgments and Differences in Estimation (Albertus Magnus) 17 Reflective and Experimental Judgments (Peter of John Olivi, John Buridan) 18 The Ascription of Judgments and the Problem of Anthropomorphism (William of Ockham, Adam Wodeham, Gregory of Rimini) Part 4: Reasoning Introduction to Part 4 19 Quasi-Reasoning (Thomas Aquinas, Gregory of Rimini, John Duns Scotus) 20 Quasi-Reasoning and Cogitation (Roger Bacon) 21 Imperfect Argumentations and Practical Syllogisms (Albertus Magnus) 22 Material Souls and Degrees of Reasoning (John Buridan, Nicole Oresme) Part 5: Prudence Introduction to Part 5 23 Memory vs. Recollection (Albertus Magnus) 24 Incomplete and Complete Memory (Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon) 25 Foresight and Provision (Albertus Magnus, Bonaventure) 26 Quasi-Foresight and Quasi-Hope (Thomas Aquinas) 27 Operating for and towards the Future (Roger Bacon, Peter of John Olivi) 28 Imperfect or Particular Prudence (Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas) 29 Prudence by Analogy (Giles of Rome, John Duns Scotus) Part 6: Rationality without Reason? Introduction to Part 6 30 Medieval and Contemporary Theories: The Differences 31 Medieval and Contemporary Theories: The Commonalities 32 Towards a Classification: Differentialist and Assimilationist Explanations 33 Room for Rationality or Rationality without Reason Conclusion Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisIn From Nicopolis to Mohács, Tamás Pálosfalvi offers an account of Ottoman-Hungarian warfare from its start in the late fourteenth century to the battle of Mohács in 1526. During this period of one century and a half, the Kingdom of Hungary was the most constant and strongest rival of the expanding Ottoman Empire in Europe, and as such waged constant warfare in defence of its borders. Based on the extensive use of hitherto unexplored source material, Pálosfalvi not only offers a sound chronology of military events, but also a description of Hungarian military structures and their transformation under constant Ottoman pressure, as well as an analysis of the reasons that lay behind the military breakdown of Hungary in the third decade of the sixteenth century.Trade Review'This is a significant achievement and will become a standard reference work in English on Ottoman-Hungarian military history to 1526. The images used as illustrations, some of which are contemporary to the events and others which are nineteenthcentury history paintings, deserve a study in their own right'. Robyn Dora Radway, Central European University, in Renaissance Quarterly Volume LXXIII, No. 1: 309-310Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Note on Spelling Figures and Maps Introduction 1 Hungarian Military Organization, 1387–1526  1 The Inheritance: Political and Territorial Structures  2 The Angevin Legacy  3 Sigismund and his Reforms  4 The Armies of Hunyadi  5 King Matthias – The Myth of the Black Army  6 The Jagiellos: Adaptation under Pressure 2 The New Enemy: Hungary and the Ottomans, 1389–1429  1 The First Contacts between Hungary and the Turks  2 The Battle of Nicopolis  3 From Nicopolis to Golubac  4 The Siege of Golubac 3 From Golubac to Belgrade, 1428–1456  1 The Last Years of Sigismund  2 Albert to Wladislas i – Troubled Times  3 The First Ottoman Wars of Hunyadi, 1441–1443  4 The War of Illusions: The “Long March,” 1443–1444  5 The King’s Death: The Varna Campaign  6 The Last Offensive: The Battle of Kosovo Polje, 1448  7 On the Defensive: From Kosovo Polje to Belgrade, 1448–1456  8 The Siege of Belgrade, 1456 4 From Belgrade to Vienna: King Matthias and the Ottomans, 1458–1483  1 Securing the Borders, 1458–1466  1.1 Hungary and the Fall of Serbia, 1457-1459  1.2 Conflicting Views: King Matthias and Mihály Szilágyi, 1459-1460  1.3 The Return of Mehmed ii to the North  1.4 From Jajce to Zvornik, 1463-1464  1.5 “Passive Resistance”, 1465-1466  2 Turning West, 1467–1483  2.1 The Years of Disengagement, 1467-1475  2.2 The Siege of Šabac  2.3 Transylvania, Bosnia, Otranto, 1478-1482 5 The Wars of the “Long Peace,” 1483–1520  1 The Last Years of Matthias  2 From War to Peace, 1490–1495  3 A War that Nobody Wanted, 1499–1503  4 Shifting Alliances, 1508–1511  5 Under Pressure Again, 1511–1513  6 Towards the Edge of the Abyss, 1514–1520 6 The Collapse, 1521–1526  1 The Third Siege of Belgrade, 1521  2 Preparing for the Deluge: After Belgrade, 1522–1525  3 The Final Countdown, 1525–1526  4 The Battle of Mohács 7 Conclusion: Why Did Hungary Lose?  1 The Fall of Medieval Hungary, Part One: The Superiority of Ottoman Military Organization  2 The Fall of Medieval Hungary, Part Two: A Fiscal Breakdown Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the 17th and 18th centuries Spain and Portugal contested control of the disputed Rio de la Plata borderlands. The Jesuit missions among the Guarani played an important role in regional conflict through the provision of manpower for campaigns and supplies. However, regional conflict and particularly the mobilization of the mission militia and the movement of soldiers on campaign had demographic consequences for the populations of the missions such as the spread of contagion. This study documents regional conflict in the Rio de la Plata, the militarization of the Jesuit missions, and the demographic consequences of conflict for the mission populations.Table of ContentsGeneral Series Editor’s Preface  George Bryan Souza Acknowledgements List of Figures, Illustrations, Tables and Maps 1Introduction 2Profile of a Demographic Crisis: 1733–1740 3Regional Conflict and the Militarization of the Jesuit Missions 4Demographic Patterns on the Missions 5Conclusions Appendix 1: The Population and Vital Rates of the Guaraní Missions discussed in Chapter 4 Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Crimean Khanate was often treated as a semi-nomadic, watered-down version of the Golden Horde, or yet another vassal state of the Ottoman Empire. This book revises these views by exploring the Khanate’s political and legal systems, which combined well organized and well developed institutions, which were rooted in different traditions (Golden Horde, Islamic and Ottoman). Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the Crimean court registers from the reign of Murad Giray (1678-1683), the book examines the role of the khan, members of his council and other officials in the Crimean political and judicial systems as well as the practice of the Crimean sharia court during the reign of Murad Giray.Table of ContentsPreface  The Chronological Scope of the Research  Outline of the Book Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Note on Place Names, Proper Names, and Transliteration Concordance of Frequently Mentioned Place Names Glossary Introduction  Historiography of the Crimean Khanate  Sources 1 Murad Giray and His Times  1 The Context of the Crimean Khanate Ruled by Murad Giray  2 Murad Giray as Viewed by Crimean Chroniclers 2 The Household, Deputies, and the Council of the Khan  1 The Khan’s Household  2 The Kalga  3 The Nuraddin and His Officials  4 The Khan’s Council 3 The Khan and the Nobles  1 The Crimean Nobles to 1532  2 The Crimean Nobles in the Years from 1532 to 1774 4 Provincial Kadıs and Their Courts  1 The Kadı and Court Personnel  2 The Limitations of the Judicial Power of the Kadı and His Subordinates 5 Law and Its Practice in the Khanate’s Sharia Courts  1 The Law Applied in the Crimean Courts  2 Litigants of the Sharia Courts: A Basic Statistical Analysis Conclusion: A Fragile Balance Appendices Appendix I: Transliteration, Translation, and Facsimile of the Order Issued by Khan Canibeg Giray Appendix II: Transliteration, Translation, and Facsimile of a Case Brought to the Council of Murad Giray Appendix III: Summaries of the Cases Judged at the Khan’s Council (1678–82) Appendix IV: List of the Officials Recorded in the Crimean Sicils during the Reign of Murad Giray Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Militant Middle Ages, historian Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri delves into common perceptions of the Middle Ages and how these views shape contemporary political contexts. Today more than ever, the medieval era is mined from across the political spectrum for symbols, examples, allegories, and models to represent and interpret the present. From “new crusades” to fantasy literature and cosplay, from Catholic Traditionalism to environmentalism, from neo-Vikings to medieval tourism and festivals, Carpegna Falconieri leads us in an impassioned and often disquieting journey through the “Modern Middle Ages.” The first book-length study dedicated to the broad phenomenon of political medievalism, The Militant Middle Ages offers a new lens for scrutinizing contemporary society through its instrumentalization of the medieval past. First published in Italian as Medioevo militante. La politica di oggi alle prese con barbari e crociati - © 2011 Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a., Torino.Table of Contents  Preface to the English Edition (2019)   Acknowledgments   Prologue   Introduction  1 The Neo-Medieval West  2 All New Barbarians and Same Old Crusaders  3 Once upon a Time in the Middle Ages  4 The Middle Ages of Identity  5 Merchants and Bowmen: Middle Ages of the City  6 Folk and Jesters: Anarchist and Leftist Middle Ages  7 Templars and Holy Grail: Middle Ages of Tradition  8 Warriors of Valhalla: Middle Ages of the Great North  9 Druids and Bards: Celtic Middle Ages  10 Popes and Saints: Catholic Middle Ages  11 Peoples and Sovereigns: Middle Ages of Nations  12 Emperors and Wanderers: Middle Ages of a United Europe   Epilogue   References and Sources   Index of Personal Names

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Book SynopsisTopographies of Tolerance and Intolerance challenges the narrative of a simple progression of tolerance and the establishment of confessional identity during the early modern period. These essays explore the lived experiences of religious plurality, providing insights into the developments and drawbacks of religious coexistence in this turbulent period. The essays examine three main groups of actors—the laity, parish clergy, and unacknowledged religious minorities—in pre- and post-Westphalian Europe. Throughout this period, the laity navigated their own often-fluid religious beliefs, the expectations of conformity held by their religious and political leaders, and the complex realities of life that involved interactions with co-religious and non-co-religious family, neighbors, and business associates on a daily basis. Contributors are: James Blakeley, Amy Nelson Burnett, Victoria Christman, Geoffrey Dipple, Timothy G. Fehler, Emily Fisher Gray, Benjamin J. Kaplan, David M. Luebke, David Mayes, Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, William Bradford Smith, and Shira Weidenbaum.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Maps Notes on Contributors Prologue  Benjamin J. Kaplan Part 1 Defining the Boundaries of Tolerance and Intolerance 1 Ideology, Pragmatism, and Coexistence Religious Tolerance in the Early Modern West  Victoria Christman 2 Resisting Biconfessionalism and Coexistence in the Common Territories of the Western Swiss Confederation  James Blakeley 3 The Persecution of Witches and the Discourse on Toleration in Early Modern Germany  William Bradford Smith 4 Coexistence and Confessionalization Emden’s Topography of Religious Pluralism  Timothy G. Fehler 5 Concubinaries as Citizens Mediating Confessional Plurality in Westphalian Towns, 1550–1650  David M. Luebke Part 2 Mapping Memory and Arbitrating Good Neighbors 6 Imagined Conversations Strategies for Survival in the Dialogues Rustiques  Shira C. Weidenbaum 7 Anabaptists and Seventeenth-Century Arguments for Religious Toleration in Switzerland and the Netherlands  Geoffrey Dipple 8 Celebrating Peace in Biconfessional Augsburg Lutheran Churches and Remembrance Culture  Emily Fisher Gray 9 Discord via Toleration Clerical Conflict in the Post-Westphalian Imperial Territories  David Mayes 10 Parish Clergy, Patronage Rights, and Regional Politics in the Convent Churches of Welver, 1532–1697  Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer Epilogue  Amy Nelson Burnett Index

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Book SynopsisStudies of the trade between the Atlantic World and Asia during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries typically focus on the exchanges between Atlantic European countries – especially Portugal, the Netherlands and England – and Asia across the Cape route. In The Atlantic World and the Manila Galleons. Circulation, Market, and Consumption of Asian Goods in the Spanish Empire, 1565-1650, José L. Gasch-Tomás offers a new approach to understanding the connections between the Atlantic World and Asia. By drawing attention to the trans-Pacific trade between the Americas and the Philippines, the re-exportation of Asian goods from New Spain to Castile, and the consumption of Chinese silk, Chinese porcelain and Japanese furnishings in New Spain and Seville, this book discloses how New Spanish cities and elites were main components of the spread of taste for Asian goods in the Spanish Empire. This book reveals how New Spanish family and commercial networks channelled the market formation of Asian goods in the Atlantic World around 1600.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Early modern Hispanic measures and currencies Abbreviations of archives Illustrations Map 1. Introduction 1.1. Historical issues and debates: Globalisation, trade, and consumption history 1.2. Approach, sources, and methodology 1.3. Mexico City, Seville, and Manila in 1600: Population and institutions 2. From Asian goods to Asian commodities in the Spanish Empire 2.1. Agents and forms of transfer of Asian goods 2.2. The role of women in the transmission of Asian goods 2.3. The retail trade of Asian goods in New Spain 2.4. Conclusions 3. Commerce in the Pacific and the Atlantic and interaction between the two oceans br/> 3.1. Transformations in the Philippine economy 3.2. The trade of Asian goods in the Spanish Empire at its apogee (1580–1630) 3.3. Silk for silver in the Manila Galleon trade 3.4. The decline of Asian trade in the Spanish Empire (1630-1650) 3.5. Conclusions 4. Trans-Pacific trade and the political economy of the Spanish Empire br/> 4.1. Mexico’s guild of merchants and the trade of the Manila galleons 4.2. Mexican merchant strategies of investing in the Manila galleons 4.3. The struggle for silver and the regulation of trans-Pacific trade 4.4. Conclusions 5. Impact of the Manila Galleon trade on Hispanic production of manufactured goods br/> 5.1. The impact of Chinese silk on Castilian and New Spanish industries 5.2. Knowledge transfer and ‘import substitution’ industries in New Spain 5.3. Conclusions 6. Consumption habits, fashions, and taste for Asian goods among elites in Mexico City and Seville br/> 6.1. Identification of the elites of Seville and the Creole and Iberian elites of Mexico City 6.2. Social aspects of the consumption of Asian manufactured goods in Mexico City and Seville 6.3. Asian material culture in the Spanish Empire 6.4. Conclusions 7. The Manila Galleons – An American bridge from Asia to Europe br/> Appendix A. Survey of primary sources Appendix B. Conversion from current to constant values Appendix C. Glossary of fabrics, garments, and textiles Sources and bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLisa Hellman offers the first study of European everyday life in Canton and Macao. How foreigners could live, communicate, move around – even whom they could interaction with – were all things strictly regulated by the Chinese authorities. The Europeans sometimes adapted to, and sometimes subverted, these rules. Focusing on this conditional domesticity shows the importance of gender relations, especially the construction of masculinity. Using the Swedish East India Company, a minor European actor in an expanding Asian empire, as a point of entry highlights the multiplicity of actors taking part in local negotiations of power. The European attempts at making a home in China contributes to a global turn in everyday history, but also to an everyday turn in global history.Trade Review"Hellman’s book provides an important basis for further research on Canton as the core of a multi-pole, multi-scale, multi-empire urban network established across the ports of the Pearl River Delta. It should be read by anyone interested in the social and urban processes of globalization of the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries". Regina Campinho, in Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists, October 2020. "The book provides many new insights into the daily activities of the European community in Canton and Macao. [...] Maritime historians who are theoretically oriented will likely find much of interest in this study". Paul A. Van Dyke, in The International Journal of Maritime History, 31(4).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations and Terminology 1 Entering Canton and Macao  1 Asian Power and European Compliance  2 The Daily Making of a Home  3 The Practices of Daily Life  4 Tactics in the Face of a Conditional Everyday Life  5 What is Missing is the Commonplace Abroad  6 The Remains of the Days 2 The Who’s Who of Canton and Macao  1 The Foreign Trade Groups   1.1 -Chinese Traders and Masculinities   1.2 The Foreign Women   1.3 Sailors and Slaves  2 The People of Macao  3 The Local Trade Groups   3.1 The Merchants, the Officials – and ‘the mandarins’   3.2 The Labourers of the Pearl River Delta   3.3 The Prostitutes  4 The ‘Chinese’   4.1 ‘The Chinese men’   4.2 ‘The Chinese women’  5 Conclusion  Colin Campbell and the 1730s 3 A Space for Intersections  1 The City Space  1.1 Walking Around the City  1.2 City of Women  2 The Factory Space  2.1 nside the Factories  2.2 The Dining Space  3 Macao  4 The Harbour Space  5 The Water Space  6 Conclusion  Michael Grubb and the 1750s and 1760s 4 The Communication Struggle  1 Separate Groups, Separate Languages?   1.1 Circumventing the Rules   1.2 Pidgin English  2 Local and Global Communication Channels   2.1 The Role of the Interpreters   2.2 Letters from Near and Far   2.3 Channels for Circulation of Knowledge<  3 Conclusion  Olof Lindahl and the 1770s and 1780s 5 Spending Time and Spending Money  1 Domestic Consumption  2 Food as Cultural Evaluation and Adaptation  3 Drinking Right and Drinking Wrong  4 Sharing a Cup of Tea and a Smoke  5 What You Get from Giving Away  6 Boredom and What to do about it  7 Going Outside  8 Conclusion  Anders Ljungstedt and the Early Nineteenth Century 6 Finding and Becoming Trustworthy Men  1 Spaces for Trust  2 Finding a Language for Trust   2.1 Gossip and Secrets   2.2 The Myth of Special Friendship  3 How to Look Trustworthy  4 How to Act Trustworthy   4.1 Finding a Certainty of Response   4.2 Accepting Distrust   4.3 Adapting Masculinities  5 Conclusion 7 This House is Not a Home  1 Multi-faceted Control and a Plurality of Responses  2 Everyday Relations of Ethnicity, Class and Gender  3 Globalisation, not European Expansion  Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWomen, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan, edited by Karen M. Gerhart, is a multidisciplinary examination of rituals featuring women, in which significant attention is paid to objects produced for and utilized in these rites as a lens through which larger cultural concerns, such as gender politics, the female body, and the materiality of the ritual objects, are explored. The ten chapters encounter women, rites, and ritual objects in many new and interactive ways and constitute a pioneering attempt to combine ritual and gendered analysis with the study of objects. Contributors include: Anna Andreeva, Monica Bethe, Patricia Fister, Sherry Fowler, Karen M. Gerhart, Hank Glassman, Naoko Gunji, Elizabeth Morrissey, Chari Pradel, Barbara Ruch, Elizabeth Self.Trade Review'Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan is an invaluable volume not just for scholars of premodern Japan but also for anyone with an interest in material culture. Whether we acknowledge this or not, it is largely through a carefully constructed symbolic order that we as human beings create and mark our places in the world and navigate our way through life and its many challenges.' - Yui Suzuki, University of Maryland, in: Monumenta Nipponica 74:1 (2019). 'a rare insight into the still largely veiled and thus lesser-known world of rites and rituals concerning women and female deities in premodern Japan.(...) serves therefore as an important pioneer in the field; hence, it is warmly recommended to all students of Japanese religions.' - Lehel Balogh, Hokkaido University, in: Religious Studies Review 45/3 (2019) 'The studies range widely in terms of source material and period; nevertheless,the volume’s clear thematic focus yields a greater degree of cohesion than one often sees in an edited volume. In fact, reading the essays together, as one would a monograph, produces a powerful effect: the chapters reflect and refract each other in subtly provocative ways, such that the entire book enacts a kind of historicist scintillation.(...) To the credit of the publisher, the format for Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects is wonderfully expansive. Ample illustrations, many in full color,provide welcome context and enable readers to follow arguments rooted in visual analysis. Overall, the book is a must-have for libraries and for the individual reader who can afford it. It is an important contribution to Japan studies in the areas of religious history, visual culture, and, of course, women’s history.' - Heather Blair, Journal of Japanese Studies 46:2 (2020)Table of ContentsPreface  Barbara Ruch List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors Introduction  Karen M. Gerhart Part 1 Rituals Related to the Household and Childbirth 1 Women and “Moving-House” Rituals in Mid-Heian Japan  Karen M. Gerhart 2 Devising Esoteric Rituals for Women: Fertility and the Demon Mother in the Gushi nintai sanshō himitsu hōshū  Anna Andreeva 3 Taira no Tokushi’s Birth of Emperor Antoku  Naoko Gunji Part 2 Women and Buddhist Rituals and Icons 4 A Female Deity as the Focus of a Buddhist Ritual: Kichijō Keka at Hōryūji  Chari Pradel 5 The Relic and the Jewel: An Eleventh-Century Miniature Bronze Pagoda to Hold the Bones of a Young Queen  Hank Glassman 6 Connecting Kannon to Women Through Print  Sherry Fowler Part 3 Buddhist Women and Death Memorials 7 Commemorating Life and Death: The Memorial Culture Surrounding the Rinzai Zen Nun Mugai Nyodai  Patricia Fister 8 Of Surplices and Certificates: Tracing Mugai Nyodai’s Kesa  Monica Bethe Part 4 Female Patronage, Portraits, and Rituals 9 Retired Empress and Buddhist Patron: Higashisanjō-in Donates a Set of Icon Curtains in the Illustrated Legends of Ishiyamadera Handscroll  Elizabeth Morrissey 10 Life After Death: The Intersection of Patron and Subject in the Portrait of Jōkō-in  Elizabeth Self Index

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Book SynopsisIn Mughal Occidentalism, Mika Natif elucidates the meaningful and complex ways in which Mughal artists engaged with European art and techniques from the 1580s-1630s. Using visual and textual sources, this book argues that artists repurposed Christian and Renaissance visual idioms to embody themes from classical Persian literature and represent Mughal policy, ideology and dynastic history. A reevaluation of illustrated manuscripts and album paintings incorporating landscape scenery, portraiture, and European objects demonstrates that the appropriation of European elements was highly motivated by Mughal concerns. This book aims to establish a better understanding of cross-cultural exchange from the Mughal perspective by emphasizing the agency of local artists active in the workshops of Emperors Akbar and Jahangir.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations and Conventions Introduction  Brief Historical Background  Defining Mughal Occidentalism  Christian and European Elements in Islamic Art  Organization of the Book 1 Mughal Tolerance and the Encounters with Europe  Religious Tolerance under Akbar and Jahangir  Mughals and Europeans: The Encounters  The Challenge of Primary Sources  Diplomatic Gifts and “Special” Christian Articles  The Mughal Elite and Pictures of Mary and Jesus 2 Mughal Masters and European Art: Tradition and Innovation at the Royal Workshops  Copying and Innovation at the Imperial Workshops  Repurposing the European Masters 3 European Articles in Mughal Painting  European Prints in Mughal Albums  Visualizing European Articles in Mughal Painting  The Organ: Plato Making Music 4 Landscape Painting as Mughal Allegory: Micro-Architecture, Perspective and ṣulḥ-i kull  The Mughal Interest in Topography  Chronology of Change in Landscape Representation  Images of Urbanism and Agriculture: Diversity and Prosperity  The Virtuous City and the Circle of Justice  European Techniques: Sfumato and Atmospheric Perspective 5 Concepts of Portraiture under Akbar and Jahangir  Mughal Terminology and Praxis  Form, Essence, and Physiognomy  The Politics of Portraiture Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisReading Medieval Sources is an exciting new series which leads scholars and students into some of the most challenging and rewarding sources from the European Middle Ages, and introduces the most important approaches to understanding them. Written by an international team of twelve leading scholars, this volume Money and Coinage in the Middle Ages presents a set of fresh and insightful perspectives that demonstrate the rich potential of this source material to all scholars of medieval history and culture. It includes coverage of major developments in monetary history, set into their economic and political context, as well as innovative and interdisciplinary perspectives that address money and coinage in relation to archaeology, anthropology and medieval literature. Contributors are Nanouschka Myrberg Burström, Elizabeth Edwards, Gaspar Feliu, Anna Gannon, Richard Kelleher, Bill Maurer, Nick Mayhew, Rory Naismith, Philipp Robinson Rössner, Alessia Rovelli, Lucia Travaini, and Andrew Woods.

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Book SynopsisIn Kreative Gegensätze Marcel Bubert analyses the debates among medieval scholastics on the social usefulness of learned knowledge in their specific social and cultural contexts. In particular, he shows how the skepticism towards the scholars as well as the tensions between the University of Paris, the French royal court, and the citizens of Paris had profound effects on the scientific community, and led to very different views on the utility of philosophy.Table of ContentsInhalt Vorwort 1 Einleitung  1.1 Das Problem  1.2 Gegenstand, Profil und Disposition  1.3 Methodologische Vorbemerkungen: Mittelalterliche Wissenschaftsgeschichte 2 Die Pariser Artistenfakultät im 13. und frühen 14. Jahrhundert: Sozialisation und Identität  2.1 Enthusiasmus und amor sciendi  2.2 Aristoteles-Rezeption? Text und Kontext  2.3 Sozialisationsformen der Artes-Fakultät  2.4 Interaktion und Kohäsion: Lehre als kulturelle Praxis  2.5 Jenseits der Grenze: Das Fremde und das Eigene  2.6 Pariser ‚Philosophen‘ vor und nach 1277  2.7 Der Name der Philosophen – Anmerkungen zum philosophus des Mittelalters 3 Praktisches und unpraktisches Wissen, Wissensträger und Experten: Philosophie im universitären Raum  3.1 Der artistische Wissensbestand im 13. Jahrhundert  3.2 Praktisches Wissen?  3.3 Unpraktisches Wissen?  3.4 Der Kommunikationsraum der Artistenfakultät – Nichts als die Wahrheit  3.5 Philosophisches Auswärtsspiel: Die Kommunikationsräume der ‚oberen‘ Fakultäten  3.6 Das Gleiche nochmal anders: Gelehrte Experten an der Universität Paris 4 Kreative Ambivalenzen: Das offene System und seine Feinde  4.1 Magni litterati inexperti – Buchwissen zwischen Autorität und Kritik  4.2 Der Kaiser und der Fürst der Philosophen  4.3 Zwischenresümee: Zwei kritische Experten  4.4 Urbane Dissonanzen: „Scolares artium“ und praktische Wissenskultur 5 Krisis und Verwandlung: Alternative Entwürfe im 13. Jahrhundert  5.1 Der Grammatiker, die Logiker und die Gesellschaft  5.2 Mediale Praxis, Wissensordnung und Kritik: An Italian in Paris  5.3 Methodologische Zwischenreflexion  5.4 Toter Autor, Modernist, Reaktionär: Roger Bacons philosophische Sonderwege  5.5 Epigonen, Propheten und Revolutionäre: Große Ereignisse werfen ihre Schatten (voraus?)  5.6 Urbane Harmonien: Empirismus und Praxisdiskurs in der Musiktheorie  5.7 Freiheitskämpfe und ästhetische Revolutionen. Deutungsgeschichte Johannes de Grocheios – eine Diskursanalyse 6 Nutzlose, skeptische und alternative Akteure: Zwischenbetrachtung und Überleitung  6.1 Pour un autre Moyen ge? Was das bisher Gesagte über das Mittelalter sagt  6.2 The End of the Story? 7 Der Geist kehrt in sich zurück, oder: Die Geburt einer modernen Dialogik  7.1 Praktiken der Legitimation – und ihre epistemischen Rückkopplungen  7.2 Die stille Revolution: Eine neue Rolle der experientia 8 Das Mittelalter ist nie modern gewesen – Rückblicke, Reflexionen und Aussichten Quellenverzeichnis Literaturverzeichnis Register

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Seals in the Middle Ages is a cross-disciplinary collection of fourteen essays on medieval sigillography. It is organized thematically, and it emphasizes important, often cutting-edge, methodologies for the study of medieval seals and sealing cultures. As the chronological, temporal and geographic scope of the essays in the volume suggests, the study of the medieval seal—its manufacture, materiality, usage, iconography, inscription, and preservation—is a rich endeavour that demands collaboration across disciplines as well as between scholars working on material from different regions and periods. It is hoped that this collection will make the study of medieval seals more accessible and will stimulate students and scholars to employ and further develop these material and methodological approaches to seals. Contributors are Adrian Ailes, Elka Cwiertnia, Paul Dryburgh, Emir O. Filipovi, Oliver Harris, Philippa Hoskin, Ashley Jones, Andreas Lehnertz, John McEwan, Elizabeth A. New, Jonathan Shea, Caroline Simonet, Angelina A. Volkoff, and Marek L. Wójcik.Trade Review''Un ouvrage transversal, véritable outil de développement de la recherche en sigillographie [...] Clairement présenté et abondamment illustré de nombreuses planches en couleur, cet ouvrage d’une grande richesse intellectuelle est aussi très agréable à consulter. Ainsi, comme son titre l’affirme, il se veut le fidèle compagnon de qui s’intéresse aux sceaux et à la sigillographie, ambitionnant de devenir un indispensable livre de chevet. Il est à espérer qu’il rendra plus accessible encore l’étude des sceaux et suscitera, parmi les professionnels comme les étudiants, de nouvelles et nombreuses recherches dans ce domaine''. Marie-Adélaïde Nielen, in Francia Recensio , 3, 2019.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Contributors Introduction: Approaches to Medieval Seals and Sealing Practices Laura J. Whatley PART 1 Materiality and Seals 1 Analysis of the Materiality of Royal and Governmental Seals of England with a Focus on the Great Seals (1100–1300): Methodology and Findings Elke Cwiertnia, Adrian Ailes and Paul Dryburgh 2 Material Analysis of the Seals Attached to the Barons’ Letter to the Pope Paul Dryburgh, Elke Cwiertnia and Adrian Ailes 3 Does Size Matter? Social Standing and Seal Dimensions in Medieval Britain John McEwan PART 2 Historiography and Seals 4 Fragments of the Past: The Early Antiquarian Perception and Study of Seals in England Oliver D. Harris 5 Medieval Armorial Seals in The National Archives (UK) Adrian Ailes PART 3 Seals in Bureaucracy and Diplomatic 6 The Seals of the Judges of the Hippodrome: Drawing Data from Seals Without Context Jonathan Shea 7 Administration and Identity: Episcopal Seals in England from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Century Philippa Hoskin PART 4 Power and Aspiration on Medieval Seals 8 Power, Family, and Identity: Social and Individual Elements in Byzantine Sigillography Angelina Anne Volkoff 9 Two Seals of Muskinus the Jew (Moshe b. Yeḥiel, d. 1336), The Archbishop of Trier’s Negociator Andreas Lehnertz 10 ‘Creatio Regni’ in the Great Seal of Bosnian King Tvrtko Kotromanić Emir O. Filipović PART 5 Elusive Seal Owners and Users 11 Reconsidering the Silent Majority: Non- Heraldic Personal Seals in Medieval Britain Elizabeth New 12 The Seals of Knights’ Wives in Medieval Silesia Marek L. Wójcik PART 6 Visual Culture and Seals 13 Coins as Seals in Lombard Italy Ashley Jones 14 The Use of Ancient Gems and Coins: A Noticeable Presence of Antiquity in Medieval Sigillography Caroline Simonet Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn The Rise and Fall of Nikephoros II Phokas, Denis Sullivan presents five Byzantine Greek texts that document the remarkable career of Nikephoros II Phokas, emperor from 963 until his death in 969. The first three texts are historical chronicles covering the period 944-963, which sees Nikephoras’ rise from military general. The fourth is a “historical epic” poem on the successful Byzantine expedition against Arab Crete in 960-961, for which Nikephoros was the field commander. The last text is a liturgical office that declares the slain emperor a martyr and a saint. These texts, translated into English for the first time, provide information on the Phokades that is not found elsewhere in the Greek sources, and the chronicles appear to reflect now lost pro-Phokan family sources.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction to the Three Chronicles: Theophanes Continuatus, Symeon the Logothete, and Pseudo-Symeon Text 1: Theophanes Continuatus Book 6, Years 944–961  Text and Translation Text 2: The Revised Chronicle of Symeon the Logothete for the Years 948–963 from Vat. gr. 163 and the Interpolations on Nikephoros the Elder from Vat. gr. 153  Text and Translations  a The Revised Chronicle of Symeon the Logothete for the Years 948–963 from Vat. gr. 163  b The Revised Chronicle of Symeon the Logothete: Interpolations on Nikephoros the Elder from Vat. gr. 153 Text 3: The Chronicle of Pseudo-Symeon for the Years 944–962  Text and Translation Text 4: The Capture of Crete, by Theodosios the Deacon  Introduction  Text and Translation Text 5: Akolouthia for St Nikephoros Phokas  Introduction  Text and Translation Glossary Bibliography General Index

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Book SynopsisJesuits and the Book of Nature: Science and Education in Modern Portugal offers an account of the Jesuits’ contributions to science and education after the restoration of the Society of Jesus in Portugal in 1858. As well as promoting an education grounded on an “alliance between religion and science,” the Portuguese Jesuits founded a scientific journal that played a significant role in the consolidation of taxonomy, plant breeding, biochemistry, and molecular genetics. In this book, Francisco Malta Romeiras argues that the priority the Jesuits placed on the teaching and practice of science was not only a way of continuing a centennial tradition but should also be seen as response to the adverse anticlerical milieu in which the restoration of the Society of Jesus took place.Trade Review"Francisco Malta Romeiras offers a worthy contribution to the vast and still growing body of scholarship on Jesuit science from a rather original standpoint: modern Portugal [...] The book is a very informative, if rather descriptive, contribution to the history of Catholic science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries [...] Jesuits and the Book of Nature thus offers an engaging collective portrait of four generations of men of science and faith, shedding light on a myriad of better- and lesser-known figures and facts and bringing them to the attention of a wide international scholarly audience; it is certainly a very welcome contribution to a thriving field of investigation." Maria Pia Donato, CNRS Paris, in Isis, 112.2 (2021) (full review: https://doi.org/10.1086/714670)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations List of Figures and Tables Introduction 1 Jesuit Science and Education: A Brief History 2 The Pombaline Expulsion and the Building of Anti-Jesuitism 3 Carlos Rademaker and the Restoration of the Society of Jesus in Portugal 4 For the Greater Credibility: Science and Education in Modern Portugal 5 The Republican Exile and the Confiscation of the Natural History Collections 6 The Journal Brotéria, the Book of Nature, and the Greater Glory of God 7 The Journal Brotéria: Vulgarização científica and the Popularization of Science, Technology, and Medicine 8 Taxonomy, Cytogenetics, and Plant Breeding in the Early Years of Estado Novo 9 New Lenses to Read the Book of Nature: Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics, and Bioethics Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGrounded Identities: Territory and Belonging in the Medieval and Early Modern Middle East and Mediterranean is a collection of essays on attachment to specific lands including Kurdistan, Andalusia and the Maghrib, and geographical Syria in the pre-modern Islamicate world. Together these essays put a premium on the affective and cultural dimensions of such attachments, fluctuations in the meaning and significance of lands in the face of historical transformations and, at the same time, the real and persistent qualities of lands and human attachments to them over long periods of time. These essays demonstrate that grounded identities are persistent and never static. Contributors are: Zayde Antrim, Alexander Elinson, Mary Hoyt Halavais, Boris James, Steve Tamari.Trade Review[...] This is a timely and welcome contribution to the field as issues regarding territory and belonging globally, but especially in the Middle East, dominate the news cycle. R. W. Zens, Le Moyne College, in Choice, February 2020Table of ContentsContents List of Maps List of Contributors Introduction: Lands and Loyalties in the Scholarship of Medieval and Early Modern Islamicate History   Steve Tamari 1 The Construction of a Kurdish Political Space in the Middle Ages: Kurdish In-betweenness, Mamluk Ethnic Engineering, and the Emergence of al-Mamlaka al-Ḥasina al-Akradiyya (1130-1340 CE)   Boris James 2 Becoming Syrian: Aleppo in Ibn al-ʿAdim’s Bughyat al-Talab fi Ta⁠ʾrikh Halab   Zayde Antrim 3 Lisan al-Din ibn al-Khatib (d. 1374 CE) and the Definition of the Fourteenth-Century Muslim West   Alexander Elinson 4 Going Home: Andalusia and Exile in the Seventeenth Century   Mary Hoyt Halavais 5 The Land of Syria in the Late Seventeenth Century: ʿAbd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi and Linking City and Countryside through Study, Travel, and Worship   Steve Tamari Index

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Book SynopsisAuthority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage their rural hinterlands. Measures of direct control – land ownership, judicial systems, garrisons and fortifications, religious and administrative appointments, taxes and regulation – and indirect control – monuments and landmarks, cultural styles and artistic models, intellectual and religious influence, and economic and bureaucratic standard-setting – are examined to reconstruct the various means by which authority was asserted over the countryside. Unified by its thematic and spatial focus, this book offers an array of interdisciplinary approaches, allowing for important comparisons across a wide but connected geographical area in the transition from the Sasanian and Roman to the Islamic period. Contributors: Arezou Azad and Hugh Kennedy, Sobhi Bouderbala, Michele Campopiano, Alain Delattre, Jessica Ehinger, Simon Ford, James Howard-Johnston, Elif Keser-Kayaalp, Marie Legendre, Javier Martínez Jiménez, Harry Munt, Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent, Marion Rivoal and Marie-Odile Rousset, Gesa Schenke, Petra Sijpesteijn, Peter Verkinderen, Luke Yarbrough, Khaled Younes.Trade Review" ... les actes de ce colloque apportent des données concernant des aspects très divers du contrôle des arrière-pays ruraux dépendant de centres urbains (mais aussi, dans un cas, d’un monastère) allant de Tolède à Balkh, et concernant l’anté-islam et les deux siècles qui suivent la conquête, avec tout de même une majorité de communications concernant l’Égypte et la Syrie." Pierre Guichard, Université Lumière – Lyon II, in Arabica 67 (2020): 637-643 "The abiding merit of this volume is the attention it devotes to that most central of questions for any historian of the Middle East—that is, agrarian production and wealth and its connection to the maintenance of human settlement and culture." Matthew S. Gordon, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 80/2 (2021)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Notes on Transliteration, Names and Dates Introduction  Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Marie Legendre and Alain Delattre Part 1 A Question of Sources 1 New Governors Identified in Arabic Papyri  Khaled Younes 2 “I’ll Not Accept Aid from a mushrik” Rural Space, Persuasive Authority, and Religious Difference in Three Prophetic ḥadīths  Luke Yarbrough Part 2 Territoriality 3 The Rural Hinterland of the Visigothic Capitals of Toledo and Reccopolis, between the Years 400–800 CE  Javier Martínez Jiménez 4 Authority and Control in the Interior of Asia Minor, Seventh–Ninth Centuries  James Howard-Johnston 5 Church Building in the Ṭur ʿAbdin in the First Centuries of the Islamic Rule  Elif Keser-Kayaalp 6 Les aménagements agricoles dans les Marges arides de Syrie du Nord (5e–10e siècles) Des témoins des modalités d’ appropriation et d’ exploitation des campagnes  Marion Rivoal and Marie-Odile Rousset 7 The Ghāzī Movement Performative Religious Identity on the Byzantine-Islamic Frontier  Jessica L. Ehinger 8 The Coming of Islam to Balkh  Arezou Azad and Hugh Kennedy Part 3 Land Use and Resources 9 Contrôle et exploitation des campagnes en Sicile Le rôle du grand domaine et son évolution du VIe siècle au XIe siècle  Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent 10 Murtabaʿ al-jund et manzil al-qabāʾil Pénétration militaire et installation tribale dans la campagne égyptienne au premier siècle de l’ Islam  Sobhi Bouderbala 11 Landowners, Caliphs and State Policy over Landholdings in the Egyptian Countryside Theory and Practice  Marie Legendre 12 Monastic Control over Agriculture and Farming New Evidence from the Egyptian Monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit Concerning the Payment of APARCHE  Gesa Schenke 13 Caliphal Estates and Properties around Medina in the Umayyad Period  Harry Munt 14 Land Tenure, Land Tax and Social Conflictuality in Iraq from the Late Sasanian to the Early Islamic Period (Fifth to Ninth Centuries CE)  Michele Campopiano 15 Land Reclamation and Irrigation Programs in Early Islamic Southern Mesopotamia Self-Enrichment vs. State Control  Peter Verkinderen Part 4 Local Rule and Networks 16 Checkpoints, sauf-conduits et contrôle de la population en Égypte au début du VIIIe siècle  Alain Delattre 17 Policing, Punishing and Prisons in the Early Islamic Egyptian Countryside (640–850 CE)  Petra M. Sijpesteijn Index

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Book SynopsisAs one of the most frequently commentated on biblical books during antiquity and the middle ages, the Song of Songs has played a central role in the history of Christian spirituality. At a time of heightened interest in the Song of Songs among biblical scholars, historians, and students of spirituality, this Companion to the Song of Songs in the History of Spirituality provides a state-of-the art overview of its history, challenges some conventional wisdom, and presents innovative studies of some lesser-known aspects of the Song’s reception. The essays in this volume—including a chapter on Jewish interpretation—present the diverse forms of spirituality inspired by the Song since the beginning of the Christian era. Contributors: Ann W. Astell, Mark S. Burrows, Emily Cain, Catherine Cavadini, Rabia Gregory, Arthur Holder, Jason Kalman, Suzanne LaVere, Hannah Matis, Bernard McGinn, Timothy H. Robinson, and Karl Shuve.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction   Timothy H. Robinson 1 Mystical Wounds  Eastern Patristic Authors on the Song of Songs   Emily R. Cain 2 “A Garden Enclosed, a Fountain Sealed”  The Song of Songs and Ritual Purity in Early Latin Christianity   Karl Shuve 3 The Song of Songs in the Early Middle Ages  From Gregory the Great to the Gregorian Reform   Hannah W. Matis 4 The Cistercian Song  Reception of Bernard of Clairvaux’s Exegesis in Later Cistercian Interpretations of the Song of Songs   Catherine Rose Cavadini 5 The Song of Songs as a Call to Action  Scholastic Interpretation in the High Middle Ages   Suzanne LaVere 6 The Song of Songs in Aelred of Rievaulx’s Liturgical Preaching   Ann W. Astell 7 The Beautiful Men of the Song of Songs?  Replacing and Erasing the Female Beloved in Ancient and Medieval Jewish Interpretation   Jason Kalman 8 Women Interpreting the Song of Songs: 1150–1700   Bernard McGinn 9 Abandonment and Abundance in John of the Cross’s Spiritual Canticle  The Poet as the Writer of New Scripture   Mark S. Burrows 10 Visual Exegesis of the Song of Songs in European Art   Rabia Gregory 11 The Banquet of Love  The Song of Songs in Reformed Sacramental Piety: 1586–1729   Timothy H. Robinson  Epilogue  Christian Reception of the Song of Songs since 1800   Arthur Holder Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Shroud at the Court analyses, through various essays characterized by a multidisciplinary and diachronic perspective, the strict ties created between the Shroud and the Savoy court from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries. Presented as proof of the divine legitimacy of Savoy lineage, the Shroud (of which the Savoy dynasty came into possession in 1453, keeping it first in Chambéry and then from 1578 in Turin) was central to their propagandistic strategies. The court – its spaces, protagonists, and rituals – became the natural setting for a relationship reinforced over time through customs, ceremonies, and images intended to celebrate the excellence of the Savoy, both within their own state and in Europe’s “society of princes”. Contributors are Paola Caretta, Paolo Cornaglia, Paolo Cozzo, Davide De Franco, Bernard Dompnier, Laura Gaffuri, Pierangelo Gentile, Luisella Giachino, Andrea Merlotti, Frédéric Meyer, Andrea Nicolotti, Almudena Pérez de Tudela, Laurent Ripart, Alessandro Serra and Franca Varallo.

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Book SynopsisInterruptions and Transitions: Essays on the Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture is an anthology of the most recent works by Barbara Baert, discussing the connection between the experiences of the senses in the medieval and early modern visual culture, the hermeneutics of imagery, and the limits and possibilities of contemporary Art Sciences. The six chapters include Pentecost, Noli me tangere, the woman with an issue of blood, the Johannesschüssel, the dancing Salome, and the role of the wind. The reader is shown a medieval and early modern visual culture as a history of artistic solutions, as the fascinating approach between biblical texts, plastic imagination, and the art-scientific métier. This makes him a privileged guest in a unique in-between space where humans and their artistic expression can meet existentially.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Copyrights First Publication Introduction of Thresholds 1 Pentecost and the Senses: A Hermeneutical Contribution to the Visual Medium and the Sensorium in Early Medieval Manuscript Tradition 2 An Odour, a Taste, a Touch: Impossible to Describe: Noli me tangere and the Senses 3 “Who Touched Me and My Clothes?” The Healing of the Woman with the Haemorrhage in Early Medieval Visual Culture 4 The Johannesschüssel as Andachtsbild: The Gaze, the Medium, and the Senses 5 “When the Daughter Came in and Danced:” Revisiting Salome’s Dance in Medieval and Early Modern Iconology 6 Wild Is the Wind: Pathosformel and Iconology of a Quintessence Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Representation of External Threats, Eberhard Crailsheim and María Dolores Elizalde present a collection of articles that trace the phenomenon of external threats in a multitude of settings across Asia, America, and Europe. The scope ranges from military threats against the Byzantine rulers of the 7th century to the perception of cultural and economic threats in the late 19th century Atlantic, and includes conceptual threats to the construction of national histories. Focussing on the different ways in which such threats were socially constructed, the articles offer a variety of perspectives and interdisciplinary methods to understand the development and representations of external threats, concentrating on the effect of 'threat communication' for societies and political actors. Contributors are Anna Abalian, Vladimir Belous, Eberhard Crailsheim, María Dolores Elizalde, Rodrigo Escribano Roca, Simon C. Kemper, Irena Kozmanová, David Manzano Cosano, Federico Niglia, Derek Kane O’Leary, Alexandr Osipian, Pedro Ponte e Sousa, Theresia Raum, Jean-Noël Sanchez, Marie Schreier, Stephan Steiner, Srikanth Thaliyakkattil, Ionut Untea and Qiong Yu.Trade Review"...this reader could be recommended as a topic-specific introduction to global history. [...] To be sure, the volume is a valuable undertaking for interdisciplinary research, as it brings this very vocabulary and theoretical models into historical research – or to put it in idiosyncratic German: It has a high potential of “Anschlussfähigkeit”. [...] its authors offer new perspectives on how to bring concepts and theories from political science, sociology, and ‘constructivism’ into the study of history. That is the pioneering ambition and the great achievement of this book. It should inspire and stimulate future endeavours and theory-testing." Thomas Kolnberger in: H-Soz-Kult, 10.11.2020, DOI: www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-49809. "Der vorliegende Band mit seinen 19 Beiträgen aus 12 Ländern zwischen Spanien und Russland, zwischen Singapur und China, der seit 2016aus einem spanischen Marie-Curie-Projekt der EU zur Kolonialgeschichte der Philippinen hervorgegangen ist, zeichnet sich demgegenüber durch überzeugende Kohärenz aus. Denn er versteht es, den allgemeinen Befund, dass Identität durch Alterität oder durch Othering zustande kommt, im Sinne einer Kulturgeschichte des Politischen als Bedrohung zu konkretisieren und zu operationalisieren. [...] Im Gegensatz zu vergleichbaren Sammelbänden entwickelt dieser dank seiner gezielten Engführung durch Autoren und Herausgeber insgesamt ein differenziertes Instrumentarium zur Bearbeitung des historischen und politikwissenschaftlichen Problems der Wahrnehmung äußerer Bedrohung." Wolfgang Reinhard in Zeitschrift für historische Forschung 47 (2020) 1, 79-80Table of ContentsContents List of Illustations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Eberhard Crailsheim and María Dolores Elizalde Part 1 Conceptual Approaches  1 Representations of External Threats: Approaches and Concepts for Historical Research  Eberhard Crailsheim  2 The Opposition of Own/Alien as a Source of the External Threat: Reflections on Supra-State Sovereignization Politics and 19th-Century Pan-Slavism  Vladimir Belous Part 2: Threat Communication  3 Deus Adiuta Romanis: Threat and Threat Communication in the Eastern Roman Empire  Theresia Raum  4 Scottish Interlopers and Indigenous Resistance: Threats to the Spanish Empire in Late 17th-Century Panama  Marie Schreier  5 The Umbilical Cord of Threats: the Securitization of Infidel Attacks on the Early Modern Banten Sultanate, Indonesia  Simon C. Kemper Part 3: Representation of the Internal/External Other  6 The Enemy Within: ‘Gypsies’ as EX/INternal Threat in the Habsburg Monarchy and in the Holy Roman Empire, 15th-18th Century  Stephan Steiner  7 Performing the Ottoman Threat: Visual and Discursive Representations of Armenian Merchants in Early Modern Poland and Moldavia  Alexandr Osipian  8 The ‘Pale of Settlement’: a Particular Form of Separation of the ‘Own’ and the ‘Alien’ in the Russian Empire  Anna Abalian Part 4: The Creation of Threats in the Old World  9 Back to the Huns: the German Threat in the European Collective Imagination, 1527-1914  Federico Niglia  10 External Authority or External Threat? Thomas Hobbes and the Politically Troubled Times of Early Modern England  Ionut Untea  11 Corruption as an External Threat? Anti-Corruption Legislation During the Dutch ‘Great Assembly’ (1651)  Irena Kozmanová Part 5: Contested Conceptions in the Atlantic World  12 Translatio Imperii: the ‘Enmification’ of the United States in the Historical Imagination of Spain and Great Britain, a Comparative View (1850-1898)  Rodrigo Escribano Roca  13 Jared Sparks and Constructing the American Archive  Derek Kane O’Leary  14 Portuguese Foreign Relations in the 19th Century: the Role of External Threats  Pedro Ponte e Sousa Part 6: Threats in the Colonial Context of the Pacific World  15 A Prismatic Glance at One Century of Threats on the Philippine Colony  Jean-Noël Sanchez  16 Strategies Against External Threats to Spanish Sovereignty in a Colonial Territory: The Case of the Philippines in the 19th Century  María Dolores Elizalde  17 The Imperial Enemies of Spain in Hispanic Oceania: the Case of Japan  David Manzano Cosano Part 7: Perceptions of the Other: Chinese-European Encounters  18 Securitization of Christianity during the Period of the Qing Dynasty  Srikanth Thaliyakkattil  19 The Arrogant Chinese: Representation of the Chinese and Chinese Civilisation in Britain’s Travel Writings in the 19th Century  Qiong Yu Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume aims to show through various case studies how the interrelations between Jews, Muslims and Christians in Iberia were negotiated in the field of images, objects and architecture during the Later Middle Ages and Early Modernity. . By looking at the ways pre-modern Iberians envisioned diversity, we can reconstruct several stories, frequently interwoven with devotional literature, poetry or Inquisitorial trials, and usually quite different from a binary story of simple opposition. The book’s point of departure narrates the relationship between images and conversions, analysing the mechanisms of hybridity, and proposing a new explanation for the representation of otherness as the complex outcome of a negotiation involving integration. Contributors are: Cristelle Baskins, Giuseppe Capriotti, Ivana Čapeta Rakić, Borja Franco Llopis, Francisco de Asís García García, Yonatan Glazer-Eytan, Nicola Jennings, Fernando Marías, Elena Paulino Montero, Maria Portmann, Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza, Amadeo Serra Desfilis, Maria Vittoria Spissu, Laura Stagno, Antonio Urquízar-Herrera.

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Book SynopsisExceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain accounts for the representation of violent and complex murders, analysing the role of the criminal, its portrayal through rhetorical devices, and its cultural and aesthetic impact. Proteic traits allow for an understanding of how crime is constructed within the parameters of exception, borrowing from pre-existent forms while devising new patterns and categories such as criminography, the “star killer”, the staging of crimes as suicides, serial murders, and the faking of madness. These accounts aim at bewildering and shocking demanding readers through a carefully displayed cult to excessive behaviour. The arranged “economy of death” displayed in murder accounts will set them apart from other exceptional instances, as proven by their long-standing presence in subsequent centuries.Trade Review"Exceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain delights us with its wealth of sources from literature on crime in early modern Spain. [...] With Exceptional Crime Prof. del Río Parra brings together the history of crime and the history of taxonomy, proving that the classificatory obsession was not the exclusive domain of early modern natural philosophers or the Enlightenment. [...] This book may also inspire further research into areas such as the gendered component of crime narrative as well as its authorship by comparing the Iberian case to its counterparts elsewhere in the world. Marta V. Vicente, University of Kansas, in Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Vol. 45 : Issue 1, Review 5, 147-9 "The study of violence in the early modern Hispanic world tends to focus on the exclusion of minority religious groups and the exploitation of native populations across imperial domains. Little attention, however, seems to have been given to what Elena del Rio Parra calls 'private crimes': the quotidian accounts of stabbings and dismemberments that occurred among friends, lovers, relatives, and strangers who crossed paths and swords. In her Exceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain, Del Rio explores early modern narratives of unique murders and blood crimes, and shows how they reveal an eclectic period where superstitious, religious, and scientific ideas were intertwined. [...] Drawing from a wide array of noncanonical sources involving correspondence, judicial documents, legal allegations, chapbooks, ballads, chroniclers, and medical treatises, her work persuasively argues that we can trace embryonic forms of criminology and criminal anthropology to a period some two hundred years prior to their formal establishment as sciences." Beatriz E. Salamanca, in Sixteenth Century Journal 52.1 (2021).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations A Murder of Crows 1 The Taxonomic Axis of Fatality: From Series of Monsters to Serial Murderers  1 From Series to Individuals  2 Series and Fatality  3 From Series of Monsters to Serial Murderers 2 Sketching the Face of Evil: Pioneering Serial Killers  1 The Antihero Factory  2 In Search of Singularity  3 Sketching the Face of Evil  4 Printing in Parts 3 On the Edge: Living between Suicide and Madness  1 Official and False Madmen  2 Books, Titles, Laws  3 “Hanging from a Beam by Choice”  4 Living on the Edge 4 Expressing Criminal Behavior  1 Detection before Detectives  2 Patterns in Crime  3 Killers as Pretenders  4 Killing and Obsession 5 Dying in Parts: Criminography and the Cult of Excess  1 The Syntax of Evil: From Fait-Divers to the Crime Catalogue  2 Casus and Criminography  3 Dying in Parts  4 The Cult of Excess Cleaning the Crime Scene Bibliography Index of Names and Subjects

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Book SynopsisInternational Law in the Long Nineteenth Century gathers ten studies that reflect the ever-growing variety of themes and approaches that scholars from different disciplines bring to the historiography of international law in the period. Three themes are explored: ‘international law and revolutions’ which reappraises the revolutionary period as crucial to understanding the dynamics of international order and law in the nineteenth century. In ‘law and empire’, the traditional subject of nineteenth-century imperialism is tackled from the perspective of both theory and practice. Finally, ‘the rise of modern international law’, covers less familiar aspects of the formation of modern international law as a self-standing discipline. Contributors are: Camilla Boisen, Raphaël Cahen, James Crawford, Ana Delic, Frederik Dhondt, Andrew Fitzmaurice, Vincent Genin, Viktorija Jakjimovska, Stefan Kroll, Randall Lesaffer, and Inge Van Hulle.Table of Contents Introduction   Randall Lesaffer and Inge Van Hulle Part 1: International Law and Revolution 1 Napoleon 1814–1815: A Small Issue of Status   James Crawford 2 The Law of Nations and the Common Law of Europe: The Case of Edmund Burke   Camilla Boisen 3 Uneasy Neutrality: Britain and the Greek War of Independence (1821–1832)   Viktorija Jakjimovska Part 2: International Law and Empire 4 Equality of Non-European Nations in International Law   Andrew Fitzmaurice 5 British Humanitarianism, International Law and Human Sacrifice in West Africa   Inge Van Hulle 6 The Mahmoud Ben Ayad Case and the Transformation of International Law   Raphael Cahen 7 Public-Private Colonialism: Extraterritoriality in the Shanghai International Settlement   Stefan Kroll Part 3: The Rise of Modern International Law 8 Permanent Neutrality or Permanent Insecurity? Obligation and Self-Interest in the Defence of Belgian Neutrality, 1830–1870   Frederik Dhondt 9 The Role of Comparative Law in the Development of Modern Private International Law (1750–1914)   Ana Delic 10 The Institute of International Law’s Crisis in the Wake of the Franco-Prussian War (1873–1899)   Vincent Genin

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Book SynopsisAlongside annals, chronicles were the main genre of historical writing in the Middle Ages. Their significance as sources for the study of medieval history and culture is today widely recognised not only by historians, but also by students of medieval literature and linguistics and by art historians. The series The Medieval Chronicle aims to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Chronica Aulae regiae—an Unsuccessful Attempt to Establish an Official Memory of the Last Přemyslids and the Zbraslav Monastery  Robert Antonín The Sounds of the City in the Nuova cronica of Giovanni Villani  Zofia Anuszkiewicz The Idea of Music in the Latin Polychronicon of Ranulf Higden and the English Translation of John Trevisa  Jane Beal Chequered Fortunes: Foreign Soldiers on Cyprus under King James II (1460–1473) and Their Portrayal in the Cypriot Chronicles  Nicholas Coureas Edward I’s Temper: Anger and Its Misrepresentations in the Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough and the Fineshade Chronicle  Hannah Kilpatrick Simon de Montfort, the Cantigas de Santa Maria and Acoustic Propaganda  Dorothy Kim Constructing Historical Knowledge, Inventing Historical Method: the Evidence of Medieval Commentaries and Glosses on Historical Writings  Jakub Kujawiński Polishing a Medieval Chronicle: the Author’s Proofreading of the Second Book of the Chronica Aulae regiae  Anna Pumprová Why Another Greek Chronicle? Form and Function in Middle Byzantine Historical Writing  Patricia Varona ‘Venit iudeus portans literas’: Jewish Types in The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond  Adrienne Williams Boyarin Review: Jacqueline Alio, Margaret Queen of Sicily  Alison Williams Lewin Review: Two Sicilian Chronicles, Translated by Louis Mendola  Alison Williams Lewin Review: Ksenia Bonch Reeves, Visions of Unity after the Visigoths. Early Iberian Latin Chronicles and the Mediterranean World  Aengus Ward A Note on Chandos Herald at the Battle of Nájera (1367)  Clifford J. Rogers A Tretis Compiled out of Diverse Cronicles (1440): a Study and Edition of the Short English Prose Chronicle Extant in London, British Library, MS Additional 34,764  Sarah L. Peverley Index

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Book SynopsisIn A Stake in the Ground, Michael Schraer explores the economic functions of real estate amongst the Jews of the medieval crown of Aragon. He challenges the view of medieval Jews as primarily money-lenders and merchants, finding compelling evidence for extensive property trading and investment. Jews are found as landlords to Christian tenants, transferring land in dowries, wills and gifts. Property holdings were often extremely valuable. For some, property was a major part of their asset portfolios. Whilst many property transactions were linked to the credit boom, land also acted as a liquid and tradeable investment asset in its own right. This is a key contribution to the economic history of medieval Iberia and of medieval Jews. See inside the book.Trade Review"In this excellent work, Schraer enjoins us to challenge more vigorously the erroneous notion that Jews were simply financiers who sat the margins of medieval society. As property owners and investors who knew how to utilize property for a range of investment goals, Jews were, in fact, deeply integrated into the "core fabric of medieval society"." Jennifer Speed, in The Medieval Review, 20.10.10 Click here. "Apart from filling a void in the historiography on Iberian Jews and casting doubt on the major assumptions of prior scholarship regarding Jewish economic behavior, A Stake in the Ground has important implications for broader ongoing debates about the role of moneylending among European and Mediterranean Jews living within Christian domains. [...] Schraer’s compelling study should serve as a reminder to scholars at work on other geographical areas that they can no longer afford to ignore scholarship on Iberia on the grounds that it is an exceptional, peripheral case". Thomas W. Barton, in Speculum 96/1 (January 2021).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Orthography Currencies, Land Areas and Weights and Measures Glossary 1 Introduction Part 1: Jews as Property Investors: The Evidence 2 Property Rights 3 Jews in the Market for Land 4 Lords of the Land? Jews as Rentiers and Cultivators 5 Dowries, Wills and Gifts Property and the Transfer of Wealth 6 The Link between Credit and Land Part 2: Property and the Jewish Economy 7 The Economic Case for Property Asset Choices, Risk and Return 8 Credit and Property in the Wealth of the Jews 9 Postscript Appendix 1: Currencies and Equivalences Appendix 2: Land Areas, Weights and Measures in the Archival Sources Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMaterial Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas brings together 15 case studies focusing on the early colonial history and archaeology of indigenous cultural persistence and change in the Caribbean and its surrounding mainland(s) after AD 1492. With a special emphasis on material culture and by foregrounding indigenous agency in shaping the diverse outcomes of colonial encounters, this volume offers new perspectives on early modern cultural interactions in the first regions of the ‘New World’ that were impacted by European colonization. The volume contributors specifically investigate how foreign goods were differentially employed, adopted, and valued across time, space, and scale, and what implications such material encounters had for indigenous social, political, and economic structures. Contributors are: Andrzej T. Antczak, Ma. M. Antczak, Oliver Antczak, Jaime J. Awe, Martijn van den Bel, Mary Jane Berman, Arie Boomert, Jeb J. Card, Charles R. Cobb, Gérard Collomb, Shannon Dugan Iverson, Marlieke Ernst, William R. Fowler, Perry L. Gnivecki, Christophe Helmke, Shea Henry, Gilda Hernández Sánchez, Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L.P. Hoogland, Rosemary A. Joyce, Floris W.M. Keehnen, J. Angus Martin, Clay Mathers, Maxine Oland, Alberto Sarcina, Russell N. Sheptak, Roberto Valcárcel Rojas, Robyn Woodward.Table of ContentsPreface: What’s in a Name?  Charles R. Cobb Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas  Floris W.M. Keehnen, Corinne L. Hofman and Andrzej T. Antczak 2 Colonial Encounters in Lucayan Contexts  Mary Jane Berman and Perry L. Gnivecki 3 Treating ‘Trifles’: the Indigenous Adoption of European Material Goods in Early Colonial Hispaniola (1492–1550)  Floris W.M. Keehnen 4 Contact and Colonial Impact in Jamaica: Comparative Material Culture and Diet at Sevilla la Nueva and the Taíno Village of Maima  Shea Henry and Robyn Woodward 5 European Material Culture in Indigenous Sites in Northeastern Cuba  Roberto Valcárcel Rojas 6 Breaking and Making Identities: Transformations of Ceramic Repertoires in Early Colonial Hispaniola  Marlieke Ernst and Corinne L. Hofman 7 Rancherías: Historical Archaeology of Early Colonial Campsites on Margarita and Coche Islands, Venezuela  Andrzej T. Antczak, Ma. Magdalena Antczak and Oliver Antczak 8 Santa María de la Antigua del Darién: the Aftermath of Colonial Settlement  Alberto Sarcina 9 Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in Early Colonial El Salvador  William R. Fowler and Jeb J. Card 10 Hybrid Cultures: the Visibility of the European Invasion of Caribbean Honduras in the Sixteenth Century  Russell N. Sheptak and Rosemary A. Joyce 11 Exotics for the Lords and Gods: Lowland Maya Consumption of European Goods along a Spanish Colonial Frontier  Jaime J. Awe and Christophe Helmke 12 Resignification as Fourth Narrative: Power and the Colonial Religious Experience in Tula, Hidalgo  Shannon Dugan Iverson 13 Indigenous Pottery Technology of Central Mexico during Early Colonial Times  Gilda Hernández Sánchez 14 War and Peace in the Sixteenth-Century Southwest: Objected-oriented Approaches to Native-European Encounters and Trajectories  Clay Mathers 15 ‘Beyond the Falls’: Amerindian Stance towards New Encounters along the Wild Coast (AD 1595–1627)  Martijn M. Bel van den and Gérard Collomb 16 Colonial Encounters in the Southern Lesser Antilles: Indigenous Resistance, Material Transformations, and Diversity in an Ever-Globalizing World  Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L.P. Hoogland, Arie Boomert and John Angus Martin Epilogue: Situating Colonial Interaction and Materials: Scale, Context, Theory  Maxine Oland Index

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Book SynopsisEdited by Ronald K. Rittgers and Vincent Evener, Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe offers an expansive view of the Protestant reception of medieval mysticism, from the beginnings of the Reformation through the mid-seventeenth century. Providing a foundation and impetus for future research, the chapters in this handbook cover diverse figures from across the Protestant traditions (Lutheran, Reformed, Radical), summarizing existing research, analysing relevant sources, and proposing new directions for study. Each chapter is authored by a leading scholar in the field. Collectively, Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe calls for a comprehensive reassessment of the relationship of Protestantism to its medieval past, to Roman Catholicism, and to the enduring mystical element of Christianity.Trade Review“[An] excellent and coherent monograph, which I find indispensable for any further research on the topic.” Martin Žemla, Palacký University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 670–672.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Vincent Evener and Ronald K. Rittgers 1 The Mystics the Protestants Read  Volker Leppin 2 Martin Luther  Ronald K. Rittgers 3 Thomas Müntzer  Hans-Jürgen Goertz 4 Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt  Vincent Evener 5 Leo Jud  Bruce Gordon 6 Sebastian Franck  Patrick Hayden-Roy 7 Hans Denck, Hans Hut, and Caspar Schwenckfeld  Geoffrey Dipple 8 Argula von Grumbach, Katharina Schütz Zell, and Anabaptist and Jorist Women  Christina Moss and Gary K. Waite 9 John Calvin  G. Sujin Pak 10 Andreas Musculus and Michael Neander  Markus Matthias 11 Martin Moller and Philipp Kegel  Eric Lund 12 Valentin Weigel  Douglas H. Shantz 13 Jacob Boehme  Jeff Bach 14 Philipp Nicolai and Johann Gerhard  Thomas Illg 15 Johann Arndt  Thomas Illg 16 George Herbert and English Protestants  Liam Peter Temple 17 Richard Greenham and William Perkins  Randall J. Pederson 18 Paul Baynes and Richard Sibbes  Tom Schwanda 19 Willem Teellinck and Gisbertus Voetius  Willem J. op ’t Hof 20 Robert Bruce, William Cowper, and John Forbes  David George Mullan Epilogue  Vincent Evener Index

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Book SynopsisIn With Eyes and Ears Open: The Role of Visitors in the Society of Jesus, twelve historians examine important visitations in the history of the Society. After a thorough investigation of the nature and role of the “visitor” in Jesuit rules and regulations, ten visitations of missions and provinces—from Peru in the sixteenth century, to Ireland in the seventeenth, to the Zambesi mission and Australia in the twentieth—are considered. Visitors, appointed by the superior general in Rome, surveyed the situation for fidelity to the Jesuit way of life, resolved any problems, and recommended future paths, often to the disapproval of Jesuit hosts. One contribution concerns the canonical visitation of the non-Jesuit Francis Saldanha da Gama in 1758, which resulted in the expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal in 1759.Trade Review“This is a readable collection that convinces of the importance of the role of the Visitor, with much to interest scholars of religious history and particularly its globalisation.” James E. Kelly, Durham University. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 71, No. 3 (2020), pp. 650–651.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures List of Abbreviations  Introduction  Thomas M. McCoog, S.J. 1 The Role and Significance of Father Visitor in the Society of Jesus  Robert Danieluk, S.J., 2 The Visitor and the Viceroy: Juan de la Plaza and the First Visitation to Jesuit Peru, 1575–79  Andrés I. Prieto 3 Between King and Superior General: Visitor Lorenzo Maggio and the Rehabilitation of the Society of Jesus in France, 1599–1603  Eric Nelson 4 Seventeenth-century Visitations of the Transmarine Houses of the English Province  Thomas M. McCoog, S.J. 5 The Visitation of Mercure Verdier to Ireland, 1648–1649  Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin 6 A Scandal in Moravia: Jesuit Visitor Nicolò Avancini and the 1674 Case of the Jesuits Jan Tanner and Vilém Frölich  Paul Shore 7 Francisco Saldanha da Gama: The Last Visitor of the Portuguese Assistancy  Francisco Malta Romeiras 8Peter Kenney: Twice Visitor of the Maryland Mission (1819–21, 1830–33) and Father of the First Two American Provinces  Robert Emmett Curran 9 Mission Context and the Jesuit Visitor: Charles Bert and the Visitation of Polish Jesuits in the Zambesi Mission, 1924  Festo Mkenda, S.J. 10 The Visitation of Alois Ersin, S.J., to the Province of Lower Germany in 1931  Klaus Schatz, S.J. 11 The 1961 Visitation of the Australian Province by John J. McMahon, S.J.  David Strong, S.J. 12 Gordon George and the Visitation of the English Province, 1964–65  Oliver P. Rafferty, S.J.  Index

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Book SynopsisThe Ottoman Press (1908-1923) looks at Ottoman periodicals in the period after the Second Constitutional Revolution (1908) and the formation of the Turkish Republic (1923). It analyses the increased activity in the press following the revolution, legislation that was put in place to control the press, the financial aspects of running a publication, preventive censorship and the impact that the press could have on readers. There is also a chapter on the emergence and growth of the Ottoman press from 1831 until 1908, which helps readers to contextualize the post-revolution press.Trade Review[...] 'la valeur de cette étude ambitieuse qui relève le défi d’embrasser large l’histoire très riche de la presse ottomane. Le livre d’Erol Baykal constitue désormais une étude incontournable qui inspirera de nombreuses recherches à l’avenir. [...] Özgür Türesay, EPHE, PSL - Proclac, in Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques 35 (2021), pp. 122-123.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Figures Commonly Used Abbreviations On Transliteration and Calendars Introduction 1 The Emergence and Growth of the Ottoman Press, 1831–1908 2 The 1908 Press Boom 3 Legislating the Press 4 Censoring the Press 5 Financing the Press 6 Reading the Press Conclusion: Controlling the Press Appendix: Permit Applications and Publications Index Appendix: Ottoman Press Laws Appendix: Quantifying Censorship Appendix: Pricing Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines how the history of the humanities might be written through the prism of scholarly personae, understood as time- and place-specific models of being a scholar. Focusing on the field of study known as Orientalism in the decades around 1900, this volume examines how Semitists, Sinologists, and Japanologists, among others, conceived of their scholarly tasks, what sort of demands these job descriptions made on the scholar in terms of habits, virtues, and skills, and how models of being an orientalist changed over time under influence of new research methods, cross-cultural encounters, and political transformations. Contributors are: Tim Barrett, Christiaan Engberts, Holger Gzella, Hans Martin Krämer, Arie L. Molendijk, Herman Paul, Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn and Henning Trüper.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Scholarly Personae in the History of Orientalism, 1870-1930  Herman Paul  1 The Prussian Professor as a Paradigm: Trying to “Fit In” as a Semitist between 1870 and 1930  Holger Gzella  2 Multiple Personae: Friedrich Max Müller and the Persona of the Oriental Scholar  Arie L. Molendijk  3 Epistemic Vice: Transgression in the Arabian Travels of Julius Euting  Henning Trüper  4 German Indology Challenged: On the Dialectics of Armchair Philology, Fieldwork, and Indigenous Traditions in the Late Nineteenth Century  Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn  5 Herbert Giles as Reviewer  T. H. Barrett  6 Orientalism and the Study of Lived Religions: The Japanese Contribution to European Models of Scholarship on Japan around 1900  Hans Martin Krämer  7 Orientalists at War: Personae and Partiality at the Outbreak of the First World War  Christiaan Engberts Index

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Book SynopsisThe World of the Siege examines relations between the conduct and representations of early modern sieges. The volume offers case studies from various regions in Europe (England, France, the Low Countries, Germany, the Balkans) and throughout the world (the Chinese, Ottoman and Mughal Empires), from the 15th century into the 18th. The international contributors analyse how siege narratives were created and disseminated, and how early modern actors as well as later historians made sense of these violent events in both textual and visual artefacts. . The volume's chronological and geographical breadth provides insight into similarities and differences of siege warfare and military culture across several cultures, countries and centuries, as well as its impact on both combatants and observers. See inside the book.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Notes on Contributors  1 Introduction  Anke Fischer-Kattner Part 1: Participants and Audiences  2 The World of the Siege in New Perspective: the Populace during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648)  Sigrun Haude  3 Colchester’s Plight in European Perspective: Printed Representations of Seventeenth-Century Siege Warfare  Anke Fischer-Kattner  4 More Honored in the Breach? Representations of Honor in Louisquatorzian Sieges  Jamel Ostwald Part 2: Imperial Boundaries  5 Straddling Empires: Revolt and Religion in Early Modern Dalmatia  Eric Dursteler  6 The 1689 Siege of Bombay in Global Historical Perspective  Philip J. Stern  7 Narratives of Akbar’s Sieges and the Construction of Mughal Universal Sovereignty  Pratyay Nath  8 Siege Warfare in Verse and Prose: the Ottoman Conquest of Kamianets-Podilsky (Kamaniçe), 1672  Kahraman Şakul Part 3: Definitions  9 Siegecraft in Ming and Qing China  Tonio Andrade  10  “The Enterprises and Surprises That They Would Like to Perform”: Fear, Urban Identities, and Siege Culture during the French Wars of Religion  Brian Sandberg  11 Summary: Under Siege? Defining Siege Warfare in World History  Peter H. Wilson Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Katja Mäkinen, Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas, and Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus scrutinize how people who participate in cultural initiatives funded and governed by the European Union understand the idea of Europe. The book focuses on three cultural initiatives: the European Capital of Culture, the European Heritage Label, and a European Citizen Campus project funded through the Creative Europe programme. These initiatives are examined through field studies conducted in 12 countries between 2010 and 2018. The authors describe their approach as ‘ethnography of Europeanization’ and conceptualize the attempts at Europeanization in the European Union’s cultural policy as politics of belonging.Trade Review'How ordinary EU citizens understand and connect with the idea of Europe has long been something of a black box in research. Drawing on an ethnographic approach, this book makes an important and timely contribution to debates on Europe from below. By analysing the meanings that visitors at EU-funded cultural events give to Europe and the European, it provides valuable insights into cultural Europeanisation and the politics of belonging.' - Cris Shore, Professor of Social Anthropology, Goldsmiths University of London 'The authors highlight key issues and concerns shaping people’s conceptions of Europe and point to the tension between diversity being seen as preventing a European identity while also considered core to it, acknowledging mobility as both “an answer and a challenge to politics of belonging”. In doing so from an insightful interdisciplinary perspective, they are diagnosing a major issue for future research across the broad field of European Studies.' - Ullrich Kockel, Professor of Cultural Ecology and Sustainability, Heriot-Watt University '‘Europe from below’ is at least as relevant and much less recognized than institutional Europe; this book is a great companion to effectively grasp cultural Europeanization in its diverse manifestations. An important contribution to scholarship on European cultural identity and policies.' - Monica Sassatelli, Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication, Università di Bologna 'We speak more than ever about identity politics. This book will be the most authoritative study of the European Union’s effort to provide European citizens with a European identity through its cultural policies. With its ethnographic approach, the book takes us beyond the top-down policy studies and analyse the many different ideas of Europe expressed by ordinary citizens.' - Jan Ifversen, Associate Professor of European Studies, Aarhus UniversityTable of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Europe from Below  1 Constructing the EU as a Cultural Community  2 EU Cultural Initiatives – Often Approached from Above  3 Three Cases: The European Capital of Culture, European Citizen Campus, and European Heritage Label  4 Previous Discussions on the Idea of Europe  5 The Analysis of Europe and the ‘European’ in this Book 2 Politics of Belonging: Concepts and Method  1 Politics of Belonging as an Intersectional Approach  2 Interrelation between Belonging, Identity, Culture, Citizenship, and Participation  3 Ethnography of Europeanization 3 EU Cultural Policy: Europe from Above  1 Focus on Two Agendas  2 Development of the EU’s Cultural Policy and Initiatives  3 The Identity-Building Agenda in EU Cultural Policy  4 The Participatory Agenda in the EU Cultural Policy 4 Case 1: The European Capital of Culture  1 From the Policy Discourse to the Implementation and Reception  2 Manifestations of the ‘European’ in the Offfijicial Discourse of Pécs2010, Tallinn2011, and Turku2011  3 Experiencing Europe during the Field Research in the Case ECOCs  4 Construction of Europeanness among ECOC Audiences  5 Conclusions: Belonging to Europe through the Everyday 5 Case 2: The European Citizen Campus  1 Citizenship through Art  2 Collecting Data and Conducting Field Research in the ECC Project  3 “A Sense of European Identity”: Constructions of Europe in the Meso-level ECC Discourse  4 “That Would Really Be Europe”: Europe Perceived by Project Participants  5 “Normal to Feel European”: Transnational Mobility and Interaction  6 Citizenship as an Element of European Belonging  7 Conclusions: EU Projects as Politics of Belonging 6 Case 3: The European Heritage Label  1 The Construction of Europe in the European Heritage Label at the Macro and Meso Levels  2 Analyzing Europe from Below in the EHL Action: Research Data and Methods  3 Europe of People: Europe Starts with You  4 Europe of Nations: Europe Starts Here  5 Belonging to Europe: From Purposeful Vision to Banal Normality  6 Conclusions: United in Plural Europes 7 Cross Analysis of the Case Studies  1 Bringing the Case Studies Together  2 The Impact of Social Locations and the Research Setting on Notions of Europe 8 Conclusions: Europe’s Lived Space  1 Constructing Europe from Below  2 Two Narratives of Europe  3 Europe in the Making: Multilevel Dynamics of Europeanization  4 Mobility: An Answer and a Challenge to Politics of Belonging  5 Belonging and the Social Dimension of Europe  6 The EU’s Politics of Belonging: Opportunities for the Future Annexes Index

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Book SynopsisIn English Explorers in the East (1738-1745). The Travels of Thomas Shaw, Charles Perry and Richard Pococke, Rachel Finnegan offers an account of the influential travel writings of three rival explorers, whose eastern travel books were printed within a decade of each other. Making use of historical records, Finnegan examines the personal and professional motives of the three authors for producing their eastern travels; their methods of researching, drafting, and publicising their works while still abroad; their relationships with each other, both while travelling and on their return to England; and the legacy of their combined works. She also provides a survey of the main features (both textual and visual) of the travel books themselves.Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures 1 Historical Context of Shaw, Perry and Pococke 2 Literary Context of Shaw, Perry and Pococke 3 Biographies and Interrelationships 4 Development of the Three Travel Books 5 Itineraries 6 Shaw’s Travels 7 Perry’s View 8 Pococke’s Description 9 Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisKnowledge and Profanation offers numerous instances of profoundly religious polemicists profanizing other religions ad majorem gloriam Dei, as well as sincere adherents of their own religion, whose reflective scholarly undertakings were perceived as profanizing transgressions – occasionally with good reason. In the history of knowledge of religion and profanation unintended consequences often play a decisive role. Can too much knowledge of religion be harmful? Could the profanation of a foreign religion turn out to be a double-edged sword? How much profanating knowledge of other religions could be tolerated in a premodern world? In eleven contributions, internationally renowned scholars analyze cases of learned profanation, committed by scholars ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the early nineteenth century, as well as several antique predecessors. Contributors are: Asaph Ben-Tov, Ulrich Groetsch, Andreas Mahler, Karl Morrison, Martin Mulsow, Anthony Ossa-Richardson, Wolfgang Spickermann, Riccarda Suitner, John Woodbridge, Azzan Yadin, and Holger Zellentin.Table of ContentsContents Notes on the Editors Notes on the ContributorsIi Introduction  Martin Mulsow and Asaph Ben-Tov Part 1: The Sacred and the Profane in Art, Literature and Parody 1 Lucian of Samosata on Magic and Superstition  Wolfgang Spickermann 2 Rabbi Lazarus and the Rich Man: A Talmudic Parody of the Late Roman Hell (Yerushalmi Hagigah 2.2, 77d and Sanhedrin 6.9, 23c)  Holger Zellentin 3 Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti’s Call for Reform of Christian Art  Karl F. Morrison 4 The Sacred Becomes Profane – The Profane Becomes Sacred: Observations on the Desubstantialisation of Religious Discourse in the Early Modern Age  Andreas Mahler Part 2: Early Modern European Knowledge about Pagan Religion 5 The Seventeenth Century Confronts the Gods: Bishop Huet, Moses, and the Dangers of Comparison  Martin Mulsow 6 The Eleusinian Mysteries in the Age of Reason  Asaph Ben-Tov Part 3: Crossing the Boundaries in Biblical Scholarship: Ancient Preconditions and Early Modern Conflict 7 Athens and Jerusalem? Early Jewish Biblical Scholarship and the Pagan World  Azzan Yadin-Israel 8 Richard Simon and the Charenton Bible Project: The Quest for ‘Perfect Neutrality’ in Interpreting Scripture  John Woodbridge 9 The Devil in the Details: The Case of Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694–1768)  Ulrich Groetsch Part 4: Scientific Knowledge and Religion 10 Cry Me a Relic: The Holy Tear of Vendôme and Early Modern Lipsanomachy  Anthony Ossa-Richardson 11 The Powerlessness of the Devil: Scientific Knowledge and Demonology in Clemente Baroni Cavalcabò (1726–1796)  Riccarda Suitner Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Lars Hermanson discusses how religious beliefs and norms steered attitudes to friendship and love, and how these ways of thinking affected social identity and political behaviour. With examples taken from eleventh- and twelfth-century northern Europe, the author investigates why friendship was praised both by brotherhoods of aristocratic warriors and by brethren within monastery walls. Social and political functions rested on personal connections rather than a strong central state in the High Middle Ages. This meant that friendship was an important pragmatic instrument for establishing social order and achieving success in the game of politics.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction  1 Friendship and Self-Interest  2 Friendship as a Research Topic  3 Thesis  4 The Outline of the Book 1 Ideas of Friendship, Love, and Brotherhood in Classical Philosophy  1 Friendship in Theory  2 The Terminology of Friendship  3 Friendship in Greek Philosophy  4  Amicitia in Roman Philosophy  5 Friendship in the Apocalyptic Era  6 From Classical Philosophy to the Christian Theology of Late Antiquity  7 Summing Up 2 Friendship and Social Formation in the High Middle Ages  1 Centuries of Upheaval  2 Different Friendship Discourses?  3 The Ecclesiastical Elite   3.1 Collective Identity   3.2 Friendship as a Spiritual and Intellectual Concept   3.3 Spiritalis Amicitia   3.4 The Intellectual Field and the Language of Friendship   3.5 Abbot William’s Collection of Letters   3.6 The Terminology of Friendship   3.7 Living Friendship  4 The Secular Elite   4.1 The Position of the Aristocracy in Society   4.2 The Strategies of the Secular Elite to Legitimize Its Authority   4.3 The Ideal Aristocrat   4.4 The Social Environment   4.5 The Court as a Political Arena  5 Friendship and the Legitimation of Power in Saxo Grammaticus’ Gesta Danorum   5.1 Saxo’s Classical View of History   5.2 The Audience of Gesta Danorum   5.3 The Spiritual Friendship between Bishop William and Svend Estridsen   5.4 The Friendship Between Bishop Absalon and Valdemar I  6 Collective Pragmatic Friendship: Alliance Systems and Politics  7 The Practical Benefit of Friendship   7.1 Friends and Royal Kinsmen  8 Friendship and the Legitimation of Power  9 Summing Up 3 Friendship in an Oath-Taking Society – A Ritual Perspective  1 The Oath-Taking Society   1.1 Oaths and Friendship   1.2 The Language of Rituals   1.3 Ritual Friendship in a Broader Chronological and Geographical Perspective   1.4 Ritual Friendship – Text and Practice  2 Summing Up 4 Friendship and Lordship in Twelfth-Century Scandinavia  1 Different Forms of Government  2 Friendship as a Form of Lordship – The Power Structure of Traditional Society   2.1 Power Built Up from Below – The Power Basis of Icelandic Chieftains   2.2 The Debate about Political Development in Norway in the Civil War Era   2.3 Protective Relationships and Military Development   2.4 Undermining Lordship – The Struggle for the Throne in Norway   2.5 Friendship and the Political Structure   2.6 The Fruits of Vertical Friendship   2.7 Friendship – A Free Choice?   2.8 Friendship and Mistrust   2.9 Power, Reputation, Violence, and Friendship   2.10 Friendship – A Two-Edged Sword   2.11 The Popular Prince in Heimskringla and Gesta Danorum  3 Friendship and the Christian Ideology of Lordship   3.1 Royal Diplomas and the Sacred Order   3.2 The Intellectual Debate on the Origin of Power   3.3 God’s Friends and Satan’s Henchmen – The Dualistic Conflict Perspective  4 Group Culture and Collective Friendship   4.1 The Ideals, Structure, and Function of the Guilds   4.2 Brotherhood and Continuity  5 Friendship, Brotherhood, and Power Systems in Valdemarian Denmark   5.1 King Valdemar’s Letter to the Gotland Travellers   5.2 The Brotherhood List and Medieval Group Culture   5.3 The Ideology and Function of European Brotherhoods   5.4 Lord and Friend – Lord and Brother?   5.5 The Redirection of Gift Exchange   5.6 Oaths, Brotherhood, and Lordship  6 Summing Up  Epilogue  1 Why Friendship?   1.1 Friendship and Society   1.2 Friendship and Legitimation   1.3 Friendship and Structural Changes   1.4 Friendship as Ideology and Culture Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBarbara Kaminska’s Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Religious Art for the Urban Community is the first book-length study focusing on religious paintings by one of the most captivating Netherlandish artists, long celebrated for his secular imagery. In a period marked by a profound religious, economic, and cultural transformation, Bruegel offered his sophisticated urban audience complex biblical images that required an engaged, active viewing, not only sparking learned dinner conversations, but facilitating the negotiation of values seen as critical to maintaining a harmonious society. By considering the novelty of Bruegel’s panels used in convivia alongside his small, intimate grisaille compositions, this study ultimately shows that Bruegel renewed the idiom of religious painting, successfully preserving its ritualistic and meditative functions.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction 1 Negotiating Entrepreneurship in Early Modern Antwerp: Pieter Bruegel’s The Tower of Babel  1 For “an Idel and Foolish Ostentation of Money”? The Tower of Babeland the Ambiguities of Progress  2 Framing the Tower of Babel: Space, Conversation, People  3 Monopolies, Self-Interest, and the Common Good  4 Antwerp as an International “Community of Commerce” in Philip’s 1549 Joyous Entry 2 Conversion on Display: Imperial Politics, Religious Transformation, and Socioeconomic Stability in Antwerp  1 Images of the Conversion of Saint Paul in Probate Inventories and the Location of Works of Art  2 “Alzo tot onzer kennesse ghecommen es”: Habsburg Legislation and the Culture of External Display in Antwerp  3 Defining Conversion in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries  4 Between Light and Darkness: Bruegel’s The Conversion of Saint Paul and Dutch Vernacular Theatre  5 Toward a New Model of Religiosity 3 “In Their Houses”: Domestic Space and Religious Practices in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Antwerp  1 “Permissible even for sailors”? Lay Reading of the Bible and Spanish Legislation in Antwerp  2 Theological Approaches to Religious Imagery in Private Households  3 In “zyne huysen”: The Procession to Calvary, Ommegangen, and the Relocation of Religious Practices 4 “Outside in the Woods”: The Sermon of Saint John the Baptistand Hedge-Preaching in Antwerp  1 Picturing Conversations in Bruegel’s Sermon of Saint John the Baptist 5 “If You Are without a Sin”: Religious and Artistic Discourse in Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery  1 Truth and Penitence in Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery  2 Adultery, Idolatry, and Rhetorical Strategies of Bruegel’s Grisaille 6 Choosing “the Best Part”: Christian Death and Life in Bruegel’s The Death of the Virgin  1 “Sweet Sleep” and the Transition from Vita Activa to Vita Contemplativa in Bruegel’s Grisaille  2 Artistry and Theological Truth in the Images of the Death of the Virgin Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisChristian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History Volume 13 (CMR 13) covering Western Europe in the period 1700-1800 is a further volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the 7th century to the early 20th century. It comprises a series of introductory essays and also the main body of detailed entries which treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. These entries provide biographical details of the authors, descriptions and appraisals of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between numerous leading scholars, CMR 13, along with the other volumes in this series, is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section editors: Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabé Pons, Jaco Beyers, Emanuele Colombo, Karoline Cook, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, David D. Grafton, Stanisław Grodź, Alan Guenther, Vincenzo Lavenia, Emma Gaze Loghin, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton, Radu Păun, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Charles Ramsey, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Mehdi Sajid, Cornelia Soldat, Karel Steenbrink, Ann Thomson, Carsten Walbiner.Table of ContentsForeword List of illustrations List of maps Abbreviations Clinton Bennett, Introduction: Western Europe and Islam in the long 18th century. Demonisation to dialogue Jan Loop, Islam and the European Enlightenment Avner Ben Zaken, Intellectual, scientific and technological relations between Christian and Muslim civilisations 1580-1822 Works on Christian-Muslim relations 1700-1800 North-west Europe British Isles Scandinavia Netherlands South-West Europe France Iberia Italy and Malta Contributors Index of Names Index of Titles

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Book SynopsisThe second volume in a new series, the Contemporary Archive of the Islamic World (CAIW), this title draws on the resources of World of Information, a Cambridge-based British publisher that since 1975 has published analyses of the politics and economics of all the Middle East countries. The United Arab Emirates is a young country. This title covers the first four decades or so of the country’s existence looking at the individual emirates, their rulers and their tribes. Rivalries occasionally became conflicts, but year by year differences have diminished and unity prevailed. In this title each annual overview gives a comprehensive picture.

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Book SynopsisThe French Jesuit Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s 1744 journal of his voyage through French North America—New France, Louisiana, and the Caribbean—is among the richest eighteenth-century accounts of the continent’s colonization, as well as its indigenous inhabitants, flora, and fauna. Micah True’s new translation of this influential text is the first to appear since 1763. It provides the first complete and reliable English version of Charlevoix’s journal and reveals the famous Jesuit to have been a better literary stylist than has often been assumed on the basis of earlier translations. Complemented by a detailed introduction and richly annotated, this volume finally makes accessible to an Anglophone audience one of the key texts of eighteenth-century French America.Trade Review“This book will be a necessary purchase for academic libraries with holdings in Jesuit Studies, Atlantic world studies, early Canadiana, and North American history, including First Nations/Native American history.” - Lisa J. M. Poirier, DePaul University, Chicago, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 7, No. 4 (2020), pp. 681-683Table of Contents Acknowledgments  Bibliographical Abbreviations  List of Illustrations  Summaries of the Contents of Charlevoix’s Letters  Introduction  Preliminary Essay on the Origin of the Americans  Letter 1  Letter 2  Letter 3  Letter 4  Letter 5  Letter 6  Letter 7  Letter 8  Letter 9  Letter 10  Letter 11  Letter 12  Letter 13  Letter 14  Letter 15  Letter 16  Letter 17  Letter 18  Letter 19  Letter 20  Letter 21  Letter 22  Letter 23  Letter 24  Letter 25  Letter 26  Letter 27  Letter 28  Letter 29  Letter 30  Letter 31  Letter 32  Letter 33  Letter 34  Letter 35  Letter 36  Bibliography  Index

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