Publications
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Judeans in Babylonia
(2019)
In Judeans in Babylonia, Tero Alstola presents a comprehensive investigation of deportees in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. By using cuneiform documents as his sources, he offers the first book-length social historical ...
Good Governance and Modern International Financial Institutions
(2019)
The first volume of the AIIB Yearbook of International Law (AYIL) examines a series of dimensions to the good governance of modern International Financial Institutions. Readership: All international legal practitioners, ...
Insects and Colors between Art and Natural History
(2024)
This book explores how European naturalists and artists perceived, investigated, and presented the relationship between insects and colors from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. The contributors to this ...
Handbook of Leaving Religion
(2020)
The Handbook of Leaving Religion introduces a neglected field of research with the aim to outline previous and contemporary research, and suggest how the topic of leaving religion should be studied in the future. The ...
Antiquarianismus in Rom
(2024)
Die vorliegende Monographie entwirft eine literaturgeschichtliche Gesamtdarstellung des römischen Antiquarianismus vom 2. Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis zum 3. Jahrhundert n. Chr. Ausgangspunkt ist die begrifflich-konzeptuelle ...
Russland, der Ferne Osten und die »Deutschen«
(2009)
Welchen Anteil hatten die »Deutschen« an der Erschließung des Fernen Ostens durch das russische Imperium? Inwieweit waren sie an Gesandtschaften nach China und an den großen Entdeckungsexpeditionen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts ...
In praise of Prambanan; Dutch essays on the Loro Jonggrang temple complex
(1996)
In praise of Prambanan is devoted to the Hindu-Javanese temple complex of Candi Prambanan, also known by its locally more popular name of Candi Loro Jonggrang. The book has two parts. Part One is a general introduction to ...
Storyworlds in Short Narratives
(2024)
This interdisciplinary and comparative volume offers a systematic approach to the early Greek tale. Bringing similarities and differences between ancient Greek and early Byzantine tales to the fore, this volume thus creates ...
Holy Ground: Where Art and Text Meet
(2019)
The selected and revised articles in this volume by Hans Bakker deal with Indian culture, religion and history: Hinduism, epigraphy, archaeology, iconography in combination with Sanskrit textual studies. The studies focus ...
The Renewal of Medieval Metaphysics
(2021)
This is the first volume exclusively devoted to the Expositio by Berthold of Moosburg (c.1295-c.1361) on Proclus’ Elements of Theology. The breadth of its vision surpasses every other known commentary on the Elements of ...