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The form of Biblical Hebrew that is presented in printed editions, with vocalization and accent s...

Medieval manuscripts resisted obsolescence. Made by highly specialised craftspeople (scribes, ill...

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Soso Tham (1873-1940), the acknowledged poet laureate of the Khasis of northeastern India, was on...

Conceived as a companion volume to the well-received Simple Forms: Essays on Medieval English Pop...

What are the influences that govern how people view their worlds? What are the embedded values an...

This critical edition of the working notes for Dombey and Son (1848) is ideal for readers who wis...

Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia offers the latest understanding of complex gl...

Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thir...

In this fascinating collection of essays Harvard Emeritus Professor Karl S. Guthke examines the w...

Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal a...

This volume presents the original text, accompanied by an English translation and commentary, of ...

How do university finances really work?From flagship public research universities to small, pri...

When in 1821, the Greeks rose in violent revolution against the rule of the Ottoman Turks, waves ...

Thanks to ever-greater digital connectivity, interest in oral traditions has grown beyond that of...

This is the first full-length study of Shelley's plays in performance. It offers a rich, meticulo...

In this fascinating collection of essays, an international group of scholars explores the sonic c...

In 1951, the secluded Neo-Aramaic-speaking Jewish community of Zakho migrated collectively to Isr...

Mou Zongsan is arguably the most important Chinese philosopher of the twentieth century. This wor...

Phenomenography offers a distinctive approach to studying human experience of the world, by highl...

Japan was the first non-Western nation to compete with the Western powers at their own game. The ...

Academia and its citizens, during periods of political violence and social conflict, are often ov...

Navigating Our Way reflects the broader insights and diverse voices revolutionizing marine conser...

Japan was the first non-Western nation to compete with the Western powers at their own game. The ...

Academia and its citizens, during periods of political violence and social conflict, are often ov...

Across the world, developing countries are attempting to balance the international standards of i...

Noam Chomsky visited India in 1996 and 2001 and spoke on a wide range of subjects, from democracy...

This anthology, inspired by Voltaire's advice that a text needed to be concise to have real influ...

Language is a human universal reflecting our deeply social nature. Among its essential functions,...

In view of the challenges-many of which are political-that different European countries are curre...

In Tennyson's Poems: New Textual Parallels, R. H. Winnick identifies more than a thousand previou...

Much of world's documentary heritage rests in vulnerable, little-known and often inaccessible arc...

This biography examines the long life of the traveller and author Stephen Graham. Graham walked a...

This volume traces the life, thought and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a giant of American intelle...

From Darkness to Light explores from a variety of angles the subject of museum lighting in exhibi...

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Bourdieu and Literature

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Face aux défis - entre autres politiques - auxquels sont confrontés différents pays européens, le...

The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome's most infamous vi...

The image of a giant sword melting stands at the structural and thematic heart of the Old English...

Theory without practice is empty, practice without theory is blind, to adapt a phrase from Immanu...

A Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law is an indispensable resource for scholars and students of mediev...