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ISBN: 9789004466005 , 9789004465992

Series Statement: Aries Book Series ; 30

Content: To what extent were practitioners of magic inspired by fictional accounts of their art? In how far did the daunting narratives surrounding legendary magicians such as Theophilus of Adana, Cyprianus of Antioch, Johann Georg Faust or Agrippa of Nettesheim rely on real-world events or practices? Fourteen original case studies present material from late antiquity to the twenty-first century and explore these questions in a systematic manner. By coining the notion of 'fictional practice', the editors discuss the emergence of novel, imaginative types of magic from the nineteenth century onwards when fiction and practice came to be more and more intertwined or even fully amalgamated. This is the first comparative study that systematically relates fiction and practice in the history of magic.

Note: List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction --   Bernd-Christian Otto and Dirk Johannsen -- 1 Magic as Pollution: Fictional Blasphemies and Ritual Realities in the Roman Period (1st cen. BCE-4th cen. C) --   Kyle Fraser -- 2 The Medieval Anti-Faust: Stories, Rituals, and Self-Representations in the Flowers of Heavenly Teaching --   Claire Fanger -- 3 Enchantment and Anger in Medieval Icelandic Literature and Later Folklore --   Aðalheiður Guðmundsdóttir -- 4 Narratives of the Witch, the Magician, and the Devil in Early Modern Grimoires --   Owen Davies -- 5 When Ritual Texts Become Legendary  Practice and Fiction in Nordic Folklore --   Ane Ohrvik -- 6 Magic and Literary Imagination in H. P. Blavatsky's Theosophy --   Marco Frenschkowski -- 7 The Emergence of Fictional Practice in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: W.B. Yeats' Talismanic Poetry --   Dirk Johannsen -- 8 "My Life in a Love Cult": Tantra, Orientalism, and Sex Magic in Early Twentieth-Century Fiction --   Hugh B. Urban -- 9 Drawing Down the Moon: From Classical Greece to Modern Wicca? --   Ethan Doyle White -- 10 Drinking from Hecate's Fountain: Kenneth Grant's Typhonian Trilogies and the Fusion Between Literature and Practiced Magic --   Christian Giudice -- 11 If One Knows Where to Look, Fiction is Magic: Reading Fictional Texts as Manuals of Magic in Post-Soviet Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus --   Kateryna Zorya -- 12 "Cthulhu Gnosis" Monstrosity, Selfhood, and Secular Re-Enchantment in Lovecraftian Occultural Practice --   Justin Woodman -- 13 A Magickal School in the Twenty-First Century: The Grey School of Wizardry and Its Prehistory --   Carole M. Cusack -- 14 Fictional Practice from Antiquity to Today --   Bernd-Christian Otto -- Index.

Additional Edition: Print version: Fictional Practice: Magic, Narration, and the Power of Imagination. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2021 ISBN 9789004465992

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ISBN: 9783657786565 , 9783506786562

Series Statement: Friedrich Schlegel - Kritische Ausgabe seiner Werke - Abteilung III ; 26/2.1

Content: Vom Neujahrsbrief 1806 an August Wilhelm Schlegel bis zur Verwirklichung der vermeintlichen Zukunftsverheißung ,Österreich' durch Friedrichs Aufbruch in die Haupt- und Residenzstadt Wien 1808 vermittelt der Band detaillierte Einblicke in die letzten zweieinhalb ,Kölner Jahre', die in gleicher Weise eine ,Sattelzeit' für Österreich waren. Einen inhaltlichen Schwerpunkt der Jahre 1806/07 bilden Friedrichs indologische Studien, die Korrespondenz mit seinem Bruder August Wilhelm wie die Kommunikation mit führenden Verlegern und Gelehrten der Zeit. Als belastende biographische Motivkonstante imponieren die stets scheiternden Bewerbungsanläufe für Professuren und neuzugründende Universitäten, die auch die opulente Freundschaftskorrespondenz Friedrichs durchzieht. Auch die vergeblich vor der Presse geheim gehaltene Konversion des Ehepaars Schlegel zum Katholizismus wird in den Briefen thematisiert.

Additional Edition: Print version: Pariser und Kölner Lebensjahre (1802-1808): Zweiter Teil (Januar 1806-Juni 1808). Text, Paderborn : Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2018

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ISBN: 9781780529295

Series Statement: Studies in Writing ; v. 25

Content: This book provides a detailed overview of current or recent research exploring a wide range of ideas, theories, and practices around written text production. European researchers from a broad range of disciplines brought together under the European Research Network on Learning to Write Effectively were instructed to contribute short papers summarising their current activity. The papers are grouped around the four main themes. The first deals with issues around the development of basic (\'low-level\') writing skills, mainly in the early years of education. The second section focuses directly on issues around the teaching and learning of writing. This is divided into five parts that describe: evaluations of different forms of writing instruction, research exploring the processes by which writers learn, methods of text assessment in educational contexts, research exploring the effects of various learner and teacher variables on the development of writing skill, and conceptions of and variation in educational text genres. The third section reports research exploring effective document design. The final section has a main focus on tools for exploring the writing process.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Acknowledgements , Preliminary Material / , Chapter 1.00.01: Introduction: Writing Development / , Chapter 1.00.02: Early Development of Handwriting Motor Skills / , Chapter 1.00.03: Effects of Orthographic Consistency on Children's Spelling Development / , Chapter 1.00.04: Acquisition of Spelling Skills with Regard to the Norwegian Language / , Chapter 1.00.05: The Impact of Open and Closed Vowels on the Evolution of Pre-School Children's Writing / , Chapter 1.00.06: Copying Ability in Primary School: A Working Memory Approach / , Chapter 1.00.07: Acquisition of Linearization in Writing, from Grades 5 to 9 / , Chapter 1.00.08: Construct-Relevant or Construct-Irrelevant Variance in Measures of Reading? / , Chapter 1.00.09: Studying Written Language Development in Different Contexts, Languages and Writing Systems / , Chapter 1.00.10: The Impact of Oral Language Skills on Children's Production of Written Text / , Chapter 1.00.11: The Development of Written Language in Children with Language Impairment / , Chapter 1.00.12: Improving Anaphoric Cohesion in Deaf Students' Writing / , Chapter 2.00.01: Introduction: Teaching and Learning Writing / , Chapter 2.01.01: Implementation of Self-Regulated Writing Strategies in Elementary Classes / , Chapter 2.01.02: Evaluating Cognitive Self-Regulation Instruction for Developing Students' Writing Competence / , Chapter 2.01.03: Are Help Levels Effective in Textual Revision? / , Chapter 2.01.04: A Spanish Research Line Focused on the Improvement of Writing Composition in Students With and Without LD / , Chapter 2.01.05: Results of Writing Products After a Motivational Intervention Programme According to Students' Motivational Levels / , Chapter 2.01.06: Can Different Instructional Programmes Achieve Different Results on Students' Writing Attitudes and Writing Self-Efficacy? / , Chapter 2.01.07: Enhancing Writing Self-Efficacy Beliefs of Students With Learning Disabilities Improves Their Writing Processes and Writing Products / , Chapter 2.01.08: Comparative Studies of Strategy and Self-Regulated Interventions in Students With Learning Disabilities /

Additional Edition: Print version: Torrance, Mark Learning to Write Effectively : Current Trends in European Research Bradford : BRILL,c2012 ISBN 9781780529288

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ISBN: 9789004402843

Series Statement: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 116/5

Content: Theology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of Islam. Originally published in German between 1991 and 1995, Theology and Society is a monument of scholarship and a unique scholarly enterprise which has stood the test of the time as an unparalleled reference work. The Indices consist of a General Index and a separate Index of Works.

Additional Edition: Print version: Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hijra. Volume 5 Indices: A History of Religious Thought in Early Islam, Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019

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ISBN: 9789004454194 , 9789067181198

Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 176

Content: Developed from papers presented at the first European Colloquium on Pacific Studies this volume addresses the dynamics of contemporary Oceanic religions. In particular, the contributors investigate how indigenous populations have come to terms with the enormous impact of colonization and missionization while maintaining a distinct cultural and religious identity.

Note: Ad Borsboom and Ton Otto , "Introduction: Transformation and tradition in Oceanic religions" -- Thomas Widlock , "Traditions of transformation: Travelling rituals in Australia" -- Elisabetta Gnecchi-Ruscone , "Changing feasts: Church day as transformation of Vasái" -- Holger Jebens , "Catholics, Seventh-Day Adventists and the impact of tradition in Pairudu (Southern Highlands province, Papua New Guinea)" -- Gunter Senft , "Magic, missionaries and religion: Some observations from the Trobriand Islands" -- Michel Panoff , "A cargo cult among the Maenge" -- Sjoerd R. Jaarsma , "Ethnographic perceptions of cargo: Fragments of an intermittent discourse" -- Elfriede Hermann , "Kastom versus cargo cult: Emotional discourse on the Yali movement in Madang province, Papua New Guinea" -- Ton Otto and Ad Borsboom , "Epilogue: Cultural dynamics of religious change".

Additional Edition: Print version: Cultural Dynamics of Religious Change in Oceania. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1997 ISBN 9789067181198

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Series Statement: Medieval Iberian Peninsula ; 11

Content: Love Songs from al-Andalus presents an updated survey of the debates concerning Andalusian strophic poetry and their Kharja s. Attention is focused on the texts themselves and their literary implications as testimonies of the multicultural and multilingual society of al-Andalus. Since languages and alphabets of the three major religions have been used, these texts are studies historically, prosodically, thematically and stylistically and are related to the three literary traditions. One of the novelties of this study is the fact that it has been based upon the most updated edition and interpretations of the texts introducing emendations in over a third of its contents and making obsolete most of the hundreds of previous articles and books on the topic. Another novelty is the fact that stylistic features have been studied according to the Arabic model, casting new light on them. The survey of thematic relationships and the analysis of code-switching phenomena add weight to the conclusions of this research.

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Additional Edition: Print version: Love Songs from al-Andalus : History, Structure and Meaning of the Kharja. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1997. ISBN 9789004106949

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ISBN: 9789004427006 , 9789004424609

Series Statement: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture; 22

Content: Missionary Linguistic Studies from Mesoamerica to Patagonia presents the results of in-depth studies of grammars, vocabularies and religious texts, dating from the sixteenth - nineteenth century. The researches involve twenty (extinct) indigenous Mesoamerican and South American languages: Matlatzinca, Mixtec, Nahuatl, Purépecha, Zapotec (Mexico); K'iche, Kaqchikel (Guatemala); Amage, Aymara, Cholón, Huarpe, Kunza, Mochica, Mapudungun, Proto-Tacanan, Pukina, Quechua, Uru-Chipaya (Peru); Tehuelche (Patagonia); (Tupi-)Guarani (Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay). The results of the studies include: a) a digital model of a good, conveniently arranged vocabulary, applicable to all indigenous Amerindian languages; b) disclosure of intertextual relationships, language contacts, circulation of knowledge; c) insights in grammatical structures; d) phone analyses; e) transcriptions, so that the texts remain accessible for further research. f) the architecture of grammars; g) conceptual evolutions and innovations in grammaticography.

Additional Edition: Print version: Missionary Linguistic Studies from Mesoamerica to Patagonia, Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2020

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ISBN: 9789004425736 , 9789004421622

Series Statement: Max-Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds

Content: Knowledge of the pragmatici sheds new light on pragmatic normative literature (mainly from the religious sphere), a genre crucial for the formation of normative orders in early modern Ibero-America. Long underrated by legal historical scholarship, these media - manuals for confessors, catechisms, and moral theological literature - selected and localised normative knowledge for the colonial worlds and thus shaped the language of normativity. The eleven chapters of this book explore the circulation and the uses of pragmatic normative texts in the Iberian peninsula, in New Spain, Peru, New Granada and Brazil. The book reveals the functions and intellectual achievements of pragmatic literature, which condensed normative knowledge, drawing on medieval scholarly practices of 'epitomisation', and links the genre with early modern legal culture. Contributors are: Manuela Bragagnolo, Agustín Casagrande, Otto Danwerth, Thomas Duve, José Luis Egío, Renzo Honores, Gustavo César Machado Cabral, Pilar Mejía, Christoph H. F. Meyer, Osvaldo Moutin, and David Rex Galindo.

Additional Edition: Print version: Knowledge of the Pragmatici: Legal and Moral Theological Literature and the Formation of Early Modern Ibero-America, Leiden Boston : Brill | Nijhoff, 2020

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ISBN: 9789004481183 , 9789041118349

Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 8

Content: China, after some twenty years of reform, is no longer a country without law. Indeed, one may legitimately complain that there are too many laws that are changing too rapidly. However, law acquires no life nor performs its intended social functions without proper implementation and enforcement. Here, few people, Chinese or foreign, are content with the general situation of implementation of law in China. The problems and difficulties in implementing and enforcing laws and regulations are reported and discussed in the various forums of the Chinese media almost on a daily basis, and often reported in Western media also. Academics in China are filling the pages of various legal journals with their diagnoses and analyses of the causes of, and solutions to, the lack of proper implementation of law, and legal regulations and policy measures are being issued to deal with these problems and to overcome the difficulties. The future of the rule of law in China, as we are so often reminded by scholars of Chinese politics and law, largely depends on the proper implementation and enforcement of law. This is a book about `law-in-action' in China, that is, it focuses on the administration of the law as a process through which `law-in-the-books' is put into action and, hence, is made to perform its intended social functions. It deals with the process, the institutional settings (the players), and the political, economic, social, and cultural settings (the factors) involved in the administration of law in China. Throughout the book, we will see a variety of problems and difficulties involved in implementing and enforcing laws and regulations that are identified and analyzed by the contributors. We will also see analyses on legal regulations and policy measures that have been issued to rectify the many identified problems, to raise the standard of actual implementation of law, and to improve the functioning of the various law-implementing/enforcing authorities. Additionally, the book provides various case studies on implementation of law in China. The present book, we believe, is among the first collective efforts at a systematic and comprehensive study of the implementation of law in China, and we hope that it will stimulate many more such studies - studies on the actual operation and impact of law on society and on individuals.

Note: Preface. Table of Contributors. Abbreviations. I. Implementation of Law in China - an Introduction -- J. Chen. II. Toward an Analytical Framework: Real Legal Certainty and Its Explanatory Factors -- J.M. Otto. III. Functions of the People's Congress in the Process of Implementation of Law -- C. Dingjian. IV. Court Reform in China: Problems, Progress and Prospect -- Y. Li. V. Mission Impossible: Judicial Efforts to Enforce Civil Judgments and Rulings -- J. Chen. VI. The Chinese Procuratorates and the Anti-Corruption Campaigns in the People's Republic of China -- Y. Feng. VII. Law Enforcement and the Legal Profession in China -- R. Peerenboom. VIII. Implementing Chinese Environmental Law through Enforcement -- B. van Rooij. IX. Shifting Landscape of Dispute Resolution in Rural China -- H. Fu. X. The Theory and Practice of the Implementation of International Law in China -- S. Shaping. XI. Hong Kong's Legal System in the New Constitutional Order: The Experience of 1997-2000 -- A.H.Y. Chen. XII. Application of the Death Penalty in Chinese Judicial Practice -- H. Yunteng. XIII. Media Ownership and Regulation in China -- P. Keller. Appendix I. Legal Institutions in the People's Republic of China -- J. Chen. Appendix II. China's System of Public Administration -- B. van Rooij. Appendix III. Relevant Provisions of Chinese Law on Execution/Enforcement. Selected Bibliography. Index.

Additional Edition: Print version: Implementation of Law in the People's Republic of China. Leiden ; Boston : Brill | Nijhoff, 2002 ISBN 9789041118349

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ISBN: 9789004480933 , 9789041114334

Series Statement: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 5

Content: Who are the legislators and what are the products of the legislative process in China? How does a law come into being? What meaning should we ascribe to these legislative products from the perspective of legal certainty? Can we recognise a Chinese approach to or style of law-making? What technical legislative problems have Chinese jurists identified and what sorts of solutions to them are being considered? These are the questions which Law-making in the PRC attempts to solve. The volume opens with papers on the historical perspective of law-making, on ideology and law-making, and on a comparison between the PRC's legal framework and the frameworks of other legal systems. Part II deals with various `Institutions and Actors' involved, and offers analyses of the National People's Congress, the State Council, departmental rule-making, local law-making, law-making in autonomous regions, public participation, and the proposed law on law-making by academics. Part III offers three `case studies' in which important areas of legal development are analysed from a law-making point of view. The selected areas are administrative law, contract law, and criminal law.

Additional Edition: Print version: Law-Making in the People's Republic of China. Leiden ; Boston : Brill | Nijhoff, 2000 ISBN 9789041114334

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