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From romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines some of the history, contemporary manifestations and enduring appeal of US-UK romance across popular culture.

Focusing deliberately on the impact of law courts on substantive law and not on its systematisation by learned jurists this book studies similarities and differences in the development of the law across different jurisdictions.

The first comparative study of the relationship between law courts and substantive law in the early modern periodBringing together some of the most distinguished scholars in the field including John Ford, David Ibbetson, Javier García Martín, Annamaria Monti, Peter Oestmann, Heikki Pihlajamäki and Alain Wijffels, this volume looks at the comparative development of legal practice in the early modern period across Europe. Focusing deliberately on the impact of law courts on substantive law - and not on its systematisation by learned jurists - it studies similarities and differences in the development of the law across different jurisdictions. In doing so it evaluates whether and to what extent it is possible to consider this development as a unitary and truly European phenomenon. This collection re-evaluates current debates surrounding the development of civil law in the early modern period in the context of the grand narratives of European legal history and sets out to challenge current orthodox views about early modern civil law. Key Features:. A comparative study on the passage from late medieval to early modern civil law from a practical viewpoint. Assesses the influence of law courts on the development of substantive law. Re-evaluates and challenges current orthodox views about early modern civil lawGuido Rossi is Reader in European Legal History at the University of Edinburgh.

The Sasanian Empire was one of the largest empires of antiquity, stretching from Mesopotamia to modern Pakistan. This book explores key phenomena which contributed to its wealth and power, from the empire's armed forces to agriculture, trade and treatment of minorities. The latest discoveries feature prominently.

The first book-length study in English of a national corpus of state-sponsored informational film, this book traces how Danish shorts on topics including social welfare, industry, art and architecture were commissioned, funded, produced and reviewed from the inter-war period to the 1960s.

Focusing on the social experience of cinema and cinema-going, this collection of essays provides a detailed context for the history of early cinema in Scotland, from its inception in 1896 until the arrival of sound in the early 1930s.

'Written by top scholars in cognitive stylistics, poetics, and critical discourse analysis, this groundbreaking collection shows the true breadth and potential of a "usage-based'' framework.'Barbara Dancygier, University of British ColumbiaExtends the territory of cognitive linguistics beyond the language system to consider texts and discourse in the traditions of cognitive stylistics and cognitive critical discourse analysis.Analysing a range of genres, including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter applies frameworks in Cognitive Linguistics to shed light on the meanings and meaning-making processes invoked when we encounter texts. The book presents new insights into the workings of textual phenomena such as metaphor, viewpoint and deixis but also sheds light on more elusive, epiphenomenal qualities such as atext's ambience, atmosphere, power, ideology or persuasiveness. The book takesnew strides in cognitive text analysis by exploiting experimental and ethnographic methods to empirically investigate readers' reception of, and resistance to, texts.Key features. Contributions from scholars across cognitive stylistics and cognitive critical discourse analysis. Texts analysed include Percy Shelly's 'A Summer Evening Churchyard', Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, the Lord's Prayer, and Bruce Springsteen's 'The Rising'. Applies a range of Cognitive Linguistic frameworks including Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Text World Theory and Cognitive GrammarChristopher Hart is Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University.Cover image: © Getty ImagesCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-4998-4Barcode

From romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines some of the history, contemporary manifestations and enduring appeal of US-UK romance across popular culture.

Reassembles the books of a medieval Arabic library that are today dispersed around the world In the late medieval period, manuscripts galore circulated in Middle Eastern libraries. Yet very few book collections have come down to us as such or have left a documentary trail. This book discusses the largest private book collection of the pre-Ottoman Arabic Middle East for which we have both a paper trail and a surviving corpus of the manuscripts that once sat on its shelves: the Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī Library of Damascus. The book suggests that this library was part of the owner's symbolic strategy to monumentalise a vanishing world of scholarship bound to his life, family, quarter and home city. Key Features - Sets out a new approach to the study of Arabic book culture - Edits the most important Arabic medieval book list - Provides a new angle on the history of ḥadīth in the late-medieval period - Reconceptualises the mobility of endowed books - Reproduces the entire catalogue in colour Konrad Hirschler is Professor of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. He is the author of Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library; The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices and Medieval Arabic Historiography: Authors as Actors.

Taking the analysis of worldwide Christianity to a deeper level of detail, this volume focuses on Christianity in East and Southeast Asia, covering every country and offering both reliable demographic information and original interpretative essays by indigenous scholars and practitioners.

Reassembles the books of a medieval Arabic library that are today dispersed around the worldIn the late medieval period, manuscripts galore circulated in Middle Eastern libraries. Yet very few book collections have come down to us as such or have left a documentary trail. This book discusses the largest private book collection of the pre-Ottoman Arabic Middle East for which we have both a paper trail and a surviving corpus of the manuscripts that once sat on its shelves: the Ibn ¿Abd al-Hadi Library of Damascus. The book suggests that this library was part of the owner's symbolic strategy to monumentalise a vanishing world of scholarship bound to his life, family, quarter and home city.Key Features. Sets out a new approach to the study of Arabic book culture . Edits the most important Arabic medieval book list. Provides a new angle on the history of ¿adith in the late-medieval period. Reconceptualises the mobility of endowed books . Reproduces the entire catalogue in colourKonrad Hirschler is Professor of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. He is the author of Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library; The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices and Medieval Arabic Historiography: Authors as Actors.

This book looks at how Islamic law was practiced in Russia from the conquest of the empire's first Muslim territories in the mid-1500s to the Russian Revolution of 1917, when the empire's Muslim population had exceeded 20 million.

Studies the formulation, transmission and application of Islamic law under Russian colonial ruleThis book looks at how Islamic law was practised in Russia from the conquest of the empire's first Muslim territories in the mid-1500s to the Russian Revolution of 1917, when the empire's Muslim population had exceeded 20 million. It focuses on the training of Russian Muslim jurists, the debates over legal authority within Muslim communities and the relationship between Islamic law and 'customary' law.Drawing on difficult-to-access sources written in a variety of non-Russian languages (Arabic, Chaghatay, Kazakh, Persian, Tatar), the contributors offer scholars of Russian history, Islamic history and colonial history an account of Islamic law in Russia of the same quality and detail as the scholarship currently available on Islam in the British and French colonial empires.Key Features. Presents the theory and application of Islamic law in the Volga-Ural region, the Kazakh Steppe, the north Caucasus and Central Asia from the 1550s to 1917. Draws comparisons between Islamic law in Russia and elsewhere in the colonial world. Based upon important, but largely unstudied print and manuscript sources in Arabic, Persian and the Turkic languages. Brings together the work of an international collective of scholars of Islam in RussiaPaolo Sartori is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. He is author of Visions of Justice: Sharia and Cultural Change in Russian Central Asia (2016).Danielle Ross is an Assistant Professor of Asian and Islamic history at Utah State University. She is author of Tatar Empire: Kazan's Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia (2020).

Key background influences in the work of Gilles DeleuzeThe philosophy of Gilles Deleuze is influenced by, and a vital response to, the works of a variety of philosophers, writers and artists. This book, a complement to the first volume of Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage, presents studies of sixteen key figures drawn on by Deleuze, ranging from Lucretius to Schelling through to Foucault. Each chapter introduces the work of the thinker in question, explains the context in which Deleuze draws on this work and discusses the contribution that this work makes in the development of Deleuze's own ideas.Deleuze scholars, as well as those new to Deleuze or from other disciplines such as Literary Studies, Cultural Studies or the Visual arts, will find invaluable resources in this helpful book.Key Features*Explains the work of a wide range of thinkers, and details the way in which Deleuze draws on their work*Introduces little-known French thinkers to English-speaking Deleuze, including such figures as Henri Maldiney, George Dumézil, Charles Péguy and Pierre Clastres*Makes clear the synthetic method that Deleuze used to compose his most famous textsGraham Jones is a Lecturer in Creative Writing, Literary Studies and Media and Communications at Federation University, Australia.Jon Roffe teaches philosophy at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy.Cover image:Cover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-4918-2Barcode

Key background influences in the work of Gilles DeleuzeThe philosophy of Gilles Deleuze is influenced by, and a vital response to, the works of a variety of philosophers, writers and artists. This book, a complement to the first volume of Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage, presents studies of sixteen key figures drawn on by Deleuze, ranging from Lucretius to Schelling through to Foucault. Each chapter introduces the work of the thinker in question, explains the context in which Deleuze draws on this work and discusses the contribution that this work makes in the development of Deleuze's own ideas.Deleuze scholars, as well as those new to Deleuze or from other disciplines such as Literary Studies, Cultural Studies or the Visual arts, will find invaluable resources in this helpful book.Key Features*Explains the work of a wide range of thinkers, and details the way in which Deleuze draws on their work*Introduces little-known French thinkers to English-speaking Deleuze, including such figures as Henri Maldiney, George Dumézil, Charles Péguy and Pierre Clastres*Makes clear the synthetic method that Deleuze used to compose his most famous textsGraham Jones is a Lecturer in Creative Writing, Literary Studies and Media and Communications at Federation University, Australia.Jon Roffe teaches philosophy at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy.Cover image:Cover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-4918-2Barcode

This forward-thinking reference volume draws on new developments in philosophy including speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, the new materialisms, posthumanism, analytic philosophy of language and metaphysics, and ecophilosophy alongside close readings of a range of texts from the literary canon.

This forward-thinking reference volume draws on new developments in philosophy including speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, the new materialisms, posthumanism, analytic philosophy of language and metaphysics, and ecophilosophy alongside close readings of a range of texts from the literary canon.

This volume offers new insights into the works of emerging and well-established Francophone directors, who all chose to place youth at the heart of their narrative and aesthetic concerns.

This volume offers new insights into the works of emerging and well-established Francophone directors, who all chose to place youth at the heart of their narrative and aesthetic concerns.

The only scholarly monograph to focus on Ovid's 'Iphis and Ianthe'.

The only scholarly monograph to focus on Ovid's 'Iphis and Ianthe'.

This book brings together 11 pairs of opposing speeches on foreign policy written by Florentine statesman and historian Francesco Guicciardini (1483 1540), freshly translated with new commentary. Collectively, they constitute a remarkable collection of debates on war, peace, alliance and more.