What is astro-culture? In The Babylonian Planet it is unfolded as an aesthetic, an idea, a field of study, a position, and a practice. It helps to engineer the shift from a world view that is segregated to one that is integrated - from global to planetary; from distance to intim…
"A probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book shows the relationship between intellectual conflict and the geopolitics of empire. It examines the Persian Buyids' takeover of the great Arab caliphate in Iraq, the counter-Crusade under Saladin, and the literature of …
State traditions and language regimes
The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict presents a range of linguistic approaches as a means for examining the nature of communication related to conflict. Divided into four sections, the handbook critically examines text, interaction, languages and applications of lingui…
Language and nationalism in Europe
"From the late 18th century in multi-ethnic Kingdom of Hungary, new language-based national identities came to dominate over those that had previously been constructed on legal, territorial, or historical basis. While Hungarian language struggled to emancipate itself, the roles …
La langue mondiale: traduction et domination
"Parmi les milliers de langues qui existent ou ont existé, il semble qu'il y en ait toujours eu une qui ait été plus « prestigieuse » que ses contemporaines. Le latin fut en ce sens une langue dominante jusqu'au XVIIIe siècle, le français en devint une à son tour jusqu'au XXe si…