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Sacred treasuries formed part of every medieval cathedral or church housing contents that were endowed with profound spiritual significance but were also of immense value in worldly terms. In many ways, these were the predecessors of both modern museums and modern banks.

Decolonial theory has eclipsed postcolonial theory as a resource for resistant analysis of empire, imperialism, colonialism, and neocolonialism. This is the first book-length, biblical-scholarly introduction to decolonial theory, a demonstration of its potential for both academic and "ordinary" biblical interpretation.

The book comprises contemporary legal theory pertaining to Democratic States based on the Rule of Law from the perspective of general principles of law. It explains in detail, theoretically and based on the specific case law, the phenomenon of general principles of law - as a source of law and directly applicable legal norms.

Rabbi Simone Luzzatto was the first thinker of the early modern period to put forth new political and philosophical ideas under the banner of scepticism, helping to make the Jews an integral part of society.

"This monograph offers the first-ever, full-length analysis of the most irreverent book of Italian Futurism: L'anguria lirica, printed in 1934 on tin metal sheets, with design and poetic text by Tullio d'Albisola and illustrations by Bruno Munari. This study, which features the unabridged reproduction of the pages of the tin book, accompanied by the first English translation of the poem, aims to disentangle the complex relationship between text and image in this total artwork. It shows how the endless series of material transformations at its core - of woman into food, of love into desecrating religion, of man into machine, of poetry into matter - fostered a radical change in poetry-writing, thus breaking away from a stagnant lyrical past"--

Ukraine has started including persons with special educational needs and disabilities recently, notwithstanding, it can offer to share some unique experience concerning standing up against inequality and discrimination in this collection of texts written by international and Ukrainian scholars.

The age of Enlightenment - the so-called age of reason - was also, paradoxically, the age of the Eleusinian mysteries. By attempting to reveal Demeter's secret cult, British, French, and German thinkers and freemasons of the eighteenth century revealed Christianity's pagan origins.

The focus of this volume is on the interface between tradition and power in the Roman Empire. By including the age of Augustus and later imperial periods, it shows the continuous importance of tradition in ruling the Roman Empire.

The law governing maritime commerce in sixteenth-century Scotland is examined in these essays from the perspectives both of learned lawyers who wrote treatises about it, and of merchants and mariners who regulated their own affairs in urban courts.

An intertextual reading of Matthew's Gospel, exploring how 1-2 Samuel influence Matthew's portrayal of Jesus as a new David. Matthew's Jesus both imitates and inverts the acts of King David in ways that promote righteousness and mercy.

This collection of articles uniquely brings into scholarly dialogue the textual history and criticism of authoritative literatures from diverse cultures: they study Mesopotamian literature, the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, the Homeric epics, the Quran, and Hindu and Buddhist literatures with an interest in all matters of the textual transmission.

This book explores the many framings of Moses in modern Germany, from historic lawgiver to founder of a nation. It traces constructions and contestations of Mosaic law across debates in history and theology, in society and politics.

How do contemporary communities in the Caribbean engage with their past? This book answers this by bringing local Caribbean voices to talk about archaeological heritage. Each chapter discusses how local researchers create bridges between archaeology, heritage, and communities in different Caribbean countries.

The Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam is an entirely new work, with new articles reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship. It appears in substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world.

In a context of rigidification of religious boundaries, especially between Hinduism and Islam, the main argument of the book is that many sites of religious encountering are still at work, both in Pakistan and in India. Drawing on both historical anthropology and sociology of religions, the book also underscores that the process of constructing communities in South Asia, both Hindu and Muslim, is rooted in the same social pattern, the patrilineal lineage (baradari or khandan).

Performing Arguments: Debate in Early English Poetry and Drama proposes a fresh performance-centered view of rhetoric by recovering, tracing, and analyzing the trope and tradition of aestheticized argumentation as a mode of performance across several early ludic genres: Middle English debate poetry, the fifteenth-century 'disguising' play, the Tudor Humanist debate interlude, and four Shakespearean works in which the dynamics of debate invite the plays' reconsideration under the new rubric of 'rhetorical problem plays.'

From a global historical perspective and drawing on a vast array of sources, this innovative study of cultural nationalism in British India discusses Romantic nationalist traits such as the relationship between language and identity, historicism, artistic revivalism and hero worship.

The aim of this book is to introduce the reader to the history of medieval Prague in the period of its prolonged and dynamic development. In those days, Prague was one of the largest urban agglomeration of central Europe.

This volume marks the state-of-the-art concerning research on Flavius Josephus, Sefer Yosippon, and reception history of both. The essays contained herein draw together and build upon past research to establish a new foundation for future work on these important texts.

Volume II deals with the Diplopoda or millipedes. As in the previous volume, the treatment is articulated in chapters dealing with external and internal morphology, physiology, reproduction, development, distribution, ecology, phylogeny and taxonomy. All currently recognized suprageneric taxa and a very large selection of the genera are considered.

This book explores strategies for limiting transnational market failures, governance failures and constitutional failures impeding protection of the universally agreed sustainable development goals like climate change mitigation and access to justice and transnational rule-of-law.

Martin Goodman's forty years of scholarship in Roman history and ancient Judaism demonstrates how each discipline illuminates the other. In this volume, Martin's colleagues and students follow his example by investigating Jews contemplating Jews and "others," and "others" contemplating Jews.

This interdisciplinary collection focuses on enclosure, deception and secrecy in three spatial areas - the body, clothing and furniture. It contributes to the study of private life and explores the micro-history of hidden spaces as an extension or projection of the self.

This collection brings together case studies that cover a wide religious spectrum: from Hindu, Buddhist, Jaina traditions through reformist ventures such as the Brahmos, to issues in modern Islam and Judaism.

The first Korean study of its kind, this exploration and examination of South Korea's space legal landscape analyzes current laws and provides comprehensive legal framework recommendations with suggested revisions to align with international standards to enhance South Korea's space endeavors.

Dans cet ouvrage-testament que sont les contes, Perrault livre à travers le thème vestimentaire ses messages les plus subversifs. Il dénonce l'immoralité des possesseurs de pouvoir, les agressions sexuelles, les impostures bourgeoises, la cupidité des grands et jusqu'au pouvoir en place. In this work-testament that are the tales, Perrault delivers through the theme of clothing his most subversive messages. He denounces the immorality of the possessors of power, sexual assault, bourgeois impostures, the greed of the great and even the political monarchy.

This exciting new collection of cutting-edge, multidisciplinary scholarship brings together analyses of two dynamic and longstanding Jewish communities. From historical, sociological, literary, and other perspectives, contributing authors offer rich new understandings of Argentine and Canadian Jewish life.