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This book highlights the crucial but previously understudied role that the comic plays in the romantic chuanqi plays. It argues that the attention to the comic can enrich our understanding of the critical depth and scope of the chuanqi genre.

This book chronicles the remarkable life story of a tribal shaykh and his lifelong struggle against a corrupt regime. The challenges and adventures of this figure compel us to rethink the political history of Yemen and its path into its present chaos.

The Language of Objects is a detailed survey of selected Greek inscribed and literary epigrams that describe their (real or imaginary) monuments and settings, and on the language they use to point to what is outside the text.

Life Stories from the German Democratic Republic offers detailed accounts of everyday life, state institutions, and different views of politics, society and culture across decades that challenge and complexify our understandings of what it meant to live in the GDR.

"Euro-western descriptions of knowledge and its sources fall short of accommodating the spiritual, experiential terrain of the imagination. What of the embodied, affective knowing that characterizes Pentecostal epistemology, that is, the distinctive Pentecostal-Charismatic knowing derived from dreams and visions (D/Vs)? In this stunning ethnographic work, the author merges African scholarship with an investigation of what visioners say about the significance of their D/Vs for Christian life and spirituality. Revealing data showcases case studies for their biblical and theological articulations of the value of D/V experiences and affirms them as sources of Pentecostal love, ministerial agency, and the missionary impulse"--

What does compliance with judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) look like in states on the spectrum of democratisation? This work provides an in-depth investigation of three such states--Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia-- in the wider context of the growing 'implementation crisis' in Europe, and does so through a combined lens of theoretical insights and rich empirical data.

The book offers analsys of numerous dimensions regarding the essential role of judicial independence in democracy, as well as analsys of basic constitutional principles and contemporary issues on judicial independence and judicial process in many jurisdictions. It offers analsys of international standards of judicial independence and judicial ethics.

The Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism is a comprehensive Marxist lexicon conceived by philosopher Wolfgang Fritz Haug in 1983 and involving over 800 scholars worldwide. This first English-language selection introduces readers to a broad sample from the project's nine published volumes so far.

In this collected volume, Aharon Layish demonstrates that legal documents are an essential source for legal and social history. Since the late nineteenth century Islamic law has undergone tremendous transformations, some of which have strongly affected the basic features of its nature.

This book reveals the limitations of dominant Western International Relations for studying the Arab Uprisings. It shows instead that focusing on varied social forces and non-state actors, as well as domestic semi-political and socio-economic transformations, can establish new ways of reading foreign policy and politics of post-revolutionary Middle East countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and GCC countries.

This volume details the intersectional engagement of Muslim healthcare professionals and community members living in a minority context with the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The multidimensional and multidisciplinary account provided describes the challenges they faced and how they traversed them, with a specific focus on the interplay between religious values, public health mandates, social structures, and communal life.

History is characterized by change and innovation. Whose agency contributes to those dynamics? In what roles? How about non-human agency? Ten historical case studies taken from different societal domains illuminate agency in innovation in the Greco-Roman and early modern world.

"Though European administrative laws have gained global significance in the last few decades, research which provides both theoretical analysis and original empirical research has been scarce. This book offers an important account of the evolution of judicial review and administrative procedure legislation, using a factual analysis to shed light on how the different legal systems react to similar problems"--

Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-pandemic World explores the new cultural conditions of sex, relationships, gender awareness, and subjectivity after the COVID-19 pandemic through twelve interdisciplinary essays questioning the biopolitics of the new normal: the self-control regime of post-hedonistic societies.

This is the first multidisciplinary volume providing a sophisticated historical account of the highlands between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Its invaluable artistic heritage is today gravely endangered, in the crucible of a strife involving mutually exclusive national narratives.

Drawing on recent debates on cultural contact, this book offers a series of examples that invite to interpret integration in the Roman Mediterranean as the creation of an imperial scale, a common frame of reference for the inhabitants of the Roman world.

"This book presents the transcriptions and annotated translations of fifteen key historical documents concerning the Tapuia indigenous people written just before and during the Dutch occupation of northeastern Brazil. The selected documents vary widely in type, including letters, descriptions, reports, first-person declarations, diaries, and transcripts of interrogations, thereby showcasing different perspectives and audiences. Some of the documents were authored by European writers, while others register indigenous voices somewhat more directly in the form of interviews or declarations. These texts provide important first-hand information about the Tapuia and other indigenous peoples during the Dutch conquest, revealing their cultural practices and knowledge while also detailing their strategic engagements with each other and with different European colonizers"--

This is the first serious book wholly devoted to games based on maps: board games, playing cards and dissected puzzles from Western Europe and America are analysed and illustrated in all their historic variety.

Encompassing historical documents, fieldwork recordings, and Twitter data, this volume presents the first collection of original studies on the often overlooked yet unique Spanish varieties spoken across multilingual Central America, a culturally diverse linguistic frontier waiting to be further explored.

In this volume Julien M. Ogereau offers the first comprehensive, diachronic study of the origins and development of Christianity in the Roman province of Macedonia in the first six centuries CE.

Greek mythical heroines are still with us! Antigone, Medea, the Trojan cycle women, Alcestis...This volume presents a survey of the reception of Greek myths in Brazilian literature and stage performance.

The stories of Heracles at the Crossroads and the Judgement of Paris have, thanks to the process of refashioning, appropriation and extension known as 'Reception, ' exercised an enormous and vibrant influence upon art, literature and music in the modern world.

The Art Market and the 'Global South' is a collective volume that gathers scholars' contributions, analyzing the Art Markets in a cross-disciplinary perspective through the lenses of the Global South.

This collection of studies investigates how people of the 10th to early 12th century experienced and represented processes of intentional change in the Church, and what the consequences are of modern scholars' reliance on 'reform' to describe and interpret these processes.

This volume chronicles the engagement of Jesuits with Islam as they encountered it in Europe before their suppression in 1773. Special attention is paid to missionary efforts and to interactions with Muslim societies more generally.

This collection of studies celebrating the work of Professor Marcelo Kohen brings together the leading scholars and practitioners of public international law from different continents and generations to explore some of the most challenging issues of contemporary international law.

The book brings together scholars, practitioners and policymakers in higher education, and discusses in a variety of topics the future of the higher education sector in a rapidly changing global context.

In this volume Blake Hartung explores the place of the passion and death of Jesus in the writings of Ephrem of Nisibis, arguing that this central Christian drama informed not only Ephrem's ideas of the atonement, but his entire wide-ranging theological imagination.

This volume offers a new perspective on the formation of academic Buddhist studies by giving equal weight to the agency of Asian and European actors. thus filling an important lacuna in critical scholarship on the history of Orientalist knowledge.

Human enhancement is a rapidly advancing field and the speed of advance of technology, from being available to being used, results in a delay to the ethics surrounding it. This is true of pharmacological enhancement (PCE) as much as exoskeletons and human-machine interfacing. Ethical issues arising from human enhancement include autonomy, safety and dignity. The first two are the cornerstones of the ethics surrounding informed consent (IC) which emanated from the necessity to protect human subjects against the risks of research. What remains unclear is how those risks are quantified, who decides whether the risk is an acceptable one and whether IC is required. This volume explores all these legal and ethical issues, including the theory and history of IC and the role of military doctors.