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Theologians and Contract Law = The Moral Transformation of the Ius Commune (c…
The Roman legal tradition is the ancestor of modern contract law but there is no agreement as to how and when a general law of contract emerged. Wim Decock’s thesis is that an important step in this evolution was taken by theologians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They transformed the Roman legal tradition (ius commune) by insisting on the moral foundations of contract law. Theol…
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- 9789004232853
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- 748 hlm,: ill, lamp; 21 cm
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- Studies in the History of Private Law, Volume: 9/4 Legal History Library, Volume: 9/4
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The Years of Jesuit Suppression, 1773–1814: Survival, Setbacks, and Transfo…
The forty-one years between the Society of Jesus’s papal suppression in 1773 and its eventual restoration in 1814 remain controversial, with new research and interpretations continually appearing. Shore’s narrative approaches these years, and the period preceding the suppression, from a new perspective that covers individuals not usually discussed in works dealing with this topic. As well a…
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- 9789004423374
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- 124 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies
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Elisabeth Mann Borgese and the Law of the Sea
In the late twentieth century, as the United Nations struggled to come up with a new legal system for the oceans, one woman saw the opportunity to promote radical new ideas of justice and internationalism. Ocean governance expert Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918–2002) spent decades working with the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention. Throughout this sprawling series of global conferences, s…
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- 978-90-04-51144-6
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Legal History Library
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Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe Encounters, Not…
This first volume of the series “Dynamics in the History of Religions” reviews the opening conference of the "Käte Hamburger Kolleg” at the Ruhr-University Bochum. The first section concentrates on the formation of what later come to be termed "world religions" through inter-religious contact, the second part focuses on the significance of interreligious contacts also during their expans…
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- 978-90-04-22535-0
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Dynamics in the History of Religions, Volume: 1
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The Writing Culture of Ancient Dadān = A Description and Quantitative Analys…
This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC. It offers a description and analysis of the language of the inscriptions and the variation attested within them. It is the first work to perform a systematic study of the linguistic variat…
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- 9789004512634
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- 342hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume: 110
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The Visionary Preaching of Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534) = Ritual, Revelation,…
Step into the world of 16th-century Castile, where a devout community of Franciscan women preserved the public preaching of their visionary abbess, Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534), through writing. This groundbreaking book uncovers how her sermons were recorded, explores the materiality of the surviving codices, and reveals their role in the controversial censorship and blocking of Juana’s canon…
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- 9789004495944
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- 304 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- The Medieval Franciscans, Volume: 25
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The Unknown Neighbour = The Jew in the Thought of Isidore of Seville
This book provides a detailed analysis of Isidore of Seville's attitude towards Jews and Judaism. Starting out from his anti-Jewish work De fide catholica contra Iudaeos, the author puts Isidore's argument into the context of his entire literary production. Furthermore, he explores the place of Isidore's thinking within the contemporary situation of Visigothic Spain, investigating the political…
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- 9789047408925
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- The Medieval Mediterranean, Volume: 59
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The Twentieth Century in European Memory = Transcultural Mediation and Reception
The Twentieth Century in European Memory investigates contested and divisive memories of conflicts, world wars, dictatorship, genocide and mass killing. Focusing on the questions of transculturality and reception, the book looks at the ways in which such memories are being shared, debated and received by museum workers, artists, politicians and general audiences. Due to amplified mobility and c…
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- 9789004352353
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- 364 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- European Studies, Volume: 34 European Studies, Volume: 34
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The Transformation of Economic Life under the Roman Empire = Proceedings of t…
Did a Roman imperial economy exist under the Late Republic, the Roman Principate and the Later Roman Empire? And if so, what type of economy was it? Another equally important question is: did the Roman Empire, by specific actions, the creation of infrastructures, or its very existence, trigger a transformation of economic life in the regions which it dominated? Or was the Empire a marginal affa…
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- 9789004401624
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- 288 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Impact of Empire, Volume: 2
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The Texts and Contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108 = The S…
The late thirteenth-century, monolingual Oxford manuscript, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108, bears singular importance to medieval studies, for it preserves and anthologizes unique versions of several seminal Middle English texts, including South English Legendary, Havelok the Dane, and King Horn and Somer Soneday. While critics have traditionally classified these poems by genre, this book …
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- 9789004192249
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- 368 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts, Volume: 6
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