Publications
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A Driving Force
(2023)
The volume comprises a selection of papers presented at the 5th Postgraduate International Conference organized by the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Venice, 4-6 October ...
Sociologia della tortura
(2019)
Freemasonry and the Orient
(2019)
The symbolic and historical dimension of the main founding archetypes of Freemasonry – the Orient with a special focus on Egypt – are at the core of this book, which aims to recover the red thread with which masons tie ...
Illuminare i testi
(2022)
Famiglie interrotte
(2022)
Antichità egizie e Italia
(2015)
La lupa sul Nilo
(2015)
Printing R-Evolution and Society 1450-1500
(2020)
The volume contains a reassessment of the economic and social impact of the printing revolution on the development of early modern European society, using 15th-century printed books, which still survive today in their ...
Monitoring Central Asia and the Caspian Area
(2019)
Il presente volume della serie «Eurasiatica. Quaderni di Studi su Balcani, Anatolia, Iran, Caucaso e Asia Centrale» è interamente dedicato all’area centro-asiatica e caspica. Scopo del volume è di catturare e restituire ...
L’Ucraina alla ricerca di un equilibrio
(2019)
Con la Rivoluzione della Dignità (2014) un’ampia rappresentanza della popolazione dell’Ucraina si è pronunciata a favore di una collocazione geopolitica nell’UE e nella NATO. In parallelo, la Russia è intervenuta in Crimea ...
European Approaches to Japanese Language and Linguistics
(2020)
In this volume European specialists of Japanese language present new and original research into Japanese language over a wide spectrum of topics which include descriptive, sociolinguistic, pragmatic and didactic accounts. ...
Certissima signa
(2017)
The observation of the stars has never just been a matter of ‘science’, but has constantly interacted with other domains, such as philosophy, literature, medicine, religion, history and magic. Consequently, the history of ...
Scrivere di Islam
(2020)
Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond
(2022)
Authors read and they use their readings within their writing process. Scrutinizing authors’ readings provides information on their tastes, working subjects at a given period, methodology, and scholarly milieu. It also ...
Blended Learning and the Global South
(2021)
This volume collects a series of theoretical and practical interventions in the area of blended learning globally. It aims to present pedagogues working in higher education contexts in the developing world with models of ...
Corpus of Nabataean Aramaic-Greek Inscriptions
(2021)
The impact of the Hellenization in the Ancient Near East resulted in a notable presence of Greek koiné language and culture and in the interaction between Greek and Nabataean that conducted inhabitants to engrave inscriptions ...
El poeta arquitecto
(2023)
Administration at Girsu in Gudea’s Time
(2020)
The book offers the edition of all presently known administrative texts from Girsu (modern Telloh, Iraq), dated to the Lagash II period (XXII century BCE). The evidence consists of roughly 600 cuneiform tablets – including ...
La città e la casa
(2022)
Building Common Ground
(2023)
This volume examines the entanglements between contemporary art practices, ecology, and non-human subjects through contributions from scholars, art writers, critics, artist-researchers and designers. The collected essays ...
al-Farāfīr
(2018)
Between Texts, Beyond Words
(2018)
This volume offers an overview on a variety of intertextual, interdiscursive and cross-cultural practices in the field of translation between Asian and European languages. From a twelth-century Persian poet to a Chinese ...
Tirannide e filosofia
(2015)
Geo-Heliocentric Controversies
(2023)
This is a book about the confessionalisation of science in the early modern period. It discusses the cosmological controversies raised by the appropriation of Tycho Brahe’s astronomical theories within the Jesuit milieu, ...
Scritture migranti
(2014)
Leggere la lontananza
(2015)
La metrica araba
(2013)
Festòs protopalaziale
(2013)
Segni, gesti e parole
(2023)
Posted workers
(2022)
Frutto di ricerche svolte in diversi Paesi europei, questo libro analizza il fenomeno del posting of workers in un’ottica internazionale e interdisciplinare, con particolare attenzione alle condizioni di lavoro, salute e ...
Safavids in Venetian and European Sources
(2022)
The emergence of the Safavid Empire in the early sixteenth century marked a significant change in the geopolitics of the Middle East. This momentous change coincided with the widening of Ottoman expansion eastward and the ...
In limine
(2017)
Antisocialismo cattolico
(2019)
Il nuovo giorno dell’impero
(2017)
Armenia, Caucaso e Asia Centrale
(2020)
Il volume raccoglie saggi dedicati allo spazio caucasico e centro-asiatico, derivanti in gran parte dalle relazioni presentate, nel dicembre e aprile 2019, al convegno annuale dall’Associazione per lo Studio in Italia ...
METra 2
(2023)
Il volume che qui vede la luce costituisce il secondo capitolo del progetto METra (Mapping Epic in Tragedy – Epica e tragedia greca: una mappatura) e contiene i contributi presentati durante il Seminario Internazionale ...
Itineraries of an Anthropologist
(2021)
This book is being dedicated to Massimo Raveri on the occasion of his retirement. It is designed to recreate the various thematic itineraries that he has traced and followed in his career. Each of the essays included ...
Tra corte, casa e monastero
(2021)
La falsificazione epigrafica
(2019)
Il libro indaga le complesse articolazioni della falsificazione epigrafica, un fenomeno ampiamente attestato in Italia fra il tardo Medioevo e il XVIII secolo. Le iscrizioni non genuine o falsae, come le chiamava Theodor ...
Admiración del mundo
(2021)
Altera pars laboris
(2019)
Knowledgescape
(2021)
This volume, which collects the proceedings of the international study day Intersections. New Perspectives for Public Humanities, aims at shedding light on the often complicated and chaotic ‘texture’ of public humanities ...
A Failing Mission?
(2024)
The Jesuit textual production from the sixteenth century leaves no doubt that the Japanese evangelising enterprise was publicised as the epitome of success. Francisco Cabral, third superior of the mission, who had initially ...
Accents and Pronunciation
(2022)
How important is it for language learners to have a ‘good accent’ in the foreign language? Do they want to sound like native speakers, or is intelligibility their main aim? How do they perceive their L2 accents, and what ...
Verifying the Truth on Their Own Terms
(2023)
The present volume offers a detailed analysis of a fifteenth-century court debate on God’s unicity (tawḥīd), involving the Ottoman scholars Mollā Zeyrek (d. 903/1497-98 [?]) and Ḫocazāde Muṣliḥuddīn Muṣṭafā (d. 893/1488), ...
Building in Prehistoric Cyprus
(2023)
The study of architecture, from the selection, procurement and processing of raw materials, to the construction and use of buildings as spaces of action and interaction, can provide major insights into the social organisation ...
Cassius Dio and the Principate
(2020)
In the Imperial books of his Roman History, Cassius Dio focuses on individual emperors and imperial institutions to promote a political framework for the ideal monarchy, and to theorise autocracy’s typical problems and ...
A Self-Reflexive Verista
(2020)
With a Preface by Edwige Comoy Fusaro, this volume is one of few monographs on Italian post-Risorgimento author Luigi Capuana, and the first one written in English in more than forty years. Narratology and critical theory ...
