Brill mär 2026 (111 risultati)

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Apart from islands such as Buddhism, the religious world of ancient India and Iran is still a wasteland on the maps of Western knowledge standards; often in the specialist sciences too. This is initially disconcerting, as it is obvious that Greek and Roman, as well as Jewish and Christian religious history could only have developed in interaction with it.The most pristine cult tradition there was the Soma Sacrifice. It can be traced back to the Bronze Age in parts even to the Neolithic. From the abundant sources reconstructable in detail, striking parallels, particularly with Christian baptism, were already seen a good hundred years ago. But the asymmetrical debate at that time was soon to die down again. A closer look, however, reveals that the parallels and congruencies run throughout: from Jesus' childhood stories to the early morning drama of his resurrection. 512 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Apart from islands such as Buddhism, the religious world of ancient India and Iran is still a wasteland on the maps of Western knowledge standards; often in the specialist sciences too. This is initially disconcerting, as it is obvious that Greek and Roman, as well as Jewish and Christian religious history could only have developed in interaction with it.The most pristine cult tradition there was the Soma Sacrifice. It can be traced back to the Bronze Age in parts even to the Neolithic. From the abundant sources reconstructable in detail, striking parallels, particularly with Christian baptism, were already seen a good hundred years ago. But the asymmetrical debate at that time was soon to die down again. A closer look, however, reveals that the parallels and congruencies run throughout: from Jesus' childhood stories to the early morning drama of his resurrection. 512 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Apart from islands such as Buddhism, the religious world of ancient India and Iran is still a wasteland on the maps of Western knowledge standards; often in the specialist sciences too. This is initially disconcerting, as it is obvious that Greek and Roman, as well as Jewish and Christian religious history could only have developed in interaction with it.The most pristine cult tradition there was the Soma Sacrifice. It can be traced back to the Bronze Age in parts even to the Neolithic. From the abundant sources reconstructable in detail, striking parallels, particularly with Christian baptism, were already seen a good hundred years ago. But the asymmetrical debate at that time was soon to die down again. A closer look, however, reveals that the parallels and congruencies run throughout: from Jesus' childhood stories to the early morning drama of his resurrection.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Wann und wie wurde Sprache zu einem digitalen Phänomen Nicht erst durch den Aufstieg der elektronischen Datenverarbeitung, so zeigt dieses Buch, sondern im Zuge einer Entwicklung, die bereits im frühen 20. Jahrhundert einsetzte und ein breites Spektrum von Disziplinen, Wissensformen und Praxisfeldern durchzog. Der Bogen der Untersuchung reicht von den Anfängen der strukturalistischen Linguistik bis zur Informationstheorie und von der Konkreten Poesie der Nachkriegszeit bis zur Medienkunst der 80er Jahre. Anhand dieser Zusammenhänge macht die Studie deutlich, wie sprachliche Zeichen und Kommunikationssysteme in ihren digitalen Aspekten erfasst - d.h. theoretisch konzipiert, experimentell bearbeitet und ästhetisch dargestellt - wurden. Zutage tritt damit eine historische Genealogie von Sprachmodellen, die ein neues Licht auf digitale Technologien der Gegenwart und ihre diskursiven Voraussetzungen wirft. 165 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Wann und wie wurde Sprache zu einem digitalen Phänomen Nicht erst durch den Aufstieg der elektronischen Datenverarbeitung, so zeigt dieses Buch, sondern im Zuge einer Entwicklung, die bereits im frühen 20. Jahrhundert einsetzte und ein breites Spektrum von Disziplinen, Wissensformen und Praxisfeldern durchzog. Der Bogen der Untersuchung reicht von den Anfängen der strukturalistischen Linguistik bis zur Informationstheorie und von der Konkreten Poesie der Nachkriegszeit bis zur Medienkunst der 80er Jahre. Anhand dieser Zusammenhänge macht die Studie deutlich, wie sprachliche Zeichen und Kommunikationssysteme in ihren digitalen Aspekten erfasst - d.h. theoretisch konzipiert, experimentell bearbeitet und ästhetisch dargestellt - wurden. Zutage tritt damit eine historische Genealogie von Sprachmodellen, die ein neues Licht auf digitale Technologien der Gegenwart und ihre diskursiven Voraussetzungen wirft. 165 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In Ethical Theories in Islam, the author has given a typology of Islamic ethics, without overlooking altogether the chronological development. Four such types of ethical theory have been isolated: the scriptural, the theological, the philosophical and the religious.The first edition has already been favourably reviewed by scholars in Europe, America and the Middle East, as a significant contribution to a little-studied subject. This second edition contains extra material from Ibn Sina's writings, translated into English for the first time.The book should be of interest to Islamic scholars, philosophers and historians of ethics.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere is among the first books to explore the pre-modern and early modern historical ties among such diverse regions as Anatolia, the Iranian plateau, Central Asia, Western Xinjiang, the Indian subcontinent, and southeast Asia, as well as the circumstances that reoriented these regions and helped break up the Persianate ecumene in modern times. Essays explore the modalities of Persianate culture, the defining features of the Persianate cosmopolis, religious practice and networks, the diffusion of literature across space, subaltern social groups, and the impact of technological advances on language. Taken together, the essays reflect the current scholarship in Persianate studies, and offer pathways for future research.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Mu?ammad ibn ?abib (d. 860), a specialist in Arab history, tribal genealogy, and poetry, who lived in Baghdad, collected in his Prominent Murder Victims many stories of murderers and murder victims from the legendary pre-Islamic past, such as how Bilqis, the Arabic name for the Queen of Sheba, came to power, to the assassinations ordered by viziers or caliphs in the early Islamic centuries. A lengthy appendix deals with poets from pre- and early Islamic times who were killed. The stories are entertaining as well as informative. Strikingly, the author refrains from explicit moralising. The present book offers a richly annotated English translation together with an improved Arabic text and indexes of persons, places, and rhymes.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Divine Wisdom as Judgment insists that because the place we come to know God's wisdom is in God's overturning of human wisdom on the cross, the only possible wisdom that remains open to us is faith in this Judge. With attention to a neglected portion of Karl Barth's corpus, the repair of a widespread misperception about the incompatibility between Barth and biblical wisdom, and exegesis of Paul's apocalyptic gospel, this book enters discussion with one of contemporary theology's most ubiquitous themes.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Wann und wie wurde Sprache zu einem digitalen Phänomen Nicht erst durch den Aufstieg der elektronischen Datenverarbeitung, so zeigt dieses Buch, sondern im Zuge einer Entwicklung, die bereits im frühen 20. Jahrhundert einsetzte und ein breites Spektrum von Disziplinen, Wissensformen und Praxisfeldern durchzog. Der Bogen der Untersuchung reicht von den Anfängen der strukturalistischen Linguistik bis zur Informationstheorie und von der Konkreten Poesie der Nachkriegszeit bis zur Medienkunst der 80er Jahre. Anhand dieser Zusammenhänge macht die Studie deutlich, wie sprachliche Zeichen und Kommunikationssysteme in ihren digitalen Aspekten erfasst - d.h. theoretisch konzipiert, experimentell bearbeitet und ästhetisch dargestellt - wurden. Zutage tritt damit eine historische Genealogie von Sprachmodellen, die ein neues Licht auf digitale Technologien der Gegenwart und ihre diskursiven Voraussetzungen wirft.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Is God involved Why do bad things happen to good people What is up to us These questions were explored in Mediterranean antiquity with reference to 'providence' (pronoia). In Did God Care Dylan Burns offers the first comprehensive survey of providence in ancient philosophy that brings together the most important Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac sources, from Plato to Plotinus and the Gnostics. Burns demonstrates how the philosophical problems encompassed by providence transformed in the first centuries CE, yielding influential notions about divine care, evil, creation, omniscience, fate, and free will that remain with us today. These transformations were not independent developments of 'Pagan philosophy' and 'Christian theology, ' but include fruits of mutually influential engagement between Hellenic and Christian philosophers.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this book, Prof. Gideon Sapir concisely reviews the history of the relationship between religion and state in Israel. He discusses, among other things, the rise and fall of the famous 'status quo' in this field, and examines key issues from social, political, and legal perspectives. Sapir points out that the map of challenges in the field of religion-state relations has changed its face over the past two decades and argues that the main challenge in Israel in this field today is finding a way to integrate the ultra-Orthodox public into the country's various circles of life. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book provides the details of Japanese climate litigation, positioning them both within the global trends of climate litigation and on the trajectory of Japanese past pollution lawsuits. It identifies the barriers that hinders the number of climate cases in Japan, a country known with a significant low litigation use. It then discusses the future prospects for climate change litigation in Japan by comparing with tobacco litigation in the United States. This original work makes a significant contribution to the international academic community, by describing Japan's climate cases, previously little known internationally.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (1232-1492) was the last Islamic state in al-Andalus. It has long been considered a historical afterthought, even an anomaly, but this impression must be rectified: here we place the kingdom in a new context, within the processes of change that were taking place across all Western Islamic societies in the late Middle Ages. Despite being the last Islamic entity in the Iberian Peninsula, Granada was neither isolated nor exclusively associated with the nearest Islamic lands. The special relationship between Nasrid territory and the surrounding Christian states accelerated historical processes of change. This volume edited by Adela Fábregas examines the Nasrid kingdom through its politics, society, economics, and culture. Contributors: Daniel Baloup, Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo, María Elena Díez Jorge, Adela Fábregas, Ángel Galán Sánchez, Alberto García Porras, Expiración García-Sánchez, Raúl González Arévalo, Pierre Guichard, Antonio Malpica Cuello, Christine Mazzoli-Guintard, Rafael G. Peinado Santaella, Antonio Peláez Rovira, José Miguel Puerta Vílchez, María Dolores Rodríguez-Gómez, Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza, Roser Salicrú i Lluch, Bilal Sarr, Francisco Vidal-Castro, Gerard Wiegers, Amalia Zomeño.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - From antiquity to the 16th century, translation united culturally the peoples in the historical West (from Bactria to the shores of the Atlantic) and fueled the production and circulation of knowledge. The Hellenic scientific and philosophical curriculum was translated from and into, to mention the most prevalent languages, Greek, Syriac, Middle Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin. To fill a lack in existing scholarship, this volume collects the documents that present the insider evidence provided in contemporary accounts of the motivations and purposes of translation given in the personal statements by the agents in this process, the translators, scholars, and historians of each society. Presented in the original languages with an English translation and introductory essays, these documents offer material for the study of the historical contextualization of the translations, the social history of science and philosophy in their interplay with traditional beliefs, and the cultural policies and ideological underpinnings of these societies. Contributors Michael Angold, Pieter Beullens, Charles Burnett, David Cohen, Gad Freudenthal, Dag Nikolaus Hasse, Anthony Kaldellis, Daniel King, Felix Mundt, Ignacio Sánchez, Isabel Toral, Uwe Vagelpohl, and Mohsen Zakeri.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Highlife Unbound unfolds the trilocal and transnational history of Highlife, Anglophone West Africa's first modern popular music, from 1950-1967. It investigates the interrelatedness of Highlife-making in the Gold Coast/Ghana, Nigeria, and England, through an in-depth focus on travelling musicians, Highlife in three courtries, and the circulation of recorded music.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this book investigates how and why Danish Muslim women engage as teachers and students in Islamic educational activities. It does so by focusing on the learning trajectories, knowledge disseminating activities, and class interactions of the women, showing that they involve themselves in a variety of activities to stay continuously engaged, and that this is a way of becoming pious. The book makes evident that this becoming is dependent on the embeddedness of the individual in a web of relations to both this- and otherworldly others. As such, the book promotes a relational understanding of piety formation and religious engagement that are informative to studies of religious life beyond Islam.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The 'Thombos' are a rather unique collection of eighteenth-century land and population registers detailing the lives lived, lands held, and labour provided by tens of thousands of people inhabiting the coastal regions of Sri Lanka that were colonised by the Dutch East India Company. Turning this archive inside out by highlighting both the indigenous and colonial roots of this administrative system, Luc Bulten presents a gateway into everyday social realities surrounding caste, conjugality, (forced) work, and land tenure. In doing so, he demonstrates how both European expansionism and local agency reciprocally affected the ways such social realities were shaped.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book examines five centuries of Ibero-American architectural history through the lens of its Arabic architectural component. It seeks to illuminate an integral part of Ibero-American culture--one that is frequently ignored and undervalued as merely an exotic influence. Fernando Martínez Nespral's A History of the Arab Component in Ibero-American Architecture stands as a landmark contribution to our understanding of the region's architectural heritage, inviting us to see the world through new eyes and to embrace the rich tapestry of cultures that have shaped our shared landscape. It is a book that will resonate with scholars and enthusiasts alike, inspiring us to explore the hidden corners of history and celebrate the diversity that lies at the heart of Ibero-America's architectural identity. Fernando Luiz Lara, Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Mapping South-South Connections during the Decolonization Process and Cold War (1810-1990): The Islamicate and Ibero-American Worlds offers a groundbreaking exploration of the period's historical, political, and cultural networks. Through interdisciplinary approaches--from diplomacy and visual culture to women's studies and political science--this volume highlights state and non-state actors who shaped international relations beyond Euro-American paradigms. Rooted in a research project and major international conference, and enriched by additional contributions, it introduces original studies on underexplored connections between Ibero-America and the Islamicate world, often drawing on primary sources difficult to access due to geographic, linguistic, or political barriers. Contributors are Martín Bergel, Fernando Camacho Padilla, Eudald Cortina Orero, Fernando Escribano Martín, Alberto García Molinero, Mario Matus González, Raffaele Mauriello, Reinaldo M. Sánchez Porro, Juan José Vagni, and Baris Ahmet Yörümez.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book offers a detailed account of Italian Renaissance education in fifteenth-century Verona, one of the most influential contexts for the teaching of the humanae litterae when the transition from medieval Latin education to the Renaissance humanist curriculum first happened. It is a pathbreaking and methodologically exemplary study, up to date with the most recent Italian and Anglophone scholarship, balancing localized archival discoveries with broader interpretive frameworks. Drawing upon an extraordinary wealth of archival materials, the author reconstructs a nuanced portrait of teachers, institutions, and educational practices. The book's empirical rigor is matched by its theoretical sophistication. It not only sheds new light on a crucial period in the history of Italian education but also sets a new standard for the integration of archival research, historiographical reflection, and analytical clarity. Each chapter contributes uniquely to a coherent and compelling narrative. The result is a landmark contribution to both Renaissance studies and the history of education.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book brings together leading Muslim thinkers--from Egypt to Tunisia, Morocco, Iran, Turkey, to Indonesia--offering bold, diverse perspectives on how to interpret the Qur?an in a changing world. From gender justice and interfaith relations to critiques of tradition and modernity, these essays tackle urgent questions facing Muslim communities. Many appear here in English for the first time. Whether defending classical methods or proposing reformist approaches, each author engages deeply with the Qur?an's meaning and relevance. A unique resource for students, scholars, and all who seek to understand contemporary Qur?anic hermeneutics from within the Muslim tradition.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This is the first English-language translation of the description of 15th-century Dubrovnik by the humanist Philippus de Diversis. The text provides a unique account of all aspects of urban life; it is unusual in that it includes themes which were not usually found in city praises, such as the plague control measures and the functioning of public offices. Diversis' aim was to describe 'the honour and the reputation of the city of Dubrovnik, which through his endeavour was to last forever'. His work is documentary, literary, and personal, and as this edition testifies, it is still read and admired six centuries later.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - While the rising prominence of translations has long been recognized as an essential element of early modern intellectual life, this volume shifts the focus from translated texts to the individuals who translated them. Through a series of interlocking case studies, it follows translators from Europe, through the Ottoman Empire, and as far as Mughal India, in the process raising new questions about the possibilities--and the limits--of trans-linguistic dialogue, and about translators' unique role as agents of encounter in a world in which ideas, texts and people circulated as never before. Contributors include Giancarlo Casale, Alessia Castagnino, Angelo Cattaneo, Tunahan Durmaz, Stefan Hanss, Giovanni Lista, Jose Maria Perez Fernandez, Baki Tezcan, and Ann Thomson. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'You do not see a city when you see Rome, but a piece of heaven,' wrote the author of a medieval guidebook. But how did pilgrims find their way to Rome without getting lost Where did they sleep and what did they eat Why did both the rich and the poor set out on such long and dangerous journeys The author of this volume explores the everyday hardships and joys of medieval pilgrims through the eyes of Nicholas of Ilok, King of Bosnia. This unique perspective offers new insights into medieval mobility and illustrates that pilgrimage was not only an expression of personal piety, but also a form of diplomacy and European cultural exchange.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Music comes to our aid when confronted with a sense of our own mortality as here revealed in a variety of contexts and moods. Musical composition and performance significantly influence and draw from personal loss and group trauma, gaining force in kaleidoscopic patterns of shared grief; so, too, with spiritual, devotional, and ritual participation. The chapters of this book, rooted in cultural, historical, and social case studies, exemplify these musical dynamics. Alert to a variety of diverse academic disciplines, the introduction and conclusion provide additional analysis and not only indicate directions for future research, but also for contemporary study across the humanities and social sciences. Contributors are: Janieke Bruin-Mollenhorst, Jonathan Clinch, Douglas Davies, Benjamin Goodman, Thomas Graves, Erin Johnson-Williams, Daithí Kearney, Wolfgang Marx, Matthew McCullough, and Maximillian Rosenthal.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This is the first comprehensive monograph about demonstratives in Plautus. It uses advanced statistical methods to analyze the morphosyntactic and semantic properties of demonstratives establishing situational (extra-linguistic) and recognitional (mnemonic) reference, thus providing new insights into demonstratives in Latin while also illustrating the great potential of quantitative methodologies for research in Latin linguistics. Furthermore, the specific referential properties of these demonstratives are shown to contribute significantly to two characteristic features of Plautine drama: the construction of fictional worlds that are not fully separate from reality and the close relationship between the characters and the audience. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume provides a detailed introduction addressing critical issues such as authorship, date, integrity, miracles, Jewish involvement, the imitation of Christ, theology, and ethics. The section-by-section commentary examines grammar, philology, text critical questions, metaphors, intertextuality, historical issues, etc. In addition, there are numerous excursuses on topics such as the charge of atheism in antiquity, praying toward the east, the repurposing of Roman stadia, and the cult of the saints. Throughout, the author engages a wide array of secondary literature. A modern theological postscript considers the ongoing relevance of the Martyrdom of Polycarp in our contemporary world marked by religious violence.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume on the work of Drew Hyland invites readers to join in the open and responsive dialogue that characterizes philosophical life, according to Hyland. Contributors engage figures from Plato to Heidegger and explore themes including love, beauty, play, and transcendence. Each essay reflects philosophy as a lived, communal practice rather than a doctrinal system. Highlights include a meditation on seduction in Plato's Symposium, an imagined dialogue between Hyland and Hans-Georg Gadamer, and a previously unpublished essay by Hyland on Antonioni's Blow-Up. This collection honors Hyland's legacy and carries it forward--inviting readers to think, question, and philosophize together with him.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - If there is one speculation about English and German that has pervaded scholarly work within contrastive linguistics as well as language teaching and translation handbooks for decades, it is probably the assumption of a more 'verbal style' in English compared to German. Settling this question once and for all, the present book provides a comprehensive comparison of verbal style in English and German that pays due attention to language-internal variation by mode and register at the same time.…