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Revisiting New Netherland
Perspectives on Early Dutch America
Edited by Joyce D. GoodfriendThis book of essays samples current scholarship on New Netherland, touching on topics such as New Netherland in Historical Memory. New Netherland in the Atlantic World, the Political Economy of New Netherland, and New Netherland's Directors.
ISBN 90 04 14507 9 Hardback (xiv, 346 pp., 16 illus.) List price EUR 125.- / US$ 179.- The Atlantic World, 4
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Simon Magus in Patristic, Medieval and Early Modern Traditions
Alberto Ferreiro
 
This book is an exploration of the post-New Testament figure of Simon Magus spanning the patristic era, Middle Ages, and the early modern period as found in art, vernacular literatures, heresiologies, theological texts, hagiographies and homilies.
ISBN 90 04 14495 1 Hardback (xii, 372 pp.) List price EUR 89.- / US$ 115.- Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 125read more on www.brill.nl



Scripture and Pluralism
Reading the Bible in the Religiously Plural Worlds of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Edited by Thomas J. Heffernan and Thomas E. Burman

This book is a study of the multiplicity of ways the Bible was used by different groups during the Middle Ages. They explore different aspects of Christian Biblical Study in the face of the challenges of religious pluralism in the medieval and early-modern periods.ISBN 90 04 14415 3 Hardback (viii, 248 pp.) List price EUR 114.- / US$ 163.- Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 123read more on www.brill.nl
 
 
Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages
Second, revised edition
Thomas F. Glick
 
This work represents a considerably revised edition of the first comparative history of Islamic and Christian Spain between A.D. 711 and 1250. It focuses on the differential development of agriculture and urbanization in the Islamic and Christian territories and the flow of information and techniques between them.
ISBN 90 04 14771 3 Hardback (xxii, 402 pp., 9 figs, 1 map) List price EUR 137.- / US$ 185.- The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 27read more on www.brill.nl
 
 
Place and Politics
Local Identity, Civic Culture, and German Nationalism in North Germany during the Revolutionary Era
Katherine Aaslestad
 
This study examines North Germany during the transformative era of the French Revolution, Napoleonic occupation, and Wars of Liberation; it reveals international exploitation, military occupation, economic destruction of the city-state Hamburg as well as the republic's liberation and post-Napoleonic autonomy.
ISBN 0 391 04228 9 Hardback (xiv, 386 pp.) List price EUR 149.- / US$ 213.- Studies in Central European Histories, 36read more on www.brill.nl
 
 
Sensationalizing the Jewish Question
Anti-Semitic Trials and the Press in the Early German Empire
Barnet Hartston
 
This book examines a number of sensational trials involving anti-Semitism in early Imperial Germany. Press coverage of these court cases helped to spur public debates about the nature of Judaism and the role and influence of Jews in German society.
ISBN 90 04 14654 7 Hardback (xiv, 338 pp.) List price EUR 149.- / US$ 213.- Studies in Central European Histories, 39read more on www.brill.nl
 
 
Textual Healing: Essays on Medieval and Early Modern Medicine
Edited by Elizabeth Lane Furdell
 
This collection of twelve essays explores various aspects in the development of medicine from the Middle Ages to 1700 with a particular emphasis on revisiting original texts for new insights in the culture of healing.
ISBN 90 04 14663 6 Hardback (xviii, 294 pp.) List price EUR 99.- / US$ 134.- Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions: History, Culture, Religion, Ideas, 110read more on www.brill.nl
 
 
Network North
Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe 1603-1746
Steve Murdoch
 
Discussing a series of economic, confessional, political and espionage networks, this volume provides an illuminating study of network history in Northern Europe in the early modern period. The empirically researched chapters advance existing 'social network theory' into accessible historical discussion.
ISBN 90 04 14664 4 Hardback (xii, 440 pp., 12 illus.) List price EUR 147.- / US$ 198.- The Northern World, 18read more on www.brill.nl
 
 
Protestant Nations Redefined
Changing Perceptions of National Identity in the Rhetoric of the English, Dutch and Swedish Public Churches, 1685-1772
Pasi Ihalainen
 
This study in comparative conceptual history reveals how the concepts of nation and fatherland were redefined within public religion in eighteenth-century England, the Netherlands and Sweden, leading to more positive and inclusive conceptions of nationhood and the gradual reconfiguration of national identities in more secular terms.
ISBN 90 04 14485 4 Hardback (xxii, 666 pp.) List price EUR 149.- / US$ 199.- Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions: History, Culture, Religion, Ideas, 109read more on www.brill.nl
 
 
Peace, Order and the Glory of God
Secular Authority and the Church in the Thought of Luther and Melanchthon, 1518-1559
James M. Estes
 
This volume is a comparative study of the development of the thought of Luther and Melanchthon on the role of secular magistrates in the church that, in contrast to most earlier studies, sees essential agreement between them despite differences of argumentation.
ISBN 90 04 14716 0 Hardback (xviii, 238 pp.) List price EUR 99.- / US$ 134.- Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions: History, Culture, Religion, Ideas, 111read more on www.brill.nl
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Socinianism and Arminianism
Antitrinitarians, Calvinists and Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Edited by Martin Mulsow and Jan Rohls
ISBN 90 04 14715 2 Hardback (x, 310 pp.) List price EUR 99.- / US$ 134.- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 134read more on www.brill.nl
 
 
Pierre Gassendi's Philosophy and Science
Atomism for Empiricists
Saul Fisher
ISBN 90 04 11996 5 Hardback (456 pp.) List price EUR 129.- / US$ 172.50 Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 131read more on www.brill.nl
 
 
Church, State, Vellum, and Stone
Essays on Medieval Spain in Honor of John Williams
Edited by Therese Martin and Julie Harris
ISBN 90 04 14705 5 Hardback (x, 574 pp., 125 illus.) List price EUR 168.- / US$ 227.- The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 26read more on www.brill.nl
 
 
Recomposing German Music
Politics and Musical Tradition in Cold War Berlin
Elizabeth Janik
ISBN 90 04 14661 X Hardback (xvi, 356 pp.) List price EUR 149.- / US$ 213.- Studies in Central European Histories, 40read more on www.brill.nl
 
 
Cyprus
Society and Culture 1191-1374
Edited by Angel Nicolaou-Konnari and Chris Schabel
ISBN 90 04 14767 5 Hardback (xvi, 408 pp., 32 illus.) List price EUR 78.- / US$ 98.- The Medieval Mediterranean, 58read more on www.brill.nl
 
 
The Republic of Letters and the Levant
Edited by Alastair Hamilton, Maurits H. van den Boogert and Bart Westerweel
ISBN 90 04 14761 6 Hardback (320 pp.) List price EUR 99.- / US$ 134.- Intersections, 5read more on www.brill.nl
 
 
Spinoza to the Letter
Studies in Words, Texts and Books
Edited by Fokke Akkerman and Piet Steenbakkers
ISBN 90 04 14946 5 Hardback (xiv, 346 pp. with French, German texts) List price EUR 75.- / US$ 99.- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 137read more on www.brill.nl
 
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50% Backlist Offer
Brill is offering a limited time 50% discount on a selection of backlist titles.  This special offer on over thirty titles in the field of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is valid until October 31, 2005 while stock is available.  Take advantage of this offer now to add to your collection.
 
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First New Dictionary Completed: Lexicon Latinitatis Nederlandicae Medii Aevi Now Available as Set of 8 Volumes and Supplement
Brill is proud to announce the completion of Lexicon Latinitatis Nederlandicae Medii Aevi * Woordenboek van het Middeleeuwse Latijn van de Noordelijke Nederlanden. This dictionary forms part of an international project to replace the old dictionary of medieval Latin, Glossarium Mediae et Infimae Latinitatis of DuCange. Please click here for more information or click here to order.
 
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This month Brill offers the following title at a 25% discount:
(Please note: only limited stock available; valid until 1 November 2005 and while stock lasts).
 
Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus
Lexique latin médiéval - Medieval Latin Dictionary - Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch
J.F. Niermeyer and C. van de Kieft. Revised by J.W.J. Burgers
 
Niermeyer's Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus is a highly practical lexicon, providing researchers, teaching staff and students in the field of Medieval History with concise, essential information.
This new edition is still the "compendious lexicon for rapid information" envisaged by Niermeyer, but current entries and definitions have been revised and new entries have been added. 
 
'...invaluable to medievalists...every academic library should possess a copy.'
Religious Studies Review, 1978.
'...il représente pour les médiévistes un très précieux instrument de travail*'
Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes, 1978.

ISBN 90 04 11279 0 Hardback (xxiv, 814 pp. + vi, 770 pp. in Latin with English, German and French texts, 2 vols.) List price EUR 225.-/ US$ 295.- Special offer price EUR 168.75  / US$ 221.25 (valid until 1 November 2005)read more on www.brill.nl


 
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