Lausberg's Handbook of Literary Rhetoric is an internationally acclaimed, standard reference work on rhetorical techniques in classical literature, ancient and modern. This translation makes it availa
Describes how the rhetorical devices used in the Book of Judges inspires its readers to support a divinely appointed Judahite king who endorses the deuteronomic agenda to rid the land of foreigners, t
The present book is an essay in which the ‘classical age’ of India is studied by exploring textual as well as archaeological sources that relate to the kingdom of the Vaka?akas, the southern neighbour
This is the first attempt since that of Paul Vallette in 1908 to place the Latin writer Apuleius in the context of the (Greek) Second Sophistic. It also paints a larger picture of the character of bel
Your Lawyer on a Short Leash is a step-by-step guide that pulls the rug out from under sweet-talking, over-charging, under-performing lawyers. It places you in the driver's seat, on the road to the ma
The paucity of material, which has limited the study of Aramaic for too long, is gradually being alleviated. An ever growing body of well-edited texts is being made available to the scholarly world. T
English translations of the second thousand acts of Roman rabbis recorded in an archive known as the Notai ebrei , which altogether contains about 10,000 acts from the years 1536-1640. They provide a
In the historiography of Southeast Asia of the early modern period maritime trade has always been an important topic. Nevertheless, many questions still remain unresolved, particularly concerning the
This study identifies Berengaudus of Ferrières as a Carolingian whose Apocalypse commentary accentuated the utopianism of early Medieval exegetes. It suggests that the commentary's popularity may prov
Students of Thomas Aquinas have so far lacked a comprehensive study of his doctrine of the transcendentals. This volume fills this lacuna, showing the fundamental character of the notions of being, on
'Of realty the rarest-veined unraveler', John Duns Scotus was one of the profoundest metaphysicians who ever lived. In this volume, the world's foremost Scotus scholars collaborate to present the late
A remarkable stylistic history of Hindu-Buddhist architecture in the area dating from the golden eras of inception to contemporary restoration efforts. Chihara's tome represents 50 years of research
This study describes the beginnings of a movement which has created another face for Ethiopian Christianity. The expatriate missionary-evangelists, who in 1927 were encouraged by Emperor Haile Selassi
This volume dwells on the process of the formation of the modern national identity among the Crimean Tatars during the first decades of this century. One of the basic postulates of this study is that
This volume of essays is devoted to a careful examination of the importance of methodology in the study of primary religious data. The essays focus on the 'Sacred' as an ultimate object of descriptive
The study provides a reappraisal of the controversy over the value of logic in theology in the eleventh century, which has for a long time been a theme central to the historiography of early medieval
The Uses of Reform is a study of the Reformation as a movement for behavioral reform, concentrating on Scotland during the first fifty years (1560-1610) of its Reformation as a primary example.The ope
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
This work comprises a detailed study of Bucer's thinking on ecclesiastical office. The Strasbourg reformer exercised a great influence on Calvin, among others. This exploration does not only contribut
Written mostly by North American scholars of law or religion, 19 papers examine what sacred texts and church authorities in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam have to say about religious freedom. Among
The aim of the present work is to make a contribution to the understanding of the inner workings of the Syriac language through a study of one important corpus written in that language.The book contai
It is just over a century since the first manuscript of Desawarnana (also known as the Nagarakrtagama) was rescued from the sack of the palace at Cakranagara in Lombok. Once its importance for Javanes
The main purpose of this book is to offer a comprehensive historical analysis of the discussions on a crucial problem for the early modern theory of knowledge: the formal mediation of sensible reality
When the tenth-century Kamil as-sinaa (or al-Kitab al malaki) of Ali ibn al-Abbas al-Magusi was adapted for a Latin-reading audience by Constantine the African in the late eleventh century, the mediev
The possible indebtedness of political economy to fourth-century Greek thinkers has been widely debated; the contribution of Islam, on the other hand, is consistently forgotten. This volume addresses
This volume focuses on the role Christian churches have played in Africa's democratisation movements since the late 1980s. In some cases churchmen have presided over national conferences; in many, Chr
A detailed reference-dictionary of Tamil literature of South India from its beginnings about 2000 years ago until ca. 1980. Contains biographies and works of ancient, medieval and modern authors, as w
That the Temple Scroll is a re-written Torah is recognised, but discussion of how the Torah is used has been hampered by absence of detailed analysis of the Scroll. This volume addresses this lack by
Ways into the Logic of Alexander of Aphrodisias is intended to give an overview of the logic of Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. early third century A D). Since much of what might be called Alexander's l
The Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary, a project in the making since 1986, is the first dictionary to reflect the vocabulary of the extinct Proto-Hamito-Semitic (Proto-Afro-Asiatic) language. Rec
This volume examines the medieval understanding of Aristotle's "weakness of the will" (akrasia, incontinentia). The medieval views are outlined on the basis of five major commentaries on Aristotle's N
Among other things (notably a new temple oath), this edition of sixty-five Greek, demotic, and Greek-demotic ostraka from Upper-Egypt (Elephantine, Hermonthis, Thebes), contains much new information a
A medieval Latin commentary on an influential handbook of the Seven Liberal Arts from late antiquity. Employing allegorical interpretation as a method of speculative, proto-scientific inquiry, the com
Prophet Harris, The 'Black Elijah' of West Africa offers the only comprehensive study of the thought of William Wade Harris, the Glebo (Liberia) loyalist whose prophetic mission from 1910-29 moved ten
Men & Women in Qing China is an analysis of Chinese prescriptions of gender as represented in Cao Xueqin's famous eighteenth-century Chinese novel of manners, The Red Chamber Dream or The Story of
This volume contains the proceedings of a conference 'Hugo Grotius as a Theologian' (1992), held at the occasion of the retirement of professor Guillaume H.M. Posthumus Meyjes, the editor of Grotius'
The first comprehensive study of the Constance reforms since 1867, this volume offers new explanations for the frequently alleged failures of the reforms, while arguing that the successes were much gr
This volume examines, from a number of different perspectives, the implications of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, for justice for children. The contributors are drawn from a cross-secti
The excerpts from the Declamations of Calpurnius Flaccus (second century AD) are one of our major sources of knowledge concerning controversiae model court speeches on fictitious themes. These formed
The 10-km square dot-distribution maps, based on 30 years’ recording by members of the British Bryological Society, were produced at the Biological Records Centre, ITE, Monks Wood. Each species’ map i
