This book investigates the nature of regional variation in the early Chinese writing system. Based on palaeographical and phonological examinations, it proposes that all the late pre-imperial regional
This linguistics study uses a cognitive/functionalist framework to analyze medieval Florentine and Tuscan texts in order to understand why the accusative-dative and dative-accusative order changed in
The Apostle Paul was the greatest early missionary of the Christian gospel. He was also, by his own admission, an Israelite. How can both these realities coexist in one individual? This book argues th
While the International Military Tribunal and the subsequent American Military Tribunals at Nuremberg dealt with a variety of Nazi crimes, these courts did not consider themselves cognizant in adjudic
This volume collects 15 selected papers from the First International Conference of the Society of Jewish and Biblical Studies in Central Europe, held at Pazmany Peter Catholic U., Hungary in February
In these 19 articles, contributors explain how much has changed in what we understand about the relationship between parents and children in the Middle Ages. Far from considering their children as und
For specialists and graduate students working in finite simple groups, especially the Monster simple group, and in Lie algebras. The 16 selected papers discuss such aspects as the radical of a vertex
The Spring 1993 research quarter at Ohio State gathered together mathematicians in a flurry of creative activity. The 29 selected papers represent the primary focus of that convocation and present in
Analyses of the dynamics of change present in Europe are not complete without taking into account the role and function of the critical approach as a founding element of European culture. An appreciat
The close relationship between scholarship, politics and religious denomination is currently one of the major issues in research devoted to the Early Modern Age. In this context, increasing attention
The series is aimed specifically at publishing peer reviewed reviews and contributions presented at workshops and conferences. Each volume is associated with a particular conference, symposium or work
Aesthetics is no longer merely the philosophy of perception and the arts. Nelson Goodman, Arthur Danto and others have contributed to develop aesthetics from a field at the margins of philosophy to on
