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Inside Christian churches, natural light has been harnessed to underscore theological, symbolic, and ideological statements. This volume explores how the study of sunlight can reveal aspects of the design, decoration, and function of sacred spaces in the Middle Ages.

The Bible of Edessa is an authoritative translation of the Peshitta, the Syriac version of the Hebrew Bible. It is based on the oldest and best Syriac manuscripts and comes with an introduction and extensive annotations.

This book addresses the role of gender in the parallel processes of nation building and construction of Europe's internal hierarchies in the long nineteenth century, for the first time comparing the connected, yet different cases of Italy and Spain.

The times when abstaining from cakes and ale was seen as a sign of critical virtue are over. Phenomenal Shakespeare is at your back lawn with a picnic-basket jammed with intersubjectivity, embodiment, immediacy, representation. If you feel like passing, read this book.

This volume provides the reader with the history of urban warfare and the critical insights into the ethical problems arising from various dimensions of modern urban warfare through ten chapters written by acclaimed experts in the field.

Syed Hussein Alatas and Critical Social Theory: Decolonizing the Captive Mind offers a variety of historical, religious, and philosophical perspectives into the significance of Syed Hussein Alatas' life and thought today.

This groundbreaking collection of essays shows how the American Western has been reimagined in different national contexts, producing fictions that interrogate, reframe, and remix the genre in unexpectedly critical ways.

White men represent power in white supremacist patriarchy. What happens when literary texts depict them as disabled? Embodying more than just crises of masculinity, white male disability is a reckoning with old orders, provoking new perspectives on life and love in the modern era.

The present volume takes the analysis of taxation in Tibetan societies in new directions using hitherto unexploited Tibetan-language sources, allowing a better understanding of both the institutional organisation of taxation and of the experience and representations of taxpayers themselves.

This volume is a collection of studies on agricultural workers: from enslaved people on sugar plantations in 18th century Cuba, peasant families in the 19th century Russian Empire, to migrant labourers on palm oil plantations in 21st century South-East Asia.

Volume 1 of Theaters and Public Sphere in a Global and Digital Society inquires theatre, in all of its accepted meanings, in its relationship with society, institutions, cultural and local norms, and the collective imagination which these reveal.

Volume 2 of Theaters and Public Sphere in a Global and Digital Society presents several qualitative and quantitative researches on the social roles of the theatre and performance, as organized institutions or social groups, in contemporary society.

This book offers a new approach to the problem of evil by examining the problem's presuppositions and developing a metacritique of them.

A Companion to Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Cordoba offers a compelling account of Cordoba's most important archaeological, urban, political, legal, social, cultural and religious facets throughout the most exciting fifteen centuries of the city.

This book offers an analysis of China's growth from 1949 to the present day. The authors rebuild time-series databases (capital, education, R&D..., ), mobilize modern tools of statistics and econometrics, and use various methodologies (mainly Marxist) to carry out this research.

How did poets from the "Rivers and Lakes, " a realm defined by its remoteness from the central government, navigate and transform the field of classical poetry, a "high" genre of the scholar-officials class? What did it mean for them to "make a living" out of poetry? Zhang Hongsheng answers those questions in this comprehensive study of the Rivers and Lakes Poetry Movement (Jianghu shipai).

This volume examines how multifaceted End-of-Life Care moral questions be addressed from interdisciplinary perspectives within the Islamic tradition.

Accompanied by an introductory monograph and a full critical apparatus, this English-language edition of Karel van Mander's Grondt der edel, vry schilderconst (Foundation of the Noble, Free Art of Painting) provides unprecedented access to this crucially important art treatise on schilderconst (the art of painting / picturing).

This volume, written by legal practitioners in EU foreign policy and external relations, presents the multiple legal issues linked to the EU's action on the international scene and its efforts to uphold a rules-based world order.

Athens and Wittenberg explores how Luther and early Lutheranism did not neglect the classics of Greece and Rome, but continued to draw from the philosophy and poetry of antiquity in their quest to reform the church.