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Beyond Orientalism
Sir William Jones (1746-1794), A Journey of Understanding
2025 || Hardcover || Hadi Baghaei-Abchooyeh || Leiden University Press
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Babad Tanah Jawi, The Chronicle of Java
The Revised Proze Version of C.F. Winter Sr
2022 || Hardcover || Willem Remmelink || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
The revised prose version of the Babad Tanah Jawi was originally prepared by C.F. Winter Sr. (1799-1859), with the twofold aim of providing Javanese-language teaching material and of setting a standard for formal Javanese prose writing. At that time, Javanese was almost exclusively written in verse, which was not a medium suitable for the modern world that was dawning on Java. Although Winter achieved his aims in other ways and publications, the present text was mostly forgotten, or was just ...
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Discourses of Disruption in the Time of COVID
Creating and Contesting Meaning through Asian languages
2023 || Hardcover || Michael Ewing e.a. || Leiden University Press
'Discourses of Disruption in Asia: Creating and Contesting Meaning in the Time of COVID-19' makes a unique contribution to research on meaning making in times of crisis. Using diverse analytical approaches to the study of languages in societies from the Asia-Pacific region, this volume explores the struggles over national identity and manifestations of socio-political issues in the context of disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Each chapter interrogates how social actors in diverse c...
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Middle High German Legends in English Translation
2021 || Hardcover || Jef Jacobs e.a. || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
This book contains five legends from the German Middle Ages, presented in the Middle High German source language, with a modern English translation. These include the narratives of Veronica, Vespasian, Theophilus, Mary Magdalene and the miraculous history of the True Cross. Thisoutstanding and timely translation of these Middle High German texts will make them more accessible to an English speaking academic community.
The introduction provides an overview of Germanic legend research, discusses...