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Dutch and Flemish Flower Pieces (2 Vols in Case): Paintings, Drawings and Prints Up to the Nineteenth Century
This richly illustrated book provides an overview of all known Dutch and Flemish artists up to the nineteenth century who painted or drew flower pieces, or else made prints of …
The Baltic Battle of Books: Formation and Relocation of European Libraries in the Confessional Age (C.1500 ̵c. 1650) and Their Afterlife
This book is about the creation, relocation, and reconstruction of libraries between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Confessionalization, that is, the era of religious division …
Jewish Martyrdom in Antiquity: From the Books of Maccabees to the Babylonian Talmud
This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of all relevant sources concerning Jewish martyrdom in Antiquity. By viewing these narratives together, tracing their development and …
Mighty Baal: Essays in Honor of Mark S. Smith
Mighty Baal: Essays in Honor of Mark S. Smith is the first edited collection devoted to the study of the ancient Near Eastern god Baal. Although the Bible depicts Baal as …
Cassius Dio and the Late Roman Republic
Cassius Dio's Roman History is an essential, yet still undervalued, source for modern historians of the late Roman Republic. The papers in this volume show how his account can be …
Spoils of Knowledge: Seventeenth-Century Plunder in Swedish Archives and Libraries
In Spoils of Knowledge, Emma Hagstr m Molin offers novel perspectives on document and book plundering. At the forefront is the controversial heritage connected to the Swedish …
Fluxus as a Network of Friends, Strangers, and Things: The Agency of Chance Collaborations
At the same time whimsical and thought-provoking, Fluxus explored everyday life as an object of art. Behind mundane materials and activities, we find a large network of Fluxus …
Eighteenth-Century Stoic Poetics: Shaftesbury, Akenside, and the Discipline of the Imagination
Eighteenth-Century Stoic Poetics: Shaftesbury, Akenside, and the Discipline of the Imagination offers a fresh perspective on the eighteenth-century poetics of Lord Shaftesbury and …
Soul and Self in Vedic India
How did the Vedic Indians think of life, consciousness, and personhood? How did they envisage man's fate after death? Did some part of the person survive the death of the body and …
Encyclopedia of the Qur'an
The Qur'an is the primary religious text for one-sixth of the world's population. Understood by Muslims to contain God's own words, it has been an object of reverence and of …
Ranks of the Divine Seekers: A Parallel English-Arabic Text. Volume 1
Winner of the 2021 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (category: translation from Arabic into English) This is an unabridged, annotated, translation …
This House Is Not a Home: European Everyday Life in Canton and Macao 1730-1830
Lisa Hellman offers the first study of European everyday life in Canton and Macao. How foreigners could live, communicate, move around - even whom they could interaction with - …