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Book SynopsisNegotiating Violence examines the ways in which ordinary people used a transnational papal court of law for disputing their private local hostilities and for negotiating their social status and identities. Following the career and routine crossovers of runaway friars, the book offers vivid insights into the late medieval culture of violence, honour, emotions, learning and lay-clerical interactions. The story plays itself out in the large composite state of the Kingdom of Hungary and Croatia, which collapses under the Ottomans’ sword in front of the readers’ eyes. The bottom-up approach of the Christian-Muslim military conflict renders visible the rationalities of those commoners who voluntarily crossed the religious boundary, while the multi-tiered story convincingly drives home the argument that the motor of social and religious change was lay society rather than the clergy in this turbulent age.Trade Review“An introduction to a part of the world and its local scholarly literature seldom visited by western scholars, with well-chosen illustrations often reproduced in brilliant colour”. – Jus Gentium, Vol. 4, No. 2 (July 2019), pp. 756-757.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Maps and Illustrations 1 Introduction  Research Agenda  The Uses of Papal Pardon 2 Negotiating Apostasy  Apostates and Evangelicals  Cloisters and Learning  The Ambitious Common Man  Storytelling Strategies  Gaps in the Narrative  Conclusion 3 The Gates of Upward Social Mobility  The Social Origin of the Friars  Choosing the Cloister  Learning in the Cloister Schools  Learning in the Parish Schools  The Protean Literacy of the Lesser Clergy  Conclusion 4 From Savage to Civilized: Village Schools and Student Life  The Interactions of Students and Locals  The Dense Network of Parish Schools in the Countryside  The Presence of Literate and “Civilized” Men in Rural Communities  Conclusion 5 Life Outside the Walls: Clergymen on the Road  The Parish Church and Cloister in the Community  Masses of Unbeneficed Clergy  The Unbeneficed as Criminals  Parish Incumbents and the Unbeneficed  Ordained in Rome  Conclusion 6 The Heyday of Popular Culture: The Shared Time and Space of Laity and Clergy  Defending Male Honor  Shared Spaces of Leisure  Carnival Every Day  Shared Practices  Leisure and Crime in the Dark  Festivities and Violence  Shared Concepts of Magic  Conclusion 7 Contested Coexistence: Lay-Clerical Disputes and Their Settlement  Enmities and the Language of Emotions  Clergymen as the Mediators of the Sacred  Clergymen as Members of Local Communities  Honor and Hatred: The Script of Lay-Clerical Conflicts  The Communal Definition of Criminals  Conclusion 8 Tales of a Peasant Revolt  Two Competing Myths of Just War  Representations of Violence: Private and Public Perspectives  György Dózsa, the Martyr b>9 Shifting Identities in the Christian-Muslim Contact Zone  “Apostate” Spouses  Christian “Bigamists”  Latin and Orthodox Christian Intermarriages  Conclusion b>10 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis companion volume seeks to trace the development of ideas relating to death, burial, and the remembrance of the dead in Europe between ca. 1300 and 1700. Examining attitudes to death from a range of disciplinary perspectives, it synthesises current trends in scholarship, challenging the old view that the Black Death and the Protestant Reformations fundamentally altered ideas about death. Instead, it shows how people prepared for death; how death and dying were imagined in art and literature; and how practices and beliefs appeared, disappeared, changed, or strengthened over time as different regions and communities reacted to the changing world around them. Overall, it serves as an indispensable introduction to the subject of death, burial, and commemoration in thirteenth to eighteenth century Europe. Contributors: Ruth Atherton, Stephen Bates, Philip Booth, Zachary Chitwood, Ralph Dekoninck, Freddy C. Dominguez, Anna M. Duch, Jackie Eales, Madeleine Gray, Polina Ignatova, Robert Marcoux, Christopher Ocker, Gordon D. Raeburn, Ludwig Steindorff, Elizabeth Tingle, and Christina Welch.

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Book SynopsisA Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925 is the first publication to deal with the avant-garde in the Nordic countries at the start of the twentieth century. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations in arts and culture: literature, the visual arts, painting as well as photography, architecture and design, film, radio, and performing arts like music, theatre and dance. It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective which includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field, but in a broader cultural context. It examines the social and cultural context of the avant-garde: its media, its locations, its reception and audiences, the transmissions between Scandinavia and Europe, and its cultural consequences. The essays trace the connections between the avant-garde and the cultural discourses of contemporary currents such as revolutionary socialism, radical nationalism and occultism, and discuss questions of gender, ideology and politics, geographical location and technological innovation. The cultural history thus focuses on the role of the avant-garde in shaping the ideas of cultural modernity in the Nordic countries.Trade Review"With The Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925, the Nordic Network for Avant-garde studies has presented a generally impressive first volume of a cultural history of the avant-garde in Northern Europe on which continuation we will wait with excitement. We really wish for both the network and the publisher that they will have the necessary long breath to bring cultural history of northern European avant-garde to its end." By Stephan Michael Schröder (Köln), Nordeuropaforum, 2014 pp. 42-46. Full tekst available: http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/nordeuropaforum/2014-/schroeder-stephan-michael-42/PDF/schroeder.pdfTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Hubert van den Berg: The Early Twentieth Century Avant-Garde and the Nordic Countries – An Introductory tour d’horizon Nordic Icons in the European Avant-Gardes Per Stounbjerg: Rebels and Renegades – Strindberg, Artaud and the Avant-Garde Erik Mørstad: Munch’s Impact on Europe Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen: Die Asta and the Avant-Garde Geert Buelens: “the manifold in one/and the one manifold” – Asta Nielsen as an Icon for the European Avant-Garde Nordic Artists in the European Metropolises Frank Claustrat: Nordic Writers and Artists in Paris before, during and after World War I Shulamith Behr: Académie Matisse and its Relevance in the Life and Work of Sigrid Hjertén Frank Claustrat: Jean Börlin and Les Ballets Suédois Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann and Anne M. N. Sokoll: “From the North comes the light to us!” – Scandinavian Artists in Friedrichshagen at the Turn of the Century Jan Torsten Ahlstrand: Berlin and the Swedish Avant-Garde – GAN, Nell Walden, Viking Eggeling, Axel Olson and Bengt Österblom Hubert van den Berg and Benedikt Hjartarson: Icelandic Artists in the Network of the European Avant-Garde – The Cases of Jón Stefánsson and Finnur Jónsson Locations of the Nordic Avant-Garde Sven-Olov Wallenstein: The Avant-Garde and the Market Andrea Kollnitz: Promoting the Young – Interactions between the Avant-Garde and the Swedish Art Market 1910-1925 Vibeke Petersen: The Avant-Garde and the Danish Art Market Dorthe Aagesen: Art Metropolis for a Day – Copenhagen during World War I Margareta Tillberg: Kandinsky in Sweden – Malmö 1914 and Stockholm 1916 Stefan Nygård: The National and the International in Ultra (1922) and Quosego (1928) Natalia Baschmakoff: Avant-Garde Encounters on Karelian Bedrock (1890s-1930s) Øivind Storm Bjerke: The Pavilion of De 14 Claes-Göran Holmberg: flamman Bjarne S. Bendtsen: Copenhagen Swordplay – Avant-Garde Manoeuvres and the Aesthetics of War in the Art Magazine Klingen (1917-1920) Torben Jelsbak: Dada Copenhagen Transmission, Appropriations and Responses Claes-Göran Holmberg: The Reception of the Early European Avant-Gardes in Sweden Rikard Schönström: Pär Lagerkvist’s Literary Art and Pictorial Art Fredrik Hertzberg, Vesa Haapala and Janna Kantola: The Finland-Swedish Avant-Garde Moments Per Stounbjerg and Torben Jelsbak: Danish Expressionism Lennart Gottlieb: Avant-Gardism Danish Style – Jais Nielsen as a Modern Genre Painter 1916-18 Kristín G. Guðnadóttir: Jóhannes Kjarval’s Appropriation of Progressive Attitudes in Painting between 1917 and 1920 Andreas Engström: The Modern Breakthrough in Swedish and Scandinavian Art Music Karen Vedel: Dancing across Copenhagen Politics, Ideology, Discourse Torben Jelsbak: Avant-Garde Activism – The Case of the New Student Society in Copenhagen (1922-24) Timo Huusko: Finnish Nationalism and the Avant-Garde Julia Tidigs: Multilingualism and (De)territorialisation in the Works of Elmer Diktonius Anna Maria Bernitz: Hilma af Klint and the New Art of Seeing Thomas Henrikson: Art as a Revolutionary Dionysian Jaguar – Otto Ville Kuusinen, Elmer Diktonius and the Emergence of Avant-Garde Poetry in Finland Benedikt Hjartarson: The Early Avant-Garde in Iceland Epilogue Legacies of the Early Nordic Avant-Gardes Abstracts 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"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, 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 The Scottish Enlightenment Abroad, Janet Starkey examines the lives and works of Scots working in the mid eighteenth century with the Levant Company in Aleppo, then within the Ottoman Empire; and those working with the East India Company in India, especially in the fields of natural history, medicine, ethnography and the collection of Arabic and Persian manuscripts. The focus is on brothers from Edinburgh: Alexander Russell MD FRS, Patrick Russell MD FRS, Claud Russell and William Russell FRS. By examining a wide range of modern interpretations, Starkey argues that the Scottish Enlightenment was not just a philosophical discourse but a multi-faceted cultural revolution that owed its vibrancy to ties of kinship, and to strong commercial and intellectual links with Europe and further abroad.Trade Review"The Scottish Enlightenment Abroad provides a scholarly, remarkably wideranging and thorough guide to the intellectual ferment of the eighteenth century and to the achievements of Alexander and Patrick Russell as physicians, natural historians, orientalists, collectors of Arabic manuscripts and recorders of scientific and social phenomena." Robert Irwin in Times Literary Supplement 26 April 2019. "I learned a great deal about this intriguing family and hope to read at least one if not both editions of The Natural History of Aleppo at some point. The book also made me think more broadly about the Scottish Enlightenment beyond the mayor players - the Hutchesons, Humes, Smiths and so on..." Arby Ted Siraki in The Newsletter of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Spring 2019.

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

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Book SynopsisThe “Global” and the “Local” in Early Modern and Modern East Asia presents a unique set of historical perspectives by scholars from two important universities in the East Asian region—The University of Tokyo (Tōdai) and Fudan University, along with East Asian Studies scholars from Princeton University. Two of the essays address the international leanings in the histories of their respective departments in Todai and Fudan. The rest of the essays showcase how such thinking about the global and local histories have borne fruit, as the scholars of the three institutions contributed essays, arguing about the philosophies, methodologies, and/or perspectives of global history and how it relates to local stories. Authors include Benjamin Elman, Haneda Masashi, and Ge Zhaoguang.Table of ContentsList of Contributers Introduction: An Overview, by Benjamin A. Elman Part 1 Is World History Possible? 1 Is There Still Value in National History in the Trend towards Global History?, by Zhaoguang Ge 2 Is a World History of Ideas Possible?, by Federico Marcon Part 2 What Forms of Globalization Took Shape in Traditional East Asia? 3 Conditional Universality and World History in Modern Philosophy in East Asia, by Nakajima Takahiro 4 A New Global History and Regional Histories, by Masashi Haneda 5 A Jointly Regional-Global Approach to Rethinking Early Modern East Asian History, by Benjamin A. Elman Part 3 How Did Internationalism Emerge in Modern Chinese and Japanese Higher Education? 6 Internationalization from Within: 140 Years of Internationalization at the University of Tokyo. By Jin Satō 7 Global History in China: Inheritance and Innovation—A Case Study of the Development of World History in the History Department of Fudan University, by Yunshen Gu Part 4 Doing ‘World’ or ‘Global’ History as ‘Transnational’ History 8 From ‘East Asia’ to ‘East Asian Maritime Worlds’: The Pros and Cons of the Construction of a Historical World, by Shaoxin Dong 9 From Sri Lanka to East Asia: A Short History of a Buddhist Scripture, by Norihisa Baba 10 ‘Nobody Changed Their Old Customs’—Tang Views on the History of the World, by Tineke D’Haeseleer 11 The Korean Response to Xue Xuan’s Enshrinement in the Ming Confucian Temples, by Xinlei Wang 12 Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century World, by Yasushi Ōki 13 Tales of an Open World: The Fall of the Ming Dynasty as Dutch Tragedy, Chinese Rumor, and Global News, by Paize Keulemans 14 The Regulation of Sailors in the Maritime Trade between Jiangnan and Nagasaki in Early Qing China, by Zhenzhong Wang 15 The Transnational History of Japanese Thrift, by Sheldon Garon Coda, by Benjamin A. Elman Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection forges new ground in the discussion of aristocratic and royal women, their relationships with their objects, and medieval geography. It explores how women’s geographic and familial networks spread well beyond the borders that defined men’s sense of region and how the movement of their belongings can reveal essential information about how women navigated these often-disparate spaces. Beginning in early medieval Scandinavia, ranging from Byzantium to Rus', and multiple lands in Western Europe up to 1500, the essays span a great spatio-temporal range. Moreover, the types of objects extend from traditionally studied works like manuscripts and sculpture to liturgical and secular ceremonial instruments, icons, and articles of personal adornment, such as textiles and jewelry, even including shoes.Trade Review"This is an important work for medievalists, but sufficient contextual detail is provided to enable the nonspecialist to approach each topic, a significant feature in a work covering such a range of material and one which expands its usefulness to researchers in other fields, most notably court and women’s studies." - Sara Smart, University of Exeter. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Volume LXXIV, No. 1 pp. 273-275. "[...] this book is an important contribution to the study of medieval women, demonstrating the utility of ideas around the agency of objects for supplementing and revising extant evidence about their worlds. [...] the strengths of this volume suggest the need for continued attention to movement and mobility at all levels of society and for many different kinds of aesthetic objects." - Michelle K. Oing, Stanford University. In: Speculum, 96/4 (October 2021), pp. 1178-1180. "The chapters are fluently written and well-researched[...]The capacity to reveal new geographies, to show how women and their things created places united across space, interlacing diverse spheres, is the major contribution of this volume and opens the door to further studies of medieval and early modern women through the lens of materiality in motion". Erin J. Cambell in Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021. "Given such broad geographical and temporal variety, it is worth noting the consistently high quality of the essays. This is surely due in part to the efforts of the editors, who appear to have been quite involved in the shaping and level of finish of each essay as well as in the conception of the volume as a whole. A sense of commitment, common purpose, enjoyment, and collaborative engagement comes through in the many cross-references that populate the footnotes [...] Moving Women Moving Objects is excellent in itself and sets a high standard for future collaborative work on “object itineraries” that is global in its reach." -Sarah McNamer, Georgetown University. In:The Medieval ReviewTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments List of Figures Contributors Introduction: Women and the Circulation of Material Culture: Crossing Boundaries and Connecting Spaces  Tracy Chapman Hamilton and Mariah Proctor-Tiffany 1 Mapping Gold in Motion: Women and Jewelry from Early Medieval Scandinavia  Nancy L. Wicker 2 Remembrance and Erasure of Objects Belonging to Rus’ Princesses in Medieval Western Sources: the Cases of Anastasia Iaroslavna’s “Saber of Charlemagne” and Anna Iaroslavna’s Red Gem  Talia Zajac 3 Symbolic Geography in the Tomb and Seal of Berengaria of Navarre, Queen of England  Kathleen Nolan 4 Matilda of Saxony’s Luxury Objects in Motion: Salving the Wounds of Conflict  Jitske Jasperse 5 Female Networks and the Circulation of a Late Medieval Illustrated Health Guide  Jennifer Borland 6 Saint Birgitta of Sweden: Movement, Place, and Visionary Experience  Benjamin Zweig 7 The Place of a Queen/A Queen and Her Places: Jeanne of Navarre’s Kalila and Dimna as a Political Manuscript in Early Fourteenth-Century France  Amanda Luyster 8 Of Movement, Monarchs, and Manuscripts: the Case for Jeanne II of Navarre’s Picture Bible as a Geopolitical Bridge between Paris and Pamplona  Julia Finch 9 The Personal Geography of a Dowager Queen: Isabella of France and Her Inventory  Anne Rudloff Stanton 10 Moving Possessions and Secure Posthumous Reputation: the Gifts of Jeanne of Burgundy (ca. 1293–1349)  Marguerite Keane 11 Valentina Visconti’s Trousseau: Mapping Identity through the Transport of Jewels  Diane Antille 12 Moving Women and Their Moving Objects: Zoe (Sophia) Palaiologina and Anna Palaiologina Notaras as Cultural Translators  Lana Sloutsky 13 The Shoes of an Infanta: Bringing the Sensuous, Not Sensible, “Spanish Style” of Catherine of Aragon to Tudor England  Theresa Earenfight

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Book SynopsisIn The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves, Lúcio de Sousa offers a study on the system of traffic of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves from Japan, using the Portuguese mercantile networks; reconstructs the Japanese communities in the Habsburg Empire; and analyses the impact of the Japanese slave trade on the Iberian legislation produced in the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries.Trade ReviewWinner of the Portuguese Academy of History Award / Gulbenkian Foundation Award in History 2019 “With his assiduous tracking and identification of the humans trafficked across the Eastern hemisphere, the author has produced a new and slightly provocative standard that is unlikely to be easily duplicated, meanwhile also unwittingly calling attention to the need for even deeper research on some of the circuits of the uglier side of the slave trade, as seen with the Indian Ocean littoral. All in all, this is a commendable work and a great resource for students of medieval Japanese history and Portuguese “expansion.”” – Geoffrey C. Gunn, Nagasaki University, in: Monumenta Nipponica 74/2 (2019) "With no significant primary sources specifically on the Portuguese slave trade, the author has clearly made a prodigious effort to comb through documents at archives in Macau, India, Portugal, Italy, and Spain for references to Asian slaves and to compile an important account of a significant part of Portugal’s trade with Japan. The result is a comprehensive study in English on a topic that has received little attention but will be of interest to a wide range of scholars." – Jan Leuchtenberger, University of Puget Sound, in: The Journal of Japanese Studies 47/1 (2021)Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction   Terminology   The Book’s Structure 1 The Chinese Stage   The Chinese Stage   Macao, Kurofune, and the Slave Trade in Japan: The Earliest Evidence   Examples from the Chinese Diaspora 2 The Japanese Stage   The Japanese Stage   The Iberian Union: The Opening of Private Trade between Macao and Manila and Financial Restructuring in Macao   Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Liberation of Macao Ship Slaves 3 The Korean Stage   The Macao Ship and Korean Slaves   European Missionaries and Traders and the Invasion of Korea by Hideyoshi 4 Reorganization of the Portuguese Slave Trade   The End of Korean and Japanese Slavery in the “Nau De Macau” and Its Replacement with Chinese Slavery in the Philippines (1600–14)   The Last Chapter of the Portuguese Presence in Japan 5 The Structure of Portuguese Slavery in Japan   Capture   Other Origins of Japanese Slaves Purchased by the Portuguese   Sale   Transportation   The Society of Jesus and the Ballot System   Price and Number of Slaves 6 Case Studies: Crossing Diasporas   The Chinese Slave Victoria Diaz and the Jewish Conversos   The Japanese slave Gaspar Fernandes and the Jewish Conversos   The 1640 Delegation and the “Korean” Miguel Carvalho   From Slave of the Society of Jesus to Franciscan Priest: The Case of Jerónimo Iyo (伊予)/Geronimo de la Cruz 7 The Iberian World and the Japanese Diaspora   Macao   The Philippines   Goa   Japanese Mercenaries Serving the Habsburgs in Asia   Mexico   Peru   Argentina   Portugal   Spain 8 Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation   From the Reconquista to   Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation: 1550–80   Japanese Slavery and Iberian Legislation: 1580–1600 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Peregrine Profession Per-Olof Grönberg offers an account of the pre-1930 transnational mobility of engineers and architects educated in the Nordic countries 1880-1919. Outlining a system where learning mobility was more important than labour market mobility, the author shows that more than every second graduate went abroad. Transnational mobility was stronger from Finland and Norway than from Denmark and Sweden, partly because of slower industrialisation and deficiencies in the domestic technical education. This mobility included all parts of the world but concentrated on the leading industrial countries in German speaking Europe and North America. Significant majorities returned and became agents of technology transfer and technical change. Thereby, these mobile graduates also became important for Nordic industrialisation

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Book SynopsisIn Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia scholars scrutinise developments in official symbolical, cultural and social policies as well as the contradictory trajectories of important cultural, social and intellectual trends in Russian society after the year 2000. Engaging experts on Russia from several academic fields, the book offers case studies on the vicissitudes of cultural policies, political ideologies and imperial visions, on memory politics on the grassroot as well as official levels, and on the links between political and national imaginaries and popular culture in fields as diverse as fashion design and pro-natalist advertising. Contributors are Niklas Bernsand, Lena Jonson, Ekaterina Kalinina, Natalija Majsova, Olga Malinova, Alena Minchenia, Elena Morenkova-Perrier, Elena Rakhimova-Sommers, Andrei Rogatchevski, Tomas Sniegon, Igor Torbakov, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, and Yuliya Yurchuk.Table of ContentsContents Notes on Contributors Introduction: Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia  Niklas Bernsand and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa Part 1: Cultural Policy and Ideological Movements 1 Russia: Culture, Cultural Policy, and the Swinging Pendulum of Politics  Lena Jonson 2 ‘Middle Continent’ or ‘Island Russia’: Eurasianist Legacy and Vadim Tsymburskii’s Revisionist Geopolitics  Igor Torbakov 3 Eduard Limonov’s National Bolshevik Party and the Nazi Legacy: Titular Nations vs Ethnic Minorities  Andrei Rogatchevski Part 2: Memory Politics 4 Constructing the “Usable Past”: the Evolution of the Official Historical Narrative in Post-Soviet Russia  Olga Malinova 5 Dying in the Soviet Gulag for the Future Glory of Mother Russia? Making “Patriotic” Sense of the Gulag in Present-Day Russia  Tomas Sniegon 6 Memory Watchdogs. Online and Offline Mobilizations around Controversial Historical Issues in Russia  Elena Perrier (Morenkova) Part 3: Popular Culture and Its Embeddedness in Politics 7 “Your Stork Might Disappear Forever!”: Russian Public Awareness Advertising and Incentivizing Motherhood  Elena Rakhimova-Sommers 8 Fashionable Irony and Stiob: the Use of Soviet Heritage in Russian Fashion Design and Soviet Subcultures  Ekaterina Kalinina 9 Humour as a Mode of Hegemonic Control: Comic Representations of Belarusian and Ukrainian Leaders in Official Russian Media  Alena Minchenia, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa and Yuliya Yurchuk 10 The Cosmic Subject in Post-Soviet Russia: Noocosmology, Space-Oriented Spiritualism, and the Problem of the Securitization of the Soul  Natalija Majsova Index

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Book SynopsisLong before it took political shape in the proclamation of the German Empire of 1871, a German nation-state had taken shape in the cultural imagination. Covering the period from the Seven Years’ War to the Reichsgründung of 1871, Nationalism before the Nation State: Literary Constructions of Inclusion, Exclusion, and Self-Definition (1756–1871) explores how the nation was imagined by different groups, at different times, and in connection with other ideologies. Between them the eight chapters in this volume explore the connections between religion, nationalism and patriotism, and individual chapters show how marginalised voices such as women and Jews contributed to discourses on national identity. Finally, the chapters also consider the role of memory in constructing ideas of nationhood. Contributors are: Johannes Birgfeld, Anita Bunyan, Dirk Göttsche, Caroline Mannweiler, Alex Marshall, Dagmar Paulus, Ellen Pilsworth, and Ernest Schonfield.Table of Contents List of Illustrations  Acknowledgments  Notes on Contributors  Introduction: Nationalism before the Nation State  Dagmar Paulus and Ellen Pilsworth Part 1: Eighteenth-Century Debates and Dilemmas  1 Johann Joachim Spalding’s 1778 Kriegs-Gebeth: Church Prayers (Kirchengebete), War Prayers (Kriegsgebete), and the Patriotic and National Discourse in late Eighteenth-Century Germany  Johannes Birgfeld  2 Enlightenment Dilemmas: Nationalism and War in Rudolph Zacharias Becker’s Mildheimisches Liederbuch (1799/1815)  Ellen Pilsworth Part 2: Germany and “Other” Stories: Defining the Nation from Outside  3 “No sensuous requirement that might not be satisfied here to surfeit”: Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Schlegel Constructing the German Nation in Paris  Caroline Mannweiler  4 Femininity, Nation and Nature: Fanny Tarnow’s Letters to Friends from a Journey to Petersburg (1819)  Dagmar Paulus Part 3: German-Jewish Voices in the Nationalism Debate  5 Jews for Germany: Nineteenth-Century Jewish-German Intellectuals and the Shaping of German National Discourse  Anita Bunyan  6 Moses Hess: One Socialist Proto-Zionist’s Reception of Nationalisms in the Nineteenth Century  Alex Marshall Part 4: Looking Back, Looking Forwards: Nineteenth Century Contests of Memory and Progress  7 Nationalism, Regionalism, and Liberalism in the Literary Representation of the Anti-Napoleonic “Wars of Liberation,” 1813–71  Dirk Göttsche  8 Learning from France: Ludwig Börne in the 1830s  Ernest Schonfield  Index

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Book SynopsisThis anthology of essays, Northern Myths, Modern Identities, explores the various ways in which ancient mythologies have been cultivated in the cultural construction of ethnic, national and supra-national identities from 1800 to the present. How were Old Norse, Finno-Ugric and Frisian myths employed as rhetorical devices in national narratives? And how did (and do) these new interpretations convey a sense of ‘northernness’? This volume approaches these issues from an interdisciplinary and international perspective, and brings together case studies from Scandinavia, the Baltic region, Friesland, Britain, the United States and even Japan. Thus, it provides a unique insight into the reception history and uses of northern myths in the present, and their role in the creation of modern identities. Contributors are: Tim van Gerven, Gylfi Gunnlaugsson, Simon Halink, Sumarliði R. Ísleifsson, Otto S. Knottnerus, Joep Leerssen, Daisy Neijmann, Han Nijdam, Robert A. Saunders, Katja Schulz, Tom Shippey, Carline Tromp, and Kendra Willson.Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables  About the Authors  Northern Myths, Modern Identities: An Introduction  Simon Halink Part 1: Imagining the North  1The North: A Cultural Stereotype between Metaphor and Racial Essentialism  Joep Leerssen  2Within or Outside Europe? Modernists and Anti-modernists Visiting Iceland in the Mid-nineteenth Century  Sumarliði R. Ísleifsson  3Is Nordic Mythology Nordic or National, or Both? Competing National Appropriations of Nordic Mythology in Early Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia  Tim van Gerven Ancient Heritage, New Meaning  4Norse Myths, Nordic Identities: The Divergent Case of Icelandic Romanticism  Gylfi Gunnlaugsson  5Redbad, the Once and Future King of the Frisians  Han Nijdam and Otto S. Knottnerus  6Norse Mythology in Icelandic Fiction about the Second World War  Daisy L. Neijmann  7Of Gods and Men: Uses and Abuses of Neo-Paganism by Nationalist Movements in the “North”  Robert A. Saunders Part 3: Travelling Ideas and Artistic Expressions  8Heirs of Lönnrot: From Longfellow to Tolkien  Tom Shippey  9Kalevala in International Masks: A JapaneseAino and Kalevala dell’arte  Kendra Willson  10The Quest of Gangleri: Theosophy and Old Norse Mythology in Iceland  Simon Halink Part 4: Beyond the Nation?  11Crossing the Borders: Loki and the Decline of the Nation State  Katja Schulz  12Apocalypse Now: Norse Gods and the End of the Nation  Carline Tromp  Index of Names and Subjects

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

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Book SynopsisThe book examines the roles that rare and exotic animals played in the cultural self-fashioning and the political imaging of the Medici court during the family’s reign, first as Dukes of Florence (1532-1569) and subsequently as Grand Dukes of Tuscany (1569-1737). The book opens with an examination of global practices in zoological collecting and cultural uses of animals. The Medici’s activities as collectors of exotic species, the menageries they established and their deployment of animals in the ceremonial life of the court and in their art are examined in relation to this wider global perspective. The book seeks to nuance the myth promoted by the Medici themselves that theirs was the most successful princely serraglio in early modern Europe. Trade Review“What is made very clear is the highly significant and important role the collecting, ownership, and display of rare and exotic animals had for the Medici rulers of Florence. Both for this and the light it sheds on contemporary perceptions of these animals, Groom’s book is immensely valuable and rewarding.” Adriana Turpin, Society for the History of Collecting, inIsis volume 111 (2020) “Collecting exotic plants and animals from distant global markets underscored the commercial reach of the Medici family in Florence and their wide-flung networks. This well-written, carefully researched study […] belongs to a new, relevant field of study, namely that of animal studies and zoological collections, the rise of global menageries and its impact upon Renaissance art history and early modern collecting. This well-designed book is supported by a table of the Medici dynasty, useful transcriptions (Appendices 2–4) and colour illustrations.” Annemarie Jordan Gschwend, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in Archives of Natural History (DOI: 10.3366/anh.2019.0612) "The menageries of lions, rare animal species, as well as aviaries, the author argues, were key requirements in the manifestation of princely magnificence […] The Medici practices of collecting and exchanging animals built on practices established during the Republic,when lions became an important religious and civic symbol, and helped to establish the political legitimacy of the new Medici regime […] A fascinating case study that provides new understandings of the significance of animals at the Medici court. The author has uncovered fascinating examples that will amaze readers. This richly illustrated monograph – often even in colour! – should therefore speak to a wide readership interested in both animal studies and the history of Renaissance Italy." Stefan Hanß, University of Manchester, in Nuncius, volume 34, pp 713-716 “This book by Angelica Groom presents well-documented evidence of Medici self-promotion from a practical viewpoint, revealing a malevolent aspect that has been insufficiently explored. A brief overview of animal collections and menageries, established by Asian and European sovereigns, introduces the Medici collections “in relation to a wider global phenomenon of cultural activities centered on animals. […] This book is recommended for those interested in Medici history, animal collecting, menageries, hunting, animal exploitation, spectacles, and imagery.” Simona Cohen, Tel Aviv University, in Medici Renaissance Quarterly volume 73, issue 4. (DOI: 10.1017/rqx.2020.238)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Figures Table of the Medici Dynasty Introduction and Global Perspective of Animal Collecting and Menageries Part 1: Cultural Uses of Animals at the Medici Court 1Zoological Collecting at the Medici Court: Practices of Exchange and Processes of Procurement 2Menageries and aviaries in Medicean Florence 3The Sport of the Chase: “Exotic Hunts” at the Medici Court 4Spectacles of Slaughter and Courtly Pageants: Exotic Beasts as Symbols of Power and Colonial Ambitions Part 2: Exotic Animals in the Art of the Medici Court 5Animal Imagery in the service of Political Imaging 6Medici Patronage and Early Modern Naturalism: Tensions between Scientific and Decorative Naturalism 7The Ambrogiana Series of Animal Paintings Conclusion Appendices 1Medici Archive Project Database of Documents Relating to “exotic and unusual” Animals 2Transcribed Extract from Vincenzio Follini and Modesto Rastrelli,Firenze antica e moderna illustrata—Describing the Serraglio de leoni near San Marco, in Florence 3Transcribed Extract from Cesare Agolanti’s La Descrizione di Pratolino del Ser.mo Gran Duca di Toscana Poeticamente Descritto da M. Cesare Agolanti Fiorentino 4Transcribed extract from Gateano Cambiagi’s Descrizione dell’ Imperiale Giardino di Boboli—Describing the Serraglio degli animali rari Bibliography

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Book Synopsis'His Pen and Ink are a Powerful Mirror' is a volume of collected essays in honor of Ross Brann, written by his students and friends on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The essays engage with a diverse range of Andalusi and Mediterranean literature, art, and history. Each essay begins from the organic hybridity of Andalusi literary and cultural history as its point of departure, introduce new texts, ideas, and objects into the disciplinary conversation or radically reassesses well-known ones, and represent the theoretical, methodological, and material impacts Brann has had and continues to have on the study of the literature and culture of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in al-Andalus. Contributors include: Ali Humayn Akhtar, Esperanza Alfonso, Peter Cole, Jonathan Decter, Elisabeth Hollender, Uriah Kfir, S.J. Pearce, F.E. Peters, Arturo Prats, Cynthia Robinson, Tova Rosen, Aurora Salvatierra, Raymond P. Scheindlin, Jessica Streit, David Torollo.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Contributors Note on Transliterations and Translations Bibliography of Ross Brann’s Publications Introduction 1 Legislating Borders: Naturalized Genoese and Sefardi Merchants in the Ottoman Mediterranean  Ali H. Akhtar 2 The Headings of the Psalms: A Case Study in Medieval Exegesis and Translation  Esperanza Alfonso 3 An Iberian Braid for Ross  Peter Cole 4 Panegyric as Pedagogy: Moses ibn Ezra’s Didactic Poem on the “Beautiful Elements of Poetry” (maḥāsin al-shiʿr) in the Context of Classical Arabic Poetics  Jonathan Decter 5 Sefarad in Tzarfat: Sefardi and Sefardi-Style Piyyutim in MS Bernkastel-Kues 313  Elisabeth Hollender 6 Solomon vs. Solomon: A Fabrication of a Hebrew Polemic  Uriah Kfir 7 “His (Jewish) Nation … and His (Muslim) King”: Modern Nationalism Articulated through Medieval Andalusi Poetry  S.J. Pearce 8 Inscribing the Good News: The Run-Up to Mark  F.E. Peters 9 Fifteenth-Century Hebrew Literature: Some Reflections on Textual Transmission for a Modern Edition  Arturo Prats Oliván 10 Desert and Palace: Poetics of Place in Naṣrid Poems to the Prophet  Cynthia Robinson 11 The Story of the Crude Preacher by Jacob ben Elʿazar  Tova Rosen 12 Ohev Nashim and Minḥat Yehudah Soneʾ ha-Nashim: New Fragments of a Debate  Aurora Salvatierra 13 Ḥever the Pious: Some Aspects of Religion in the Taḥkemoni by Judah al-Ḥarīzī  Raymond P. Scheindlin 14 Well-Ordered Growth: Meanings and Aesthetics of the Almohad Mosque of Seville  Jessica Streit 15 A Translation of Q Luqmān/31  Shawkat M. Toorawa 16 The Story of the Female Jewish Wine Merchant: An Example of Cultural Translation in Medieval Hebrew Literature  David Torollo Index

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Book SynopsisThe essays collected in this volume unfold a panorama of urban phenomena of resistance that reach from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, thus revealing the essential vulnerability of urban space to all forms of subversion. Taking their readers to diverse places and moments in history, the contributions remind us of the struggles over the concrete as well as the imaginary space we call the city. The collection maps the various challenges experienced by urban communities, ranging from the unmistakably hegemonic claim of civic festivities in early modern London to the perceived threat posed by newly created parks in the Restoration period and from the dangers of criminality and riots in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the transformation of the Berlin Wall into souvenirs scattered around the globe. Contributors: Ingo Berensmeyer, Christoph Ehland, Pascal Fischer, Blake Fitzpatrick, Kerstin Frank, Jens Martin Gurr, Bernd Hirsch, Marie Hologa, Mihaela Irimia, Stephan Kohl, Norbert Lennartz, Catharina Löffler, Margaret Olin, István Rácz, Gerd Stratmann.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors General Introduction  Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer Introduction: Challenging Urban Space  Christoph Ehland and Pascal Fischer Part 1: Contested Civic Spaces in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 1 Civic Subversion in London’s Public Rituals in the Seventeenth Century  Christoph Ehland 2 The Earl of Rochester: Sexual Politics, Riots and the Chaos of the Carnivalesque  Norbert Lennartz 3 Rus in Urbe: Parks in Eighteenth-Century Cities  Mihaela Irimia 4 The Slippery Slope to the Gallows: Crime and Punishment in Early Eighteenth-Century London  Kerstin Frank Part 2: Urban Rioting in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 5 Giving Meaning to Anarchy: Contemporary Interpretations of Rioting in 18th-Century Britain  Gerd Stratmann 6 Blending Spaces: The Gordon Riots in Literature  Pascal Fischer 7 The “Capital of Discontent”: Urban Resistance in Manchester  Bernd Hirsch Part 3: Reimagining Urban Space 8 Creating Situationist Ambiences: Peter Ackroyd’s London: The Biography  Stephan Kohl 9 Reshaping the City: The Eruv as Stealth Architecture  Margaret Olin 10 Challenging Urban Realities in Recent London Writing: Iain Sinclair’s Ghost Milk and John Lanchester’s Capital  Ingo Berensmeyer and Catharina Löffler Part 4: Creative Transformations of the City 11 Critical Urban Studies and/in “Right to the City” Movements: The Politics of Form in Activist Cultural Production  Jens Martin Gurr 12 Street Art as Reclaiming the Streets  Marie Hologa 13 Graffiti as a Place of Resistance in British Poetry  István D. Rácz 14 The Berlin Wall as Mobile Ruin  Blake Fitzpatrick Index

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Book SynopsisWomen and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750 brings together research on women and gender across the Low Countries, a culturally contiguous region that was split by the Eighty Years' War into the Protestant Dutch Republic in the North and the Spanish-controlled, Catholic Hapsburg Netherlands in the South. The authors of this interdisciplinary volume highlight women’s experiences of social class, as family members, before the law, and as authors, artists, and patrons, as well as the workings of gender in art and literature. In studies ranging from microhistories to surveys, the book reveals the Low Countries as a remarkable historical laboratory for its topic and points to the opportunities the region holds for future scholarly investigations. Contributors: Martine van Elk, Martha Howell, Martha Moffitt Peacock, Sarah Joan Moran, Amanda Pipkin, Katlijne Van der Stighelen, Margit Thøfner, and Diane Wolfthal.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction  Sarah Joan Moran and Amanda Pipkin 1 The Problem of Women’s Agency in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe  Martha Howell 2 Women’s Writing during the Dutch Revolt: the Religious Authority and Political Agenda of Cornelia and Susanna Teellinck, 1554–1625  Amanda Pipkin 3 The Maid of Holland and Her Heroic Heiresses  Martha Moffitt Peacock 4 The Absent Made Present: Portraying Nuns in the Early Modern Low Countries  Margit Thøfner 5 Women Writers and the Dutch Stage: Public Femininity in the Plays of Verwers and Questiers  Martine van Elk 6 Anna Francisca de Bruyns (1604/5–1656), Artist, Wife and Mother: a Contextual Approach to Her Forgotten Artistic Career  Katlijne Van der Stighelen 7 Foregrounding the Background: Images of Dutch and Flemish Household Servants  Diane Wolfthal 8 Resurrecting the ‘Spiritual Daughters’: the Houtappel Chapel and Women’s Patronage of Jesuit Building Programs in the Spanish Netherlands  Sarah Joan Moran Index

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

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

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Book SynopsisIn Elasticity in Domesticity: White women in Rhodesian Zimbabwe, 1890-1979 Ushehwedu Kufakurinani examines the colonial experiences of white women in what was later called Rhodesia. He demonstrates the extent to which the state and society appropriated white women’s labour power and the workings of the domestic ideology in shaping white women’s experiences. The author also discusses how and to what extent white women appropriated and deployed the domestic ideology. Institutional as well as personal archives were consulted which include official correspondence, diaries, personal letters, newsletters, magazines, commissions of inquiry, among other sources.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Map of Rhodesia Introduction: White Women and the Unfolding Rhodesian Society 1 Domesticity, Constructions of Whiteness, and White Femininity in Southern Rhodesia 2 White Women and the Domestic Space: Housewifery in the Rhodesian Context 3 Emerging Out of the Sheaths of Domesticity? White Women in Formal Wage Employment, c. 1914–1980 4 White Women and Wage Employment 5 Mothering the Empire: Overview of White Women’s Organisations 6 White Women’s Organisations and Settler Society, 1920s–1970s 7 Encounter with Africans, 1920s–1980 8 White Women and the Homecraft Movement Conclusion Appendix A Appendix B Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRoman Turdetania makes use of the literary and archeological sources to provide an updated state of knowledge from a postcolonial approach about the socio-cultural interaction processes and the subsequent romanisation of the populations in the southern Iberian Peninsula from the 4th to the 1st centuries BCE. The resulting communities shaped a new identity, hybrid and converging, resulting from the previous Phoenician–Punic substrate vigorously coexisting with the new Hellenistic-Roman imprint.Trade Review"Strabo famously praised the southern Spanish region of Turdetania as the most civilized of Iberia, a place where abundant resources, trade networks, and a well-developed urban tradition allowed quick integration into Rome’s growing empire (3.2.1–15). This perception has long permeated scholarship, but it is one that has been gradually reassessed in a growing corpus of Spanish work. This new edited volume presents these fresh perspectives on the romanization of Turdetania. Edited by Cruz Andreotti (University of Málaga) with contributions by nine other historians and archaeologists, the book offers nuanced views of the sociocultural transformation of the region following Roman conquest. It is the third book in Brill’s new series, Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean, which provides “a platform for cross-regional, multidisciplinary and longue durée approaches to the cultural history of the Mediterranean.” The volume takes this mandate to heart, interweaving textual, numismatic, and archaeological evidence from the period between the fourth and first centuries BCE." Linda R. Gosner, American Journal of Archaeology, January 2020 (124.1) "Cette publication marque l’aboutissement de plusieurs années de recherche, et chacune des contributions qui le composent se fonde sur une documentation riche et variée (données archéologiques, analyses numismatiques, études philologiques et historiques). [...] Roman Turdatenia représente néanmoins une véritable mine d’informations et de perspectives d’études. L’ouvrage offre également au lecteur une synthèse pointue sur l’actualité des recherches historiques relatives à la période républicaine en Ibérie. En définitive, il s’agit à n’en pas douter d’une référence essentielle, tant pour l’étudiant(e) à un stade avancé dans son cursus que pour le chercheur confirmé." Max Luaces, PALLAS, 112, 2020, PP. 309-330.Table of ContentsPreface: Spanish Turdetania, a Case Study for Shared Identities Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Strabo and the Invention of Turdetania Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti 2 Historians vs. Geographers: Divergent Uses of the Ethnic Name Turdetania in the Greek and Roman Tradition Pierre Moret 3 The City as a Structural Element in Turdetanian Identity in the Work of Strabo Encarnación Castro- Páez 4 Deconstructing ‘Turdetanian Culture’: Identities, Territories and Archaeology Francisco José García Fernández 5 Ethnic and Cultural Identity among Punic Communities in Iberia Eduardo Ferrer Albelda 6 Carthaginians in Turdetania: Carthaginian Presence in Iberia before 237 BCE Ruth Pliego Vázquez 7 Tyrian Connections: Evolving Identities in the Punic West Manuel Álvarez Martí- Aguilar 8 Unraveling the Western Phoenicians under Roman Rule: Identity, Heterogeneity and Dynamic Boundaries Francisco Machuca Prieto 9 Across the Looking Glass: Ethno- Cultural Identities in Southern Hispania through Coinage Bartolomé Mora Serrano 10 The Economy and Romanization of Hispania Ulterior (125– 25 BCE): The Role of the Italians Enrique García Vargas 11 Epilogue: A New Paradigm for Romanization? Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti Bibliography Index of Geographical Names Index Locorum Index of Personal or Ethnics Names, and Conceptual Terms

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on one of the main issues of our time in the Humanities and Social Sciences as it analyzes the impact of current global migrations on new forms of living together and the formation of identities and homes. Using a transdisciplinary and transcultural approach the contributions shed fresh light upon key concepts such as ‘hybrid-performative diaspora’, ‘transidentities’,‘ hospitality’, ‘belonging’, ‘emotion’, ‘body,’ and ‘desire’. Those concepts are discussed in the context of Cuban, US-American, Maghrebian, Moroccan, Spanish, Catalan, French, Turkish, Jewish, Argentinian, Indian, and Italian literatures, cultures and religions.Table of ContentsNotes on the Contributors Introduction 1 Nomadic Places Cultures and Literatures in Movement ‘Hybrid-Performative Diasporas’ in the Ibero-American-Maghrebian-Morrocan Literature and Culture: the Case of Najat El Hachmi Alfonso de Toro 2 The Diasporic Identity of the Roma People Marta Segarra 3 Epistemological Difficulties in the Development of Civic Identities in Western Education Zvi Bekerman 4 A Discourse of Resistance: Hybridization of Identity and Textuality in Tedio, by Natalio Ohanna Daniel Blaustein 5 Federalism and Diaspora: The Feeling of Belonging and the Diaspora Identity in the Subnational Level of the Country Mauricio Dimant 6 Jewbans in Miami. A Particular Case of Hybrid-Performative Diaspora Sarah Moldenhauer 7 The “Good Migrants”: Issues of Hospitality and Belonging with regard to Sikhs in Mediterranean Europe Pierre Gottschlich 8 Feelings of Threat as a Problem of Religious Identity within Religiously Diverse Societies Gert Pickel and Alexander Yendell 9 The Problem of Belonging in Nina Bouraoui’s Garçon manqué Annegret Richter 10 Diasporic Topographies of Remembrance in New Autobiographical Sephardic Writing Susanne Ritschel 11 Settling In: Migration and Place in Sema Kiliçkaya’s Le royaume sans racines Annedith Schneider 12 Identity Questions in El diablo de Yudis by Ahmed Daoudi Juliane Tauchnitz 13 Writing in Movement: A Poetics of Undecidability? Abderrahman Tenkoul 14 The Berber Cultural Movement in the Maghreb Contemporary Issues in Transnationalism Moha Ennaji 15 The Mara: A Diaspora Sui Generis? Heidrun Zinecker 16 Towards Modes of Shared Emotion: Revisiting the Iberian Diasporas’ Trauma Through the “Captive’s tale” (Don Quixote I, 37–41) Ruth Fine Index

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Book SynopsisCrusade scholarship has exploded in popularity over the past two decades. This volume captures the resulting diversity of approaches, which often cross cultures and academic disciplines. The contributors to this volume offer new perspectives on topics as varied as the application of Roman law on slavery to the situation of Muslims in the Latin East, Muslim appropriation of Latin architectural spolia, the roles played by the crusade in medieval preaching, and the impact of Latin East refugees on religious geography in late medieval Cyprus. Together these essays demonstrate how pervasive the institution of crusade was in medieval Christendom, as much at home in Europe as in the Latin East, and how much impact it carried forth into the modern era. Contributors are Richard Allington, Jessalynn Bird, Adam M. Bishop, Tomasz Borowski, Yan Bourke, Sam Zeno Conedera, Charles W. Connell, Cathleen A. Fleck, Lisa Mahoney, and C. Matthew Phillips.Trade Review"This is an ambitious and truly interdisciplinary collection of essays, all studies which were presented at the third quadrennial International Symposium at Saint Louis University, most of them by early career researchers, the new generation of Crusade historians. It is rare to see gathered in one volume studies engaging with such a range of source materials, from seals and coins to archaeology, sermons to chronicles. Another strength is the use of texts and secondary materials in different languages bringing different perspectives to bear". Marianne Ailes, in The Medieval Review , May 2020.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1: Structures of Crusading 1 The Church of the Nativity and “Crusader” Kingship  Lisa Mahoney 2 Signs of Leadership: Buildings of Jerusalem in a Crusader Relief  Cathleen A. Fleck 3 Religion and Conflict: Investigating the Role of Relics and Holy Sites in the Religiously Diverse Society of Crusader Famagusta, Cyprus  Tomasz Borowski 4 Adaptations of the Roman Lex Aquiliain the Burgess Assizes of Jerusalem  Adam M. Bishop Part 2: Crusade Preaching 5 “Far be it from Me to Glory Save in the Cross of Our Lord Jesus Christ” (Galatians 6:14): Crusade Preaching and Sermons for Good Friday and Holy Week  Jessalynn Bird 6 The Typology of the Cross and Crusade Preaching  C. Matthew Phillips 7 Missing the Apocalypse in Preaching the Crusades  Charles W. Connell Part 3: Perceptions of Crusade and Combatants 8 Schismatics and Crusaders: The Role of Innocent II’s Condemnation of John Comnenus in the History of Byzantine and Papal Relations with Latin Antioch  Richard Allington 9 Muslims in the “Gesta Family”: Understanding of Muslim Religious Identity and the Use of Accounts of Violence to Depict Muslims as “Other” in the Gesta Francorum and Its Derivatives  Yan Bourke 10 Universal Monarchs: Crusading in the Life of St. Ignatius Loyola  Sam Zeno Conedera, SJ  Index

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Book SynopsisBeing a first of its kind, this volume comprises a multi-disciplinary exploration of Mozambique’s contemporary and historical dynamics, bringing together scholars from across the globe. Focusing on the country’s vibrant cultural, political, economic and social world – including the transition from the colonial to the postcolonial era – the book argues that Mozambique is a country still emergent, still unfolding, still on the move. Drawing on the disciplines of history, literature studies, anthropology, political science, economy and art history, the book serves not only as a generous introduction to Mozambique but also as a case study of a southern African country. Contributors are: Signe Arnfred, Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, José Luís Cabaço, Ana Bénard da Costa, Anna Maria Gentili, Ana Margarida Fonseca, Randi Kaarhus, Sheila Pereira Khan, Maria Paula Meneses, Lia Quartapelle, Amy Schwartzott, Leonor Simas-Almeida, Anne Sletsjøe, Sandra Sousa, Linda van de Kamp.Table of ContentsPreface  Sheila Pereira Khan, Maria Paula Meneses and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen List of Contributors  Introduction – Situating Mozambican Histories, Epistemologies, and Potentialities  Maria Paula Meneses, Sheila Pereira Khan and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen  1 ‘No passado o futuro era melhor?’: Mozambique’s Democracy in Question  Anna Maria Gentili  2 Mirrors and Contrasts: Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans in Manica, Mozambique  Randi Kaarhus  3 From Celebrating Female Emancipation to Emplacing Emperor Ngungunyane: Remoulding the Past in Mozambican National Narratology  Bjørn Enge Bertelsen  4 Urban Transformation, Family Strategies and Home Space Creation in the City of Maputo  Ana Bérnard da Costa  5 A Possible Triangle: Employment, Aid, and Mineral Wealth  Lia Quartapelle  6 (Re)configurations of Identity: Memory and Creation in the Narrative of Mia Couto  Ana Margarida Fonseca  7 Dialogues with the Past and with the Future: Ualalapi and Jesusalém  Anne Sletsjøe  8 Racial, Cultural and Emotional Crossing Paths: Mia Couto’s Hopeful Pessimism in Terra Sonâmbula andO Outro Pé da Sereia  Leonor Simas-Almeida and Sandra Sousa  9 Mozambican Capulanas: Tracing Histories and Memories  Signe Arnfred and Maria Paula Meneses  10 Healing the Pain of War through Art: Mozambique’s Grassroots Approach to Post-Conflict Resolution – Transformação de Armas em Enxadas  Amy Schwartzott  11 ‘Taking Ownership’: The Brazilian Pentecostal Project to Change Mozambique  Linda van de Kamp  12 Singing Struggles, Affirming Politics: Mozambique’s Revolutionary Songs as Other Ways of Being (in) History  Maria Paula Meneses  13 Scientific Research and Epistemological Violence  José Luis Cabaço Index

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

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

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Book SynopsisBiological Time, Historical Time presents a new approach to 19th century thought and literature: by focussing on the subject of time, it offers a new perspective on the exchanges between French and German literary texts on the one hand and scientific disciplines on the other. Hence, the rivalling influences of the historical sciences and of the life sciences on literary texts are explored, texts from various scientific domains – medicine, natural history, biology, history, and multiple forms of vulgarisation – are investigated. Literary texts are analysed in their participation in and transformation of the scientific imagination. Special attention is accorded to the temporal dimension: this allows for an innovative account of key concepts of 19th century culture.Table of ContentsThe Authors Introduction  Niklas Bender and Gisèle Séginger Part 1: Rethinking the Order of Time From Biblical Time to Darwinian Time: Discourses on the Living World in the 18th and 19th Centuries  Pascal Duris Memory Strata, Geology and Change of Historical Paradigm in France around 1830  Paule Petitier Devilish Words: Pierre Boitard, “maître Georges” and the Advance of Nature  Claude Blanckaert From Biological Time to Historical Time: the Category of “Development” (Entwicklung) in the Historical Thought of Herder, Kant, Hegel, and Marx  Christophe Bouton “O man! wilt thou never conceive that thou art but an ephemeron?”: the Reception of Geological Deep Time in the Late 18th Century  David Schulz Part 2: Atavism and Heredity The Law of Progress, Atavism, and Prehistory in the Belle Époque  Arnaud Hurel Nietzsche, or Culture Put to the Test at the Timescale of Heredity  Emmanuel Salanskis Zola, Hereditability of Character and Hereditability of Deviation: After a Remark by Bergson in L’Évolution Créatrice  Arnaud François Life, Sex and Temporality in Zola’s La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret  Rudolf Behrens Part 3: Nature and Culture Time of History and Time of Nature in the Historical Novels of Victor Hugo  Niklas Bender Historical Time, Cultural Time, and Biological Time in Baudelaire  Thomas Klinkert Evolution and Time in the Chants de Maldoror  Frank Jäger Memory of the Body in Proust: Historical Time and Biological Time  Edward Bizub Part 4: Poetics of Time The Poetics of Restored Time: Balzac, His Age and the Figure of Cuvier  Hugues Marchal The Evolution of Social Species in Balzac’s Comédie humaine  Sandra Collet Time as Imagined in the Evolutionary Epic  Nicolas Wanlin Evolutionism and Successivity in Antediluviana, Poème géologique by Ernest Cotty (1876)  Yohann Ringuedé End of the World, End of Time: the Theory of Evolution and Its Fate in the Novel of Anticipation  Claire Barel-Moisan A Biologist Literary History: August Wilhelm Schlegel and the Franco-German Natural Sciences  Stefan Knödler Part 5: Biology and Ideology Evolutionary Time and Revolutionary Time (Michelet, Flaubert, Zola)  Juliette Azoulai Michelet and La Mer: Biology and the Philosophy of History  Gisèle Séginger “Il faut manger et être mangé pour que le monde vive”: the Zolian Belly amidst Evolution, Revolution, and Convolutions  Carine Goutaland Gobineau’s Heroes Are Ageless  Pierre-Louis Rey Darwinus anarchistus explodens: Science and the Legend of the Struggle for Life (Louise Michel)  Claude Rétat Index

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Book SynopsisIn Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814: Living and Negotiating in the Land of the Infidel, Eloy Martín-Corrales surveys Hispano-Muslim relations from the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, a period of chronic hostilities. Nonetheless there were thousands of Muslims in Spain at that time: ambassadors, exiles, merchants, converts, and travelers. Their negotiating strategies, and the necessary support they found on both shores of the Mediterranean prove that relations between Spaniards and Muslims were based on reasons of state and on a pragmatism that generated intense political and economic ties.These increased enormously after the peace treaties that Spain signed with Muslim countries between 1767 and 1791.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations and Tables Abbreviations Introduction 1 Historiography and the Muslim Presence in Spain in the Early Modern Age 1 Muslims in Europe, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries 1.1 Muslims, a Minority among Slaves 1.2 Hundreds of Muslim Embassies 1.3 Merchants in Ports and Cities 1.4 Muslim Converts to Christianity 1.5 Exiles, Travelers, Soldiers, and Adventurers 2 The Spain That Enslaves and Expels: Moriscos and Muslim Captives (1492 to 1767–1791)  2.1emsp;The Moriscos between Islam and Christendom  2.2emsp;Muslims, a Minority among Slaves 3 Spain, Land of Refuge and Survival for Thousands of Muslims: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries  3.1 Royal Exiles in the Sixteenth Century: Recover the Throne, or Convert?  3.2 Exile in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Saving One’s Life above All 4 Living in Freedom among the Infidels in Times of Conflict, 1492–1767  4.1 Maghrebi, Ottoman, and Persian Ambassadors  4.2 Free Muslims  4.3 More Merchants Than Expected  4.4 Muslims of Christ  4.5 (Limited) Freedom of Worship for Muslims  4.6 Diplomacy with the Maghreb in Castilian Spanish 5 Peace Treaties with Morocco, the Ottoman Empire, and the North African Regencies  5.1 Negotiations with Morocco: the Embassy of Al- Gazzal (1766) and the Treaty of Peace (1767)  5.2 Negotiations with the Ottoman Empire and the Regencies  5.3 A Surge in Spanish–Muslim Trade  5.4 The Treaty of Peace, the Gift Economy, Local Custom, and the Market 6 Problems in Applying the Treaties: Ambassadors and Envoys  6.1 Muslim Ambassadors at the Spanish Court  6.2 Muslim Ambassadors Who Passed through Spain  6.3 Muslim Envoys 7 Ship Captains and Sailors  7.1 Moroccan Captains  7.2 Algerian, Tripolitan, and Tunisian Corsair Captains 8 The Development of a Moroccan Merchant Colony (1767–1799)  8.1 Gradual Appearance of Moroccan Merchants in Spain (1767–1780)  8.2 Consolidation of a Moroccan Mercantile Colony (1780–1799)  8.3 The Spanish Administration and Incidents That Arose from the Presence of Muslim Merchants  8.4 Both Monarchies Seek to End the Abuses  8.5 Members of the Moroccan Merchant Colony 9 From a Moroccan Colony to a North African One  9.1 A Surge in Maghrebi Ships  9.2 The Spanish–Moroccan Treaty of Peace of 1799: Adjustment to a State of war  9.3 Spanish–Moroccan Cooperation to Prevent Smuggling  9.4 Continuity of the Moroccan Merchant Colony  9.5 Algerian, Tunisian, and Tripolitan Captains, Pursers, and Merchants Epilogue The First Moroccan Agent on Spanish Soil (1798) Conclusions Bibliography Index of Personal and Place Names

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Book SynopsisThe transition zone between Africa, Asia and Europe was the most important intersection of human mobility in the medieval period. The present volume for the first time systematically covers migration histories of the regions between the Mediterranean and Central Asia and between Eastern Europe and the Indian Ocean in the centuries from Late Antiquity up to the early modern era. Within this framework, specialists from Byzantine, Islamic, Medieval and African history provide detailed analyses of specific regions and groups of migrants, both elites and non-elites as well as voluntary and involuntary. Thereby, also current debates of migration studies are enriched with a new dimension of deep historical time. Contributors are: Alexander Beihammer, Lutz Berger, Florin Curta, Charalampos Gasparis, George Hatke, Dirk Hoerder, Johannes Koder, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Lucian Reinfandt, Youval Rotman, Yannis Stouraitis, Panayiotis Theodoropoulos, and Myriam Wissa.

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Book SynopsisHailian Chen’s pioneering study presents the first comprehensive history of Chinese zinc—an essential base metal used to produce brass and coin and a global commodity—over the long eighteenth century. Zinc, she argues, played a far greater role in the Qing economy and in integrating China into an emerging global economy, than has previously been recognized. Using commodity chain analysis and exploring over 5,800 items of archival documents, Chen demonstrates how this metal was produced, transported, traded, and consumed by human agents. Situating the zinc story within the human-environment framework, this book covers a broad and interdisciplinary range of political economy, material culture, environment, technology, and society, which casts new light on our understanding of early modern China.

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains annotated translations of anecdotes, on musicological and socio-cultural topics, from al-Iṣbahānī’s The Grand Book of Songs. Includes music theory and treatises; instruments; composition techniques; education and transmission; vocal and instrumental performances; solo and ensemble music; improvisations; emotions; dances; social status.Trade Review“Unquestionably, this is a volume covering a vast area: literature, history, biography, social comment, and of course information about music and its development. Sawa’s volume is a splendid work for the completion of which a combination of patience and erudition was obviously among its prerequisites, - the result being one of those tomes indispensable for students of Music, Ethnomusicology, and Sociology of Art.” Stavros Nikolaidis in:Journal of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 29 (2020).Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Editorial Notes Introduction: Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī and His Book of Songs 1 Theory  The Modes  A The Eight Rhythmic Modes  B The Eight Melodic Modes  C The Three Passages on Rhythmic and Melodic Modes in the Book of Songs  D Jins and Ṭarīqa  E Rare Songs Containing Eight or Ten Notes  F Early Singing: Ḥudāʾ, Naṣb, and Rukbān  G Technical Terms  H Theoretical Treatises, Anecdotes, Biographies, Song Collections, Authorship, Modes 2 Instruments  A Aerophones: Mizmār, Nāy, and Surnāy  B Idiophones: ʿAṣāt, Dawāt, Jaras, Juljul, Khashaba, Miqraʿa, Nāqūs, Qaḍīb, Qarbūs, Raḥl, Ṣaffāqa, Ṣanj  C Membranophones: ʿArṭaba, Duff, Murabbaʿ, Ṭabl  D Chordophones: Barbaṭ, Kankala, Miʿzafa, Mizhar, Ṣanj, Ṭunbūr, ʿūd  E Storage and Workshop for Instrument Making  F Improvised Instruments 3 Composition  A The Use of Music to Embellish and Spread Poetry  B The Origins of Arabic Music  C Technique and Process of Composition  D Dreams and Jinns as Sources for Compositions  E Contrafacta  F Style and the Imitation of Style  G Composition: Talent Versus Intellect, Head Versus Heart  H Specialization  I Analysis  J Authorship  K Poems, Composers, and Modes  L The Number of Lines of Poems Set to Music  M Choosing and Altering the Order of the Verses and Mixing Poems  N Names of Melodies  O Output  P Quality Versus Quantity  Q Poems Conducive to Be Set to Music  R The Best Composers and Compositions  S Comparisons  T Weak Compositions  U Women’s Compositions and Softness  V Folklore Songs: Sailors, Masons, and Water Carriers  W Monopolies on Poems 4 Education and Transmission  A General Education  B Pedigree  C Music Education  D The Important Role of Women as Teachers, Transmitters, and Memorizers  E Memory Loss  F Learning and Repetitions, Slow Learners and Fast Learners  G Problems of Difficulty and Transmission  H Prevention of Transmission and Stinginess  I Good and Bad Transmitters  J Unconventional Transmissions  K Miscellaneous 5 Performance  A Singers and Songstresses  B To Sing: Qāla, Qaraʾa, Ḥaddatha  C Voice Production  D Beautiful Voice  E Powerful Voice  F Poor Voices  G Stratagem for Poor Voices  H Excellence in Performance  I Poor Performance and Weaknesses  J Postures  K Difficult Songs  L Comparisons  M The Limitations of Descriptions  O Size of Repertoire  P Lute Playing in the Persian Style  Q Lute Virtuosity  R Inheriting a Family Business  S Performance Order  T The Composition of the Majlis and Its Effect on Performance  U Songs without Words 6 Solos, Accompaniment, and Ensemble Music  A Murtajil: A Cappella  B Instrumental Solos  C Unaccompanied Duet Singing  D Unison Ensemble Singing  E Unison Ensemble Singing with Lute Accompaniment  F A Soloist and Her Chorus  G Hand Clapping, Castanets, and Dancing  H Tambourines  I Ṭabl  J Lute  K Ṭunbūr  L Voice and Nāy  M Murtajil and Irtijāl 7 Musical Stability and Change  A On the Inevitability of Change  B Change Is Permissible  C Change Is Frowned Upon  D Wine and Its Positive and Negative Effects on Singing  E The Truth about the Singer Mālik Not Composing but Altering and Beautifying the Songs of Others  F Change as a Tool to Embarrass an Enemy 8 Musical and Textual Improvisations 9 Ṭarab and the Effects of Singing on People and Animals  A Preliminary Definitions  B Physical Effects on People and Animals  C Emotional Effects  D Effects on the Imagination  E Therapeutic Effects  F Ṭarab and Effects of Music: Miscellaneous Topics 10 Dance  A Zafn and Raqṣ  B Early Arabic Music and Dance According to Ibn Khaldūn  C Dastband and Īlāʾ  D Kurraj  E Raqṣ and the Completion of Musical Arts  F The Required Qualities of Dancers According to the Oration of an Anonymous Singer/Boon Companion of the Caliph Al-Muʿtamid, as Reported in the Meadows of Gold of Al-Masʿūdī 11 Physiognomy, Attire, Character, Social Status, and Permissibility of Music  A The Importance of a Beautiful Face, Body, and Attire  B Character and Knowledge  C Slaves, Freed Slaves, Mawlās, and Freeman  D Is It a Sin to Sing?  E It Is Not a Sin to Sing If the Singer Is Pious and Endowed with Good Character, or If the Songs Are Not Erotic  F The Contradictory and Ambiguous Roles of Noblemen, Theologians, and Administrators Toward Music and Musicians  G The Shame of Being an Instrumentalist  H Words of Wisdom in Support of Music Arabic English Glossary Bibliography Index of People and Places Index of Terms and Subjects Charts

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Book SynopsisFirst published as a special issue of the journal Medieval Encounters (vol. 23, 2017), this volume, edited by Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, Silke Ackermann, and Ryan Szpiech, brings together fifteen studies on various aspects of the astrolabe in medieval cultures. The astrolabe, developed in antiquity and elaborated throughout the Middle Ages, was used for calculation, teaching, and observation, and also served astrological and medical purposes. It was the most popular and prestigious of the mathematical instruments, and was found equally among practitioners of various sciences and arts as among princes in royal courts. By considering sources and instruments from Muslim, Christian, and Jewish contexts, this volume provides state-of-the-art research on the history and use of the astrolabe throughout the Middle Ages. Contributors are Silke Ackermann, Emilia Calvo, John Davis, Laura Fernández Fernández, Miquel Forcada, Azucena Hernández, David A. King, Taro Mimura, Günther Oestmann, Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas, Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma, Petra G. Schmidl, Giorgio Strano, Flora Vafea, and Johannes Thomann.Table of ContentsPreface to the New Edition  Ryan Szpiech Preface Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures  Josefina Rodriguez-Arribas, Charles Burnett, and Silke Ackermann Introduction Hic Sunt Dragones—Astrolabe Research Revisited  Silke Ackermann Astrolabes as Eclipse Computers: Four Early Arabic Texts on Construction and Use of the Ṣafīḥa Kusūfiyya  Johannes Thomann The Astrolabe Finger Ring of Bonetus de Latis: Study, Latin Text, and English Translation with Commentary  Josefina Rodriguez Arribas Some Features of the Old Castilian Alfonsine Translation of ‘Alī Ibn Khalaf’s Treatise on the Lamina Universal  Emilia Calvo From the Celestial Globe to the Astrolabe: Transferring the Celestial Motion onto the Plane of the Astrolabe  Flora Vafea Knowledge in Motion: An Early European Astrolabe and its Possible Medieval Itinerary  Petra G. Schmidl A Monumental Astrolabe Made for Shāh Jahān and Later Reworked with Sanskrit Legends  Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma Saphaeae and Hay’āt: The Debate Between Instrumentalism and Realism in al-Andalus  Miguel Forcada Astrolabes on Parchment: The Astrolabes Depicted in Alfonso X’s Libro Del Saber De Astrologia and Their Relationship to Contemporary Instruments  Laura Fernández Fernández Fit for a King: Decoding the Great Sloane Astrolabe and Other English Astrolabes with “Quatrefoil” Retes  John Davis European Astrolabes to ca. 1500: An Ordered List  David A. King Too Many Arabic Treatises on the Operation of the Astrolabe in the Medieval Islamic World: Athīr al‐Dīn al-Abharī’s Treatise on Knowing the Astrolabe and His Editorial Method  Taro Mimura Changing the Angle of Vision: Astrolabe Dials on Astronomical Clocks  Günther Oestmann Astrolabes for the King: The Astrolabe of Petrus Raimundi of Barcelona  Azucena Hernández A New Approach to the Star Data of Early Planispheric Astrolabes  Giorgio Strano Epilogue Reconstruction of the Plate of Eclipses according to the Description by ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā  Flora Vafea Index

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Book SynopsisA Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy offers readers unfamiliar with Southern Italy an introduction to different aspects of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century history and culture of this vast and significant area of Europe, situated at the center of the Mediterranean. Commonly regarded as a backward, rural region untouched by the Italian Renaissance, the essays in this volume paint a rather different picture. The expert-written contributions present a general survey of the most recent research on the centers of southern Italy, as well as insight into the ground-breaking debates on wider themes, such as the definition of the city, continuity and discontinuity at the turn of the sixteenth century, and the effects of dynastic changes from the Angevin and Aragonese Kingdom to the Spanish Viceroyalty. Taken together, they form an essential resource on an important, yet all too often overlooked or misunderstood part of Renaissance Italy. Contributors: Giancarlo Abbamonte, David Abulafia, Guido Cappelli, Chiara De Caprio, Bianca de Divitiis, Fulvio Delle Donne, Teresa D’Urso, Dinko Fabris, Guido Giglioni, Antonietta Iacono, Fulvio Lenzo, Lorenzo Miletti, Francesco Montuori, Pasquale Palmieri, Eleni Sakellariou, Francesco Senatore, Francesco Storti, Pierluigi Terenzi, Carlo Vecce, Giuliana Vitale, and Andrea Zezza.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Maps and Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction  Bianca de Divitiis Part 1 The Context 1 The Aragonese Kingdom of Naples in Its Mediterranean Context  David Abulafia 2 The Kingdom of Naples from Aragonese to Spanish Rule  Pierluigi Terenzi 3 Demography, Economy, and Trade  Eleni Sakellariou 4 Religion: Institutions, Devotion, and Heresy  Pasquale Palmieri 5 Linguistic Spaces: Use and Culture  Francesco Montuori 6 Mapping the Kingdom: History and Geography  Bianca de Divitiis and Fulvio Lenzo Part 2 Urban Networks 7 Cities, Towns, and Urban Districts in Southern Italy  Francesco Senatore 8 Urban Spaces and Society in Southern Italy  Giuliana Vitale 9 Factional Conflict and Political Struggle in Southern Italian Cities and Towns  Francesco Storti 10 Jews, Conversos and Cristiani Novelli in the Kingdom of Naples  David Abulafia 11 Territorial and Urban Infrastructures: Ports, Roads, and Water Supply  Fulvio Lenzo 12 Architectural Patronage and Networks  Bianca de Divitiis Part 3 Histories and Narratives 13 Historiography from the Aragonese Kingdom to the Spanish Viceroyalty  Fulvio Delle Donne 14 Political Treatises  Guido Cappelli 15 Writing about Cities: Local History, Antiquarianism, and Classical Sources  Lorenzo Miletti 16 Written and Oral Culture: Oral Narratives, Administrative Texts, Vernacular Historiography in Southern Italy  Chiara De Caprio 17 Literacy and Administration in the Towns of Southern Italy  Francesco Senatore Part 4 Cultural Patterns 18 Literature and Theater  Carlo Vecce 19 Philosophy in the Kingdom of Naples: The Long Renaissance from Giovanni Pontano to Giambattista Vico  Guido Giglioni 20 The Academies from the Death of Giovanni Gioviano Pontano to the End of the Sixteenth Century  Antonietta Iacono 21 Libraries of Humanists and of the Elites in Southern Italy  Giancarlo Abbamonte 22 Manuscript Illustration in the South of the Italian Peninsula  Teresa D’Urso 23 Paintings, Frescoes, and Cycles  Andrea Zezza 24 Music and Music Patronage at the Courts of the Kingdom  Dinko Fabris Kings and Viceroys Maps Figures Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2019 Michael Mitterauer-Prize for best monograph The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India is a pioneering work about the more than one million peasants who produced opium for the colonial state in nineteenth-century India. Based on a profound empirical analysis, Rolf Bauer not only shows that the peasants cultivated poppy against a substantial loss but he also reveals how they were coerced into the production of this drug. By dissecting the economic and social power relations on a local level, this study explains how a triangle of debt, the colonial state’s power and social dependencies in the village formed the coercive mechanisms that transformed the peasants into opium producers. The result is a book that adds to our understanding of peasant economies in a colonial context.Trade ReviewRead more about this book in the BBC News article 'How Britain's opium trade impoverished Indians' by Soutik Biswas, 5 September 2019. Read the article on the website of Austria’s radio channel number 1 (Ö1) here. A short radio feature can be found here.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations and Tables Glossary Units of Measurement  1 Introduction  2 The Creation of a System  2.1 A Chronology of the British Opium Monopoly in India  2.2 A Further Note on Bengal and Malwa: Two Opium Economies Intermingled  2.3 Keystone of Empire  2.4 Opium and China  2.5 Auctions  2.6 The Sudder Factories  3 The Functioning of a System  3.1 The Opium Department: A Centralised Bureaucratic Structure  3.2 The Settlement  3.3 Laws and Fines  3.4 Local Collaboration  4 A Local-Level Analysis of an Opium District: Saran  4.1 Topography and General Aspects Related to Agriculture  4.2 The People of Saran  4.3 Distribution of Land Proprietorship and Tenancy  4.4 Crops  5 The Costs and Benefits of Poppy Cultivation  5.1 Poppy within Bihar’s Agriculture  5.2 Agricultural Operations of Poppy Cultivation  5.3 Who Cultivated Poppies?  5.4 Costs and Benefits: An Assessment  6 The Mechanics of a System: Incentives, Coercion and Dependence  6.1 The System of Advance Payments  6.2 Sarkar—By Order of the Government  6.3 Zamindar—Triadic Relations  7 Conclusion  Appendix  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisThe Life Work of a Labor Historian: Essays in Honor of Marcel van der Linden (eds. Ulbe Bosma and Karin Hofmeester), presents the latest developments in the history of labor and capitalism. As part of Global Labor History, Jan Lucassen, Magaly Rodrígues García, Sidney Chalhoub, and Willem van Schendel discuss new concepts of work and workers, including sex workers, slaves in Brazil, and voluntary communal laborers in North-East India, while Andreas Eckert shows the relevance of area studies. Jürgen Kocka presents a history of capitalism and its critics to date, Pepijn Brandon analyzes Marx’s ideas on the link between free and coerced labor, and Jan Breman looks at the effects of capitalism on rural solidarity through the lens of Tocqueville.

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Book SynopsisSurvival in the 'Dumping Grounds' examines a defining aspect of South Africa's recent past: the history of apartheid-era relocation. While scholars and activists have long recognised the suffering caused by apartheid removals to the so-called 'homelands', the experiences of those who lived through this process have been more often obscured. Drawing on extensive archival and oral history research, this book examines the makings and the multiple meanings of relocation into two of the most notorious apartheid 'dumping grounds' established in the Ciskei bantustan during the mid-1960s: Sada and Ilinge. Evans examines the local and global dynamics of the project of bantustan relocation and develops a multi-layered analysis of the complex histories - and ramifications- of displacement and resettlement in the Ciskei.Trade Review[...] 'Das mit viel Empathie für die Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner der Ciskei geschriebene Buch hat seine Stärke in der Empirie. Es zeigt differenziert deren Handlungsmöglichkeiten und -grenzen unter den vorgegebenen Verwaltungsstrukturen auf, so trägt es zur Sozialgeschichte des früheren Homelands bei.' [...] Rita Schäfer in Dhau - Yearbook for Extra-European History 5/2020, pp. 235-240. [...] Survival in the ‘Dumping Grounds is a brilliant work of social history. Evans effortlessly provides a clear and concise account of the tragedy of apartheid in South Africa, expertly executes a nuanced historical analysis with insight into the imperial foundation in which apartheid anchored its segregationist policies, and meticulously presents the stories of Black South Africans who experienced relocation to the bantustans. It is well-researched and masterfully written. Therefore, this book would be ideal for both novice students and expert scholars of Africa. Moreover, it accomplishes the duality of capturing the complexities of segregationist policies while remaining comprehensible. Constance Pruitt, Howard University, in African Studies Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 1, 2022, pp. 75-77Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction: Rethinking Relocation in Apartheid South Africa Part 1: Regimes of Relocation  1Apartheid, the Bantustans and the End of Empire  1Peace, Population and Colonial Development, c.1920–1945  2The ‘late colonial’ Apartheid State  3Cold War in Southern Africa: Villagisation and Counter-insurgency  2Regimes of Relocation in the Ciskei  1The Cape as Apartheid Test Case  2The Relocation Regime  3Villagisation and Repression  4Decolonisation, Repatriation and Resettlement  5The Expansion of Sada and Ilinge  6White Farmers and Relocation Part 2: Repertoires of Relocation  3Dislocation and Disrupted Livelihoods: Removals, Evictions and Banishments  1The Coercive Relocation Regime  2The Biopolitics of Neglect  3Displacement and Marginal Livelihoods  4Farm Evictions: Enclosure and Dispossession  5Urban Removals: Dislocation and Deprivation  6Political Banishment: Surveillance and Isolation  7‘We were starving. And we survived’: Gender, Domesticity and Displacement  4Farm Dwellers and Relocation: Gender, Generation and Agrarian Change  1Farm Labour and Agrarian Change  2Gender, Generation and Changing Men  3Changing Livelihoods and the Transformation of Aspirations  4Migration, Male Breadwinners and Masculinity  5Gender, Autonomy and Impoverishment: The Paradoxical Impacts of Relocation  Part 3 Place, Space and Power  5‘We Came from Different Places’: Displacement and Place-Making  1Forced Removals and ‘communities of memory’  2The Emergence of Underground Networks in Sada and Ilinge  3Churches, Spirituality and Sociability  4Poverty, Survival and Reciprocity  6Relocation and the State: Relations of Rule  1Territoriality and the Gendered Disciplinary Project of the BAD, c. 1963–71  2Ethnic Politics, Clientelism and Coercion under Ciskei, c.1971–80  Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book charts the lives of (suspected) thieves, illegitimate mothers and vagrants in early modern Frankfurt. The book highlights the gender differences in recorded criminality and the way that they were shaped by the local context. Women played a prominent role in recorded crime in this period, and could even make up half of all defendants in specific European cities. At the same time, there were also large regional differences. Women’s crime patterns in Frankfurt were both similar and different to those of other cities. Informal control within the household played a significant role and influenced the prosecution patterns of authorities. This impacted men and women differently, and created clear distinctions within the system between settled locals and unsettled migrants.Trade Review"Jeannette Kamp offers a well-designed, deeply researched, and carefully nuanced study that highlights the gendered nature of early modern crime". Jesse Spohnholz, in Washington State University doi:10.1017/rqx.2021.149Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations 1 Introduction  1 Forgotten Women: Putting Gender in Histories of Crime  2 Crime and Social Control  3 Crime and the City  4 History of Crime in Early Modern Frankfurt  5 Composition of the Book  6 Setting the Scene: Frankfurt am Main as a Case Study for Female Crime  7 Sources 2 A Multi-Layered Legal System: Criminal Justice in Early Modern Frankfurt  1 The Administration of Justice in a Multifaceted Legal Landscape  2 Investigation of Criminal Offences: about the Formation of the Verhöramt  3 Prosecuted Crimes and Boundaries of Jurisdiction  4 Criminal Procedures  5 Policing and Social Control  6 Conclusion 3 Gender and Recorded Crime: Long-Term Patterns and Developments  1 Women in Recorded Crime  2 Urbanisation and Female Offending  3 Gendered Patterns of Crime  4 Fluctuations over Time  5 Women Facing Crisis  6 Conclusion 4 Transcending Dichotomies: Gender, Property Offending and the ‘Open House’  1 Female Property Offending and the Public/Private Dichotomy  2 Gendered Patterns of Property Crimes  3 Social Profile of Property Offenders  4 Locations of Theft: Transcending the Private and the Public   4.1 Theft from Dwelling Houses   4.2 Other Locations  5 Between Necessity and Fashion  6 Distributing of Stolen Goods  7 Domestic Theft  8 Criminal Prosecution and Household Control  9 Conclusion 5 Between Control and Agency? The Prosecution of Sexual Offences  1 Disciplining or Assisting? Women and the Regulation of Morals  2 Legal Developments  3 Prosecuting Sexual Offences  4 Sin versus Crime or Institutional Differentiation?  5 Changes in Time: from Adultery to Illegitimacy  6 Unwed Mothers before the Court  7 Between Plaintiff and Defendant: Women and the Prosecution of Illegitimacy  8 Infanticide, Abortion and Child Abandonment  9 Conclusion 6 Transgressing Social Order: Mobile Men and Women  1 Migration and the Importance of Settledness in Frankfurt  2 Vagrancy Laws and the Labelling of Unwanted Mobility  3 Controlling Male and Female Mobility: Diverging Approaches  4 Mobility as a Crime before the Verhöramt  5 Precarious Independence  6 The Malefizbuch, an Example of Gendered Framing of Unwanted Mobility  7 Penal Exclusion and the Importance of Banishment in Early Modern Criminal Justice  8 The Practice of Returning— a Reflection of Female Settledness?  9 Conclusion 7 Conclusions  1 The Case of Frankfurt and the European Pattern of Female Crime  2 Impact of Authoritative Social Control Structures  3 Agency of Women  4 Future Perspectives Appendix Sources Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Voices on Birchbark Jos Schaeken explores the major role that writing on birchbark – an ephemeral, even ‘throw-away’ form of correspondence and administration – played in the vibrant medieval merchant city of Novgorod and other cities in the Russian Northwest. Birchbark literacy was crucial to the organization of Novgorodian society; it was integrated into a huge variety of activities and had a broad social basis; it was used extensively by the laity, by women as well as men, by villagers as well as landlords. Voices on Birchbark is the first book-length study of this unique corpus in English. By examining a representative selection of birchbark texts, Jos Schaeken presents fascinating vignettes of daily medieval life and a holistic picture of the pragmatics of communication in pre-modern societies.Trade Review"Jos Schaeken has produced a subtle, impressively thorough (despite its brevity) and up-to-date guide to an important, intriguing and deceptively complex set of sources. His book is a very welcome addition to the lamentably limited English-language bibliography of the subject." -Simon Franklin, Clare College, University of Cambridge in Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 2019 "Le livre de J. Schaeken est une belle et multifacette représentation de tout le corpus des documents sur écorce de bouleau." -Timofey V. Guimon in Cahiers de civilisation Médiévale, 2019

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

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Book SynopsisIn Engaging the Other: “Japan and Its Alter-Egos”, 1550-1850 Ronald P. Toby examines new discourses of identity and difference in early modern Japan, a discourse catalyzed by the “Iberian irruption,” the appearance of Portuguese and other new, radical others in the sixteenth century. The encounter with peoples and countries unimagined in earlier discourse provoked an identity crisis, a paradigm shift from a view of the world as comprising only “three countries” (sangoku), i.e., Japan, China and India, to a world of “myriad countries” (bankoku) and peoples. In order to understand the new radical alterities, the Japanese were forced to establish new parameters of difference from familiar, proximate others, i.e., China, Korea and Ryukyu. Toby examines their articulation in literature, visual and performing arts, law, and customs.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Word about Language List of Figures Introduction: Between Engagement and Imagination 1 Interlude: A Pair of Parables 2 Mapping the Margins: The Ragged Edges of State and Nation  1 Mapping Japan  2 Where Was Early-Modern “Japan?”  3 Reprise  4 Taxonomic Boundaries  5 Nishikawa Joken’s “Japan”  6 Terajima Ryōan and the Wakan sansai zue  7 Hayashi Shihei and the “Three Countries”  8 Margins and Maps  9 Coda 3 Imagining and Imaging “Anthropos”  1 Imaging Difference at Home  2 Brave New World: The Panopticon of Peoples in the Myriad Realms  3 The Encyclopedic Vision: Articulate Selves and Typed Others  4 Toward a Visual Ethnography of a Myriad Lands 4 Indianizing Iberia/Performing Portugal: Responses to the Iberian Irruption  1 Implicit Others and Manifest Men of Inde  2 Setting the Stage  3 Alter Others: Koreans, Okinawans, and Chinese in the Japanese Text  4 The Invasive Other: Fear of Foreigners and the Changing Iconographic Field  5 Performative Possibilities in the Age of Encounter  6 Disengagement and Code-Switching 5 Parades of Difference/Parades of Power  1 Parade Diplomacy  2 Watching the Watchers: Intersecting Gazes in Procession and Parade  3 Edo Culture as Parade  4 Alien Parades  5 The Internal Structure of an “Alien Parade”  6 A Documentary Painting is Not a Sketch  7 Parade in Review  8 How to Wrap a Parade  9 Why Wrap an Alien?  10 How to Watch a Diplomatic Parade  11 “‘Festival Chinamen’ Are More Convincing ‘Chinamen’”  12 Parade-Watching as Festival  13 The Spectator’s Condition  14 The Well-Tempered Spectator  15 Watching the Spectators  16 Seeing and Showing  17 Four Lines of Sight 6 The Birth of the Hairy Barbarian: Ethnic Slur as Cultural Marker  1 Initial Encounters and Radical Others  2 The First Hairy Barbarians  3 With a Flick of the Razor  4 Bearded Boundaries  5 Coxinga’s Pate/Chinese Bodies/Tatar Hair  6 Playing the Hairy Barbarian  7 Envisioning Hair  8 Tying Up Loose Ends 7 The Mountain That Needs No Interpreter: Mt. Fuji and the Foreign  1 National Symbols, Found and Made  2 The Rise of Mt. Fuji  3 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: Mt. Fuji and the Ambit of the Gods  4 Universal Mt. Fuji as “Scientific” Truth  5 Mt. Fuji’s Growing Reach  6 If the Mountain Won’t Come…: Drawing the Other to Japan  7 Preserve and Protect  8 Kiyomasa Redux  9 Conclusion Epilogue: Antiphonals of Identity  1 One Costume/Many Scripts  2 Capturing “Korea” Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPaul F. Grendler, noted historian of European education, surveys Jesuit schools and universities throughout Europe from the first school founded in 1548 to the suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773. The Jesuits were noted educators who founded and operated an international network of schools and universities that enrolled students from the age of ten through doctoral studies. The essay analyzes the organization, curriculum, pedagogy, culture, financing, relations with civil authorities, enrollments, and social composition of students in Jesuit pre-university schools. Grendler then explains Jesuit universities. The Jesuits governed and did all the teaching in small collegiate universities. In large civic-Jesuit universities the Jesuits taught the humanities, philosophy, and theology, while lay professors taught law and medicine. The article provides examples ranging from the first Jesuit school in Messina, Sicily, to universities across Europe. It features a complete list of Jesuit schools in France.Trade Review“Grendler has provided a concise, readable, and informative introduction to a complex topic. […] Jesuit Schools is a highly accessible and informative resource on early Jesuit education that will benefit students and scholars alike.” Sam Zeno Conedera, S.J., Saint Louis University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 326–328. “An eminent historian of Renaissance education, Grendler has produced a much-needed outline and analysis of an under-studied topic. It is intended for a more academic audience, while its brevity makes it suitable for an undergraduate or general reader. […] Despite the challenges of a varied and multi-language source base, and a Europe-wide scope, Grendler has produced a thoroughly detailed and useful but, above all, interesting and readable work.” Emily Chambers, University of Nottingham. In: History of Education [DOI: 10.1080/0046760X.2019.1651408 (published online 8 Aug. 2019)] “Grendler is a specialist of the history of education in early modern Italy. A complement to his more voluminous works on that topic, this handbook quickly orients the reader to two types of Jesuit educational institutions in Europe: schools and universities.” Thomas Worcester, S.J., Regis College, Toronto. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 7, No. 4 (2020), pp. 661–663. “This short work is an accessible, direct, and clear survey of Jesuit education before the suppression that links the universities to the foundational work of the schools. It aims at an academic readership, but it would be suitable for use in college courses. By highlighting the schools, the book makes original contributions and also points the way to fertile sources and questions for research. In these ways, both the specialist and the novice can profit by it.” Robert J. Porwoll, Gustavus Adolphus College. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 53, No. 1 (2022), pp. 238⁠–⁠239.Table of ContentsJesuit Schools and Universities in Europe, 1548–1773  Paul F. Grendler  Abstract  Keyword  Part 1: Schools  Part 2: Universities  Bibliography

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

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

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Book SynopsisLiterary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China contributes to the “literary turn” in the study of Chinese Christianity by foregrounding the importance of literary texts, including the major genres of Chinese Christian literature (novels, drama and poetry) of the late Qing and Republican periods. These multifarious types of texts demonstrated the multiple representations and dynamic scenes of Christianity, where Christian imageries and symbolism were transformed by linguistic manipulation into new contextualized forms which nurtured distinctive new fruits of literature and modernized the literary landscape of Chinese literature. The study of the composition and poetics of Chinese Christian literary works helps us rediscover the concerns, priorities, textual strategies of the Christian writers, the cross-cultural challenges involved, and the reception of the Bible.Trade Review"The book’s greatest asset is its ability to draw on multiple fields to show the migration, translation, and reinterpretation of stories and images between China and the West. Lai’s deep knowledge of several fields, including biblical exegesis and interpretation, translation studies, Chinese folk religion, and more, are reflected in his analyses. (...) This is a valuable contribution to the field, both summarizing and enhancing the ongoing “literary turn” in the study of Christianity in modern China. The various chapters serve as compact case studies in translation and crosscultural interaction and are useful for both research and teaching purposes." Steven Pieragastini, Loyola Marymount University, Journal of Jesuit Studies 6 (2019).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations  1 Introduction: Literary Turn in the Study of Chinese Christianitybr/>  2 Empire Re-mapped: Image of Britain in Karl Gützlaff’s Novels  1 Westerners/British not “Barbarians”  2 Trading, not “tribute paying”  3 Britain: The “Supreme Nation”  4 Britain upholding the orthodoxy  5 Factors behind Gützlaff’s constructed British image  3 Bible in Fiction: Chinese Protestant Novels of the Late Nineteenth Century  1 Fictional Transformation of Biblical Biographies: Yuese jilüe (Brief Biography of Joseph, 1852)  2 Harmonization and Contextualisation of Gospel Accounts: Zhengdao qimeng (Enlightening the Right Way, 1864)  3 Displacement of Biblical Mythology: Qu mo zhuan (Story of Demon Banishing, 1895)  4 Bible on Stage: Chinese Catholic Dramas of the Republican Period  1 Moralistic and Religious Agenda of Chinese Catholic Literature  2 Dramatizing the Biblical Narratives  3 Edifying and Entertaining Dimensions of Two Joseph Dramas  4 Drama Performance and Communal Transformation  5 Saints Re-membered: Chinese Dramatization of Martyrdom  1 Dramatizing the Martyrdom Stories  2 Martyrdom Narratives of the Maccabees  3 Resolving the Moral Conflict of Martyrdom  6 Popular Reception: Chinese Folk Imagination of Christianity  1 Heavenly Family in Hong Xiuquan’s Dream Vision  2 Image of Jesus in Anti-Christian Pamphlets  3 Journey to Hell in Chinese Catholic Novel  4 Afterlife in Chinese Spiritual Songs  5 Revelation of Jesus in Daoist Planchette Writings  7 Poetic Inspiration: Biblical Imageries in Modern Chinese Poetry  1 The Bible as Devotional Inspiration for Bing Xin  2 The Bible as Ideological Inspiration for Zhou Zuoren  3 The Bible as Archetypal Inspiration for Mu Dan  8 Pilgrims Re-progressed: Christian Interpretation of The Journey to the West  1 Mahayana Christianity and Buddhist Trinity  1.1 Julai as Christ, the Incarnate God  1.2 Kwanyin as the Holy Spirit  2 Huen Chwang as Apostle Paul  3 The Pilgrim’s Progress of Nestorianism  4 “Multi-religious” Kingdom of God  9 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisYearbook Volume 19 continues an investigation which began with Arts in Exile in Britain 1933-45 (Volume 6, 2004). Twelve chapters, ten in English and two in German, address and analyse the significant contribution of émigrés across the applied arts, embracing mainstream practices such as photography, architecture, advertising, graphics, printing, textiles and illustration, alongside less well known fields of animation, typography and puppetry. New research adds to narratives surrounding familiar émigré names such as Oskar Kokoschka and Wolf Suschitzky, while revealing previously hidden contributions from lesser known practitioners. Overall, the volume provides a valuable addition to the understanding of the applied arts in Britain from the 1930s onwards, particularly highlighting difficulties faced by refugees attempting to continue fractured careers in a new homeland. Contributors are: Rachel Dickson, Burcu Dogramaci, Deirdre Fernand, Fran Lloyd, David Low, John March, Sarah MacDougall, Anna Nyburg, Pauline Paucker, Ines Schlenker, Wilfried Weinke, and Julia Winckler.

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

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Book SynopsisIn Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories in the Early Modern Iberian World: Narratives of Fear and Hatred, François Soyer offers the first detailed historical analysis of antisemitic conspiracy theories in Spain, Portugal and their overseas colonies between 1450 and 1750. These conspiracy theories accused Jews and conversos, the descendants of medieval Jewish converts to Christianity, of deadly plots and blamed them for a range of social, religious, military and economic problems. Ultimately, many Iberian antisemitic conspiracy theorists aimed to create a ‘moral panic’ about the converso presence in Iberian society, thereby justifying the legitimacy of ethnic discrimination within the Church and society. Moreover, they were also exploited by some churchmen seeking to impose an idealized sense of communal identity upon the lay faithful.Trade Review“Arguing against Karl Popper, who regarded conspiracy theories as a product of the eighteenth century, [...] Soyer insists convincingly that they started far earlier, in the early modern period.” Alastair Hamilton, Warburg Institute. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 71, No. 2 (2020), pp. 410–412. “compelling and thoroughly researched […]. The author is to be congratulated on an important, and highly recommended, contribution.” Norman Roth, University of Wisconsin–Madison, emeritus. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 651–653. “I applaud Soyer’s engagement with a sensitive historical subject like popular antisemitism, without opting to hide behind academic relativism or political correctness. […]. [His book is] solid, convincing, and enrichingly honest.” Claude B. Stuczynski, Bar-Ilan University. In: AJS Review: The Journal of the Association of Jewish Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2 (November 2021), pp. 464–468. “a detailed and fascinating book […], valuable not only for historians but also, and maybe even more so, for people interested in how conspiracy theories work, what they do, and how they endanger ethnic and religious groups.” Lucien van Liere, Utrecht University. In: Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context, Vol. 50, No. 3–4 (2021), pp. 327–328.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Illustrations Abbreviations Maps Introduction  1 The ‘Secret Jews’ and Proto-Racialism of Early Modern Spain and Portugal  2 Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracism 1 Conspiracism and Society in Early Modern Europe  1 Defining the Conspiracy Theory  2 Delusional Paranoia, Collective Emotions and the Emotional Dimension of the Conspiracy Theory  3 Explaining the Popularity of Conspiracy Theories  4 Moral Panics: The Social and Political Function of the Conspiracy Theory  5 ‘Modernity’ and the Origins of Conspiracism  6 Conspiracism in Early Modern Europe: the Demonic Superconspiracy  7 Conclusion: the Conspiracy Theory in the Age of ‘Confessionalization’ 2 Forged Documents and the Fear of Jewish Infiltration: The Jewish World Plot and the Early Modern Iberian World  1 The Early Notions of a Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy in Medieval Europe  2 The Forged Letter of the Jews of Toledo to Those of Jerusalem:  a Fatal Precedent?  3 Warrant for Hatred: the Forged letters from Toledo and Constantinople  4 The Obscure Origins of the Forged Letters  5 The Reception of the Forged Letters  6 Francisco de Quevedo’s La Isla de los Monopantos  7 The Legacy and Influence of the “Toledan Letters” in Modern Antisemitism  8 Conclusion 3 “Seeking to Build a Synagogue within the Church of God”: the Alleged Converso Plot to Infiltrate and Destroy the Catholic Church  1 The Insidious Converso Threat to the Church  2 Perceiving Judaism as a Militant and Missionary Faith  3 The Spectre of the Jewish Dogmatizadores  4 The Menace of Jewish Proselytism amongst Africans and Amerindians  5 Reckless Resistance or Narrative Assault?: the Desecration of Religious Objects and the ‘Jewish Conspiracy’  6 Conclusion 4 Medical Murder: the Myth of the Jewish Serial-Killer Doctors  1 Jews and Medicine in Medieval Iberia  2 Fear of the Homicidal Jewish Doctor and its Medieval Roots  3 The Archetypal Homicidal Doctor: Dr Meir Alguadex  4 Converso Doctors and the ‘Jewish Plot’  5 Ethnic Discrimination and the Medical Professions  6 Medical Antisemitism in the Eighteenth Century  7 Other Medical Conspiracy Theories: a Comparative Study  8 Conclusion 5 “Traitors Who Dwell amongst Us”: the Conversos as Collaborators and Masterminds of the Muslim and Protestant Onslaught against Spain and Portugal  1 The Archetype of Jewish Treason: the Fall of Toledo in 711 CE  2 The ‘Jewish Origins’ of the Reformation: Linking Conversos and Protestants  3 The ‘Jewish Plot’ against the Portuguese Empire  4 A New Toledo in the Americas: Jewish Treason and the Fall of Bahia (1624)  5 Dutch Brazil and the Image of the Conversos  6 The Dutch, the Conversos  and the “Grand Conspiracy” against the Spanish Empire (1610-1650)  7 Conclusion 6 “Sponges That Suck Up the Wealth of Spain”: the Jewish Plot, Economic Parasitism and the Fear of Economic Decline  1 The Trope of Jewish Lust of Gold and Usury beyond  2 The Converso Merchant: a Parasite Growing at the Expenses of the Host  3 The Merchant in the Ancien Régime: a Figure of Suspicion and Fear  4 An Easy Hate Figure: the Converso Tax-Farmers and Asentistas  5 Conclusion Conclusion  1 The Elusive Converso Enemy: a Tool to Construct a Collective Identity  2 Epilogue: the Survival of the Conspiracist Narrative after Bibliography Index

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