Trust in the Catholic Reformation Genoa 1594–1664 (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 231)

History

Leiden University

Thérèse Peeters

Europe

BRILL

In these lectures, Arie Verhagen presents a version of cognitive linguistics that adheres to both the generalization and cognitive commitments that characterized the field from the start, and a biological commitment: understanding language as adaptive behavior of (human) organisms in the niche(s) that they inhabit. Drawing on the model of biological explanation ("Tinbergen's four why's"), Verhagen shows how proximate (individual level) and ultimate (population level) explanations apply to several features of language, shedding new light on basic notions like conventionality and entrenchment, norms/rules and habits, etc., and their causal connections. Topics include the relation between language, culture, and thinking, the role of language in social cognition and narrative, the evolution of sound structure and grammar, semantic change, and more.

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Evolutionary Linguistics (Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics)

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Words, Language & Grammar

This book sheds new light on the cultural encounter between China and Europe, by discussing how Chinese religion and philosophy were represented in Dutch printed works between 1595-1700.

Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595-1700 The Chinese Imprint (Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - the Handpress World, 101)

Business & Money

Trude Dijkstra

Industries

This volume advances the critical study of exegetical, doctrinal, and political authority in Shi&#703;i Islam. Naive dichotomies of "reason" and "esotericism" in Islamic Studies have often marginalized Shi&#703;i thought or impeded its understanding. The studies presented here aim to foster more exacting frameworks for interpreting the diverse modes of rationality and esotericism in Twelver and Ismaili Shi&#703;ism and the socio-epistemic values they represent within Muslim discourse. The volume's contributions highlight the cross-sectarian genealogy of early Shi&#703;i esotericism; the rationale behind Fatimid Ismaili Quranic ta&#703;w&#299;l hermeneutics; the socio-political context of religious authority in nascent Twelver Shi&#703;ism; authorial agency wielded by Imami hadith compilers; the position of esoteric Shi&#703;i traditions in Timurid-era &#7716;illa; and Shi&#703;i-Sufi relations with U&#7779;&#363;l&#299; jurists in modern Iran. Contributors: Rodrigo Adem, Alessandro Cancian, Edmund Hayes, Sajjad Rizvi, Tahera Qutbuddin, Paul Walker, George Warner

Reason, Esotericism, and Authority in Shiʿi Islam (Shii Islam: Texts and Studies, 2)

Georgetown University

Edited by Rodrigo Adem

and Edmund Hayes

Asia

We tend to think of numbers as inherently objective and precise. Yet the diverse ways in which ancient Greeks used numbers illustrates that counting is actually shaped by context-specific and culturally-dependent choices: what should be counted and how, who should count, and how should the results be shared? This volume is the first to focus on the generation and use of numbers in the polis to quantify, communicate and persuade. Its papers demonstrate the rich insights that can be gained into ancient Greek societies by reappraising seemingly straightforward examples of quantification as reflections of daily life and cultural understandings.

Numbers and Numeracy in the Greek Polis (Mnemosyne Supplements: History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, 446)

Edited by Robert Sing

independent researcher

Tazuko Angela van Berkel

Robin Osborne

University Of Cambridge

Ancient Civilizations

How can we explain metrical irregularities in Homeric phrases like &#7936;&nu;&delta;&rho;&omicron;&tau;&#8134;&tau;&alpha; &kappa;&alpha;&#8054; &#7973;&beta;&eta;&nu;? What do such phrases tell us about the antiquity of the epic tradition? And how did doublet forms such as &tau;&#941;&tau;&rho;&alpha;&tau;&omicron;&sigmaf; beside &tau;&#941;&tau;&alpha;&rho;&tau;&omicron;&sigmaf; originate?In this book, you will find the first systematic and complete account of the syllabic liquids in Ancient Greek. It provides an up-to-date, comprehensive and innovative etymological treatment of material from all dialects, including Mycenaean. A new model of linguistic change in the epic tradition is used to tackle two hotly-debated problems: metrical irregularities in Homer (including muta cum liquida) and the double reflex. The proposed solution has important consequences for Greek dialect classification and the prehistory of Epic language and meter.

The Reflexes of Syllabic Liquids in Ancient Greek Linguistic Prehistory of the Greek Dialects and Homeric Kunstsprache (Leiden Studies in Indo-European, 22)

Lucien van Beek

Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900-1900explores the Black Sea region as an encounter zone of cultures, legal regimes, religions, and enslavement practices. The topics discussed in the chapters include Byzantine slavery, late medieval slave trade patterns, slavery in Christian societies, Tatar and cossack raids, the position of Circassians in the slave trade, and comparisons with the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. This volume aims to stimulate a broader discussion on the patterns of unfreedom in the Black Sea area and to draw attention to the importance of this region in the broader debates on global slavery.Contributors are: Viorel Achim, Michel Balard, Hannah Barker, Andrzej Gliwa, Colin Heywood, Sergei Pavlovich Karpov, Mikhail Kizilov, Dariusz Ko&#322;odziejczyk, Maryna Kravets, Natalia Królikowska-Jedli&#324;ska, Sandra Origone, Victor Ostapchuk, Daphne Penna, Felicia Ro&#537;u, and Ehud R. Toledano.

Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900-1900 Forms of Unfreedom at the Intersection between Christianity and Islam (Studies in Global Slavery, 11)

Politics & Social Sciences

Edited by Felicia Roșu

Politics & Government

Early Medieval English Life Courses Cultural-Historical Perspectives (Explorations in Medieval Culture, 20)

OXFORD

Edited by Thijs Porck

and Harriet Soper

Lincoln College

Honores inauditi Ehrenstatuen in öffentlichen Räumen Siziliens vom Hellenismus bis in die Spätantike (Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean, 6)

Rebecca J. Henzel

'The House of the Priest' presents and discusses the hitherto unpublished and untranslated memoirs of Niqula Khoury, a senior member of the Orthodox Church and Arab nationalist in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine. It discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion, diplomacy and identity in the Middle East in the interwar period. This original annotated translation and accompanying articles provide a thorough explication of Khoury's memoirs and their significance for the social, political and religious histories of twentieth-century Palestine and Arab relations with the Greek Orthodox church. Khoury played a major role in these dynamics as a leading member of the fight for Arab presence in the Greek-dominated clergy, and for an independent Palestine, travelling in 1937 to Eastern Europe and the League of Nations on behalf of the national movement. Contributors: Sarah Irving, Charbel Nassif, Konstantinos Papastathis, Karène Sanchez Summerer, Cyrus Schayegh

'The House of the Priest' A Palestinian Life (1885-1954) (Christians and Jews in Muslim Societies, 7)

Biographies & Memoirs

Sarah Irving

Edge Hill University

Charbel Nassif

Centre de Documentation et de recherches arabes chrétiennes

Beirut

Karène Sanchez Summerer

Historical

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