«A Marvellous and Strange Event» Racconti di nascite mostruose nell'Inghil…

In early modern England, the birth of a human being with congenital physical deformities was an event which aroused horror and fascination, disgust and morbid curiosity. In a time when modern science was taking its first steps, this kind of prodigy sometimes appeared as a sort of divine punishment for a moral fault, sometimes as a bizarre pastime, or political weapon, or a pre-medical investiga…

“Colonised by Wankers”: Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Fiction

"Has Scotland suffered from colonial oppression by England for the last 300 years? While historiography may give an answer in the negative, this study reveals that the contemporary Scottish novel is haunted by strong feelings, marked by perceptions of abjection and inferiorisation in response to constructing the English as dominating. Drawing from an unprecedented corpus of contemporary Scottis…

Greening the Greyfields : New Models for Regenerating the Middle Suburbs of L…

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-981-16-6238-6

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

Napoleonic Divorce Law in Poland (1808-1852)

Pada tahun 1807, Napoleon Bonaparte menciptakan Kadipaten Warsawa dari tanah Polandia yang telah dialihkan ke Prancis oleh Rusia. Kode Sipilnya juga diterapkan di Kadipaten baru itu dan, berbeda dengan Gereja Katolik, ia mengizinkan pembubaran pernikahan melalui perceraian. Buku ini memberikan sudut pandang baru tentang penerapan regulasi perceraian Napoleonik di tanah Polandia antara 1808-1852…

Municipal Magdeburg Law (Ius municipale Magdeburgense) in Late Medieval Polan…

Dalam volume ini, Maciej Mikuła menganalisis teks-teks yang ada dari Ius municipale Magdeburgense, kumpulan paling penting dari Hukum Magdeburg pada akhir Abad Pertengahan di Polandia. Ia membahas berbagai tradisi terjemahan dari kumpulan tersebut; penerapan Hukum Magdeburg di kota-kota; bagaimana perbedaan antara versi dapat mempengaruhi penerapan hak; dan bagaimana penemuan percetakan memeng…

The Ndebele, Frank Oates, and Knowledge Production in the 1870s = Encounters …

This open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowledge made? How did different communities, with little or no prior contact, construct meaning about one another? Amidst huge changes in the politics and economics of a continent, on the cusp of almost complete colonization at the hands of European pow…

Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain : Beyond the Spectre of the Drunkard

This open access book surveys drinking in Britain between the Licensing Act of 1869 and the wartime regulations imposed on alcohol production and consumption after 1914. This was a period marked by the expansion of the drink industry and by increasingly restrictive licensing laws. Politics and commerce co-existed with moral and medical concerns about drunkenness and combined, these factors push…

Nowhere to Go; The Tragic Odyssey of the Homeless Mentally Ill

Buku akses terbuka ini berusaha untuk menjawab pertanyaan, "Mengapa begitu banyak orang dengan gangguan mental parah menjadi tunawisma atau dipenjara?" Diperbarui sejak rilis aslinya pada tahun 1988, buku ini melacak sejarah pertanyaan ini di Amerika Serikat. Jawaban dimulai pada tahun 1955, ketika Amerika Serikat mendekonsolidasikan 559.000 pasien yang berada di rumah sakit jiwa negara bagian.…

Frisian Land Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Freeska Landriucht

Around 1485, the age-old compilation of Old Frisian customary law, partly dating back to the 11th century, was put into print. Latin glosses were included in the text with references to Canon and Roman law. This gloss tradition had come into being during the 13th and 14th centuries. This incunable came to be known as Freeska Landriucht or Frisian Land Law. This book presents its first edition w…

Devotional Portraiture and Spiritual Experience in Early Netherlandish Painti…

This is the first exhaustive catalogue of paintings with devotional portraits produced in the Low Countries between c. 1400 and 1550. This catalogue is an appendix to the book