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Japan on the Jesuit Stage
Japan on the Jesuit Stage offers a comprehensive overview of the representations of Japan in early modern European Neo-Latin school theater. The chapters in the volume catalog and analyze representative plays which were produced in the hundreds all over Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula to present-day Croatia and Poland. Taking full account of existing scholarship, but also introducing a large amount of previously unknown primary material, the contributions by European and Japanese researchers significantly expand the horizon of investigation on early modern European theatrical reception of East Asian elements and will be of particular interest to students of global history, Neo-Latin, and theater studies.
A Seductive Proposal
When orphan Sakura Tanaka sneaks into a famous Japanese designer’s fashion show in order to meet her biological mother, she doesn’t anticipate a complication that will turn her world upside down. Through mistaken identity, she ends up modelling for the designer, which in turn leads to an unexpected encounter with her seven drop-dead gorgeous adoptive brothers, two of which have intentions for her heart. One of them is Sebastian Princeton, the handsome multibillionaire real estate investor, who isn’t afraid to show his feelings for her and openly pursues her. The other is Darcy Princeton, the multibillionaire game designer and entrepreneur, whose love Sakura has always secretly possessed. To whom will Sakura ultimately give her heart?
Konversionen zum Katholizismus in der Frühen Neuzeit
Obgleich Konversionen zum Katholizismus zu den zentralen Merkmalen der frühneuzeitlichen Geschichte gehören, wurden sie lange vernachlässigt. Der Band behandelt dieses Phänomen in systematischer und vergleichender Weise. Im Zentrum des Interesses stehen die Besonderheiten der Konversionen zum Katholizismus: Die planmäßige Konversionspolitik der Papstkirche mit ihren Institutionen und Überzeugungsstrategien; die Akzeptanz weltlicher Motive bei gleichzeitigem Streben nach wahrer Überzeugung; und die Universalität der Kirche, die nicht nur zu Konversionen von Südamerika bis Japan führte, sondern auch auf Europa zurückwirkte.
Songs to Make the Dust Dance
Breaking through the long-established image of Heian Japan (794–1185) as a culture dominated by ritualized aristocratic values, Yung-Hee Kim presents a picture of a country in transition, filled with a wide variety of common people responding to very ordinary situations. The court does not disappear, but rather becomes part of a larger society inhabited by Buddhist nuns and mountain ascetics, farmers and fishermen, beggars and gamblers. In popular songs called imayo, they express their concerns about religion, love, aging, and even current affairs. In 1179 Emperor Go-Shirakawa compiled a collection of this song genre, which had flourished for two centuries. His twenty-volume anthology, Ryo...
High-Rise Invasion Vol. 21
YURI FACES OFF AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATOR AT LAST! Does she have what it takes to end this world?! FINAL VOLUME!
High-Rise Invasion Vol. 14
The path to godhood is fraught with monsters... And one of them holds Yuri's brother hostage!
A Seductive Love
Sakura and the seven Princeton brothers, along with their families and friends, are heading off to Hawaii for the fashion photo shoot. Immersed in the exotic scenery and exquisite beaches, the love confessions Sakura receives from Sebastian and Darcy Princeton are more passionate than ever. When she finally makes her decision and professes her heart’s desire to the two men, danger lurks just around the corner and threatens to destroy her chance at happiness.
Japan on the Jesuit Stage
The Jesuits were a major source of European information on Japan from the late 16th to early 17th century. Not only were they active missionaries but they also produced linguistic, religious and cultural tracts, regional chronicles, as well as hundreds of Latin plays written in imitation of classical Greco-Roman theatre but set in Japan. An intriguing yet underexplored segment of Jesuit school theatre is that which stages non-classical, non-Western subjects such as Japan, and this volume is the first to present Latin texts of two of these plays alongside full English translations, commentaries and an extensive introduction. The plays in question - Martyrs of Japan and Victor the Japanese - w...
Mongrel
'Mongrel is so beautiful that I became lost in it . . . Simply, it must be read' LISA TADDEO 'A brilliant explosion of writing and storytelling . . . This feels like reading an Oscar-winning film' AISLING BEA 'Heart-shatteringly visceral and precise . . . a triumphant tribute to the self' WIZ WHARTON 'This compulsive, engrossing, and gorgeous debut will utterly consume you. Read it now' STEPHANIE SCOTT Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, suppressing not only her heritage but her growing desire for her best friend Fran. Yuki leaves the Japanese countryside to pursue her dream of becoming a concert violinist in London. Far from home and in an unfamiliar city, she finds herself caught up in the charms of her older teacher. Haruka attempts to navigate Tokyo's nightlife and all of its many vices, working as a hostess in the city's sex district. She grieves a mother who hid so many secrets from her, until finally one of those secrets comes to light . . . Shifting between three intertwining narratives, Mongrel reveals a tangled web of desire, isolation, belonging and ultimately, hope.
Strittige Zeiten
Die 1582 von Papst Gregor XIII. verkündete Kalenderreform war nur im katholischen Europa durchgeführt worden, die protestantischen Gebiete verblieben in der Regel beim Julianischen Kalender. Von 1582 bis teils ins 18. Jahrhundert hinein war die Kalenderordnung Westeuropas damit zweigeteilt - mit zehn, später elf Tagen Differenz. Im Mittelpunkt der kulturwissenschaftlich orientierten Studie stehen die publizistischen, theologischen, wissenschaftlichen und (konfessions‐)politischen Auseinandersetzungen um die Kalenderreform im Heiligen Römischen Reich Deutscher Nation. Erstmals wird dabei auch die Genese und Einführung des „Verbesserten Kalenders“ durch das Corpus Evangelicorum im Jahr 1700 untersucht, mit der die Datumsgleichheit im Alten Reich wiederhergestellt wurde. Dies gewährt zugleich einen Einblick in Selbstverständnis und Abläufe am Reichstag um 1700. Die Verknüpfung von alltags-, mentalitäts- und ideengeschichtlichen Aspekten gewährt einen komplexen Einblick in die konfessionspolitischen Verhältnisse vom späten 16. bis ins beginnende 18. Jahrhundert und ermöglicht, Wahrnehmung und Wirkung zeitlicher Pluralisierung in der Frühen Neuzeit zu beleuchten.
