Brill's New Pauly is the English edition of Der Neue Pauly published by Verlag J.B. Metzler since 1996. The ambitious, authoritative project will comprise 20 volumes (of which this is the third). It
Many talk about the religious fervor of Parliamentarian supporters during the English Civil Way, says Griffin, but none have produced a corresponding portrayal of religion among Royalists. She challen
Seven papers from a seminar in Norway in 1997 concentrate on qing , the closest word in Chinese for the western concept of emotion itself, rather than any particular flavor of it. Among the topics ar
Microlepidoptera of Europe is intended to be a tool for identifying the European micro-moths. Each volume will treat a systematic unit comprising about 100-300 species. This will usually mean a family
It was more than the 634 Jesuits living in Germany in the early days of the empire that drew politically motivated fire, says Healy (National U. of Ireland-Galway), but the whole package of policies t
Colleagues and students of Bovon, a historian of religion who transferred in mid-career from Geneva to Boston, offer studies reflecting his main areas of research: Jesus traditions, Lukan traditions,
The Imtihan al-alibba li-kaffat al atibba (The Experts' Examination for All Physicians) is the oldest known Islamic medical examination, prepared by al-Sulami, the chief of medicine to the Ayyubid s
Takahashi (Chuo U., Tokyo) presents part of the only major work by leading Syriac writer Gregory Barhebraeus (1225/6-86) that has yet to be published in full. The Butyrum Sapientiae ( Hewat hekmta ,
Revising his 1999 Ph.D. dissertation for Leiden University, Peursen analyzes the morphosyntax of the tenses in Ben Sira, surveys the use of tenses in various kinds of clauses, draws conclusions about
Muraoka and Porten offer a comprehensive grammar of Egyptian Aramaic as presented in Porten and Yardeni's Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt (Jerusalem, 1986-1999), which incorporates
The contemporary search for the feminine face of God is requiring a re-examination of the relationship of Christianity to the pagan world in which it came to birth. Stephen Benko approaches this study
This volume includes the first complete translation of a thirteenth-century vernacular history of Norway from the ninth to the twelfth centuries. An immediate source for the Heimskringla of Snorri Stu
The series is designed to accommodate papers on carcinology in its widest sense that exceed the page limit of the journal Crustaceana . Bullard (Wake Forest U.) compiles the available descriptions of
To put it all in chronological order: the Greek mathematician Euclid wrote the ten books of the Elements of Geometry about 300 BC. Starting as early as the tenth century AD, the work was translated
When the complete works of Arabic scholar Avicenna were published in the Latin Venice edition of 1508, a short text of 16 chapters called De Cealo et mundo was included. It is a paraphrase of Aristo
During the Dutch War (1672-78), the French army used "petite guerre" or partisan warfare in its attempt to drive the Spanish from the southern Netherlands. This study focuses on those actions of war (
This monograph is a literary study of the oracles against Babylon in Jeremiah chapters 50-51. They form the climax of the foreign oracle collection in the book of Jeremiah. Included are a survey of ea
Social scientists sketch the main characteristics of European Islam, primarily as it has developed since the late 1950s when immigrants began arriving in Europe in greater numbers from Islamic countri
The history of law can only begin after the written record of it commences; in the Middle East, that is a few centuries after the advent of writing itself in the fourth millennium BCE. That law is the
Sometimes called Saint, sometimes the Universal Doctor, Albertus (1193-1280) was one of many Medieval scholars to comment on Euclid's enduring work of the fourth-century BC; he managed to get through
This journal supplement features scholarly articles on many aspects of Judaism, mostly from the Persian period through late Antiquity. In this collection of 23 contributions in honor of Hilhorst's 65t
The methodists under discussion here do not belong to the modern Protestant denomination that broke away from the Anglican Church, but, rather, they were practitioners of medicine in ancient Greece wh
In this revision of his dissertation (in 2000, ancient history, U. of Barcelona, Spain), Feliu reconstructs a portrait of the god Dagan using a close analysis of archival cuneiform sources in Old Baby
Contributors without credentials analyze the development of historiography during the period, identifying some previously little known historians. They particularly point out how many ecclesiastical h
In letters to friends, Heinrick Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535) wrote of a secret key to his occult philosophy; later students of magic looked to the Forth Book of Occult Philosophy as
Flavius Josephus is without a doubt the most important witness to ancient Judaism from the close of the biblical period to the aftermath of the destruction of the temple in A.D. 70. His four surviving
This volume contains English translations of a number of Dutch-language articles selected for their relevance to the institution of the Kraton, the Javanese palace complex, as it was towards the end o
The 19 articles of this collection were first published in Dutch beginning in 1978. Van Herwaarden (history, U. of Groningen, the Netherlands) has grouped the translated articles into themes; late-med
When Eusebius (260-340) was bishop of Caesarea Maritima in Palestine, he drew materials for his scholarship from the library founded a century earlier by Origen (185-254) to support his own biblical c
This monograph demonstrates why humanism began in Italy in the mid-thirteenth century. It considers Petrarch a third generation humanist, who christianized a secular movement. The analysis traces the
Brill's New Pauly is the English edition of Der Neue Pauly published by Verlag J.B. Metzler since 1996. The ambitious, authoritative project will comprise 20 volumes (of which this is the second). It
The works of Chrisippus of Soli (c.280-204 BCE), considered to be one of the most important of the Stoics, were all lost after the closing of the Stoic schools. Among the works was On Affections , a
After introducing the Torah expressing Jewish monotheistic creed as Scripture completed by the later compiled oral Word, noted Jewish studies scholar Neusner (Bard College, NY) proposes that these dua
The first 270 pages of this seminal reference contain a thorough introduction by Starostin (affiliations are not noted). In it he discusses topics critical to Altaic languages, including interlingual
This latest BACAP Proceedings covers three key areas in ancient philosophy, ethics, method and physics. Under ethics, there are three papers on Socratic piety, Aristotelian friendship, and Augustinian
Cohen (Judaic studies, Yeshiva U.) shows how three heirs of the Jewish exegetical tradition in al-Andalus Muslim Spain harnessed the literary tools available to them to devise a hermeneutic for analyz
Anglophone Cameroonians have been at the forefront of "ethno-regional" demands for the rearrangement of state power that protects their cultural identity, according to Konings (Afrika-Studie-centrum,
The geographical area covered will be the whole of the geographical Europe. Each volume will illustrate the adults of all species in photographical colour plates of the best quality. Sexual dimorphism
This collection of essays commemorates the Thirtieth Anniversary of the 1972 Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment. The collection provides a comprehensive, in-depth review of the historic ac
Revising her doctoral dissertation in Scottish history for the University of Edinburgh (no date noted), Foggie, now an assistant minister in the Church of Scotland, identifies a pattern of continual r
