Social and cultural history Books
Brill Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms and Emotions in the Baltic Sea Region: The Production of Loss
Book SynopsisA sense of loss is a driving force in most nationalist movements: territorial loss, the loss of traditions, language, national virtues or of a Golden Age. But which emotions charged the construction of loss and how did they change over time? To what objects and bodies did emotions stick? How was the production of loss gendered? Which figures of loss predated nationalist ideology and enabled loss within nationalist discourse? 13 scholars from different backgrounds answer these questions by exploring nationalist discourses during the long nineteenth century in the Baltic Sea region through political writings, lectures, novels, letters, paintings, and diaries. Contributors are: Eve Annuk, Jenny Bergenmar, Anna Bohlin, Jens Grandell, Heidi Grönstrand, Maciej Janowski, Jules Kielmann, Tiina Kinnunen, Kristina Malmio, Peter Nørgaard Larsen, Martin Olin, Jens Eike Schnall, and Bjarne Thorup Thomsen.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Production of Loss Anna Bohlin, Heidi Grönstrand and Tiina Kinnunen The Production of Loss Organising Thought 1 Loss, Emotion, and Transformation of a National Idea: Poland 1795–1815 Maciej Janowski 2 Visions of the Nation and Feelings of Loss in the Works of Steen Steensen Blicher Jens Eike Schnall 3 Neglect, Grief, Revenge: Finland in Swedish Nineteenth-Century Literature Anna Bohlin 4 How a Culture Was Almost Lost: The Sámi in Nineteenth-Century Conceptualizations of Finnish Nationhood Jens Grandell Landscapes and Bodies Activating the Production of Loss 5 Entrenchments and Escape Routes: Expressing a Sense of Loss in Danish Art 1848–1864 Peter Nørgaard Larsen 6 Outreach, Invasion, Displacement: Denmark’s Disputed Southern Borderland as Negotiated through Strategic and Affective Aspects of Space in Novels by Andersen and Bang Bjarne Thorup Thomsen 7 Affective Bodies on the Move: Space, Emotions and Loss in Fredrika Runeberg’s Historical Novel Lady Catharina Boije and her Daughters (1858) Kristina Malmio 8 Carl Larsson’s Spadarfvet, My Little Farmstead (1906): Paradise Regained or Lament for a Disappearing Agrarian Society? Martin Olin 9 Sweden and Algeria in the Travel Writing of Anna Maria Roos, 1905–1909 Jenny Bergenmar Personal Loss and Lived Nationalism 10 “Thus Shall Our Joy Be Solemn, and Our Pain Fruitful”: Nation, Loss and the Power of Emotions in Amalie von Helvig’s Writings Jules Kielmann 11 The Sense of Loss in the Context of Language Disputes in Finland: Reflections on E.F. Jahnsson’s Authorship Heidi Grönstrand 12 Nationalism, Emotions and Loss in Lilli Suburg’s Short Story “Liina” (1877) Eve Annuk 13 Alexandra Gripenberg and Lost Faith in National Belonging Tiina Kinnunen Index
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Brill The Orce Man: Controversy, Media and Politics in Human Origins Research
Book SynopsisIn The Orce Man: Controversy, Media and Politics in Human Origins Research, Miquel Carandell presents a thrilling story of a controversy on an Spanish “First European” that involved scientists, politicians and newspapers. In the early 1980s, with Spanish democracy in its beginnings, the Orce bone was transformed from a famous human ancestor to an apparently ridiculous donkey remain. With a chronological narrative, this book is not centered on whether the bone was human or not, but on the circumstances that made a certain claim credible or not, from both the scientific community and the general public. Carandell’s analysis draws on the thin line that separates success from failure and the role of media and politics in the controversy.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements A Rough Guide to the Orce Man 0. Introduction - The Orce Man 1. Discovery (1976-1982) 1.1. Setting the scientific and political scene 1.2. ‘Look what we’ve found!’ The Orce Man among politicians, experts and the public 1.3. The ‘Spanish Olduvai’ and the discoverers’ reward 1.4. A great post-Franco discovery and a small but troubling crest 2. Controversy (1984-1987) 2.1. A painful trip to Paris: From man to donkey 2.2. A country’s ‘obsession’: ‘Is the Orce Man our ancestor?’ 2.3. Science in a ‘different dimension’ 3. Conference (1987-1996) 3.1. Gibert's research team and the conference preparation 3.2. An international conference as a ‘tool’ to convince 3.3. A triple victory (science, media and politics) 3.4. Scientific conferences: much more than debates among colleagues 4. End (1996-2007) 4.1. An unexpected attack 4.2. Control of the remains means control of the research 4.3. The process of isolation 4.4. The hominids that came from the south: Gibert's popular science book 4.5. The end of a long controversy 5. A ‘First’ American to compare with: The Pedra Furada controversy 6. Coda: The ‘Orce Boy’ 7. The Orce Man: controversy, failure, media and politics Appendices Annex I: Anatomical features of the Orce Man Annex II: News from 1983 to 1999 Annex III: The travelling bone Bibliography I. Interviews II: Archives III: Secondary Literature IV: The Press Index
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Brill La diplomatie byzantine, de l’Empire romain aux confins de l’Europe (Ve-XVe s.)
Book SynopsisIn La Diplomatie byzantine, de l’Empire romain aux confins de l’Europe (Ve-XVe s.), twelve studies explore from novel angles the complex history of Byzantine diplomacy. After an Introduction, the volume turns to the period of late antiquity and the new challenges the Eastern Roman Empire had to contend with. It then examines middle-Byzantine diplomacy through chapters looking at relations with Arabs, Rus’ and Bulgarians, before focusing on various aspects of the official contacts with Western Europe at the end of the Middle Ages. A thematic section investigates the changes to and continuities of diplomacy throughout the period, in particular by considering Byzantine alertness to external political developments, strategic use of dynastic marriages, and the role of women as diplomatic actors. Contributors are are Jean-Pierre Arrignon, Audrey Becker, Mickaël Bourbeau, Nicolas Drocourt, Christian Gastgeber, Nike Koutrakou, Élisabeth Malamut, Ekaterina Nechaeva, Brendan Osswald, Nebojša Porčić, Jonathan Shepard, and Jakub Sypiański.Trade Review"This rich book offers many opportunities for reflection [...] variety lies more in different points of view and approaches than in the choice of contexts. In this sense, the book also offers a lesson in methodology: the reader is given a polyphonic image of Byzantine diplomacy thanks to the ability of both the authors and editors to change, even slightly, their focus and their lenses." Isabella Lazzarini, in Diplomatica 4 (2022).Table of Contents Liste des Illustrations Liste des Contributeurs Introduction Nicolas Drocourt Part 1ère ie: Une diplomatie en transition (Ve–VIe siècle) 1 From Hegemony to Negotiation: Reshaping East Roman Diplomacy with Barbarians during the 5th Century Audrey Becker 2 Collusion on the Eastern Front: The Strange Cases of Constantine of Theodosiopolis and Theodorus of Martyropolis Ekaterina Nechaeva Part 2ème ie: Rechercher et identifier les acteurs de la diplomatie médio-byzantine 3 Photius entre l'Assyrie et al-Andalus Jakub Sypiański 4 Le traité byzantino-russe de 944, acte fondateur de l’État de la Kievskaja Rus’ ? Jean-Pierre Arrignon 5 À propos des formules protocolaires concernant les Bulgares dans le Livre des Cérémonies : réception et correspondance Élisabeth Malamut Part 3ème ie: Le poids de l’Occident dans la diplomatie byzantine aux XIIIe–XVe siècles 6 Le traité de 1279 entre Charles d’Anjou et Nicéphore Ier d’Épire Brendan Osswald 7 Changes in Documents of the Byzantine Chancery in Contact with the West (Michael VIII and Andronikos II Palaiologos). Language, Material, and Address Christian Gastgeber 8 Manuel II Paléologue en Occident (1399–1402) : la perspective de l’échec confrontée aux sources Mickael Bourbeau Part 4ème ie: Permanences et mutations. Le temps long de la diplomatie 9 The Emperor’s Long Reach: Imperial Alertness to ‘Barbarian’ Resources and Force Majeure, from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries Jonathan Shepard 10 Permanence and Change in Serbian Medieval Diplomacy Nebojša Porčić 11 Summit Diplomacy with a Female Face: Women as Diplomatic Actors in Byzantium from the 11th to the 15th century Nike Koutrakou 12 Les Alliances matrimoniales dans la diplomatie byzantine du 8e au 15e siècle : une stratégie dynastique revisitée sur la longue durée Élisabeth Malamut Index
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Brill The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition
Book SynopsisThroughout history, Jews have often been regarded, and treated, as “strangers.” In The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition, authors from a wide variety of disciplines discuss how the notion of “the stranger” can offer an integrative perspective on Jewish identities, on the non-Jewish perceptions of Jews, and on the relations between Jews and non-Jews in an innovative way. Contributions from history, philosophy, religion, sociology, literature, and the arts offer a new perspective on the Jewish experience in early modern and modern times: in contact and conflict, in processes of attribution and allegation, but also self-reflection and negotiation, focused on the figure of the stranger.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Catherine Bartlett 2 “The Penitents”: Attitudes of Jewish Society to Marranos in Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth-Century Safed Eyal Davidson 3 The African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem: A Borderline Case Michael T. Miller 4 Rights of the Stranger in Jewish Moral: Reactions to M. Lazarus’ Ethics of Judaism in Imperial Germany Mathias Berek 5 The Origins of the Stranger: Georg Simmel’s “The Stranger,” Moritz Lazarus’ “Was Heisst National?” and the Jewish Question of the Fin-de-Siècle Period Søren Blak Hjortshøj 6 The Jewish Stranger in Germany and America Chad Alan Goldberg 7 (Friendly) Strangers in Their Own Land No More: Third-Generation Jews and Socio-Political Activism in the Present in Germany Dani Kranz 8 “They Are Not My People”: Mysticism and Political Extremism in Henry Bean’s Script The Believer (2001) Federico Dal Bo 9 Between Language and Ethnicity: Russian Jewish Writers in the Post-Soviet World, the Question of Self-Identification in Literature and Life Olga Tabachnikova 10 Jews as Strangers, Strangers as Jews in the Twentieth-Century French Novel Maxime Decout 11 Exorcizing the Stranger: The “Daughter of Germany” in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination Efraim Sicher 12 Muslims as Brothers or Strangers? French Jewish Thinkers Confront the Moral Dilemmas of the French-Algerian War Ethan B. Katz 13 The Christian Orphan as the Stranger in Nineteenth-Century European Jewish Fiction Catherine Bartlett 14 The Strange Face and Form of the Stranger in Levinas Benda Hofmeyr 15 Conclusion: Jews and Strangers. Perspective from History Joachim Schlör Index
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Brill The First World War and the Nationality Question in Europe: Global Impact and Local Dynamics
Book SynopsisThis volume assembles the papers presented at the conference The International Context of the Galician Language Brotherhoods and the Nationality Question in Interwar Europe (Council of Galician Culture, Santiago de Compostela, October 2016). The different contributions, written by historians, political scientists and linguists, shed new light on the political development of the nationality question in Europe during the First World War and its aftermath, covering theoretical developments and debates, social mobilization and cultural perspectives. They also address the topic from different scales, blending the global and transnational outlook with the view from below, from the local contexts, with particular attention to peripheral areas, whilst East European and West European nationalities are dealt with on an equal footing, covering from Iberian Galicia to the Caucasus. Contributors are: Bence Bari, Stefan Berger, Miguel Cabo, Stefan Dyroff, Lourenzo Fernández Prieto, Johannes Kabatek, Joep Leerssen, Ramón Máiz, Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, Malte Rolf, Ramón Villares, and Francesca Zantedeschi.Table of Contents List of Figures 1Introduction: the First World War and the Nationality Question: From Local to Glocal Perspectives Xosé M. Núñez Seixas Part 1: The First World War, Transnational Action and the Principle of Nationality 2Cultural Mobility and Political Mobilization: Transnational Dynamics, National Action Joep Leerssen 3Wilson’s Unexpected Friends: The Transnational Impact of the First World War on Western European Nationalist Movements Xosé M. Núñez Seixas 4Nationalizing an Empire: The Bolsheviks, the Nationality Question, and Policies of Indigenization in the Soviet Union (1917–1927) Malte Rolf 5Federalism in Multinational States: Otto Bauer's Theory Ramón Máiz 6New Worlds Tackling on Side-tracks: The National Concepts of T.G. Masaryk and Oszkár Jászi during the First World War (1914–1919) Bence Bari Part 2: Local Dynamics 7Micro-Nationalisms in Western Europe in the Wake of the First World War Francesca Zantedeschi 8The Language Brotherhoods: European Echoes in the Development of Galician Nationalism (1916–1923) Ramón Villares 9The Galician Language Brotherhoods and Minority Languages in Europe during the First World War Johannes Kabatek Part 3: The Legacy of the First World War and the Nationality Question 10The Impact of the First World War on the (Re-)Shaping of National Histories on Europe Stefan Berger 11From Nationalities to Minorities? The Transnational Debate on the Minority Protection System of the League of Nations, and Its Predecessors Stefan Dyroff 12Agrarian Movements, the National Question, and Democracy in Europe, 1880–1945 Lourenzo Fernández-Prieto and Miguel Cabo Index
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Brill Everyday Crime, Criminal Justice and Gender in Early Modern Bologna
Book SynopsisFemale protagonists are commonly overlooked in the history of crime; especially in early modern Italy, where women’s scope of action is often portrayed as heavily restricted. This book redresses the notion of Italian women’s passivity, arguing that women’s crimes were far too common to be viewed as an anomaly. Based on over two thousand criminal complaints and investigation dossiers, Sanne Muurling charts the multifaceted impact of gender on patterns of recorded crime in early modern Bologna. While various socioeconomic and legal mechanisms withdrew women from the criminal justice process, the casebooks also reveal that women – as criminal offenders and savvy litigants – had an active hand in keeping the wheels of the court spinning.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction 1 Historical Involvement of Women in Crime in Early Modern Europe 2 Crime and Gender in an Early Modern Italian City 3 Criminal Court Records as Sources for Social History 4 Composition of This Book 2 Women’s Roles, Institutions, and Social Control 1 Political and Demographic Developments 2 Household Structures, Property Rights and Legal Capacity 3 Women within the Urban Economy 4 Interlocking Systems of Assistance and Control 5 Conclusion: Agency within a Culture of Constraint 3 The Torroneand the Prosecution of Crimes 1 The Tribunale del Torrone within Bologna’s Legal Landscape 2 The Administration of Criminal Justice 3 Criminal Procedures 4 Italian Women’s Involvement in Recorded Crime 5 The Character of Indicted Crime in Bologna 6 Gender Dynamics in the Sentencing of Crimes 7 Conclusion: Distinguishing Features of Women’s Prosecution 4 Denunciations and the Uses of Justice 1 Women and the Uses of Justice 2 Denunciations before the Torrone 3 The Torrone as a Forum for Conflict Resolution 4 The Urban Context of Women’s Litigation 5 The Users of Justice 6 Objectives of Litigation 7 Conclusion: Criminal Litigation, Gender and Agency 5 Violence and the Politics of Everyday Life 1 The Culture of Violence between Prosecution and Reconciliation 2 Lethal Violence in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 3 Insults and the Politics of Daily Life 4 The Importance of Petty Physical Violence 5 Severity and Weapons 6 Violence and Social Relations 7 The Gendered Geography of Violence 8 Framing Men’s and Women’s Violence 9 Conclusion: Everyday Violence and the Uses of Justice 6 Theft and Its Prosecution 1 Legal Attitudes towards Theft 2 Prosecution and Sentencing 3 The Social Profile of Thieves and Economies of Makeshift 4 Stolen Goods 5 The Geographies of Theft 6 The Distribution of Stolen Goods 7 Conclusion: Judicial Paternalism and Women’s Roles in Thieving 7 Conclusion 1 The Case of Bologna and Patterns of Female Crime 2 The Impact of Institutionalisation, Judicial Paternalism and Peacemaking Practices 3 Crime and Italian Women’s Agency 4 Avenues for Future Research Appendix: Information on Samples Bibliography Index
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Brill “The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923)
Book SynopsisIn “The Turk” in the Czech Imagination (1870s-1923), Jitka Malečková describes Czechs’ views of the Turks in the last half century of the existence of the Ottoman Empire and how they were influenced by ideas and trends in other countries, including the European fascination with the Orient, images of “the Turk,” contemporary scholarship, and racial theories. The Czechs were not free from colonial ambitions either, as their attitude to Bosnia-Herzegovina demonstrates, but their viewpoint was different from that found in imperial states and among the peoples who had experienced Ottoman rule. The book convincingly shows that the Czechs mainly viewed the Turks through the lenses of nationalism and Pan-Slavism – in solidarity with the Slavs fighting against Ottoman rule.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsVII List of FiguresIX Introduction: Why Czechs and Turks? 1 The Return of the “Terrible Turk” 1 The Turkish Wars and Czech Variations on the Turkish Theme 2 “The Turk” as a Proxy 3 The Oppressors of Our Slavic Brethren 4 The Turkish Race 5 The Longevity of Stereotypes 6 Conclusion 2 Czechs Abroad 1 Getting Ready to Travel 2 Entering the Orient 3 Backward or Exotic? 4 Turkish Men (To Say Nothing of the Dogs) 5 Women 6 The Turks and Others 7 Conclusion 3 Civilizing the Slavic Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina 1 What’s in a Name? 2 The Orient at One’s Doorstep (Safe Even for Ladies) 3 Occupation as Liberation 4 Czech Colonial Ambitions 5 Conclusion 4 “Our Mission in Oriental Studies” 1 The Founding Fathers of Czech Oriental Studies 2 Oriental Studies “as Translation” 3 Finding a Voice of Their Own 4 Scholars and Czech Society 5 Conclusion Conclusion: The New Republics Bibliography Index
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Brill Weltgeschichtsschreibung zwischen Schia und Sunna: Ḫvāndamīrs Ḥabīb as-siyar im Handschriftenzeitalter
Book SynopsisIn Weltgeschichtsschreibung zwischen Schia und Sunna Philip Bockholt examines the manuscript tradition of Khvāndamīr’s Ḥabīb al-siyar, and gives an in-depth analysis of how the author adapted his chronicle to the Shiʿi and Sunni religio-political convictions of his Safavid and Mughal overlords. In Weltgeschichtsschreibung zwischen Schia und Sunna untersucht Philip Bockholt die Handschriftentradition von Ḫvāndamīrs Ḥabīb as-siyar und analysiert die Arbeitsweise des Historikers, seine Weltchronik vor dem Hintergrund der politischen Umwälzungen in Iran und Indien um 1500 an schiitische und sunnitische Kontexte anzupassen.Table of ContentsVorwort Transkription Anmerkungen Abkürzungsverzeichnis Abbildungsverzeichnis 1 Einleitung: Geschichtsschreibung im Handschriftenzeitalter 2 Weltgeschichte auf zweieinhalbtausend Seiten: Ḫvāndamīrs Abfassung des Ḥabīb as-siyar im Zeitalter des Umbruchs 2.1 Vorbemerkungen 2.2 Im timuridischen Herat 2.3 Anbruch einer neuen Zeit: Schah Ismāʿīl und die Qızılbaš 2.4 Eine Weltgeschichte für die Safaviden 2.5 Zurück zu den Timuriden: Zur Fertigstellung von Fassung C im Mogulreich 2.6 Zwischenergebnis: Ḫvāndamīrs Abfassung des Ḥabīb as-siyar 3 Das Ḥabīb as-siyar in der Tradition persischer Geschichtsschreibung 3.1 Vorbemerkungen 3.2 Zur Tradition persischer Geschichtsschreibung 3.3 Zum Genre der Weltchronik als Heilsgeschichte 3.4 Zu Geschichtsverständnis und Aufgaben von Geschichtsschreibung 3.5 Zur Arbeitsweise des Historikers: Auswahl und Verwendung von Quellen 3.6 Was bedeutet „Weltgeschichte“? Zu Zeitvorstellungen und Chronologie im Ḥabīb as-siyar 3.7 Grenzen der Wahrheit? 3.8 Zwischenergebnis: Zur Verortung des Ḥabīb as-siyar in der Tradition persischer Geschichtsschreibung 4 Frühislamische Geschichte als funktionalisiertes Heilsnarrativ 4.1 Vorbemerkungen 4.2 Fassung A und ihre Funktionalisierung der Heilsgeschichte für Schah Ismāʿīl 4.3 Der Tod des Propheten und die Nachfolgefrage: Heilsgeschichte zwischen Schia und Sunna 4.4 Zwischenergebnis: Das Ḥabīb as-siyar als auf die Gegenwart ausgerichtetes Heilsnarrativ 5 Die Gegenwart aus Sicht eines Augenzeugen 5.1 Vorbemerkungen 5.2 Sulṭān-Ḥusain Bāiqarā: Legitimation durch Tradition 5.3 Schah Ismāʿīl: Legitimation durch Umdeutung 5.4 Safaviden und Osmanen: Wie die Niederlage darstellen? 5.5 Bābur und das Bāburnāma: Legitimation durch Hinzufügung 5.6 Zwischenergebnis: Ḫvāndamīr als vertrauenswürdiger Augenzeuge? 6 Ein Werk und sein Weg: Zur Textüberlieferung des Ḥabīb as-siyar im Handschriftenzeitalter 6.1 Vorbemerkungen 6.2 Das Ḥabīb as-siyar vor dem Hintergrund von Textverständnis und Textüberlieferung in der Vormoderne 6.3 Von den Handschriften zum Druck 6.4 Zwischenergebnis: Die Textüberlieferung des Ḥabīb as-siyar vom Handschriftenzeitalter bis heute 7 Fazit: Das Ḥabīb as-siyar als sinnstiftendes historiografisches Narrativ Appendix: Vergleich ausgewählter Textstellen des Ḥabīb as-siyar Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis Personen-, Sach- u. Ortsindex Handschriftenindex
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Brill Coercive Geographies: Historicizing Mobility, Labor and Confinement
Book SynopsisResponding to the deteriorating situation of migrants today and the complex assemblages of the geographies they navigate, Coercive Geographies examines historical and contemporary forms of coercion and constraint exercised by a wide range of actors in diverse settings. It links the question of spatial confines to that of labor. This fraught nexus of mobility and work seems self-evidently relevant to explore. Coercive Geographies is our attempt to bring together space, precarity, labor coercion and mobility in an analytical lens. Precarity emerges in particular geographical and historical contexts, which are decisive for how it is shaped. The book analyzes coercive geographies as localized and spatialized intersections between labor regulations and migration policies, which become detrimental to existing mobility frameworks. Contributors include: Irina Aguiari, Abdulkadir Osman Farah, Leandros Fischer, Konstantinos Floros, Johan Heinsen, Martin Bak Jørgensen, Martin Ottovay Jørgensen, Apostolos Kapsalis, Karin Krifors, Sven Van Melkebeke, Susi Meret, and Vasileios Spyridon Vlassis.Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Coercive Geographies: Historicizing Mobility, Labor and Confinement. An Introduction Johan Heinsen, Martin Bak Jørgensen and Martin Ottovay Jørgensen 2 Migrants’ Entrapment in a ‘State of Expectancy’: Patterns of Im/mobility for Agricultural Workers in Manolada, Greece Apostolos Kapsalis, Konstantinos Floros and Martin Bak Jørgensen 3 Constructing Immobility: Border Work and Coercion at the Hotspots of the Aegean Vasileios Spyridon Vlassis 4 “Cyprus Is a Big Prison”: Reflections on Mobility and Racialization in a Border Society Leandros Fischer 5 “When the Snow Falls, They Have All Left”: Infrastructures of Seasonal Labor in Migration Corridors Karin Krifors 6 Turning Migrants into Slaves: Labor Exploitation and Caporalato Practices in the Italian Agricultural Sector Susi Meret and Irina Aguiari 7 Strategies of Overcoming Precarity: The Case of Somali Transnational Community Ties, Spaces and Links in the United Arab Emirates Abdulkadir Osman Farah 8 Negotiating Displacement, Precarity and Militarized Confinement in the Middle East before Neoliberalism: The Gaza Strip, 1957–1967 Martin Ottovay Jørgensen 9 Science as the Handmaiden of Coerced Labor: The Implementation of Cotton Cultivation Schemes in the Eastern Congo Uele Region, 1920–1960 Sven Van Melkebeke 10 Life on the Run: Coercive Geographies in Denmark–Norway, 1600–1850 Johan Heinsen 11 Assembling Coercive Geographies in Comparative Context Johan Heinsen, Martin Bak Jørgensen and Martin Ottovay Jørgensen Index
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Brill A Companion to Early Modern Istanbul
Book SynopsisThis multi-disciplinary volume is the first collective effort to explore Istanbul, capital of the vast polyglot, multiethnic, and multireligious Ottoman empire and home to one of the world’s largest and most diverse urban populations, as an early modern metropolis. It assembles topics seldom treated together and embraces novel subjects and fresh approaches to older debates. Contributors crisscross the socioeconomic, political, cultural, environmental, and spatial, to examine the myriad human and non-human actors, local and global, that shaped the city into one of the key sites of early modern urbanity. Contributors are: Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano , Zeynep Altok, Walter G. Andrews, Betül Başaran, Cem Behar, Maurits H. van den Boogert, John J. Curry, Linda T. Darling, Suraiya Faroqhi, Emine Fetvacı, Shirine Hamadeh, Cemal Kafadar, Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, Deniz Karakaş, Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik, B. Harun Küçük, Selim S. Kuru, Karen A. Leal, Gülru Necipoğlu, Christoph K. Neumann, Aslı Niyazioğlu, Amanda Phillips, Marinos Sariyannis, Aleksandar Shopov, Lucienne Thys-Şenocak, Nükhet Varlık, N. Zeynep Yelçe, Gülay Yılmaz, and Zeynep Yürekli.Table of ContentsPreface Note on Transliteration List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Contributors Maps 1 Early Modern Istanbul Shirine Hamadeh and Çiğdem Kafescioğlu 2 The City Opens Your Eyes Because It Wants to Be Seen The Conspicuity and Lure of Early Modern Istanbul Cemal Kafadar Part 1: Istanbulites of City and Court 3 Istanbul: A City of Men Selim S. Kuru 4 Women in the City Lucienne Thys-Şenocak 5 Elites’ Networks and Mobility Christoph K. Neumann 6 Palace and City Ceremonials N. Zeynep Yelçe 7 Courtly Spaces: Visual and Material Culture Emine Fetvacı Part 2: Spaces and Landscapes of Production 8 Volatile Urban Landscapes between Mythical Space and Time Gülru Necipoğlu 9 Merchants and Global Connections Maurits H. van den Boogert 10 Artisans and Guilds Practices, Negotiations, and Conflicts Suraiya Faroqhi 11 When Istanbul Was a City of Bostāns Urban Agriculture and Agriculturists Aleksandar Shopov 12 Water for the City Builders, Technology, and Private Initiative Deniz Karakaş Part 3: Everyday Lives and Spaces of Habitation 13 Neighborhood and Family Lives Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik 14 Communal Matters Karen A. Leal 15 Crafts and Everyday Consumption Amanda Phillips 16 Death in Istanbul Plagues, Fires, and Other Catastrophes Nükhet Varlık 17 Crime, Violence, and Urban Policing Betül Başaran Part 4: Streets and Publics 18 Sociability, Public Life, and Decorum Marinos Sariyannis 19 Sufi Spaces and Practices John J. Curry 20 The Sultan, His Monument, and the Critical Public Zeynep Yürekli 21 Urban Protests, Rebellions, and Revolts Gülay Yılmaz 22 The 18th-Century “Istanbul Tale” Prose Tales and Beyond Zeynep Altok Part 5: Spaces of Thought and Imagination 23 Science and Technology B. Harun Küçük 24 Music and Musicians in the City Cem Behar 25 Poets, Sufis, and Their City Tours Aslı Niyazioğlu 26 The Poetics of Istanbul: The City of Cities Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano and Walter G. Andrews 27 Istanbul Elites and Political Writing Linda T. Darling Select Bibliography Index
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Brill Force of Words: A Cultural History of Christianity and Politics in Medieval Iceland (11th- 13th Centuries)
Book SynopsisIn Force of Words, Haraldur Hreinsson examines the social and political significance of the Christian religion as the Roman Church was taking hold in medieval Iceland in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries. By way of diverse sources, primarily hagiography and sermons but also material sources, the author shows how Christian religious ideas came into play in the often tumultuous political landscape of the time. The study illuminates how the Church, which was gathering strength across entire Europe, established itself through the dissemination of religious vernacular discourse at the northernmost borders of its dominion.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations List of Figures 1 Introduction 1.1 Historiographical Context 1.1.1 History of Medieval Christianity in Iceland: A Fragmented Field 1.1.2 Church and Society in Medieval Iceland 1.2 Theoretical Considerations 1.2.1 Ecclesiastical Discourse 1.2.1.1 Discourse 1.2.1.2 Discourse: Religious and Ecclesiastical 1.2.2 Perspective of Empire 1.2.2.1 The Roman Church as an Empire in Medieval Iceland 1.2.2.2 The Perspective of Empire: A Text Oriented Approach 1.3 Source Material 1.3.1 Textual Sources 1.3.2 Material Sources 2 The Roman Church in Free State Iceland 2.1 Christianization of Iceland 2.1.1 The Roman Ecclesiastical Empire 2.1.1.1 The Rise of the Papal Center 2.1.1.2 From Center to the Periphery 2.1.1.3 On the Outskirts 2.1.2 Expanding Boundaries: Christianization of Scandinavia 2.1.3 Christianization of Iceland 2.1.4 Conclusion: Becoming Christian 2.2 Christianization and the Production of Religious Texts 2.2.1 Background: The Roman Church as a Cultural Hegemon 2.2.2 Iceland’s Earliest Religious Manuscripts 2.2.2.1 Collections of Hagiographic Material 2.2.2.2 Collections of Sermonic Material 2.2.2.3 Manuscripts with Mixed Content 2.2.3 Beyond the Manuscripts: The Materiality of Religious Discourse 2.2.4 Conclusion: Texts in Motion 2.3 Icelandic Ecclesiastics and Their Audiences 2.3.1 Representing Rome: Ecclesiastics in Iceland 2.3.1.1 Clerics in the Free State: Socially Diverse or Homogenous? 2.3.1.2 Clerical Education: Practical but International 2.3.1.3 In Whose Authority? 2.2.2 Audiences of All Kinds 2.2.2.1 Audience according to Religious Source Material 2.2.2.2 Audience According to Contemporary Narrative Sources 2.3.3 Pastor and Flock: Points of Encounter 2.3.3.1 Translatio Ecclesiae: A Medieval Icelandic Textual Community 2.3.3.2 Social Significance of the Church: Panopticon or a Heterotopia 2.3.4 Conclusion: Conflicts of Interests 2.4 Ecclesiastical Imagination 2.4.1 Icelanders in the Sixth Age 2.4.2 Typological Thought 2.4.3 Typological Thought in Medieval Icelandic Literature 2.4.4 Conclusion: Beyond the Written Word 3 Force of Words: Constructing a Christian Society 3.1 Authority 3.1.1 Teaching 3.1.1.1 The Original Teaching 3.1.1.2 Teaching in the Icelandic Free State 3.1.2 Apostolic Authority 3.1.2.1 Apostolic Mandate 3.1.2.2 Apostolic Domination 3.1.3 Hierarchy 3.1.3.1 Primatus Petri 3.1.3.2 Church Hierarchy 3.1.4 Conclusion: Powering Over 3.2 The ‘Other’ 3.2.1 Enemies of the Church 3.2.1.1 Heretics 3.2.1.2 Heathens 3.2.1.3 Jews 3.2.2 Encountering the ‘Other’ 3.2.2.1 Expansion of Error 3.2.2.2 Becoming Other 3.2.3 Conclusion: Making Enemies 3.3 Perish or Prosper 3.3.1 Peace or Unrest? 3.3.1.1 Performing Peace 3.3.1.2 Peace of the Church 3.3.1.3 Fighting for Peace 3.3.1.4 The Danger of Unrest 3.3.2 Heaven or Hell? 3.3.2.1 War 3.3.2.2 Anger of God 3.3.2.3 Justice 3.3.2.4 Punishment 3.3.2.5 Rewards 3.3.3 Conclusion: The Only Way 4 Rome Goes North 4.1 In the Beginning 4.1.1 Chaotic Beginnings 4.1.2 Echoes from Rome 4.1.3 Gizurr’s Age of Peace 4.1.4 Conclusion: The Chieftain Church Rises 4.2 The Reform of Bishop Þorlákr 4.2.1 Libertas Ecclesiae in Iceland 4.2.1.1 Backdrop: Libertas Ecclesiae in Norway 4.2.1.2 The First Clash of Church and Chieftains 4.2.2 The Authority of the Archbishop 4.2.3 Enemies of the Church 4.2.4 Conclusion: On the Other Side 4.3 Reform and Violence: The Rule of Bishop Guðmundr 4.3.1 Guðmundr’s Rise to the Episcopacy 4.3.2 Religious Fervour and Armed Battles 4.3.3 Iceland’s Salvation 4.3.4 Conclusion: Framing Violence 5 Conclusion Appendix Manuscript Sources Bibliography Index
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Brill Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries
Book SynopsisGender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries explores women’s and men’s contributions to the arts and gendered visual representations in China, Korea, and Japan from the premodern through modern eras. A critical introduction and nine essays consider how threads of continuity and exchanges between the cultures of East Asia, Europe, and the United States helped to shape modernity in this region, in the process revealing East Asia as a vital component of the trans-Pacific world. The essays are organized into three themes: representations of femininity, women as makers, and constructions of gender, and they consider examples of architecture, painting, woodblock prints and illustrated books, photography, and textiles. Contributors are: Lara C. W. Blanchard, Kristen L. Chiem, Charlotte Horlyck, Ikumi Kaminishi, Nayeon Kim, Sunglim Kim, Radu Leca, Elizabeth Lillehoj, Ying-chen Peng, and Christina M. Spiker. Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Kristen L. Chiem and Lara C. W. Blanchard Part 1 Representations of Femininity 1 Cartographies of Alterity: Shape-Shifting Women and Periaquatic Spaces in Late Seventeenth-Century Japan Radu Leca 2 Indoctrinating Female Virtue: The Social Use of Chosŏn Woodblock Prints Nayeon Kim 3 Beauty under the Willow Tree: Picturing Virtuous Women in Nineteenth-Century China Kristen L. Chiem 4 Skillful Means (upāya) of the Courtesan as Bodhisattva Fugen: Maruyama Ōkyo’s Lady Eguchi Ikumi Kaminishi Part 2 Women as Makers 5 The Artistic Legacy of Yōgen’in, A Mortuary Temple Sponsored by Women in Early Modern Kyoto Elizabeth Lillehoj 6 Reconfijiguring Patriarchal Space: Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) and the Reconstruction of the Gardens of Nurtured Harmony Ying-chen Peng 7 Questioning Women’s Place in the Canon of Korean Art History Charlotte Horlyck Part 3 Constructions of Gender and Interactions with the West 8 The Personal is Political: The Life and Death and Life of Na Hye-sŏk (1896–1948) Sunglim Kim 9 “Civilized” Men and “Superstitious” Women: Visualizing the Hokkaido Ainu in Isabella Bird’s Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, 1880 Christina M. Spiker Index
£45.60
Brill What Politics?: Youth and Political Engagement in Africa
Book SynopsisWhat Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa examines the diverse experiences of being young in today’s Africa. It offers new perspectives to the roles and positions young people take to change their life conditions both within and beyond the formal political structures and institutions. The contributors represent several social science disciplines, and provide well-grounded qualitative analyses of young people’s everyday engagements by critically examining dominant discourses of youth, politics and ideology. Despite focusing on Africa, the book is a collective effort to better understand what it is like to be young today, and what the making of tomorrow’s yesterday means for them in personal and political terms. Contributors are: Ehaab Abdou, Abebaw Yirga Adamu, Henni Alava, Päivi Armila, Randi Rønning Balsvik, Jesper Bjarnesen, Þóra Björnsdóttir, Jónína Einarsdóttir, Tilo Grätz, Nanna Jordt Jørgensen, Marko Kananen, Sofia Laine, Naydene de Lange, Afifa Ltifi, Ivo Mhike, Claudia Mitchell, Relebohile Moletsane, Danai S. Mupotsa, Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera, Eija Ranta, Mounir Saidani, Mariko Sato, Loubna H. Skalli, Tiina Sotkasiira, Abdoulaye Sounaye, Leena Suurpää, and Mulumebet Zenebe. What Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations 1 Evasive Youth, Oblique Politics Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera and Leena Suurpää Part 1: Envisioning 2 A Question of Power Danai S. Mupotsa 3 Friendship and Youth Activism in Pre-revolutionary Egypt Henri Onodera 4 Respectful Resistance: Young Musicians and the Unfinished Revolution in Tunisia Sofia Laine, Leena Suurpää and Afifa Ltifi 5 Egyptian Youth-led Civil Society Organizations: Alternative Spaces for Civic Engagement? Ehaab D. Abdou and Loubna H. Skalli 6 Taking the Forbidden Space: Graffiti and Resistance in Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Mulumebet Zenebe 7 Post-Revolutionary Tunisian Youth Art: The Effect of Contestation on the Democratization of Art Production and Consumption Mounir Saidani Part 2: Entitlement 8 The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Urban Burkina Faso Jesper Bjarnesen 9 Hustling for Rights: Political Engagements with Sand in Northern Kenya Nanna Jordt Jørgensen 10 “Acholi Youth Are Lost”: Young, Christian and (A)political in Uganda Henni Alava 11 Struggling for New Communicative Spaces: Young Media Producers and Politics in the Republic of Benin Tilo Grätz 12 Transnational Engagement: Return Migrant Women in Somaliland Mariko Sato Part 3: Embeddedness 13 Salafi Youth on Campus in Niamey, Niger: Moral Motives, Political Ends Abdoulaye Sounaye 14 Patronage and Ethnicity amongst Politically Active Young Kenyans Eija Ranta 15 Political Violence in Zimbabwe’s National Youth Service, 2001–2007 Ivo Mhike 16 Students’ Participation in and Contribution to Political and Social Change in Ethiopia Abebaw Yirga Adamu and Randi Rønning Balsvik 17 Child Participation in Ghana: Responsibilities and Rights Þóra Björnsdóttir and Jónína Einarsdóttir 18 Diaspora as a Multilevel Political Space for Young Somalis Päivi Armila, Marko Kananen and Tiina Sotkasiira 19 Addressing Sexual Violence in South Africa: ‘Gender activism in the making’ Claudia Mitchell, Naydene de Lange and Relebohile Moletsane Index
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Brill Ports of Globalisation, Places of Creolisation: Nordic Possessions in the Atlantic World during the Era of the Slave Trade
Book SynopsisThis anthology addresses and analyses the transformation of interconnected spaces and spatial entanglements in the Atlantic rim during the era of the slave trade by focusing on the Danish possessions on the Gold Coast and their Caribbean islands of Saint Thomas, Saint Jan and Saint Croix as well as on the Swedish Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy. The first part of the anthology addresses aspects of interconnectedness in West Africa, in particular the relationship between Africans and Danes on the Gold Coast. The second part of this volume examines various aspects of interconnectedness, creolisation and experiences of Danish and Swedish slave rules in the Caribbean.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... vii List of Illustrations ... viii List of Contributors ... x 1 Introduction: Portals of Early Modern Globalisation and Creolisation in the Atlantic World during the Era of the Slave Trade ... 1 Holger Weiss 2 The Entangled Spaces of Oddena, Oguaa and Osu: A Survey of Three Early Modern African Atlantic Towns, ca. 1650–1850 ... 22 Holger Weiss 3 ‘A Fine Flintlock, a Pair of Ditto Pistols and a Hat with a Gold Galloon’: Danish Political and Commercial Strategies on the Gold Coast in the Early 18th Century ... 68 Fredrik Hyrum Svensli 4 Slave Trade, Slave Plantations and Danish Colonialism ... 101 Per Hernæs 5 Pre-Colonial Visions of a Colony: The Construction of the Pligtarbejder in a Proposed Danish West African Colony ... 140 Jonas Møller Pedersen 6 The Question of Rights in a Colour-Conscious Empire: The Danish West Indies and the Global Age of Revolutions (1800–1850) ... 154 Christian Damm Pedersen 7 The Overly Candid Missionary Historian: C.G.A. Oldendorp’s Theological Ambivalence over Slavery in the Danish West Indies ... 191 Anders Ahlbäck 8 Freedom, Autonomy, and Independence: Exceptional African Caribbean Life Experiences in St. Thomas, the Danish West Indies, in the Middle of the 18th Century ... 218 Louise Sebro 9 Magic, Obeah and Law in the Danish West Indies, 1750s–1840s ... 245 Gunvor Simonsen 10 Thirty-Two Lashes at Quatre Piquets: Slave Laws and Justice in the Swedish Colony of St. Barthélemy ca. 1800 ... 280 Fredrik Thomasson Index ... 307
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Brill Slaving Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery
Book SynopsisIn Slaving Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery, fourteen authors—including both world-leading and emerging historians of slavery—engage with the ‘Slaving Zones’ theory. This theory has recently taken the field of Mediterranean slavery studies by storm, and the challenge posed by the editors was to see if the ‘Slaving Zones’ theory could be applied in the wider context of long-term global history. The results of this experiment are promising. In the Introduction, Jeff Fynn-Paul points out over a dozen ways in which the contributors have added to the concept of ‘Slaving Zones’, helping to make it one of the more dynamic theories of global slavery since the advent of Orlando Patterson’s Slavery and Social Death.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction. Slaving Zones in Global History: The Evolution of a Concept Jeff Fynn-Paul Part I. Slaving Zones to the Dawn of the Modern Era 2 “To Serve Them All the More”: Christian Slaveholders and Christian Slaves in Antiquity Jennifer A. Glancy 3 Christianities in Conflict: The Black Sea as a Genoese Slaving Zone in the Later Middle Ages Hannah Barker 4 Considerations About the Territorial Distribution of Slaves in the Romanian Principalities Viorel Achim 5 Iberia’s Old World Slaving Zones in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods William D. Phillips, Jr. 6 Chasing ‘Caribs’: Defining Zones of Legal Indigenous Enslavement in the Circum-Caribbean, 1493–1542 Erin Stone Part II. Slaving Zones in Modern Times (18th Century-Present) 7 How Useful is the Concept of Slaving Zones? Some Thoughts from the Experience of Dahomey and Kongo John K. Thornton 8 Some Thoughts Concerning the Effects of the European Slave Trade on the Dynamics of Slavery in Madagascar in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Rafaël Thiebaut 9 “Hearing the Sound of the Flute from Zanzibar”: Migrating Communities and Slave Trade Routes in the Indian Ocean Beatrice Nicolini 10 Slave Protection and Resistance in Colonial Mauritius, 1829–1830 Tyler Yank Part III. Slaving Zones in a Post-Abolition World 11 The Price You Pay: Choosing Family, Friends, and Familiarity Over Freedom in the Leeward Islands, 1835–1863 Jessica Roitman 12 Black Bondspeople, White Masters and Mistresses, and the Americanization of the Upper Mississippi River Valley Lead District Jennifer Kirsten Stinson 13 A Female Slaving Zone? Historical Constructions of the Traffic in Asian Women Julia Martinez 14 “Slaving Zones, Contemporary Slavery and Citizenship: Reflections from the Brazilian Case” Alexis Jonathan Martig Index
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Brill The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves
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 2019Table 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
£66.40
Brill De l’office à la dignité: L’écolâtre cathédral en
Book SynopsisThis book traces the history of one of the central actors in the transformation of the Western educational system between the 9th and 13th centuries: the cathedral schoolmaster. Originally responsible for running the episcopal school, this ecclesiastical official eventually became a true school administrator with a territorial monopoly and coercive powers, including in particular issuing ‘licentia docendi’ to masters under his jurisdiction. Using a wide range of sources and taking in thirty-nine dioceses in northern France, the study analyses the construction of the office from the Carolingian period, the place of the schoolmaster within the canonical community and in feudal society, and the institutionalisation of his function with the Gregorian Reform and the birth of universities.Table of ContentsTable des matières Remerciements Table des illustrations Abréviations Introduction 1 La naissance de l’écolâtre 1 Les conditions d’émergence de la fonction 2 L’affirmation de l’office dans l’espace ecclésial 3 La constitution du bénéfice ecclésiastique 4 Conclusion du chapitre 2 L’écolâtre dans le chapitre 1 L’appartenance au chapitre 2 Le rang au sein du chapitre 3 Les missions confiées à l’écolâtre 4 Conclusion du chapitre 3 Les prérogatives de l’écolâtre 1 La fonction enseignante 2 L’administration des écoles 3 La nature du jus scolarum 4 Conclusion du chapitre 4 L’écolâtre à l’épreuve de la réforme 1 Le discours réformateur sur l’école 2 La mise en œuvre de la réforme 3 Conclusion du chapitre Conclusion Sources et bibliographie Index
£140.80
Brill Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations
Book SynopsisDue to the increasing linkage of global production sites, the concept of commodity chains has become indispensable for the investigation of production at a global scale. Although work is the basis of production in every involved location, it is often being neglected as a research subject without taking interest in the workers, the work processes and the working conditions. This edited volume provides a collection of historical and contemporary commodity chain studies by placing labor at the centre of analysis. A global historical perspective demonstrates that splitting production processes to different, hierarchically connected locations are by no means new phenomena. The book is thus an important and valuable contribution to commodity chain research, but also to the fields of social-economic and global labour history. Contributors are: András Pinkasz, Andrea Komlosy, Christin Bernhold, Ernst Langthaler, Franziska Ollendorf, Goran Musić, Jan Grumiller, Johanna Sittel, Jörg Nowak, Karin Fischer, Klemens Kaps, Miroslav Lacko, Santosh Hasnu, Stefan Schmalz, Tamás Gerőcs, Tibor T. Meszmann, and Uwe Spiekermann.Table of ContentsList of Maps, Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Chains of Labor Connecting Global Labor History and the Commodity Chain Paradigm Andrea Komlosy and Goran Musić PART 1 Theorizing Commodity Chains, Labor Relations and Upgrading 2 Cycles of Global Expansion and Contraction Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations in Textiles and Garments from 17th to 21st Century Andrea Komlosy 3 Soy Expansions China, the USA and Brazil in Comparison Ernst Langthaler 4 Who’s Upgrading? Class Differentiation and Labor Relations in Argentinian Agribusiness Christin Bernhold PART 2 Commodity Chains and Proto-industrialization in Early Modern Central Europe 5 Grain, Flour, Beer, and Liquor Commodity Chains, Labor Relations and Economic Development in Habsburg Galicia, 1772–1918 Klemens Kaps 6 Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations in the Distribution of Central European Copper in the Eighteenth Century Miroslav Lacko PART 3 Commodity Chains in (Post-)Colonial Settings>/i> 7 Labor as a Bottleneck Entangled Commodity Chains of Sugar in Hawaii and California in the Late Nineteenth Century Uwe Spiekermann 8 Coolie Labor, Tea Planters and Transport in Colonial India Santosh Hasnu 9 Analyzing Structural Change and Labor Relations in Global Commodity Chains The Ethiopian Leather Industry Jan Grumiller PART 4 Production Chains in (Post-)Socialist Eastern Europe 10 Outward Processing Production and the Yugoslav Self-Managed Textile Industry in the 1980s Goran Musić 11 Uneven Development in the European Automotive Industry Labor Fragmentation and Value- Added Production in the Hungarian Semi-Periphery Tamás Gerőcs, Tibor T. Meszmann and András Pinkasz PART 5 Trade Union Networks, ngo campaigns, Workers’ Agency 12 Transnational Solidarity Networks between Workers and Global Production Networks Jörg Nowak 13 Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Cocoa Chocolate Chain Insights from sustainability certification in Ghana’s Cocoa Communities Franziska Ollendorf 14 On the (Re)Production of Informal Work in Argentina’s Auto Industry Stefan Schmalz and Johanna Sittel PART 6 Conclusion 15 Global Labor and Labor Studies – Breaking the Chains Karin Fischer Index of Places, Persons, Companies and Institutions
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Brill Tikim: Essays on Philippine Food and Culture
Book SynopsisTikim: Essays on Philippine Food and Culture by Doreen G. Fernandez is a groundbreaking work that introduces readers to the wondrous history of Filipino foodways. First published by Anvil in 1994, Tikim explores the local and global nuances of Philippine cuisine through its people, places, feasts, and flavors. Doreen Gamboa Fernandez (1934–2002) was a cultural historian, professor, author, and columnist. Her food writing educated and inspired generations of chefs and food enthusiasts in the Philippines and throughout the world. This Brill volume honors and preserves Fernandez’s legacy with a reprinting of Tikim, a foreword by chef and educator Aileen Suzara, and an editor’s preface by historian Catherine Ceniza Choy.Trade Review"Tikim as tikman (verb) means to taste food or to try anything. Doreen Fernandez's literary essays on Philippine culinary and alimentary traditions are rightly fabled for their conjugations of tasting and trying in dazzling verbal arabesques. As assays at descriptions and critiques of Philippine cultural formations (assay is archaic form of 'essay') through sensorial samplings of Philippine cuisines, they themselves powerfully incarnate what Benedict Anderson once said of Philippine cultures as constituting ‘a pure mix’!" —Oscar V. Campomanes, Department of English, Ateneo de Manila "Doreen Fernandez was undisputedly one of the best storytellers of our lifetime of what Filipinos eat in their home country. Upon first reading of her essays, one gets introduced to the plot quickly and leaves you savoring every word she writes with meticulous efficiency to uncover layered meanings of culture that form the most basic theoretical foundation in understanding any cuisine. Enjoy the stories that fill these pages, read them many times and one day you will own the knowledge she wanted to share with us." —Amy Besa, Co-Author of Memories of Philippine Kitchens: Stories and Recipes from Far and Near "When their safe houses in Manila were no longer safe, the rebels took shelter at the airy bungalow of Doreen Gamboa Fernandez, a sugar planter’s daughter turned literature professor and food writer. (...) Then, while her guests recuperated by the pool in the cool shadow of a great acacia, she retreated to her desk and resumed the task of documenting the indigenous cooking traditions — scorned and ignored during centuries of colonialism — of an archipelago spanning more than 7,000 islands and nearly 200 languages. (...) Hers was a quiet act of subversion. She revolutionized Filipino food simply by treating it as what it is: a cuisine." Ligaya Mishan, The New York Times, July 30, 2019. "[T]his presents the opportunity to reexamine her work in the context of pressing issues today: disappearing species, the politics of foodways, street vendor economy, or even gender sensitivity, among others, all of which find space in 'Tikim.' (...) Fernandez did all of us a great service — by working hard to explore the multiple layers of Philippine food, culture, and history, she best explained what we mean by food that is ours. By infusing delight and rigor in her writing, she has inspired countless others to do the same. Her invaluable gift is to articulate our collective conscience about food, identity, representation, and power. It is up to us to listen to that conscience. Perhaps my only complaint now is how she has so inaptly titled her book 'Tikim.' When it comes to ingesting food and culture, Fernandez clearly gave us more than just a taste. She gave us a fierce, ravenous appetite." Anna Bueno, CNN Philippines, January 10, 2020Table of ContentsForeword Editor’s Preface Tikim: Just a Taste Acknowledgements Introduction: Writing about Food: Savor the Word, Swallow the World 1 Food and Flavors 1 Balut to Barbecue: Philippine Street Food 2 Here’s to Spirited Holidays 3 Breaking the Fast 4 Sukang Paombong 5 Balut, Kamaru, Sawa: What Exotica Do You Eat? 6 The Lumpia of Silay 7 Si Sugpo: Prawns in Philippine Lore and Culture 8 Ang Mahiwagang Nilaga 9 The Noodles of Our (Long) Lives 10 The Original Pancit Lucban 11 The Vanishing Scene 12 New Ways with Old Dishes 13 Sa Banwa sang Dulce: the Flavors of Negros 14 A Durian Experience 15 Mangoes and Maytime 16 Salty and Sour, Bitter and Sweet: Philippine Flavorings 2 People and Places 1 Inside Information: a Tribute to Mothers 2 On Unperceived Excellences 3 Men in the Kitchen 4 Alta Cocina Filipina: Has It Arrived? 5 Kinilaw Artistry in Old Sagay 6 She Cuts Pastillas Wrappers 7 The Sweet Taste of Success 8 The Filipino Kitchen 9 Restaurant of Yesteryears 10 The Regional Food Adventure 11 What’s Cooking? 3 Books and Other Feasts 1 Food in Philippine Literature 2 A Cookbook and a Billiard Table 3 Pasteleria at Reposteria, 1919 4 Dream Food 5 Mother Cuisine 6 Contrary Thoughts for Valentine’s Day 7 My Personal, Communal Christmas 8 Noche Buena 9 The Festive Table 10 Angono, San Clemente, Giants and Water Pistols 11 Silay, Zarzuelas, and Remembering the Revolution 12 A Town Bejewelled: Philippine Food Art 4 Food in Philippine History 1 The Flavors of Mexico in Philippine Food and Culture 2 A Conversation with Fray Juan de Oliver on Drinking and Drunkenness 3 Beyond Sans Rival: Exploring the French Influence on Philippine Gastronomy 4 Colonizing the Cuisine: the Politics of Philippine Foodways Glossary Sources
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Brill Ficino and Fantasy: Imagination in Renaissance Art and Theory from Botticelli to Michelangelo
Book SynopsisDid the Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) influence the art of his time? Art historians have been fiercely debating this question for decades. This book starts with Ficino’s views on the imagination as a faculty of the soul, and shows how these ideas were part of a long philosophical tradition and inspired fresh insights. This approach, combined with little known historical material, offers a new understanding of whether, how and why Ficino’s Platonic conceptions of the imagination may have been received in the art of the Italian Renaissance. The discussion explores Ficino’s possible influence on the work of Botticelli and Michelangelo, and examines the appropriation of Ficino’s ideas by early modern art theorists.
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Brill Practising Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia (1000–1600): Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Book SynopsisThis volume explores social practices of framing, building and enacting community in urban-rural relations across medieval Eurasia. Introducing fresh comparative perspectives on practices and visions of community, it offers a thorough source-based examination of medieval communal life in its sociocultural complexity and diversity in Central and Southeast Europe, South Arabia and Tibet. As multi-layered social phenomena, communities constantly formed, restructured and negotiated internal allegiances, while sharing a topographic living space and joint notions of belonging. The volume challenges disciplinary paradigms and proposes an interdisciplinary set of low-threshold categories and tools for cross-cultural comparison of urban and rural communities in the Global Middle Ages. Contributors are Maaike van Berkel, Hubert Feiglstorfer, Andre Gingrich, Károly Goda, Elisabeth Gruber, Johann Heiss, Kateřina Horníčková, Eirik Hovden, Christian Jahoda, Christiane Kalantari, Odile Kommer, Fabian Kümmeler, Christina Lutter, Judit Majorossy, Ermanno Orlando, and Noha Sadek.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Practising Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia: Introduction and Practical Approaches Elisabeth Gruber and Fabian Kümmeler PART 1: Practising Community in Urban and Rural Spaces 2 Symbols, Signs and Acts of Social Cohesion in the Austrian Danube Region Elisabeth Gruber 3 Legal, Spatial and Ritual Practices and Visions of Community in Late Medieval Venice: Comparative Perspectives Ermanno Orlando 4 Balancing a Community’s Food and Water Supply: The Social Impact of Rural-Urban Interdependences in Korčula (Dalmatia) and Ṣaʿda (Yemen) Fabian Kümmeler and Johann Heiss 5 Conceptualizing City-Hinterland Relations and Governance: Medieval Sanaa as a Case Study Eirik Hovden, Johann Heiss and Odile Kommer PART 2: Representing Community through Public Buildings and Performative Culture 6 Public Buildings and/as Symbolic Framing of Urban-cum-Rural Communal Practice in Western Tibet Christian Jahoda 7 Material Culture in the Western Himalayas: Mandalic Settlement Patterns and Material Components of the Ritual Space Hubert Feiglstorfer 8 Image Construction and Community Building in the Spiritual Career of the Buddha in Western Tibet from the Eleventh–Thirteenth Century Christiane Kalantari 9 Visualising Communities: The Canonry of Třeboň (Southern Bohemia) Kateřina Horníčková 10 The Monuments of Rasulid Taʿizz: The Physical Construction of Power and Piety Noha Sadek PART 3: Practising Community – Forms of Integration and Differentiation 11 Defining Rules of Rural-Urban Flows: Endowments, Authority and Law in Medieval Zaydi Yemen in a Comparative Perspective Eirik Hovden 12 Constructing Communal Memory through Donations in Medieval East-Central Europe Judit Majorossy 13 Notes on Foundations and Endowments in Historical Western Tibet (Late Tenth–Fifteenth Century) Christian Jahoda 14 Binding the Bonds: Metropolitan Modes of Eucharistic Confraternal and Processional Life in Late Medieval East-Central Europe Károly Goda 15 “To Extol Knowledge”: Celebrating the Completion of Books in Rasulid Yemen Johann Heiss 16 Building Community with Processions and Endowments Maaike van Berkel PART 4: Conclusions 17 Urban Patterns of Belonging by Comparison: Assessing a Work in Progress Christina Lutter 18 Nodal Conglomerates and Their Visions: Comparative Reflections on Urban-Rural Settings across Asia and Europe (1000–1600 CE) Andre Gingrich Bibliography Index of Geographical Names Index of Persons
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Brill The Bianchi of 1399 in Central Italy: Making Devotion Local
Book SynopsisProviding new insights into the Bianchi devotions, a medieval popular religious revival which responded to an outbreak of plague at the turn of the fifteenth century, this book takes a comparative, local and regional approach to the Bianchi, challenging traditional presentations of the movement as homogeneous whole. Combining a rich collection of textual, visual, and material sources, the study focuses on the two Tuscan towns of Lucca and Pistoia. Alexandra R.A. Lee demonstrates how the Bianchi processions in central Italy were moulded by secular and ecclesiastical authorities and shaped by local traditions as they attempted to prevent an epidemic.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures, Maps and Tables List of Abbreviations Transcription, Translation and Digitized Manuscripts Introduction 1 Nomenclature 2 Popular Religion and Civic Religion 3 Popular Religious Revivals 4 Book Outline 1 Politics and Plague 1 Politics 2 Plague 3 The Moria dei Bianchi 2 Origin Stories 1 The Tre Pani Story 1.1 Protagonists 1.1.1 The Witness 1.1.2 Christ 1.1.3 The Virgin 1.2 Narrative Variation 1.3 Images 2 The Book Story 3 Capperledis’ Tale 4 Location of Origins 3 Continuing Momentum 1 Origin Story Recapitulations 2 The Madonna Dell’oliva 3 Melica 4 Visions at Cigoli 5 Smaller Scale Visions 4 Regulations for a Revival 1 Realising the Regulations: Wearing White 1.1 Adornments 2 Bianchi Practices 5 Lay Religious Practices 1 Singing and Praying 1.1 Stabat Mater: The Bianchi “Theme Tune” 1.2 Misericordia Etterno Iddio and Misericordia Virgine Pia 1.3 Vernacular Bianchi Laude 1.4 Latin Bianchi Laude 1.5 Praying 1.6 How to Sing During the Bianchi Devotions 2 Self-flagellation 2.1 Tuscany 2.2 Umbria 2.3 The Symbolic Use of Self-Flagellation 6 Civic Religion and Religious Spaces 1 Civic Religion 2 Religious Confraternities 3 Pilgrimage and Processions 4 Processional Order 5 Processional Routes 6 Preaching and the Role of the Church 7 Civic Religion and Communal Support 1 Crossing Thresholds 2 Leaders 3 Provisions 4 Peacemaking 5 Images and Objects of Peacemaking 6 Prisons 7 The Bianchi and Civic Religion 8 Legacy 1 Rome: The End of the Devotions? 2 Jubilee 1400 3 Commemoration in Tuscany: Crucifixes and Confraternities 4 Commemoration in Umbria and Lazio Conclusion Appendix: Bianchi Laude Incipits Bibliography Index of Subjects
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Brill Between Memory and Power: The Syrian Space under
Book SynopsisBetween Memory and Power intends to demonstrate that a robust culture of historical writing existed in 2nd/8th century Syria, and to offer new methodological approaches to access this now lost history, torn between memory and oblivion. By studying the making of Umayyad heroes or Abbasid origins-myths, this book aims to reveal the successive meanings granted to Syrian history, and to identify the various layers of historical writing and rewriting during the first centuries of Islam. Taken together, these elements make possible a history of meanings of the very space of Syria, articulated around power and its expression, which grants a clear coherence to the period, extending well beyond the dynastic caesura of 132/750.Table of ContentsPreface to the English Translation (2022) Acknowledgements to the French Edition (2011) Translator’s Note List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction 1 A Time of Writings and Rewritings: Writing History in the Syrian Space 1.1 Narrative Islamic Sources and the Question of Their Transmission 1.2 Writing History in the Syrian Space under the Late Umayyads and Early Abbasids 2 A Time of Writings and Rewritings: Historiographic Filters and Vulgates 2.1 In Search of Umayyad Historiographic Projects 2.2 Toward a Historiographic Vulgate: The History of Syria Rewritten in Abbasid Iraq 3 A Time of Writings and Rewritings: Sources on the Margins of the Historiographic Vulgate? 3.1 Islamic Sources on the Margins of the Vulgate? 3.2 Non-Muslim Sources: “External” or “Eastern” Sources? 4 The Second/Eight-Century Syrian Space: Between Memory and Oblivion 4.1 Memoria as an Object of Study 4.2 Umayyad Memoria 4.3 Spaces of Memory 5 The Creation of Umayyad Heroes Maslama B. ʿAbd Al-Malik, Combat Hero 5.1 The Siege of Constantinople: Military Failure, Narrative Success 5.2 From Hero of the Byzantine Frontier to Islamic Hero? 5.3 Eschatology and the Creation of Heroes 6 The Creation of Umayyad Heroes: ʿUmar B. ʿAbd Al-ʿAziz, the “Holy” Caliph 6.1 ʿUmar II in the Islamic Tradition 6.2 ʿUmar II in the Christian Sources 6.3 Constructing the Image of the Pious Caliph: Stages and Conditions 7 Interpreting the Abbasid Revolution in the Syrian Space 7.1 The Abbasid Revolution: Medieval and Modern Vulgates 7.2 Syrian Memories of the Abbasid Revolution 7.3 ʿAbd Allāh B. ʿAlī and the Allure of a Syrian Abbasid Caliphate? 8 Exercising Power in the Syrian Space in the Second/Eighth Century: A History of Meanings 8.1 Patrimonialism and the Creation of a Caliphal Landscape 8.2 The Mobile Exercise of Power 8.3 Abbasid Reconfigurations Conclusion Sources Bibliography Index
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Brill Coping with Life during the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648)
Book SynopsisAt its core, Coping with Life during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) explores how people tried to survive the Thirty Years’ War, on what resources they drew, and how they attempted to make sense of it. A rich tapestry of stories brings to light contemporaries’ trauma as well as women and men’s unrelenting initiatives to stem the war’s negative consequences. Through these close-ups, Sigrun Haude shows that experiences during the Thirty Years’ War were much more diverse and often more perplexing than a straightforward story line of violence and destruction can capture. Life during the Thirty Years’ War was not a homogenous vale of gloom and doom, but a multifaceted story that was often heartbreaking, yet, at times, also uplifting.Trade Review"Sigrun Haude's exciting new book revises our view of wartime experiences. Her meticulous archival research reveals a far broader range of reactions and coping strategies than previous histories have offered. Her sparkling prose vividly catches the dilemmas of life in a war-torn world but also uncovers surprisingly positive moments and unexpected decisions. Simply put, she sets a new standard for the historical understanding of war in early modern times." Professor Mary Lindemann, University of Miami "Haude's superb study expands our understanding of the Thirty Years War to include the full range of human experiences at the ground level. Her archivally rich analysis includes not just predictable accounts of human cruelty and suffering, but also of ingenuity and resilience. Her important findings challenge our most basic ideas about religious strife and coexistence during this especially violent phase of the early modern era." Professor Joel F. Harrington, Vanderbilt University "Sigrun Haude’s book takes us into the maelstrom of the Thirty Years War, Europe’s most destructive conflict prior to the twentieth century, and reveals through a gripping narrative how ordinary – and some not so ordinary – people faced death, violence, disease, fear and want, many with fatalistic resignation, but equally many others with pragmatism and ingenuity. From this we gain a more rounded and detailed understanding of the war’s impact, as well as the interaction between politics, military operations, and daily life." Professor Peter H. Wilson, University of Oxford "Sigrun Haude’s wide-ranging yet intimate study of the Thirty Years’ War broadens the focus beyond army camps, generals’ tents, and rulers’ palaces to encompass convents and monasteries, pest-houses, village churches, and urban workshops. Much that made the war so devastating will seem strikingly familiar, with fleeing migrants blamed for spreading disease and governments unable to relieve poverty and suffering, but so will the means women and men found to cope: conversation, community, music, shared food, family rituals." Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee "Haude’s study transforms our understanding of everyday life during the Thirty Years’ War. Full of rich detail and powerful personal testimonies, it reveals the coping strategies – both practical and psychological – that seventeenth-century women and men adopted in the face of death and destruction. In asking how communities and individuals endured this most destructive of pre-modern European wars, Haude’s broad-ranging study opens up crucial new avenues of research." Bridget Margaret Heal, University of St AndrewsTable of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Abbreviations 1 Introduction: The Lay of the Land 1 Focus – Historiography – Methodology 2 The Thirty Years’ War, Abridged 3 Places and Characters 2 Experiences of War 1 Fear and Vulnerability 2 Instability and Disruption 3 Poverty – Hunger – Dearth 4 Violence and Human Concern: World Views Turned Upside Down 3 Governmental Support: Hopes, Measures, and Realities 1 Protection against Violence 2 Stemming Deprivation and Disease 3 Averting Spiritual Harm and Promoting a Decent Life 4 Coping with the Experiences of War 1 To Flee or Not to Flee 2 News and Information 3 Pragmatism, Resilience, and Initiative 4 Connections, Communities, and Space 5 Religion and Other Formative Forces 6 Lifting Up the Spirit 5 Conclusion: Life Beyond Devastation Glossary Bibliography Index
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Brill Echoing Hooves: Studies on Horses and Their Effects on Medieval Societies
Book SynopsisSaying that horses shaped the medieval world – and the way we see it today – is hardly an exaggeration. Why else do we imagine a medieval knight – or a nomadic warrior – on horseback? Why do we use such metaphors as “unbridled” or “bearing a yoke” in our daily language? Studies of medieval horses and horsemanship are increasingly popular, but they often focus on a single aspect of equestrianism or a single culture. In this book, you will find information about both elite and humble working equines, about the ideology and practicalities of medieval horsemanship across different countries, from Iceland to China. Contributors are Gloria Allaire, Luise Borek, Gail Brownrigg, Agnès Carayon, Gavina Cherchi, John C. Ford, Loïs Forster, Jürg Gassmann, Rebecca Henderson, Anna-Lena Lange, Romain Lefebvre, Rena Maguire, Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, and Alexia-Foteini Stamouli.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Of Horses and Humans in the Medieval World Anastasija Ropa Part 1: Socially Formative Horses 1 Horses as Status Indicators in Wolfram’s Parzival Anna-Lena Lange 2 The Role of the Horse in Tangut Society Romain Lefebvre 3 “Hrafn ok Sleipnir, hestar ágætir”: Horses of the Medieval North Rebecca Henderson 4 City of the Cavalrymen and House of the Rider: ‘Landscaped Hippodromes’ and Stable-Palaces in Mamluk Cairo Agnès Carayon Part 2: Literary Horses 5 Travel in the Middle English ‘Matter of England’ Romances, and the Changing Significations of Horses and Horsemanship John C. Ford 6 Information of Middle Byzantine Hagiographical Texts about Equids Alexia-Foteini Stamouli 7 Dead Horses in Arthurian Romance (and Beyond) Luise Borek 8 Horse Descriptions in the Unedited Prose Rinaldo da Montalbano (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana MS Pluteus 42, codex 37) Gloria Allaire Part 3: Martial Horses 9 Vegetius, Arrian and the Battlefield Cavalry Formations of Medieval Europe Jürg Gassmann 10 Hunting, Jousting, and Fighting on Horseback according to King João I and King Duarte of Portugal Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues 11 The Typology of Horses in Burgundian Chronicles of the Fifteenth Century Loïs Forster Part 4: The Hardware of the Horse – Real and Symbolic 12 The Origin of the Horse Collar Gail Brownrigg 13 Get off your High Horse: An Examination of Changes in Lorinery and Equitation in the Irish Early Medieval Period AD 400 to 700 Rena Maguire 14 Unbridled Horses and Knights Errant Gavina Cherchi Conclusion: Gendering Horse Riders in Medieval Romance and Modern Racing Media Anastasija Ropa Select Bibliography Index
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Brill Art and Worship in the Insular World: Papers in Honour of Elizabeth Coatsworth
Book SynopsisA monastic artist with an unusual enthusiasm of male buttocks and genitalia; a nun bringing her spinning equipment from her home in the south to her new convent in the north; the riddle of a carved archer bearing a book instead of arrows; a bishop’s ring hiding in its design symbols of the essential aspects of the Christian faith: these are some of the secrets of early medieval personal and public worship uncovered in this book. In tribute to a scholar who is herself a polymath of early medieval studies, these chapters explore approaches which have particularly engaged her: stone sculpture; text; textiles; manuscript art; metalwork; and archaeology. With a brief foreword by Professor Dame Rosemary Cramp. Contributors are Richard N. Bailey, Michelle P. Brown, Peter Furniss, Jane Hawkes, David A. Hinton, Maren Clegg Hyer, Catherine E. Karkov, Alexandra Lester-Makin, Christina Lee, Donncha MacGabhann, Éamonn Ó Carragáin, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Frances Pritchard, and Penelope Walton Rogers.Table of ContentsForeword Rosemary J. Cramp Elizabeth (Betty) Coatsworth: Her Life and Times Gale R. Owen-Crocker The Published Work of Elizabeth Coatsworth List of Illustrations List of Tables Contributors Introduction Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Maren Clegg Hyer part 1: Representation: Art and Worship through Text, Textile and Tool 1 Figurative Art in the Book of Kells: Absurd Anatomies, See-through Tunics and Diverse Hairstyles Donncha MacGabhann 2 The Art of Looking Good: Hair and Beauty Remedies in Early Medieval Texts and Contexts Christina Lee 3 Dress and Undress, Real and Unreal, in the Drawings of Harley Psalter Artist F Gale R. Owen-Crocker 4 Adorning Medieval Life: Domestic and Dress Textiles as Expressions of Worship in Early Medieval England Maren Clegg Hyer 5 In Search of Hild: A Review of the Context of Abbess Hild’s Life, Her Religious Establishment, and the Relevance of Recent Archaeological Finds from Whitby Abbey Penelope Walton Rogers 6 Embroidery on Spin-Patterned Linen in the 6th to 9th Centuries Frances Pritchard 7 The Embroidered Fragments from the Tomb of Bishop William of St Calais, Durham: An Analysis and Biography Alexandra Lester-Makin part 2: In Their Contexts: Art and Worship through Sculpture, Carving and Manuscript 8 Framing Fragmentation: (Re)Constructing Anglo-Saxon Sculpture Jane Hawkes 9 The Thread of Ornament Catherine E. Karkov 10 A Newly Identified Anglo-Saxon Sculpture in Great Chalfield Church, Wiltshire David A. Hinton 11 The Company They Keep: Scholarly Discussion, 2005–2020 of the Original Settings for the Poems in the Dream of the Rood Tradition Éamonn Ó Carragáin 12 Bishop Acca’s Portable Altar: Authentic Relic or Twelfth-Century Hexham Fiction? Richard N. Bailey 13 The Hereford Gospels Reappraised Michelle P. Brown and Peter Furniss Appendix: Observations on the Codicology and Palaeography of the Hereford Gospels, a Scribe’s ViewBy Peter Furniss (Chairman, Shropshire Scribes) Select Bibliography Index
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Brill Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750): New Concepts and Approaches
Book SynopsisThe present edited volume offers a collection of new concepts and approaches to the study of mobility in pre-modern Islamic societies. It includes nine remarkable case studies from different parts of the Islamic world that examine the professional mobility within the literati and, especially, the social-cum-cultural group of Muslim scholars (ʿulamāʾ) between the eighth and the eighteenth centuries. Based on individual case studies and quantitative mining of biographical dictionaries and other primary sources from Islamic Iberia, North and West Africa, Umayyad Damascus and the Hejaz, Abbasid Baghdad, Ayyubid and Mamluk Syria and Egypt, various parts of the Seljuq Empire, and Hotakid Iran, this edited volume presents professional mobility as a defining characteristic of pre-modern Islamic societies. Contributors Mehmetcan Akpinar, Amal Belkamel, Mehdi Berriah, Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Adday Hernández López, Konrad Hirschler, Mohamad El-Merheb, Marta G. Novo, M. A. H. Parsa, M. Syifa A. Widigdo.Trade Review"Im Ganzen ist der Band ein gelungener und lesenswerter Beitrag zur Forschung und bietet selbst für besonders häufig studierte Fälle, wie z.B. Ibn Taymiyya, noch neue Erkenntnisse. Dazu gehört, dass die Bewertung von Mobilität immer im Kontext der jeweiligen Gesellschaft bzw. auch von persönlichen Motiven betrachtet werden muss....In allem ist der Band jedoch sehr lesenswert und eine inspirierende Ergänzung zur bestehenden Forschung. Es ist in jedem Fall erstrebens- und lohnenswert, den von dem Band vorgezeichneten Weg weiterzuverfolgen, auszudifferenzieren und mit mehr Fallbeispielen auszutesten." -- Mohammad Gharaibeh, Berliner Institut für Islamische Theologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in H-SozKult, 27.04. 2022“ - Mohammad Gharaibeh, Berliner Institut für Islamische Theologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, In: H-Soz-Kult, 27.04.2022.Table of ContentsContents Foreword Acknowledgments List of Maps, Figures, Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Professional Mobility as a Defining Characteristic of Pre-Modern Islamic Societies Mohamad El-Merheb and Mehdi Berriah part 1: Networks of Knowledge and Learning 1 Medinan Scholars on the Move: Professional Mobility at the Umayyad Court Mehmetcan Akpınar 2 Professional Mobility and Social Capital: A Note on the muḥaddithāt in Kitāb Tārīkh Baghdād Nadia Maria El Cheikh 3 The Aqīt Household: Professional Mobility of a Berber Learned Elite in Premodern West Africa Marta G. Novo part 2: Social Mobility and Professionalization 4 The Professional Mobility of Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār between the Quest for Knowledge and the Confluence with Power Amal Belkamel 5 Mobility and Versatility of the ʿulamāʾ in the Mamluk Period: The Case of Ibn Taymiyya Mehdi Berriah 6 Mobility among the Andalusī quḍāt: Social Advancement and Spatial Displacement in a Professional Context Adday Hernández López part 3: Power, Politics, and Mobility 7 Imām al-Ḥaramayn al-Juwaynī’s Mobility and the Saljūq’s Project of Sunnī Political Unity M. Syifa Amin Widigdo 8 Iran’s State Literature under Afghan Rule (1722–1729) M.A.H. Parsa 9 Islamic Political Thought and Professional Mobility: The Intellectual and Empirical Worlds of Ibn Ṭalḥa and Ibn Jamāʿa Mohamad El-Merheb Index
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Brill Science and the Confucian Religion of Kang Youwei (1858–1927): China Before the Conflict Thesis
Book SynopsisWAN Zhaoyuan analyses how Chinese intellectuals conceived of the relationship between ‘science’ and ‘religion’ through in-depth examination of the writings of Kang Youwei, a prominent political reformer and radical Confucian thinker, often referred to by his disciples as the ‘Martin Luther of Confucianism’. Confronted with the rise of scientism and challenged by the Conflict Thesis during his life among adversarial Chinese New Culture intellectuals, Kang maintains a holistic yet evolving conception of a compatible and complementary relationship between scientific knowledge and ‘true religion’ exemplified by his Confucian religion (kongjiao). This close analysis of Kang’s ideas contributes to a richer understanding of the history of science and religion in China and in a more global context.Table of ContentsForeword Notes and Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Definition of Terms 2 Science and Religion 3 ‘Studies of Half Kang’ 4 Implications 5 Chapter Organization 1 A New Sage 1 Religious Leanings 1.1 Classical and Folk Beliefs 1.2 Buddhist Inspiration 1.3 Knowledge of Christianity 2 Scientific Pursuits 2.1 The Window of Geography 2.2 Book Purchase at Shanghai 2.3 Gleaning from Translations 3 Enlightenment 3.1 Universal Laws 3.2 Unity of Shangdi (God) 2 The Confucian Luther 1 A Memorial to the Throne 1.1 Countering Christian Threats 2 An Unconventional Teacher 2.1 Western Sciences 2.2 Chinese Origins 2.3 Cosmic Evolution 3 Recasting Confucianism 3.1 Restoring the Religion of Confucius 3.2 Reform and a Confucian Church 4 Knowledge Is One 4.1 A Three-Tiered System 4.2 Harmonizing the Three Religions 4.3 A Monistic Philosophy 3 The Great Unity 1 Confucian Reinterpretation Completed 1.1 Confucius as a Divine Teacher 1.2 Scientific Notions Appropriated 1.3 In the Future World of Datong 2 Liang’s ‘Change of Heart’ 2.1 Confucianism Not a Religion 2.2 Buddhism a Better Choice 3 Observations during World Travels 3.1 Reflections on Religions 3.2 Shendao and Rendao 3.3 On Material Reconstruction 4 A State Religion 1 A ‘Titular Monarchical Republic’ 2 The Confucian Movement 2.1 Chen’s Presentation 2.2 The Confucian Religion Association 2.3 The State Religion Campaign 3 In the Name of Science 3.1 Religion and Superstition 3.2 Scientism versus Religion 3.3 Looking for Substitutes 5 A Celestial Wanderer 1 Science versus Metaphysics 2 A Lecture Tour to the North 2.1 The Confucian Way 2.2 The Power of Science 3 Celestial Peregrination 3.1 Lectures on the Heavens 3.2 A Treatise on God 4 The Fate of Kang’s Skull Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Brill Émigré Voices: Conversations with Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria
Book SynopsisIn Émigré Voices Lewkowicz and Grenville present twelve oral history interviews with men and women who came to Britain as Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria in the late 1930s. Many of the interviewees rose to great prominence in their chosen career, such as the author and illustrator Judith Kerr, the actor Andrew Sachs, the photographer and cameraman Wolf Suschitzky, the violinist Norbert Brainin, and the publisher Elly Miller. The narratives of the interviewees tell of their common struggles as child or young adult refugees who had to forge new lives in a foreign country and they illuminate how each interviewee dealt with the challenges of forced emigration and the Holocaust. The voices of the twelve interviewees provide the reader with a unique and original source, which gives direct access to the lived multifaceted experience of the interviewees and their contributions to British culture.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction: The Exhibition Anthony Grenville The Interviews Bea Lewkowicz 1 Doris Balacs 2 Norbert Brainin 3 Anton Walter Freud 4 Richard Grunberger 5 Daisy Hoffner 6 Lucie Kaye (née Schachne) 7 Judith Kerr 8 Elly Miller 9 Lord Claus Moser, Baron Moser KCB CBE 10 Andrew Sachs 11 Hans Seelig 12 Wolfgang Suschitzky Index
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Brill Landscapes of Affect and Emotion: Nordic Environmental Humanities and the Emotional Turn
Book SynopsisThe volume Landscapes of Affect and Emotion maps out the current approaches on emotion and affect in environmental humanities and interdisciplinary landscape studies. It discusses the contemporary emotional turn in humanities and its relation to space, place and landscape. Emotions and affects are addressed from three main angles: representation and symbolic landscape, place experience and lifeworlds, and landscape as an embodied set of practices. These are studied in terms of the changing human-nature relationship, focusing on politicisations and contestations of landscape as well as boundaries and hybridity between culture and nature.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 Emotional Turn in the Study of the Environment and Landscape Maunu Häyrynen PART 1 2 The Red Island: Working-Class Leisure Culture in Post-War Helsinki Simo Laakkonen and Antti Linna 3 Movements, Care and Dispersed Periurban Landscapes Evoked by Dacha Allotment Gardens of Narva Tarmo Pikner and Hannes Palang 4 Roadside Picnic? Overcoming the Military Past Hannes Palang and Annemarie Rammo PART 2 5 Architectural Memories of Places and Things M. Christine Boyer 6 From Acidified Groves to Virtual Mountains: The Continuum of Utopian Landscape Types in Twenty-First Century Nordic art Hilja Roivainen 7 Perceptions of Winter in the Notebook of Eva Christina Lindström (1823–1895) Silja Laine PART 3 8 ‘The Penguin is to be a Norwegian Bird’: Nationalising and Naturalising an Alien Animal Peder Roberts 9 Making the National Landscape: The Case of Koli, Eastern Finland Juha Hiedanpää and Lasse Lovén 10 Norwegian friluftsliv (‘outdoor life’) as an Interpassive Ritual Werner Bigell Afterword Index
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Brill Australia's Dictation Test: The Test It Was a Crime to Fail
Book SynopsisThe last person to ‘pass’ White Australia’s Dictation Test did so in 1907 by submitting a watercolour entitled ‘Advance Australia Fair. For the next 50 years of its existence the thereafter more carefully trained officials ensured no one ever passed again. Here is detailed how the White Australia Policy came to have a fake test of dictation at the heart of its administration. Beginning as an inspired piece of hypocrisy designed to preserve the semblance of imperial equality, in the hands of the early Commonwealth of Australia this ‘education test’ quickly evolved into a test it was impossible to pass.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures 1 As Absurd as It Is Unique An Introduction 2 Avoid Stigmatising Them by Name as Being Unfit for Civilised Life The Historical and Ideological Background up to 1901 3 To Place Its Sufficiency beyond Doubt Crafting the Dictation Test 1901 – 1909 4 On Account of the Elasticity Which It Permits Evolution of the administration of the Dictation Test 5 A Man Would Need to Live for Three Generations Chinese exceptionalism 6 Is the Applicant of European (White) Race or Descent? Defining the Desirable 7 The Humanity of Australia Itself Will in Time Revolt Passing of the Test and Fading of the Project 8 Heads-I-Win-Tails-You-Lose Has Australia Passed the Test? Bibliography Index
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Brill The Medieval Chronicle 14
Book SynopsisAlongside annals, chronicles were the main genre of historical writing in the Middle Ages. Their significance as sources for the study of medieval history and culture is today widely recognised by historians, by students of literature and linguistics, and by art historians. All chronicles raise such questions as by whom, for whom, or for what purpose they were written, how they reconstruct the past, or what kind of literary influences are discernible in them. With illuminated chronicles, the relation between text and image leads to a wholly different set of questions. The series The Medieval Chronicle, published in cooperation with the Medieval Chronicle Society (medievalchronicle.org), provides a representative survey of on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods, and cultural backgrounds.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Notes on Contributors The Phenomenon of the Divine in Medieval Cypriot Chronicles and Chronicles Referring to Cyprus Nicholas Coureas Narratives of Poisoning in the Chronicles of Pedro López de Ayala Lynne Echegaray Nicole Gilles’s Presentation of the Death of Louis XI and the Collection of Symbols of Kingship Catherine Emerson Transforming Eusebius: Continuity and Shifts in the Representation of Constantine in Socrates and Sozomen Daniil Kotov The Frankish Minor Annals Preface Bart van Hees and Sören Kaschke Minor Annals and Frankish History Writing Bart van Hees Fluid Historiography: The Annales Petaviani and the (Re)Writing of History in the Eighth Century Sören Kaschke Hoc anno rex plures interfecit: The Year 782 in the Major and Minor Annals Robert Flierman Christian Language and the Frankish ‘Minor’ Annals: Narrative, History and Theology in the Late Eighth Century Robert Evans Reframing the Carolingian Annals Jennifer R. Davis Review: Baldric of Bourgueil: “History of the Jerusalemites”. A Translation of the Historia Ierosolimitana. Translated by Susan B. Edgington; Introduction by Steven J. Biddlecombe Carol Sweetenham Review: Bram Caers, Vertekend verleden: Geschiedenis herschrijven in vroegmodern Mechelen (1500–1650) Sjoerd Levelt Review: Eric McGeer and John W. Nesbitt, Byzantium in the Time of Troubles: The Continuation of the Chronicle of John Skylitzes (1057–1079) Daniel R.F. Maynard Review: Lisa Demets, Onvoltooid verleden. De handschriften van de Excellente cronike van Vlaenderen in de laatmiddeleeuwse Vlaamse steden Bram Caers The Malmesbury Continuation (1332–1357) of the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut: Text and Translation Trevor Russell Smith
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Brill Figurations animalières à travers les textes et l’image en Europe: Du Moyen-Âge à nos jours Essais en hommage à Paul J. Smith
Book SynopsisDans une perspective pluridisciplinaire et transnationale, ce volume étudie les représentations et symbolisations (pré)modernes des animaux dans les textes littéraires et les arts visuels européens. Using a multidisciplinary and transnational approach, this volume studies the representations and symbolisations of animals in (pre)modern European literary texts and the visual arts.Trade Review“Nombre de chercheurs et chercheures en lettres, en histoire culturelle, en études animales, trouveront des nourritures intellectuelles dans ce volume très riche dont la nature personnelle de la dédicace permet des promenades singulières au gré des cheminements académiques individuels et de voies animales traversières. Le volume offre ainsi des éclai-rages érudits sur des animaux encore souvent marginalisés dans les études animales, parmi lesquels nombre de poissons et d’oiseaux. En montrant l’inextinguible diversité et richesse des figurations animales, et les enchevêtrements étroits entre symboles, allégories, savoirs, et présences des animaux eux-mêmes dans la formation des cultures savantes, artistiques et littéraires européennes, du Moyen- ge à cette longue transition dite naturaliste des XVIe et XVIIe siècles, et au-delà, l’ouvrage est autant une fenêtre sur des foisonnements passés, qu’une ouverture à saisir leurs actualisations par-delà les siccités naturalistes.” - Violette Pouillard, RELIEF vol. 16, no 2, 2022.Table of ContentsRemerciements Liste d’illustrations Données personnelles sur les auteurs Introduction De la cigale et la fourmi au lion et au-delà Alisa van de Haar and Annelies Schulte Nordholt partie 1: Identifications, déterminations 1 Rabelais et ses sacrés oiseaux Mireille Huchon 2 La caractérisation des animaux venimeux chez Grévin traducteur de Nicandre Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou 3 Sur un animal exotique du bestiaire bartasien Denis Bjaï 4 Narrative Jewellery Mythological Creatures in Two Sixteenth-Century Jewels from the Low Countries Margot Leerink and Nicole Spaans 5 Depicting Fish in Early-Modern Venice and Antwerp Florike Egmond and Marlise Rijks 6 The Ornithologist Francis Willughby’s Visit to the ‘Bird Paradise’ of Zevenhuizen in June 1663 Tim R. Birkhead and Herman Berkhoudt 7 The Fish That Could Climb Palm Trees Observation, Rumour and Colonial Hearsay in Nineteenth-Century Ichthyology Johannes Müller 8 Birds in the Life and Work of Johan Huizinga (1872–1945) Anton van der Lem partie 2: Origines et influences 9 Fable and Parable The Prehistory and Reception of an Aesopic Motif in Flavius Josephus Gert-Jan van Dijk 10 The Enigmatic Death of Cuwaert A Comparison between the Roman de Renart and the Dutch Van den vos Reynaerde Jan de Putter 11 On Horses – Two Medieval Authors, Their Manuscripts, Early Printed Books and Illustrations An Evaluation Boudewijn Commandeur 12 Hirondelles de Rabelais Romain Menini 13 Rabelais scénariste des mondes imaginaires de Pline l’Ancien Pantagruel, Gargantua, le Tiers livre et l’exemplaire BSB de l’Histoire naturelle (Bâle, Froben, 1525) Claude La Charité 14 Marcus Gheeraerts, Source of Inspiration for Tapestry-Designers Sixteenth-Century Fable-Illustrations Used in Seventeenth-Century Tapestries Dirk Geirnaert 15 The Unicornus Marinum of Dr Nicolaes Tulp A Scottish Sea-Unicorn Adrift M.M. Zijlstra-Mondt 16 Ascendances et sources du « Chat et un vieux Rat » (Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, III, 18) Antoine Biscéré and Patrick Dandrey 17 La Fontaine entre Ésope et Homère À propos des Deux Coqs Paul Pelckmans 18 The Shark in the Library Books and Non-book Artifacts in Private Library Auction Catalogues, 1665–1830 Alicia C. Montoya 19 Medieval Animals in Middle-earth J.R.R. Tolkien and the Old English and Middle English Physiologus Thijs Porck partie 3: Symbolisations animalières 20 Le Veau d’or dans les adaptations bibliques en ancien français Un animal à nature double Julia C. Szirmai 21 Allegorising Heraldic Animals in Two Laments by the Fourteenth-Century Dutch Poet Jan Knibbe Wim van Anrooij 22 Alciato the Animal Observer On the Description of Animal Behaviour in the Emblematum Liber Karl A.E. Enenkel 23 Diptyque avec animaux Un jeu éducatif de Barthélemy Aneau et sa suite (1542) Kees Meerhoff 24 Théodore de Bèze et le monde animal Poésie et parodie Jeltine L.R. Ledegang-Keegstra 25 Montaigne et la sociabilité des bêtes Philippe Desan 26 Figurations animalières dans les Œuvres poetiques (1606) de Jean Passerat François Rouget 27 Horses of Power and Passion Horses and Their Riders in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Adaptations of the Spanish Comedia Olga van Marion and Tim Vergeer 28 But What Does He Do All Day? Being an Animal in Paradise Lost Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen 29 De vol en vol – Raymond Roussel et les oiseaux Sjef Houppermans 30 Mythographie animalière dans Le Roi des aulnes de Michel Tournier Nicolaas van der Toorn 31 Slow Reading on the Wing Entangling Enactive Literary Criticism, the Energia of Early Modern Imagining, and Artistic Research Sophie van Romburgh Index des noms propres
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Brill Cofradías Afrohispánicas: Celebración, resistencia furtiva y transformación cultural
Book SynopsisEn Cofradías Afrohispánicas, Manuel Apodaca Valdez ofrece un estudio histórico y comparativo de corte trasatlántico sobre 48 cofradías de afrodescendientes del periodo colonial y del presente, localizadas en zonas geográficas clave de España, Perú, México y República Dominicana. ***** In Cofradías Afrohispánicas, Manuel Apodaca Valdez offers a historical and comparative trans-Atlantic study about 48 confraternities of African descendants of the colonial period and the present, which emerged in key geographical regions of Spain, Perú, México, and the Dominican Republic.Trade Review"This encyclopedic study of organizations led and founded by Africans and their descendants in the broader Ibero-American world starts with the medieval origins of these groups and carries their stories through to the present day. A timely, sweeping book which synthesizes decades of vibrant scholarship on African diaspora lives, cultures, and beliefs, this engaging work brings together many strands in an expansive geographic overview ranging from Spain to Peru. Readers seeking insights on the complex mesh of African and Catholic spirituality and practices will consult this book for years to come." — Nicole von Germeten, Oregon State University "Este estudio enciclopédico de organizaciones dirigidas y fundadas por africanos y sus descendientes en el mundo iberoamericano comienza con los orígenes medievales de estos grupos y lleva sus historias hasta la actualidad. Un libro oportuno y exhaustivo que sintetiza décadas de vibrantes estudios sobre las vidas, culturas y creencias de la diáspora africana, esta atractiva obra reúne muchas vertientes en un amplio panorama geográfico que va desde España hasta Perú. Los lectores que busquen información sobre el complejo entramado de la espiritualidad y las prácticas africanas y católicas consultarán este libro durante años". — Nicole von Germeten, Oregon State University “Cofradías Afrohispánicas is a solid, academic work, properly documented, aware of and interacting with recent scholarship, showing detailed knowledge of primary sources and demonstrating mastery of the subject. The author’s transhistorical approach is innovative. The study brings together geographies not normally considered alongside each other. Its contribution to the field of confraternal studies is to demonstrate the feasibility of a new approach and the rewards such an approach can yield.” — Miguel A. Valerio, Washington University in St. Louis "Cofradías Afrohispánicas es una obra sólida y académica, debidamente documentada, que está al tanto de investigaciones recientes e interactúa con ellas, mostrando un conocimiento detallado de las fuentes primarias y demostrando dominio del tema. El enfoque transhistórico del autor es innovador. El estudio reúne geografías que normalmente no se consideran juntas. Su contribución al campo de los estudios cofradieros es demostrar la viabilidad de un nuevo enfoque y las recompensas que tal enfoque puede producir." — Miguel A. Valerio, Washington University in St. LuisTable of ContentsAgradecimientos Lista de ilustraciones y cuadros Abreviaturas y siglas Introducción 1 Etnicidades en transformación: Diáspora y reencuentro 1 Por el reino de Kalunga: mercado esclavista hacia el Nuevo Mundo 2 Denominaciones: la mirada colonial 3 Cofradías y afrocastas 4 Cristianización y represión de las idolatrías 5 Reconfiguración de identidades 6 Raza, etnicidad e identidad cultural 7 Conclusiones 2 El barroco afrocatólico: Cofradías españolas, siglos XVI–XVII 1 Las cofradías étnicas. ópera crítica 2 Cofradía, fiesta y ritual: danzas, música y comparsas afrosevillanas del siglo XVII 3 Cofradías afrosevillanas 4 La Hermandad de los mulatos de Sevilla 5 Cofradía del rosario de morenos de Cádiz 6 Cofradías de negros y mulatos de Granada, siglo XVI 7 Conclusiones 3 Cofradías afroperuanas: Representaciones de raza, casta, nación e identidad cultural, siglos XVI y XVII 1 Primeras cofradías afroperuanas, siglo XVI 2 Cofradía, casta y diferencia racial 3 Cofradía y nación étnica, siglo XVI 4 Cofradía de los Reyes, de castas jolofe y bran 5 Cofradía de congos de la Virgen del Rosario, Convento de Santo Domingo, 1575–1813 6 Cofradía de San Bartolomé de negros de casta Loango 7 Cofradía de San Antón de morenos libres, Parroquia de San Marcelo, 1581 8 Integración y resistencia furtiva. Cofradías afroperuanas del siglo XVII 9 El barroco afroamericano y la fiesta del Corpus Christi en Cuzco y Lima 10 Conclusiones 4 Cofradías afromexicanas: Devoción barroca y resistencia furtiva, siglos XVII y XVIII 1 Insurrecciones de esclavos, palenques y disolución de las cofradías de nación africana 2 Historia, cultura y vida cotidiana de las cofradías coloniales afromexicanas, siglos XVII–XVIII 3 San Benito de Palermo y sus cofradías 4 Cofradía de nuestra señora de las angustias de morenos criollos 5 De negros y mulatos a morenos y pardos: el caso de la Cofradía de la Preciosa Sangre de Cristo 6 Morenos y mulatos de la cofradía de San Nicolás de Tolentino y Monte Calvario 7 Economía de la fiesta patronal 8 Puebla de los Ángeles: cofradías de afrodescendientes y asiáticos en el siglo XVII 9 Afropoblanos libres en las cofradías 10 Los primeros chinos poblanos y su cofradía 11 Cofradía de Nuestra Señora de la Consolación de negros y mulatos, Templo de la Concordia 12 Bailes y ceremonias: de la censura a la transformación 13 Conclusiones 5 Cofradías afrodominicanas: Historia y religiosidad popular, siglos XVII y XVIII 1 Resistencia furtiva y criollización 2 Cofradías afrodominicanas del periodo colonial 3 Los negros criollos, la identidad y la cofradía de San Juan Bautista 4 Cofradía de San Cosme y San Damián, los marasa, ibeji o mapasa 5 San Lorenzo de los Mina: refugio de cimarrones haitianos 6 Cofradías de Congos del Espíritu Santo 7 Conclusiones 6 El mito y la danza: Patrimonio intangible de las cofradías afrohispánicas contemporáneas 1 Cofradía de Congos del Espíritu Santo de Villa Mella 2 La Veintiuna División: una variante del VodoÚ de Haití 3 La Sarandunga de la Cofradía de San Juan Bautista 4 La Cofradía de los Negros de Sevilla: el presente blanco de un pasado negro 5 Danzas de Negritos, Panalivio y Marinera: música y bailes afroperuanos 6 Cofradías afroperuanas de Lima y Chincha 7 El Carmen, su cofradía y sus danzas 8 La Hermandad del Señor de los Milagros de Lima 9 Cofradía y celebración a San Nicolás de Tolentino en la Costa Chica mexicana 7 La cofradía afrohispánica como agencia de transformación cultural 1 Mayorales y mayordomos 2 Corporativismo, clase social y economía en las cofradías coloniales, 1767–1804 3 Una cofradía colonial en la Costa Chica de México 4 La cofradía afrohispánica: del presente al pasado y del pasado al presente 5 Reflexiones finales: Resistencia, identidad cultural, eurocentrismo y descolonización Apéndice: Transcripciones de archivo histórico Bibliografía Índice
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Brill World Fairs and the Global Moulding of National Identities: International Exhibitions as Cultural Platforms, 1851–1958
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the role of the broad variety of international exhibitions between 1851 and 1958 in two programmatic essays and twelve case studies, covering not just France and the United States, but also, among others, Sweden, Romania, Colombia, Japan and the nascent European Community. World fairs were global platforms for the construction of national identities. The mix of national self-profiling and commercial exoticism turned the nation into a “brand”, while reframing the nation-state from its nineteenth-century positioning amidst neighbouring enemies towards being a competitor in a global, consumer-oriented trade and entertainment economy. By presenting national identities in “banal” form as feelgood factors, world fairs helped the nation to maintain its grassroots appeal across the century of totalitarianism and internationalism. Contributors are: Joep Leerssen, Eric Storm, Florian Groß, Anthony Swift, Cosmin Minea, Claire Hendren, Taka Oshikiri, Robert W. Rydell, Sven Schuster, Miriam Oesterreich, Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk, Christina Romlid, Jonathan Voges, and Anastasia Remes.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Eric Storm and Joep Leerssen 1 Trademarking the Nation: World Fairs, Spectacles, and the Banalization of Nationalism Joep Leerssen 2 The Transnational Construction of National Identities: A Classification of National Pavilions at World Fairs Eric Storm 3 From the New York Crystal Palace to the World of Tomorrow: World Fairs as a Transnational Series Florian Groß 4 Russian National Identity at World Fairs, 1851–1900 Anthony Swift 5 Roma Musicians, Folk Art and Traditional Food from Romania at the Paris World Fairs of 1889 and 1900 Cosmin Minea 6 Portraying France: French Art in American World Fairs, 1893–1915 Claire Hendren 7 Selling Tea as Japanese History: Culture, Consumption and International Expositions, 1873–191 Taka Oshikiri 8 Self Becomes Nation: Sol Bloom and America’s World Fairs, 1893–1939 Robert W. Rydell 9 Colombia in the Age of Exhibitions: Envisioning the Nation in a Global Context, 1892–1929 Sven Schuster 10 Displaying the “Mexican” National Identity and Transnational Entanglements at the New York World’s Fair, 1939–40 Miriam Oesterreich 11 World Fairs as Tools of Diplomacy: Interwar Poland Bartosz Dziewanowski-Stefańczyk 12 Promoting Sweden: The Socioeconomic Section of the Swedish Pavilion Display at the 1937 World Fair in Paris Christina Romlid 13 The International Institute for Intellectual Co-Operation at the World Fair 1937 in Paris: Profiling Internationalism in a “Hyper-Nationalistic” Context? Jonathan Voges 14 Exhibiting European Integration at Expo 58: The European Coal and Steel Community Pavilion Anastasia Remes Index
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Brill An American Pioneer of Chinese Studies in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Benjamin Bowen Carter as an Agent of Global Knowledge
Book SynopsisBenjamin Bowen Carter (1771-1831), one of the first Americans to speak and read Chinese, studied Chinese in Canton and advocated its use in diplomacy decades before America established a formal relationship with China. Drawing on rediscovered manuscripts, this book reconstructs Carter’s multilingual learning experience, reveals how he helped translate a diplomatic document into Chinese, describes his interactions with European sinologists, and traces his attempts to convince the US government and American academics of the practical and cultural value of Chinese studies. The cross-cultural perspective employed in this book emphasizes the reciprocal dynamics of Carter’s relationships with Chinese and European “others,” while Carter’s story itself forces a rewriting of the earliest years of US-China relations.Trade Review"Yeung Man Shun’s important new study establishes Carter’s place within the annals of American Sinology, while also throwing new light on other important topics, including the more active field of British Chinese Studies in the early 1800s... The extensive appendices and reproductions of primary material referred to in the main text round out a volume that makes numerous important contributions to the history of global knowledge. Combining the qualities of biography, intellectual history, and the study of cross-cultural exchange, it will prove immensely valuable to scholars working in a variety of fields." -Edward Weech, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3 (2022).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Appendixes List of Illustrations Abbreviations 1 On the Linguistic Frontier in Canton A Cross-Cultural Approach to Language Learning 1.1 The Earliest Glimmer of Chinese Studies in America 1.2 Recovering Carter’s Story: Perspectives and Approaches 1.3 Learning the Language of the Other: The Place of Chinese Studies in Europe and America 2 Finding a Calling Carter’s Transcontinental Journey to Chinese Studies 2.1 Restless in America: Family and Early Life 2.2 Opportunities in China: 1798–1806 2.3 Fulfillment in Europe and Disappointment at Home: 1806–1831 2.4 From Curiosity to a Lifelong Pursuit 3 Reconstructing a Personalized Curriculum Textbooks, Dictionaries, and Study Notes 3.1 Learning Chinese the Chinese Way 3.2 From Linguistic Translation to Cultural Translation 3.3 Entering the Chinese World: Carter’s Chinoiserie Letter to Conseequa 4 Chinese Instructors and Their Anglophone Students A Reappraisal 4.1 Learning Chinese in Canton and Macao 4.2 Abel Yen and His Anglophone Students 4.3 Language Instructor as Diplomatic Translator 4.4 The American Consul Wishes for an Interpreter 5 Agent of Global Knowledge: Carter in London, Paris, and New York 5.1 Career Ambition: Consul Interpreter 5.2 An Early American Encounter with European Sinology 5.3 Academic Ambition: University Educator 6 The Rise of American Chinese Studies: Changes in Foreign Policy, Academic Foci, and American Perceptions of China 6.1 Carter’s View of China and the Chinese 6.2 American Curiosity about Chinese Knowledge 6.3 The Missionary Roots of the American Sinological Tradition 6.4 The Interpreter as Diplomat 6.5 America’s First Course in Chinese Studies 6.6 The Chinese Language: Barrier or Gateway? 6.7 The Treasures in the Cushing Collection 7 Concluding Remarks: Carter in Perspective 7.1 The Origin of Chinese Studies in America: An Alternative Pathway 7.2 Teaching and Learning Chinese in China at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century 7.3 Creation, Exchange, and Circulation of Chinese Knowledge on a Global Scale 7.4 Cross-Cultural Dialogues: Carter, the Canton Dialect, and Contemporary China-America Relations Appendix Bibliography Index
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Brill Early Medieval English Life Courses: Cultural-Historical Perspectives
Book SynopsisHow did the life course, with all its biological, social and cultural aspects, influence the lives, writings, and art of the inhabitants of early medieval England? This volume explores how phases of human life such as childhood, puberty, and old age were identified, characterized, and related in contemporary sources, as well as how nonhuman life courses were constructed. The multi-disciplinary contributions range from analyses of age vocabulary to studies of medicine, name-giving practices, theology, Old English poetry, and material culture. Combined, these cultural-historical perspectives reveal how the concept and experience of the life course shaped attitudes in early medieval England. Contributors are Jo Appleby, Debby Banham, Darren Barber, Caroline R. Batten, James Chetwood, Katherine Cross, Amy Faulkner, Jacqueline Fay, Elaine Flowers, Daria Izdebska, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Thijs Porck, and Harriet Soper.Trade Review"Every so often an edited volume comes along where the essays are significant in themselves, but taken together are field-defining. This is such a volume." Christina Lee, University of Nottingham "Early Medieval English Life Courses presents evidence that supports - and in many cases, corrects - our assumptions about how lives were lived in early medieval England. The volume is valuable both as a reference and as foundational knowledge for scholars at all stages of their careers. These essays build upon one another well, but are also all able to stand alone as items of immense interest that enhance our understanding of the experience of living a life from beginning to end in early medieval England." Leah Pope Parker, University of Southern Mississippi, in The Medieval Review, 22.10.18. Read the full review here.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Conceptualizing the Life Course in Early Medieval England Thijs Porck and Harriet Soper Part 1: Defining and Dividing the Life Course 1 The Ages of Man and the Ages of Woman in Early Medieval England: From Bede to Byrhtferth of Ramsey and the Tractatus de quaternario Thijs Porck 2 Weapon-Boys and Once-Maidens: A Study of Old English Vocabulary for Stages of Life Daria Izdebska 3 Alcuin and the Student Life Cycle Darren Barber part 2: The Life Course and the Human Body 4 Treating Age in Medical Texts from Early Medieval England Jacqueline Fay 5 ‘Lazarus, Come Forth’: Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Life Course of Early Medieval English Women Caroline R. Batten 6 The Theology of Puberty in Early Medieval England Elaine Flowers Part 3: Intergenerational Dynamics 7 Naming and Renaming: Names and the Life Course in Early Medieval England James Chetwood 8 Moving On from ‘the Milk of Simpler Teaching’: Weaning and Religious Education in Early Medieval England Katherine Cross 9 Treasure and the Life Course in Genesis A and Beowulf Amy Faulkner part 4: Life Beyond the Human 10 The Life Course of Artefacts Gale R. Owen-Crocker 11 From Field to Feast: The Life (and Afterlife) Course of Cereal Crops in Early Medieval England Debby Banham 12 Afterword: History, Archaeology and Osteology in Conversation Jo Appleby Bibliography Index
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Brill Berenguela the Great and Her Times (1180-1246)
Book SynopsisThis biography presents a remarkable vision of Spanish society at the beginning of the 13th century by exploring the life of Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246), a queen who dominated public life for over forty years. Born at a time when the centers of Christian power were formed, Berenguela provided royal leadership in a crucial period of Iberian history. Within the context of contemporary studies of female power throughout history, Salvador Martínez brings to life Berenguela, a queen who, through her wisdom and resolve, transformed the Iberian political and cultural scene for years to come.Table of ContentsAbbreviations List of Illustrations Genealogical Table Preface to the English Translation Introduction: Berenguela and Her Hour Acknowledgements 1 The Forging of a New Dynasty 1 Genealogical Record of an Era 2 Her Father, Alfonso VIII the Noble 3 Her Mother, Eleanor Plantagenet 4 The Wedding of Alfonso VIII and Eleanor 5 The Family: Berenguela and Her Siblings 2 First Steps: The Hope of Castile 1 Berenguela, the Firstborn 2 A Privileged Childhood 3 The Curia of San Esteban de Gormaz and the Future of Berenguela 4 The Betrothal of Berenguela and Conrad and the Breaking Off of the Engagement 5 The Education of a Queen 3 Alfonso IX of León: Supporter or Rival? 1 A King’s Apprentice 2 Alfonso, King of León 3 Meeting with His Cousin. Knighted at Carrión 4 His First Marriage Fails 5 From the Treaty of Tordehumos to Alarcos 6 “Coalition of Ungodliness” 4 Berenguela and Alfonso IX. A Political Marriage 1 A Very Calculated Decision 2 Eleanor and the People as Main Characters 3 The Emotional Side 4 The Wedding 5 Berenguela, Queen of León 6 The Queen’s Household 5 Declaration of Nullity 1 Innocent III and the Peninsular Kingdoms 2 The Reprobation of Rome 3 The First Fruit of the Marriage 4 Declaration of Nullity 5 Challenge to the Papal Decree: Ratification of the Dowry 6 Marriage Annulment 1 A New Century 2 Birth of the Heir 3 Annulment of the Marriage 4 Last Days Together 5 Impact of the Papal Sentence 7 Securing the Future. Berenguela Again on Center Stage 1 The Paternal Household 2 Illness of Her Father and Last Will 3 Vindication: Treaty of Cabreros 4 Friendly Relations with Alfonso IX: A Host of Benefits 5 The Foundations of the New Relations between Castile and León are Established: The Treaty of Valladolid 6 Between the Portuguese and the Leonese 8 Mother and Teacher 1 Love and Pedagogy 2 Recourse to the Supernatural 3 Formation of Prince Fernando 4 Courtly Education. Multicultural Perspectives 5 Problems in the Kingdom. End of the Truce with the Muslims 6 Tragedy in the Court 9 Berenguela at the Highest Point of the Reconquista 1 Christendom on War Footing 2 Berenguela’s Role in the Campaign 3 The Echo of Battle: Berenguela’s Letter 4 The Christian Kingdoms after the Victory 10 The Court That Berenguela Knew 1 A New Courtly Lifestyle 2 The Spirit of the Court: Parties, Fashion, and Luxury 3 Culture and Letters 4 Impact of the Court Environment 11 The End of an Era 1 Year 1213. Last campaigns of Alfonso VIII 2 The Collaboration of Alfonso IX 3 Generational Change 4 The Death of Her Father 5 The Death of Her Mother 12 Regent of Castile 1 Guardian of Enrique I and Regent of Castile 2 Enrique I and Berenguela Co-Regents 3 The Opposition to Berenguela 4 Berenguela Gives Up Custody of Her Brother 5 Berenguela against Álvaro Núñez de Lara: The Excesses of the ‘Count’ 13 Civil War and Dramatic Ending 1 New Positions Assumed 2 Marriage of Enrique I with Mafalda of Portugal 3 The Search for a Solution 4 The Greatest Insult 5 Recourse to Arms 6 The Death of Enrique I 7 Berenguela: Political Insight and ‘Exquisite Prudence’ 14 Berenguela Queen of Castile 1 Berenguela Recognized as Heir 2 Transfer of the Crown to Her Son 3 Fernando III, King 4 Unexpected Proposal by Alfonso IX 5 Final Adieu to Her Brother Enrique 6 Capture of Álvaro Núñez de Lara 7 Rapprochement between Fernando III and His Father 8 End of the Laras 15 Berenguela’s Search for a Wife for Fernando. Stabilization of the Kingdom 1 Fernando and Beatriz of Swabia 2 Berenguela at Fernando III’s Knighting Ceremony 3 Government Philosophy: Continuity and Innovation 4 Fernando III and the Nobility. Alliances and Tensions 5 Berenguela’s Intervention: Marriage of the Infante Alfonso 6 Marriage Diplomacy or the Power of Persuasion 7 Birth of the First Grandson: Alfonso X 16 Facing Islam 1 Paralysis in the Reconquest and Disintegration of Al-Andalus 2 The Great Opportunity 3 Fernando and His Mother: Supreme Destiny 3.1 Miles Christi 4 Berenguela in the Conquest of Capilla 5 Family Relationships. Queen Beatriz’s Illness 6 Rome’s Support 17 Berenguela: Framer of the Union of Castile and León 1 Death of Alfonso IX 2 Fernando III, King of León 3 The Pact of the Two Mothers 4 Public Relations Campaign 5 Pending Issues at the Border 6 Unexpected Crisis and New Intervention by Berenguela 7 Death of Queen Beatriz 18 The Pearl of Al-Andalus. Family Occupations 1 Berenguela and the Conquest of Córdoba 2 A New Wife for Fernando 3 Final Assault on al-Andalus. Last Farewell to His Mother 4 Her Death 5 Portrait 19 Political and Cultural Legacy 1 Provider of the Kingdom 2 Religious Patronage 3 Berenguela and the Historiography of the 13th Century Conclusion: “She Had Many Gifts” 1 Prudent and Wise 2 Berenguela and Fernando 3 Maternity, Sexuality, and Politics 4 Woman and Power 5 Peacemaker Bibliography Index
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Brill Socio-economic Relations in Ptolemaic Pathyris: A Network Analytical Approach to a Bilingual Community. Volume 1.
Book SynopsisThis study tackles pertinent questions about daily life and socio-economic interactions in the late Ptolemaic town of Pathyris (186-88 BCE) through an empirically grounded network analysis of 428 Greek and Demotic documents associated with 21 archives from the site. The author moves beyond traditional boundaries of Egyptological and Papyrological research by means of an innovative and interdisciplinary methodology – zigzagging back and forth between archaeological field survey, close reading of ancient texts, formal methods of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and explanatory theories and concepts borrowed from economics and other social sciences. This is volume 1 of a two-volume set.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1 Main Objectives 2 Choosing the Case Study and Defining Research Boundaries 3 The Structure of the Work 4 Notes on Readability 2 Contextualisation 1 The Geographical Area of Focus 2 Historical Contextualisation 3 The Army of the Ptolemies 4 The Inhabitants of Ptolemaic Pathyris 5 The Bilingual Character of the Community 3 Theories and Methods 1 Interdisciplinarity in Egyptological Research 2 Main Methodological Approach (Social Network Analysis) 3 Zigzagging between Methodological Approaches 4 Theoretical Framework (Social and Economic Analysis) 4 The Source Material and Data Collection Process 1 Archaeological Evidence 2 Written Sources 3 Incorporated Material 4 From Texts to Networks 5 Notes on Data Collection and Conventions 5 The Archives as 2-Mode and 1-Mode Networks 1 2-Mode and 1-Mode Network Models of the Ancient Archives 2 Notes on the Possibilities and Limitations of the Source Material 6 The Source Material in Comparative and Whole Network Perspectives 1 Comparing the 2-Mode Models of People in Texts 2 The Sources Modelled as an Interarchival 2-Mode Whole Network 7 Interpersonal Ties in Comparative, Whole Network and Diachronic Perspectives 1 Comparing the 1-Mode Models of Interpersonal Relationships 2 The Pathyris Community Modelled as a 1-Mode Whole Network 3 Diachronic Analysis of the Community Model 8 Social and Economic Life in Ptolemaic Pathyris 1 The Physical Landscape 2 The Socio-economic Landscape 3 Social and Economic Life in Ptolemaic Pathyris 4 Concluding Remarks on Community Life in Ptolemaic Pathyris 9 Assessing (Social) Network Analysis as a Historical Method 1 Strengths and Shortcomings of Historical (Social) Network Analysis 2 Strengths and Shortcomings of the Studied Source Material 3 Strengths and Shortcomings of the Applied Methodology 4 The Relevance of (S)NA Research for (Micro)historical Studies of the Past 10 Conclusions 1 The Main Objectives of the Research Project 2 Final Conclusions 3 Future Perspectives Bibliography Indices
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Brill Socio-economic Relations in Ptolemaic Pathyris: A Network Analytical Approach to a Bilingual Community. Volume 2.
Book SynopsisThis study tackles pertinent questions about daily life and socio-economic interactions in the late Ptolemaic town of Pathyris (186-88 BCE) through an empirically grounded network analysis of 428 Greek and Demotic documents associated with 21 archives from the site. The author moves beyond traditional boundaries of Egyptological and Papyrological research by means of an innovative and interdisciplinary methodology – zigzagging back and forth between archaeological field survey, close reading of ancient texts, formal methods of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and explanatory theories and concepts borrowed from economics and other social sciences. This is volume 2 of a two-volume set.Table of ContentsAppendix A: Glossary of Network Analytical Terms Appendix B: List of Modern Collections Appendix C: List of Ancient Texts Appendix D: List of Texts Associated with Archives Appendix E: In-Depth Textual Commentary Appendix F: List of Individuals Appearing in Archives Appendix G: List of Abbreviated Personal ID s Appendix H: Lists of Labels Denoting Attribute and Relational Data Appendix I: Raw Data Presentation of Node and Edge Lists Appendix J: The 21 Archives as Bipartite and Monopartite Network Graphs Bibliography
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Brill Arab Traders in Their Own Words: Merchant Letters from the Eastern Mediterranean Around 1800
Book SynopsisArab Traders in their Own Words explores for the first time the largest unified corpus of merchant correspondence to have survived from the Ottoman period. The writers chosen for this first volume were mostly Christian merchants who traded within a network that connected the Syrian and Egyptian provinces and extended from Damascus in the North to Alexandria in the South with particular centers in Jerusalem and Damietta. They lived through one of the most turbulent intersections of Ottoman and European imperial history, the 1790s and early 1800s, and had to navigate their fortunes through diplomacy, culture, and commerce. Besides an edition of more than 190 letters in colloquial Arabic this volume also offers a profound introductory study.
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Brill Memory, Media, and Empire in the Castilian Romances of Antiquity: Alexander’s Heirs
Book SynopsisDuring the 13th and 14th centuries, medieval Castile produced some of the liveliest, most sophisticated vernacular reworkings of narratives inherited from classical and late antiquity, including those about Alexander the Great, the Trojan War, or Apollonius of Tyre. This study recovers the overlooked tradition of the Castilian romances of antiquity, showing how these works offered a nuanced reflection of the relationship between cultural memory, the media through which memory is shaped and transmitted, and Castile’s imperial ambitions. Clara Pascual-Argente restores a genre of great cultural and political importance to its rightful place in Castilian and European literary history.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 The Castilian Romances of Antiquity in Their European Context 2 Cultural Memory and the Romances of Antiquity 3 Alexander’s Heirs 1 Mirroring Monuments: Reflecting on the Media of Memory in the Libro de Alexandre and the Libro de Apolonio 1 Monumental Memory in the Libro de Alexandre 1.1 The Persian Tombs: Erasing Representational Friction 1.2 Word, Image, and Mise en Abyme in Achilles’s Sepulcher 1.3 Historia and Figura 2 Memory, Identity, and Visuality in the Libro de Apolonio 2.1 A Monumental Frame 2.2 Metanarrative Proliferation 2.3 From Memory to Written Record? 2 Remembering (for) Empire in the Libro de Alexandre and Its Literary Lineage (Poema de Fernán González, Poema de Alfonso Onceno) 1 Remembering (at) Troy in the Libro de Alexandre 2 Trojan Lessons in the Poema de Fernán González 2.1 Trojan Past, Iberian Past 2.2 A Monastic Troy 3 Fulfilling Promises in the Poema de Alfonso XI 3 A Tale of Two Troys: Remediating the Roman de Troie in Alfonso XI’s Court 1 “Sin Pecado:” The Libro de Alexandre, a Sinless Romance of Antiquity 2 “Rex Dogma Dat Hyspanis:” Monarch and Media in the General Estoria 3 The Twin Troys 3.1 “Mester de cavallería:” Chivalric Community in the Crónica troyana de Alfonso XI 3.2 “Esto amor lo faze:” Love’s Community in the Historia Troyana Polimétrica 3.3 Media, Mediators, and Community at the Court of Alfonso XI 4 From Empire to Exile: Troy in 14th-century Castile 1 Alfonso’s Imperial Troy 1.1 Castilian Empire, Greek Heroes 1.2 Marinids as Trojans 2 A Turning Point: Pedro’s Troy 2.1 Empire: The Historia troyana de Pedro I 2.2 Exile: Galician Troys 3 Catalina’s Troy: A Restoration? 3.1 Two Trojan Compilations: Sumas de Historia Troyana and Confisión del Amante 3.2 Troy and Petrismo in El Victorial Conclusion Appendix Bibliography
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Brill Anglo-Swedish Commercial Connections and Diplomatic Relations in the Seventeenth Century
Book SynopsisThis is the first study to analyse the relationship between England and Sweden across the entire seventeenth century. It emphasises the importance of commerce and diplomacy working in tandem. The book contains five chapters arranged chronologically, all based on original and innovative archival research, and traces the economic aspects of the relationship in both a qualitative and quantitative context. It draws upon a number of unique incidents to detail the variety and extent of commercial and diplomatic connections that became of primary importance for the welfare and success of both nations over the century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Stylistic Conventions Weights, Measures and Money Introduction 1 An Insignificant Trade? 1603–1641 1 Perspectives on Existing Historiography 2 The Union of the Crowns and Its Effect on Baltic Trade 3 The Tudor Period 4 Anglo-Swedish Commerce in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century 5 The Scottish Connection 6 John Coote and Nascent Anglo-Swedish Commercial Networks 7 Anthony Knipe and the English Company of Gothenburg, 1635–1637 8 The Shift towards Sweden 9 Conclusion 2 The Codification of a Relationship, 1642–1659 1 The Rise of Swedish Exports and the English Market 2 Difficulties in the Import Trade 3 The Impetus for Reaching the Swedish Market 4 Commercial Perspectives on Anglo-Swedish Diplomacy 5 Commercial Organisation: the Role of the State 6 Commercial Organisation: the Role of Merchants and Agents 7 The English East India Company and the Swedish Africa Company: Anglo-Swedish Commercial Connections in Colonial Trades 8 Conclusion 3 Commercial Ascendancy, 1660–1671 1 Establishing Permanent Diplomatic Representation 2 England Becomes a Vital Trading Partner 3 Circumventing the Sound 4 Sweden Emerges Unchallenged 5 Commercial Policy and the Demise of the Eastland Monopoly 6 Abraham Kock-Cronström, Copper, and the English Mint 7 Conclusion 4 Mixed Fortunes, 1672–1688 1 Attempts at Finding Accord 2 English Trade Scales New Heights 3 The Problem of Payment 4 Conclusion 5 Commercial Dominance and Diplomatic Disruption, 1689–1700 1 Diplomacy at War 2 The Only Stable Market 3 Anglo-Swedish Disputes: Outstanding Debts and the Expulsion of Foreign Merchants 4 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Brill Heritage, Contested Sites, and Borders of Memory in the Asia Pacific
Book SynopsisContests over heritage in Asia are intensifying and reflect the growing prominence of political and social disputes over historical narratives shaping heritage sites and practices, and the meanings attached to them. These contests emphasize that heritage is a means of narrating the past that demarcates, constitutes, produces, and polices political and social borders in the present. In its spaces, varied intersections of actors, networks, and scales of governance interact, negotiate and compete, resulting in heritage sites that are cut through by borders of memory. This volume, edited by Edward Boyle and Steven Ivings, and with contributions from scholars across the humanities, history, social sciences, and Asian studies, interrogates how particular actors and narratives make heritage and how borders of memory shape the sites they produce.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures, Maps, and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Heritage Sites and Borders of Memory Edward Boyle and Steven Ivings Part 1: Heritage Practices 2 Regional Language as Mnemonic Practice: Stewarding Place through Storytelling in Rural Japan Joshua Solomon 3 The Chineseness of Chinatown in Singapore: Chinese New Year Celebrations in a Multiracial Heritage Site Ying-kit Chan 4 Negotiating War Memories at the Edge of the Former Japanese Empire: Two Japanese Veterans’ Projects in Palau, Micronesia Shingo Iitaka 5 Hidden Christians Made Visible: An Ethnography of Tourism in a World Heritage Property of Japan Raluca Mateoc Part 2: Material Matters 6 Art in Former Military Sites: Spectres of Geopolitics in the South China Sea Gabriel N. Gee 7 Framing Negative Heritage in Disaster Risk Education: School Memorials after 3.11 Julia Gerster and Flavia Fulco 8 Marketing the Semi-Colonial as Cosmopolitan: Treaty Port Heritage and the Remaking of Hakodate Steven Ivings 9 Politics of Heritage: Karatsu’s Takatori-tei as a Meiji Status Symbol, Monument of Modernity, and Symbol of Regional Identity Arisha Livia Satari Part 3: Layered Memories 10 At the Border of Memory and History: Kyoto’s Contested War Heritage Justin Aukema 11 The Legacy of Shinto Shrines at the Borders of Imperial Japan Karli Shimizu 12 Memorials to Korean Migrants in Kyushu: Overlapping Medieval and Modern Experiences in Local Communities Jason Mark Alexander 13 Okinoshima, Universal Heritage and Borders of Memory Edward Boyle 14 Conclusion: Borders, Heritage and What Next? Philip Seaton Index
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Brill Baghdād: From Its Beginnings to the 14th Century
Book SynopsisBaghdād: From its Beginnings to the 14th Century offers an exhaustive handbook that covers all possible themes connected to the history of this urban complex in Iraq, from its origins rooted in late antique Mesopotamia up to the aftermath of the Mongol invasion in 1258. Against the common perception of a city founded 762 in a vacuum, which, after experiencing a heyday in a mythical “golden age” under the early ʿAbbāsids, entered since 900 a long period of decline that ended with a complete collapse by savage people from the East in 1258, the volume emphasizes the continuity of Baghdād’s urban life, and shows how it was marked by its destiny as caliphal seat and cultural hub. Contributors Mehmetcan Akpınar, Nuha Alshaar, Pavel Basharin, David Bennett, Michal Biran, Richard W. Bulliet, Kirill Dmitriev, Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, Hend Gilli-Elewy, Beatrice Gruendler, Sebastian Günther, Olof Heilo, Damien Janos, Christopher Melchert, Michael Morony, Bernard O’Kane, Klaus Oschema, Letizia Osti, Parvaneh Pourshariati, Vanessa van Renterghem, Jens Scheiner, Angela Schottenhammer, Y. Zvi Stampfer, Johannes Thomann, Isabel Toral.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration and Style List of Figures AbbreviationsVi Notes on ContributorsVii 1 Baghdād’s Topography and Social Composition A Historical Sketch Jens Scheiner and Isabel Toral Part 1: The Foundation of Madīnat al-Salām and Its Legends 2 Legends about the Foundation of a Marvelous City Isabel Toral 3 Islamic Art and Architecture in Pre-Mongol Baghdād Bernard O’Kane More-to-Know I: The Foundation of al-Manṣūr’s Palatial City and Its Horoscope Johannes Thomann More-to-Know Ii: Was Madīnat al-Salām a “Round City”? Jens Scheiner Part 2: A Historical Overview from Late Antiquity to the Mongol Period 4 Ctesiphon and Its Surroundings, Precursors of Baghdād Parvaneh Pourshariati 5 The Early ʿAbbāsid Caliphs as Commanders and Constructors Jens Scheiner 6 Baghdād under Būyid Rule Nuha Alshaar 7 Baghdād under the Saljūqs Vanessa Van Renterghem 8 Baghdād under the Late ʿAbbāsid Caliphs Hend Gilli-Elewy 9 Baghdād under Mongol Rule Michal Biran 10 The Economic Parameters of Baghdād and Its Hinterland Richard W. Bulliet Part 3: Baghdād’s Neighbouring Empires 11 The ʿAbbāsids and the Byzantine Empire Olof Heilo 12 ʿAbbāsid Caliphs and Frankish Kings Kirill Dmitriev and Klaus Oschema More-to-Know IiI: Sino-ʿAbbāsid Relations in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries Angela Schottenhammer Part 4: The ʿAbbāsid Court and Its Legacy 13 Sketches of Court Culture in Baghdād Letizia Osti 14 City of Poets, Poets of the City Beatrice Gruendler 15 Prose Writing in Baghdād An Overview Isabel Toral More-to-Know IV: A “Golden Age” in Baghdād? Isabel Toral Part 5: Institutions of Learning and Fields of Knowledge 16 Knowledge and Learning in Baghdād Sebastian Günther More-to-Know V: Medinan Scholars in Early ʿAbbāsid Baghdād Mehmetcan Akpınar 17 Philosophical and Scientific Learning in Baghdād Damien Janos Part 6: The Religious Communities 18 The Formation of Sunnī and Shīʿī Traditionalism Christopher Melchert More-to-Know Vi: Rational Theologians David Bennett 19 The Ṣūfī School of Baghdād Persons and Teachings Pavel Basharin 20 Christian Communities in Baghdād and Its Hinterland Michael Morony 21 Jews in Baghdād during the ʿAbbāsid Period Y. Zvi Stampfer 22 Zoroastrians, Manichaeans and Gnostics in Baghdād and Its Hinterland Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst Epilogue Jens Scheiner Appendix: Original Sources featuring Baghdād Jens Scheiner Index
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Brill Festivities, Ceremonies, and Rituals in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown in the Late Middle Ages
Book SynopsisRituals and ceremonies played a significant role in medieval society by both establishing continuity with previous generations and their legacy, and temporarily allowing individuals to step out of their everyday routine. This is true for local communities, villages, convents, castles and cities, but also, for kingdoms and empires. Despite its importance, ritual in medieval Central Europe has not yet been studied to a great extent. In this volume, seven contributions deal with various examples and aspects of rituals in the late medieval Bohemian lands. The individual contributions explore particular rituals (coronation, wedding, funeral) or environments (cities, nobility, court, church). They share innovative interpretations and newly elaborated sources. Contributors are: Antonín Kalous, František Šmahel, Martin Čapský, Martin Nodl, Robert Šimůnek, Tomáš Borovský, and Václav Žůrek.
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Brill The Path of Moses: Scholarly Essay on the Case of Women in Religious Faith: by Mózes Salamon
Book SynopsisWriting in the late 19th century, Mózes Salamon, rabbi of a small Hungarian community, hoped to convince his fellow rabbis to recognize women as equally privileged members of the People Israel. The result was his The Path of Moses: A Scholarly Essay on the Case of Women in Religious Faith, a ground-breaking enquiry into the causes of women’s exclusion from most of Judaism’s religious practices. Predating contemporary feminism, it gave early expression to ideas found in today’s religious feminist critique of women’s role in Judaism, thus undermining attempts to dismiss those ideas as shallowly mimicking fashionable secular opinion. The Path of Moses is here published for the first time in English, accompanied by the Hebrew original, an introduction, and commentary.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction 1 The Significance of Netiv Moshe: Maamar Mehkari ʿal Mishpat haNashim baEmunah 2 Historical Background 3 Rabbi Mózes Salamon (1838–1912) 4 Netiv Moshe: Maamar Mehkari ʿal Mishpat haNashim baEmunah 5 The Roots of Gender Inequality in Judaism 6 The Main Arguments 7 Examples of Gender Inequality 8 Outstanding Women 9 Closing Remarks 10 Notes on the Translation English Translation and Hebrew Original Translator’s Notes to the Text Glossary Bibliography Index
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Brill Science, Technology and Medicine in the Making of Lisbon (1840–1940)
Book SynopsisWhy write a book about science, technology, and medicine in Lisbon? No one questions the value of similar studies of European capital cities such as Paris or London, but they are not reflective of the norm. Alongside its unique characteristics, Lisbon more closely represents the rule and deserves attention as such. This book offers the first urban history of science, technology and medicine in Lisbon, 1840–1940. It addresses the hybrid character of a European port city, scientific capital and imperial metropolis. It discusses the role of science, technology, and medicine in the making of Lisbon, framed by the analysis of invisibilities, urban connections, and techno-scientific imaginaries. The book is accompanied by a virtual interactive map.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Ana Simões and Maria Paula Diogo Part 1. The Fabric of the City Introduction to Part 1 Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Simões 1. Paving the City and Urban Evolution: Science, Technology and Craftsmanship Under Our Feet Lídia Fernandes 2. Trees, Nurseries, Tree-lined Streets and the Making of Modern Lisbon (1840-1886) Ana Duarte Rodrigues 3. Working-class Neighborhoods in Lisbon: Republican Hygienist policies, and the Circulation of Workers and Capital Maria Paula Diogo and Ana Simões 4. Crossing Urban and Transport Expertise to Pave Lisbon’s Future Urban Sprawl (1930s-1940s) M. Luísa Sousa Part 2. Port City and Imperial Metropolis Introduction to Part 2 Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Simões 5. Hybrid Features at Lisbon’s New Lazaretto (1860-1908) José Carlos Avelãs Nunes 6. The Customs Laboratory of Lisbon from the 1880s to the 1930s: Chemistry, Trade and Scientific Spaces Ignacio Suay-Matallana 7. Lisbon After Quarantines: Urban Protection Against International Diseases Celia Miralles-Buil 8. The Colonial Garden and the Colonial Agricultural Museum: Education, Research and “Tropical Illusion” in the Imperial Metropolis Cláudia Castelo 9. Urbanising the History of “Discoveries:” The 1940 Portuguese World Exhibition and the Making of a New Imperial Capital Antonio Sanchez and Carlos Godinho Part 3. The Daily Life in the City Introduction to Part 3 Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Simões 10. A Liberal Garden: The Estrela Garden and the Meaning of Being Public Ana Duarte Rodrigues and Ana Simões 11. Allies or Enemies? Dogs in the Streets of Lisbon in the Second Half of the Nineteenth-Century Inês Gomes 12. Intellectuals and the City: Private Matters in the Public Space Daniel Gamito-Marques 13. Working Class Universities: Itinerant Spaces for Science, Technology and Medicine in Republican Lisbon Ana Simões and Maria Paula Diogo 14. A Fascist Coney Island? Salazar's Dictatorship, Popular Culture and Technological Fun (1933-1943) Jaume Valentines-Alvarez and Jaume Sastre-Juan Supplement. Historical Urban Cartography of Lisbon João Machado Bibliographical References Index
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