There is to date no comprehensive treatment of eye disease texts from ancient Mesopotamia, and no...

This book confronts the history and legitimacy of Western Universalism. In the form of conversat...

The dispersal of the Indo-European language family from the third millennium BCE is thought to ha...

El debate en torno al concepto de literatura mundial acompaña el proceso de reconfiguración del d...

This sourcebook explores the most extensive tradition of Buddhist dharani literature and provides...

This book explores the manner in which architectural settings and action contexts influenced the ...

From the 14th until the 19th century the last novella of Boccaccio's Decameron, also known as the...

Francesco da Barberino, a contemporary of Dante (1264-1348), was a Florentine notary. Remembered ...

Studies on ancient urbanity either concerns individual buildings or the city as a whole. This vol...

The idea of universalism inherited from the French Revolution has been strongly discredited by i...