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Henry Luttikhuizen
Geertgen tot Sint Jans and the Art of Longing

Considering the output of the Dutch painter Geertgen tot Sint Jans (ca. 1465-95) in relationship to the religious and social desires of his primary patrons, the Haarlem Hospitallers, this book offers a co…

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Sarah Joan Moran
Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585-1794

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700

This book examines the Court Beguinages, a fascinating group of semi-monastic female communities that were endemic to cities of the Southern Low Countries from the thirteenth century into the twentieth.Th…

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Jantinus Mulder
S-Frigate Jan Van Brakel

The Standard or S-frigate (relating to the Standard NATO Frigate concept which they were designed), the Kortenaer class, displayed functional, relatively compact lines. In functional terms. the ships prim…

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Daan Oostveen
An Exploration of Multiple Religious Belongings

Through a comparative approach, the book explores Western and Chinese perspectives on religious hybridity, critiques the limitations of the world religions paradigm, and introduces rhizomatic belonging as…

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Remco Raben, Peter Romijn,
Tales of Violence

Although it has long been known that the Indonesian War of Independence was far more violent than generally assumed by the Dutch public, for a long time the tendency to downplay, ignore, or justify the sc…

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Ranabir Samaddar
Biopolitics from Below

The current social turmoil enveloping the world has produced knee jerk reactions and a plethora of policy declarations. At the same time, the scenario is marked with response of those with low socioeconom…

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Hendrik Snyders, Leonard Jacobs
Klaverjas and the Hidden Sporting Heritage of South Africa

As a collective, klaverjas players form a distinct community of practice with a unique organisational discourse, language, and set of socialisation practices. Given its prevalence within South Africa's Bl…

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Jennifer Stob
The Situationist International and the Social Space of Film

Film Culture in Transition

This book explores the Situationist International's paradoxical relationship with cinema from 1957 to 1972. The SI was a postwar avant-garde that condemned representation's erosion of social life. Yet its…

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Donovan E. Tann
Beer, Brewing, and the Boundaries of the Human in Early Modern English Culture

Food Culture, Food History before 1900

Exploring a wide range of written discourse on early modern brewing and the material features and practices contributing to those conversations, this book demonstrates the considerable role that discussio…

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Maarten Verkerk, Gerrit Glas, Suzan Sierksma-Agteres
The Intellectual Legacy of Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977)

Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977), a renowned philosopher and legal scholar, has been regarded as one of the most original philosophers the Netherlands has ever produced. In 1935, he published his seminal wor…

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Kelli Wood
Games and Sports in Renaissance Italy

Cultures of Play

This book offers a cultural, visual, and material history of games in Renaissance Italy. Games in the Renaissance offered an inventive and imaginative understanding of the world for their players, one fou…

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Alan Wright
Film and the Natural History of Destruction

Green Media

Film and the Natural History of Destruction explores the interface between film, memory and ecological thought. It addresses several areas of crucial importance for contemporary film and media studies: bi…

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Daniel Yingst
Visions of the Cosmos in Honorius Augustodunensis

Knowledge Communities

An intellectual biography of Honorius Augustodunensis, one of the most influential authors during Early Medieval times, this book offers the portrait of an educator and author, whose works set the stage f…

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Elena Yushkova
A Revolutionary Dancer in Revolutionary Russia

In 1921, the legendary American dancer Isadora Duncan arrived in post-revolutionary Russia with an audacious goal: to build a new kind of dance school for a new world. Already celebrated for her groundbre…

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Esther Zwinkels
The Harsh Sword of Lady Justice

During the Indonesian War of Independence, Lady Justice played an important role on the Dutch side. Soldiers were, and are, required to comply with the law and a range of rules and regulations, both in an…

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Imagining Regions

What if regions were not just governed spaces but imagined ones? Imagining Regions: Hegemony and Emancipation in Europe and Asiaoffers a fresh perspective on regionalism by shifting the focus from institu…

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Locating Muslim Minorities in East and Southeast Asia

Religion and Society in Asia

This volume examines Muslim minority experiences across East and Southeast Asia through detailed case studies spanning China, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, and…

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Mongolian Healing

Health, Medicine, and Science in Asia

Mongolian Healing: Knowledge, Transmission and Practice Across Inner Asia explores the rich and diverse medicinal healing practices by Mongolian communities across Mongolia, Inner Mongolia and Kalmykia.Th…

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Palestine in Transition

Frank Scholten set out to produce an illustrated Bible, instead returning with captivating documentation of the modernist transformations and intimate views of Palestine from 1921-1923. He documented Pale…

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Suffragettes in the Land of the Tsars

During Russia revolutionary year of 1917, Emmeline Pankhurst and her secretary Jessie Kenney, both well-known suffragettes, traveled to the beleaguered country to talk with Russian women about suffrage, b…

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