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Book SynopsisWegen des großen Anteils an Einzelkorrespondenten in Bucers Briefwechsel von September 1532 bis Juni 1533 versammelt dieser Band eine Vielzahl von Anliegen. Bucer soll etwa bei Stellenbesetzungen vermitteln, für säumige Schuldner eintreten, seine exegetischen Werke zusenden, einen Trostbrief schreiben, zur Visitation kommen, mittellosen Autoren zum Druck ihrer Bücher verhelfen oder schlicht Fürbitte einlegen.Trade Review“The volume is meticulously edited, with introductions in German and in French […]. There is a chronological list of letters and an alphabetical list of correspondents, as well as a series of indexes, including identifying information for the correspondents. Altogether the volume, like those that precede it, is a treasure for scholars of the Reformation.” Laurel Carrington, St. Olaf College. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Winter 2015), pp. 1461-1462. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever – ein solches Zitat mag übertrieben erscheinen, wenn es um die Anzeige einer Edition von frühneuzeitlichen Briefen geht. In diesem Falle jedoch sieht sich der Rezensent durchaus zu einer Eloge und der Bekundung von herzerwärmender Freude veranlaßt. […] Man wünschte sich, daß das entsagungsvolle Geschäft des Edierens stets so professionell betrieben würde!” Elisabeth Stein, Bergische Universität Wuppertal. In: Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, Jg. 45 (2016), p. 29.

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Book SynopsisRaffaele Pettazzoni (1883–1959), Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Rome and one of the leading historians of religions in the twentieth century, maintained a long correspondence with Herbert Jennings Rose (1883–1961), the gifted Canadian scholar who was Professor of Greek at St Andrews and is best known for his work in the field of ancient religion and folklore. These letters, spanning the years 1927 to 1958, bear witness to the close relationship between the two scholars and focus on two of Pettazzoni’s books, both translated by Rose: Essays on the History of Religions (1954) and The All-Knowing God (1956). They also shed light on Pettazzoni’s initiative to the foundation of the journal NVMEN (1954), and reveal Rose’s brilliant personality.Trade Review"(...) a detailed analysis of the material present in the letters, which is reproduced in full and has an impressive apparatus of notes that explain and comment on the smallest of details, leaving nothing unexplained (...) This is a veritable book within a book, in which Domenico Accorinti gives ample proof of his erudition and philological diligence." -Natale Spineto, University of Turin, History of Religions 59, 2020. "Brill's production is sumptuous and enviable, as well as close to impeccable." -Graham Anderson, Universíty of Kent, Canterbury, UK. In: Folklore, Vol 126, issue 2, 2015. "Questo corposo volume, magistralmente curato da Domenico Accorinti, si colloca in una sede prestigiosa ed è caratterizzato da un notevole impianto critico e da un’alta qualità complessiva (...) L’opus magnum di Accorinti ha dunque un valore che va ben al di là della registrazione e edizione di un epistolario – in sé potenzialmente fruibile anche nell’archivio in cui è conservato – e si propone come modello e punto di riferimento di fondamentale rilevanza." -Alessandro Saggioro, Sapienza Università, Studi e Materiali di Storia delle religioni 84, no 2, 2018. "In conclusione, si deve essere grati ad A. per questo splendido volume che costituisce uno strumento, ben curato ed attendibile, di indubbia importanza non solo per la storia degli studi, ma più in generale per la storia culturale della prima metà del Novecento. Non ci si può che augurare che altre opere come questa contribuiscano a gettare nuova luce sulla vicenda umana e professionale dei grandi studiosi del passato." - Renzo Tosi, Università Di Bologna, Eikasmos XXVII, 2016.

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Book SynopsisHenry Edward O’Neill was British Consul in Mozambique from 1879 to 1889. He completed thirteen exploratory journeys in northern Mozambique, including the first exploration of the Makua and Lomwe countries between Mozambique Island and Lake Malawi. This recreation of the book, which he never published, makes available for the first time a large body of information on the peoples of northern Mozambique (a region still little researched), on the history of the slave trade in the western Indian Ocean and on the expansion of Portuguese rule and the resistance to it by powerful local communities. The Introduction includes the first ever biographical study of O’Neill and his contribution to African exploration.Trade Review"Northern Mozambique in the Nineteenth Century est constitué de la biographie d'un marin devenu consul britannique (le troisième: 1879 - 1889) au Mozambique, suivie de la publication du manuscrit d'un livre jamais publié (c'est, hélas, fréquent) reprenant les texes de plusieurs articles de l'auteur (Henry Edward O'Neill) résumant 13 voyages d'exploration entre le Zambèze et le Rovuma, avec une pointe au Sud-Mozambique." - René Pélissier, in: Africana Studia, No. 25 (2015), p. 176 "...the book conveys interesting and important direct observations about and engagements with the trade, production, cultures and peoples of Northern Mozambique. This is a primary source, a historical narrative, a biography, and much more." - Jeanne Marie Penvenne, in: Luso-Brazilian Review, vol. 54 no. 2 (2017), pp. E21-E22Table of ContentsGeneral Series Editor’s Preface ... vii Acknowledgements ... x List of Illustrations and Maps ... xi Glossary ... xii PART 1: Introduction Lieutenant Henry Edward O’Neill ... 3 Prologue ... 3 The Life and Career of Henry Edward O’Neill from 1848 to 1879 ... 10 The Consuls and their Work 1857–1885 ... 24 Consul O’Neill’s Journeys 1879–1885 ... 38 Henry Edward O’Neill, the Later Years 1885–1925 ... 48 Northern Mozambique in the Nineteenth Century ... 58 The Slave Trade in Eastern Africa in the 1880s ... 76 PART 2: The Makua and Lomwe Countries of Eastern Africa 1 Sketch of Two Voyages, North of Mozambique – in 1880 ... 97 First voyage: Journey from Mozambique to Pemba Bay. May & June /80 ... 97 Second voyage: Journey from Mozambique to Cape Delgado. Oct. & Nov. /80 ... 121 2 Sketch of Three Voyages, South of Mozambique – in 1881 and 1882 ... 137 First voyage: Journey through the Kivolani – Umfussi districts, South of Mokambo Bay Feb/81 ... 137 Second voyage: Journey from Mozambique to Angoche, and intermediate ports July/81 ... 141 Third voyage: From Mozambique to the Moma River. March & April/82 ... 146 3 First Journey in Makua and Lomwe Countries, West of Mozambique – in 1881 ... 150 4 Visit to Fernão Veloso, and Discovery and Survey of Nakala and Kisima Julu Bays – in 1881 ... 174 5 Journey in the District West of Cape Delgado Bay, Discovery of Lake Lidedi and Visit to Mavia Tribe, with Voyage to Kissanga and Neighbourhood – 1882 ... 189 First voyage: From Mozambique to Ibo and adjacent ports March & April/81 ... 189 Second voyage: Journey in the District West of Cape Delgado Bay, Sept. – Oct. 1882 ... 196 6 From Mozambique to Lake Shirwa, Including Discovery of Lakes, Amaramba and Chiūta the True Sources of the Lugenda River 1883 ... 211 Part I From Mozambique through the Makua and Lomwe Countries to Lake Shirwa, June to September 1883 ... 211 Part II Exploration of the Northern and North-Eastern shores of Lake Shirwa and discovery of the Lakes Amaramba and Chiūta, the true sources of the Lugenda River ... 242 Part III Return journey from Lake Shirwa to the Mozambique coast at Angoche, November 1883 to January 1884 ... 256 7 From Quillimane to Blantyre in the Shiré Highlands and Thence Overland to the Coast – 1884 ... 278 Appendices Appendix 1 A Catalogue of the Published Papers of Henry Edward O’Neill ... 303 Appendix 2 Notes by Consul O’Neill upon Agriculture and Labour in the Province of Mozambique, 15 March 1883 ... 305 Appendix 3 Comparative Table of Makua and the Dialects of Angoche and Ibo ... 320 Appendix 4 Table of Native Names of Places Between Mozambique and Pemba Bays ... 322 Appendix 5 Letter Relating to ‘the New Slave Trade’ ... 324 Appendix 6 Caravan Route from Kissanga to the Nyassa Lake ... 328 Bibliography ... 330 Index ... 342

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Book SynopsisDer Band bietet 94 Briefe aus der Korrespondenz Bucers von Januar bis Juli 1534 und setzt die internationale Perspektive fort, die seit Mitte 1533 zu beobachten ist. Die evangelischen Korrespondenten betrachten die europapolitische Bündnispolitik skeptisch. Regen Anteil nimmt Bucer an der Entwicklung eines evangelischen Bildungswesens und der Einführung der Reformation in Württemberg. Seltene Einblicke gewährt die Korrespondenz in Bucers Familienleben.

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Book SynopsisA LONG THE KROMMERUN offers a selection of the best papers delivered at the XXIV International James Joyce Symposium hosted by Utrecht University, the Netherlands, June 2014. The essays offer fresh insights into Joyce and De Stijl aesthetic movement which originated in the Netherlands, Joyce’s (language) politics, his use of multilingualism and dialects, and, by way of close readings and genetic approaches of Finnegans Wake, the intricate ways Joyce communicates with his readers. Contributors: Boriana A. Alexandrova, Stephanie Boland, Austin Briggs, Tim Conley, Catherine Flynn, Philip Keel Geheber, Robbert-Jan Henkes, Maria Kager, Katherine O’Callaghan, So Onose, David Pascoe, Sam Slote, David Spurr, and Dirk Van Hulle.Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Dandy Paradoxes” David Pascoe The Machine Aesthetic in Joyce and De Stijl David Spurr From Dowel to Tesseract: Joyce and De Stijl from “Cyclops” to Finnegans Wake Catherine Flynn “A Great Future Behind Him”: Revisiting John F. Taylor’s Speech in “Aeolus” Revisited So Onose Bloom’s Dream Cottage and Crusoe’s Island: Man Caves Austin Briggs Joyce Among the Cockneys: The East End as Alternative London Stephanie Boland Babababblin’ Drolleries and Multilingual Phonologies: Developing a Multilingual Ethics of Embodiment through Finnegans Wake Boriana A. Alexandrova Wonderful Vocables: Joyce and the Neurolinguistics of Language Talent Maria Kager Felicitating the Whole of the Polis in Finnegans Wake Sam Slote Assimilating Shem into the Plural Polity: Burrus, Caseous, and Irish Free State Dairy Production Philip Keel Geheber “Behush the Bush. Whish!”: Silence, Loss, and Finnegans Wake Katherine O’Callaghan Waking “for an equality of relations” Tim Conley The Three Fates of the Finnegans Wake Notebook Research Robbert-Jan Henkes The Worldmaker’s Umwelt: The Cognitive Space between a Writer’s Library and the Publishing House Dirk Van Hulle List of contributors

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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 SynopsisMachiavelli is chiefly known for The Prince, but his main considerations on politics are found in his later work Discourses on Livy. Despite this book's historical and theoretical importance, its complexity, length and style have often discouraged new readers and interpreters of Machiavelli from engaging with it. For this reason, the Discourses has not been given the attention it deserves. This volume of newly commissioned essays by some of the world’s leading Machiavelli experts seeks to remedy this deficiency. It is the first collective volume dedicated specifically to this profound work, covering topics such as Machiavelli’s republicanism, the relation between liberty and tyranny, the role of religion, Machiavelli’s conception of history, his writing style, his view of society as a plural and conflictive body, his suggestion of how a free state should be organized, and his notions of people and virtù. Contributors: Jérémie Barthas, Thomas Berns, Alessandro Campi, J. Patrick Coby, Marie Gaille, Marco Geuna, Mark Jurdjevic, Cary J. Nederman, Gabriele Pedullà, Diogo Pires Aurélio, Fabio Raimondi, Andre Santos Campos, Miguel Vatter, and Camila Vergara.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Diogo Pires Aurélio and Andre Santos Campos 1 ‘A Never Again Attempted Work’: The Discourse-Form and the Discourses on Livy  Gabriele Pedullà 2 Machiavelli and the Lingering Mystery of Polybius VI  Cary J. Nederman 3 Machiavelli on Liberty  J. Patrick Coby 4 The Discourses on Livy: A ‘Commentary’ on the Effectual Truth of Civil Conflict  Marie Gaille 5 Republic and Constitution in Machiavelli’s Discourses  Fabio Raimondi 6 The Modes Taken by Saint Gregory: Machiavelli and the Violence of Religious Sects  Marco Geuna 7 Machiavelli’s Republican Constituent Power  Camila Vergara 8 Machiavelli and Thucydides on the Rhetoric of Immoralism  Miguel Vatter 9 The ‘Discovery of the Masses’ and the Paradox of the Fatherland  Diogo Pires Aurélio 10 The Poison and the Sword: Conspiracies and Struggle for Power in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy  Alessandro Campi 11 The Political Economy of Machiavelli’s Discourses  Jérémie Barthas 12 Politics of Porosity: War and Freedom in Machiavelli’s Discourses  Thomas Berns 13 Guicciardini’s Considerations on the Discourses of Machiavelli  Mark Jurdjevic Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first-time publication of long-lost letters by a crucial figure in modernist publishing. Carefully edited and extensively contextualised, they document Beach’s unwavering, all-embracing support for Joyce’s art by publishing his controversial Ulysses in Paris in 1922 and other efforts such as getting fragments of Work in Progress published. They also reveal her difficulties with his uncompromising and demanding personality, as it is vividly illustrated in the Frankfurter Zeitung affair. The edition moreover includes all extant letters to Paul Léon, her successor after their break-up following severe disagreements over the American edition of Ulysses. Joyceans and scholars of modernism will find this an indispensable resource for further research.

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Book SynopsisHow did the evolution of new gunpowder weapons change the nature, structure and composition of the Florentine militias during the first decades of the sixteenth century? Through an examination of little-known and unpublished sources, this book provides a comparative exploration of two Florentine republican experiments with a peasant militia: one promoted and created by Niccolò Machiavelli (1506–12) and a later one (1527–30). Using this comparison as the basis for a new reading of Machiavelli’s Art of War (which drew on the author's experience with the militia), the book then investigates the relationship between the circulation and reception of Machiavelli’s influential work, changing conceptions of militia, and the formation of new cultures of warfare in Europe in the sixteenth century.Trade Review"Guidi challenges traditional views that Machiavelli was an idealist who believed that reviving Roman civic virtues would stimulate Italian patriotism and drive the foreigners out of Italy; his research into the years 1527–30 shows that Machiavelli's proposed reforms had practical goals and were widely influential." "Well written, with numerous letters (in Italian) in the appendix, this book will be widely cited in future publications about Machiavelli." W. L. Urban, emeritus, Monmouth College (IL), in CHOICE Connect, a publication of the Association of College and Research LibrariesTable of ContentsContents List of Figures Abbreviations Introduction  1  Why New Research on Florentine Militias and on the Art of War?  2 Overview  3 Acknowledgements Part 1: “Il modo dello armare presente”: Machiavelli and the Ordinanza of 1527-30 Introduction to Part 1:History and Historiography  1  History  2  Historiography 1 “Il modo dello armare presente” (“Fanterie d’oggi”), Section 1   Hand Firearms in Machiavelli, and in the 1528-30 Ordinanza  1  Hand Firearms at the Time of Machiavelli 1.1 Individual Firearms in the Documents of Machiavelli’s Time  2  Hand Firearms at the Time of the 1527-30 Ordinanza  3  Conclusions 2 “Il modo dello armare presente” (“Fanterie d’oggi”), Section 2   Comparisons and Relationships between Machiavelli’s 1506 Militia and the Ordinanza of 1528-30  1 A Shared Background 1.1 The Need for New, Large, Permanent Armies  2 Differences 2.1 The Separation between the City and the Country Battalions 2.2 The Role of the New Militia Battalions in the Structure of the Florentine Army 2.3 Different Infantry Battle Techniques 3 “Il modo dello armare presente” (“Fanterie d’oggi”), Section 3   The Role of the Peasants: Innovations within the Machiavellian Militia  1  The Administration of Justice  2  Benefiting and Rewarding   3 Conclusions 4 “Il modo dello armare presente” (“Fanterie d’oggi”), Section 4   Infantry Battle Techniques and Infantry Tactics in Machiavelli’s Militia of 1506 and in 1521 Art of War  1  Ravenna as a Turning Point: From the Swiss Model in the 1506 Militia to the ‘Third Order’ of Infantry in the Prince, Up to the Roman Archetype in the Art of War  2  Conclusions Part 2: The Reception of Machiavelli’s Art of War and the Fortune of the Militia Concept in Europe Introduction to Part 2: A Brief Introduction to the Fortune of Machiavelli in the Sixteenth Century  1  Machiavelli and Machiavellism  2  Historiography on the Art of War and This Book 5 The Circulation of Machiavelli’s Art of War in Early-Modern Europe, and Its Influence on Cultures of Warfare and on Experiments with Organizing Militias  1 France 1.1 The First French Translation of the Arte della guerra and the Publication of French Military Treatises Inspired by Machiavelli 1.2 A Lost Latin Translation?  2  Basle, Switzerland and the German-Speaking World  2.1 Appendix: a Little-Known (Anonymous) Huguenot French Theorist of Military Doctrine in Basle  3  The Creation of Infantry Legions in Sixteenth-Century France   4 Spanish Provinces: The Uses and the Misuses of Machiavelli by European Sovereigns  5  The Long-Standing Influence of the Art of War. Training and Discipline in the Late Sixteenth Century. The War in the Flanders and the Militia in England 6 Fortune, Misfortune, and the Decline of the Machiavellian Heroic Model of Military Glory in Early-Modern Europe   1 Collective Virtue: ‘Heroic’ Visions of the Infantry as ‘Warrior’: Contacts and Exchange of Ideas in Europe   2 Individual Virtue: The Machiavellian Concept of ‘Heroism’ and Its Transformations in Subsequent Military Thinking   3 The Declining Fortune of Machiavelli’s Concepts of Glory and Heroism 7 Conclusions  1  The Relationship between the Art of War, the New Standing Armies, the Wider Power Structures of European States, and the Connected Cultures of Warfare  3  Political Engagement and Civic Activism Appendix  1 Introduction: Some Notes on the Military Documentary Production of the Time, and on the Available Documentation  1.1 Practical and Administrative Records: Production, Preservation and Availability  1.2 The Records of the Nove di Ordinanza e Milizia   from 1527 to 1530: Loss, Preservation and New Discoveries 1.3 Short Summary of the Sources Effectively Used in This Appendix  2 Documents Bibliography Index of Names

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Book SynopsisIn Richard Pococke’s Letters from the East (1737-1740), Rachel Finnegan provides edited transcripts of the full run of correspondence from Richard Pococke’s famous eastern voyage from 1737-40, together with updated biographical accounts of the author and his correspondents (his mother, Elizabeth Pococke and his uncle and patron, Bishop Thomas Milles).Table of ContentsContents Preface List of Illustrations 1 Introduction 2 Biographical Accounts of the Pococke and Milles Families 3 Itinerary of the Eastern Voyage 4 Letters from Egypt 5 Accounts from Egypt 6 Letters from the Holy Land, Lebanon and Syria 7 Accounts from the Holy Land, Lebanon and Syria 8 Letters from the Second Tour of Egypt, and from Turkey, Asia Minor and Greece 9 Accounts from Cyprus and from the Second Tour of Egypt 10 Conclusion Appendix. List of Grand Tour Letters and Accounts Reproduced in This Volume Bibliography Index of Selected People & Places

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Book SynopsisDuring the early modern period, thousands of Jesuits across Europe wrote individual applications for appointments in the “Indies” directly to the superior general of the Society of Jesus in Rome. Known today as litterae indipetae (from Indias petere, that is, applying for the missions in the Eastern and Western territories), these letters encompassed the most personal desires, hopes, and dreams of young Jesuits who sought to become missionaries. This book is the first English monograph on litterae indipetae and studies their style and structure, the background of their authors and the reasons behind their choices, as well as the network surrounding this practice (natural and spiritual families, procurators, confrères). Its purpose is also to capture the experiences of these individuals since lost to history by studying thousands of indipetae, in this case written mainly by Italian Jesuits at the turn of the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the petitions aimed at East Asia, and offers in-depth analysis of cases of Jesuits whose missionary zeal for China and Japan was fulfilled—or not.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Litterae Indipetae  1.1 Purpose, Structure, and Instructions  1.2 A “Typical” Petitioner?: Health and Age  Conclusions 2 Desires: Push and Pull Factors  Introduction  2.1 Pull Factors: Reading  2.2 Push Factors: Reasons to Leave  Conclusions 3 The Petitioners’ Network  3.1 Strategies to Be Chosen: Not Only Indipetae, but Also Hearings in Rome  3.2 The Generals and Their Replies 4 Case Studies: China and Japan  4.1 The Desire for the Far East  4.2 “Unsuccessful” Candidates  4.3 “Successful” Candidates  Conclusions  Appendix 1: Asian Preference in the indipetae from the Italian Assistancy (1687–1730)  Appendix 2: Indipetae Sent from the Italian Assistancy (1687–1730)  Appendix 3: Origin of the indipetae Written from the Italian Assistancy (1687–1730)  Appendix 4: Indipetae from the Italian Assistancy according to the Jesuit Province (1687–1730) Conclusions Index

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