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Cover of Philip Howell & Hilda Kean: The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History

Philip Howell & Hilda Kean: The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History

The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History provides an up-to-date guide for the historian working within the growing field of animal-human history. Giving a sense of the diversity and interdisci …

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Erica Ferg: Geography, Religion, Gods, and Saints in the Eastern Mediterranean

Geography, Religion, Gods, and Saints in the Eastern Mediterranean explores the influence of geography on religion and highlights a largely unknown story of religious history in the Eastern Mediterra …

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Triin Laidoner: Ancestor Worship and the Elite in Late Iron Age Scandinavia

Ancestor worship is often assumed by contemporary European audiences to be an outdated and primitive tradition with little relevance to our societies, past and present. This book questions that assum …

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Peter J. Brown & Paolo Forlin: Waiting for the End of the World?

Waiting for the End of the World? addresses the archaeological, architectural, historical and geological evidence for natural disasters in the Middle Ages between the 11th and 16th centuries. This vo …

Cover of Mehmet (Queen's University, Canada) Karabela: Islamic Thought Through Protestant Eyes

Mehmet (Queen’s University, Canada) Karabela: Islamic Thought Through Protestant Eyes

Early modern Protestant scholars closely engaged with Islamic thought in more ways than is usually recognized. Among Protestants, Lutheran scholars distinguished themselves as the most invested in th …

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Yael Kedar & Nicola Polloni: The Philosophy and Science of Roger Bacon

The Philosophy and Science of Roger Bacon offers new insights and research perspectives on one of the most intriguing characters of the Middle Ages, Roger Bacon. At the intersections between science …

Cover of Graciela (University of Winchester, UK) Iglesias-Rogers: The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century

Graciela (University of Winchester, UK) Iglesias-Rogers: The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century

The Hispanic and Anglo worlds are often portrayed as the Cain and Abel of Western culture, antagonistic and alien to each other. This book challenges such view with a new critical conceptual framewor …

Cover of Elzbieta (University of Wroclaw, Poland) Opilowska & Monika (Hertie School, Germany) Sus: Poland and Germany in the European Union

Elzbieta (University of Wroclaw, Poland) Opilowska & Monika (Hertie School, Germany) Sus: Poland and Germany in the European Union

This book explores the political and social dynamics of the bilateral relations between Germany and Poland at the national and subnational levels, taking into account the supranational dynamics, acro …

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Elisabeth Fischer & Xenia von Tippelskirch: Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent

In early modern times, religious affiliation was often communicated through bodily practices. Despite various attempts at definition, these practices remained extremely fluid and lent themselves to i …

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Timothy (Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia) Blauvelt: Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom

Based on extensive original research, this book tells the astonishing story of early Soviet Abkhazia and of its leader, the charismatic Bolshevik revolutionary Nestor Lakoba. A tiny republic on the B …