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Medieval & Early Modern Studies E-Bulletin
December 2005
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The Republic of Letters and the Levant
Edited by Alastair Hamilton, Maurits H. van den Boogert and Bart Westerweel
This collection of articles analyses the interests and experiences in the Levant of a number of leading western scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with an emphasis on the networks of learned friends throughout Europe with whom they corresponded.
ISBN 90 04 14761 6 Hardback (x, 302 pp) List price EUR 99.- / US$ 134.- Intersections, 5read more on www.brill.nl
Pierre Gassendi's Philosophy and Science
Atomism for Empiricists
Saul Fisher
This study of Gassendi's philosophy and science puts forth the view that his atomism follows from his empiricism: as an outgrowth of our best theory of knowledge and sound scientific method, we get evidence that warrents the micorphysical theory.
ISBN 90 04 11996 5 Hardback (xxviii, 436 pp.) List price EUR 129.- / US$ 172.50 Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 131read more on www.brill.nl
Sprache als Akt bei Thomas von Aquin
Hanns-Gregor Nissing
This study offers a comprehensive survey of the philosophy of language of Thomas Aquinas by analysing the acts of human reason as principles of language and by establishing them as the overarching point of reference for semiotic, epistemological, semantic, pragmatic and scientific considerations.
ISBN 90 04 14645 8 Hardback (xiv, 834 pp. in German) List price EUR 212.- / US$ 303.- Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 87read more on www.brill.nl
Muslim Military Architecture in Greater Syria
From the Coming of Islam to the Ottoman Period
Edited by Hugh Kennedy
This book investigates the Muslim castles of greater Syria from c.700 to c.1700 from archaeological and historical perspectives.
ISBN 90 04 14713 6 Hardback (xx, 344 pp. (80 pp. fc), 180 illus. (80 pp)) List price EUR 147.- / US$ 198.- History of Warfare, 35read more on www.brill.nl
Wind, Water, Work
Ancient and Medieval Milling Technology
Adam Lucas
This comparative empirical study of milling technology in the pre-modern period draws on the latest research in archaeology, history and sociology to illuminate the social and economic significance of milling and the extent to which the modern period is built on ancient and medieval foundations.
ISBN 90 04 14649 0 Hardback (xxii, 442 pp., 34 illus.) List price EUR 146.- / US$ 197.- Technology and Change in History, 8read more on www.brill.nl
The Formation of Clerical and Confessional Identities in Early Modern Europe
Edited by Wim Janse and Barbara Pitkin
This rich volume by an interdisciplinary group of American and European scholars offers an innovative portrait of the complex formation of clerical and confessional identities within the context of the radically changed religious and political situations in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.
ISBN 90 04 14909 0 Hardback (viii, 576 pp.) List price EUR 169.- / US$ 228.- Dutch Review of Church History, 85read more on www.brill.nl
"Take Hold of the Robe of a Jew"
Herbert of Bosham's Christian Hebraism
Deborah L. Goodwin
This engaging, meticulously documented examination of Herbert of Bosham's twelfth-century psalms commentary, which used Hebrew sources, locates the commentary's author at the nexus of contemporary intellectual and social movements and presents a nuanced, integrated perspective on medieval Jewish-Christian relations.
ISBN 90 04 14905 8 Hardback (xii, 300 pp. with Hebrew texts) List price EUR 99.- / US$ 134.- Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 126read more on www.brill.nl
Shaping the Stuart World, 1603-1714
The Atlantic Connection
Edited by Allan I. Macinnes and Arthur H. Williamson
Shaping the Stuart World examines the wide-ranging European interaction inherent in British expansion and discovers a multi-dimensional, multi-national Atlantic as a result. Spain, Sweden, and especially the Netherlands emerge as central to English and Scottish endeavors overseas and to the extremely diverse populations and cultures that eventually came to be known as British North America.
ISBN 90 04 14711 X Hardback (xiv, 394 pp.) List price EUR 99.- / US$ 135.- The Atlantic World, 5read more on www.brill.nl
Amphibious Warfare 1000-1700
Commerce, State Formation and European Expansion
Edited by D.J.B. Trim and Mark Charles Fissel
This anthology explains how Europeans used amphibious warfare to exert military and economic power in the Mediterranean, North and Baltic Seas, and the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, and the adjacent coasts; and how war, commerce and the growth of the European State system sustained one another.
Contributors: Matthew Bennett; Louis Sicking; Malyn Newitt; Jan Glete; John F. Guilmartin; R. B. Wernham; Mark Charles Fissel; Guy Rowlands; John Stapleton; David J.B. Trim.
ISBN 90 04 13244 9 Hardback (xxxvi, 500 pp., 31 illus.) List price EUR 135.- / US$ 182.- History of Warfare, 34read more on www.brill.nl
General Issues in the Study of Medieval Logistics
Sources, Problems and Methodologies
Edited by John F. Haldon
This collection of studies introduces the study of logistics in the late Roman and medieval world as an integral element in the study of resource production, allocation and consumption, and hence of the social and economic history of the societies in question.
ISBN 90 04 14769 1 Hardback (xiv, 290 pp., illus. on CD-Rom) List price EUR 99.- / US$ 134.- History of Warfare, 36read more on www.brill.nl
Lutheran Reformation and the Law
Edited by Virpi Mäkinen
The study based on interdisciplinary research by theologians and legal historians investigating the legal, philosophical and theological aspects of the Lutheran Reformation in the church and society, and the impact of the Reformation on law in the Nordic countries.
ISBN 90 04 14904 X Hardback (xii, 276 pp.) List price EUR 89.- / US$ 120.- Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions: History, Culture, Religion, Ideas, 112read more on www.brill.nl
Schule und Universität
Bildungsverhältnisse in norddeutschen Städten des Spätmittelalters: Gesammelte Aufsätze
Klaus Wriedt
The volume deals with aspects of education in the urban society of northern Germany in the late Middle Ages. It examines the school system, university studies, the employment of the graduates and the social status they attained.
ISBN 90 04 14687 3 Hardback (x, 270 pp. in German) List price EUR 110.- / US$ 149.- Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 23read more on www.brill.nl
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John Calvin and the Grounding of Interpretation
Calvin's First Commentaries
R. Ward Holder
ISBN 90 04 14926 0 Hardback (x, 318 pp.) List price EUR 99.- / US$ 134.- Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 127read more on www.brill.nl
Power and Religion in Baroque Rome
Barberini Cultural Policies
Peter Rietbergen
ISBN 90 04 14893 0 Hardback (xviii, 438 pp.) List price EUR 99.- / US$ 135.- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 135read more on www.brill.nl
The Poet's Wisdom: The Humanists, the Church, and the Formation of Philosophy in the Early Renaissance
Timothy Kircher
ISBN 90 04 14637 7 Hardback (xii, 320 pp.) List price EUR 129.- / US$ 184.- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 133read more on www.brill.nl
Past Tense
Studies in the Archaeology of Conflict
Edited by Tony Pollard and Iain Banks
ISBN 90 04 14976 7 Hardback (314 pp., 84 illus.) List price EUR 125.- / US$ 169.-
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Table of Contents
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Early Science and Medicine, Volume 10, Number 4, 2005
First Issue of Journal of Conflict Archaeology Forthcoming
This December the first issue will appear of the new Brill journal Journal of Conflict Archaeology. This English-language annual is devoted to battlefield and military archaeology and other spheres of conflict archaeology, covering all periods with a worldwide scope.
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Subscription rates for individuals lowered for 2006
The Journals Price List for 2006 is now available. Please note that many rates for individual subscribers have been lowered significantly. For more information on the new rates for our Medieval and Early Modern Studies journals, please click here.
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Brill Back List Offer 2005
Don't overlook Brill's extraordinary Back List Offer! Choose from nearly 500 titles at discounts of up to 70%. Go to www.brill.nl for the full list of titles on offer, conveniently listed under subject headings and then alphabetically by author. To download the full list of titles click here.
Brill Acquires IDC Publishers
Brill Academic Publishers announces that it reached agreement with the shareholders of IDC Publishers, based in Leiden, the Netherlands, to acquire all of IDC's shares and business activities. The acquisition comprises all publication rights to well over 3 million pages of primary source documents stored on microfiche and microfilm, as well as a number of online databases. For more information click here.
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War and the golden age, December 19-21, 2005
Brill staffers Julian Deahl, Marcella Mulder, and Marinke de Rooij will be attending the conference War and the golden age: the Netherlands in comparative perspective, c. 1550-1700, to be held at the Instituut Defensie Leergangen, Rijswijk, The Netherlands, 19-21 December, 2005. Brill will be hosting a reception for participants.
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AHA 2006 Annual Meeting, January 5-8, 2006
The 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association will be held January 5*8, 2006 in downtown Philadelphia. Brill's senior acquisitions editors, Julian Deahl and Hendrik van Leusen, will be attending with a display of latest books, journals and electronic products. They look forward to meeting authors, editors, and friends of the press in the conference book exhibit.
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This month Brill offers the following title at a 25% discount:
(Please note: only limited stock available; valid until 1 January 2006 and while stock lasts).
Viking Rus
Studies on the Presence of Scandinavians in Eastern Europe
Wladyslaw Duczko
ISBN 90 04 13874 9 Hardback (xiv, 290 pp., 72 illus.) List price EUR 129.- / US$ 184.- Special Offer Price EUR 96.75 / US$ 138.- (valid until 1 January 2006) The Northern World, 12This book offers a detailed survey of the history and culture of Scandinavians, known as Rus, living during the Viking Age in the Eastern Europe where they created not only a principality of Kiev but also several large proto-town centres and numerous rural settlements.
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