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This Handbook includes numerous contributions from some of the most well-regarded researchers in Cognitive Semantics and it aims to provide the most comprehensive coverage of the field to date.

In Communes and Conflict, Jan Dumolyn and Jelle Haemers explore how revolt and rebellion became integral to the life, law and culture of medieval Flanders during the centuries when this area became one of the most urbanised in Europe.

Raising the Red Flag examines the origins of the British Marxist movement from H.M. Hyndman's Social Democratic Federation, through the Socialist Labour Party and Sylvia Pankhurst's Workers' Socialist Federation, to the founding of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Using newly analyzed sources and database analysis, this book tells the stories of the personal friendships and professional failures of Chinese and American engineers in Republican China.

This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of the risk of double compensation, often called double recovery, in the investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) system and proposes a practical solution to the problems which double compensation creates.

Humans are unlikely to be the only intelligent species in the universe. Contact may occur at any time. It may be peaceful or hostile. This book argues that we need a global consensus on how to respond in either scenario.

Jerusalem/Zion's metaphoric investiture/divestiture of dress is a central force to create new perspectives on reality and of a nation's selfhood in contexts of suffering and destruction, making dress in prophetic metaphors a crucial means of communication and perception management.

This volume is the first to undertake a large-scale, longue durée study of pain in antiquity across multiple contexts, cultures and genres, providing a close analysis of the articulation of pain experiences, both mental and physical.

Aiming to develop a less studied literary genre, this book primarily engages with an academic discussion on how disease and healing subjected to faith are imagined within Christian traditions, as well as in some other religious cultures of the Middle East.

This book examines the history of drugs in Japan over four centuries, from the early modern period through the present day, showing how the definition, consumption, and regulation of substances both shaped and reflected trends in Japanese society.

Cet ouvrage offre une analyse approfondie de l'oeuvre pionnière consacrée par Louis Massignon (1883-1962) à la mystique musulmane. Il interroge sa vision de la réalité étudiée et en vient à énoncer la question de la subjectivité en sciences des religions. This book offers an in-depth analysis of the pioneering work devoted by Louis Massignon (1883-1962) to Muslim mysticism. It questions his vision of the reality he studied and opens up the question of subjectivity in the study of religion.

This book presents Lars Johanson's Code-Copying Model, an integrated framework for the description of contact-induced processes. The model covers all the main contact linguistic issues in their synchronic and diachronic interrelationship. The terminology is kept intuitive and simple to apply.

Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 21 (CMR 21) is about relations between Muslims and Christians in Southern Europe in the period from 1800 to 1914. It gives descriptions, assessments and bibliographical details of all known works between the faiths from this period.

Globalization has given literary studies a worldwide scope, both in postcolonial criticism and in studies of world literature. This ambitious collection explores the mutual illumination gained through the interaction of these divergent approaches to the world's literatures and cultures.

A ground-breaking study of early Christian society and history in Asia Minor from the second to the eleventh century, based on a comprehensive evaluation of the inscriptions and archaeological remains, and a re-evaluation of the written sources, including a fundamental new appraisal of saints' lives from the region.

This book guides you in investigating writing interventions in everyday educational practice. Innovative approaches on how to conceptualize, design, implement, and evaluate writing interventions are presented and illustrated by inspiring examples.

Identity building through belonging to a homeland or being part of a confessional group is the focus of this book. The author has done extensive fieldwork since 2000 to gain insight in how Muslims from Zangskar (Himalaya) build a bridge between tradition and modernity.

This collection demonstrates the centrality of transnational perspectives for elucidating the complex inter-relationship between Netherlandic and European literary history, 1200-1800. The Low Countries were a dynamic site for new literary production and transnational exchange shaping the intellectual landscape of premodern Europe.

Varieties of the Self discusses human perspectives of the Paraclete (founded in 1129) on sacrifice, intentionality, and views on body and soul. The anthropological approach connects different works written by Peter Abelard to views on the individual within this community.

This book offers an alternative reading of the relationship between an American mission and an African church in colonial South Africa. The author argues that mission and church were partners in this relationship from the beginning and both were transformed by this experience.

This volume invites the readers interested in comparative literature to take an exciting journey round the globe. The comparatists who met in Macau in 2019 discuss the connections between geographically and culturally diverse topics and locations.

Philosophies on Qur'anic hermeneutics in contemporary Turkey are relatively uncharted. In Critical Hermeneutics, Çelik explores and compares the hermeneutical philosophies of three Turkish intellectuals, namely Alpyağıl, Cündioğlu, and Öztürk.

In 1820 Thomas Pringle emigrated to South Africa taking the sonnet with him. This work shows how he used it to capture his colonial experiences and open the Romantic-era sonnet itself to new, southern realities from within.

Islamic Thought and the Art of Translation presents a diverse selection of studies, translations, and textual editions in honor of two of the most beloved and productive scholars in the field of Islamic Studies, Professors William Chittick and Sachiko Murata.

This book offers a sample of the wide and varied research in youth studies in the Ibero-American context. The different contributions gathered in this volume show how young Latin Americans and Spaniards develop their lives in societies characterized by complexity and inequalities.