With apologies for cross-posting and partial self-promotion, please allow me to
announce the publication of a book edited by Elisabetta Poddighe and Tiziana Pontillo:
Resisting and justifying changes: how to make the new acceptable in the Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern world, Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2021 (Nuova biblioteca di studi classici e orientali 5).

The articles are divided into three sections:
A. Ancient India
B. Ancient Greece
C. Medieval and Early Modern Italy.

Four articles in the first section:
- Maria Piera Candotti, Chiara Neri, Tiziana Pontillo
Vedic dákṣiṇā/Pāli dakkhiṇā. Recovering an original notion
behind the later institutional gift
- Frank Köhler
Some difficulties in finding traces of a Vrātya culture
- Bruno Lo Turco
The word that ceases to escape. Affirmation of writing and reinterpretation of the Vedic tradition
- Paola M. Rossi
The Jaiminīya-Brāhmaṇa between tradition and innovation. The case of the textualization of the Mahāvrata rite and the legitimization of the Brahmanical ritualism