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Book SynopsisMedicine and the Law in the Middle Ages offers fresh insight into the intersection between these two distinct disciplines. A dozen authors address this intersection within three themes: medical matters in law and administration of law, professionalization and regulation of medicine, and medicine and law in hagiography. The articles include subjects such as medical expertise at law on assault, pregnancy, rape, homicide, and mental health; legal regulation of medicine; roles physicians and surgeons played in the process of professionalization; canon law regulations governing physical health and ecclesiastical leaders; and connections between saints’ judgments and the bodies of the penitent. Drawing on primary sources from England, France, Frisia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, the volume offers a truly international perspective. Contributors are Sara M. Butler, Joanna Carraway Vitiello, Jean Dangler, Carmel Ferragud, Fiona Harris-Stoertz, Maire Johnson, Hiram Kümper, Iona McCleery, Han Nijdam, Kira Robison, Donna Trembinski, Wendy J. Turner, and Katherine D. Watson.Trade Review"...With a concentration on reading and critiquing these medieval sources of medicine and law together, Turner and Butler, along with their contributors uncover how two bodies of knowledge intersect and interact, shedding light on each other equally. Indeed, "a study of medical practice through the eyes of the law...furnishes a unique opportunity to see medicine in action" (7). Simultaneously, Turner and Butler describe the law as invested in medicine and physicians for their expertise in court cases and legal matters. ...presenting several avenues for future study, highlighting one of the strengths of this collection. ...The distinction between theory and practice raised by several essays in the collection, especially those discussing the prestige of medical education or licensure, serves … as one of the more significant contributions the collection makes. And, indeed, for this reviewer, reading [Katherine D. Watson's] remarks makes clear how this collection raises as many questions as it answers, which is particularly appealing. Indeed, although scholars might wish for essays on subjects not covered, it is fitting that such a scholarly endeavor would need to strike a balance between comprehensiveness and coverage. So while this collection contains essays that are focused--almost surgical in their specific interventions--it also makes an effort to include a range of topics, covering almost ten centuries of material and most of Western Europe in twelve well-constructed chapters. Although it is ambitious, the collection responds with clarity and concision to the texts under discussion." Will Rogers, University of Louisiana, Monroe in The Medieval Review, 15.10.46Table of ContentsAcknowledgements …ix About the Authors …x Abbreviations …xiii Medicine and Law: The Confluence of Art and Science in the Middle Ages …1 Wendy J. Turner and Sara M. Butler Medical Matters in Law and Administration of Law …23 1 Compensating Body and Honor: The Old Frisian Compensation Tariffs …25 Han Nijdam 2 Midwives in the Middle Ages? Birth Attendants, 600–1300 …58 Fiona Harris-Stoertz 3 Learned Men and Skillful Matrons: Medical Expertise and the Forensics of Rape in the Middle Ages… 88 Hiram Kümper 4 Expert Examination of Wounds in the Criminal Court of Justice in Cocentaina (Kingdom of Valencia) during the Late Middle Ages …109 Carmel Ferragud 5 Forensic Evidence, Lay Witnesses and Medical Expertise in the Criminal Courts of Late Medieval Italy… 133 Joanna Carraway Vitiello 6 Mental Health as a Foundation for Suit or an Excuse for Theft in Medieval English Legal Disputes …157 Wendy J. Turner Professionalization and Regulation of Medicine …175 7 Making Right Practice? Regulating Surgery and Medicine in Fourteenth and Fifteenth-Century Bologna …177 Kira Robison 8 Medical Licensing in Late Medieval Portugal… 196 Iona McCleery 9 Dreaming of Valencia’s Social Order in Jaume Roig’s Espill…220 Jean Dangler 10 Portrait of a Surgeon in Fifteenth-Century England …243 Sara M. Butler Medicine and the Law in Hagiography …267 11 An Infirm Man: Reading Francis of Assisi’s Retirement in the Context of Canon Law …269 Donna Trembinski 12 Medicine and Miracle: Law Enforcement in the Lives of Irish Saints …288 Máire Johnson Concluding Remarks …317 Katherine D. Watson Works Cited …328 Index…369

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Book SynopsisDynamics of Neo-Latin and the Vernacular offers a collection of studies that deal with the cultural exchange between Neo-Latin and the vernacular, and with the very cultural mobility that allowed for the successful development of Renaissance bilingual culture. Studying a variety of multilingual issues of language and poetics, of translation and transfer, its authors interpret Renaissance cross-cultural contact as a radically dynamic, ever-shifting process of making cultural meaning. With renewed attention for suitable theoretical and methodological frames of reference, Dynamics of Neo-Latin and the Vernacular firmly resists literary history’s temptation to pin down the Early Modern relationship between languages, literatures and cultures, in favour of stressing the sheer variety and variability of that relationship itself. Contributors are Jan Bloemendal, Ingrid De Smet, Annet den Haan, Tom Deneire, Beate Hintzen, David Kromhout, Bettina Noak, Ingrid Rowland, Johanna Svensson, Harm-Jan van Dam, Guillaume van Gemert, Eva van Hooijdonk, and Ümmü Yüksel.Trade Review"...One of the great strengths of the book is that it brings together thought-provoking studies that involve different approaches, different vernaculars, and different eras in the Neo-Latin period...a stimulating read for those interested in multilingual early modern Europe." Thomas Hendrickson (Dartmouth College), Renaissance Quarterly, Volume LXIX, No. 1Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors viii Introduction: Dynamics of Neo-Latin and the Vernacular: History and Introduction 1 Tom Deneire Introduction: Dynamics of Neo-Latin and the Vernacular: Some Thoughts Regarding Its Approach 18 Jan Bloemendal Language and Poetics Neo-Latin and Vernacular Poetics of Self-Fashioning in Dutch Occasional Poetry (1635–1640) 33 Tom Deneire Liminary Poetry in Latin and Dutch. The Case of Pieter Bor’s Nederlantsche Oorloghen 59 Harm-Jan van Dam Exploring the Borderlands. On the Division of Labour between Latin and the Vernacular(s) in the Church in Scania under Danish and Swedish Rule in the Seventeenth Century 86 Johanna Svensson Daniel Heinsius als Leitfigur auf dem Wege zur deutschen Kulturnation im Spannungsfeld von Latein und Landessprachen 108 Ümmü Yüksel News, Propaganda and Poetry. Language and Imagery in Hugo Grotius’s Maurice Epigrams 132 Eva van Hooijdonk Translation and Transfer Translation into the Sermo Maternus: The View of Giannozzo Manetti (1396–1459) 163 Annet den Haan Daniel Heinsius, Martin Opitz und Paul Fleming. Übersetzung und Tranfer vom Griechischen ins Deutsche und vom Deutschen ins Lateinische 177 Beate Hintzen Zum dynamischen Wechselverhältnis von Latein und Landessprache im deutschen Umgang mit niederländischen neulateinischen Autoren im Umfeld der Opitzschen Reform, am Beispiel von Hugo Grotius’ De veritate religionis Christianae 202 Guillaume van Gemert ‘An Art unknown to the Ancients’: Falconer’s Parlance in Jacques Auguste de Thou’s Hieracosophioy sive de re accipitraria libri III (1582/84–1612) 230 Ingrid A.R. De Smet Glossaries and Knowledge-Transfer: Andreas Wissowatius and Abraham Rogerius 251 Bettina Noak Latin and the Vernacular between Humanism and Calvinism. The Leiden University Discourse and the Crisis of 1618 266 David Kromhout Vitruvius and His Sixteenth-Century Readers, in Latin and Vernacular 288 Ingrid D. Rowland Conclusion: Methodology in Early Modern Multilingualism 302 Tom Deneire Bibliography 315 Compiled by Tom Deneire Index Nominum 323

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Book SynopsisIn Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia, twenty-three international authors examine Galicia’s changing place in Iberia, Europe, and the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds from late antiquity through the thirteenth century. With articles on art and architecture; religion and the church; law and society; politics and historiography; language and literature; and learning and textual culture, the authors introduce medieval Galicia and current research on the region to medievalists, Hispanists, and students of regional culture and society. The cult of St. James, Santiago Cathedral, and the pilgrimage to Compostela are highlighted and contextualized to show how Galicia’s remoteness became the basis for a paradoxical centrality in medieval art, culture, and religion. Contributors are Jeffrey A. Bowman, Manuel Castiñeiras, James D'Emilio, Thomas Deswarte, Pablo C. Díaz, Emma Falque, Amélia P. Hutchinson, Amancio Isla, Henrik Karge, Melissa R. Katz, Michael Kulikowski, Fernando López Sánchez, Luis R. Menéndez Bueyes, William D. Paden, Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez, Ermelindo Portela, Rocío Sánchez Ameijeiras, Adeline Rucquoi, Ana Suárez González, Purificación Ubric, Ramón Villares, John Williams †, and Roger Wright.Table of ContentsContents Preface ix Acknowledgments xxiv List of Figures, Maps, and Tables XXVI Abbreviations xxxii List of Contributors xxxviii Part 1: The Paradox of Galicia A Cultural Crossroads at the Edge of Europe 1 The Paradox of Galicia A Cultural Crossroads at the Edge of Europe 3 James D’Emilio Part 2: The Suevic Kingdom Between Roman Gallaecia and Modern Myth Introduction to Part 2 126 2 The Suevi in Gallaecia An Introduction 131 Michael Kulikowski 3 Gallaecia in Late Antiquity The Suevic Kingdom and the Rise of Local Powers 146 P. C. Díaz and Luis R. Menéndez-Bueyes 4 The Suevic Kingdom Why Gallaecia? 176 Fernando López Sánchez 5 The Church in the Suevic Kingdom (411–585 ad) 210 Purificación Ubric Part 3: Early Medieval Galicia Tradition and Change Introduction to Part 3 246 6 The Aristocracy and the Monarchy in Northwest Iberia between the Eighth and the Eleventh Century 251 Amancio Isla 7 The Charter of Theodenandus Writing, Ecclesiastical Culture, and Monastic Reform in Tenth- Century Galicia 281 James D’ Emilio 8 From Galicia to the Rhône Legal Practice in Northern Spain around the Year 1000 343 Jeffrey A. Bowman Part 4: Galicia in the Iberian Kingdoms From Center to Periphery? Introduction to Part 4 362 9 The Making of Galicia in Feudal Spain (1065–1157) 367 Ermelindo Portela 10 Galicia and the Galicians in the Latin Chronicles of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 400 Emma Falque 11 The Kingdom of Galicia and the Monarchy of Castile-León in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 429 Francisco Javier Pérez Rodríguez Part 5: Compostela, Galicia, and Europe Galician Culture in the Age of the Pilgrimage Introduction to Part 5 464 12 St. James in Galicia (c. 500–1300) Rivalries in Heaven and on Earth 477 Thomas Deswarte 13 Compostela A Cultural Center from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century 512 Adeline Rucquoi 14 The Tomb of St. James Coming to Terms with History and Tradition 543 John Williams † 15 The European Architecture of Church Reform in Galicia The Romanesque Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela 573 Henrik Karge 16 The Topography of Images in Santiago Cathedral Monks, Pilgrims, Bishops, and the Road to Paradise 631 Manuel Castiñeiras 17 Dreams of Kings and Buildings Visual and Literary Culture in Galicia (1157–1230) 695 Rocío Sánchez Ameijeiras 18 Cistercian Scriptoria in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries A Starting Point 765 Ana Suárez González 19 A Convent for La Sabia Violante of Aragón and the Clarisas of Allariz 812 Melissa R. Katz Part 6: Language and Literary Culture From Latin to Galician-Portuguese Introduction to Part 6 838 20 Galician Before 1250 843 Roger Wright 21 On the Music of Galician-Portuguese Secular Lyric Sources, Genres, Performance 862 William D. Paden 22 Making Poetry, Making Waves The Galician-Portuguese Sea Lyric 894 Amélia P. Hutchinson Part 7: Modern Galicia and the Middle Ages Castros, Castles, and the Camino de Santiago Introduction to Part 7 914 23 Castles vs. Castros The Middle Ages in the Construction of Galician National Identity 917 Ramón Villares Part 8: Epilogue Future Directions Epilogue: Future Directions in the Study of Medieval Galicia 949 James D’Emilio Index 963

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Book SynopsisThe ubiquity of references to dogs in medieval and early modern texts and images must at some level reflect their actual presence in those worlds, yet scholarly consideration of this material is rare and scattered across diverse sources. This volume addresses that gap, bringing together fifteen essays that examine the appearance, meaning, and significance of dogs in painting, sculpture, manuscripts, literature, and legal records of the period, reaching beyond Europe to include cultural material from medieval Japan and Islam. While primarily art historical in focus, the authors approach the subject from a range of disciplines and with varying methodology that ultimately reveals as much about dogs as about the societies in which they lived. Contributors are Kathleen Ashley, Jane Carroll, Emily Cockayne, John Block Friedman, Karen M. Gerhart, Laura D. Gelfand, Craig A. Gibson, Walter S. Gibson, Nathan Hofer, Jane C. Long, Judith W. Mann, Sophie Oosterwijk, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Donna L. Sadler, Alexa Sand, and Janet Snyder.Trade Review"Indeed, there is much to admire in this volume, including the passionate position the authors appear to take in relation to their subject matter." Pia F. Cuneo, University of Arizona, in Renaissance Quarterly 71, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 259-261.Table of ContentsContents Note to the Reader ix Acknowledgments x List of Figures xii List of Contributors xviii Abstracts xxv Introduction: Our Dogs, Our Selves 1 Laura D. Gelfand Part 1 Literal and Literary Dogs 1 In Praise of Dogs: An Encomium Theme from Classical Greece to Renaissance Italy 19 Craig A. Gibson 2 Who Did Let the Dogs Out?—Nuisance Dogs in Late-Medieval and Early Modern England 41 Emily Cockayne 3 Wolf Cubs, the Butchers, and the Beaune Town Council 68 Kathleen Ashley 4 Dogs in Medieval Egyptian Sufiji Literature 78 Nathan Hofer Part 2 Signs, Symbols and Dogs 5 Fables, Bestiaries, and the Bayeux Embroidery: Man’s Best Friend Meets the “Animal Turn” 97 Elizabeth Carson Pastan 6 Federico Barocci’s Faithful Fidos: A Study in the Efffijicacy of Counter- Reformation Imagery 127 Judith W. Mann Part 3 Love and Dogs 7 And Your Little Dog, Too: Michal’s Lapdog and the Romance of the Old Testament 165 Alexa Sand 8 The Commedia of Joachim and Anna at the Scrovegni Chapel 187 Jane C. Long 9 Die Jagd nach der Treue, or When Desire Met Devotion 218 Jane Carroll Part 4 Death and Dogs 10 From Biblical Beast to Faithful Friend: A Short Note on the Iconography of Footrests on Tomb Monuments 243 Sophie Oosterwijk 11 The Canine Domain: At the Feet of Royal Tomb Efffijigies in Saint-Denis 261 Donna L. Sadler 12 Eternal Devotion: The Stone Canine Companions of Gothic Castile y León 279 Janet Snyder Part 5 Good Dogs and Bad Dogs 13 Medieval Scavengers: Dogs in Japanese Handscrolls 303 Karen M. Gerhart 14 Dogs in the Identity Formation and Moral Teaching Offfered in Some Fifteenth-Century Flemish Manuscript Miniatures 325 John Block Friedman 15 Metaphorical Dogs in the Later Middle Ages: The Dogs of God and the Hounds of Hell 363 Walter S. Gibson Bibliography 387 Index 418

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Book SynopsisRamen, Japan’s noodle soup, is a microcosm of Japan and its historical relations with China. The long evolution of ramen helps us enter the history of cuisine in Japan, charting how food and politics combined as a force within Sino-Japan relations. Cuisine in East Asia plays a significant political role, at times also philosophical, economic, and social. Ramen is a symbol of the relationship between the two major forces in East Asia – what started as a Chinese food product ended up almost 1,000 years later as the emblem of modern Japanese cuisine. This book explains that history – from myths about food in ancient East Asia to the transfer of medieval food technology to Japan, to today’s ramen “popular culture.”Trade Review"... In delving into the history of ramen, Kushner throws light on many interesting aspects of Japanese social and political history as well as on Japan's lengthy and complex relationship with China..." - Hugh Cortazzi, in: The Japan Times ONLINE (21 October, 2012) [Review link] "... A new book, Slurp! A Social and Culinary History of Ramen by Dr Barak Kushner, who teaches modern Japanese history at Cambridge, both contextualises the soup and hints at some of the reasons behind its global spread. Kushner explains how noodles entered Japan from China and how they evolved in Japanese cuisine in a way that reflected the prevailing feelings of Japan towards its neighbour..." - Tim Hayward, in: ft.com (19 October, 2012) [Review link] "Those long nights when sleep evades you and the mind runs along less tranquil corridors of the mind, one room repeatedly visited is full of books I should have published. This is one of them. It is most excellent (with a tiny proviso as to price). The history of ramen is a beacon to guide us through an appreciation of change in Japanese taste and cooking; to understand what Japanese food was like a long time ago; to how regional tastes have affected the development of Japanese cooking; to see how war has left its mark on all aspects of the Japanese table; to wonder at the depth of foreign influence on Japanese cooking (where silly old me had thought they were an isolated people). I could go on and on. Mr Kushner writes clearly, thankfully with no jargon, and entertainingly. His illustrations are intriguing, his reading is wide. The book has footnotes. Emphatic recommendation." - Tom Jaine, in: Petits Propos Culinaires (PPC), 97 (January 2013) "Ramen has become a ubiquitous presence globally, from chic Japanese Asian noodle restaurants to cheap student sustenance. Historian Kushner (Cambridge) targets the general audience wanting to know more about the noodle dish with Chinese origins that has become a Japanese national food of sorts. Written in an unapologetically pop style, Kushner's work spans premodern origins in China to contemporary Japanese ramen comics, museums, and pop songs. Within that time frame, the author talks about a lot more than ramen. He covers food in general in Japan as a backdrop for politics and the place of ramen within it. Some might criticize his at times wandering too far from the topic, but providing the broad context is part of Kushner's strategy. One part of the context that he ignores is that of gender. Indeed, Japan is a man's world: ramen chefs are almost exclusively men; even ramen consumption is more of a man's activity than that of women, although both slurp their fair share. Rich with tidbits culled from personal experience, Kushner's book is a welcome addition to the bookshelves of those interested in Japan, food, and pop culture. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General, public, and undergraduate libraries." - C.R. Yano, University of Hawai'i, in: Choice, 50 no. 10 (June 2013) [Review link] INTERVIEW with the author: Where would Japan be without China's culinary contribution? - Asia & Japan Watch [Interview link] INTERVIEW with the author in the Japanese TV program "Channel JAPAN": "The Project Japan": Promoting the Attractions of Japan ahead of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Channel JAPAN #37, on 16 December 2014 [Interview link]. Dr. Barak Kushner appears from 5’49’’; Slurp presented at 8’29’’ INTERVIEW with the author: "An Illustrated History of Ramen" [Review link]

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Book SynopsisGlobalizing Migration History is a major step forward in comparative global migration history. Looking at the period 1500-2000 it presents a new universal method to quantify and qualify cross-cultural migrations, which makes it possible to detect regional trends and explain differences in migration patterns across the globe in the last half millennium. The contributions in this volume, written by specialists on Russia, China, Japan, India, Indonesia and South East Asia, show that such a method offers a fruitful starting point for rigorous comparisons. Furthermore the volume is an explicit invitation to other (economic, cultural, social and political) historians to include migration more explicitly and systematically in their analyses, and thus reach a deeper understanding of the impact of cross-cultural migrations on social change. Contributors are: Sunil Amrith, Ulbe Bosma, Gijs Kessler, Jelle van Lottum, Jan Lucassen, Leo Lucassen, Mireille Mazard, Adam McKeown, Atsushi Ota, Vijaya Ramaswamy,Osamu Saito, Jianfa Shen, Ryuto Shimada, Willard Sunderland, and Yuki Umeno.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements, Jan Lucassen & Leo Lucassen About the Authors List of Tables, Figures and Maps List of Abbreviations SECTION 1: EUROPE AND SIBERIA Measuring and Quantifying Cross-Cultural Migrations: An Introduction, Jan Lucassen & Leo Lucassen Catherine’s Dilemma: Resettlement and Power in Russia 1500s-1914, Willard Sunderland Measuring Mmigration in Russia: A Perspective of Empire, 1500-1900, Gijs Kessler SECTION 2: SOUTH ASIA Mapping Migrations of South Indian Weavers before, during and after the Vijayanagar Period: Tthirteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Vijaya Ramaswamy South Indian Migration, c. 1800-1950, Sunil S. Amrith SECTION 3: SOUTH EAST ASIA Migration and Colonial Enterprise in Nineteenth Century Java, Ulbe Bosma Toward Cities, Seas, and Jungles: Migration in the Malay Archipelago, c. 1750-1850, Atsushi Ota The Art of (not) Looking Back: Reconsidering Lisu Migrations and “Zomia”, Mireille Mazard Migration in an Aage of Change: The Migration Effect of Decolonization and iIndustrialization in Indonesia, c. 1900-2000, Jelle van Lottum SECTION 4: EAST ASIA A Different Transition: Human Mobility in China, 1600-1900, Adam McKeown Han Chinese Immigrants in Manchuria, 1850-1931, Yuki Umeno From Mao to the Present: Migration in China since the Second World War, Jianfa Shen Cross-Cultural Migrations in Japan in a Comparative Perspective, 1600-2000, Leo Lucassen, Osamu Saito, and Ryuto Shimada SECTION 5: CONCLUSION Summary and Concluding Remarks, Jan Lucassen & Leo Lucassen References Name index Geographical index Subject index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a collected volume that crosses traditional boundaries between methodologies. Each of its sixteen articles is based on imaginative combinations of data provided by excavations, artifacts, monuments, urban topography, rural layouts, historical narratives and/or archival records. The volume as a whole demonstrates the effectiveness of interdisciplinary research applied to historical, cultural and archaeological problems. Its five sections - Economics and Trade, Governmental Authority, Material Culture, Changing Landscapes, and Monuments – bring forth original studies of the medieval, Ottoman and modern Middle East, amongst others, of voiceless and silenced social groups. Contributors are: Nitzan Amitai-Preiss, Jere L. Bacharach, Simonetta Calderini, Delia Cortese, Katia Cytryn-Silverman, Miriam Frenkel, Haim Goldfus, Hani Hamza, Stefan Heidemann, Miriam Kühn, Ayala Lester, Nimrod Luz, Yoram Meital, Daphna Sharef-Davidovich, Oren Shmueli, Yasser Tabbaa, Daniella Talmon-Heller, and Bethany Walker.Trade Review“This is a volume that has accumulated researchers’ papers rich both, in providing information concerning contemporary documentation and archaeological findings, questioning the objective validity of reported statements as sources as well as in putting to doubt already established perceptive paths while suggesting new interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to historical inquiry.” Stavros Nikolaidis in Journal of Oriental and African Studies 24 (2015) 461-466. "It's praiseworthy interdisciplinary approach and the strong focus on the nexus of material and textual evidence recommend it in whole and part to graduate seminars and specialists in the field." George Malagaris in Journal of Islamic Studies 28, 3 (2017)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Contributors List of abbreviations List of illustrations INTRODUCTION Daniella Talmon-Heller, Katia Cytryn-Silverman, and Yasser Tabbaa, Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East PART ONE – ECONOMICS AND TRADE Jere Bacharach, Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Teaching and Studying Numismatic Evidence Stefan Heidemann, How to Measure Economic Growth in the Middle East? A Framework of Inquiry for the Middle Islamic Period Donald Whitcomb, Ladies of Quseir: Life on the Red Sea Coast in Ayyūbid Times PART TWO – GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY Nitzan Amitai-Preiss, What Happened in 155 A.H. / 771–72 A.D? The Testimony of Lead Seals Simonetta Calderini and Delia Cortese, The Architectural Patronage of the Fāṭimid Queen-Mother Durzān (d. 385/995): An interdisciplinary analysis of literary sources, material evidence and historical context Bethany J. Walker, On Archives and Archaeology: Reassessing Mamlūk Rule from Documentary Sources and Jordanian Fieldwork PART THREE – MATERIAL CULTURE Miriam Frenkel and Ayala Lester, Evidence of Material Culture from the Geniza – An Attempt to Correlate Textual and Archaeological Findings Yasser Tabbaa, Originality and Innovation in Syrian Woodwork of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Miriam Kühn, Two Mamlūk minbars in Cairo: Approaching Material Culture through Narrative Sources PART FOUR – CHANGING LANDSCAPES Nimrod Luz, Icons of Power and Religious Piety: The Politics of Mamlūk Patronage Oren Shmueli and Haim Goldfus, The Early Islamic City of Ramla in Light of New Archaeological Discoveries, G.I.S. Applications, and a Re-examination of the Literary Sources Daphna Sharef-Davidovich, The Role of the Imperial Palaces in the Urbanization Process of Istanbul, 1856–1909 PART FIVE – MONUMENTS Hani Hamza, Turbat Abū Zakariyya Ibn ʿAbd Allāh Mūsa (chief surgeon of al-Bīmāristān al-Manṣūrī) and his social status according to his endowment deed (waqfiyya) Maximilian Hartmuth, Oral tradition and architectural history: a sixteenth-century Ottoman mosque in the Balkans in local memory, textual sources, and material evidence Yoram Meital, Deliberately Not Empty: Reading Cairo’s Unknown Soldier Monument Index

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Book SynopsisApproaching Ottoman social history through the lens of entertainment, this volume considers the multi-faceted roles of entertainment within society. At its most basic level entertainment could be all about pleasure, leisure and fun. But it also played a role in socialisation, gender divisions, social stratification and the establishment of moral norms, political loyalties and social, ethnic or religious identities. By addressing the ways in which entertainment was employed and enjoyed in Ottoman society, Entertainment Among the Ottomans introduces the reader to a new way of understanding the Ottoman world. Contributors are: Antonis Anastasopoulos, Tülay Artan, Ebru Boyar, Palmira Brummett, Kate Fleet, James Grehan, Svetla Ianeva, Yavuz Köse, William Kynan-Wilson, Milena Methodieva and Yücel Yanıkdağ.Trade Review‘Some of the common themes – tradition and modernity, homosocial entertainment (including cross-dressing and acting), fun and escape under trying circumstances – come together to conclude this informative, wide-ranging and eye-opening volume.’ Li Guo in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 83.2 (2020), 347-349. doi:10.1017/S0041977X20002323Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Contributors  1 Ottoman Society through the Lens of Entertainment  Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet  2 Contemplation or Amusement? The Light Shed by Ruznames on an Ottoman Spectacle of 1740-1750  Tülay Artan  3 Caravans and Voyages, Story and Song: Entertaining the Traveler in/to Ottoman Space  Palmira Brummett  4 Play and Performance in Ottoman Costume Albums  William Kynan-Wilson  5 Fun and Games in Ottoman Aleppo: the Life and Times of a Local Schoolteacher (1835-1865)  James Grehan  6 Between Tradition and Modernity – Entertainment in Late Ottoman Rusçuk  Svetla Ianeva  7 Public Celebrations and Ceremonies in the Late Ottoman Cretan Press: Building a Collective Identity among the Christian Population  Antonis Anastasopoulos  8 The Late Ottoman Brothel in Istanbul: a Heterosexual Social Space for Homosocial Entertainment?  Ebru Boyar  9 Bicycling into Modernity in the Late Ottoman Empire: Ahmed Tevfik and his Bicycle Travelogue  Yavuz Köse  10 Muslim Culture, Reform and Patriotism: Staging Namık Kemal in Post-Ottoman Bulgaria (1878-1908)  Milena B. Methodieva  11 Warriors in Drag: Performing Gender and Remaking Men in Prisoner of War Theater  Yücel Yanıkdağ Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAfrica in Scotland, Scotland in Africa provides scholarly, interdisciplinary analysis of the historical and contemporary relationships, links and networks between Scotland, Africa and the African diaspora. The book interrogates these links from a variety of perspectives – historical, political, economic, religious, diplomatic, and cultural – and assesses the mutual implications for past, present and future relationships. The socio-historical connection between Scotland and Africa is illuminated by the many who have shaped the history of African nationalism, education, health, and art in respective contexts of Africa, Britain, the Caribbean and the USA. The book contributes to the empirical, theoretical and methodological development of European African Studies, and thus fills a significant gap in information, interpretation and analysis of the specific historical and contemporary relationships between Scotland, Africa and the African diaspora. Contributors are: Afe Adogame, Andrew Lawrence, Esther Breitenbach, John McCracken, Markku Hokkanen, Olutayo Charles Adesina, Marika Sherwood, Caroline Bressey, Janice McLean, Everlyn Nicodemus, Kristian Romare, Oluwakemi Adesina, Elijah Obinna, Damaris Seleina Parsitau, Kweku Michael Okyerefo, Musa Gaiya and Jordan Rengshwat, Vicky Khasandi-Telewa, Kenneth Ross, Magnus Echtler, and Geoff Palmer.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Introduction Afe Adogame and Andrew Lawrence HISTORICAL UNDERPINNINGS Chapter 1: Scottish Encounters with Africa in the nineteenth century: Accounts of Explorers, Travellers, and Missionaries Esther Breitenbach Chapter 2: Missionaries and Nationalists: Scotland and the 1959 State Of Emergency in Malawi John McCracken MEDICINE AND MISSION Chapter 3: Missionaries, Experts and Agents of Empire: Scottish Doctors in Late Nineteenth-Century Southern and East-Central Africa Markku Hokkanen Chapter 4: Between Colonialism and Cultural Authenticity: Isaac Ladipo Oluwole, Oladele Adebayo Ajose, Public Health Services in Nigeria, and the Glasgow Connection Olutayo Charles Adesina ACTIVISTS, VISIONARIES, ARTISTS Chapter 5: Two Pan-African Political Activists emanating from University Of Edinburgh: John Randle and Richard Akinwande Savage Marika Sherwood Chapter 6: Ida B. Wells in Scotland Caroline Bressey Chapter 7: Exploring a Scottish Legacy: Lewis Davidson, Knox College and Jamaica’s Youth Janice McLean Chapter 8: Robert S. Duncanson, an African American Pioneer Artist with links to Scotland Everlyn Nicodemus and Kristian Romare MISSION AND TRANSMISSION: RELIGIOUS LEGACIES Chapter 9: Invoking Gender: Mary Slessor’s Thoughts, Mission and Legacies Oluwakemi Adesina and Elijah Obinna Chapter 10: Pentecostalising the Church of Scotland? Kenyan Presbyterianism in Historical Perspective Damaris Seleina Parsitau Chapter 11: Scottish Missionaries in Ghana: The Forgotten Tribe Kweku Michael Okyerefo Chapter 12: Scottish Missionaries in Central Nigeria Musa Gaiya and Jordan Rengshwat Chapter 13: “She Worships at the Kikuyu”: The Influence of Scottish Missionaries on Language in Worship and Education among African Christians Vicky Khasandi-Telewa CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES Chapter 14: ‘A Very Definite Radicalism’: The Early Development of the Scotland-Malawi Partnership 2004-08 Kenneth Ross Chapter 15: Scottish Warriors in Kwazulu-Natal. Cultural Hermeneutics of the Scottish Dancers (Isikoshi) In the Nazareth Baptist Church, South Africa Magnus Echtler Postscript The Scottish – Jamaica Historical Connection Geoff Palmer Index

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Book SynopsisOn account of its remarkable reach as well as its variety of schemes and features, migration in the Victorian era is a paramount chapter of the history of worldwide migrations and diasporas. Indeed, Victorian Britain was both a land of emigration and immigration. International Migrations in the Victorian Era covers a wide range of case studies to unveil the complexity of transnational circulations and connections in the 19th century. Combining micro- and macro-studies, this volume looks into the history of the British Empire, 19th century international migration networks, as well as the causes and consequences of Victorian migrations and how technological, social, political, and cultural transformations, mainly initiated by the Industrial Revolution, considerably impacted on people’s movements. It presents a history of migration grounded on people, structural forces and migration processes that bound societies together. Rather than focussing on distinct territorial units, International Migrations in the Victorian Era balances different scales of analysis: individual, local, regional, national and transnational. Contributors are: Rebecca Bates, Sally Brooke Cameron, Milosz K. Cybowski, Nicole Davis, Anne-Catherine De Bouvier, Claire Deligny, Elizabeth Dillenburg, Nicolas Garnier, Trevor Harris, Kathrin Levitan, Véronique Molinari, Ipshita Nath, Jude Piesse, Daniel Renshaw, Eric Richards, Sue Silberberg, Ben Szreter, Géraldine Vaughan, Briony Wickes, Rhiannon Heledd Williams.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Marie Ruiz Part 1: Outward Migration 1 Revisiting the Originality of Irish Migrations during the Victorian Era  Géraldine Vaughan 2 Godley’s Plan for Colonization during the Famine: The Phantom Solution  Anne-Catherine de Bouvier 3 The Highland Diaspora and Its Antipodean Outliers  Eric Richards 4 Welsh Migration to America during the 19th Century  Rhiannon Heledd Williams 5 Britain, Argentina and Welsh Migration: A Reassessment  Trevor Harris 6 Transnationalism, the Urban & Migration in the Victorian Era: The Lives of Henry & Sophia Morwitch  Nicole Davis 7 Migration, Empire, and the Penny Post  Kathrin Levitan 8 “Sheep Stories”: Representations of Human and Animal Emigration and Settlement in the Nineteenth Century  Briony Wickes Part 2: Inward Migration 9 Global Immigration to England and Wales, 1851–1911. Evidence from the Census  Ben Szreter 10 Investigating the “Other” – A Comparative Study of Migrant Settlement in the Work of Charles Booth and Jacob Riis in Victorian London and New York  Daniel Renshaw 11 On the Road to the Asylum: Migration and Mental Illness in Victorian Lancashire (c.1851–1901)  Claire Deligny 12 A Less Eligible Country for a Pole: Britain and the Polish Refugees in the Early Victorian Period (1837–1847)  Milosz K. Cybowski 13 Jewish Immigration and the Shaping of a British Antipodean Outpost  Sue Silberberg Part 3: Migration of Women and Youth 14 Exiles and Exes: Women’s Emigration Poetry and Fiction in the Victorian Periodical Press  Jude Piesse 15 Victorian Women and Evangelicalism in the Far East: An International Mission  Nicolas Garnier 16 Migrant Memsahibs: Travel, and Gynaecological Complications during the Raj  Ipshita Nath 17 “The Opportunity for Empire Building”: The Girls’ Friendly Society, Child Emigration, and Domestic Service in the British Empire  Elizabeth Dillenburg 18 The Emigration of Irish Famine Orphan Girls to Australia: The Earl Grey Scheme  Véronique Molinari 19 From Suppression to Sponsorship: Juvenile Emigration and the Preservation of Pre-industrial Labor  Rebecca Bates 20 Little Wanderers: The British Home Children in Canada  Sally Brooke Cameron Conclusion  Marie Ruiz Index

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Book SynopsisIn search of specific national traditions nineteenth-century artists and scholars did not shy of manipulating texts and objects or even outright manufacturing them. The essays edited by János M. Bak, Patrick J. Geary and Gábor Klaniczay explore the various artifacts from outright forgeries to fruits of poetic phantasy, while also discussing the volatile notion of authenticity and the multiple claims for it in the age. Contributors include: Pavlína Rychterová, Péter Dávidházi, Pertti Anttonen, László Szörényi, János M. Bak, Nóra Berend, Benedek Láng, Igor P. Medvedev, Dan D.Y. Shapira, János György Szilágyi, Cristina La Rocca, Giedrė Mickūnaitė, Johan Hegardt and Sándor Radnóti.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... vii The Long Shadow of Ossian. Editors' Preface ... viii List of Figures ... xxv Notes on Contributors ... xxviii PART ONE SEARCHING FOR THE VOICE OF THE NATION 1 The Manuscripts of Grünberg and Königinhof: Romantic Lies about the Glorious Past of the Czech Nation ... 3 Pavlína Rychterová 2 To Authenticate a Manuscript: The Case of Toldy and Hanka, Hermeneutically Reconsidered ... 31 Péter Dávidházi 3 The Kalevala and the Authenticity Debate ... 56 Pertti Anttonen 4 János Arany’s Csaba Trilogy and Arnold Ipolyi’s Hungarian Mythology ... 81 László Szörényi 5 From the Anonymous Gesta to the Flight of Zalán by Vörösmarty ... 96 János M. Bak PART TWO INVENTING A PAST 6 Forging the Cuman Law, Forging an Identity ... 109 Nora Berend 7 Invented Middle Ages in Nineteenth-century Hungary. The Forgeries of Sámuel Literáti Nemes ... 129 Benedek Láng 8 Excellent Scholar—Excellent Forger: The Case of Karl Benedict Hase ... 144 Igor P. Medvedev 9 On Firkowicz, Forgeries and Forging Jewish Identities ... 156 Dan D. Y. Shapira PART THREE “ANCIENT” OBJECTS: FAKES AND PHANTASIES 10 Wisest is Time: Ancient Vase Forgeries ... 173 János György Szilágyi 11 Agilulf, “The Nonexistent Knight” and the Forging of the Italian “Germanic” Past ... 224 Cristina La Rocca 12 Imagining the Real: Material Evidence and Participatory Past in Nineteenth-Century Lithuania ... 267 Giedrė Mickūnaitė 13 Time Stopped. The Open-air Museum Skansen of Artur Hazelius ... 287 Johan Hegardt 14 The New York Cloisters: A Forgery? ... 307 Sándor Radnóti Index of Proper Names ... 317

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Book SynopsisNews Networks in Early Modern Europe attempts to redraw the history of European news communication in the 16th and 17th centuries. News is defined partly by movement and circulation, yet histories of news have been written overwhelmingly within national contexts. This volume of essays explores the notion that early modern European news, in all its manifestations – manuscript, print, and oral – is fundamentally transnational. These 37 essays investigate the language, infrastructure, and circulation of news across Europe. They range from the 15th to the 18th centuries, and from the Ottoman Empire to the Americas, focussing on the mechanisms of transmission, the organisation of networks, the spread of forms and modes of news communication, and the effects of their translation into new locales and languages.Trade Review“Every news historian should first study this volume before continuing with his or her own work.” - Rosanne Baars, University of Amsterdam, in: Sixteenth Century Journal 48:2 (2017), pp. 494-496Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Places and Dates Abbreviations and Other Conventions Notes on Contributors 1 News Networks in Early Modern Europe Joad Raymond and Noah Moxham PART 1 Networks 2 European Postal Networks Nikolaus Schobesberger, Paul Arblaster, Mario Infelise, André Belo, Noah Moxham, Carmen Espejo and Joad Raymond 3 The Lexicons of Early Modern News Paul Arblaster, André Belo, Carmen Espejo, Stéphane Haffemayer, Mario Infelise, Noah Moxham, Joad Raymond and Nikolaus Schobesberger 4 News Networks: Putting the ‘News’ and ‘Networks’ Back in Joad Raymond 5 Maps versus Networks Ruth Ahnert 6 International News Flows in the Seventeenth Century: Problems and Prospects Brendan Dooley 7 The Papal Network: How the Roman Curia Was Informed about South-Eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean (1645–1669) Johann Petitjean 8 The Iberian Position in European News Networks: A Methodological Approach Javier Díaz Noci 9 Mapping the Fuggerzeitungen: The Geographical Issues of an Information Network Nikolaus Schobesberger PART 2 Modes 10 The History of a Word: Gazette Mario Infelise 11 International Relations: Spanish, Italian, French, English and German Printed Single Event Newsletters Prior to Renaudot’s Gazette Henry Ettinghausen 12 War News in Early Modern Milan: The Birth and the Shaping of Printed News Pamphlets Massimo Petta 13 Elizabethan Diplomatic Networks and the Spread of News Tracey A. Sowerby 14 Time in English Translations of Continental News Sara Barker 15 Cartography, War Correspondence and News Publishing: The Early Career of Nicolaes van Geelkercken, 1610–1630 Helmer Helmers 16 News Exchange and Social Distinction André Belo 17 ‘Newes also came by Letters’: Functions and Features of Epistolary News in English News Publications of the Seventeenth Century Nicholas Brownlees 18 ‘My Friend the Gazetier’: Diplomacy and News in Seventeenth-Century Europe Jason Peacey 19 Intelligence Offices in the Habsburg Monarchy Anton Tantner 20 Authors, Editors and Newsmongers: Form and Genre in the Philosophical Transactions under Henry Oldenburg Noah Moxham PART 3 Studies 21 News from the New World: Spain’s Monopoly in the European Network of Handwritten Newsletters during the Sixteenth Century Renate Pieper 22 The Prince of Transylvania: Spanish News of the War against the Turks, 1595–1600 Carmen Espejo 23 ‘Fishing after News’ and the ars apodemica: The Intelligencing Role of the Educational Traveller in the Late Sixteenth Century Elizabeth Williamson 24 ‘It is No Time Now to Enquire of Forraine Occurrents’: Plague, War, and Rumour in the Letters of Joseph Mead, 1625 Kirsty Rolfe 25 ‘Our Valiant Dunkirk Romans’: Glorifying the Habsburg War at Sea, 1622–1629 Paul Arblaster 26 A Sense of Europe: The Making of this Continent in Early Modern Dutch News Media Joop W. Koopmans 27 The Hinterland of the Newsletter: Handling Information in Space and Time Mark Greengrass, Thierry Rentet and Stéphane Gal 28 ‘We have been Informed that the French are Carrying Desolation Everywhere’: The Desolation of the Palatinate as a European News Event Emilie Dosquet 29 Promoting the Catholic Cause on the Italian Peninsula: Printed Avvisi on the Dutch Revolt and the French Wars of Religion, 1562–1600 Nina Lamal 30 The Acquisition and Handling of News on the French Wars of Religion in Cologne: The Case of Hermann Weinsberg Alexandra Schäfer 31 ‘Secret and Uncertain’: A History of Avvisi at the Court of the Medici Grand Dukes Sheila Barker 32 Words on the Street: Selling Small Printed ‘Things’ in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Venice Laura Carnelos 33 Natural Disasters and the European Printed News Network Carlos H. Caracciolo 34 The ‘Trouble of Naples’ in the Political Information Arena of the English Revolution Davide Boerio 35 Public and Secret Networks of News: The Declaration of War of the Turks against the Empire in 1683 Stéphane Haffemayer 36 From Vienna, Prague or Poland? The Effects of Changing Reporting Patterns on the Ceremonial News of Transylvania, 1619–58 Virginia Dillon 37 The Venetian News Network in the Early Sixteenth Century: The Battle of Chaldiran Chiara Palazzo Index

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Book SynopsisIn Sugar in the Social Life of Medieval Islam Tsugitaka Sato explores the actual day-to-day life in medieval Muslim societies through different aspects of sugar. Drawing from a wealth of historical sources - chronicles, geographies, travel accounts, biographies, medical and pharmacological texts, and more - he describes sugarcane cultivation, sugar production, the sugar trade, and sugar’s use as a sweetener, a medicine, and a symbol of power. He gives us a new perspective on the history of the Middle East, as well as the history of sugar across the world. This book is a posthumous work by a leading scholar of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies in Japan who made many contributions to this field.Trade Review"Tsugitaka Sato's book is a valuable resource on the history of food in the Muslim world." - Samer Traboulsi, University of North Carolina at Asheville, in: Al-Abhath 62-63 (2014-2015)Table of ContentsCONTENTS Series Editor’s Acknowledgements Preface List of Abbreviations Transliteration of Arabic and Persian List of Figures and Map Prologue Islamic Social History through Sugar Sugar in Arabic Literature: Favorite Sweets Historical Overview and Perspectives Primary Sources in Arabic and Persian Chapter 1. The Origin and Expansion of Sugar Production in the Islamic World 1. The Origin of Sugar Production and its Expansion to West Asia The Origin of Sugarcane Cultivation The Origin of Sugar Production The Eastward Route: Expansion from India to China and Okinawa The Westward Route: Expansion from India to Iran 2. The Expansion of Sugarcane Cultivation from Iran to Egypt The Expansion from Iran to Iraq Expansion to Syria (Bilād al-Shām) Expansion to Lower Egypt 3. The Expansion of Sugar Production to Upper Egypt, Maghrib, and Andalusia Expansion from Lower Egypt to Upper Egypt Expansion to the Mediterranean Islands, Maghrib, and Andalusia Chapter 2. From Red Sugar to White Sugar: Sugar Production Technology 1. Sugarcane Cultivation as Described by al-Nuwayrī Al-Nuwayrī, an Encyclopaedist from Upper Egypt Sugarcane Cultivation as Seen in Nihāyat al-Arab Sugarcane Growers and Sugar Factory Workers 2. Sugar Production as Described by al-Nuwayrī 3. The Spread of Sugar Production Technology from Egypt to China The Travels of Marco Polo Technology Transfer between East and West Chapter 3. On Camels and Ships: Sugar as Commodity 1. The Prosperity of al-Karkh in Baghdad The Establishment of Baghdad Al-Karkh as Commerce and Industry Center From Dibs to Sugar: A Change in the Production of Sweeteners Sugar Distribution in the Eastern Islamic World 2. The Growth of Sugar Production in Egypt From Baghdad to Cairo: A Historical Change The Beginning of Prosperous Sugar Production in Fatimid Egypt Sugar in the Age of Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn The Managers of Sugar Production in al-Fusṭāṭ Trade with Italian Merchants in Alexandria 3. The Tricks of the Sugar Merchants in Mamluk Cairo A Guidebook (al-Madkhal) by Ibn al-Ḥājj Unsanitary Conditions in Sugar Refineries The Tricks of the Sugar Merchants 4. Reading the Books on Ḥisba What is “Ḥisba”? The Inspection of Sugar Trade Chapter 4. The Ups and Downs of the Sugar Merchants 1. The Jewish Sugar Merchants as Described in the Geniza Documents The Discovery of the Cairo Geniza The Jewish Sugar Merchants 2. The Kārimī Merchants Versed in Sugar The Appearance of the Kārimī Merchants The Organization and Activities of the Kārimī Merchants “Merchants of Spices and Perfumes” or “Merchants of Spices and Sugar” 3. The Vicissitudes of the Kharrūbī Family in Mamluk Egypt From Retailers to Kārimī Merchants The Sugar Refinery Merchant The Position of Chief Merchant (Ra’īs al-Tujjār) Religious and Cultural Activities The Beginning of the Downfall Chapter 5. Sugar as Medicine 1. A Comprehensive Book of Simple Drugs by Ibn al-Bayṭār Ibn al-Bayṭār, Pharmacologist Sugar in the Comprehensive Book of Simple Drugs 2. Ibn al-Nafīs, the Personal Physician of Sultan Baybars I The Second Ibn Sīnā The Principles of Sugar as Described by Ibn al-Nafīs Sugar as Medicine 3. ‘Aṭṭārs: Merchants who Profited from Sugar Who were the ‘Aṭṭārs? Al-Maqrīzī’s View of the Troubles in Egypt The Prosperous ‘Aṭṭārs Chapter 6. Sugar and Power: Festivals and Gifts from Royalty 1. The Storehouse for Raw Sugar (Dār al-Qand) The Repeal of Miscellaneous Taxes by Sultan Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Al-Nashw Enacts Attachment on Raw Sugar 2. Sugar in the Month of Ramaḍān Fasting and Sweets The Royal Custom of Giving Sugar 3. Sweets for Banquets and Charities Sugar Candies for Banquets (Simāṭ) Sweets for Charities 4. Sugar Candies in Sultans’ Pilgrimages to Mecca Amīr al-Ḥājj –The Official Guard of Pilgrims to Mecca– The Maḥmil and Kiswa The Mamluk Sultans’ Pilgrimages to Mecca Chapter 7. Cooking Innovations in Medieval Islam 1. Cooking in the ‘Abbasid Caliph Courts The ‘Abbasid Caliph Courts Ibn Sayyār’s Kitāb al-Ṭabīkh Al-Baghdādī’s Kitāb al-Ṭabīkh 2. Sugar in The Thousand and One Nights The World of The Thousand and One Nights Foods Palatable and Nutritious 3. Sugar in Arabic Pharmacology Taqwīm al-Ṣiḥḥa by Ibn Buṭlān Kitāb Daf‘ Maḍār al-Abdān by Ibn Riḍwān Jāmi‘ al-Gharaḍ fī Ḥifẓ al-Ṣiḥḥa wa-Daf‘ al-Maraḍ by Ibn al-Quff 4. Hanging Candies for Children Hanging Candies in the Month of Rajab The Generalities of Sugar Consumption Epilogue The Revival of Sugar Production in Egypt The Expansion of Sugar Production to the Caribbean Islands and South America Sugar Meets Coffee and Tea Coffee, Tea, and Sugar in Contemporary Muslim Societies Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRichard Kaeuper’s career has examined three salient concerns of medieval society - knightly prowess and violence, lay and religious piety, and public order and government - most directly in three of his monographs: War, Justice, and Public Order (Oxford, 1988), Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe (Oxford, 1999), and Holy Warriors (Penn, 2009). Kaeuper approaches historical questions with an eye towards illuminating the inherent complexities in human ideas and ideals, and he has worked to untangle the various threads holding together cultural constructs such as chivalry, licit violence, and lay piety. The present festschrift in his honor brings together scholars from across disciplines to engage with those same concerns in medieval society from a variety of perspectives. Contributors are: Bernard S. Bachrach, Elizabeth A.R. Brown, Samuel A. Claussen, David Crouch, Thomas Devaney, Paul Dingman, Daniel P. Franke, Richard Firth Green, Christopher Guyol, John D. Hosler, William Chester Jordan, Craig M. Nakashian, W. Mark Ormrod, Russell A. Peck, Anthony J. Pollard, Michael Prestwich, Sebastian Rider-Bezerra, Leah Shopkow, and Peter W. Sposato.Table of ContentsContents Preface: Richard W. Kaeuper as Mentor xiii Leah Shopkow, Craig M. Nakashian and Daniel P. Franke Acknowledgements xviii List of Contributors xix Introduction: Richard W. Kaeuper as Historian 1 Craig M. Nakashian part 1 War and Chivalry 1 Is the Song of Roland’s Roncevalles a Military Satire? 15 Bernard S. Bachrach 2 Chivalric Carnage? Fighting, Capturing and Killing at the Battles of Dol and Fornham in 1173 36 John D. Hosler 3 Prowess and Privilege: Robert Ufford, Earl of Suffolk and the Limits of Chivalry in Edward iii’s England 62 Daniel P. Franke part 2 Chivalric Identities 4 The Violence of the Preudomme 87 David Crouch 5 Chivalry and Honor-Violence in Late Medieval Florence 102 Peter W. Sposato 6 Loyalty, Autonomy, and Virtue: Redefining Nobility in Late- Medieval Castile 120 Thomas Devaney 7 English Chivalry and the Decline of Strenuous Knighthood in the Later Fifteenth Century 140 Anthony J. Pollard part 3 Religion and Violence 8 “Li arcevesque est mult bon chevalier”: The Chivalric Ideals of Archbishop Turpin 161 Craig M. Nakashian 9 Mooning the Abbot: A Tale of Disorder, Vulgarity, Ethnicity, and Underwear in the Monastery 179 Leah Shopkow 10 Chivalric and Religious Valorization of Warfare in High Medieval France 199 Samuel A. Claussen 11 Morality and Legality in Late Medieval England: The Evidence of Benedictine Sermon Collections 218 Christopher Guyol part 4 Kingship, Public Order, and the State 12 Philip the Fair of France, Nemesis of Edward i of England 237 Elizabeth A.R. Brown 13 Edward i: A Chivalric King? 265 Michael Prestwich 14 Expenses Related to Corporal Punishment in France 286 William Chester Jordan 15 Pardon, Parliament and Political Performance in Later Medieval England 301 W. Mark Ormrod part 5 Literature and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Europe 16 A Reconsideration of Middle Welsh Literature as Historical Evidence for Social Violence 323 Sebastian Rider-Bezerra 17 Chivalry and the Wise Watchman: A Study of Patience, Penance, and the Homeward Journey in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde 344 Russell A. Peck 18 Sword-made Men: Mystical Armament and Earthly Authority in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur 368 Paul Dingman 19 Refighting Carlo Ginzburg’s Night Battles 381 Richard Firth Green Index of Modern Authors 403 Index of Names and Subjects 405 Index of Ancient Sources 4

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Book SynopsisIn Liturgy, Books and Franciscan Identity in Medieval Umbria, Anna Welch explores how Franciscan friars engaged with manuscript production networks operating in Umbria in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries to produce the missals essential to their liturgical lives. A micro-history of Franciscan liturgical activity, this study reassesses methodologies pertinent to manuscript studies and reflects on both the construction of communal identity through ritual activity and historiographic trends regarding this process. Welch focuses on manuscripts decorated by the ateliers of the Maestro di Deruta-Salerno (active c. 1280) and Maestro Venturella di Pietro (active c. 1317), in particular the Codex Sancti Paschalis, a missal now owned by the Australian Province of the Order of Friars Minor.Trade Review"In 2016, our knowledge of Franciscan history was enriched by Brill’s publication of Anna Welch’s Liturgy, Books and Franciscan Identity in Medieval Umbria. Based on an analysis of late thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century missals, this book considers the role that liturgy played in forming and preserving the communal identity of early Franciscans living in Umbria. [...] This illuminating case study is a welcome analysis of a subject that has for years merited far more academic attention, and serves as a long overdue corrective to previous scholarship. Welch’s thorough knowledge of the extensive manuscript evidence and her masterful interaction with the secondary literature are truly impressive. This monograph belongs on the shelves of all scholars interested in Franciscan history, liturgical history, medieval art history, and Umbrian religious and social history." Andrew J. G. Drenas, University of Massachusetts Lowell, in: Renaissance Quarterly 71, no. 1 2018): 347-348.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements ix List of Plates xi Abbreviations xii Introduction 1 The Codex Sancti Paschalis 6 Limitations, Terms and Definitions 16 1 The Silent Parchment? A New Methodology for the Study of Missals 20 1.1 The Historiography of Illuminated Liturgical Manuscripts 20 1.2 Art History and the Codex Sancti Paschalis 23 Maestro di Deruta-Salerno 32 Venturella di Pietro 33 Mss. Linked to the CSP and/or Mss. Listed above, Without Specific Attribution to a Master/School 34 1.3 Selection Rationale for the Missals under Study 35 1.4 Towards a New Model for Manuscript Studies: Liturgical History Meets Ritual and Performance Theory 40 2 Quarrelling Brothers – Liturgy and Identity, 1209–1274 51 2.1 The Narrative of Franciscan Liturgical History 51 2.2 Franciscan Liturgy: The Regula Editions? 54 2.2.1 The Regula Missal 55 2.2.2 The Regula Breviary 66 2.3 Elias of Cortona to Haymo of Faversham: The Concept of a Second Founder 71 2.3.1 Haymo’s Ordinal 76 2.3.2 The Question of Liturgical Unity 78 2.4 John of Parma to Bonaventure: The Difficulties of Achieving Liturgical Unity 79 2.5 The Friars Minor, Liturgy and Identity in the Thirteenth Century 87 3 The Order of Friars Minor and the Book 92 3.1 The Scribes 92 3.2 The Miniaturists 100 3.2.1 Friar-Miniaturists in a Scriptorium in Assisi? 102 3.2.2 Scholarly Conceptualisation of a Simplistic Franciscan Decorative Style and Its Meaning 106 3.3 ‘Pauperistico’? Franciscan Spirituality in Perugian Miniatures 116 3.3.1 Crucifixion Miniatures from the Selected Missals 117 3.4 Conclusions 131 4 Calendars – Comparing the Evidence 133 4.1 The Historiography and Methodology of Studying Sainthood, Liturgical Calendars and the Commemoration of Saints 134 4.2 Short Catalogue Entries for CSP and B–E: Codicology and Provenance 138 4.3 The Calendars Compared 148 Key to Symbols and Abbreviations 149 4.4 Conclusions 174 5 Celebrating Saints – Articulating Communal Identity through Liturgy 175 5.1 Selection of Feasts for Analysis; Methodology 175 5.2 The Feasts in CSP and B–E 178 5.2.1 Feasts of St. Francis 178 5.2.2 Feasts of St. Anthony of Padua 181 5.2.3 Feasts of St. Clare 183 5.2.4 Feast of Elisabeth of Hungary 185 5.2.5 Feast of St. Louis of Toulouse 185 5.2.6 Feast of St. Louis ix, King of France 186 5.2.7 Feasts of St. Herculanus, Bishop of Perugia 188 5.2.8 Feast of Ubaldo, Patron Saint of Gubbio 188 5.2.9 Feast of St. Dominic 189 5.2.10 Feast of St. Peter Martyr (of Verona) 189 5.2.11 Feast of Augustine of Hippo 190 5.2.12 Feast of St. Bernard of Clairvaux 190 5.2.13 Feasts of the Virgin 190 5.3 Categories of Interpretation 194 5.3.1 Rubrication 194 5.3.2 Wording of the Entries 195 5.3.3 Inclusion/Exclusion of Localised Feasts in a) Calendar and b) Proper of the Saints 196 5.3.4 Inclusion/Exclusion of Feasts from Other Orders (i.e. Dominicans and Cistercians) 198 5.3.5 Relationship to Roman Curia’s Calendar 200 5.3.6 Additions and Absences 201 5.3.7 Adherence to Haymo’s Ordinal 202 Conclusions and Directions for Future Research The Codex Sancti Paschalis from the Thirteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries 204 Liturgy’s Role in the Construction of Communal Identity amongst the Medieval Order of Friars Minor 204 Questions for Future Research 214 The Codex Sancti Paschalis as a Site of Communal Memory 216 Appendix 1 Previous Studies of the Codex Sancti Paschalis 219 Appendix 2 Liturgical Contents of the Codex Sancti Paschalis 224 Bibliography 247 1. Primary 247 1.1 Manuscripts Consulted 248 2. Secondary 249 Index of Modern Authors 265 Index of Subjects 267

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Book SynopsisThe Ideal Ruler in Medieval Bohemia discusses the development of medieval concepts and ideas about just and unjust rulership in medieval Bohemia. This theme is examined in the context of the European political thinking between 6th and 14th centuries. Robert Antonín provides new insights into interpretations of medieval sources of various kinds and asks innovative questions regarding the legitimization of monarchic power, the importance of Saint Wenceslaus, the role of ancient and biblical motifs in the Czech sources, and the influence of chivalric ideals on concepts of power. The theme of the book revolves around medieval perceptions of ideal rulership, which is seen as one of the cultural-anthropological constants shaping the social reality of the contemporary world.

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Book SynopsisIn Shanghai Filmmaking, Huang Xuelei invites readers to go on an intimate, detailed, behind-the-scenes tour of the world of early Chinese cinema. She paints a nuanced picture of the Mingxing Motion Picture Company, the leading Chinese film studio in the 1920s and 1930s, and argues that Shanghai filmmaking involved a series of border-crossing practices. Shanghai filmmaking developed in a matrix of global cultural production and distribution, and interacted closely with print culture and theatre. People from allegedly antagonistic political groupings worked closely with each other to bring a new form of visual culture and a new body of knowledge to an audience in and outside China. By exploring various border crossings, this book sheds new light on the power of popular cultural production during China’s modern transformation.Trade Review“Huang Xuelei invites readers to go on a delightful tour that will familiarize them with the unforgettable personalities and practices responsible for the remarkable Mingxing story. When this special tour is over, readers will know much more about the complex origins of Chinese filmmaking and how these origins help us better understand the complicated world of Chinese filmmaking today.” Paul G. Pickowicz, University of California, San Diego "[Huang]'s interdisciplinary approach ultimately adds richness to our understanding of Mingxing, and the historiographical method of multiple strands provides us with a comprehensive and palimpsestic picture. [Huang] argues that melodrama is the social form and the narrative mode favored by all, thereby explaining its dominance in Mingxing production. [Huang], like some scholars of Chinese cinema, has traced the cross-cultural influence of melodrama in, for instance, transnational remakes or adaptation while noting the multiplicity of genres produced by Mingxing." Xiangyang Cindy Chen, independent scholar, China Review International, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2014. "Shanghai Filmmaking [is] a key volume in the rapidly expanding library of books on Chinese cinema of the Republican era, and one which will have lasting value for scholars for years to come." -Chris Berry, The China Quarterly, Volume 221, March 2015, pp 279-280.Table of ContentsFigures, Charts, and Tables Conventions and Abbreviations Acknowledgements Foreword Paul G. Pickowicz INTRODUCTION: Shanghai Filmmaking: Border-crossing Practices PART I PRODUCTION 1. The Business 2. Players in the 1920s: Interconnecting, Mediating 3. Players in the 1930s: Contestation? Collaboration? PART II PRODUCT 4. The Medium: Inside Glocal Mediascapes 5. The Narrative (I): Melodrama as a Social Form 6. The Narrative (II): Melodramas Fit for All 7. The Meaning: Toward a Sentimental Education EPILOGUE: Toward a Glocal Viewing Public Appendix I: Filmography Appendix II: Mingxing Personnel Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis is the first study in any language to trace the emergence of the art historical interest in icon painting in the nineteenth century with its evident impact on the course of Russian modernism in the twentieth century. Given the surge in popularity of the Russian avant-garde, a book devoted to the gradual awareness of the artistic value of icons and their effect on Russian aesthetics is timely. The discoveries, the false starts, the incompetence, the interaction of dilettantes and academics, the meddling of tsars and church officials, all make for a fascinating tale of growing cultural awarenss. It is a story that prepares the ground for the explosioin of Russian cultural creativity and acceptability in the early twentieth century.Trade Review"a superb English translation of Gerold Vzdornov’s 1986 seminal study of the nineteenth century’s discovery and study of Russian medieval icons and frescoes within imperial Russia. The welcome English version of one of his encyclopedic and beautifully illustrated monographs should become a staple of every university library and essential reading for scholars and students interested in the history and culture of imperial Russia." "The evidence and conclusions of this monograph should shatter once and for all various preconceived notions that the destruction of Russian religious art began with the Bolshevik regime, that restoration work always involved modern understandings of the word “restoration,” and that Russian medieval painting was revered throughout the ages." "Through the lens of art history Vzdornov delivers nothing less than a reinterpretation of late imperial Russian history and a chronicling of the destruction of much of ancient medieval Russian and Ukrainian art up through the turn of the twentieth century. It is little wonder that medievalists and early modernists often have to rely on surviving embroideries and manuscript illustrations to reconstruct the art and symbolism of their eras." Christine D. Worobec, review of The History of the Discovery and Study of Russian Medieval Painting, by Gerol’d I. Vzdornov, Journal of Icons Studies 2 (2019) - https://doi.org/10.36391/JIS2/006BRTable of ContentsPreface Chapter One General Information on Russian Icons and Frescoes The religious nature of Medieval Russian painting. — Untoward conditions of icon preservation. The destruction of surface texture and the darkening of the icon’s protective coat. Restoration techniques. — Mural paintings and causes of their poor condition. — Seventeenth-century conservation in the Moscow Kremlin. — On the rare deliberate alterations of painting in Rus'. — The eighteenth-century attitude to works of antiquity. — “Conservation" in the reign of Catherine II. — Medieval Russian painting and Mikhail Lomonosov. — Jacob von Stählin’s materials and their significance for the history of Russian art. Chapter Two First Steps in the Discovery of Medieval Russian Painting Russian antiquities discovered in the late eighteenth century. — Historico-archaeological expedition of K. M. Borozdin (1809—10). — From monuments of written language to those of painting. N. M. Karamzin’s comment on the manuscript illuminations and mosaics of the Kievan St. Sophia. — The fate of the frescoes of the St. George Church in Staraya Ladoga. — P. I. Keppen and his List of Russian Monuments Subservient to the Compilation of the History of Arts and National Palaeography (1822). — Prerequisites for the growth of public interest in Russia’s history: the upsurge of popular-patriotic sentiment during the war against Napoleon; the aesthetic of romanticism in literature and art; the internal policy of Nicholas I. Chapter Three The Artist-Archaeologist F. G. Solntsev and the Artist-Restorer N. I. Podkliuchnikov F. G. Solntsev and his artistic and archaeological activities. — The uncovering of the frescoes of the St. Demetrius Cathedral in Vladimir. — Restoration of wall paintings in the Kievan St. Sophia. — The 1842 law on the preservation of monuments. — Once again concerning the fate of the frescoes in Staraya Ladoga. — The beginning of conservation work in Moscow. — N. I. Podkliuchnikov as first professional restorer of medieval Russian painting. — The conservation of the iconostases in the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin and the church in the village of Vasil'evskoe near Shuia. — F. G. Solntsev’s drawings in Drevnosti Rossiiskogo Gosudarstva (Antiquities of the Russian State). — Publication of mosaics and frescoes of the Kievan St. Sophia. — Addendum: the artist-archaeologist N. N. Martynov and his collection of sketches of medieval paintings of Novgorod, Pskov, and Staraya Ladoga. Chapter Four The 1840s: Men of Letters, Palaeologists, Collectors N. D. Ivanchin-Pisarev and S. P. Shevyrev. — Historico-archaeological works of I. M. Snegirev and I. P. Sakharov. — The Old Believer community and its significance in the preservation of old artworks. — I. M. Snegirev’s discourses with icon painters and connoisseurs of icon painting at the Preobrazhenskoe and Rogozhskoe cemeteries. — Private and public collections of icons. Criteria for their selection. — Moscow home chapels (molennye) as described by F. I. Buslaev. — A. F. Sorokin’s collection. Classification of Sorokin collection of icons in accordance with notes made by the collector. — Ancestral collections. Icons of the Stroganov school in S. G. Stroganov’s collection. — M. P. Pogodin’s old artworks repository. — D. A. Rovinskii and his book, Obozrenie ikonopisaniia v Rossii do kontsa XVII veka (A Survey of Icon Painting in Russia up to the End of the Seventeenth Century). Chapter Five F. I. Buslaev and His Contemporaries The 1860s Narodnost' as the key idea of the era. — Precursors of Moscow museums. The Moscow Public Museum and the Rumiantsev Museum. — P. I. Sevast'ianov and his archaeological expeditions and collections. — A. E. Viktorov. First publications of the Moscow Public Museum. — The Society of Medieval Russian Art at the Moscow Public Museum. The Society’s publications. — F. I. Buslaev. His biography and works on art. — Foreign critics’ comments on Russian art as reviewed by F. I. Buslaev. — S. D. Filimonov as editor, scholar, and collector. — Russian antiquities assembled at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. — V. A. Prokhorov. His journals, Christian Antiquities and Archaeology and Russian Antiquities. — V. A. Prokhorov’s lectures on the history of Medieval Russian art delivered at the Academy of Arts. Chapter Six Learned Societies The flourishing of learned societies in the second half of the nineteenth century. — Russian Archaeological Society. — Archimandrite Makarii (Macarius) and his church-archaeological descriptions. — Once more on the Russian Archaeological Society. — A. V. Prakhov. His scholarly and artistic discoveries in Kiev, Vladimir-Volynskii, and Chernigov. A. V. Prakhov’s work as a copyist. — The Moscow Archaeological Society. — Count A. S. Uvarov’s views on medieval Russian art. — Once more on the Moscow Archaeological Society. — The discovery of frescoes on the altar-screen of the Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin. — The discovery of murals in the Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir. — The restoration of frescoes in the Annunciation Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. — The renovation of sixteenth-century murals in the Dormition Cathedral of the Sviiazhskii Monastery. — The restoration of the iconostasis in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Smolensk at the Novodevichii Convent in Moscow. — The Archaeological Commitee and the Academy of Arts. — The architect V. V. Suslov and his restorations in Pereslavl-Zalesskii, Pskov, and Novgorod. — Copying of frescoes in Staraia Ladoga, Mirozh, and the St. Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod. — The Society of Lovers of Ancient Literature and Art. Chapter Seven Museums, Private Collections, and Exhibitions The concept of a national museum as presented in the projects of F. P. Adelung and G. von Wiechman. — The Historical Museum in Moscow. I. E. Zabelin and V. N. Shchepkin. — The museum in Tver. A. K. Zhiznevskii. — The Rostov museum. — Provincial statistical boards and learned archival commissions. — Church museums. — The Synodal vestry in the Moscow Kremlin. The Archimandrite Savva (Sabbas) and his Index for the viewing of the vestry. — The museum of church archaeology at the Kiev Ecclesiastical Academy. N. I. Petrov. — The collections of A. E. Sorokin, A. N. Murav'ev, and Porfirii Uspenskii. — Museums of church archaeology at the ecclesiastical academies of Moscow and St. Petersburg. — The department of church archaeology at the Society of Lovers of Spiritual Enlightenment and the Society’s museum. — The Tula eparchial depository of antiquities. Depositories of antiquities in Vladimir and Archangel. — Private museums of V. A. Prokhorov, F. M. Pliushkin, A. S. Uvarov, and P. I. Shchukin. — The collectors N. M. and A. M. Postnikov and I. L. Silin. Antiquaries T. F. and S. T. Bolshakov. — N. S. Leskov and his contribution to the popularization of Medieval Russian painting. — Russian antiquities at the World Exposition in Paris in 1867. — Exhibitions at archaeological congresses. Church antiquities at the exhibition of the Eighth Archaeological Congress in Moscow in 1890. — The art and archaeology exhibition in St. Petersburg in 1898. On the Moscow exhibitions of the representations of Christ and the Mother of God in 1896 and 1897. Chapter Eight Academy and University Scholarship Medieval Russian painting as reflected in the Proceedings of the Second Department of the Academy of Sciences. I. I. Sreznevskii. — Descriptions of manuscript collections and single codices as a source for the study of Byzantine and Russian miniatures. V. N. Shchepkin’s views on the illuminated manuscripts. — Chairs of the history of art in metropolitan and provincial universities. — N. P. Kondakov. The Odessa period of his life and work: from classical archaeology to the history of Byzantine art. — Kondakov’s contemporaries. — The St. Petersburg period of Kondakov’s life and work: from Byzantine to Russian antiquities. The importance of his report “On the Scientific Objectives of the History of Medieval Russian Art.” — V. V. Stasov. His articles on art. The atlas The Slavonic and Eastern Ornament in Ancient and Modern Manuscripts (1887). — Problems of art and literature in works by A. I. Kirpichnikov. — Church archaeology as a subject of study and teaching in theological academies. I. D. Mansvetov, A. A. Dmitrievskii, A. P. Golubtsov. N. V. Pokrovskii and his iconographic investigations. — Art issues in E. E. Golubinskii’s History of the Russian Church. — E. K. Redin and D. V. Ainalov. Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisDomestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. Poorly paid or even unpaid, this work has been assigned to women in most societes and occasionally to men often as enslaved, indentures, "adopted" workers. While some use domestic service as training for their own future independent households, others are confined to it for life and try to avoid damage to their identities (Part One). Employment conditions are even worse in colonizer-colonized dichotomies, in which the subalternized have to run the households of administrators who believe they are running an empire (Part Two). Societies and states set the discriminatory rules, those employed develop strategies of resistance or self-protection (Part Three). A team of international scholars addresses these issues globally with a deep historical background. Contributors are: Ally Shireen, Eileen Boris, Dana Cooper, Jennifer Fish, David R. Goodman, Mary Gene De Guzman, Jaira Harrington, Victoria Haskins, Dirk Hoerder, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Majda Hrženjak, Elizabeth Hutchison, Dimitris Kalantzopoulos, Bela Kashyap, Marta Kindler, Anna Kordasiewicz, Ms Lokesh, Sabrina Marchetti, Robyn Pariser, Jessica Richter, Magaly Rodríguez García, Raffaella Sarti, Adéla Souralová, Yukari Takai, and Andrew Urban.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... ix Illustrations and Figures ... x List of Contributors ... xi 1 Domestic Workers of the World: Histories of Domestic Work as Global Labor History ... 1 Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger and Dirk Hoerder 2 Historians, Social Scientists, Servants and Domestic Workers: Fifty Years of Research on Domestic and Care Work ... 25 Raffaella Sarti 3 Historical Perspectives on Domestic and Care-Giving Workers’ Migrations: A Global Approach ... 61 Dirk Hoerder PART 1 Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-Assertion 4 Introduction: Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-assertion ... 113 Dirk Hoerder 5 Slovenian Domestic Workers in Italy: A Borderlands Care Chain over Time ... 120 Majda Hrženjak 6 Ties that Bind: Localizing the Occupational Motivations that Drive Non-Union Affiliated Domestic Workers in Salvador, Brazil ... 137 Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman and Jaira J. Harrington 7 Maid-of-all-Work or Professional Nanny? The Changing Character of Domestic Work in Polish Households, Eighteenth Century to the Present 158 Marta Kindler and Anna Kordasiewicz  8 Mutual Emotional Relations in Caregiving Work at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Vietnamese Families and Czech Nannies-Grandmothers ... 182 Adéla Souralová 9 Making the Personal Political: The First Domestic Workers’ Strike in Pune, Maharashtra ... 202 Lokesh 10 Ambivalence of Return Home: Revaluating Transnational Trajectories of Filipina Live-In Domestic Workers and Caregivers in Toronto from 1970 to 2010 ... 222 Yukari Takai with Mary Gene De Guzman PART 2 Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household 11 Introduction: Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household ... 245 Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk 12 Slavery, Servility, Service: The Cape of Good Hope, the Natal Colony, and the Witwatersrand, 1652–1914 ... 254 Shireen Ally 13 The Servant Problem: African Servants the Making of European Domesticity in Colonial Tanganyika ... 271 Robyn Allyce Pariser 14 Imperial Divisions of Labor: Chinese Servants and Racial Reproduction in the White Settler Societies of California and the Anglophone Pacific, 1870–1907 ... 296 Andrew Urban 15 “The Matter of Wages Does not Seem to be Material”: Native American Domestic Workers’ Wages under the Outing System in the United States, 1880s–1930s ... 323 Victoria K. Haskins 16 Who’s in Charge, The Government, the Mistress, or the Maid? Tracing the History of Domestic Workers in Southeast Asia ... 346 Bela Kashyap 17 Migrant Domestic Work through the Lens of “Coloniality”: Narratives from Eritrean Afro-Surinamese Women ... 366 Sabrina Marchetti PART 3 From Servitude to Domestic Service: The Role of International Bodies, States and Elites for the Changing Conditions in Domestic Work between the 19th and 20th Century 18 From Servitude to Domestic Service: The Role of International Bodies, States and Elites for Changing Conditions in Domestic Work Between the 19th and 20th Centuries. An Introduction ... 389 Silke Neunsinger 19 Reconfiguring Household Slavery in Twentieth Century Fes, Morocco ... 400 R. David Goodman 20 Child Slavery, Sex Trafficking or Domestic Work? The League of Nations and Its Analysis of the Mui Tsai System ... 428 Magaly Rodríguez García 21 Domestic work in Cyprus, 1925–1955: Motivations, Working Conditions and the Colonial Legal Framework ... 451 Dimitris Kalantzopoulos 22 Employing Migrant Domestic Workers in Urban Yemen: A New Form of Social Distinction ... 465 Marina de Regt 23 What is “Domestic Service” Anyway? Producing Household Labourers in Austria (1918–1938) ... 484 Jessica Richter 24 “The Problem of Domestic Service in Chile, 1924–1952” ... 511 Elizabeth Quay Hutchison 25 Decent Work for Domestics: Feminist Organizing, Worker Empowerment, and the ILO ... 530 Eileen Boris and Jennifer N. Fish Index ... 553

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Book SynopsisThe dry climate of Egypt has preserved about 130,000 Arabic documents, mostly on papyrus and paper, covering the period from the 640s to 1517. Up to now, historical research has mostly relied on literary sources; yet, as in study of the history of the Ancient World and medieval Europe, using original documents will radically challenge what literary sources tell us about the Islamic world. The renaissance of Arabic papyrology has become obvious by the founding of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) at the Cairo conference (2002), and by its subsequent conferences in Granada (2004), Alexandria (2006), Vienna (2009), and Tunis (2012). This volume collects papers given at the Vienna conference, including editions of previously unpublished Coptic and Arabic documents, as well as historical and linguistic studies based on documentary evidence from Early Islamic Egypt. With contributions by: Anne Boud’hors; Florence Calament; Alain Delattre; Werner Diem; Alia Hanafi; Wadād al-Qāḍī; Ayman A. Shahin; Johannes Thomann and Jacques van der Vliet. For more titles about Papyrology, please click here.Trade Review"More than a book on astronomy, calligraphy, herbs, on the economy of the monasteries, or the administation of the Umayyad era - all this valuable information discovered in papyri found, lost and re-discovered, unearthed, decodified, studied and treasured at various museums of the world, this volume is testimony of the toilsome on-going process of researching the fascinating field of papyrology and the need to perceive it withing the wider field of the history of culture." Stavros NikolaidisTable of ContentsContents Preface vii Contributors x Quoted Editions xiii Plates xvii 1 Three Remarkable Arabic Documents from the Heidelberg Papyrus Collection (First-Third/Seventh-Ninth Centuries) 1 Werner Diem 2 Pour une étude des archives coptes de Medinet el-Fayoum (P.Louvre inv.e 10253, e 6893, e 6867 et e 7395) 23 Florence Calament and Anne Boud’hors 3 Death Dates in Umayyad Stipends Registers (Dīwān al-ʿAṭāʾ)? The Testimony of the Papyri and the Literary Sources 59 Wadād al-Qāḍī 4 Remarques sur la taxation au monastère de Baouît au début de l’époque arabe 83 Alain Delattre 5 Schreibübung und Schriftübungszettel zwischen Theorie und Praxis 95 Ayman A. Shahin 6 An Arabic Ephemeris for the Year 931–932ce 115 Johannes Thomann 7 Nekloni (al-Naqlūn) and the Coptic Account Book British Library Or.13885 153 Jacques van der Vliet 8 Two Arabic Documents from Cairo and Copenhagen 168 Alia Hanafi Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the social, institutional and cultural setting of medical practices in the medieval town of Montpellier which boasted one of the first universities of the middle ages and a famous school of medicine. Some of its most celebrated masters and their medical works have been thoroughly studied but few of them try to put these in context with a thriving urban community of merchants and craftsmen that were at the core of the city council. Their concurrent efforts will endow Montpellier of a rich health care system featuring not only the university masters but also the city’s barber-surgeons and apothecaries. Their collective fate is revealed here in an integrated picture of health and society in the middle ages.Table of ContentsTable des illustrations ix Remerciements xi Abréviations et conventions xiii Introduction 1 Préambule: Montpellier, Xe-XVe siècles 16 Partie 1: Le milieu de la santé à Montpellier : contexte institutionnel 1 Les médecins à travers les statuts de l’école de médecine (1220–1360) 25 Une premiere phase (fin XIIe–milieu XIVe) 26 Une deuxieme phase (1360–1500) 69 2 Les chirurgiens, les barbiers 88 La chirurgie scolastique a Montpellier 91 Les chirurgiens dans la ville 103 Les statuts des barbiers-chirurgiens 106 La chirurgie a l’Universite 116 3 Les épiciers, les apothicaires 120 Le sement des epiciers-apothicaires 122 Une supplique pour l’independance du metier 126 Partie 2: Cursus et carrières 4 Cursus et carrières des médecins 135 Le mentorat 135 Les medecins juifs et l’apprentissage de la medecine 142 Cheminements et carrieres 144 La pratique aupres des grands: les cours, lieux d’echanges intellectuels 158 L’ecriture ou la didactique de la medecine 171 La traduction a Montpellier 189 5 Apprentissage et établissement des métiers de la santé 222 Apprentissage et pratique des barbiers et chirurgiens 222 Apprentissage et pratique des apothicaires 231 Partie 3: Pratiques de soins et santé publique 6 Les praticiens au service de la ville 247 Quelques elements d’historiographie 248 Hopitaux et charite a Montpellier XIIe-XVIe siecles 252 La ville et l’organisation sanitaire 259 7 La peste et la lèpre Deux préoccupations majeures du consulat 279 La lepre 279 L’examen de ≪ leprosite ≫ et la ville de Montpellier 293 La peste a Montpellier 303 Partie 4: Économie et société 8 Le statut économique des intervenants de la santé 333 Evaluation des patrimoines 333 Evaluation des activites economiques 355 9 Sociabilité du milieu de la santé à Montpellier 375 Les solidarites familiales 377 Les solidarites associatives 394 10 La médecine dans les marges 423 Enseignement et pratique de la medecine 423 Montpellier et les sciences marginales 434 Conclusion 476 Appendice: Procès de Gaucelm Gracie contre les maîtres de l’université des médecins de Montpellier 489 Annexe I: Rotation des lectures à l’Université des médecins de Montpellier (1488–1500) 507 Annexe II: Registres notariés 512 Annexe III: Consuls du métier de barbier auprès du consulat de 1353 à 1422 515 Sources et bibliographie 517 Index 583

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Book SynopsisGlobal Convict Labour offers a global history of convict labour across many of the regimes of punishment that have appeared from Antiquity to the present, including transportation, prisons, workhouses and labour camps. The editors' essay surveys the available literature, and sets the theoretical basis to approach the issue. The fifteen chapters explore the genealogies of convict labour and its relationships with coloniality and governmentality. The volume re-establishes convict labour firmly within labour history, as one of the entangled, multiple labour relations that have punctuated human history. Similarly, it places convictism back within migration history at large, bridging the gap between the growing literature on convict transportation and research on slavery and other forms of free and bonded migration. Contributors are: Carlos Aguirre, David Arnold, Marc Buggeln, Timothy Coates, Christian G. De Vito, Mary Gibson, Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga, Stacey Hynd, Padraic Kenney, Alex Lichtenstein, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Alice Rio, Ricardo D. Salvatore, Jean-Lucien Sanchez, Pieter Spierenburg, Stephan Steiner, Laurens E. Tacoma, Heather Ann Thompson, Lynne Viola.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables List of Contributors Editors’ preface Christian G. De Vito and Alex Lichtenstein Writing a global history of convict labour Christian G. De Vito and Alex Lichtenstein PART ONE GENEALOGIES OF CONVICT LABOUR Contextualising condemnation to hard labour in the Roman empire Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga and Laurens E. Tacoma Penal enslavement in the early middle ages Alice Rio Prison and convict labour in early modern Europe Pieter Spierenburg “An Austrian Cayenne.” Convict labour and deportation in the Habsburg empire of the early modern period Stephan Steiner The long view of convict labour in the Portuguese empire, 1415-1932 Timothy J. Coates Convict labour extraction and transportation from Britain and Ireland, 1615-1870 Hamish Maxwell-Stewart PART TWO COLONIALITY, ETHNICITY, RACIALISM AND CONVICT LABOUR Labouring for the Raj: convict work regimes in colonial India, 1836-1939 David Arnold The relegation of recidivists in French Guiana in the 19th and 20th Centuries Jean-Lucien Sanchez “…a weapon of immense value”? Convict labour in British colonial Africa, c. 1850-1950s Stacey Hynd Colonies of settlement or places of banishment and torment? Penal colonies and convict labour in Latin America, c. 1800-1940 Ricardo D. Salvatore and Carlos Aguirre PART THREE CONVICT LABOUR AND GOVERNMENTALITY Gender and convict labour: the Italian case in global context Mary Gibson Forced labour in Nazi concentration camps Marc Buggeln Historicising the Gulag Lynne Viola “A defilade of trick ponies”: work and physical experience in the political prison Padraic Kenney Rethinking working class struggle through the lens of the Carceral state: toward a labour history of inmates and guards Heather Ann Thompson Bibliography Index of places

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Book SynopsisTapestry of Light offers an account of the psychic, intellectual, and cultural aftermath of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Drawing on a wide range of works including essay, fiction, memoir, painting and film, the book explores links between history, trauma and haunting. Challenging the leftist currents in Cultural Revolution scholarship, the tone pervading the book is a rhythm of melancholia, indeterminacy but also hope. Huang demonstrates that aesthetic afterlives resist both the conservative nostalgia for China’s revolutionary past as well as China’s elated, false confidence in the market-driven future. Huang engages with prominent Chinese intellectuals, writers, artists and filmmakers, including Ba Jin, Han Shaogong, Hong Ying, Zhang Xiaogang, Jiang Wen and Ann Hui.Trade Review"Tapestry of Light offers an intriguing take on how the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, and the silence/secrecy surrounding some of its horrors, can continue to shape the aesthetics of literature, art, and cinema. [...] constitutes an interesting and valuable intervention, laying the foundation for a timely and much needed discussion of the past, trauma, and artistic expression in the continuing aftermath of that period of history." Rebecka Eriksson, Lund University, MLCL Resource Center Publication, October 2015 "Yiju Huang's gracefully written monograph contributes to the studies of the Cultural Revolution with a theoretically rigorous approach and an ingenious emphasis on elaborating the signification of this turbulent period by considering what amounts to its traumatic afterlives. [...] Huang's book is not one to be skimmed through. The wandering, fragmented nature of its highly evocative prose gives rise to illuminating sparks that ultimately form a collective tapestry of light resisting totalization and universalization. [...] The monograph is a necessary addition to any collection on the cultural historical ramifications of the Cultural Revolution." ZHANG Zhen, Union College, Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, Vol. 9, No. 4, 2016Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1 Introduction Embroidering a Tapestry of Hope 2 Familial Secrets Mao’s Famine in Hong Ying’s Daughter of the River 3 Aesthetic of Heterogeneity Roots in Han Shaogong’s Theoretical and Literary Writings 4 Ghostly Vision Zhang Xiaogang’s “Bloodline: Big Family” 5 Protean Youth Redemptive Poetics in In the Heat of the Sun and The Postmodern Life of My Aunt Coda Ba Jin: Toward an Ethical Relation to History Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe four Livres des procurateurs de la nation germanique de l’Université d’Orléans (1444-1602) are a unique source for the history of European universities. The quarterly reports of the presidents of the association of law students allow us to reconstitute in detail the everyday life of students from the Germanic countries during the Renaissance. From the published first , second and third Livres between 1444-1587 (same authors, Brill 1971-2013) it appears that the alumni got key positions in Church and State in their homelands. The reports of the fourth Livre for the years 1587-1602 describe the fortunes of the German Nation and the University and offer a unique look at the role of Orleans and its graduates in the religious wars and the growing confessionalisation of Europe.

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Book SynopsisThe chapters presented in this volume represent a wide variety of Indian diasporic experiences. From indenture labour to the present day immigrations, Indian diasporic narrative is one that offers opportunities to evaluate afresh notions of ethnicity, race, caste, gender and religious diversity. From victim discourse to narratives of optimism and complexities of identity issues, the Indian diaspora has exhibited characteristics that enable us as scholars to construct theoretical views on the diaspora and migration. The cases included in this volume will illumine such theoretical ideas. The readers will certainly be able to appreciate the diversity and the depth of these narratives and gain insight into the social and cultural and religious world of the diaspora.

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Book SynopsisAn urban biography, Brody: A Galician Border City in the Long Nineteenth Century reconciles 150 years of the town’s socioeconomic history with its cultural memory. The first comprehensive study of this city under Habsburg-Austrian rule, Börries Kuzmany advises against reading urban history solely through the national lens. Besides exploring Brody’s extraordinary ethno-confessional structure—Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians—Kuzmany examines the interrelation between the city’s geographical location at the imperial border, its standing as a key commercial hub in East-Central Europe, and its position as a major springboard for the dissemination of the Haskalah in Galicia and the Russian Empire. After delving into the contradictory perceptions of Brody in travelogues, fiction and memory books, Kuzmany uses contemporary and historical photographs to provide an illustrated walking tour of this now Ukrainian town.Table of ContentsPreface List of figures, maps and tables List of abbreviations and specific terms 1 Introduction Part I: The Economic Rise and Fall of the Town of Brody 2 The Success Story (1630–1815) Part II: An Extraordinary Galician Small Town 4 Austria’s Most Jewish City 5 The Christian Minorities 6 Religion–Language–Nation School: A Multicultural Lebenswelt 7 Border City Part III: Perceptions of Brody in History 8 Placing Brody 9 Places of Memory in and of Brody 10 Conclusion: Brody—A Story of Failed Success? Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. In Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue Durée Perspective, eleven historians bring their knowledge and insights to bear on the long sweep of Southeast Asian history. Ranging across many centuries, their contributions seek to identify the repeating patterns in Southeast Asia's past.Trade Review“Since the longue durée is neglected all too often, this volume restores the balance between the short term and long-term in a positive way.” “Taking account of the long-term opens up the analysis to new viewpoints. […] At the same time, however, much of the present analysis of this volume relies on existing research that is based on in-depth studies with a shorter time span. Obviously, both are needed.” Marjolein ’t Hart in bmgn - Low Countries Historical Review 131.2 (2016), review 19 doi: 10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10197Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction: Structures, Cycles, and Scratches on Rocks David Henley and Henk Schulte Nordholt Chapter 2 Deep Forestry: Shaping the Longue Durée of the Forest in the Philippines Greg Bankoff Chapter 3 Breeding and Power in Southeast Asia: Horses and Mules in the Longue Durée William Clarence Smith Chapter 4 Under the Volcano: Stabilizing the Early Javanese State in an Unstable Environment Jan Wisseman Christie Chapter 5 History and Seismology in the Ring of Fire: Punctuating the Indonesian Past Anthony Reid Chapter 6 The Longue Durée in Filipino Demographic History: The Role of Fertility prior to 1800 Linda Newson Chapter 7 Glimpsing Southeast Asian Naturalia in Global Trade, c. 300 BCE-1600 CE Raquel A.G. Reyes Chapter 8 Ages of Commerce in Southeast Asian history David Henley Chapter 9 Pursuing the Invisible: Makassar in Context Heather Sutherland Chapter 10 The Expansion of Chinese Inter-Insular and Hinterland Trade in Southeast Asia, c. 1400-1850 Kwee Hui Kian Chapter 11 From Contest State to Patronage Democracy: The Longue Durée of Clientelism in Indonesia Henk Schulte Nordholt Chapter 12 Visual History: A Neglected Resource for the Longue Durée Jean Gelman Taylor List of Writings of Peter Boomgaard

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Book SynopsisSpoken Word and Social Practice: Orality in Europe (1400-1700) addresses historians and literary scholars. It aims to recapture oral culture in a variety of literary and non-literary sources, tracking the echo of women’s voices, on trial, or bantering and gossiping in literary works, and recapturing those of princes and magistrates, townsmen, villagers, mariners, bandits, and songsmiths. Almost all medieval and early modern writing was marked by the oral. Spoken words and turns of phrase are bedded in writings, and the mental habits of a speaking world shaped texts. Writing also shaped speech; the oral and the written zones had a porous, busy boundary. Cross-border traffic is central to this study, as is the power, range, utility, and suppleness of speech. Contributors are Matthias Bähr, Richard Blakemore, Michael Braddick, Rosanna Cantavella, Thomas V. Cohen, Gillian Colclough, Jan Dumolyn, Susana Gala Pellicer, Jelle Haemers, Marcus Harmes, Elizabeth Horodowich, Carolina Losada, Virginia Reinburg, Anne Regent-Susini, Joseph T. Snow, Sonia Suman, Lesley K. Twomey and Liv Helene Willumsen.Trade Review"This collection of essays successfully recovers and reconstructs a variety of late medieval and early modern oral practices. [...] The essays in this volume provide remarkable insight into late medieval and early modern orality, demonstrating how recovering speech habits also affect larger historical, literary, and cultural discussions. [...] For many who could not read or write, orality provided a form of power as well as a sense of community and belonging. This theme courses throughout many of the essays in this volume, and indeed, is what makes it such a strong and intriguing read for historians and literary scholars alike." Chelsea McKelvey, Southern Methodist University in: Sixteenth Century Journal 48/2 (2017), pp. 505-506. "From the first cry at birth to the last words on the deathbed, oral communication is essential to humankind. Spoken words transmit ideas, shape identities, manage power, give pleasure. Obvious, yes, and yet all too easy to forget when interpreting the past through silent writings, images, and objects. Orality, nevertheless, was even more pervading in medieval and early modern times than today, and its interactions with writing more complex and mutual. Scholars are increasingly aware that recovering this dimension, albeit difficult and uncertain, is potentially revealing—as this book confirms.[...] thanks to the wide scope of its case studies, together with the methodological relevance of some, this collection has undoubtedly something valuable to offer to anyone interested in the study of oral culture and communication as an opportunity to sharpen and even transform our understanding of the Renaissance world." Luca Degl’Innocenti, Università degli Studi di Firenze, in: Renaissance Quarterly, 71/1 (2018), pp. 278-279Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements ix List of Figures x List of Contributors xi Life and Works of Alexander Francis Cowan xii Bibliography of Alexander Cowan xiV Introduction 1 Thomas V. Cohen and Lesley K. Twomey Witches’ Words 1 Oral Transfer of Ideas about Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Norway 47 Liv Helene Willumsen 2 St Helena and Love Magic: From the Spanish Inquisition to the Internet 84 Susana Gala Pellicer Words on Trial 3 The Power of the Spoken Word Depositions of the Imperial Chamber Court: Power, Resistance, and ‘Orality’ 115 Matthias Bähr 4 Tracking Conversation in the Italian Courts 139 Thomas V. Cohen Preaching the Word 5 Tears for Fears: Mission Preaching in Seventeenth-Century France – a Double Performance 185 Anne Régent-Susini 6 Powerful Words: St Vincent Ferrer’s Preaching and the Jews in Medieval Castile 206 Carolina Losada 7 ‘A Most Notable Spectacle’: Early Modern Easter Spital Sermons 228 Sonia Suman Word on the Street 8 Orality and Mutiny: Authority and Speech amongst the Seafarers of Early Modern London 253 Richard J. Blakemore 9 ‘A Blabbermouth Can Barely Control His Tongue’: Political Poems, Songs and Prophecies in the Low Countries (Fifteenth–Sixteenth Centuries) 280 Jan Dumolyn and Jelle Haemers 10 Proverbs and Princes in Post-Reformation England 300 Marcus Harmes and Gillian Colclough Gossip and Gossipers 11 The Meanings of Gossip in Sixteenth-Century Venice 321 Elizabeth Horodowich 12 Gossip and Social Standing in Celestina: Verbal Venom as Art 343 Joseph T. Snow Prayer, Teaching, and Religious Talk 13 Oral Rites: Prayer and Talk in Early Modern France 375 Virginia Reinburg 14 The Seducer’s Tongue: Oral and Moral Issues in Medieval Erotodidactic Schooltexts 393 Rosanna Cantavella 15 Preaching God’s Word in a Late-medieval Valencian Convent: Isabel de Villena, Writer and Preacher 421 Lesley K. Twomey 16 Afterword 446 Michael J. Braddick Bibliography 463 Index 486

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Book SynopsisIn Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West, a multi-disciplinary group of scholars advances the theory that charisma may be a quality of art as well as of person. Beginning with the argument that Weberian charisma of person is itself a matter of representation, this volume shows that to study charismatic art is to experiment with a theory of representation that allows for the possibility of nothing less than a breakdown between art and viewer and between art and lived experience. The volume examines charismatic works of literature, visual art, and architecture from England, Northern Europe, Italy, Ancient Greece, and Constantinople and from time periods ranging from antiquity to the beginning of the early modern period. Contributors are Joseph Salvatore Ackley, Paul Binski, Paroma Chatterjee, Andrey Egorov, Erik Gustafson, Duncan Hardy, Stephen Jaeger, Jacqueline E. Jung, Lynsey McCulloch, Martino Rossi Monti, Gavin Richardson, and Andrew Romig.

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Book SynopsisThe Invisible Bicycle brings together different insights into the social, cultural and economic history of the bicycle and cycling in historical eras of ubiquitous bicycle use that have remained relatively invisible in bicycle history. It revisits the typical timeline of cycling’s decline in the 1950s and 1960s and the renaissance beginning in the 1970s by bringing forth the large national and local variations, varying uses and images of the bicycle, and different bicycle cultures as well as their historical background and motivations. To understand the role, possibilities and challenges of the bicycle today, it is necessary to know the history that has formed them. Therefore The Invisible Bicycle is recommended also to present-day practitioners and planners of bicycle mobility. Contributors are: Peter Cox, Martin Emanuel, Tiina Männistö-Funk, Timo Myllyntaus, Nicholas Oddy, Harry Oosterhuis, William Steele, Manuel Stoffers, Sue-Yen Tjong Tjin Tai, Frank Veraart.Table of ContentsPreface  Timo Myllyntaus List of Illustrations, Graphs and Tables Note on Contributors 1 Introduction: The Historical Production of the Invisible and Visible Bicycles  Tiina Männistö-Funk part 1: Discourses and Materialities of the Bicycle 2 Rethinking Bicycle Histories  Peter Cox 3 Entrenched Habit or Fringe Mode: Comparing National Bicycle Policies, Cultures and Histories  Harry Oosterhuis part 2: Political and Economic Shaping of the Bicycle 4 Waves of Cycling Policy: Policies of Cycling, Mobility, and Urban Planning in Stockholm since 1970  Martin Emanuel 5 Making the Bicycle Dutch: The Development of the Bicycle Industry in the Netherlands, 1860–1940  Sue-Yen Tjong Tjin Tai & Frank Veraart Part 3 : Bicycle in the Practices 6 Betting on the Wheel: The Bicycle and Japan’s Post-War Recovery  M. William Steele 7 Modernizing the Bicycle: The International Human-Powered Vehicle Movement and the “Bicycle Renaissance” since the 1970s  Manuel Stoffers 8 History, Tweed and the Invisible Bicycle  Nicholas Oddy Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe four sovereign Indian Ocean states of Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles, the two French overseas departments of Mayotte and Reunion, as well as the British colony of BIOT (Chagos), all form part of Africa. As insular nations and territories in an increasingly globalized, militarized and largely unregulated ocean, they face particular challenges. Commonly overlooked in the fields of African and international studies, this text traces the islands’ history and explores their diverse contemporary social, political and economic trajectories. From human settlement and slavery to conflict resolution and piracy, the relations with continental Africa and the African Union feature prominently. Richly sourced, this comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to Africa’s Indian Ocean islands covers a significant lacuna.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Maps List of Boxes Reference Tables List of Acronyms Preface Introduction: From Zanj to Maersk Madagascar: Old Cultures, Contemporary Crises Comoros: Legacies of Monsoon Trade and Un-Finished Independence Reunion, Mauritius and Seychelles: Creole Islands in Development Mayotte and Chagos: Colonialism Continued Bibliography/References Name Index Indian Ocean Place Names: Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisAmerican Moravians and their Neighbors, 1772-1822, edited by Ulrike Wiethaus and Grant McAllister, offers an interdisciplinary examination of Moravian Americanization in the Early Republic. With an eye toward the communities that surrounded Moravian settlements in the Southeast, the contributors examine cultural, social, religious, and artistic practices of exchange and imposition framed by emergent political structures that encased social privilege and marginalization. Through their multidisciplinary approach, the authors convincingly argue that Moravians encouraged assimilation, converged with core values and political forces of the Early Republic, but also contributed uniquely Moravian innovations. Residual, newly dominant, and increasingly subjugated discourses among Moravians, other European settlers, Indigenous nations and free and enslaved communities of color established the foundations of a new Moravian American identity. Contributors include: Craig D. Atwood, David Bergstone, David Blum, Stewart Carter, Martha B. Hartley, Geoffrey R. Hughes, Winelle Kirton-Roberts, Grant P. McAllister, Thomas J. McCullough, Paul Peucker, Charles D. Rodenbough, John Ruddiman, Jon F. Sensbach, Larry E. Tise, Riddick Weber, and Ulrike Wiethaus.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Southern Moravians, Their Neighbors, and Processes of Americanization in the Early Republic  Grant Profant McAllister and Ulrike Wiethaus PART 1: Foundations 2 The American Plan of Zinzendorf and Spangenberg  Craig Atwood 3 The Transformation of Wachovia: From Anglican Protectorate to Moravian Preserve  Larry E. Tise 4 Black People - White God: Moravianism and the “Cultural Purification” of the Afro-Caribbean in Antigua and Tobago  Winelle Kirton-Roberts 5 An Archives of Truth: Moravian Recordkeeping and Archival Selection  Paul Peucker PART 2: Convergences 6 Traugott Bagge as a Historian of the American Revolution  John A. Ruddiman 7 Early Performances of Haydn’s Creation in the American South: The Moravian Connection  Stewart Carter 8 From Innovation to Imposition: Changing Understandings of the Single Sisters Choir in Salem from 1772–1822  Riddick Weber 9 “The Spirit of Freedom in the Land”: From Immigrants to Americans in the Moravian Experience  Jon Sensbach PART 3: Innovations 10 Moravians and the Celebration of American Figures and Holidays, 1776–1826  Thomas J. McCullough 11 Moravian Architecture Becomes Southern  David Bergstone 12 The Americanization of Moravian Music: An Examination of the Salem Manuscript Books  David Blum 13 Becoming American in Salem’s Congregation Pottery  Geoffrey Hughes PART 4: Segregation 14 The Changing Landscape of Slavery in Salem and its Legacy  Martha Hartley 15 Rejection of the Baptized: Moravians and Slavery  Charles D. Rodenbough 16 The Moravian Easter Morning Services from 1772–1822: Easter and the Birth of American-Moravian Identity  Grant Profant McAllister 17 Becoming American at the Moravian Missions in Springplace and Oothcaloga  Ulrike Wiethaus Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays on Islamic art and architecture in the nineteenth century covers a wide geographical area and draws together different regional elements. The essays devote much attention to social, political, economic and intellectual issues, including the role of tradition and responses to European aesthetics, among them the appropriation of orientalism and the rise of revivalist movements.Trade Review"This volume ...is a valuable contribution to a broader approach of the field." Sophie Makariou, The Louvre Museum in Central Eurasian Reader, 2 (2010). "... einen Grundbaustein für ein Gebiet, von dem zu hoffen ist, dass es in Zukunft weitere beobachtungen finden wird." Silvia Naef, Universität Genf

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Book SynopsisEast and West in the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century examines the (dis)unity of the Roman Empire in the fourth century from different angles, in order to offer a broad perspective on the topic and avoid an overvaluation of the political division of the empire in 395. After a methodological key-paper on the concepts of unity, the other contributors elaborate on these notions from various geo-political perspectives: the role of the army and taxation, geographical perspectives, the unity of the Church and the perception of the divisio regni of 364. Four case-studies follow, illuminating the role of concordia apostolorum, antique sports, eunuchs and the poet Prudentius on the late antique view of the Empire. Despite developments to the contrary, it appears that the Roman Empire remained (to be viewed as) a unity in all strata of society.Trade Review"The underlying features of this book, its chronological focus on the fourth century and its structure, make it essential to anyone interested in understanding the internal unity of the Later Roman Empire. Its focus on the fourth century allows insights into the maintenance of a sense of shared Romanness across the empire at a time when it was increasingly divided politically between two or more emperors. Likewise, its structure permits discussion on wider thematic issues alongside the investigation of how these issues and ideas worked on the ground." Craig Morley, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2016.03.45.Table of ContentsContents List of Maps and Figures List of Contributors Introduction Roald Dijkstra , Sanne van Poppel and Daniëlle Slootjes Part 1 - Geo-political Developments 1 Les discours de l’unité romaine au quatrième siècle Hervé Inglebert 2 Measuring the Power of the Roman Empire David Potter 3 Mapping the New Empire: A Geographical Look at the Fourth Century Giusto Traina 4 Die Synode von Serdika 343: Das Scheitern eines ökumenischen Konzils und seine Folgen für die Einheit der Reichskirche Josef Rist 5 The divisio regni of 364: The End of Unity? Jan Willem Drijvers Part 2 - Unity in the Fourth Century: Four Case Studies 6 Concordia Apostolorum – Concordia Augustorum. Building a Corporate Image for the Theodosian Dynasty Gitte Lønstrup Dal Santo 7 Looking at Athletics in the Fourth Century: The Unifijication of the Spectacle Landscape in East and West Sofie Remijsen 8 Eunuchs in the East, Men in the West? Dis/unity, Gender and Orientalism in the Fourth Century Shaun Tougher 9 Kaiser, Rom und Reich bei Prudentius Christian Gnilka Index

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Book SynopsisPolitics and Cultures of Liberation: Media, Memory, and Projections of Democracy focuses on mapping, analyzing, and evaluating memories, rituals, and artistic responses to the theme of “liberation.” The contributors offer a wide range of diverse intercultural perspectives on media, memory, liberation, (self)Americanization, and conceptualizations of democracy.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction: Politics and Cultures of Liberation Part 1 The Politics and Cultures of Liberation: Marketing, Memory and Mediation An Invasion of a Different Kind: The U.S. Office of War Information and “The Projection of America” Propaganda in the Netherlands, 1944–1945 Marja Roholl Educating the Nation: Jo Spier, Dutch National Identity, and the Marshall Plan in the Netherlands Mathilde Roza From Memory Repression to Memorialization: The Bombardments of Nijmegen 1944 and Mortsel 1943 Joost Rosendaal Playing in the Ruins of Arnhem: Reenacting Operation Market Garden in Theirs Is the Glory László Munteán “Can Anybody Fly This Thing?” Appropriations of History in Reenactments of Operation Market Garden Wolfgang Hochbruck On the Road to Nijmegen—Earle Birney and Alex Colville, 1944–1945 Hans Bak Part 2 The Soundtrack of Liberation Liberation Songs: Music and the Cultural Memory of the Dutch Summer of 1945 Frank Mehring The Reception and Development of Jazz in the Netherlands (1945–1970s) Walter van de Leur Sounds of Freedom, Cosmopolitan Democracy, and Shifting Cultural Politics: From “The Jazz Ambassador Tours” to “The Rhythm Road” Wilfried Raussert Part 3 Transnational Re-Locations Marching Towards Kullman’s Diner: Performing Transnational American Sites (of Memory) in Bavaria Birgit M. Bauridl The Promise of Democracy for the Americas: U.S. Diplomacy and the Meaning(s) of World War II in El Salvador, 1941–1945 Jorrit van den Berk Liberation and Lingering Trauma: U.S. Present and Haitian Past in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker Josef Raab The Japanese American Relocation Center at Heart Mountain and the Construction of the Post-World War II Landscape Eric J. Sandeen Part 4 Transnational Perspectives from the Archives The Cornelius Ryan Collection of World War II Papers Doug McCabe “Quality First!” American Aid to the Nijmegen University Library, 1945–1949 Léon Stapper The Marshall Plan: “A Short Time to Change the World” Linda Christenson and Eric Christenson The Liberation Route Europe: Challenges of Exhibiting Multinational Perspectives Jory Brentjens and Wiel Lenders

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Book SynopsisIn Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond, the Viking World in the East is made more heterogeneous. Baltic Finnic groups, Balts and Sami are integrated into the history dominated by Scandinavians and Slavs. Interaction in the region between Eastern Middle Sweden, Finland, Estonia and North Western Russia is set against varied cultural expressions of identities. Ten scholars approach the topic from different angles, with case studies on the roots of diversity, burials with horses, Staraya Ladoga as a nodal point of long-distance routes, Rus’ warrior identities, early Eastern Christianity, interaction between the Baltic Finns and the Svear, the first phases of ar-Rus dominion, the distribution of Carolingian swords, and Dirhams in the Baltic region. Contributors are Johan Callmer, Ingrid Gustin, Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Valter Lang, John Howard Lind, Marika Mägi, Mats Roslund, Søren Sindbaek, Anne Stalsberg, and Tuukka Talvio.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations VII List of Contributors xi 1 Identity Formation and Diversity: Introduction 1 Johan Callmer, Ingrid Gustin and Mats Roslund 2 Societies East and West of the Baltic Sea: Prehistoric Culture Contacts Revisited 17 Marika Mägi 3 Riding to the Afterworld: Burying with Horses and Riding Equipment in Estonia and the Baltic Rim 48 Valter Lang 4 A Site of Intersection: Staraya Ladoga, Eastern Silver, and Long-Distance Communication Networks in Early Medieval Europe 76 Søren M. Sindbæk 5 Creating a Cultural Expression: On Rus’ Identity and Material Culture 91 Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson 6 “Varangian Christianity” and the Veneration of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian Saints in Early Rus’ 107 John H. Lind 7 The Rise of the Dominion of the ar-Rus in the Northern Parts of Eastern Europe, Seventh to Ninth Centuries a.d.: A Case of Culture Construction 136 Johan Callmer 8 Bringing “the Periphery” into Focus: Social Interaction between Baltic Finns and the Svear in the Viking Age and Crusade Period (c.800 to 1200) 168 Mats Roslund 9 Contacts, Identity, and Hybridity: Objects from South-western Finland in the Birka Graves 205 Ingrid Gustin 10 Swords from the Carolingian Empire to the Baltic Sea and Beyond 259 Anne Stalsberg 11 Dirham Hoards from the Gulf of Finland Region 281 Tuukka Talvio Index 293

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Book SynopsisThe spectacle of the wounded body figured prominently in the Middle Ages, from images of Christ’s wounds on the cross, to the ripped and torn bodies of tortured saints who miraculously heal through divine intervention, to graphic accounts of battlefield and tournament wounds—evidence of which survives in the archaeological record—and literary episodes of fatal (or not so fatal) wounds. This volume offers a comprehensive look at the complexity of wounding and wound repair in medieval literature and culture, bringing together essays from a wide range of sources and disciplines including arms and armaments, military history, medical history, literature, art history, hagiography, and archaeology across medieval and early modern Europe. Contributors are Stephen Atkinson, Debby Banham, Albrecht Classen, Joshua Easterling, Charlene M. Eska, Carmel Ferragud, M.R. Geldof, Elina Gertsman, Barbara A. Goodman, Máire Johnson, Rachel E. Kellett, Ilana Krug, Virginia Langum, Michael Livingston, Iain A. MacInnes, Timothy May, Vibeke Olson, Salvador Ryan, William Sayers, Patricia Skinner, Alicia Spencer-Hall, Wendy J. Turner, Christine Voth, and Robert C. Woosnam-Savage.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements ix List of Figures and Tables xi List of Abbreviations xiii List of Contributors xvi xxiv Introduction: Penetrating Medieval Wounds 1 Larissa Tracy and Kelly DeVries Part 1 The Physicality of Wounds Section 1 Archeology and Material Culture 1 Battle Trauma in Medieval Warfare: Wounds, Weapons and Armor 27 Robert C. Woosnam-Savage and Kelly DeVries 2 “And to describe the shapes of the dead”: Making Sense of the Archaeology of Armed Violence 57 M.R. Geldof 3 Visible Prowess?: Reading Men’s Head and Face Wounds in Early Medieval Europe to 1000 CE 81 Patricia Skinner 4 Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes: Injury and Death in Anglo-Scottish Combat, c. 1296–c.1403 102 Iain A. MacInnes 5 “…Vnnd schüß im vnder dem schwert den ort lang ein zů der brust”: The Placement and Consequences of Sword-blows in Sigmund Ringeck’s Fifteenth-Century Fencing Manual 128 Rachel E. Kellett Section 2 Surgery 6 The Diagnosis and Treatment of Wounds in the Old English Medical Collections: Anglo-Saxon Surgery? 153 Debby Banham and Christine Voth 7 Spitting Blood: Medieval Mongol Medical Practices 175 Timothy May 8 The Wounded Soldier: Honey and Late Medieval Military Medicine 194 Ilana Krug 9 “The Depth of Six Inches”: Prince Hal’s Head-Wound at the Battle of Shrewsbury 215 Michael Livingston Section 3 Law 10 Wounds, Amputations, and Expert Procedures in the City of Valencia in the Early-Fifteenth Century 233 Carmel Ferragud 11 The Mutilation of Derbforgaill 252 Charlene M. Eska Part 2 The Spirituality of Wounds Section 4 Stigmata 12 “The Wounded Surgeon”: Devotion, Compassion and Metaphor in Medieval England 269 Virginia Langum 13 “Scarce anyone survives a heart wound”: The Wounded Christ in Irish Bardic Religious Poetry 291 Salvador Ryan 14 Penetrating the Void: Picturing the Wound in Christ’s Side as a Performative Space 313 Vibeke Olson 15 Wandering Wounds: The Urban Body in Imitatio Christi 340 Elina Gertsman Contents vii Section 5 Passionate Wounds 16 Ascetic Blood: Ethics, Sufffering and Community in Late-Medieval Culture 369 Joshua S. Easterling 17 Christ’s Suppurating Wounds: Leprosy in the Vita of Alice of Schaerbeek (†1250) 389 Alicia Spencer-Hall 18 Wounding the Body and Freeing the Spirit: Dorothea von Montau’s Bloody Quest for Christ, a Late-Medieval Phenomenon of the Extraordinary Kind 417 Albrecht Classen 19 In the Bursting of an Eye: Blinding and Blindness in Ireland’s Medieval Hagiography 448 Máire Johnson Part 3 The Literature of Wounds 20 The Laconic Scar in Early Irish Literature 473 William Sayers 21 “Into the hede, throw the helme and creste”: Head Wounds and a Question of Kingship in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur 496 Larissa Tracy 22 “They … toke their shyldys before them and drew oute their swerdys …”: Inflicting and Healing Wounds in Malory’s Morte Darthur 519 Stephen Atkinson 23 Women’s Wounds in Middle English Romances: An Exploration of Defijilement, Disfijigurement, and a Society in Disrepair 544 Barbara A. Goodman Afterword: The Aftermath of Wounds 572 Wendy J. Turner Bibliography 581 Index 635 645

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Book SynopsisSpace, Place, and Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City offers the first sustained comparative examination of the relationship between confraternal life and the spaces of the late medieval and early modern city. By considering cities large (Rome) and small (Aalst) in regions as disparate as Ireland and Mexico, the essays collected here seek to uncover the commonalities and differences in confraternal practice as they played out on the urban stage. From the candlelit oratory to the bustling piazza, from the hospital ward to the festal table, from the processional route to the execution grounds, late medieval and early modern cities, this interdisciplinary book contends, were made up of fluid and contested ‘confraternal spaces.’ Contributors are: Kira Maye Albinsky, Meryl Bailey, Cormac Begadon, Caroline Blondeau-Morizot, Danielle Carrabino, Andrew Chen, Ellen Decraene, Laura Dierksmeier, Ellen Alexandra Dooley, Douglas N. Dow, Anu Mänd, Rebekah Perry, Pamela A.V. Stewart, Arie van Steensel, and Barbara Wisch.Trade Review"The protocols surrounding ceremonial – both public and private – have deep roots, reaching back for several centuries. Questions about the seniority of election or admission and the appropriate place of an individual in the formal life of an institution have a long history. Precedence and positions of seniority continue to regulate public events. Such questions are no less topical in corporate bodies, such as governmental, educational and religious institutions. In such an environment place is invested with a particular significance. A consideration of these topics is explored in this excellent collection of studies, ranging from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. Space, place and motion are considered in the context of religious fraternities, guilds and companies... This is a pleasing and fine collection of stimulating papers which will be warmly welcomed by students of urban and religious history." Michael Robson, University of Cambridge, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 69.4 (2018).

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the variety of ways in which childhood was experienced, lived and remembered in the late Ottoman Empire and its successor states. The period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a time of rapid change, and the history of childhood reflects the impact of new expectations, lived realities and national responsibilities on the youngest members of societies undergoing monumental change because of ideological, wartime and demographic shifts. Drawing on comparisons both within the Balkans, Turkey and the Arab lands and with Western Europe and beyond, the chapters investigate the many ways in which upheaval and change affected the youth. Particular attention is paid to changing conceptions of childhood, gender roles and newly dominant national imperatives. Contributors include: Elif Akşit, Laurence Brockliss, Nazan Çiçek, Alex Drace-Francis, Benjamin C. Fortna, Naoum Kaytchev, Duygu Köksal, Kathryn Libal, Nazan Maksudyan, Heidi Morrison, and Philipp Wirtz. This title, in its entirety, is available online in Open Access.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Childhood In The Late Ottoman Empire and After Benjamin C. Fortna Introduction The Western Concept of Childhood Laurence Brockliss I CONCEPTIONS OF CHILDHOOD Chapter One The Interplay Between Modernization and the Reconstruction of Childhood: Romantic Interpretations of the Child in Early Republican Era Popular Magazines, 1924–1950 Nazan Çiçek Chapter Two Child Poverty and Emerging Children’s Rights Discourse in Early Republican Turkey Kathryn Libal Chapter Three Nation-Building and Childhood in Early Twentieth-Century Egypt Heidi Morrison II WAR, GENDER AND NATION Chapter Four Becoming a Girl in Ottoman Novels Elif Akşit Chapter Five Conscripts into Soldiers, Peasants into Patriots: The Army and Nation-Building in Serbia and Bulgaria, 1878–1912 Naoum Kaytchev Chapter Six A Triangle of Regrets: Training Ottoman Children in Germany during the First World War Nazan Maksudyan Chapter Seven Bonbons and Bayonets: Mixed Messages of Childhood in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic Benjamin Fortna III REMEMBERING CHILDHOOD Chapter Eight Locating Remembrance: Regimes of Time and Cultures of Autobiography in Post-Independence Romania Alex Drace-Francis Chapter Nine Presenting Ottoman childhoods in post-Ottoman Autobiographies Philipp Wirtz Chapter Ten Escaping to Girlhood in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Demetra Vaka’s and Selma Ekrem’s Childhood Memories Duygu Köksal

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Book SynopsisDomestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. Poorly paid or even unpaid, this work has been assigned to women in most societes and occasionally to men often as enslaved, indentures, "adopted" workers. While some use domestic service as training for their own future independent households, others are confined to it for life and try to avoid damage to their identities (Part One). Employment conditions are even worse in colonizer-colonized dichotomies, in which the subalternized have to run the households of administrators who believe they are running an empire (Part Two). Societies and states set the discriminatory rules, those employed develop strategies of resistance or self-protection (Part Three). A team of international scholars addresses these issues globally with a deep historical background. Contributors are: Ally Shireen, Eileen Boris, Dana Cooper, Jennifer Fish, David R. Goodman, Mary Gene De Guzman, Jaira Harrington, Victoria Haskins, Dirk Hoerder, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Majda Hrženjak, Elizabeth Hutchison, Dimitris Kalantzopoulos, Bela Kashyap, Marta Kindler, Anna Kordasiewicz, Ms Lokesh, Sabrina Marchetti, Robyn Pariser, Jessica Richter, Magaly Rodríguez García, Raffaella Sarti, Adéla Souralová, Yukari Takai, and Andrew Urban.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... ix Illustrations and Figures ... x List of Contributors ... xi 1 Domestic Workers of the World: Histories of Domestic Work as Global Labor History ... 1 Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger and Dirk Hoerder 2 Historians, Social Scientists, Servants and Domestic Workers: Fifty Years of Research on Domestic and Care Work ... 25 Raffaella Sarti 3 Historical Perspectives on Domestic and Care-Giving Workers’ Migrations: A Global Approach ... 61 Dirk Hoerder PART 1 Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-Assertion 4 Introduction: Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-assertion ... 113 Dirk Hoerder 5 Slovenian Domestic Workers in Italy: A Borderlands Care Chain over Time ... 120 Majda Hrženjak 6 Ties that Bind: Localizing the Occupational Motivations that Drive Non-Union Affiliated Domestic Workers in Salvador, Brazil ... 137 Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman and Jaira J. Harrington 7 Maid-of-all-Work or Professional Nanny? The Changing Character of Domestic Work in Polish Households, Eighteenth Century to the Present 158 Marta Kindler and Anna Kordasiewicz  8 Mutual Emotional Relations in Caregiving Work at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Vietnamese Families and Czech Nannies-Grandmothers ... 182 Adéla Souralová 9 Making the Personal Political: The First Domestic Workers’ Strike in Pune, Maharashtra ... 202 Lokesh 10 Ambivalence of Return Home: Revaluating Transnational Trajectories of Filipina Live-In Domestic Workers and Caregivers in Toronto from 1970 to 2010 ... 222 Yukari Takai with Mary Gene De Guzman PART 2 Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household 11 Introduction: Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household ... 245 Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk 12 Slavery, Servility, Service: The Cape of Good Hope, the Natal Colony, and the Witwatersrand, 1652–1914 ... 254 Shireen Ally 13 The Servant Problem: African Servants the Making of European Domesticity in Colonial Tanganyika ... 271 Robyn Allyce Pariser 14 Imperial Divisions of Labor: Chinese Servants and Racial Reproduction in the White Settler Societies of California and the Anglophone Pacific, 1870–1907 ... 296 Andrew Urban 15 “The Matter of Wages Does not Seem to be Material”: Native American Domestic Workers’ Wages under the Outing System in the United States, 1880s–1930s ... 323 Victoria K. Haskins 16 Who’s in Charge, The Government, the Mistress, or the Maid? Tracing the History of Domestic Workers in Southeast Asia ... 346 Bela Kashyap 17 Migrant Domestic Work through the Lens of “Coloniality”: Narratives from Eritrean Afro-Surinamese Women ... 366 Sabrina Marchetti PART 3 From Servitude to Domestic Service: The Role of International Bodies, States and Elites for the Changing Conditions in Domestic Work between the 19th and 20th Century 18 From Servitude to Domestic Service: The Role of International Bodies, States and Elites for Changing Conditions in Domestic Work Between the 19th and 20th Centuries. An Introduction ... 389 Silke Neunsinger 19 Reconfiguring Household Slavery in Twentieth Century Fes, Morocco ... 400 R. David Goodman 20 Child Slavery, Sex Trafficking or Domestic Work? The League of Nations and Its Analysis of the Mui Tsai System ... 428 Magaly Rodríguez García 21 Domestic work in Cyprus, 1925–1955: Motivations, Working Conditions and the Colonial Legal Framework ... 451 Dimitris Kalantzopoulos 22 Employing Migrant Domestic Workers in Urban Yemen: A New Form of Social Distinction ... 465 Marina de Regt 23 What is “Domestic Service” Anyway? Producing Household Labourers in Austria (1918–1938) ... 484 Jessica Richter 24 “The Problem of Domestic Service in Chile, 1924–1952” ... 511 Elizabeth Quay Hutchison 25 Decent Work for Domestics: Feminist Organizing, Worker Empowerment, and the ILO ... 530 Eileen Boris and Jennifer N. Fish Index ... 553

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Book SynopsisThis book is a novel contribution to contemporary research on Simone de Beauvoir, and a defense of the importance of the humanities. It reveals previously unexplored dimensions of Beauvoir's work by exposing her as a significant and inspiring humanist thinker. These essays argue that her works and influence testify to the transformative potential of humanistic research.Trade Review"Rather than dispute Beauvoir's claim that she was an author rather than a philosopher, the ten essays Pettersen (Univ. of Oslo, Norway) and Bjørsnøs (Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology) have collected variously contend that Beauvoir’s work effectively blurs the boundary between literature and philosophy. Four of the essays deal specifically with philosophical themes Beauvoir explores in fiction (in particular in Les Belles images, Les Mandarins, Pyrrhus et Cineas, and Tous les hommes sont mortels); the other essays take up various aspects of her interdisciplinary approach in exploring philosophical questions. Among the more interesting contributions are Stève Bessac-Vaure’s account of Beauvoir’s influence as editor of Les Temps modernes, Erika Ruonakoski’s critique of the attempt to combine existential phenomenology and psychoanalysis in Le Deuxième sexe, and especially Pettersen’s extended discussion of Beauvoir’s concept of moral freedom. For the most part the essays are accessible to a broad range of readers, but the book will be of particular interest to those seeking to link Beauvoir’s philosophical and literary endeavors." Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. CHOICE - October 2015Table of ContentsMARK LETTERI: EDITORIAL FOREWORD MARGARET A. SIMONS: GUEST FOREWORD PREFACE TOVE PETTERSEN AND ANNLAUG BJØRSNØS: INTRODUCTION Part One: CRITICAL THINKING AND METHODOLOGY CHRISTINE DAIGLE: Making the Humanities Meaningful: Beauvoir’s Philosophy and Literature of the Appeal LOUISE RENÉE: Existential Awakening in Simone de Beauvoir’s Les belles images ERIKA RUONAKOSKI : Interdisciplinarity in The Second Sex: Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis STÈVE BESSAC-VAURE: Simone de Beauvoir as Mediator for Foreign Literature in Les Temps Modernes Part Two: FREEDOM, DEPENDENCE, AND AMBIGUITY TOVE PETTERSEN: FIVE Existential Humanism and Moral Freedom in Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethics SAMANTHA BANKSTON: Becoming-Ambiguous: Beauvoir, Deleuze, and the Future of the Humanities GWENDOLYN DOLSKE: Embodiment and Contemplation of Death: A Beauvoirian Analysis Part Three: LITERATURE AS LABORATORY JULIANA DE ALBUQUERQUE KATZ: The Relevance of Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethic/Aesthetic Project to the Humanities ANNLAUG BJØRSNØS: Representing Time: On the Experience of Temporality in The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir BARBARA KLAW: The Relevance of Woolf’s Orlando and Beauvoir’s Tous les hommes sont mortels WORKS CITED ABOUT THE AUTHORS NAME INDEX SUBJECT INDEX

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Book SynopsisBrill's Companion to the Reception of Sophocles offers a comprehensive account of the influence, reception and appropriation of all extant Sophoclean plays, as well as the fragmentary Satyr play The Trackers, from Antiquity to Modernity, across cultures and civilizations, encompassing multiple perspectives and within a broad range of cultural trends and manifestations: literature, intellectual history, visual arts, music, opera and dance, stage and cinematography. A concerted work by an international team of specialists in the field, the volume is addressed to a wide and multidisciplinary readership of classical reception studies, from experts to non-experts. Contributors engage in a vividly and lively interactive dialogue with the Ancient and the Modern, which, while illuminating aspects of ancient drama and highlighting their ever-lasting relevance, offers a thoughtful and layered guide of the human condition.Trade Review"This collection is a wonderful volume, because it presents a complex approach, studying the reception of Sophoclean plays up until recent years. The book is useful for researchers, interested in a specific topic, but it is particularly useful for beginners, because all the papers analyse their materials, sources and adaptations exhaustively, without omitting arguments and ideas that are essential." - Sonia Francisetti Brolin, in: Eisodos, Autumn 2018

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Book SynopsisBritish Communism and the Politics of Race explores the role that the Communist Party of Great Britain played within the anti-racism movement in Britain from the 1940s to the 1980s. As one of the first organisations to undertake serious anti-colonial and anti-racist activism within the British labour movement, the CPGB was a pioneering force that campaigned against racial discrimination, popular imperialism and fascist violence in British society. The book examines the balancing act that the Communist Party negotiated in its anti-racist work, between making appeals to the labour movement to get involved in the fight against racism and working with Britain's ethnic minority communities, who often felt let down by the trade unions and the Labour Party. Transitioning from a class-based outlook to an embrace of the new social movements of the 1960s–70s, the CPGB played an important role in the anti-racist struggle, but by the 1980s, it was eclipsed by more radical and diverse activist organisations.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  Themes  Shifting Away from the Centrality of Class  Thinking Intersectionally about the CPGB and the Politics of ‘Race’  Situating the Party’s Anti-racism within the Wider Scholarship  A Note on Methodology  Book Structure 1 The End of Empire and the Windrush Moment, 1945–60  The Communist Party’s Anti-colonial Traditions  The CPGB and the Era of Decolonisation  Left Nationalism and the Postwar CPGB  The Response of the Communist Party to Commonwealth Migration  The Campaign Against Polish Resettlement  The Legacy of the ‘Battle of Cable Street’ and the CPGB’s Postwar Anti-fascism  Anti-fascist Action against the Fascist Revival of the Union Movement, 1945–51  The Impact of Commonwealth Migrants upon the Party’s Anti-colonial/Anti-racist Outlook  The Nationality Branches  Conclusion 2 Anti-racism and Building the ‘Mass Party’, 1960–9  The Communist Party, Labour and Immigration Controls  The Principle of Immigration Controls  The Campaign for Legislation against Racial Discrimination  The Race Relations Acts Under Labour, 1965–8  The CPGB’s Concept of ‘Race’ in the Post-Colonial Era  The Movement for Colonial Freedom and Moderate Anti-racism  The Beginnings of the ‘British Upturn’ and the Radicalism of ‘1968’  The Trade Unions and Race  The Rise of New Social Movements and Black Radicalism  The Link with International Issues  Capitulating to Racism: Labour and the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968  Integration and ‘Good Race Relations’: The 1968 Race Relations Act  Powellism and the Rise of the National Front  Conclusion 3 The Crisis Emerges, 1970–5  The 1971 Immigration Act and Opposition to the Conservative Government  The Communist Party and the Reaction of the Trade Unions to the Immigration Act  Facing the Limits of Industrial Militancy  The Ugandan Asian ‘Controversy’ and the Rise of the National Front under the Conservatives  The ‘No Platform’ Strategy  Red Lion Square and the Death of Kevin Gately  The Trade Union Response to Fascism and Racism in the 1970s  Asian Workers and the Trade Unions in the Early 1970s: Mansfield Hosiery Mills and Imperial Typewriters  Conclusion 4 The Great Moving Right Show, 1976–9  The Building of the Broad Democratic Alliance  The Grunwick Strike  Intersectionality and the British Labour Movement  Policing the Labour Movement  The NF’s Shift to the Streets and the Rise of the Asian Youth Movements  The Rise of the SWP and the Revival of Militant Anti-fascism  The ‘Battle of Lewisham’  ‘The National Front is a Nazi Front’: The Anti-Nazi League, 1977–9  Rock Against Racism  The ANL and the Wider British left  Southall and the Death of Blair Peach  ‘Feeling Rather Swamped’: Thatcher and the Exploitation of Popular Racism  Conclusion 5 Babylon’s Burning: Into the 1980s  Further Defeats for the CPGB  The Police and the Black Communities  From Southall to Brixton: The Violent Reaction to the Police Under Thatcher  ‘Crisis in the Inner Cities’: The Communist Party’s Reaction  The 1981 Riots as Social Protest  Lord Scarman’s Report and the Denial of Institutional Racism  The Broad Democratic Alliance and Municipal Anti-racism  The ‘Limits’ of Trade Unionism in the 1980s  The Push for Black Sections/Caucuses within the Labour Movement  The End of the Party  Conclusion Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisGreece Reinvented discusses the transformation of Byzantine Hellenism as the cultural elite of Byzantium, displaced to Italy, constructed it. It explores why and how Byzantine migrants such as Cardinal Bessarion, Ianus Lascaris, and Giovanni Gemisto adopted Greek personas to replace traditional Byzantine claims to the heirship of ancient Rome. In Greece Reinvented, Han Lamers shows that being Greek in the diaspora was both blessing and burden, and explores how these migrants’ newfound ‘Greekness’ enabled them to create distinctive positions for themselves while promoting group cohesion. These Greek personas reflected Latin understandings of who the Greeks ‘really’ were but sometimes also undermined Western paradigms. Greece Reinvented reveals some of the cultural tensions that bubble under the surface of the much-studied transmission of Greek learning from Byzantium to Italy.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Conventions and Abbreviations List of Illustrations List of Maps Introduction 1 A Hellenic Alternative: The Emergence of Greekness in Byzantium 2 Making the Best of It: The Negotiation of Greekness in Italy 3 Freedom and Community: The Secular Greekness of Cardinal Bessarion 4 The Greek Tradition as a Combat Zone: Hellenocentrism in the Work of George Trapezuntius of Crete 5 Greekness as Cultural Common Ground: Ianus Lascaris’ Attempt at Greco-Latin Ecumenism 6 Greekness Without Greece: Michele Tarcaniota Marullo and Manilio Cabacio Rallo 7 The Territorialisation of Hellenism: Giovanni Gemisto’s Vision of the Greek World Conclusion: Greece Reinvented Appendix 1 Gemisto’s Gallery of Greek Heroes Appendix 2 Gemisto’s Imaginary Greece Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together in a comparative analysis the results of studies of the various cultural, social, economic and historical aspects that are formative in African societies’ experiences of how people negotiated the spaces and times of being in transit on the road to prosperity. The book analyses the various outcomes of the process of mobility and the experience of spaces and times of transit across gender, generational, and class-differences. These experiences are explored and give insight into the socio-cultural and economics transformations that have taken place in African societies in the past century. Contributors are: Akinyinka Akinyoade, Walter van Beek, Marleen Dekker, Ton Dietz, Rijk van Dijk, Isaie Dougnon, Jan-Bart Gewald, Meike de Goede, Benjamin Kofi Nyarko, Samuel Ntewusu Aniegye, Taiwo Olabisi Oluwatoyin, Shehu Tijjani Yusuf, Augustine Tanle and Amisah Zenabu Bakuri.Table of ContentsPART 1 Introduction 1 African Roads to Prosperity: People en Route to Socio-Cultural and Economic Transformations Jan-Bart Gewald & Akinyinka Akinyoade 2 Roads to Prosperity: Social Zones of Transit Amisah Zenabu Bakuri 3 Roads to Prosperity: Reflections about a Concept Ton Dietz PART 2 Zones of Transit 4 Wenela, Katima Mulilo, a Zone of Transit in Barotseland: The Development of a Holding Zone for Migrants on the Extreme Frontier of the South African Empire Jan-Bart Gewald 5 ‘Trapped’ in the North: Southern Migrants in Northern Nigeria, 1908–1970s Shehu Tijjani Yusuf 6 Migration and Competition around Commercial Spaces: The Case of Songhay Migrants at the Kumasi Central Market, Ghana 1930–1948 Isaie Dougnon 7 Resettlement in Zimbabwe: Final Destination from the Zones of Transition? Marleen Dekker PART 3 Zones of Transference 8 A Romantic Zone of Transference? Botswana, Ghanaian Migrants and Marital Social Mobility Rijk van Dijk 9 The Opportunities of the Margin: The Kapsiki Smith and his Road to Prosperity Walter van Beek 10 Migrants’ Assessment of Prospects in Migration: A Case Study of Conservancy Labourers in the University of Cape Coast, Ghana Augustine Tanle & Benjamin Kofi Nyarko 11 Coercion or Volition: Making Sense of the Experiences of Female Victims of Trafficking from Nigeria in the Netherlands Taiwo Olabisi Oluwatoyin & Akinyinka Akinyoade PART 4 Zones of Transit and Transference 12 So be nya dagna? (‘Is someone injured?’): The Evolution and Use of Tricycles in Tamale, Northern Ghana Samuel Ntewusu & Edward Nanbigne 13 Nigerians in Transit: The Trader and the Religious in Jerusalem House, Ghana Akinyinka Akinyoade 14 Ghanaian migrants in the Netherlands: Germany as a transit zone Amisah Zenabu Bakuri 15 Kinshasa: A city of refugees Meike de Goede List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisIn Ritterliche Taten der Gewalt befasst sich Florian Dörschel mit der kriegerischen Seite des deutschen Rittertums im Übergang vom Mittelalter zur Frühen Neuzeit. Das Rittertum ist nicht nur von Interesse, um das Selbstverständnis einer mit fortschreitendem Mittelalter zunehmend kleineren Gruppe zum Ritter geschlagener Männer zu untersuchen. Über diese Männer und den Ritterstand hinaus entwickelte es eine ungeheure Strahlkraft: Ritterliche Normen prägten vom Kaiser bis hin zum einfachen Bürger die mittelalterlichen Gesellschaften. Diese ritterliche Kultur drückte sich insbesondere durch das Selbstverständnis aus, Krieger zu sein. Physische Gewalt diente somit nicht am Rand, sondern im Mittelpunkt sozialen, militärischen und politischen Lebens auch der Repräsentation und der Kommunikation. Die Studie stützt sich in erster Linie auf Quellen biographischer und autobiographischer Natur, sogenannte ‚Selbstzeugnisse‘. In Ritterliche Taten der Gewalt (Chivalrous Violence) Florian Dörschel deals with the martial side of German chivalry during the transition from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period. Chivalry is important not only for the self-image of the social group of knighted men, whose numbers declined over the course of the Middle Ages. An extraordinary power radiated from it: chivalrous norms shaped medieval societies as a whole, from Holy Roman Emperor to burgher. This knightly culture was especially expressed in the knight’s self-understanding as warrior. Consequently, physical violence stood at the centre, not periphery, of representation and communication in social, military, and political life. The study is primarily based on biographical and autobiographical sources.

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Book SynopsisThis anthology addresses and analyses the transformation of interconnected spaces and spatial entanglements in the Atlantic rim during the era of the slave trade by focusing on the Danish possessions on the Gold Coast and their Caribbean islands of Saint Thomas, Saint Jan and Saint Croix as well as on the Swedish Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy. The first part of the anthology addresses aspects of interconnectedness in West Africa, in particular the relationship between Africans and Danes on the Gold Coast. The second part of this volume examines various aspects of interconnectedness, creolisation and experiences of Danish and Swedish slave rules in the Caribbean. *Ports of Globalisationis now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... vii List of Illustrations ... viii List of Contributors ... x 1 Introduction: Portals of Early Modern Globalisation and Creolisation in the Atlantic World during the Era of the Slave Trade ... 1 Holger Weiss 2 The Entangled Spaces of Oddena, Oguaa and Osu: A Survey of Three Early Modern African Atlantic Towns, ca. 1650–1850 ... 22 Holger Weiss 3 ‘A Fine Flintlock, a Pair of Ditto Pistols and a Hat with a Gold Galloon’: Danish Political and Commercial Strategies on the Gold Coast in the Early 18th Century ... 68 Fredrik Hyrum Svensli 4 Slave Trade, Slave Plantations and Danish Colonialism ... 101 Per Hernæs 5 Pre-Colonial Visions of a Colony: The Construction of the Pligtarbejder in a Proposed Danish West African Colony ... 140 Jonas Møller Pedersen 6 The Question of Rights in a Colour-Conscious Empire: The Danish West Indies and the Global Age of Revolutions (1800–1850) ... 154 Christian Damm Pedersen 7 The Overly Candid Missionary Historian: C.G.A. Oldendorp’s Theological Ambivalence over Slavery in the Danish West Indies ... 191 Anders Ahlbäck 8 Freedom, Autonomy, and Independence: Exceptional African Caribbean Life Experiences in St. Thomas, the Danish West Indies, in the Middle of the 18th Century ... 218 Louise Sebro 9 Magic, Obeah and Law in the Danish West Indies, 1750s–1840s ... 245 Gunvor Simonsen 10 Thirty-Two Lashes at Quatre Piquets: Slave Laws and Justice in the Swedish Colony of St. Barthélemy ca. 1800 ... 280 Fredrik Thomasson Index ... 307

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a new perspective on Islamic urban society: a dynamism of social networking and justice which caused both rapid development and sudden decay in the Ṣāliḥiyya quarter. Founded in the northern suburbs of Damascus by Hanbali ulama who migrated from Palestine to Syria in the mid-12th century, the quarter developed into a city through waqf endowments. It has attracted the attention of historians and travelers for its unique location, popular movements and religious features. Through the study of local chronicles, topographies and archival sources and through modern field research, Toru Miura explores the history of the Ṣāliḥiyya quarter from its foundation to the early 20th century, comparing it to European, Chinese and Japanese cities.

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