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Viacheslav Lytvynenko and Mikhail Shpakovskiy offer the first English edition of two Slavic works by Zinoviy Otenskiy (d. 1571/2), preceded by a thorough historical, literary, and theological treatment.

The first comprehensive study of the importance of fecunditas (human fertility) in Roman society, c. 100 BC - AD 300, this book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the connections between fertility, the Roman family, and the Roman state.

This book critically re-examines the scientific understanding of learning and presents novel concepts and emerging theories, ground-breaking research, pioneering investigations, and state-of-the-art projects. The chapters in this book portray theoretical frameworks, thought-provoking ideas, and promising efforts in framing new science of learning.

This book critically re-examines the scientific understanding of learning and presents novel concepts and emerging theories, ground-breaking research, pioneering investigations, and state-of-the-art projects. The chapters in this book portray theoretical frameworks, thought-provoking ideas, and promising efforts in framing new science of learning.

The Yearbook of International Disaster Law aims to represent a hub for critical debate in this area of research and policy and to foster the interest of academics, practitioners, stakeholders and policy-makers on legal and institutional issues relevant to all forms of natural, technological and human-made hazards.

This is the first account in English of the making of Italian nationhood from the perspective of constitutional history. It tells the little-known story of the monarchy's role in this process from the planning of unification to the rise of fascism.

A scientific conversation about citizenship, participation in politics and beyond, as well as in historiography in honour of Josine Blok on the occasion of her retirement and the anniversary of the Network for the Study of Ancient Greek History.

This volume analyses monuments in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia from the early Bronze Age through the Turkic Period. It focuses on the cultural significance of location and viewshed and on the monuments' indications of individual intention and collective memory.

Has sufficient commonality in major spacefaring programs led to the formation of customary international law? As orbital debris continues to multiply in outer space, Lt Col. Marc G. Carns investigates whether, in the absence of a treaty to stem orbital debris growth, commonalities among major spacefaring programs establish customary international law regarding debris prevention and mitigation.

Despite their starkly contrasting images, premodern Japanese Zen and tantric Buddhism were closely entwined movements. Based on recently discovered manuscript materials and covering the 13th to the 17th century, Esoteric Zen offers the first comprehensive account of their multi-faceted relationship.

Seven ground-breaking essays exploring aspects of the enduring Islamic legacy in European countries today by scholars who have unearthed a rich, complex history of varied relations between Muslims and Europeans which are both highly specific yet of universal importance.

Ronald Santangeli presents a text and annotated translation from Neo-Latin of the first biography of the ill-fated Queen, together with an account of the fascinating diplomatic career of its Scottish author George Con.

This cross-disciplinary volume of essays offers the first comprehensive set of studies to examine the nexus of music and religious education and to illustrate the ways music served as a means of religious teaching and learning in early modern Europe.

Equine Medicine explores a seldom-studied trove of English veterinary manuals, illuminating how the daily care of horses in late medieval England reshapes our understanding of equine representation in romance; human anxieties, desires, even orientation in daily life were often figured through horses.

An investigation about the way how contemporary post-colonial intertexts take colonialism and euro-modernism to trial.

This book offers a study of so-called 'Maritime Averages', a variety of risk management instruments used in maritime trade, in the Low Countries, showing how Averages played a major role in the institutional development of the Low Countries.

This volume provides an introduction to Lucretius' De rerum natura, the oldest completely preserved Latin didactic poem, and to the most important research questions concerned with the text.

In the late fourth century, the early Christian monk and author Evagrius Ponticus wrote his magnum opus in Greek--entitled Kephalaia Gnostika ("Gnostic Chapters")--a spiritual treatise on ascetic contemplation and unity with God. After Evagrius' death, however, his theology attracted controversy, and many of his writings were suppressed or destroyed. As a result, complete copies of this important work principally survived only in Syriac translations and an Armenian adaptation, until the recent discovery of two Arabic copies at the so-called Monastery of the Syrians in Egypt. The present volume represents the first-ever critical edition and translation of the Kephalaia Gnostika in that language

This volume contains the collected papers of one of the most important and influential scholars of the late 20th/early 21st century, with fundamental contributions to the fields of Cynic philosophy, Greco-Roman historiography and biography, and Roman poetry. This is volume 2.

Hongkongers' Fight for Freedom: Voices from the 2019 Anti-extradition Movement documents this momentous episode through the voices of its participants. It explains why normally acquiescent Hongkongers joined the Movement en masse, and it conveys the emotions and sense of identity that emerged.

This volume engages with notions of lateness and modernity in medieval architecture, broadly conceived geographically, temporally, methodologically, and theoretically. It aims to (re)situate secular and religious buildings from the 14th through the 16th centuries that are indebted to medieval building practices and designs, within the more established narratives of art and architectural history.

The book focuses on the emotions, desires, and doubts of young Jesuits, offering a detailed account of thousands of petitions for the Indies (Litterae indipetae) written during the early modern period.

This volume contains the collected papers of one of the most important and influential scholars of the late 20th/early 21st century, with fundamental contributions to the fields of Cynic philosophy, Greco-Roman historiography and biography, and Roman poetry. This is volume 1.

This book discusses the often explosive relation between war and ideas between 1650 and 1900, how the ideas of philosophers and generals have influenced war, and how war in its turn has influenced ideas.

Manuscript collections of sayings, stories, songs, and spells provided the main source of access to textual knowledge in early China. This book draws on a plethora of sources across genres to describe the life-cycle of collections, from their sources and production, to their transmission and reception.

Words of the Prophets treats graffiti as a form of political protest during the austerity crisis in Thessaloniki, the toxic waste debacle in Naples, the Solidarity movement in Poland, and the rise of drug use in Chicago.

Susa and Elam II contains 16 contributions presented at an international conference on Susa and Elam (SW Iran) in 2015 in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). They cover various themes on Susian and Elamite history, language, religion, and culture.