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Women and Gender in Medieval Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 986

Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

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Fra Dolcino
  • Language: it
  • Pages: 260

Fra Dolcino

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Pathways through Early Modern Christianities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Pathways through Early Modern Christianities

In the midst of a global pandemic, the Frankfurt POLY (Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities) Lectures on "Pathways through Early Modern Christianities" brought together a virtual, global community of scholars and students in the Spring and Summer of 2021 to discuss the fascinating nature of early modern religious life. In this book, eleven pathbreaking scholars from the "four corners" of the early modern world reflect on the analytical tools that structure their field and that they have developed, revised and embraced in their scholarship: from generations to tolerance, from uniformity to publicity, from accommodation to local religion, from polycentrism to connected histories, and from identity to object agency. Together, the chapters of this reference work help both students and advanced researchers alike to appreciate the extent of our current knowledge about early modern christianities in their interconnected global context—and what exciting new travels could lie ahead.

Writing Tamil Catholicism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 275

Writing Tamil Catholicism

"In Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with a group of local lay elites identified by their profession as catechists, chose Tamil poetry as the social and political language of Catholicism in eighteenth-century South India. Trento analyzes a corpus of Tamil grammars and poems, chiefly Beschi's Tēmpāvaṇi, alongside archival documents to show how, by presenting themselves as poets and intellectuals, Catholic elites gained a persuasive voice as well as entrance into the learned society of the Tamil country and its networks of patronage"--

Religion, Enlightenment and Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Religion, Enlightenment and Empire

Explores British interpretations of Hinduism at a crucial period in the East India Company's conquest of Bengal.

Writing Tamil Catholicism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 369

Writing Tamil Catholicism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-05-02
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with a group of local lay elites identified by their profession as catechists, chose Tamil poetry as the social and political language of Catholicism in eighteenth-century South India. Trento analyzes a corpus of Tamil grammars and poems, chiefly Beschi’s Tēmpāvaṇi, alongside archival documents to show how, by presenting themselves as poets and intellectuals, Catholic elites gained a persuasive voice as well as entrance into the learned society of the Tamil country and its networks of patronage. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 840879.

Banditi e ribelli dimenticati
  • Language: it
  • Pages: 369

Banditi e ribelli dimenticati

La parola banditi", nell'accezione ampia di fuorilegge che ha assunto, riunisce sotto un'unica specie il criminale comune che delinque per proprio esclusivo tornaconto e interesse, e varie forme di devianza dalla legge o dal potere motivate da ispirazioni ben più alte: religiose, sociali, politiche, militari. Dunque è essenziale saper distinguere. Banditi e ribelli si oppongono al futuro che viene. Mentre la criminalità comune non ha patria spirituale, il banditismo e il ribellismo trovano rifugio e protezione nelle comunità omogenee del mondo rurale che non si piega alla modernizzazione. Gli irriducibili incarnano consapevolmente o meno lo spirito di resistenza della comunità stessa co...

Ravana's Kingdom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Ravana's Kingdom

Ravana, the demon-king antagonist from the Ramayana, the ancient Hindu epic poem, has become an unlikely cultural hero among Sinhala Buddhists over the past decade. In Ravana's Kingdom, Justin W. Henry delves into the historical literary reception of the epic in Sri Lanka, charting the adaptions of its themes and characters from the 14th century onwards, as many Sri Lankan Hindus and Buddhists developed a sympathetic impression of Ravana's character, and through the contemporary Ravana revival, which has resulted in the development of an alternative mythological history, depicting Ravana as king of the Sri Lanka's indigenous inhabitants, a formative figure of civilizational antiquity, and th...

Empire Inside Out
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Empire Inside Out

"Regardless of terminology, the use of padya and gadya in Telugu literary works is invariably linked to Nannaya (early to mid-11th century), traditionally considered the first poet of Telugu literature. The style that Nannaya inaugurated in his Telugu retelling of the Mahābhārata is regarded as the paradigm for later poets. His mixing of padya and gadya-an element not present in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata-became the preferred mode of poetic composition, even when translating a Sanskrit counterpart that used padya exclusively"--

The Saint in the Banyan Tree
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 407

The Saint in the Banyan Tree

“This is a powerful and exciting work. Mosse has produced a work of scholarship that is lively and readable without any loss of subtlety and sophistication. It is a ground-breaking study, of critical importance to the ways we understand religious nationalism and the anthropology of postcolonial experience.”—Susan Bayly, author of Asian Voices in a Postcolonial Age