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Book SynopsisIn The Byzantine Turks, 1204–1461 Rustam Shukurov offers an account of the Turkic minority in Late Byzantium including the Nicaean, Palaiologan, and Grand Komnenian empires. The demography of the Byzantine Turks and the legal and cultural aspects of their entrance into Greek society are discussed in detail. Greek and Turkish bilingualism of Byzantine Turks and Tourkophonia among Greeks were distinctive features of Byzantine society of the time. Basing his arguments upon linguistic, social, and cultural evidence found in a wide range of Greek, Latin, and Oriental sources, Rustam Shukurov convincingly demonstrates how Oriental influences on Byzantine life led to crucial transformations in Byzantine mentality, culture, and political life. The study is supplemented with an etymological lexicon of Oriental names and words in Byzantine Greek.Trade Review"This study offers for the first time a complete guide to interrelations between the Byzantines and the people of (mainly) Turkic origin who penetrated the Byzantine Empire from the eleventh century onwards. Shukurov presents rich historiographical and linguistic material on how the Turks acquired Byzantine identity through language and religion. The author supplements his Greek sources with Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian and Georgian materials, which allows him to analyse the complex and multi-faceted cultural panorama of Asia Minor in the period. This study will clearly constitute a useful tool for those interested oin Byzantine-Turkic relations." Spyros P. Panagopoulos, in: Al-Masaq XXIX (2017).Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements xi List of Figures and Tables xii Introduction 1 1 The Byzantine Classification of the Turks 11 1 On Byzantine Epistemology 11 2 The Locative Criterion and the Theory of Climates 17 3 Two-Part Classification: Genera and Species 26 4 Generic Categories 27 5 The Species 33 6 The Concept Πέρσαι 37 7 The Defects of the Method 42 8 The Linguistic Criterion 44 9 The Languages of the Turks 48 10 Turks and Religious Identity 53 11 Marriages with Non-Christians 55 12 The Validity of Baptism 59 2 Byzantine Onomastics: Problems of Method 65 1 The Onomastic Database 65 2 The West Byzantine Lands in the Database 68 3 The Byzantine Pontos 70 4 On Byzantine Patterns of Naming 72 5 A Linguistic Problem 74 6 The Problem of Generations 77 7 Credibility of Anthroponymical Data 78 8 “Scythian” and “Persian” Names 84 3 The “Persians” and the “Scythians” 86 1 Historical Background 86 2 The “Scythians” 90 3 The “Persians” 94 4 The Byzantine “Persians” in 1204–1262 96 5 The “Persian” Resettlement of 1262–1263 98 6 Kaykāwus’ Family in Byzantium 105 7 Kaykāwus’ People 120 8 “Persian” Immigrations until the Beginning of the Fourteenth Century 131 9 The Turkic Immigrants in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century 134 10 The Last Byzantine Turks? 147 10.1 Text 148 10.2 Translation 150 10.3 Commentary 152 4 The Byzantine Turks in the Balkans 157 1 Byzantine Macedonia 159 2 The Lower Strymon and Serres 161 3 Kalamaria in Western Chalkidike 164 4 Eastern Chalkidike 166 5 Berroia and Lake Giannitsa 168 6 The Vardar Valley, Skopje, the Strumica 170 7 Thessalonike and Other Localities 174 8 Ethnic and Social Structure 174 9 Constantinople and Some Other Regions 177 10 A Note on Chronology 179 11 The Problem of Merchants 181 5 The Noble Lineages 183 1 Constructing a “Family” 184 2 The Gazes Families (I and II) 184 3 The Melik/Melikes/Melek Family 187 4 The Soultanos Family (I) 190 5 The Soultanos Family (II) 194 6 The Apelmene Family 196 7 The Masgidas Families (I and II) 197 8 The Iagoupes Family 200 9 The Anataulas Family 209 6 Assimilation Tools 216 1 The Motivation of the Turks 216 2 An Opposite Example 220 3 Christianization 223 4 More on Inclusion and Exclusion 231 5 Proprietors and Pronoiars 234 6 Imperial Service 239 7 Slaves, Servants, and Hostages 244 8 Cultural Adaptation 249 9 Turkic Minority? 251 7 Asians in the Byzantine Pontos 255 1 Oriental Names of the Pontos 255 2 Nations and Tribes 259 3 Social Standing 268 4 The Pontic Nomads 281 5 Christians and Crypto-Muslims 290 6 Penetration of Asians into Trebizond 297 Appendix I: The Wives of Alexios II Grand Komnenos 303 Appendix II: The Marriages of the Grand Komnenoi with Muslims 305 8 “Turkophonia” in Byzantium 306 1 Byzantine Diglossia 306 2 Oriental Borrowings 308 3 Textiles 312 4 Clothes and Household Items 315 5 Spices, Delicacies, Medications 324 6 Birds and Animals 326 7 Trading Terminology 327 8 Imperial Court and Military Terminology 332 9 The Positive Image of the East 339 10 Expanding the Horizon 343 11 Diglossia and Place-Names 349 12 Diglossia and the Redoubling of the World 354 13 Evidence of Modern Greek 358 14 Byzantine Turkophonia 359 15 Latent Turkification 380 16 Cultural Interchange and a Lethal Outcome 381 9 Etymological Glossary 388 1 Proper Names 388 2 Appellatives 404 Epilogue 413 1 The Turkic Minority 413 2 Regional Features 414 3 Cultural Transformation 418 Bibliography 421 Index of Greek and Slavonic Names and Terms 474 General Index 486

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Book SynopsisSinging on the River by Igor Chabrowski, based on Sichuan boatmen’s work songs (haozi), explores the little known world of mentality and self-representation of Chinese workers from the late 19th century until the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937). Chabrowski demonstrates how river workers constructed and interpreted their world, work, and gender in context of the dissolving social, cultural, and political orders. Boatmen asserted their own values, bemoaned exploitation, and imagined their sexuality largely in order to cope with their low social status. Through studying the Sichuan boatmen we gain an insight into the ways in which twentieth-century nonindustrial Chinese workers imagined their place in the society and appropriated, without challenging them, the traditional values.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements … VII List of Figures … VIII Introduction … 1 Part One: The Background Chapter One: The Social Origins of the Songs: The Eastern Sichuan Working Class, 1880s–1930s … 53 Chapter Two: The Sounds of the River … 106 Part Two: Social Spaces, Work, Gender, and Self-Perception Chapter Three: Mapping the River World … 135 Chapter Four: Where Do We Belong? Selfhood and Menial Work in Sichuan Society … 174 Chapter Five: On Women and Love … 218 Conclusion … 263 Bibliography … 269 Index … 296

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Book SynopsisThe Accademia Pontaniana: A Model of a Humanist Network is an exploration of the vast intellectual networks which developed around the fifteenth century humanist Pontano. It includes the densely knit network which emerged in Naples, the Accademia Pontaniana, as well as the loosely knit networks which developed between the members of this academy and other humanists and academies outside of Naples. Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi points to the links between the Accademia Pontaniana and other sodalities in Southern Italy, and to the lineage between fifteenth century informal academies and sixteenth century institutional Academies. In this study recent sociological theory is applied to understand Renaissance academies and the vertical and horizontal links between them.Trade Review“The great merit of this book is that it explores the vast intellectual networks that Pontano developed in the late Quattrocento, as well as the links between the other great cities and their intellectuals and humanists. It doesn’t leave any figure aside and presents a global vision of the actors of the time.” Florence Bistagne, Université d’Avignon / Institut universitaire de France. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Winter 2017), pp. 1466-1467. “I numerosi spunti di riflessione sviluppati dalla lettura dei due brillanti saggi pubblicati da Brill potranno aprire un dibattito da estendere in future ricerche, che dovranno tenere conto anche di altri aspetti significativi del lascito intellettuale ebraico italiano meridionale in età rinascimentale, ad esempio nel mondo veneziano e ottomano, centri di accoglienza di esuli ebrei regnicoli, che continuarono a sviluppare per buona parte del Cinquecento temi e tradizioni oggetto di studio della Napoli aragonese.” Fabrizio Lelli, University of Salento, in Sefer yuḥasin 2017-5, pp 159-169 (ISSN 2281-6062)Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: “Il Gran Pontano”: A Portrait Gallery . Chapter 2: The Group: The Accademia Pontaniana: Members, Space, Time and Ceremony Chapter 3: Networks: Horizontal and Vertical Links with Rome and Florence Chapter 4: The Memory of Pontano’s Academy in Naples and Southern Italy Epilogue: The Humanist Fabric Appendix I: Girolamo Carbone’s Elegy to Agostino Nifo Appendix II: Glossary of Humanists Mentioned in the Book Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUntil recently migration did not occupy a prominent place on the agenda of students of Roman history. Various types of movement in the Roman world were studied, but not under the heading of migration and mobility. Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire starts from the assumption that state-organised, forced and voluntary mobility and migration were intertwined and should be studied together. The papers assembled in the book tap into the remarkably large reservoir of archaeological and textual sources concerning various types of movement during the Roman Principate. The most important themes covered are rural-urban migration, labour mobility, relationships between forced and voluntary mobility, state-organised movements of military units, and familial and female mobility. Contributors are: Colin Adams, Seth G. Bernard, Christer Bruun, Paul Erdkamp, Lien Foubert, Peter Garnsey, Saskia Hin, Claire Holleran, Tatiana Ivleva, Luuk de Ligt, Elio Lo Cascio, Tracy L. Prowse, Saskia T. Roselaar, Laurens E. Tacoma, Rolf A. Tybout, Greg Woolf, and Andrea Zerbini.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... vii List of Figures and Tables ... viii List of Abbreviations ... x List of Contributors ... xiv 1 Approaching Migration in the Early Roman Empire ... 1 Luuk de Ligt and Laurens E. Tacoma 2 The Impact of Migration on the Demographic Profile of the City of Rome: A Reassessment ... 23 Elio Lo Cascio 3 Seasonal Labour and Rural–Urban Migration in Roman Italy ... 33 Paul Erdkamp 4 Food Distributions and Immigration in Imperial Rome ... 50 Seth G. Bernard 5 Migration in Early-Imperial Italy: Herculaneum and Rome Compared ... 72 Peter Garnsey and Luuk de Ligt 6 Labour Mobility in the Roman World: A Case Study of Mines in Iberia ... 95 Claire Holleran 7 State-Organised Mobility in the Roman Empire: Legionaries and Auxiliaries ... 138 Saskia T. Roselaar 8 Peasants into Soldiers: Recruitment and Military Mobility in the Early Roman Empire ... 158 Tatiana Ivleva 9 Tracing Familial Mobility: Female and Child Migrants in the Roman West ... 176 Christer Bruun 10 Isotopes and Mobility in the Ancient Roman World ... 205 Tracy L. Prowse 11 Revisiting Urban Graveyard Theory: Migrant Flows in Hellenistic and Roman Athens ... 234 Saskia Hin 12 Migration in Roman Egypt: Problems and Possibilities ... 264 Colin Adams 13 Mobile Women in P.Oxy. and the Port Cities of Roman Egypt: Tracing Women’s Travel Behaviour in Papyrological Sources ... 285 Lien Foubert 14 Human Mobility in the Roman Near East: Patterns and Motives ... 305 Andrea Zerbini 15 Moving Epigrams: Migration and Mobility in the Greek East ... 345 Laurens E. Tacoma and Rolf A. Tybout 16 Dead Men Walking: The Repatriation of Mortal Remains ... 390 Rolf A. Tybout 17 Movers and Stayers ... 438 Greg Woolf References ... 463 Index ... 513

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Book SynopsisIn Expectations Unfulfilled: Norwegian Migrants in Latin America, 1820-1940 scholars from Europe and Latin America study the experiences of workers, sailors, whalers, landowners, intellectuals and investors who migrated from Norway to Latin America during the age of mass migration. One recurrent theme is the absence of a large migratory stream from Norway to Latin America. In relative terms, Norwegian emigration was among the highest in Europe. Latin America was one of the principal receivers of migrants in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Why, then, did so few Norwegians end up in Latin America? Combining different levels of analysis, the authors explain how Norwegians experienced Latin America, and how their experiences were communicated to potential migrants at home. Contributors are: María Alvarez Solar, Cecilia Alvstad, María Bjerg, Mieke Neyens, Synnøve Ones Rosales, Ricardo Pérez Montfort, Steinar A. Sæther and Ellen Woortmann.Trade Review"On l’aura compris, cet ouvrage a le mérite de proposer un ensemble d’articles sur l’immigration norvégienne en Amérique latine (Brésil, Argentine, Mexique, Cuba, Guatemala) par l’étude de très petits groupes d’immigrants si on les compare aux autres groupes d’immigrants européens dans ce vaste territoire. il montre combien le champ est large, pourquoi le phénomène demeure peu connu et combien il reste à faire dans le domaine. Comme lecteur, on ne peut qu’encourager la mise en route d’autres études, notamment sur des colonies ou communautés plus construites, études qui pourraient intégrer une dimension comparative avec les communautés norvégiennes aux états-Unis à la même époque." - Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga, in: Annales de Démographie Historique, 2017 n° 1 pp. 205 -209Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... vii List of Figures, Tables and Maps ... viii List of Contributors ... x 1 Introduction ... 1 Steinar A. Sæther 2 Making Sense of a Minor Migrant Stream ... 17 Steinar A. Sæther 3 From Adventurers to Settlers: Norwegians in Southern Brazil ... 57 Ellen Fensterseifer Woortmann 4 Migrants on Skis: Norwegian-Latin American Return Migration in the 1890s ... 77 Cecilia Alvstad 5 The Good, the Bad and the Rational: Desirable and Undesirable Migration to Cuba and Mexico (1907–1909) ... 102 Mieke Neyens 6 Opportunities for the Few and Select: Norwegians in Guatemala (1900–1940) ... 127 Synnøve Ones Rosales 7 Male Narratives from the Margins of the Country of Immigrants: Two Norwegians in Argentina in the 1920s ... 162 María Bjerg 8 Three Norwegian Experiences in Post-Revolutionary Mexico: Per Imerslund, Halfdan Jebe and Ola Apenes ... 184 Ricardo Pérez Montfort 9 The Blikstad Family: Saga of Emigrants in Norway, Spain, and Brazil ... 225 María Álvarez-Solar List of Works Cited ... 241 Index ... 255

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Book SynopsisIn Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome 1200 – 1500, Carla Keyvanian offers a new interpretation of the urban development of Rome during three seminal centuries by focusing on the construction of public hospitals. These monumental charitable institutions were urban expressions of sovereignty. Keyvanian traces the political reasons for their emergence and their architectural type in Europe around 1200. In Rome, hospitals ballasted the corporate image of social elites, aided in settling and garrisoning vital sectors and were the hubs around which strategies aimed at territorial control revolved. When the strategies faltered, the institutions were rapidly abandoned. Hospitals in areas of enduring significance instead still function, bearing testimony to the influence of late medieval urban interventions on modern Rome.Trade Review“readable and detailed […] the author convincingly ties the architectural history of hospitals to power and to urban planning and development in high and late medieval Rome.” Philip Gavitt, Saint Louis University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Winter 2017), pp. 1495-1497.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I – BUILDING STATES: ROME and EUROPE Chapter 1 – Healing Forgiveness Chapter 2 – The Borgo
 Chapter 3 – Hospitals, Monasteries and Urban Control PART II – CONQUERING A CITY: ROME and LATIUM Chapter 1 – Hospitals, Towers and Barons Chapter 2 – The Lateran Chapter 3 – The Papal Hospital: Santo Spirito in Sassia Epilogue Abbreviations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMedieval Buda in Context discusses the character and development of Buda and its surroundings between the thirteenth and the sixteenth centuries, particularly its role as a royal center and capital city of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary. The twenty-one articles written by Hungarian and international scholars draw on a variety of primary sources: texts, both legal and literary; archaeological discoveries; architectural history; art history; and other studies of material culture. The essays also place Buda in the political, social, cultural and economic context of other contemporary central and eastern European cities. By bringing together the results of research undertaken in recent decades for an English-language readership, this volume offers new insights into urban history and the culture of Europe as a whole. Contributors are János M. Bak, Zoltán Bencze, Judit Benda, István Draskóczy, Antonín Kalous, István Kenyeres, Gábor Klaniczay, András Kubinyi, József Laszlovszky, Károly Magyar, Balázs Nagy, Szilárd Papp, James Plumtree, Martyn Rady, Valery Rees, Orsolya Réthelyi, Beatrix F. Romhányi, Enikő Spekner, Péter Szabó, Katalin Szende, András Vadas, András Végh, and László Veszprémy.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1: Buda: History, Sources, Historiography 1 The Budapest History Museum and the Rediscovery of Medieval Buda Zoltán Bencze 2 The Fate of the Medieval Archives of Buda and Pest István Kenyeres Part 2: Buda before Buda 3 Buda before Buda: Óbuda and Pest as Early Centers Enikő Spekner 4 ‘A castle once stood, now a heap of stones…’ the Site and Remains of Óbuda in Medieval Chronicles, National Epics, and Modern Fringe Theories József Laszlovszky and James Plumtree 5 A Royal Forest in the Medium Regni Péter Szabó Part 3: The Topography of Buda 6 Royal Residences in Buda in Hungarian and European Context Károly Magyar 7 Buda-Pest 1300 – Buda-Pest 1400. Two Topographical Snapshots András Végh 8 The Monastic Topography of Medieval Buda Beatrix F. Romhányi 9 Sacred Sites in Medieval Buda Gábor Klaniczay 10 Merchants, Markets, and Shops in Late Medieval Buda, Pest and Óbuda Judit Benda 11 Commercial Contacts of Buda along the Danube and beyond István Draskóczy Part 4: Buda as a Power Center 12 The Government of Medieval Buda Martyn Rady 13 Diets and Synods in Buda and Its Environs János M. Bak and András Vadas 14 Royal Summits in and around Medieval Buda Balázs Nagy 15 Buda, Medieval Capital of Hungary András Kubinyi Part 5: Court Culture of a ‘Capital’ 16 Made for the King: Sigismund of Luxemburg’s Statues in Buda and Their Place in Art History Szilárd Papp 17 The Court of the King and Queen in Buda in the Jagiellonian Age Orsolya Réthelyi 18 Buda as a Center of Renaissance and Humanism Valery Rees Part 6: Buda beyond Buda 19 Buda: From a Royal Palace to an Assaulted Border Castle, 1490–1541 László Veszprémy 20 The Last Medieval King Leaves Buda Antonín Kalous 21 Buda and the Urban Development of East Central Europe Katalin Szende Appendices Select Bibliography on the History of Medieval Buda Index of Geographic Names Index of Personal Names

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Book SynopsisTrauma in Medieval Society is an edited collection of articles from a variety of scholars on the history of trauma and the traumatised in medieval Europe. Looking at trauma as a theoretical concept, as part of the literary and historical lives of medieval individuals and communities, this volume brings together scholars from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, history, literature, religion, and languages. The collection offers insights into the physical impairments from and psychological responses to injury, shock, war, or other violence—either corporeal or mental. From biographical to socio-cultural analyses, these articles examine skeletal and archival evidence as well as literary substantiation of trauma as lived experience in the Middle Ages. Contributors are Carla L. Burrell, Sara M. Canavan, Susan L. Einbinder, Michael M. Emery, Bianca Frohne, Ronald J. Ganze, Helen Hickey, Sonja Kerth, Jenni Kuuliala, Christina Lee, Kate McGrath, Charles-Louis Morand Métivier, James C. Ohman, Walton O. Schalick, III, Sally Shockro, Patricia Skinner, Donna Trembinski, Wendy J. Turner, Belle S. Tuten, Anne Van Arsdall, and Marit van Cant.

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Book SynopsisThe Economy of Medieval Hungary is the first concise, English-language volume about the economic life of medieval Hungary. It is a product of the cooperation of specialists representing various disciplines of medieval studies, including archaeologists, archaeozoologists, specialists in medieval demography, historical hydrologists, climate and environmental historians, as well as archivists and church historians. The twenty-five chapters of the book focus on structures of medieval economy, different means and ways of human-nature interactions in production, and offer an overview of the different spheres of economic life, with a particular emphasis on taxation, income and commercial activity. Thanks to its interdisciplinary character, this volume is a basic handbook for the history of economy, production and material culture. Contributors are Krisztina Arany, László Bartosiewicz, Zoltán Batizi, Anna Zsófia Biller, Péter Csippán, László Daróczi-Szabó, Márta Daróczi-Szabó, István Draskóczy, István Feld, László Ferenczi, Erika Gál, Márton Gyöngyössy, István Kenyeres, István Kováts, András Kubinyi, Kyra Lyublyanovics, Árpád Nógrády, Éva Ágnes Nyerges, István Petrovics, Zsolt Pinke, Beatrix F. Romhányi, Katalin Szende, László Szende, Magdolna Szilágyi, Csaba Tóth, and Boglárka Weisz.Trade Review''The present volume provides a general introduction to the economic history of medieval Hungary. It serves as starting point for further investigations focused on more specific issues of economic history in general''. - Peter Bučko, in: The Czech Historical Review, 3 (2019). "The book’s perspective is panoramic, multidimensional, and precise[…] a gold mine of knowledge, lucidly presented, about the economic life of the Kingdom of Hungary. It fully merits the status of obligatory reading, for medieval historians in general—including, but also well beyond, those specializing in this subject. In addition, the book contains a trove of evidence useful for a comparative history of the economy of the medieval world". Grzegorz Myśliwski, in: Speculum, 95, 3 (2020). "This is why this large book, edited by József Laszlovszky, Balázs Nagy, Péter Szabó nd András Vadas, is important, for it offers a guide to what is actually taken for granted by Hungarian scholars; it is, finally, a way into the economic history of the whole period between c.900, with the Magyar invasion, and 1526, with the defeat of Louis II in battle against the Ottomans. [...] You cannot do without this book if you want to know about the economy of (particularly late medieval) central Europe as a whole." Chris Wickham in English Historical Review, CXXXV. 573, April 2020 (doi:10.1093/ehr/ceaa013). "...ova knjiga predstavlja a must read za sve povjesničare i amatere povijesti koji se bave nekim od aspekata bilo gospodarske povijesti, bilo ekohistorije ili pak historijske geografije ove regije u srednjemu vijeku." (…this book is a must-read for all historians, all those who are interested in history and who deal with some aspects of economic, ecological history or historical geography of this region in the Middle Ages.) Petra Vručina in Povijesni prilozi 57:159-162. "Der anzuzeigende Band stellt die erste umfassende Gesamtdarstellung der Wirtschaftsgeschichte des mittelalter lichen Königreichs Ungarn in englischer Sprache dar. Das Werk ist ein hochwillkommener Überblick für Studierende und Forscherinnen, die des Ungarischen nicht mächtig sind. Sein Verdienst geht jedoch weit darüber hinaus. Die Hrsg. haben 30 Spezialist*innen unterschiedlicher Fachrichtungen versammelt(neben der mittelalterlichen Geschichte sind Archäologie, Archäozoologie, Demografie, Hydrologie und Numismatik sowie verschiedene historische Teildisziplinen wie die Umwelt und Klimageschichte vertreten). Das Ergebnis dieser interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit überzeugt durchweg". Alexandra Kaar, in Journal of East Central European Studies 69 (3), 2020.Table of ContentsNote on Names Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Hungarian Medieval Economic History: Sources, Research and Methodology  József Laszlovszky, Balázs Nagy, Péter Szabó and András Vadas Part 1 Structure 1 Long-Term Environmental Changes in Medieval Hungary: Changes in Settlement Areas and Their Potential Drivers  László Ferenczi, József Laszlovszky, Zsolt Pinke, Péter Szabó and András Vadas 2 Demographic Issues in Late Medieval Hungary: Population, Ethnic Groups, Economic Activity  András Kubinyi and József Laszlovszky 3 Mobility, Roads and Bridges in Medieval Hungary  Magdolna Szilágyi Part 2 Human-Nature Interaction in Production 4 Agriculture in Medieval Hungary  József Laszlovszky 5 Animal Exploitation in Medieval Hungary  László Bartosiewicz, Anna Zsófia Biller, Péter Csippán, László Daróczi-Szabó, Márta Daróczi-Szabó, Erika Gál, István Kováts, Kyra Lyublyanovics and Éva Ágnes Nyerges 6 Mining in Medieval Hungary  Zoltán Batizi 7 Salt Mining and Trade in Hungary before the Mongol Invasion  Beatrix F. Romhányi 8 Salt Mining and the Salt Trade in Medieval Hungary from the mid-Thirteenth Century until the End of the Middle Ages  István Draskóczy 9 The Extent and Management of Woodland in Medieval Hungary  Péter Szabó 10 Water Management in Medieval Hungary  László Ferenczi Part 3 Money, Incomes and Management 11 Royal Revenues in the Árpádian Age  Boglárka Weisz 12 Seigneurial Dues and Taxation Principles in Late Medieval Hungary  Árpád Nógrády 13 Minting, Financial Administration and Coin Circulation in Hungary in the Árpádian and Angevin Periods (1000–1387)  Csaba Tóth 14 Coinage and Financial Administration in Late Medieval Hungary (1387–1526)  Márton Gyöngyössy Part 4 Spheres of Production 15 The Ecclesiastic Economy in Medieval Hungary  Beatrix F. Romhányi 16 The Urban Economy in Medieval Hungary  Katalin Szende 17 The Medieval Market Town and Its Economy  István Petrovics 18 Crafts in Medieval Hungary  László Szende 19 The Economy of Castle Estates in the Late Medieval Kingdom of Hungary  István Kenyeres Part 5 Trade Relations 20 Domestic Trade in the Árpádian Age  Boglárka Weisz 21 Professional Merchants and the Institutions of Trade: Domestic Trade in Late Medieval Hungary  András Kubinyi 22 Import Objects as Sources of the Economic History of Medieval Hungary  István Feld 23 Foreign Trade of Medieval Hungary  Balázs Nagy 24 Foreign Business Interests in Hungary in the Middle Ages  Krisztina Arany Appendix List of References Index of Geographic Names Index of Personal Names

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Book SynopsisKashefi’s Anvar-e Sohayli (15th c. A.D.) is a Persian rewriting of the timeless and influential Kalila wa-Dimna text, done at the Timurid court. Christine van Ruymbeke offers a first in-depth analysis of the contents and style of this important text and also addresses the Kalila wa-Dimna field across its full rewriting history. This analysis shows how Kashefi’s additions function as an invaluable commentary that opens up our understanding and the appreciation of this seminal text. This studies revisits several received ideas and current misapprehensions about the text and shows why it has been such an international best-seller before being unjustly relegated to children’s literature. In Van Ruymbeke’s words, Kalila wa-Dimna is a grim text, exposing the mechanisms of sophisticated psychological manipulation and exploring universal philosophical themes, known since Antiquity and still relevant today.Table of ContentsPREFACE LIST OF ANVAR-e SOHAYLI STORIES AND SUB-STORIES and TAXONOMY PART 1: KASHEFI COMPOSES THE ANVAR-e SOHAYLI 1. The Author and the Patron 1.1 Abject Hosayn, the Preacher known as “The Discloser” 1.2 Shining Sohayli, the Patron 1.3 “The proper function of the critic is to save [the text] from the artist who created it.” (D.H. Laurence) 2. The Contents of Kashefi’s Dibacheh 2.1 On how to read the text and on who is supposed to read it 2.2 The noble hereditary line 2.2.1 The Anvar’s asnad, 2.2.2 KD as classified data 2.2.3 Zopyros, the Wandermotiv of the mutilated hero 3. Rewriting Nasrollah Monshi’s KD version, 3.1 Neither Parricide nor Plagiarism 3.2 But: Cannibalism, Mimesis and Appropriation 3.2.1 Traipsing like a Partridge 4. The Subject Matter of the AS 5. The Table of Contents 5.1 “A title must muddle the reader’s ideas, not regiment them.” (U. Eco) 5.2 Exit Borzuyeh 5.3 The fourteen chapters 5.3.1 The Whisperer holds the pedagogical centre-stage in the first chapter 5.4 The Envoi PART 2: BEING PERNICKETY ABOUT “ANIMAL FABLES” 1. Fussing about “Fables” 1.1 And what about Logos pseudes eikonizoon aletheian? 1.2 The Lion and the Hare (I,13) 1.3 Redundant or impertinent pro- and epimythia? 2. Nit-picking on Zaban-e vohush? 2.1 Homo homine lupus 2.2 Characterisation’s lack of significance 2.3 The brutes speak! 2.4 And what do they say? 3. Animals as unclear emblems 3.1 Sophisticated psychological anthropomorphism 3.2 Never mistake a jackal for a fox! 3.3 Kalileh’s parrhesia vs. Demneh’s rhetoric 4. A bevy of human actors 4.1 “If I state quite frankly…” (O. Wilde) 4.2 Misogynous characterisations? 5. Humans and Animals 5.1 Plausible human-animal interaction 5.2 Improbable vocal contact between man and bird 5.3 The metamorphoses of the Mouse-girl (IV,11) 6. Why write “animal stories” for a political audience? 6.1 Back to the contrapuntal and impertinent pro- and epimythia 6.2 The story-telling technique 6.3 Animals to say the unsayable? 6.4 Frank and oblique speech 6.5 Storytelling as a methodology of political theory PART 3: THE BIGGEST BEES IN KASHEFI’S BONNET: A THEMATIC ANALYSIS 1. De Regimine Principum 1.1 The “Governance of Princes” 1.2 “Praeterea regem non sic Aegyptus et ingens Lydia nec populi Partharum aut Medeis Hydaspes observant” 1.3 Regicide most foul! 1.4 A rigid class system? 1.5 Pigeonholing the professional vizier and the occasional hermit advisor. 1.6 The forces of destiny and God’s selection of his instrument 2. Seeking Useful Friends and Genuine Comrades 2.1 As an Elephant in the Quagmire 2.2 The Player’s and the Soother’s parting 2.3 Kalileh’s suicide and Demneh’s new friend 2.4 The Ring-Dove and the Friends (III) 2.4.1 The Mouse, Monsieur Perrichon and the Ben Franklin effect 2.4.2 The Mouse and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. 2.4.3 The Two Real Friends (III,7) 3. Introducing the Trickster-Rhetorician 3.1 Grading the rogues: from soft trickster to sinister murderer 3.1.1 The Hare as the archetypal confidence man 3.1.2 The Queen’s strategic self-sacrifice 3.1.3 The horrendous Zahhak-theme 3.2 The virtues of the tongue 3.2.1 Kashefian Iago? Demneh’s subversion of rhetoric. Part 4: BUILDING APPRECIATION FOR “TASTELESS BOMBAST” 1. Kashefi’s “degenerate style” 1.1 Linguistic torture? 1.2 More than only “terpsichorean pirouettes of syntax and thought” 1.3 Kashefi’s energising metaphor 1.3.1 In the oven 1.3.2 Wondrous Thoughts on Poetical Tropes 1.4 The antimetabola’s cognitive significance 2. Prosimetrum 2.1 Prosimetrum: partim prosa partim metro componens 2.2 Like salt in the pot 2.3 The ancillary intertextual aspect 2.4 The function of the inclusions 2.5 Enlightenment in absentia 3. The effect of the verse quotations and ‘eqtebas 3.1 A pedagogy of recognition PART 5: TOPICAL WEB; STRUCTURAL MAZE 1. The new, double outer frame 1.1 “Providing no key to the origin of the book” 1.2 Kashefi’s innovative frame-stories 1.2.1 The story of the vizier Khojasteh-Ray and the king Homayun-Fal (FS I) 1.2.2 The story of the sage Bidpay and the King Dabshalim (FS II) 1.2.3 Wrapping up each frame 2. The fourteen main stories 2.1 Stating the Chapters’ pedagogy 2.2 KD/AS’s elusive internal architecture 2.3 The stories’ structure as an essential tool for their pedagogical aim 3. The embedded sub-stories 3.1 The joys of aviation 3.2 Thematic criss-crossing 3.3 The sub-stories’ relation to the embedding narratives 3.4 The sub-story as a miniature main story 3.5 Kashefi adds the story of the two Companions Ghanim and Salim (I,2) 3.6 Kashefi’s additions to Ebn-e Madin and the Lark (VIII) 4. Shiruyeh knew that the first chapter is the book in a nutshell PART 6 THE SKELETON 1. A skeleton in the cupboard of Persian literary studies 2. Sir William’s Sugarchest 3. A Language exercise PART 7 A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT. THE NOBLE HEREDITARY LINE OF KALILEH-DEMNEH VERSIONS AND TRANSLATIONS IN THE PERSIAN TRADITION. 1 Concerns, questions and even some exasperation 2 The lost Sanskrit text 3 Borzuyeh’s lost Middle Persian KD 4 The Old Syriac Version 5 Ibn al-Muqaffa’‘s Arabic KD 6 Bal’ami’s and Rudaki’s opus geminum 7 Nasrollah Monshi’s Persian KD prosimetrum PART 8 CONCLUSIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisA Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1950-1975 is the first publication to deal with the postwar avant-garde in the Nordic countries. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations in arts and culture: literature, the visual arts, architecture and design, film, radio, television and the performative arts. It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective that includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field but in a broader cultural and political context: The cultural politics, institutions and new cultural geographies after World War II, new technologies and media, performative strategies, interventions into everyday life and tensions between market and counterculture.Trade Review“The subseries’ emphasis on cultural history, rather than a narrower focus on art history, […] is particularly apt in a Nordic context, where a distinct set of model welfare states emerged in the twentieth century that helped generate funding, space, resources, and networks for, and public debates on, experimental arts, as these were deemed vital to the health and welfare of a modern democratic society. […] While the scope and heterogeneity of the volume is imposing, its thoughtful organization into seven coherent sections makes it an accessible, dynamic, and useful scholarly reference work for anyone with an interest in avant-garde movements in, from, and including the Nordic region.” - Ursula Linqvist, Gustav Adolphus College, USA, in: Recherche Littéraire/Literary Research, 2017, pp. 193-198 "Serien A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries er utrolig viktig, både i seg selv og som en del av en økt oppmerksomhet rundt nordisk modernisme. I dette andre bindet, som strekker seg fra 1950 til 1975, får vi essays om nordisk kunst fra Öyvind Fahlström til den alternative Melodi Grand Prix. Blant de 85 (!) essayene beskrives Galleri Køpcke i København, Pistolteatern i Stockholm, De skandinaviske situasjonistene (selvfølgelig), Morten Krohgs periode som intendant på Kunstnernes Hus i Oslo, Lene Adler Pedersen og Bjørn Nørgaards kvinnelige kristus-performance på Børsen i København, Kjartan Slettemarks passprosjekt med portrettet til Nixon, og enormt mye annet. Når de to siste bindene foreligger vil vesentlige deler av det 20. århundres nordiske avantgarde være beskrevet i dette bokverket. [...] Den virkelige revolusjonen kommer imidlertid når dette blir pensum for kommende kunstnere og kunsthistorikere. Da vil endelig den Paris- og New York-sentrerte fortellingen om modernismen kunne erstattes med en bredere, global fortelling, der også Norden inngår." - Jonas Ekeberg, in: Kunstkritikk [www.kunstkritikk.dk/artikler/24-desember-jonas-ekeberg-2/]Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Tania Ørum The Post-War Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1. Paradigmatic Images of Scandinavia Jesper Olsson Politics & Play – The Impure Arts of Öyvind Fahlström Rune Gade The Female Christ at the Stock Exchange Tue Andersen Nexø Biological Avant-Garde – Inger Christensen’s det Birgitte Anderberg Images of Women Halldór Björn Runólfsson The Kitchen – An Offspring of Steina and Woody Vasulka 2. Cultural Politics and Institutions Christer Ekholm The Social Avant-Garde – The “Democratisation” of Literature in the Early 1960s in Sweden Tania Ørum Culture Wars in Denmark Annika Öhrner The Moderna Museet in Stockholm – The Institution and the Avant-Garde Sanne Krogh Groth The Fylkingen Concert Society, 1950–1975 Tania Ørum Self-Organisation in the Avant-Garde of the 1960s Fred Andersson Åke Hodell’s Kerberos –A Case Study Kari Brandtzæg Morten Krohg and Art’s Oppositional Role Sanne Krogh Groth EMS – Elektronmusik Studio in Stockholm Thomas Hvid Kroman Sub-Publications from a Basement in Snaregade 6, Copenhagen – Arena Sub-Pub (1969–1970) Dossier/Little Magazines Þröstur Helgason An Open Field of Play and Experimentation – The Little Magazine Birtingur Jesper Olsson Tvångs-Blandaren – Stuff in a Box Jesper Olsson Rondo and Gorilla – Magazine and Calendar Thomas Hvid Kromann Against Restrictions and Exclusions – For Expansion and Inclusions – The Little Magazine ta’ (1967–1968) Thomas Hvid Kromann A Time Capsule from the Sixties – The Little Magazine ta’ BOX (1969–1970) Thomas Hvid Kromann In the Service of the Revolution – The Little Magazine MAK (1969–1970) Sissel Furuseth Profil 1966–1969 – Triumph and Crisis of the Collective 3. New Cultural Geographies Harri Veivo Christian Dotremont’s Logogrammes and Logoneiges – European Avant-Garde Inspired by Lapland Anna Jóhannsdóttir Exile, Correspondence, Rebellion – Tracing the Interactive Relationship between Iceland and Dieter Roth Anneli Fuchs Galerie Køpcke – An Artist-Run Gallery in Copenhagen, 1958–1962 Søren Møller Sørensen Action Music! – Nam June Paik in Scandinavia, 1961 Árni Heimir Ingólfsson Clothing Irons and Whisky Bottles – Creating an Icelandic Musical Avant-Garde Danielle Kvaran Erró, or the Porousness of Borders Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen The Situationist Offensive in Scandinavia Halldór Björn Runólfsson SÚM – The Flux in Iceland Peter van der Meijden Fluxus, Eric Andersen and the Communist East Janna Kantola Making Choices – Debatable Translations and Publication Policies of Finnish Cultural Magazines Aikalainen, Parnasso and Uusi Kirjallisuuslehti in the 1960s 4. New Technologies and New Media John Sundholm Chance and Play, or Marvellous Machines – A Forgotten Swedish Film Avant-Garde Jesper Olsson Radiophonic Poetry and a Blind Movie – Öyvind Fahlström’s Sound Art Tania Ørum The Medium is the Message – Danish Radio Experiments in the 1960s Jonas Ingvarsson What’s Wrong with Billy Spafon? Tania Ørum Concrete Poetry as a Sign of Technological Change in Society Jesper Olsson Collaborators in Art and Technology – The Case of Billy Klüver Jonas Ingvarsson The Case[y] of Husberg Tanja Tiekso Art Has Opened People’s Eyes, Music People’s Ears, and Computers People’s Minds – Erkki Kurenniemi on Music and Technology Mikko Ojanen and Kai Lassfolk University of Helsinki Electronic Music Studio – Founding and Early Development Jesper Olsson The New Monument – Experimental TV and Remediation Tania Ørum ABCinema and Super 8 Technology Kari Yli-Annala Visions Seen through Felt Boots – “The Carriers of the Fire” of Avant-Garde Art in the 1950s and 1970s in Finland Thomas Hvid Kromann Artists’ Books in the 1960s Tania Ørum Telephone Art Teddy Hultberg Fylkingen’s Text-Sound Festivals, 1968–1974 Erling Kullberg The Detested Interval Music – On Per Nørgård’s Calendar Music as Interval Signal on TV 5. Performative Strategies Jesper Olsson “Hätila ragulpr på fåtskliaben” – Conceiving of Concrete Poetry Jesper Olsson Concrete Poetry as a Score for Performance – Bengt Emil Johnson’s Old Man Drowning Peter van der Meijden The Festum Fluxorum in Copenhagen, 23–28 November 1962 Tania Ørum To Play To-Day Merja Hottinen Experiment, Scam and Children’s Games – The Finnish Media on Ken Dewey’s Happenings in Finland, 1963–1964 Per Ringby Pistolteatern – Avant-Garde Performance and Political Theatre Annika Öhrner Yvonne Rainer and Robert Morris – An Evening of Talking and Dancing, 1964 Erik Exe Christoffersen Odin Teatret –¬ Between Tradition and the Avant-Garde Magnús Þór Þorbergsson Leiksmiðjan – Collaborating on a New Theatre Rasmus Graff Asger Jorn’s Work in The Archive of the Revolution in Havana Karsten Wind Meyhoff Showtime! Notes on the Performance Practice of Per Højholt Birgitte Anderberg Performing Feminism – Kirsten Justesen Mette Mortensen A Borderline Case – Facial Politics in Kjartan Slettemark’s The Passport 6. Interventions into Everyday Life Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen Raping the Whole World in a Warm Embrace of Fascination – Drakabygget’s Anti-Authoritarian Artistic Endeavours Sven-Olov Wallenstein 1966 – Thinking the City Lars Bang Larsen True Rulers of Their Own Realm – Political subjectivisation in Modellen – En modell för ett kvalitativt samhälle Jonas (J) Magnusson Jarl Hammarberg’s Concrete Poetry and Collective Books Ingvild Krogvig Linguistic Leakage in the Landscape – Early Land Art in Norway Lars Bang Larsen Kanonklubben – The Oslo Trip and The Garden Christine Buhl Andersen The Avant-Garde in Public Space – Two Danish Examples Elisabeth Friis and and and – A Device of One’s Own – Reproductive Parataxis in Rex, Thorup and Åkesson Malene Woltmann Christiana – Utopia Realised? Stig Jarl and Laura Luise Schultz A Sensuous Dramaturgy of Intervention – Solvognen (The Sun Chariot), Copenhagen, 1969–1983 Ingvild Krogvig Viggo Andersen’s Vigelandsinstallasjon – The History of a Forgotten Anti-Monument 7. Avant-Garde between Market and Counterculture Vibeke Petersen Gether Gunnar Aagaard Andersen – Commercial Design and Experimental Art Jens Tang Kristensen Angli Avant-Gardism – Paul Gadegaard’s Art Project in Herning, Denmark Lars Bukdahl Vagn is Also a Bit of a Soft Drink – Vagn Steen’s Advertisements for Himself and Concrete Poetry, 1964–1969 Jesper Olsson The Artist on Holiday, or “L’art pour l’or”, or Some Conceptual Investments of Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd Alf Arvidsson From Avant-Garde to Pop Culture to Alternative Scenes – The Case of Two Swedish Bands, Blå Tåget and Träd, Gräs & Stenar Harri Veivo Everyday High and Low – Finnish Avant-Garde Poetry of the 1960s Navigations in a Rapidly Changing Society Tania Ørum The Rose Campaign – John Davidsen’s Appropriation of Commercial Formats Lars Bang Larsen PUSS 1968–1973 Tania Ørum Counterculture Benedikt Hjartarson “A Furious Girl from Rome” – Róska and the Mythography of Avant-Garde Bohemianism Trond Haugen “From Everyone to Everyone” – The Countercultural Little Magazine Dikt & datt David Thyrén The Alternative Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden, 1975 Abstracts

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Book SynopsisIn Die Rifāʽīya spürt Boris Liebrenz der Buchkultur des Osmanischen Syrien (16. - 19. Jahrhundert) durch den Fokus der einzig überlebenden Privatbibliothek der Epoche nach. Er fragt nach der Produktion und Transmission von Wissen sowie dem sozialen Hintergrund der Leserschaft im Zeitalter der Handschrift. Studien der arabischen Bibliotheksgeschichte haben oft nur das Mittelalter in den Blick genommen und basierten fast ausschließlich auf literarischen Quellen. Dies ist die erste Monographie, die eine einzige Region während der Osmanischen Periode in den Fokus nimmt und deren auf uns gekommene Handschriften und Notizen ihrer Leser und Besitzer systematisch als dokumentarische Quelle benutzt. So erhellt sie die materiellen, rechtlichen und sozialen Voraussetzungen von Buchbesitz und Lesepraxis. In Die Rifāʽīya Boris Liebrenz explores the book culture of Ottoman Syria (16th to 19th century), using the only surviving Damascene private library of the time as a vantage point. He asks about the production and transmission of knowledge as well as the social background of the reading audience in a manuscript age. Scholarship on Arabic libraries has often focussed on the medieval period and relied nearly exclusively on literary accounts. This is the first book-length study that focuses on a single region in the Ottoman period and systematically uses the vast number of surviving manuscripts as a documentary source by means of the notes left by their readers and possessors. Thus, it sheds light on the material, juridical, and social basis of book-ownership and reading.Trade ReviewWinner of the Forschungspreis der Annemarie Schimmel-Stiftung für Islamkunde 2017 'Das Werk von Liebrenz ist ein hervorragendes Beispiel für die Bedeutung von Handschriften für die Kultur- und Mediengeschichte des arabisch-osmanischen Raumes und die daraus zu gewinnenden Erkenntnisse für die Kulturgeschichte dieses Raumes. Nicht nur wegen der vergnüglichen Lektüre wird die Studie ihre fortdauernde Bedeutung haben. Sie bedeutet einen großen Wissensgewinn für die Übergangszeit zum Buchdruck'. Rüdiger Lohlker, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Vol. 107 (2017), pp. 523Table of ContentsVorwort Abbildungsverzeichnis Einleitung Bibliotheken Buch- und Bibliotheksgeschichte in der orientwissenschaftlichen Forschung Neue Wege der Forschung Quellen Sekundäreinträge Literarische Quellen: Chroniken und biographische Sammlungen Aufbau der Arbeit 1 Die Bibliothek 43 Ihre Geschichte und Inhalte 1.1 Die Erwerbung der Rifāʿīya 1.1.1 Der Käufer: Johann Gottfried Wetzstein 1.1.2 Der Konkurrent: Anṭūn Būlād, Priester und Geschäftsmann 1.1.3 Chronologie der Erwerbung 1.2 Der Verkäufer: Wer war Omar Efendi Elhamawy? 1.3 Der Wert einer Bibliothek – Der Wert von Büchern 1.4 Zwischen universal und regional: Inhaltliche Dimensionen der Rifāʿīya 1.4.1 Zeitliche und räumliche Dimensionen der rezipierten Autoren und Werke 1.5 Bestandsgeschichte: Ansätze einer Bibliotheksarchäologie 1.5.1 ʿUmar ar-Rifāʿī als Sammler: Inhalte und Quellen der Rifāʿīya 1.6 Fazit: Was für eine Bibliothek war die Rifāʿīya? 2 Die Umwelt der Rifāʿīya Der Kontext arabischer Bibliotheken und Buchproduktion in der osmanischen Periode 2.1 Umwege zur Geschichte der Rifāʿīya 2.2 Das gestiftete Buch 2.2.1 Theoretische Grundlagen: Bücherstiftungen im islamischen Recht 2.2.2 Der Stiftungsakt: Praxis und Dokumentation 2.2.3 „Öffentliche“ Stiftungsbibliotheken 2.3 Beispiele „öffentlicher“ Stiftungsbibliotheken aus der Zeit der Rifāʿīya 2.3.1 Die Stiftung eines Rechtsgelehrten: Die Aḥmadīya von Aleppo 2.3.2 Militärs und Politiker 2.3.3 Die Bibliothekslandschaft von Damaskus 2.3.4 Bibliothekarische Parallelwelten: Kirchen und Klöster 2.4 Öffentlichkeit, Verwaltung und Ausleihe der Bestände von Stiftungsbibliotheken 2.5 Wer hat gestiftet? 2.6 Fazit: „öffentliche“ Stiftungsbibliotheken 2.7 Private Stiftungsbibliotheken / Gestiftete Familienbibliotheken 2.8 Kommerzielle Leihbibliotheken – Neue Wege der Literaturrezeption? 2.9 „Familienbibliotheken“ oder „Familien und Bibliotheken“? 2.10 Bibliotheksorte und Bücherräume 2.11 Bucherweb – Die Quellen einer Bibliothek 2.11.1 Die Kopie 2.11.2 Der Buchmarkt von Damaskus 2.11.3 Erbe 2.12 Handschriften im Zeitalter des Buchdrucks: Die Rifāʿīya als Abbild einer untergehenden Buchkultur 3 Die Leser 3.1 Lesen – (K)ein Privileg der ʿulamāʾ? 3.1.1 Neue Leser? Von Händlern, Barbieren und Handwerkern 3.1.2 Bemerkungen zu Konfession und Alter der Leser 3.2 Militär und Administration 3.3 Ärzte 3.4 Leserschaft über konfessionelle Grenzen: Religiöse Minderheiten 3.5 Frauen 3.6 Private Ausleihe 4 Schluss Quellen und Literatur Archivalische und handschriftliche Quellen Gedruckte Quellen Sekundärliteratur Personenindex Sachindex Ortsindex

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Book SynopsisIn A Tale of Three Thirsty Cities: The Innovative Water Supply Systems of Toledo, London and Paris in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century, Chaim Shulman presents an analysis of three projects of urban water supply systems carried out between 1560s–1610s. The technical and economic differences between these projects resulted from external conditions not directly related to the water supply problem. Although the same basic technology was apparently available at the time in all cases, the geographical, engineering, entrepreneurial and cultural nature of each region differed. The inhabitants’ wellbeing improvement achieved varied accordingly. Much broader insights are drawn on the policies of the three monarchies regarding the initiative of and support for grand scale public works in general.Trade Review"One of the strengths of Shulman’s study is his meticulous reconstruction of how these engines worked, who funded them, how they functioned over time and their impact, if any, on the development of water-supply technology in general. For this purpose, in an exemplary manner the author combines written, printed, and beautifully reproduced pictorial sources." - Karel Davids, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, in: Technology and Culture, July 2020, Vol. 61, pp. 953-955 "[...] readers may enjoy the technical discussions of these machines’ creation and functioning, the tracing of their intellectual roots, and the financial and political intricacies that both promoted and undermined their accomplishments." - G. Geltner, University of Amsterdam, ​​​​​​​in: Renaissance Quarterly LXXI I , No. 4: 1471-1472 [DOI: 10.1017/rqx.2019.415]Table of ContentsAbbreviations, Date Conventions and Notes List of Figures Included in the Text Introduction  The Subject of Our Research  Mechanical’ Engineers and Know-How Migration 1 Human Water Consumption in England, France and Spain in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 2 Water-lifting Technology in the Graeco-Roman World and Its Development through the Renaissance  The Invention of Water-lifting Devices  The Use of Water-lifting Devices in the Roman Era  Islamic Technological Influence  The Diffusion of the Waterwheel in Europe  The Improvement of Water Lifting Technology in Europe, Evolution or Quantum Leaps?  Basic Water Raising Technologies  Direct Water-lifting with Compartmented Waterwheels  Archimedean Screws  Ctesibius’ Double-Acting Force Pumps  Theatres of Machines  Complex Water Lifting Configurations Relevant to the Present Study  Water-Raising Machines at Atmospheric Pressure  Transmission of Power through Distances  Waterwheels Sensitivity to Variations in the Level of the River Flow  Piping Networks  The Diffusion of False Know-How  The Italian Strategy—Gravity Based Solutions 3 Toledo  Spain and Toledo in the 1560s  Early Attempts to Supply Water to Toledo  Water Supply to Toledo in the Sixteenth Century  Juanelo Turriano  The Artificio  Iconographic Representations and Exact Location of the Artificio Building  The Artificio’s Technology—The Operational Principle  Escosura y Beck—The Inclined Plane Theory  The Vertical Solution, Proposed by Ladislao Reti  Juan Luis Peces Ventas’ Improvement of the Inclined Plane Theory  Nicolás García Tapia’s Proposition  Francesc Xavier Jufre García’s Concept: Operating Valturio Scales  Unanswered Technical Questions  Technical Conclusions  The Artificio, as Seen by Contemporary Writers  The Ingenio of Juan Fernández del Castillo  Land Reclamation and Sewerage in Spain  The Spanish Attitude Towards Science and Technology during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 4 London  Tudor London in the 1580s  Early Attempts to Provide the City with a Water Supply System  The Elizabethan Patent System  Peter Morris  The London Bridge Waterworks in Contemporary Sources  Technical Operation  Supporting Evidence for Bate’s Interpretation of Morris’ Operational Principle  The External Appearance of the London Waterworks  The Consequences of the Installation of Waterwheels on the London Bridge  The Later Development of the London Bridge Waterworks  Other Initiatives  The New River  Competition between the Different Water Suppliers  Land Reclamation and Sewerage in England 5 Paris  Government and Municipal Authorities—Paris Administration and Development in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries  History of Former Water Supply Undertakings  La Samaritaine  The Operational Principle of La Samaritaine  Description of the Original Samaritaine Building in Contemporary Travelogues  Depictions of the Original Building of La Samaritaine in Maps and Views of Paris  The Samaritaine Building after its Renovation in 1714  Additional Initiatives to Solve the Water Problem in the Seventeenth Century  Pumps at Pont Notre Dame  The Machine at Marly  Land Reclamation and Sewerage in France 6 Conclusions Sources and Bibliography  Sources  Studies  Websites  Online Sources for Retrieved Images

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Book SynopsisExile and Gender I: Literature and the Press focuses on the work of exiled women writers and journalists and on gendered representations in the writing of both male and female exiled writers, examining the concepts of gender and sexuality in exile. The contributions are in English or German. Dieser Band Exile and Gender I: Literature and the Press enthält Beiträge zu den Werken exilierter Schriftstellerinnen und Journalistinnen und zu geschlechtsspezifischen Darstellungen in den Texten von Exilschriftstellern und Exilschriftstellerinnen, sowie zu Gender- und Sexualitätskonzepten. Die Beiträge sind entweder in deutscher oder englischer Sprache.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Charmian Brinson and Andrea Hammel “Exemplary Lives”? Thoughts on Exile, Gender and Exile Writing Katharina Prager Gender and Kindertransport Memoirs Andrea Hammel Anna Seghers und die Moderne: Positionen aus der Expressionismusdebatte und den großen Exilromanen Christine Ujma Masculinity and Femininity in Anna Seghers’ and Bodo Uhse’s Mexican Exile Narratives Trinidad Marín Villora Carl und Alice Zuckmayer in Vermont: A Gendered Perspective Birgit Maier-Katkin Die Suche nach dem Ort: Veza Canettis Erzählung „Toogoods oder das Licht“ Rosa Marta Gómez Pato „Man wird, was man war erst ganz in der Emigration“: Veza und Elias Canetti in der Emigration in England ‒ Geschlechtererfahrung in Leben und Literatur Ester Saletta Lisa Fittkos Flucht- und Exilgeschichte: das Heldenhafte der Menschlichkeit Montserrat Bascoy Lamelas Lili Körbers Roman Die Ehe der Ruth Gompertz als Zeitroman mit Elementen der Dokumentarliteratur Amira Zmiric Henris Hämorrhoiden: Politik, Geschlecht und Homosexualität in Heinrich Manns Die Jugend des Königs Henri Quatre Benedikt Wolf “So frech möchte ich auch sein”: Brazen Women in Robert Cohen’s Exil der frechen Frauen Hiltrud Arens Vicki Baum’s Exile Novels Rose Sillars “...a healthier atmosphere than that of exile”: The Fictionalisation of Resistance in Hilda Monte’s Posthumous Novel Where Freedom Perished (1947) Jörg Thunecke From Germany to England: Girls in Exile in the Works of Judith Kerr and Irene N. Watts Aine McGillicuddy Un-/Doing Gender in Exile Children’s Literature: for example Lisa Tetzner’s Children’s Odyssey Wiebke von Bernstorff Österreicherin im Haushalt: The Periodical of Austrian Domestics. Überlegungen zu den Arbeits-und Lebensbedingungen der österreichischen Hausgehilfinnen in England Veronika Zwerger Frau in Arbeit: A Newspaper By Women for Women in British Exile Charmian Brinson Index ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erratum Yearbook, vol. 17, p. 133, line 13 Unfortunately the words “der Juden und der Arier” appeared in error and should be omitted. The editors apologise to Benedikt Wolf for this oversight and for any distress caused.

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, the authors bring fresh approaches to the subject of royal and noble households in medieval and early modern Europe. The essays focus on the people of the highest social rank: the nuclear and extended royal family, their household attendants, noblemen and noblewomen as courtiers, and physicians. Themes include financial and administrative management, itinerant households, the household of an imprisoned noblewoman, blended households, and cultural influence. The essays are grounded in sources such as records of court ceremonial, economic records, letters, legal records, wills, and inventories. The authors employ a variety of methods, including prosopography, economic history, visual analysis, network analysis, and gift exchange, and the collection is engaged with current political, sociological, anthropological, gender, and feminist theories.Trade Review"The editor's introduction and sixteen papers offer a rich variety of approaches to the announced topic. [...] an impressive collection of serious work on a subject fully meriting our consideration. Editor and contributors have served us well". Joel T. Rosenthal, Sixteenth Century Journal, 2019. "As economic and administrative units “quite distinct from those of peasants, the gentry, and townspeople", royal and aristocratic households are critical to understanding politics in local, regional, international, intergenerational, and gendered contexts (Earenfight 3). The sixteen essays in the volume, ranging from the ninth to the mid-sixteenth century, deepen understandings of state-building processes and politics from a variety of perspectives: institutional, economic, cultural, gendered, and familial. The volume will be a valuable resource to political historians working on courts and gender.[...] It is an important contribution to new directions in the field of political history". Silvia Z. Mitchell, in Renaissance Quarterly, 73 (2), pp. 650-651.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Personal Relations, Political Agency, and Economic Clout in Medieval and Early Modern Royal and Elite Households  Theresa Earenfight 1 Domina et Fidelibus Eius: Elite Households in Tenth-Century Francia and Anglo-Saxon England  Megan Welton 2 Maintaining Elite Households in Germany and Italy, 900-1115: Finances, Control, and Patronage  Penelope Nash 3 Æthelings and their Entourages in Late Anglo-Saxon England: The Households, Retinues and Networks of Two Sons of King Æthelred the Unready  David McDermott 4 Joan de Valence and Her Household: Domesticity, Management, and Organization in Transition from Wife to Widow  Linda E. Mitchell 5 Eleanor of Brittany in Confinement: Problematizing Paradigms of the Household for Royal Prisoners  Eileen Kim 6 “All my frendys fro me thei flee”: The Disgraced and Unstable Household of Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester  Sally Fisher 7 Serving Isabella of France: From Queen Consort to Dowager Queen  Caroline Dunn 8 Political Power-Brokers in the Fifteenth Century English Royal Household  Alexander Brondarbit 9 “Our Servants Say Scandalous Things about You:” Royal Households in the Fourteenth-Century Crown of Aragon  Alana Lord 10 Love, Calumnies, Murders, War, Ambition, and Survival at the Court of King Fernando and Queen Leonor Teles of Portugal (1367-1384)  Isabel de Pina Baleiras 11 The Portuguese Household of an English Queen: Sources, Purposes, Social Meaning (1387-1415)  Manuela Santos Silva 12 Royal Household and Political Parties: The Configuration of Ferdinand the Catholic’s Entourage in Castile (1469-1516)  Germán Gamero Igea 13 Rocking the Cradle and Ruling the World: Queens’ Households in Late Medieval and Early Modern Aragon and France  Zita Rohr 14 A Precarious Household: Catherine of Aragon in England, 1501-1504  Theresa Earenfight 15 There and Back Again: The Hospitality and Consumption of a Sixteenth-Century English Travelling Household  Audrey M. Thorstad 16 The Households of Portuguese infantesin Avis Dynasty: Formation and Autonomy of Alternative Centers of Power in the Sixteenth Century  Hélder Carvalhal Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires, Jin Noda examines the foreign relations of the Kazakh Chinggisid sultans and the Russian and Qing empires during the 18th and 19th centuries. Noda makes use of both Russian and Qing archival documents as well as local Islamic sources. Through analysis of each party’s claims –mainly reflected in the Russian-Qing negotiations regarding Central Eurasia–, the book describes the role played by the Kazakh nomads in tying together the three regions of eastern Kazakh steppe, Western Siberia, and Xinjiang.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Transliteration and Sources Abbreviations List of Illustrations Preface: The Kazakh Khanates’ Place within the Central Eurasian World The History of the Kazakh Steppe and the Kazakh Khanates Themes to Be Addressed Methodology and Significance Outline of Content Description of Historical Sources Part One: The ‘Kazakh Khanates’ and the History of the International Relations in Central Asia 1 Reexamining the Kazakh Khanates’ ‘Foreign Relations in the East’ A History of Research Regarding the Kazakh Khanates A History of Research Regarding the Kazakh-Qing Connection Historical Relations between the Kazakh Steppe and Xinjiang: An analysis based on accounts in Tavārīḫ-i Ḫamsa-yi Šarqī, written by the Tatar imam Qurbān ‘Alī 2 The Impact of Russian Advances into Central Asia on Kazakh-Russian Relations The Petition for Russian Subject Status and an Oath on the Quran The Kazakh Title of “Khan” Establishment of the 1822 Regulation within the Middle Juz Part Two: The Foundations of Kazakh-Qing Relations 3 The Problem of Kazakh Subjection and the Russian-Qing Relationship in Central Asia The Jungars and Central Asia within Russian-Qing Relations The Toši Mission’s Proposals (1731) and Russia-Qing Negotiations The Russian-Qing Negotiations of 1756–1758 Regarding Central Asia 4 The Differing Nature of the Three Kazakh Juz and the Three “Bu” (Sections) Mentioned in Qing Historical Sources Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Kazakh Social Structure as Described within Qing Historical Sources The Meaning of the Term “Hasake” within Qing Historical Records Relations between the three Kazakh Juz and the Qing Empire The Three Sections in the View of the Kazakhs 5 Titles of Kazakh Sultans Bestowed by the Qing Empire: The 1824 Case of Sultan Ghubaidulla Qing Titles for the Kazakhs Sultan Ghubaidulla and his Han Title Titles for Kazakhs Thereafter Part Three: Russo-Qing Relations and the Fate of the Kazakh Khanates 6 Kazakh Participation in the Russo-Chinese Trade of Central Asia The Kyakhta Trade and Russo-Qing Trade throughout Western Siberia Russian and Qing Trading Policies Intermediary Role of the Kazakhs in Russo-Qing Trade Changes in the Structure of Trade 7 The Transformation of the Russian-Qing Relationship and the Dissolution of the Kazakh Khanates Frontier Rule by the Two Empires: The Western Siberian Governor-General and the Ili Military Governor The Role of the Kazakh Steppe within Russian-Qing Relations The Sultans in Transition Friction Regarding the Annexation of the Great Juz and Establishment of the 1851 Treaty of Commerce between Russia and the Qing Dynasty Conclusion List of Chinese Characters Bibliography Index  

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Book SynopsisThis book is devoted to the Old Rus’ dress of the Upper Volga area, as gleaned from the archaeological evidence of the burial sites. The organic remains of dress and metal and glass ornaments and fasteners are considered. Issues such as the social status and age of the buried individuals, as well as the influence of various ethnic groups (including East Slavic groups, Finno-Ugric tribes and the Balts ) on the dress of the Old Rus’, are addressed through the study of variants of male and female headdresses, clothes and accessories. Furthermore, a detailed study of the evolution of the headdress and the structure of jewelry from the late 10th century to the 13th century is offered.

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Book SynopsisIn Mulieres suadentes - Persuasive Women, Martin Homza scrutinises the genesis of ruler ideology among the most prominent East Central and Eastern European dynasties from the early and later Middle Ages. At the center of attention are the Přemyslids, the Piasts, the Rurikids, and the Árpáds, but also the main dynasties of the Balkans, namely the Trpimirović and the Nemanjić dynasties, as well as the House of Bogdan, and the Moldova dynasty of the Muṣatins. Unlike previous work, which has focused on narrative sources of male ruler hagiography, Homza studies texts concerning female royal figures. More broadly, this book also attempts to bridge the artificial gap between West and East in Europe.Trade Review"This book examines the hagiography of female rulers in East-Central and Eastern Europe, mostly from the 10th to the 13th century. By focusing on the figures of St. Ludmila in Bohemia, St. Olga in Rus, and Princess Adelaide in the Kingdoms of Poland and Hungary, it shows how the commemoration of these women helped entrench both Christianity and the ruling dynasty in their respective lands. The book accomplishes a wider goal, however: by identifying the broader aspects of female royal saints and their cults, by tracing their origins and models in Byzantium, and by showing profound knowledge of such relevant comparative figures as St. Margaret of Scotland and St. Bertha of Kent, it contributes to the process of de-ghettoizing Eastern and East-Central Europe in European historiography." Nadieszda Kizenko, in JAHRBUCHER FUR GESCHICHTE OSTEUROPAS, 68 (2020)

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Book SynopsisIn Rituals and Symbolic Communication in Medieval Hungary under the Árpád Dynasty (1000 - 1301) Dušan Zupka examines rituals as means of political and symbolic communication in medieval Central Europe, with a special emphasis on the rulers of the Árpád dynasty in the Kingdom of Hungary. Particular attention is paid to symbolic acts such as festive coronations, liturgical praises, welcoming of rulers (adventus regis), ritualised settlement of disputes, and symbolic rites during encounters between rulers. The power and meaning of rituals were understandable to contemporary protagonists and to their chroniclers. These rituals therefore played an essential role in medieval political culture. The book concludes with an outline of ritual communication as a coherent system.Trade Review''Zupka hat mit seiner Arbeit jedoch den eigenen Anspruch, gleichsam eine Teststudie für die Ritualforschung in Mitteleuropa vorzulegen, erfolgreich eingelöst: Seine Studie zeigt, wie weiterführend das erneute Durchdenken bekannter Theorien und deren Anwendung auf neue Fallbeispiele ist. Besonders überzeugend ist, dass Zupka sich nicht ausschließlich auf das Königreich Ungarn bezieht, sondern den Interferenzen mit benachbarten Reichen und ihrer Spiegelung in den Quellen besondere Aufmerksamkeit schenkt. Damit hat er eine gute Ausgangslage und zahlreiche Anregungen für weitere komparative Arbeiten zur Geschichte der politischen Gefüge in Mitteleuropa geschaffen''. - Julia Burkhardt, in: Sehepunkte 11 (2019) ''Man kommt angesichts der Überzeugungskraft der vorgetragenen Beobachtungen nicht umhin, ihm beizupflichten, und das umfangreiche Verzeichnis der zitierten Quellen und Literatur bestätigt nur, dass dem interessierten Leser hier ein sachkundiger Führer durch die Welt der ungarischen Árpáden in die Hand gelegt wird''. - Martin Wihoda, in: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 2018 (1) ''Mein Fazit nach der Lektüre des Buches ist, dass ihm ein gutes Konzept zugrunde liegt. Zudem basiert es auf einem fundierten globalgeschichtlichen Hintergrund, der für die Bearbeitung des Themas geeignet ist''. - Márta Font, in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 2019 (2)Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements vii List of Illustrations VIII Abbreviations IX Introduction 1 1 Rituals and Symbolic Communication: Theory, Terminology and Methodology 15 1 Ritual—Definition of the Term 15 2 The Study of Rituals in the Humanities 19 3 Rituals and Symbolic Communication in Medieval Studies 22 3.1 Rituals in Medieval Studies—Overview of Previous Research 22 3.2 Rituals in Medieval Studies—The Current State of Research 25 3.3 Rituals and Symbolic Communication in the Middle Ages 32 2 Rituals of Power and Symbols of Monarchy 35 1 Three Types of Coronation 36 2 Laudes regiae 45 3 Cingulum militiae 49 4 Court Festivities and Royal Majesty 55 5 The Symbols and Rituals of the Hungarian Monarchs 61 6 Summary 68 3 The Settling of Disputes and Submission—Rituals of Reconciliation 70 1 Reconciliation Rituals in Internal Political Struggles and in the Settling of Disputes with Foreign Monarchs (11th Century) 72 1.1 Reconciliation Rituals in the Struggles for the Hungarian Throne in the Second Half of the 11th Century 72 1.2 Conciliatory Settlement of Disputes between Hungary and the Holy Roman Empire 86 2 The Evolution and Transformation of the Ritual of Reconciliation in the 12th Century 94 2.1 Coloman and Álmos 94 2.2 Coloman and Foreign Rulers 97 2.3 Hungary and Byzantium 101 vi contents 3 Symbolic Gestures of Humility—Submission and Supplication 107 4 Summary and Conclusions 115 4 Adventus regis in Medieval Hungary 117 1 Adventus regis 117 2 Adventus regis in Political Communication in Hungary under the Árpád Dynasty 121 3 Good and Bad adventus 130 4 Conclusion 137 5 Encounters between Royalty—Greeting Rituals 139 1 Symbolic Communication during Meetings between Royalty 139 2 Osculum pacis 144 3 Research Issues 147 4 Symbolic Communication between Members of the Árpád and Piast Dynasties 147 4.1 Stephen I and Bolesław I 148 4.2 Ladislas I and Bolesław II 152 4.3 Coloman I and Bolesław III 156 5 Symbols and Rituals in the Hungarian Kings’ Encounters with the Crusaders 162 5.1 The First Crusade (1096) 163 5.2 The Second Crusade (1147) 167 5.3 The Third Crusade (1189) 170 6 The Role and Significance of Royal Encounters in the Middle Ages 172 7 Conclusion 177 6 Concluding Reflections: Ritual Communication as a Coherent System 179 1 The Role of Ritual 180 2 The Acquisition of Ritualized Communication—Lernprozess 182 3 An Outline of Developments in the Later Middle Ages: Urban Rituals and Written Culture 185 4 Monarchic Power and Its Representation 189 5 Quality, Role, and Ritual: Towards a Conceptual Framework 194 Bibliography 197 Index 222

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Book SynopsisIn Melusine’s Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth, editors Misty Urban, Deva Kemmis, and Melissa Ridley Elmes offer an invigorating international and interdisciplinary examination of the legendary fairy Melusine. Along with fresh insights into the popular French and German traditions, these essays investigate Melusine’s English, Dutch, Spanish, and Chinese counterparts and explore her roots in philosophy, folklore, and classical myth. Combining approaches from art history, history, alchemy, literature, cultural studies, and medievalism, applying rigorous critical lenses ranging from feminism and comparative literature to film and monster theory, this volume brings Melusine scholarship into the twenty-first century with twenty lively and evocative essays that reassess this powerful figure’s multiple meanings and illuminate her dynamic resonances across cultures and time. Contributors are Anna Casas Aguilar, Jennifer Alberghini, Frederika Bain, Anna-Lisa Baumeister, Albrecht Classen, Chera A. Cole, Tania M. Colwell, Zoë Enstone, Stacey L. Hahn, Deva F. Kemmis, Ana Pairet, Pit Péporté, Simone Pfleger, Caroline Prud’Homme, Melissa Ridley Elmes, Renata Schellenberg, Misty Urban, Angela Jane Weisl, Lydia Zeldenrust, and Zifeng Zhao.Trade Review"This magnificent book combines the research of twenty interdisciplinary scholars who meticulously investigate the eponymous footprint of Melusine from a wide variety of literary as well as artistic approaches. It illustrates how richly this theriomorphic monstrous snake woman has contributed to the culture of so many European countries, and extends as far afield as China, in a study that clearly indicates the continuing fascination of this most enchanting and threatening figure. Melusine is here variously discussed as an instructive exemplar of Christian piety, a powerful mother who desires to humanize herself through marriage into the chivalric, religious order of her age, a transformative figure unifying humanity with nature, an abject object of the gaze, a fairy who functions as a monstrous Other in the mirror of romance, and a metaphor for transgressive feminine prowess. This enthralling work contributes extensively to Melusinia, reading the fairy serpentine hybrid as a symbolic force who never remains contained within any boundaries that may attempt to inscribe her." Gillian M. E. Alban (author of Melusine the Serpent Goddess in A. S. Byatt’s Possession and in Mythology (2003) and The Medusa Gaze in Contemporary Women’s Fiction: Petrifying, Maternal and Redemptive (2017). "Essential reading not only for medievalists, but also for scholars focused on fairy tale and folklore studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, gender theory, and postmodernist theory. Melusine’s Footprint reinvigorates the study of the Melusine tale and her depiction in various texts from the Medieval period through contemporary representations. The analyses vary theoretically and render new interpretations, keeping Melusine alive for scholars in the humanities and the social sciences". Sylvia Veronica Morin, in Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 30 (1), (2019).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Part I. Bodies and Texts: Mapping Melusine in Art and Print 1 The Tail of Melusine: Hybridity, Mutability, and the Accessible Other Frederika Bain 2 Polycorporality and Heteromorphia: Untangling Melusine's Mixed Bodies Ana Pairet 3 Mermaid, Mother, Monster, and More: Portraits of the Fairy Woman in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Melusine Narratives Caroline Prud'Homme 4 The Melusine Figure in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century German Literature and Art: Cultural-Historical Information within the Pictorial Program Albrecht Classen 5 The Alchemical Transformation of Melusine Melissa Ridley Elmes Part II. Mother, Muse: Melusine and Political Identity 6 Architecture and Empire in Historia de la linda Melosina Anna Casas Aguilar 7 The Lady with the Serpent's Tail: Hybridity and the Dutch Meluzine Lydia Zeldenrust 8 Matriarchs and Mother Tongues: The Middle English Romans of Partenay Jennifer Alberghini 9 Melusine and Luxembourg: A Double Memory Pit Péporté Part III. Theoretical Transformations: Readings and Refigurations 10 Youth and Rebellion in Jean d'Arras' Roman de Mélusine Stacey L. Hahn 11 The Promise of (Un)Happiness in Thüring von Ringoltingen's Melusine Simone Pfleger 12 Half Lady, Half Serpent: Melusine's Monstrous Body and the Discourse of Romance Angela Jane Weisl 13 Passing as a "Humayn Woman": Hybridity and Salvation in the Middle English Melusine Chera A. Cole 14 Melusine and Purgatorial Punishment: The Changing Nature of Fays Zoë Enstone 15 Metamorphoses of Snake Women: Melusine and Madam White Zifeng Zhao Part IV. Melusines Medieval to Modern 16 Goethe and Die neue Melusine: A Critical Reinterpretation Renata Schellenberg 17 "Listening Down the Hall": An Epistemological Consideration of the Encounter with Melusine in the Germanic Literary Tradition Deva F. Kemmis 18 Woman, Abject, Animal: Refigurations of Melusine in Frischmuth, Jelinek, and EXPORT Anna-Lisa Baumeister 19 How the Dragon Ate the Woman: The Fate of Melusine in English Misty Urban 20 Melusines Past, Present, and Future: An Afterword Tania M. Colwell Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers the first comprehensive account of the monetary logic that guided the payment of wergild and blood money in early medieval conflict resolution. In the early middle ages, wergild played multiple roles: it was used to measure a person’s status, to prevent and end conflicts, and to negotiate between an individual and the agents of statehood. This collection of interlocking essays by historians, philologists and jurists represents a major contribution to the study of law and society in Western Europe during the early Middle Ages. Contributors are Lukas Bothe, Warren Brown, Stefan Esders, Wolfgang Haubrichs, Paul Hyams, Tom Lambert, Ralph W. Mathisen, Rob Meens, Han Nijdam, Lisi Oliver, Harald Siems, Karl Ubl, and Helle Vogt. See inside the book.Trade Review'My dominant response to this collection was pleasure and gratitude: pleasure because the articles are without exception wonderful; gratitude because it is about time someone published a collection like this. For our understanding of medieval law has changed dramatically in the last two generations, yet when it comes to wergild, most of us still operate with assumptions that go back to the nineteenth century.' Geoffrey Koziol in The Medieval Review, 22.03.16. See the full review here.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Contributors 1 Wergild and the Monetary Logic of Early Medieval Conflict Resolution  Stefan Esders 2 Observations Concerning the ‘Wergild System’: Explanatory Approaches, Effectiveness and Structural Deficits  Harald Siems 3 Monetary Fines, Penalties and Compensations in Late Antiquity  Ralph W. Mathisen 4 Wergeld: The Germanic Terminology of Compositio and Its Implementation in the Early Middle Ages  Wolfgang Haubrichs 5 Wergild, Mund and Manbot in Early Anglo-Saxon Law  Lisi Oliver 6 Compensation, Honour and Idealism in the Laws of Æthelberht  Tom Lambert 7 Wergild and Honour: Using the Case of Frisia to Build a Model  Han Nijdam 8 Triplice Weregeldum: Social and Functional Status in the Lex Ribuaria  Lukas Bothe 9 Penance and Satisfaction: Conflict Settlement and Penitential Practices in the Frankish World in the Early Middle Ages  Rob Meens 10 The Limits of Government: Wergilds and Legal Reforms under Charlemagne  Karl Ubl 11 Wergild in the Carolingian Formula Collections  Warren Brown 12 The Kin’s Collective Responsibility for the Payment of Man’s Compensation in Medieval Denmark  Helle Vogt 13 Concluding Thoughts from England and the ‘Western Legal Tradition’  Paul Hyams Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is about philology and its relevance over time. The compilation foregrounds a multi-faceted field of research that has dealt with the relationship between language, literature and culture for over 2,000 years. The main thread of this volume, comprising ten scholarly essays, is to show that philology as an academic field and a scholarly perspective―understood in its widest sense as the profound understanding of language, literature and culture―does matter in the twenty-first century, that is to say, in our own time characterized by globalization and digitalization. The contributions reflect the many dimensions of philology and its plurality, interdisciplinarity and the humanities. The volume seeks to illustrate various ways of engaging with philology. Here lies the true nature of philology, and this is why it still matters. Contributors are Massimiliano Bampi, Maja Bäckvall, Jonas Carlquist, Odd Einar Haugen, Helge Jordheim, Karl G. Johansson, Lino Leonardi, Harry Lönnroth, Outi Merisalo, Marita Akhøj Nielsen and Nestori Siponkoski.Trade Review'This collection is highly recommended for the richness of its contents and the great relevance of many of its topics." Paolo Trovato, in Speculum 95/3, July 2020.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Why Philology Matters  Harry Lönnroth 1 Philology and the Problem of Culture  Helge Jordheim 2 Description and Reconstruction: An Alternative Categorization of Philological Approaches  Maja Bäckvall 3 Intertextuality and the Oral Continuum: The Multidisciplinary Challenge to Philology  Karl G. Johansson 4 Philological Virtues in a Virtual World  Marita Akhøj Nielsen 5 Philology as Explanation for Historical Contexts  Jonas Carlquist 6 Romance Philology between Anachronism and Historical Truth: On Editing Medieval Vernacular Texts  Lino Leonardi 7 Levels of Granularity: Balancing Literary and Linguistic Interests in the Editing of Medieval Texts  Odd Einar Haugen 8 The Philology of Translation  Harry Lönnroth and Nestori Siponkoski 9 Translating and Rewriting in the Middle Ages: A Philological Approach  Massimiliano Bampi 10 Ludwig Traube and Philology  Outi Merisalo Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Tibetan Printing: Comparisons, Continuities and Change the editors publish the results of the workshop “Printing as an Agent of Change in Tibet and beyond” held at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in November 2013. This is the first study of the social and cultural history of Tibetan book technology that takes materials, living traditions and cross-cultural comparisons into consideration. Bringing together leading experts from different disciplines, it discusses the introduction of printing in Tibetan societies in the context of Asian book cultures with an eye to the questions raised by the study of the European history of printing. This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. Contributors are: Tim Barrett, Alessandro Boesi, Peter Burke, Michela Clemente, Hildegard Diemberger, Dorje Gyeltsen, Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Helmut Eimer, Johan Elverskog, Camillo Formigatti, Imre Galambos, Agnieszka Helman-Wazny, Tomasz Wazny, Sherab Sangpo Kawa, Peter Kornicki, Leonard van der Kuijp, Stefan Larsson, Ben Nourse, Anuradha Pallipurath, Porong Dawa, Paola Ricciardi, Tsering Dawa Sharshon, Sam van Schaik, Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, Marta Sernesi, Pasang Wangdu.Trade Review"For me, the value of this book lies in the connections that it draws between the materiality of the book – its physical make-up and the labor of production – and the sociopolitical and historical impact of the spread and dissemination of the knowledge contained within the books. To understand how this impact plays out in the telescoping contexts of Asia and then Tibet is key to a proper understanding of the region's intellectual and religious history, and the editors are to be congratulated on their innovative and vital contribution to this history." Simon Wickhamsmith, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newbooks.AsiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ix List of Illustrations, Tables and Maps x Introduction 1 PART ONE: The Introduction of Printing in the Asian Context: Wider Perspectives on Print and Manuscript Cultures 1 Three Print Revolutions 13 - Peter Burke 2 The Gutenberg Fallacy and the History of Printing among the Mongols 21 - Johan Elverskog 3 Mongolian Female Rulers as Patrons of Tibetan Printing at the Yuan Court: Some Preliminary Observations on Recently Discovered Materials 38 - Kawa Sherab Sangpo 4 Empress Shōtoku as a Sponsor of Printing 45 - Peter Kornicki 5 From Chongzhen lishu 崇楨曆書 to Tengri-yin udq-a and Rgya rtsis chen mo 51 - Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp 6 A Forgotten Chapter in South Asian Book History? A Bird’s Eye View of Sanskrit Print Culture 72 - Camillo A. Formigatti 7 Manuscript and Print in the Tangut State: The Case of the Sunzi 135 - Imre Galambos 8 Printing versus Manuscript: History or Rhetoric? A Short Note Inspired by Pelliot DIC 153 - Cristina Scherrer-Schaub 9 The Uses of Early Tibetan Printing: Evidence from the Turfan Oasis 171 - Sam van Schaik PART 2: The Introduction of Printing Into Tibet: Drivers, Impact and New Discoveries 10 New Discoveries in Early Tibetan Printing History 195 - Porong Dawa 11 Collected Writings as Xylographs: Two Sets from the Bo dong pa School 212 - Franz-Karl Ehrhard 12 Continuity and New Developments in 15th Century Tibetan Book Production: Bo dong Phyogs las rnam rgyal (1376–1451) and His Disciples as Producers of Manuscript and Print Editions 237 - Tsering Dawa Sharshon 13 Tibetan Women as Patrons of Printing and Innovation 267 - Hildegard Diemberger 14 Prints about the Printer: Four Early Prints in Honor of the Mad Yogin of gTsang 309 - Stefan Larsson 15 Works and Networks of mkhas pa Dri med. On the Illustrations of 16th Century Tibetan Printed Books 332 - Marta Sernesi 16 Early Book Production and Printing in Bhutan 369 - Dorji Gyaltsen 17 An Unacknowledged Revolution? A Reading of Tibetan Printing History on the Basis of Gung thang Colophons Studied in Two Dedicated Projects 394 - Michela Clemente 18 Revolutions of the Dharma Wheel: Uses of Tibetan Printing in the Eighteenth Century 424 - Benjamin J. Nourse 19 Observations Made in the Study of Tibetan Xylographs 451- Helmut Eimer PART 3: Exploring the Materiality of Prints and Manuscripts 20 Wooden Book-covers, Printing Blocks, their Identification and Dating – How to Read the Wood 471 - Tomasz Ważny 21 The Five Colours of Art: Non-invasive Analysis of Pigments in Tibetan Prints and Manuscripts 485 -Paola Ricciardi and Anuradha Pallipurath 22 Paper Plants in the Tibetan World: A Preliminary Study 501 - Alessandro Boesi 23 The Choice of Materials in Early Tibetan Printed Books 532 - Agnieszka Helman-Ważny 24 Paper, Patronage and Production of Books: Remarks on an 11th Century Manuscript from Central Tibet 555 - Pasang Wangdu 25 Pattern Reproduction Possibilities and the Alpha and Omega of Tibetan Printing 560 - T. H. Barrett Index 575

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together important research on: the reception and representation of Jews and Judaism in late medieval German thought, the works of major Reformation-era theologians, scholars, and movements, and in popular literature and the visual arts; it also explores social, intellectual, and cultural developments within Judaism and Jewish responses to the Reformation in sixteenth-century Germany.Trade ReviewThe press about the hardback edition: "[...] [T]he essays are [...] of high quality. [...] [T]he useful surveys and the new insights in this book will help to ensure that sixteenth-century German Jews are part of the story of early modern Jewish society and culture." Adam Shear, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Summer 2008), pp. 187-190 'The book presents the familiar and much-studied topic of the Reformation in sixteenth-century Germany in a new way, by interweaving Jews into the narratives of the various 'Reformations'. [...] It will be a standard work for anyone engaged in these fields for many decades to come." Magda Teter, H-HRE, H-Net Reviews, April, 2008 “The volume encapsulates the field’s current state, bringing much material into English for the first time. […] [T]his volume [is] desirable for libraries.” Susan R. Boettcher, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 2 (Summer 2007), pp. 615-616 "It is a collaborative effort under the valiant leadership of two outstanding Reformation historians who have indeed assembled an impressive cohort of scholars as contributors to this vast enterprise. [...] [F]irst-rate scholarship." Albrecht Classen, Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Winter 2007), pp. 1094-1095Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ... vii Acknowledgements ... viii Abbreviations and Shortened Titles ... ix Contributors ... xv Introduction ... xxi Dean Phillip Bell and Stephen G. Burnett PART I: ROAD TO REFORMATION Humanists, Jews, and Judaism ... 3 Erika Rummel German Theologians and the Jews in the Fifteenth Century ... 33 Christopher Ocker PART II: REFORMERS AND THE JEWS Luther and the Jews ... 69 Thomas Kaufmann Philip Melanchthon and the Jews: A Reappraisal ... 105 Timothy J. Wengert Bucer, the Jews, and Judaism ... 137 R. Gerald Hobbs Ulrich Zwingli, the Jews, and Judaism ... 171 Hans-Martin Kirn Calvin, the Jews, and Judaism ... 197 Achim Detmers Andreas Osiander, the Jews, and Judaism ... 219 Joy Kammerling The Catholic Reform, Jews, and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century Germany ... 249 Robert Bireley The Intensification of Religious Commitment: Jews, Anabaptists, Radical Reform, and Confessionalization ... 269 Michael Driedger PART III: REPRESENTATIONS OF JEWS AND JUDAISM Anthonius Margaritha on the “Whole Jewish Faith:” A Sixteenth-Century Convert from Judaism and his Depiction of the Jewish Religion ... 303 Maria Diemling Von der Juden Ceremonien: Representations of Jews in Sixteenth-Century Germany ... 335 Yaacov Deutsch Visual Representations of Jews and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century Germany ... 357 Petra Schöner The Representation of Jews and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century German Literature ... 393 Edith Wenzel PART IV: JEWS, JUDAISM, AND JEWISH RESPONSES TO THE REFORMATION Jewish Settlement, Politics, and the Reformation ... 421 Dean Phillip Bell Jewish Responses to Christianity in Reformation Germany ... 451 Elisheva Carlebach Jewish Law and Ritual in Early Modern Germany ... 481 Jay Berkovitz German Jewish Printing in the Reformation Era (1530–1633) ... 503 Stephen G. Burnett Select Bibliography ... 529 Index of Subjects ... 547 Index of Persons ... 563 Index of Biblical Passages Cited ... 572

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Book SynopsisWhat Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa examines the diverse experiences of being young in today’s Africa. It offers new perspectives to the roles and positions young people take to change their life conditions both within and beyond the formal political structures and institutions. The contributors represent several social science disciplines, and provide well-grounded qualitative analyses of young people’s everyday engagements by critically examining dominant discourses of youth, politics and ideology. Despite focusing on Africa, the book is a collective effort to better understand what it is like to be young today, and what the making of tomorrow’s yesterday means for them in personal and political terms. Contributors are: Ehaab Abdou, Abebaw Yirga Adamu, Henni Alava, Päivi Armila, Randi Rønning Balsvik, Jesper Bjarnesen, Þóra Björnsdóttir, Jónína Einarsdóttir, Tilo Grätz, Nanna Jordt Jørgensen, Marko Kananen, Sofia Laine, Naydene de Lange, Afifa Ltifi, Ivo Mhike, Claudia Mitchell, Relebohile Moletsane, Danai S. Mupotsa, Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera, Eija Ranta, Mounir Saidani, Mariko Sato, Loubna H. Skalli, Tiina Sotkasiira, Abdoulaye Sounaye, Leena Suurpää, and Mulumebet Zenebe. What Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations 1 Evasive Youth, Oblique Politics  Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera and Leena Suurpää Part 1: Envisioning 2 A Question of Power  Danai S. Mupotsa 3 Friendship and Youth Activism in Pre-revolutionary Egypt  Henri Onodera 4 Respectful Resistance: Young Musicians and the Unfinished Revolution in Tunisia  Sofia Laine, Leena Suurpää and Afifa Ltifi 5 Egyptian Youth-led Civil Society Organizations: Alternative Spaces for Civic Engagement?  Ehaab D. Abdou and Loubna H. Skalli 6 Taking the Forbidden Space: Graffiti and Resistance in Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia  Mulumebet Zenebe 7 Post-Revolutionary Tunisian Youth Art: The Effect of Contestation on the Democratization of Art Production and Consumption  Mounir Saidani Part 2: Entitlement 8 The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Urban Burkina Faso  Jesper Bjarnesen 9 Hustling for Rights: Political Engagements with Sand in Northern Kenya  Nanna Jordt Jørgensen 10 “Acholi Youth Are Lost”: Young, Christian and (A)political in Uganda  Henni Alava 11 Struggling for New Communicative Spaces: Young Media Producers and Politics in the Republic of Benin  Tilo Grätz 12 Transnational Engagement: Return Migrant Women in Somaliland  Mariko Sato Part 3: Embeddedness 13 Salafi Youth on Campus in Niamey, Niger: Moral Motives, Political Ends  Abdoulaye Sounaye 14 Patronage and Ethnicity amongst Politically Active Young Kenyans  Eija Ranta 15 Political Violence in Zimbabwe’s National Youth Service, 2001–2007  Ivo Mhike 16 Students’ Participation in and Contribution to Political and Social Change in Ethiopia  Abebaw Yirga Adamu and Randi Rønning Balsvik 17 Child Participation in Ghana: Responsibilities and Rights  Þóra Björnsdóttir and Jónína Einarsdóttir 18 Diaspora as a Multilevel Political Space for Young Somalis  Päivi Armila, Marko Kananen and Tiina Sotkasiira 19 Addressing Sexual Violence in South Africa: ‘Gender activism in the making’  Claudia Mitchell, Naydene de Lange and Relebohile Moletsane Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on coalitions and collaborations formed by refugees from Nazi Germany in their host countries. Exile from Nazi Germany was a global phenomenon involving the expulsion and displacement of entire families, organizations, and communities. While forced emigration inevitable meant loss of familiar structures and surroundings, successful integration into often very foreign cultures was possible due to the exiles’ ability to access and/or establish networks. By focusing on such networks rather than on individual experiences, the contributions in this volume provide a complex and nuanced analysis of the multifaceted, interacting factors of the exile experience. This approach connects the NS-exile to other forms of displacement and persecution and locates it within the ruptures of civilization dominating the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Contributors are: Dieter Adolph, Jacob Boas, Margit Franz, Katherine Holland, Birgit Maier-Katkin Leonie Marx, Wolfgang Mieder, Thomas Schneider, Helga Schreckenberger, Swen Steinberg, Karina von Tippelskirch, Jörg Thunecke, Jacqueline Vansant, and Veronika Zwerger

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Book SynopsisThe present English translation reproduces the original German of Carl Brockelmann’s Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL) as accurately as possible. In the interest of user-friendliness the following emendations have been made in the translation: Personal names are written out in full, except b. for ibn; Brockelmann’s transliteration of Arabic has been adapted to comply with modern standards for English-language publications; modern English equivalents are given for place names, e.g. Damascus, Cairo, Jerusalem, etc.; several erroneous dates have been corrected, and the page references to the two German editions have been retained in the margin, except in the Supplement volumes, where new references to the first two English volumes have been inserted.Table of ContentsIntroduction I. The task of literary history II. Sources and earlier accounts of the literary history of the Arabs III. Division of the history of Arabic literature First Book. The national literature of the Arabs First Section. From the beginnings until the appearance of Muḥammad Chapter 1. The Arabic language Chapter 2. The beginnings of poetry Chapter 3. Forms of Arabic poetry Chapter 4. General characteristics of ancient Arabic poetry Chapter 5. The transmission of Arabic poetry Chapter 6. The sources for our knowledge of ancient Arabic poetry Chapter 7. The six poets Chapter 8. Other poets of pre-Islamic times Chapter 9. Jewish and Christian poets before Islam Chapter 10. The beginnings of Arabic prose Second Section. Muḥammad and his time Chapter 1. Muḥammad the Prophet Chapter 2. The Qurʾān Chapter 3. Labīd and al-Aʿshā Chapter 4. Ḥassān b. Thābit Chapter 5. Kaʿb b. Zuhayr Chapter 6. Mutammin b. Nuwayra Chapter 7. Al-Khansāʾ Chapter 8. Abū Miḥjan and al-Ḥuṭayʾa Chapter 9. Minor poets Chapter 10. Two forgeries Third Section. The period of the Umayyads Chapter 1. General characteristics Chapter 2. ʿUmar b. Abī Rabīʿa Chapter 3. Other poets in Arabia Chapter 4. Al-Akhṭal Chapter 5. Al-Farazdaq Chapter 6. Jarīr Chapter 7. Dhu ̓l-Rumma Chapter 8. The rajaz poets Chapter 9. Minor poets Chapter 10. Prose writing at the time of the Umayyads Second Book. Islamic literature in the Arabic language First section. The Classical period from ca. 750 until ca. 1000 Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Poetry A. The poets of Baghdad B. Poets of Iraq and the Jazīra C. Poets from Arabia and Syria D. The circle of Sayf al-Dawla E. Egyptian and North African poets Chapter 3. Rhymed prose Chapter 4. Philology I. The School of Basra II. The School of Kufa III. The School of Baghdad IV. Linguistics in Persia and the East V. Linguistics in Egypt and Spain Chapter 4. Historiography 1. The life of Muḥammad 2. Urban history 3. The history of the pre-Islamic Arabs 4. Imperial and world history 5. Cultural and literary history 6. The history of Egypt and North Africa 7. The history of Spain Chapter 5. Belles lettres in prose Chapter 6. Ḥadīth Chapter 7. Fiqh 1. The Ḥanafīs 2. The Mālikīs 3. The Shāfiʿīs 4. The lesser schools 5. The Shīʿa 1. The Zaydīs 2. The Imāmīs Chapter 8. Sciences of the Qurʾān 1. The reading of the Qurʾān 2. Qurʾānic exegesis Chapter 9. Dogmatics Chapter 10. Mysticism Chapter 11. The translators Chapter 12. Philosophy Chapter 13. Mathematics Chapter 14. Astronomy and astrology Chapter 15. Geography Chapter 16. Medicine Chapter 17. Natural and occult sciences Chapter 18. Encyclopaedias Second Section. The post-Classical period of Islamic literature from ca. 400/1000 until ca. 656/1258 Chapter 1. Poetry A. Poets of Baghdad, Iraq, and the Jazīra B. Persian poets C. Syrian poets D. Arabian poets E. Egyptian poets F. North African and Sicilian poets G. Spanish poets Chapter 2. Rhymed prose and stylistics Chapter 3. Philology 1. Philology in Iraq 2. Philology in Persia and neighbouring countries 3. Philology in Syria 4. Philology in South Arabia 5. Philology in Egypt 6. Philology in North Africa and Sicily 7. Philology in Spain Chapter 4. Historiography 1. Individual biographies 2. Histories of dynasties 3. Histories of individuals and genealogies 4. Local history A. Baghdad B. Damascus C. Jerusalem D. Aleppo E. Dunaysir F. South Arabia G. Jurjān H. Egypt I. The Maghrib J. Spain 5. Histories of the caliphs and world history 6. Histories of prophets Chapter 5. Belles lettres in prose Chapter 6. Ḥadīth 1. Iraq, the Jazīra, Syria, and Arabia 2. Persia 3. Egypt and North Africa 4. Spain Chapter 7. Fiqh 1. The Ḥanafīs 2. The Mālikīs 3. The Shāfiʿīs 4. The Ḥanbalīs 5. The Ẓāhirīs and Almohads 6. The Shīʿa A. The Zaydīs B. The Imāmīs Chapter 8. The sciences of the Qurʾān 1. The art of reading the Qurʾān 2. Qurʾānic exegesis Chapter 9. Dogmatics Chapter 10. Mysticism Chapter 11. Philosophy and politics Chapter 12. Mathematics Chapter 13. Astronomy Chapter 14. Geography and travelogues Chapter 15. Medicine Chapter 16. A. Natural sciences and technology B. Games, sports, and war C. Music Chapter 17. Occult sciences Chapter 18. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors

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Book SynopsisEarthly Delights brings together a number of substantial and original scholarly studies by international scholars currently working on the history of food in the Ottoman Empire and East-Central Europe. It offers new empirical research, as well as surveys of the state of scholarship in this discipline, with special emphasis on influences, continuities and discontinuities in the culinary cultures of the Ottoman Porte, the Balkans and East-Central Europe between the 17th and 19th centuries. Some contributions address economic aspects of food provision, the development and trans-national circulation of individual dishes, and the role of merchants, diplomats and travellers in the transmission of culinary trends. Others examine the role of food in the construction of national and regional identities in contact zones where local traditions merged or clashed with imperial (Ottoman, Habsburg) and West-European influences.Trade Review"Angela Jianu and the late Violeta Barbu have brought together a wide variety of articles on the history of food in the post-medieval period up to the eve of the First World War. Divided into five distinct parts (on “Flavours, Tastes and Culinary Exchanges,” “Ingredients and Kitchen,” “Cities,” “Cooking” and “Representations,”) it offers detailed empirical investigations as well as new scholarship." Cathie Carmichael, in Acta Slavica Iaponica (2021) "Overall, Earthly Delights presents an intriguing and critically important collection of studies. The volume is well organized [... ] Earthly Delights is an essential read for any historian of food, especially a historian focusing on the seventeenth century and later periods.' Karel Černý, in Hungarian Historical Review "While anthropologists and ethnographers have developed a “taste” for research on social and cultural dimensions of food long time ago, history of food is a relatively new domain for historians. [...] In sum, this work is a valuable contribution to the study of food and the formation of regional and national identities through material culture, symbolic rituals, stratified consumption, and cultural representations. It provides a contextual look at redefining the notion of prosperity through social attachments to food. Furthermore, the book contributes to de-centering the research on west European cuisine. By offering such transnational readings to a variety of social contexts involving shared cuisine, the authors promote not only academic dialogue, but also address social interconnectedness in a novel way and suggest new venues for research." Evguenia Davidova in the Slavic Review 2019, pp 821-822 “Earthly Delights may be considered the first in-depth volume on the topic, gathering important contributions on culinary practices, types of food, cookbooks, attitudes to nutrition, and regional patterns of influence in southeastern Europe”. Laurenţiu Rădvan, University of Iaşi, in: Studii şi Materiale de Istorie Medie (2018)

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Book SynopsisThis book deals with the religious and ideological consequences of mass conversion in Iberia - where Jews and Muslims were forcibly converted or expelled at the end of the XVth century and beginning of the XVIth- and most specially with the relationship between origins and faith. It also deals with the consequences of coercion on intellectual debates and on the production of knowledge and addresses questions such as dissimulation, dissidence, religious doubt and unbelief.Trade ReviewChapter One, Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish Legions by Adam G. Beaver is the winner of the 2017 Bishko Prize for best article on medieval Iberian history published by a North American scholar. The prize is awarded by the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS).Table of ContentsList of figures Acknowledgements Notes on contributors 0. Introduction Mercedes García-Arenal Part I: Biblical Culture, Jewish Antiquities and New Forms of Sacred History 1. Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish Legions: Sephardic Legends’ Journey from Biblical Polemic to Humanist History Adam G. Beaver 2. Biblical Translations and Literalness in Early Modern Spain Fernando Rodríguez Mediano 3. Language as Archive: Etymologies and the Remote History of Spain Valeria López Fadul 4. The Search for Evidence: The Relics of Martyred Saints and Their Worship in Cordoba after the Council of Trent Cécile Vincent-Cassy Part II: Iberian Polemics, Readings of the Qurʾān and the Rise of European Orientalism 5. Textual Agnogenesis and the Polysemy of the Reader: Early Modern European Readings of Qur’ānic Embryology Pier Mattia Tommasino 6. A Witness of Their Own Nation: On the Influence of Juan Andrés Ryan Szpiech 7. Authority, Philology and Conversion under the Aegis of Martín García Teresa Soto González and Katarzyna K. Starczewska 8. Polemical Transfers: Iberian Muslim Polemics and their Impact in Northern Europe in the Seventeenth Century Gerard A. Wiegers Part III: Conversion and Perplexity 9. Assembling Alumbradismo: The Evolution of a Heretical Construct Jessica J. Fowler 10. Doubt in Fifteenth-Century Iberia Stefania Pastore 11. Mi padre moro, yo moro: The Inheritance of Belief in Early Modern Iberia Mercedes García-Arenal 12. Tropes of Expertise and Converso Unbelief: Huarte de San Juan’s History of Medicine Seth Kimmel 13. True Painting and the Challenge of Hypocrisy Felipe Pereda Bibliography General Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1909, the US Circuit Court in Cincinnati set out to decide “whether a Turkish citizen shall be naturalized as a white person”; the New York Times article on the decision, discussing the question of Turks’ whiteness, was cheekily entitled “Is the Turk a White Man?” Within a few decades, having understood the importance of this question for their modernization efforts, Turkish elites had already started a fantastic scientific mobilization to position the Turks in world history as the generators of Western civilization, the creators of human language, and the forgotten source of white racial stock. In this book, Murat Ergin examines how race figures into Turkish modernization in a process of interaction between global racial discourses and local responses.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: WHY THIS BOOK SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN Race and the Turkish Case Why Care About the Turkish Case? The West = Theory; The Rest = “Mere” Case Cases and National Boundaries CHAPTER 2: THE REPUBLICAN CONVERSION NARRATIVE Rewriting History CHAPTER 3: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE “WEST” Becoming White The Ghosts of the Past: Ottoman Modernization and Encounters with the West The Ottoman Interest in Race Ziya Gökalp: The Official Ideologue of the Republic? The Formation of the “Terrible Turk”: Western Perceptions The Problem of Periodization CHAPTER 4: RACE IN EARLY REPUBLICAN TURKEY Racial Vocabularies Mermaids, Fish, Humans: The Taxonomic Discourse Biometric Mobilization to Protect and Improve the Race Anthropometric Mobilization to “Discover” the Turkish Race CHAPTER 5: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS AND RACIAL DISCOURSES Intellectual Exchange and Historical Contingency The University Reform and Émigré Scholars Conflicting Loyalties: Expertise in the Service of Local and Universal Agendas Afet İnan and Eugène Pittard: Personal Interaction in Search of Anthropometric Essences CHAPTER 6: RACE IN CONTEMPORARY TURKEY Race, and Ethnicity, and Nation Race in Contemporary Turkey CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an analysis of the articulation and organisation of radical international solidarity by organisations that were either connected to or had been established by the Communist International (Comintern), such as the International Red Aid, the International Workers’ Relief, the League Against Imperialism, the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers and the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers. The guiding light of these organisations was a radical interpretation of international solidarity, usually in combination with concepts and visions of gender, race and class as well as anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism and anti-fascism. All of these new transnational networks form a controversial part of the contemporary history of international organisations. Like the Comintern these international organisations had an ambigious character that does not fit nicely into the traditional typologies of international organisations as they were neither international governmental organisations nor international non-governmental organisations. They constituted a radical continuation of the pre-First World War Left and exemplified an attempt to implement the ideas and movements of a new type of radical international solidarity not only in Europe, but on a global scale. Contributors are: Gleb J. Albert, Bernhard H. Bayerlein, Kasper Braskén, Fredrik Petersson, Holger Weiss.Trade Review"Though neither adult education nor adult learning even appear in the exhaustive index, this scholarly historical collection makes a valuable contribution to the field of social movement learning. [...] this study of the organization, theory, and methods by which these 20th-century movements were able to survive and grow still has some important lessons to teach today’s social movement activists." - Bob Boughton, in: Adult Education Quarterly 69:1 (2019) [DOI: 10.1177/0741713618763127]Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ... vii Abbreviations ... ix List of Contributors ... xii Transnational and Global Perspectives on International Communist Solidarity Organisations ... 1 Bernhard Bayerlein, Kasper Braskén and Holger Weiss 1 The “Cultural International” as the Comintern’s Intermediate Empire: International Mass and Sympathizing Organisations beyond Parties ... 28 Bernhard H. Bayerlein 2 The ussr Section of the International Red Aid (mopr): The Institutionalisation of International Solidarity in Interwar Soviet Society ... 89 Gleb J. Albert 3 In Pursuit of Global International Solidarity? The Transnational Networks of the International Workers’ Relief, 1921–1935 ... 130 Kasper Braskén 4 The British Miners’ and General Strike of 1926: Problems and Practices of Radical International Solidarity ... 168 Kasper Braskén 5 Anti-imperialism and Nostalgia: A Re-assessment of the History and Historiography of the League Against Imperialism ... 191 Fredrik Petersson 6 The International of Seamen and Harbour Workers – A Radical Global Labour Union of the Waterfront or a Subversive World-Wide Web? ... 256 Holger Weiss 7 Global Ambitions, Structural Constraints and Marginality as a Choice: The International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers ... 318 Holger Weiss Index ... 363

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award The Later Han dynasty, also known as Eastern Han, ruled China for the first two centuries of the Christian era. Comparable in extent and power to the early Roman empire, it dominated east Asia from present-day Vietnam to the Mongolian steppe. Rafe de Crespigny presents here the first full account of this period in Chinese history to be found in a Western language. Commencing with a detailed account of the imperial capital, the history describes the nature of government, the expansion of the Chinese people to the south, the conflicts of scholars and officials with eunuchs at court, and the final collapse which followed the rebellion of the Yellow Turbans and the rise of regional warlords.Trade Review"The bulk of this book consists of chronologically arranged chapters bookended by two chapters on the first reign and the Later Han capital Luoyang and the fall of the city, as well as a short introduction and concluding chapter. Written by a leading scholar in the field and meticulously researched, this book should be read by every student of Later Han China in the West. [..] Summing Up: Essential. All academic levels/libraries." - V. C. Xiong, Western Michigan University, in: CHOICE, Vol. 54/8 (April 2017) "'We two reviewers see the riches that this book offers to specialists and non-specialists alike. Fire over Luoyang, along with de Crespigny’s Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23–220 AD) (2007), has laid the firmest of hangtu foundation for many topics in Eastern Han history. Like the fabled palaces of Luoyang itself, it is a splendid edifice." - MICHAEL NYLAN, University of California, Berkeley & THOMAS H. HAHN, Independent Scholar, Berkeley, in: Monumenta Serica, 66:1 (2018)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations, Maps and Tables x Introduction 1 The Emperors of Han 6 Chronology of the Later Han Dynasty 8 1 Imperial Capital 17 Luoyang and its Surroundings 17 Emperor Guangwu and his New Capital 28 Formalities and Government 34 City, Suburbs and People 52 Parks, Pleasure-Grounds and Tombs 61 2 Emperor Ming and Emperor Zhang (57–88) 71 Chronology 71 Imperial Succession 72 The Government of Emperor Ming 82 The Government of Emperor Zhang 99 Empress Dou and the Boy from the Harem 108 3 The Reign of Emperor He (88–106) 117 Chronology 117 Triumph in the Steppe 118 The Fall of the Dou Family 127 The Peoples of the West 136 The Government of Emperor He 141 The Military Structure of Later Han 148 Peace and Settlement? 164 4 The Dowager Deng and Emperor An (106–125) 169 Chronology 169 The Child Emperors and the Regency 170 The Rebellion of the Qiang 177 Problems of Finance 190 The Government of the Dowager 199 The Favourites of Emperor An 207 5 The Reign of Emperor Shun (125–144) 220 Chronology 220 The Destruction of the Yan Clan 221 Emperor Shun and the Reformers 225 The Rise of the Liang Family 238 Barbarians, Migrants and Rebels 244 People and Land 257 6 The Hegemony of Liang Ji (144–159) 269 Chronology 269 Liang Ji and the Puppets 270 Rebel Emperors and Great Peace 274 The Government of Liang Ji 278 Great Families in the Provinces 294 The Fall of the House of Liang 303 7 Emperor Huan and the Eunuchs (159–168) 310 Chronology 310 Imperial Favourites 311 Problems of Finance 321 Gentlemen and Eunuchs 324 Imperial Consorts and the Worship of Huang-Lao 335 The First Faction Incident 351 Invitation to Genocide 357 8 Emperor Ling: Disordered Government (169–184) 361 Chronology 361 The Dou Family and the Eunuchs 362 Duan Jiong and the Barbarians 369 The Second Faction Incident, the Great Proscription and the Decline of the University 375 The Government of Emperor Ling 388 Tanshihuai and the Misfortunes of the Frontier 397 Yellow Turbans 402 9 End of an Empire (185–189) 418 Chronology 418 The Loss of Liang Province 420 Imperial Extravagance 428 Imperial Succession 436 Slaughter in the Palace 442 A Note on the Dates of the Crisis 448 Dong Zhuo 449 Ruin of a Capital 456 The End of Han 465 10 Epilogues and Conclusions 474 Part I: Elegy for a Lost Capital 474 Chronology 474 The Afterlife of Luoyang 475 Part II: What Went Wrong? Reflections on a Ruin 480 A Failure of Virtue? 480 The Division of China 497 The Difficulty of Reunification 504 Bibliography 513 Index and List of Characters 543

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers an expansive approach to interactions between Romans and those beyond the borders of Rome. The range of papers included here is wide, both in terms of subject matter and with respect to approach. That said, a number of important themes bind the essays. Who is an insider, and who the outsider? How were these categories of person, or identity, fashioned and/or recognized in antiquity? How shall we recognize them now? What are the categories, or standards, for measuring or determining inside and outside in the Roman world? And then, of course, what are the repercussions when inside and outside come into contact? What happens when the outside is in, or the inside out?Trade Review"The entire work broadens our understanding of the Roman Empire as a fluid system in constant contact with the worlds and systems beyond its frontiers. This is an important endeavor at a time when trends in scholarship on Rome are focusing increasingly on the reciprocal nature of relationships between Rome and the territories within its sphere of influence. (...) Many of the individual contributions also draw on recent scholarship in other fields, such as anthropology, sociology, and science and technology studies, which greatly enhance the theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of Rome and the worlds beyond its frontiers." Katheryn Whitcomb, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.07.43Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Introduction Michael Peachin and Daniëlle Slootjes Part 1 - Politics & Military 1 Rome, Pontus, Thrace and the Military Disintegration of the World Beyond the Hellenistic East Toni Ñaco del Hoyo and Isaías Arrayás-Morales 2 Estranging the Familiar—Rome’s Ambivalent Approach to Britain Gil Gambash 3 Rome and Persia in the Middle of the Third Century AD (230–266) Lukas de Blois 4 The Emperor Beyond the Frontiers: A Double-Mirror as a ‘Political Discourse’ Stéphane Benoist Part 2 - Politics, Economics, & Society 5 Turning the Inside Out: The Divergent Experiences of Gaul and Africa during the Third Century AD Dan Hoyer 6 Raiders to Traders? Economics of Integration among Nomadic Communities in North Africa Wim Broekaert and Wouter Vanacker 7 Transfer römischer Technik jenseits der Grenzen: Aneignung und Export Günther Schörner 8 Perceptions from Beyond: Some Observations on Non-Roman Assessments of the Roman Empire from the Great Eastern Trade Routes Anne Kolb and Michael A. Speidel 9 Hospitium: Understanding ‘Ours’ and ‘Theirs’ on the Roman Frontier John Nicols Part 3 - Material Culture and Culture 10 Palmyrenes in Transtiberim: Integration in Rome and Links to the Eastern Frontier Blair Fowlkes-Childs 11 Rival Powers, Rival Images: Diocletian’s Palace at Split in Light of Sasanian Palace Design Anne Hunnell Chen 12 The Reception of Figurative Art Beyond the Frontier: Scandinavian Encounters with Roman Numismatics Nancy L. Wicker Index of Places Index of Names General Index

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Book SynopsisThe lives of William Cavendish, first duke of Newcastle, and his family including, centrally, his second wife, Margaret Cavendish, are intimately bound up with the overarching story of seventeenth-century England: the violently negotiated changes in structures of power that constituted the Civil Wars, and the ensuing Commonwealth and Restoration of the monarchy. William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, and his Political, Social and Cultural Connections: Authority, Authorship and Aristocratic Identity in Seventeenth Century England brings together a series of interrelated essays that present William Cavendish, his family, household and connections as an aristocratic, royalist case study, relating the intellectual and political underpinnings and implications of their beliefs, actions and writings to wider cultural currents in England and mainland Europe.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Editors Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations I: Aristocratic Identity Adrian Woodhouse Setting the Scenes : the pre-Civil War building works of William Cavendish in context Elspeth Graham ‘An After-Game of Reputation’: Systems of Representation, William Cavendish and the Battle of Marston Moor Alison Findlay Flogging a Dead Horse?: Margaret Cavendish and the Pursuit of Authority Lisa Hopkins The Concealed Fancies and Cavendish Identity Malcolm Airs Courtly Rivalry: the Context for William Cavendish’s Equestrian Buildings II: Politics and Authority Tim Raylor Hobbes, the Cavendishes and the Science of Motion Lisa Sarasohn The Role of Honour in the Life of William Cavendish and the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes Andy Hopper William Cavendish as a Military Commander Madeline Dewhurst The Double-Edged Sword: William Cavendish’s Political Career in Exile, 1644-60 James Fitzmaurice Whimsy, Medieval Romance and the Court in the Life of William Cavendish III: Horsemanship, Authority and Identity Elaine Walker ‘The Epitome of Horsemanship’: William Cavendish’s Method ‘anatomized’ Monica Mattfeld Embodying ‘Bonne Homme a Cheval’: William Cavendish and the Politics of the Centaur Peter Edwards Manèging to survive: Horsemanship and the Rehabilitation of the Exiled William Cavendish Richard Nash William Cavendish: Riding School and Race-Track Karen Raber Cavendish’s Horsemanship Treatises and Cultural Capital Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisThe present English translation reproduces the original German of Carl Brockelmann’s Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL) as accurately as possible. In the interest of user-friendliness the following emendations have been made in the translation: Personal names are written out in full, except b. for ibn; Brockelmann’s transliteration of Arabic has been adapted to comply with modern standards for English-language publications; modern English equivalents are given for place names, e.g. Damascus, Cairo, Jerusalem, etc.; several erroneous dates have been corrected, and the page references to the two German editions have been retained in the margin, except in the Supplement volumes, where new references to the first two English volumes have been inserted.Table of ContentsBook 3. The decline of Islamic literature First section: From Mongol rule until the conquest of Egypt by Sultan Selīm I in the year 1517 Introduction Chapter 1. Egypt and Syria § 1. Poetry and rhymed prose § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography A. Individual biographies B. Collective biographical works C. Local and national history D. Universal history § 4. Popular literature in prose, anthologies, and folk tales § 5. Ḥadīth A. ʿIlm al-ḥadīth wa-ʿilm al-rijāl B. Biographies of the Prophet C. Collections of ḥadīth and edifying works § 6. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Mālikīs C. The Shāfiʿīs D. The Ḥanbalīs § 7. Qurʾānic sciences § 8. Dogmatics and uṣūl al-dīn § 9. Mysticism § 10. Mathematics § 11. Astronomy § 12. Geography and cosmography § 13. Politics and public administration § 14. Militaria, hunting, and agriculture § 15. Medicine and veterinary science § 16. Zoology § 17. Music § 18. Occult sciences § 19. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors 7. al-Suyūṭī I. Fann al-tafsīr wa-taʿalluqātuhu wal-qirāʾāt II. Fann al-ḥadīth wa-taʿalluqātuhu III. Fann al-fiqh wa-taʿalluqātuhu IV. al-Ajzāʾ al-mufrada fī masāʾil makhṣūṣa ʿalā tartīb al-abwāb V. Fann al-ʿarabiyya wa-taʿalluqātuhu VI. Fann al-uṣūl wal-bayān wal-taṣawwuf VII. Fann al-taʾrīkh wal-adab Chapter 2. Iraq and al-Jazīra § 1. Poetry and rhymed prose § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Mālikīs C. The Shāfiʿīs D. The Ḥanbalīs E. The Shīʿa § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Mathematics § 10. Astronomy § 11. Music § 12. Medicine Chapter 3. North Arabia § 1. Poetry and rhymed prose § 2. Historiography § 3. Ḥadīth § 4. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Mālikīs § 5. Qurʾānic sciences § 6. Mysticism § 7. Mathematics § 8. Geography Chapter 4. South Arabia § 1. Poetry § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Shāfiʿīs C. Sayyid Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī b. al-Murtaḍā b. al-Mufaḍḍal b. al-Hādī b. al-Wazīr D. The Zaydīs § 5. Qurʾānic sciences § 6. Mysticism § 7. Medicine § 8. Horse breeding § 9. Occult sciences § 10. Encyclopaedias Chapter 5. Iran and Turan § 1. Poetry and rhymed prose § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Shāfiʿīs C. The Shīʿa § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Philosophy § 10. Politics § 11. Mathematics § 12. Astronomy § 13. Medicine § 14. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors Chapter 6. India § 1. Philology § 2. Historiography § 3. Fiqh, Abū Ḥanīfa § 4. Qurʾānic exegesis § 5. Mysticism Chapter 7. The Turks of Rūm and the Ottoman empire § 1. Philology § 2. Historiography § 3. Fiqh, Abū Ḥanīfa § 4. Qurʾānic sciences § 5. Dogmatics § 6. Mysticism § 7. Medicine § 7a. Mathematics and astronomy § 8. Occult sciences § 9. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors Chapter 8. North Africa § 1. Poetry § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography A. Local history B. History of the Ibāḍīs C. History of dynasties D. Universal history § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Fiqh, Mālik § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Politics § 10. Mathematics § 11. Astronomy § 12. Travelogues § 13. Medicine § 14. Music § 15. Alchemy and occult sciences § 16. Eroticism Chapter 9. Spain § 1. Poetry and belles-lettres § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Fiqh, Mālik § 5. Qurʾānic sciences § 6. Mysticism § 7. Politics § 8. Mathematics and astronomy § 9. Travelogues and geographies § 10. Medicine § 11. Sport Second Section From the conquest of Egypt by Sultan Selīm I in 1517 to the Napoleonic expedition to Egypt in 1798 Introduction Chapter 1. Egypt and Syria § 1. Poetry and rhymed prose § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography A. Individual biographies B. Collective biographical works C. Local and national history D. Chronicles E. Universal history § 4. Popular works and anthologies § 5. Ḥadīth § 6. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Mālikīs C. The Shāfiʿīs D. The Ḥanbalīs E. The Shīʿa § 7. Qurʾānic sciences § 8. Dogmatics § 9. Mysticism § 10. Homiletics and paraenesis § 11. Philosophy § 12. Politics § 13. Mathematics § 14. Astronomy § 15. Geography and travelogues § 16. Hunting and militaria § 17. Music § 18. Medicine § 19. Occult sciences § 20. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors Chapter 2. Al-Jazīra, Iraq, and Bahrain § 1. Poetry § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Shāfiʿīs C. The Shīʿa § 5. Qurʾānic sciences § 6. Dogmatics § 7. Mysticism § 7a. Philosophy § 8. Travelogues Chapter 3. North Arabia § 1. Poetry § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Mālikīs C. The Shāfiʿīs D. Ḥanbalīs and Wahhābīs § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Philosophy § 10. Mathematics § 11. Astronomy § 12. Geography and travelogues § 13. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors Chapter 4. South Arabia § 1. Poetry and belles-lettres § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Fiqh A. The Shāfiʿīs B. The Zaydīs § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Astronomy § 10. Occult sciences Chapter 5. Oman, East Africa, and Abessinia A. Oman B. East Africa C. Abyssinia Chapter 6. Iran and Tūrān § 1. Poetry and belles-lettres § 1b. Philology § 2. Ḥadīth § 3. Shīʿī fiqh and kalām § 4. Qurʾānic sciences § 5. Mysticism § 6. Philosophy § 8. Mathematics and astronomy § 10. Medicine § 11. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors Chapter 7. India § 1. Philology § 2. Historiography § 3. Belles-lettres § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Ḥanafī fiqh § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Philosophy § 10. Travelogues § 11. Encyclopaedias Chapter 8. The Malay Archipelago Chapter 9. Rumelia and Anatolia § 1a. Philology § 2. Historiography § 3. Popular prose § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Fiqh, Abū Ḥanīfa § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Politics § 10. Astronomy § 11. Medicine § 12. Music § 13. Agriculture § 14. Occult sciences § 15. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors Chapter 10. The Maghreb § 1. Adab § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Popular prose § 5. Ḥadīth § 6b. Fiqh, Mālikī § 7. Qurʾānic sciences § 8. Dogmatics § 9. Mysticism § 9a. Philosophy § 10. Mathematics and astronomy § 11. Geography and travelogues § 12. Medicine § 13. Warfare Chapter 11. The Sudan Third Section From the Napoleonic expedition to Egypt in 1798 until the present day Chapter 1. Egypt § 1. Poetry and rhymed prose § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Popular prose § 5. Ḥadīth § 6. Fiqh A. The Mālikīs B. The Ḥanafīs C. The Shāfiʿīs § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Paraenesis § 10. Mathematics § 11. Geography and travelogues § 12. Encyclopaedias Chapter 2. Syria § 1. Poetry § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Islamic theology and mysticism Chapter 3. Mesopotamia and Iraq Chapter 4. Mecca (North Arabia) Chapter 5. South Arabia Chapter 6. Oman Chapter 7. Persia Chapter 8. Afghanistan Chapter 9. India Chapter 11. Istanbul Chapter 12. Russia Chapter 13. The Maghreb Chapter 14. The Sudan Addenda & Corrigenda Postscript

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award In The Dispersion, Stéphane Dufoix skillfully traces how the word “diaspora”, first coined in the third century BCE, has, over the past three decades, developed into a contemporary concept often considered to be ideally suited to grasping the complexities of our current world. Spanning two millennia, from the Septuagint to the emergence of Zionism, from early Christianity to the Moravians, from slavery to the defence of the Black cause, from its first scholarly uses to academic ubiquity, from the early negative connotations of the term to its contemporary apotheosis, Stéphane Dufoix explores the historical socio-semantics of a word that, perhaps paradoxically, has entered the vernacular while remaining poorly understood.Trade Review[…] A remarkably erudite scholar, Dufoix […] describes the "social, political, intellectual and economic patterns" that have "rendered (the term) richer, with multiple and often contradictory significations. […] An impressive and, indeed, unique book that will assuredly serve as the definitive work on the history of the frequently invoked term "diaspora."" Summing Up: Essential. All academic levels/libraries. D. Altschiller, Boston University, CHOICE, August 2017 "With a breadth and depth of knowledge that is simply unrivaled, Dufoix uncovers the genealogy of diaspora from its ancient origins to its extraordinary proliferation in the contemporary era. A work of massive erudition and ambition, The Dispersion is by far the most original, comprehensive, and exciting account of its subject. It is hard to see how this book could ever be surpassed." – Kevin Kenny, Professor of History, Boston College, author of Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction "Old and complex terms like diaspora migrate and mutate. Stéphane Dufoix has tenaciously revealed the social, historical and semantic metamorphoses of diaspora over the last 2300 years. His brilliant and definitive account will excite all scholars in the field of diaspora studies." – Robin Cohen, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford, author of Global Diasporas: An IntroductionTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ... ix List of Maps, Illustrations, Figures and Tables ... xi Introduction. Towards a Historical Socio-semantics of a Word in Vogue ... 1 Part 1: From the Word to the Concept Introduction to Part 1 ... 23 1 The Word of the Septuagint ... 27 2 The Religious Space of Dispersion ... 76 3 Towards a Secular Concept ... 134 Part 2: Cham Dispersed: From the Jewish Model to the Reversal Introduction to Part 2 ... 181 4 Next Year in Ethiopia: Blacks at the Jewish Mirror ... 185 5 A Name of One’s Own: The Emergence of the Black/African Diaspora ... 231 6 The Reversal ... 279 Part 3: The Name of the Global Introduction to Part 3 ... 337 7 Constructing the Field of Diaspora Studies ... 340 8 The Critical Turn ... 392 9 States and Their Diasporas ... 444 Conclusion. Two Cats and Three Demons ... 495 Bibliography ... 501 Index of Names ... 581

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together the leading experts in the history of European Oriental Studies. Their essays present a comprehensive history of the teaching and learning of Arabic in early modern Europe, covering a wide geographical area from southern to northern Europe and discussing the many ways and purposes for which the Arabic language was taught and studied by scholars, theologians, merchants, diplomats and prisoners. The contributions shed light on different methods and contents of language teaching in a variety of academic, scholarly and missionary contexts in the Protestant and the Roman Catholic world. But they also look beyond the institutional history of Arabic studies and consider the importance of alternative ways in which the study of Arabic was persued. Contributors are Asaph Ben Tov, Maurits H. van den Boogert, Sonja Brentjes, Mordechai Feingold, Mercedes García-Arenal, John-Paul A. Ghobrial, Aurélien Girard, Alastair Hamilton, Jan Loop, Nuria Martínez de Castilla Muñoz, Simon Mills, Fernando Rodríguez Mediano, Bernd Roling, Arnoud Vrolijk. This title, in its entirety, is available online in Open Access.Trade Review“The resulting book is a well-edited testimony to the great progress made by scholars of early modern Orientalism since Johann Fück’s seminal 1955 monograph. It offers thirteen individual contributions preceded by a helpful and well-written introduction from Jan Loop and followed by a usable index. […] it succeeds in both expanding the view to include the role of the wider networks of scholars, merchants and missionaries who pursued Arabic studies, incorporates the vital dimension of Arabic learnt on location in the Middle East, and gives us much new information about how the language was practically taught and learnt, as well as bringing to light understudied figures […]. It should find a welcoming readership above all amongst scholars of early modern intellectual history, and especially of orientalism, as well as amongst those practitioners of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies who take a keen interest in their own Fachgeschite.” James Weaver, University of Zurich in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung Volume 115, Issue 1 (2020).Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction Jan Loop Arabic Studies in the Netherlands and the Prerequisite of Social Impact – a Survey Arnoud Vrolijk Learning Arabic in Early-Modern England Mordechai Feingold Johann Zechendorff (1580–1662) and Arabic Studies in Zwickau’s Latin School Asaph Ben-Tov Arabia in the Light of the Midnight Sun: Arabic Studies in Sweden between Gustaf Peringer Lillieblad and Jonas Hallenberg Bernd Roling Sacred History, Sacred Languages: The Question of Arabic in Early Modern Spain Mercedes García-Arenal and Fernando Rodríguez Mediano The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Salamanca in the Early Modern Period Nuria Martínez-de-Castilla-Muñoz Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Rome: Shaping a Missionary Language Aurélien Girard The Qur’an as Chrestomathy in Early Modern Europe Alastair Hamilton Arabic Poetry as Teaching Material in Early Modern Grammars and Textbooks Jan Loop Learning to Write, Read and Speak Arabic Outside of Early Modern Universities Sonja Brentjes Learning Arabic in the Overseas Factories: The Case of the English Simon Mills Learning Oriental Languages in the Ottoman Empire: Johannes Heyman (1667–1737) between Izmir and Damascus Maurits H. van den Boogert The Life and Hard Times of Solomon Negri: An Arabic Teacher in Early Modern Europe John-Paul Ghobrial Short biographies of authors Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume of essays contributes to our understanding of the ways in which the Jesuits employed emotions to “change hearts”—that is, convert or reform—both in Europe and in the overseas missions. The early modern Society of Jesus excited and channeled emotion through sacred oratory, Latin poetry, plays, operas, art, and architecture; it inflamed young men with holy desire to die for their faith in foreign lands; its missionaries initiated dialogue with and ‘accommodated’ to non-European cultural and emotional regimes. The early modern Jesuits conducted, in all senses of the word, much of the emotional energy of their times. As such, they provide a compelling focus for research into the links between rhetoric and emotion, performance and devotion, from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.Trade Review“a very interesting volume unified by the examination of the way the emotions were used to make converts or to help Christians make progress in the spiritual life.” John J. LaRocca, Xavier University. In: The Heythrop Journal, Vol. 61, No. 3 (May 2020), p. 527-528. “This book offers for the first time a collection of essays that focus with an innovative perspective on (often overlooked) Jesuit sources. A theoretical overview of the history of emotions in a Jesuit context is followed by multiple case-studies examined by the most important scholars in the field. It efficaciously studies the concrete ways in which emotions were used to “change hearts” of early modern people all over the world (while bringing them under the aegis of this Catholic institution), and it will hopefully encourage further studies on this fascinating topic.” Elisa Frei, Boston College – Università degli Studi di Macerata, in Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu XC.180, pp.676-678Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Editorial Note Preface  Jan Bloemendal Introduction  Yasmin Haskell and Raphaële Garrod 1 Senecan Catharsis in Nicolas Caussin’s Felicitas (1620): A Case Study in Jesuit Reconfiguration of Affects  Raphaële Garrod 2 Performing the Passions: Pierre Brumoy’s De motibus animi between Didactic and Dramatic Poetry  Yasmin Haskell 3 Passions on the Jesuit Stage: Systems of Affects in Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Theater Poetics  Nienke Tjoelker 4 “In what storms of blood from Christ’s flock is Japan swimming?” Gratia Hosokawa and the Performative Representation of Japanese Martyrdom in Mulier Fortis (1698)  Makoto Harris Takao 5 The Angel and Ameri(c)a: Performing the “New World” in José Manuel Peramás’s De invento Novo Orbe inductoque illuc Christi sacrificio (1777)  Maya Feile Tomes 6 Si potes exemplo moveri, non propiore potes: Emotional Reciprocity in Laurent Le Brun’s Nova Gallia Peter O’Brien 7 “I began to teach […]”: Emotion and Performance in Isaac Jogues’s Letter to Father Jean Filleau  John Gallucci 8 Performing Emotions at the Canonization of Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier in the Southern Low Countries  Ralph Dekoninck, Maarten Delbeke, Annick Delfosse and Koen Vermeir 9 Jesuits and Music in Guam and the Marianas, 1668–1769  David R.M. Irving 10 Jesuit Visual Preaching and the Stirring of the Emotions in Iberian Popular Missions  Juan Luis González García 11 “Such fragile jewels”: The Emotional Role of Chinese Porcelain in Early Modern Jesuit Missions  Susan Broomhall Envoi“Don Mancio, Nephew of the King of Hizen”: Echoes of the Japanese Tenshō Mission to Europe in 1585 in the Portrait of Sukemasu Itô by Domenico Tintoretto  Paola Di Rico and Marino Viganò Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a comprehensive overview of the Lifanyuan and Libu, revising and assessing the state of affairs in the under-researched field of these two institutions. The contributors explore the imperial policies towards and the shifting classifications of minority groups in the Qing Empire. This volume offers insight into how China's past has continued to inform its modern policies, as well as the geopolitical make-up of East Asia and beyond.Trade Review"This seminal work (...) essential reading for specialists in Inner Asian and Chinese history, as well as for anyone interested in probing into the institutional and operational aspects of frontier management in early modern empires." Tommaso Previato, Ming Qing Studies (2017) "This book offers a stimulating overview of recent studies on Qing dynasty's institutions related to managing frontier issues and non-Han peoplse, the Lifanyuan 理藩院 and the Libu 礼部. Since it represents "the first comprehensive study" on Lifanyuan (Di Cosmo, p. viii), it will certainly be warmly welcomed by scholars of the Qing dynasty, but it also offers a World historical comparative perspective, revealing a unique practice of early modern empire building, departing from both Western imperial narratives as well as Chinese political traditions. [...] One finds in these pages a set of very inspirational perspectives that will certainly have lots of impact on future researches on these institutions and on the Qing dynasty in general." Carl Déry, Université de Montréal, Journal of World History 29/3 (2019)Table of ContentsPreface - Nicola Di Cosmo Acknowledgments List of Maps and Illustrations and Tables Emperors and Dynasties Contributors Introduction - Dittmar Schorkowitz and Chia Ning 1 Lifanyuan and Libu in Early Qing Empire Building - Chia Ning 2 The Lifanyuan: A Review Based on New Sources and Traditional Historiography - Michael Weiers 3 The Lifanyuan and Stability during Qing Imperial Expansion - Pamela Kyle Crossley 4 The Libu and Qing Perception, Classification, and Administration of Non-Han People - Zhang Yongjiang 5 Lifanyuan and Libu in the Qing Tribute System - Chia Ning 6 The Qing Court and Peoples of Central and Inner Asia: Representations of Tributary Relationships from the Huang Qing Zhigong tu - Laura Hostetler 7 Manchu-Mongolian Controversies over Judicial Competence and the Formation of the Lifanyuan - Dorothea Heuschert-Laage 8 The Sino-Russian Trade and the Role of the Lifanyuan, 17th–18th Centuries - Ye Baichuan and Yuan Jian 9 On Lifanyuan and Qianlong Policies Towards the Muslims of Xinjiang - Song Tong 10 Lifanyuan and Tibet - Fabienne Jagou 11 From Lifanyuan to the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission - Mei-hua Lan 12 Clashes of Administrative Nationalisms: Banners and Leagues vs.Counties and Provinces in Inner Mongolia - Uradyn E. Bulag 13 Dealing with Nationalities in Imperial Formations: How Russian and Chinese Agencies Managed Ethnic Diversity in the 17th to 20th Centuries - Dittmar Schorkowitz Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Foundation Council Award of the Georg-August-University of Göttingen Public Law Foundation in the category of “Outstanding Publications of Young Scientists”, 2017. In Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s) Julia C. Schneider give an analysis of nationalist and historiographical discourses among late imperial and early republican Chinese thinkers. In particular, she researches their approaches towards non-Chinese people within the Qing Empire and the question on how to integrate them into a Chinese nation-state. Non-Chinese people, mainly Manchus, Mongols, Tibetans, and Turkic Muslims, (Uyghurs), have not been considered as important factors in the history of early Chinese nationalism so far. But Chinese nationalist and historiographical discourses tell not only a lot about the Chinese image of the Other, but also shed new light on the images of the Chinese Self and its assumed ability to assimilate and integrate other ethnicities.Trade Review"Julia C. Schneider’s Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discussions on History, Historiography, and Nationalism is a timely and important contribution to the scholarship on Chinese nationalism and nationalist historiography at a time when the domestic ethnic issue has loomed large as a potential catalyst for political instability in the People’s Republic of China, and the “nationality policies” implemented since the 1950s have been contested... Overall, Schneider’s book is a very compelling study that delves deep into source materials and makes valid critical argument about the racialist/orientalist bent of early 20th century Chinese thinkers and historians when representing Chinese history and positioning non-Han peoples in it." -Guo Wu, Allegheny College, Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies, 66:1.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements vii List of Maps and Tables IX Abbreviations X Notes XI Introduction 1 Part 1 Imperial Times 1 Liang Qichao: Nationalism and Historiography 67 2 Zhang Taiyan: The Republic of China as an Image 143 3 Liu Shipei: The Expulsion of the Non-Chinese from China’s History 211 Part 2 The Republican Era 4 Non-Chinese People in Periodisations and Assimilationist Theories 283 5 The Genre of General Histories in the 1920s 330 Conclusion 381 Bibliography 399 Glossary 441 Index 474

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Book SynopsisIn Artistic Disobedience Claudio Bacciagaluppi shows how music practice was an occasion for cross-confessional contacts in 17th- and 18th-century Switzerland, implying religious toleration. The difference between public and private performing contexts, each with a distinct repertoire, appears to be of paramount importance. Confessional barriers were overcome in an individual, private perspective. Converted musicians provide striking examples. Also, book trade was often cross-confessional. Music by Catholic (but also Lutheran) composers was diffused in Reformed territories mainly in the private music societies of Swiss German towns (collegia musica). The political and pietist influences in the Zurich and Winterthur music societies encouraged forms of communication that are among the acknowledged common roots of European Enlightenment.Trade Review“Bacciagaluppi’s work is a testament to the type of musicological work that can be done on archival records, and it will become a valuable reference for those interested in the ramifications of societal polarisation.” Timothy Duguid, University of Glasgow. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 69, No. 3 (July 2018), pp. 664-666.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Music Examples List of Archival Sources Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1 Music in the Confessional Age 2 Approaching the Other 3 The Book Market 4 The ‘Collegia Musica’ 5 Conclusions: Music as an Agent of Toleration?

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Book SynopsisIndia, Modernity and the Great Divergence is an original and pioneering book about India’s transition towards modernity and the rise of the West. The work examines global entanglements alongside the internal dynamics of 17th to 19th century Mysore and Gujarat in comparison to other regions of Afro-Eurasia. It is an interdisciplinary survey that enriches our historical understanding of South Asia, ranging across the fascinating and intertwined worlds of modernizing rulers, wealthy merchants, curious scholars, utopian poets, industrious peasants and skilled artisans. Bringing together socio-economic and political structures, warfare, techno-scientific innovations, knowledge production and transfer of ideas, this book forces us to rethink the reasons behind the emergence of the modern world.Trade Review"[Yazdani] has made an excellent contribution to the debate on the ‘Great Divergence’ and to Indian economic history." – Dietmar Rothermund, Prof. Em. of South Asian History, Heidelberg University, in: Studies in History (Volume 35, Number 1, February 2019), pp. 141-143. "a book [...] by a very promising young scholar who should be encouraged and whose substantial contribution deserves acknowedgment. His remarkable industry has assembled a truly impressive range of new sources that illuminate the intellectual, social, and economic life, politics, and military statecraft in Mysore and Gujarat as never before. This adds reference points in the divergence debate that will stimulate many new and fruitful lines of inquiry." – Erik Grimmler-Solem, Wesleyan University, in: History & Theory. Studies in the Philosophy of History (volume 57, no. 3, sept 2018), pp. 464-481 "Kaveh Yazdani’s work is hugely ambitious. It seeks simultaneously to attempt a micro-history of two advanced commercial regions of India – Mysore and Gujarat in the eighteenth century – and to intervene more broadly in the ongoing debates on modernity and its origins in the context of the great divergence between the west and the rest. In embarking on such a study, Yazdani treads a complex path as he works his way through existing scholarship, conceptual and empirical, to argue for the plurality of historical experience, in this case of modernity. Drawing from an impressive range of archival material and subjecting it to very critical scrutiny, what Yazdani does is to identify all those elements that are commonly understood to embody modernity, to attempt a periodization of modernity and to examine actual social and economic processes in the era of what he calls middle modernity (17th to 19th centuries). These processes contributed very definitively to a new register of experience and social transformation. What marks Yazdani’s work is both his contribution to a deeper understanding of transformation in Asia as well as his choice of methodology that moves away from earlier frames adopted by global and connected histories." – Lakshmi Subramanian, Professor of History, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta "Kaveh Yazdani takes his reader on an epic global journey of re-discovery that plies an authentic passage to India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, shorn of all Eurocentric baggage. On the way over our passenger will be treated to the intriguing sights of a macro-global picture of the world, before disembarking to witness the detailed sights of Mysore and Gujarat, some of which has not been seen before, even by non-Eurocentric revisionists, and none of which to date has been brought together in so much vivid detail. With global and local history combined at its most impressive, this truly remarkable journey is worth every penny of the ticket price." – John M. Hobson, Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield "My immediate reaction on reading Kaveh Yazdani’s work was unequivocal; monumental and definitive. Through a microscopic analysis of two regions in India, Gujarat and Mysore, Yazdani has deconstructed the complexity of the process of modernization and at the same time provided a new perspective to our understanding of the Great Divergence that took place between the West and the rest. This book is a must read for any historian working on modernity and the Great Divergence." – Sashi Sivramkrishna, Professor of Economics, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Bangalore "Framed by a discussion of the chronological and geographical bounds of modernity, and centering around a detailed analysis of developments in Mysore and Gujarat, Kaveh Yazdan’s new work is one of the most important recent Marxist studies of 17th and 18th century India. Transcending the false polarity offered by Eurocentric and Postcolonial perspectives, Yazdani takes seriously the possibilities for indigenous capitalist development in India, but provides a compelling account of the internal and external factors which combined to prevent it." – Neil Davidson, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Glasgow "Recent discussion about modernities and convergences seem to have focused mainly on China. This is why the present book on India and “convergence”, from which I have learned much, is topical and welcome." – Fredric Jameson, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature, Duke University, Durham "Kaveh Yazdani has assembled an extraordinary range of materials on economic life in Mysore and Gujarat in the long eighteenth century. This wonderful book is essential reading for all those interested in global economic history and in the divergence debate." – Prasannan Parthasarathi, Professor of History, Boston College "Yazdani’s book represents a major contribution to the ‘the Great Divide’ debate. It brings India into a central role in global history, using it to link East and West. It also shifts focus from anachronistic national to contemporaneous regional levels of state and economy, posing new questions and finding some strikingly original answers. It is a ‘must-read’ for all those interested in global history." – David Washbrook, Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge "Yazdani has made a great addition to scholarship on the Great Divergence. His analysis of military, economic, technical, and political advances in Mysore and Gujarat – two of the most commercially advanced areas of 17th and 18th century India – sheds new light on the nature and complexity of the differences between contemporary Indian and European states. No analysis of the Great Divergence will be credible without taking Yazdani’s research, and Indian developments, into account." – Jack A. Goldstone, Hazel Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax "This is an extraordinarily impressive inquiry into European-Asian difference in the early modern period which is as erudite and meticulous as it is ambitious." – Victor Lieberman, Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished Professor of History, University of Michigan "Yazdani’s book consists of an intriguing quantity and quality of empirical evidence, with which he is able to enlighten the reader with detailed information on the very similarities and differences between ‘middle modern’ India and Europe." – Susann Pham Thi (Bielefeld Graduate School In History and Sociology, Universität Bielefeld), in: HistLit 2017-4-088.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... xiii Problem of Quotation and Transliteration ... xvi List of Illustrations ... xvii List of Abbreviations ... xvii Glossary ... xx Maps ... xxvi Introduction ... 1 0.1) Preliminary Remarks ... 1 0.2) Purpose of Study ... 2 0.3) Unprinted Primary Sources 11 0.4) Orientalism ... 11 0.5) Eurocentrism ... 13 0.6) Methodology ... 14 0.7) Modes of Production ... 16 0.8) Modernity ... 22 0.9) ‘Simultaneity of the Non-Simultaneous’ ... 31 0.10) Modernity as a Historical Process and the Problem of Periodization ... 32 0.11) Prospect ... 61 1 The Transitional State of India’s History of Ideas, Science, Technology and Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries ... 66 1.1) Introduction ... 66 1.2) Critical Thinking and Indo-Persian Curiosity vis-à-vis Europe ... 69 1.3) Late 18th Century Indo-Persian Preoccupation with the British Political System ... 79 1.4) Technology ... 84 1.5) Documents and Manuscripts ... 98 1.6) Science and Learning ... 100 1.7) Printing ... 105 1.8) Art, Culture and the Emergence of a ‘Public Sphere’ ... 107 1.9) King Serfoji II ... 111 1.10) Conclusion ... 112 2 Mysore ... 115 2.1) Preliminary Remarks ... 115 2.2) Economy ... 116 2.2.1) Introduction ... 116 2.2.2) Agriculture and Agrarian Social Relations ... 130 2.2.3) Living Conditions ... 165 2.2.4) Commerce and Mercantilism ... 170 2.2.5) Manufacture and Technology ... 184 2.2.6) Property Rights ... 212 2.3) Administration ... 220 2.3.1) Introduction ... 220 2.3.2) Tipu’s Administration ... 223 2.3.3) Revenues ... 227 2.3.4) Conclusion ... 229 2.4) Mobility, Transport and Infrastructure ... 230 2.4.1) Conclusion ... 236 2.5) Military Establishment ... 239 2.5.1) Introduction ... 239 2.5.2) Cavalry ... 244 2.5.3) Infantry and Artillery ... 247 2.5.4) Rocket Technology ... 251 2.5.5) Fortification ... 255 2.5.6) Marine ... 256 2.5.7) Conclusion ... 272 2.6) Education ... 279 2.6.1) Conclusion ... 285 2.7) Foreign Relations and Semi-Modernization ... 285 2.7.1) Introduction ... 285 2.7.2) Missions to France and the Ottoman Empire ... 289 2.7.3) Afghanistan, Persia and the Conspiracies of European Powers ... 299 2.7.4) Conclusion ... 307 2.8) Political Structure – towards the Establishment of an Islamic Theocracy ... 308 2.8.1) Conclusion ... 334 2.9) Resistance and the British Invasion ... 336 2.9.1) Conclusion ... 349 2.10) General Conclusion ... 350 3 Gujarat ... 361 3.1) Preliminary Remarks ... 361 3.2) Economy ... 363 3.2.1) Introduction ... 363  3.2.2) Agriculture ... 380 3.2.3) Food, Housing, Consumption and Natural Calamities ... 391 3.2.4) Powerful Merchants and Commerce during the 17th and 18th Centuries ... 401 3.2.5) Manufacture and Technology ... 454 3.3) Mobility, Transport and Infrastructure ... 476 3.3.1) Conclusion ... 480 3.4) The State, Property Rights and Commercial Rules and Regulations ... 481 3.4.1) Conclusion ... 492 3.5) Legal Practice – Civil and Criminal Penalties, Rules and Regulations ... 493 3.5.1) Conclusion ... 501 3.6) The Status of Women ... 502 3.6.1) Conclusion ... 510 3.7) The Impact of Caste and Religion ... 510 3.7.1) Conclusion ... 515 3.8) Education ... 515 3.8.1) Conclusion ... 521 3.9) Political Structure ... 522 3.9.1) General Structures of Power ... 522 3.9.2) Decentralization and the Difficulties of the Company’s Consolidation of Power ... 527 3.9.3) Independent Chieftains, Predation, Naval Warfare and Piracy ... 530 3.10) Early Impact of British Rule ... 545 3.10.1) Conclusion ... 552 3.11) General Conclusion ... 553 4 Epilogue – Transition from Middle to Late Modernity ... 557 Appendix ... 577 Bibliography ... 579 Index of Persons ... 646 Index of Places ... 653 Index of Subjects ... 656

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Book SynopsisIn Nicodemites: Faith and Concealment Between Italy and Tudor England, Anne Overell examines a rarely glimpsed aspect of sixteenth-century religious strife: the thinkers, clerics, and rulers, who concealed their faith. This work goes beyond recent scholarly interest in conformity to probe inward dilemmas and the spiritual and cultural meanings of pretence. Among the dissimulators who appear here are Cardinal Reginald Pole and his circle in Italy and in England, and also John Cheke and William Cecil. Although Protestant and Catholic polemicists condemned all Nicodemites, most of them survived reformation violence, while their habits of silence and secrecy became influential. This study concludes that widespread evasion about religious belief contributed to the erratic development of toleration. "Anne Overell is an accomplished practitioner of history as a sideways glance, revealing subtleties and contours that others have missed. In doing so, she enriches the story of the Reformation and helps us see its humanity and nuance more vividly and completely." - Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church, University of OxfordTrade Review“Anne Overell has masterfully deepened and expanded the meaning of “nicodemite” […]. Overell’s painstaking research, much of which is anchored in manuscript sources, including correspondence, casts new light on Reformation-era nicodemism.” Carlos Eire, Yale University. In: British Catholic History, Vol. 34, No. 4 (October 2019), pp. 662–666. “Overell presents a complex and sympathetic picture of the motives behind religious prevarication that moves beyond a simple fear of physical abuse.” Robert Ingoglia, St. Thomas Aquinas College. In: Choice, March 2019. “Overell's book is an outstanding achievement that will reward its readers.” Susan Wabuda, Fordham University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 659–662.Table of ContentsPrologue 1 Part 1 Lives 1 The Landscape of ‘Holy Cunning’ 2 A Nursery of Nicodemism: The Circle of Reginald Pole in Italy 3 Pole’s Nicodemite Piety? Viterbo to England 4 The Volte-Faces of Pietro Vanni 5 Nicodemite’s Progress: Edward Courtenay Part 2 Texts 6 The Confusions of Il Beneficio di Cristo 7 The Case against Nicodemites 8 Exploiting Francesco Spiera in Italy and in England 9 Counsel for Nicodemite Sinners: Vermigli, Curione and Cheke 10 Radical Texts for the Queen of Nicodemites 11 Mixed Messages in Elizabethan England 12 Echoes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Danube has been a border and a bridge for migrants and goods since antiquity. Between the 17th and the 19th centuries, commercial networks were formed between the Ottoman Empire and Central and Eastern Europe creating diaspora communities. This gradually led to economic and cultural transfers connecting the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the Continental world of commerce. The contributors to the present volume offer different perspectives on commerce and entrepreneurship based on the interregional treaties of global significance, on cultural and ecclesiastical relations, population policy and demographical aspects. Questions of identity, family, and memory are in the centre of several chapters as they interact with the topographic and socio-anthropological territoriality of all the regions involved. Contributors are: Constantin Ardeleanu, Iannis Carras, Lidia Cotovanu, Lyubomir Georgiev, Olga Katsiardi-Hering, Dimitrios Kontogeorgis, Nenad Makuljević, Ikaros Mantouvalos, Anna Ransmayr, Vaso Seirinidou, Maria A. Stassinopoulou.Trade ReviewMaria Christina Chatziioannou has written a book review in: Mnimon 35 (2016), 435-440, which can be read here.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ... vii Introduction ... 1 Olga Katsiardi-Hering and Maria A. Stassinopoulou Part 1: Routes and Spaces 1 Greek Immigrants in Central Europe: A Concise Study of Migration Routes from the Balkans to the Territories of the Hungarian Kingdom (From the Late 17th to the Early 19th Centuries) ... 25 Ikaros Mantouvalos 2 Migrations and the Creation of Orthodox Cultural and Artistic Networks between the Balkans and the Habsburg Lands (17th–19th Centuries) ... 54 Nenad Makuljević 3 Connecting Migration and Identities: Godparenthood, Surety and Greeks in the Russian Empire (18th – Early 19th Centuries) ... 65 Iannis Carras Part 2: Greeks in Vienna: A Close Reading 4 Greek Migration in Vienna (18th – First Half of the 19th Century): A Success Story? ... 113 Vaso Seirinidou 5 Greek Presence in Habsburg Vienna: Heyday and Decline ... 135 Anna Ransmayr 6 Endowments as Instruments of Integration and Memory in an Urban Environment: The Panadi Building in Vienna ... 171 Maria A. Stassinopoulou Part 3: Old Settlements, Nation States, New Networks 7 In Search of the Promised Land. Bulgarian Settlers in the Banat (18th–19th Centuries) ... 193 Lyubomir Klimentov Georgiev 8 ‘Chasing Away the Greeks’: The Prince-State and the Undesired Foreigners (Wallachia and Moldavia between the 16th and 18th Centuries) ... 215 Lidia Cotovanu 9 Foreign Migrant Communities in the Danubian Ports of Brăila and Galaţi (1829–1914) ... 253 Constantin Ardeleanu 10 From Tolerance to Exclusion? The Romanian Elites’ Stance towards Immigration to the Danubian Principalities (1829– 1880s) ... 275 Dimitrios M. Kontogeorgis Selected Bibliography ... 303 Index ... 315

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Book Synopsis“Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth” provides a fresh account of the International Working Men’s Association. Founded in London in 1864, the First International gathered trade unions, associations, co-operatives, and individual workers across Europe and the Americas. The IWMA struggled for the emancipation of labour. It organised solidarity with strikers. It took sides in major events, such as the 1871 Paris Commune. It soon appeared as a threat to European powers, which vilified and prosecuted it. Although it split up in 1872, the IWMA played a ground-breaking part in the history of working-class internationalism. In our age of globalised capitalism, large labour migration, and rising nationalisms, much can be learnt from the history of the first international labour organisation. Contributors are: Fabrice Bensimon, Gregory Claeys, Michel Cordillot, Nicolas Delalande, Quentin Deluermoz, Marianne Enckell, Albert Garcia Balaña, Samuel Hayat, Jürgen Herres, François Jarrige, Mathieu Léonard, Carl Levy, Detlev Mares, Krzysztof Marchlewicz, Woodford McClellan, Jeanne Moisand, Iorwerth Prothero, Jean Puissant, Jürgen Schmidt, Antje Schrupp, Horacio Tarcus, Antony Taylor, Marc Vuilleumier.Trade Review"The essays are well written and well documented. Of particular interest, especially to students of the larger Left, is Jürgen Herres’s contribution, “Karl Marx and the IWMA Revisited,” which provides a much-needed, post–Cold War perspective on the leading—but not authoritarian—figure of the First International during the first wave of globalization. Contributions on Latin American and US sections of the IWMA relieve the time-worn Eurocentrism of many past analyses, and one essay explores the roles and opportunities for women in the overwhelmingly male-dominated groups. In sum, the coverage is well rounded." - J. A. Young, in: CHOICE 56:2 (2018) "The contributions to the collection, both individually and collectively, greatly enrich and bring up-to-date our knowledge and understanding of the IWMA. They also flag important areas of future research, especially those around gender, race and transnationalism. In sum, this book provides a treasure-trove of information and insights for all those interested in labour internationalism, its mid-nineteenth century development, its many-sided character and its strengths and weaknesses." - Neville Kirk, in: Labour History, No. 115 (November 2018), pp. 179-181 "...this book is quite a successful work, certainly as a history of the IWMA itself, but also as a broader contribution to a trans-national and even global view of the working-class organisation and political radicalism during the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Indeed, it is as an analysis of the interaction between the national and the trans-national and global, in political radicalism and working-class organisation, and as an account of both the breaks and the continuities in these interactions that the book makes its greatest scholarly contribution." - Jonathan Sperber, in: Cultural and Social History (2019) [DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2019.1572693] "Der gut lesbare und in jedem Fall nicht nur für das spezialisierte Fachpublikum instruktive Band versammelt (neben einer guten Einleitung der Herausgeber) 23 Beiträge aus der Feder zum großen Teil prominenter Kenner der Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegungen beziehungsweise der Pariser Kommune [...] Jüngere Spezialisten und Spezialistinnen zeichnen sogar für die Mehrzahl der Beiträge verantwortlich, und so bewegt er sich durchaus am cutting edge der Forschung''. Thomas Welskopp, in Francia Recensio 4, (2019).Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Fabrice Bensimon, Quentin Deluermoz and Jeanne Moisand Part 1: Organisation and Debates 2 The IWMA and Its Precursors in London, c. 1830–1860  Fabrice Bensimon 3 Little Local Difficulties? The General Council of the IWMA as an Arena for British Radical Politics  Detlev Mares 4 The IWMA and Industrial Conflict in England and France  Iorwerth Prothero 5 Transnational Solidarity in the Making Labour Strikes, Money Flows, and the First International, 1864–1872  Nicolas Delalande 6 The IWMA, Workers and the Machinery Question (1864–1874)  François Jarrige 7 The IWMA and the Commune A Reassessment  Quentin Deluermoz Part 2: Global Causes and Local Branches 8 Global Values Locally Transformed The IWMA in the German States 1864–1872/76  Jürgen Schmidt 9 The IWMA in Belgium (1865–1875)  Jean Puissant 10 The First International in Switzerland A Few Observations  Marc Vuilleumier 11 For Independent Poland and the Emancipation of the Working Class The Poles in the IWMA, 1864–1876  Krzysztof Marchlewicz 12 Russians in the IWMA The Background  Woodford McClellan 13 The Italians and the IWMA  Carl Levy 14 1871 in Spain Transnational and Local History in the Formation of the FRE-IWMA  Albert Garcia-Balañà 15 Revolutions, Republics and IWMA in the Spanish Empire (around 1873)  Jeanne Moisand 16 The First International in Latin America  Horacio Tarcus 17 Socialism v. Democracy? The IWMA in the USA, 1869–1876  Michel Cordillot 18 “Sectarian Secret Wisdom” and Nineteenth-Century Radicalism The IWMA in London and New York  Antony Taylor Part 3: Actors and Ideologies 19 Karl Marx and the IWMA Revisited  Jürgen Herres 20 The Construction of Proudhonism within the IWMA  Samuel Hayat 21 Professor Beesly, Positivism and the International The Patriotism Question  Gregory Claeys 22 Bringing Together Feminism and Socialism in the First International Four Examples  Antje Schrupp 23 Bakunin and the Jura Federation  Marianne Enckell 24 Carlo Cafiero and the International in Italy From Marx to Bakunin  Mathieu Léonard Appendix 1: The IWMA – A Brief Chronology Appendix 2: Membership Indexes

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Book SynopsisIn The Making of Israel C.L. Crouch presents the southern Levant during the seventh century BCE as a major period for the formation of Israelite ethnic identity, challenging scholarship which dates biblical texts with identity concerns to the exilic and post-exilic periods as well as scholarship which limits pre-exilic identity concerns to Josianic nationalism. The argument analyses the archaeological material from the southern Levant during Iron Age II, then draws on anthropological research to argue for an ethnic response to the economic, political and cultural change of this period. The volume concludes with an investigation into identity issues in Deuteronomy, highlighting centralisation and exclusive Yahwism as part of the deuteronomic formulation of Israelite ethnic identity.Trade Review"This book [...] is deeply instructive and amazingly engaging. It should not be overlooked by anyone wishing to understand either the book of Deuteronomy or the History of Israel." Jim West, Quartz Hill School of Theology, Philippines Baptist Theological Seminary "I can thoroughly recommend the book and hope that we might see more such careful studies from her." Lester L. Grabbe, University of Hull

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Book SynopsisIn The Sun King’s Atlantic, Jutta Wimmler reveals the many surprising ways in which the Atlantic world channeled cultural developments during the age of the Sun King. Although hardly visible for contemporaries at the time, Africa and America were omnipresent throughout early modern France: in the textile industry, pharmaceutics, medicine, scientific methods, religious discourse, and court theatre. The book moves beyond typical plantation crops and the slave trade to illustrate how a focus on Europe challenges us to rethink the place of Africa in the early modern world.Trade Review"Wimmler's monograph shows how widespread and pervasive the impact of French expansion in the Atlantic world on French society was. Further investigation in this field would lead us to a better understanding of the two-way influence between the overseas expansion of European countries all over the world and European countries today." Valentina Bryndina, Institute for African Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences in H-Net Reviews / H-Africa (https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56117) "Her [Jutta Wimmler's] book comprises an invaluable contribution to the important process of rethinking the early French Atlantic, precisely because she looks not just at the economics or politics of the Atlantic colonies but also at how the French themselves struggled to conceptualize their colonies within the context of France’s cultural and political priorities. She also adopts an approach increasingly favored by scholars of the Atlantic world that emphasizes not just how Europeans influenced the other parts of the world with which they traded or in which they planted colonies but also how material and cultural exchanges with the New World, Africa, or Asia influenced Europe and, in Wimmler’s study, “transformed France” (p. 3). Wimmler’s approach opens a rich area of potential research that has not received sufficient scholarly attention. The influx of material and non-material culture from the New World preceded rather than followed the creation of France’s colonial empire and shaped the French conceptualization of their empire. This is the important point that Wimmler grasps in this book and the theme that holds the book together." - Gayle K. Brunelle (California State University, Fullerton), H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences, August, 2017, pp. 1 - 3Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Sugar and Slaves? French Atlantic Trade before 1730 3. The Fashionable Atlantic: Innovation and Consumption 4. Body Matters: Remedies, Foodstuffs and Cosmetics 5. The Iatrochemical Advantage: Methods for an Expanding World 6. Perfect French Subjects: Staging the Atlantic World 7. Devils and Martyrs: Religious Concepts Travel the Globe 8. Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThe battle of Kulikovo, fought between Muscovite and Tatar troops in 1380, has been considered as a crucial turning point in the national history of Russia. In The Battle of Kulikovo Refought Kati Parppei examines the layers of contemporary meanings attached to the event from the Middle Ages to the present, following the formation and establishment of the collective images and perceptions concerning the battle. By utilizing a diverse set of sources she shows that the present image of the medieval battle was created in retrospect from the 15th century onwards by interpolating, interpreting and simplifying. The narrative themes emphasizing internal unity have been applicable to practically any political situation over the centuries, especially to ones involving external threat.Table of ContentsForeword and acknowledgements List of maps and illustrations Maps Illustrations Introduction “Light of freedom began to dawn” “History’s turning points” The battle of Kulikovo as “mythscape” Hindsight and narrative About the structure of the book Part 1 The medieval and pre-modern battlefield 1.1. The battle of Kulikovo in the early sources 1.2. The first chronicle entries 1.3. New cluster of texts 1.4. The Life of Dmitrii Ivanovich 1.5. Poetic Zadonshchina 1.6. Expanded Chronicle Tale Oleg of Riazan – “the new Judas” Churchmen enter the scene Anticipation and divine miracles 1.7. Vassian Rylo’s letter to Ivan III 1.8. The Tale of the Rout of Mamai “Like a flock of sheep” Allies of Mamai and Dmitrii Role of Dmitrii’s family Involvement of the Trinity Monastery Metropolitans alive and dead Omens and comparisons Events on the battlefield Image of Dmitrii in “The Tale” List of motifs: the plot-structure is established 1.9. Further developments Nikon Chronicle Book of Degrees Zadonshchina : the longer version Our Lady of the Don – and Vladimir Part 2 From manuscripts to national history writing Entering the age of print 2.1. The Kievan Sinopsis – the first history textbook “Slavo-Rossian” viewpoint The adventures of Zakhariia Tiuchev Other details in the Sinopsis 2.2. Historians’ Kulikovo takes shape First steps in national history writing Mankiev’s “secular Kulikovo” V. N. Tatishchev’s detailed narrative M. M. Shcherbatov’s critical touch I. N. Boltin: defending the virtues of the Muscovite Grand Prince 2.3. “First National Victory”: Russian National Historiography and the Kulikovo Battle Scholarly developments N. M. Karamzin’s patriotic viewpoint N. A. Polevoi – a critic who failed S. M. Solov’ev: “Europe over Asia” N. I. Kostomarov: Dmitrii as a man of “poor talent” V. O. Kliuchevskii: “The first national victory” Later developments Part 3 Popular Kulikovo 3.1. Popular-historical publications The first attempts Productive Gur’ianov Kazadaev’s post-Napoleonic ideas Afremov’s military details 500-year celebrations: Ilovaiskii’s “historical viewpoint” The Ottoman question 3.2. School textbooks Ilovaiskii and the role of Riazan Ostrogorskii fulfilling “certain didactic criteria” “The first national feat” The active role of Dmitrii S. F. Platonov’s enduring interpretations 3.3. Lubok literature “The horrible rout of Mamai” 3.4. Oral tradition Historical songs and the “Saturday of Dmitrii” Afanas’ev and “godless Mamai” Kulikovo in bylinas 3.5. Plays and poetry Ozerov and “Dmitrii Donskoi” Poems inspired by Kulikovo 3.6. Visual battlefield Kulikovo in artworks Monument to Kulikovo Epilogue: Notes on Soviet and post-Soviet Kulikovo ”Contemporary Kulikovo fields” St. Dmitrii Donskoi Kulikovo in images Mythscape challenged Conclusions Abbreviations Sources Printed chronicle sources Other printed sources Virtual sources Literature

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