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Everyday Welfare in Modern British History : Experience, Expertise and Activism
This open access book offers a new approach to understandings of welfare in modern Britain. Foregrounding the agency individuals and groups claimed through experiential expertise, it traces deep connections between personal experience, welfare, and activism across diverse settings in modern Britain. The experiential experts studied in this collection include women, students, children, women who…
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- 9783031649875
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- XV, 381 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture
This volume explores the various strategies by which appropriate pasts were construed in scholarship, literature, art, and architecture in order to create “national”, regional, or local identities in late medieval and early modern Europe. Because authority was based on lineage, political and territorial claims were underpinned by historical arguments, either true or otherwise. Literature, s…
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- 9789004378216
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- 820 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Intersections, Volume: 60
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The Production of Knowledge of Normativity in the Age of the Printing Press =…
This volume explores the production of knowledge of normativity in the age of early modern globalisation by looking at an extraordinarily pragmatic and normative book: Manual de Confessores, by the Spanish canon law professor Martín de Azpilcueta (1492-1586). Intertwining expertise, methods, and questions of legal history and book history, this book follows the actors and analyses the factors …
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- 9789004687042
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- 452 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Max Planck Studies in Global Legal History of the Iberian Worlds, Volume: 4
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The Lead Books of the Sacromonte and the Parchment of the Torre Turpiana: Gra…
The Archive of the Sacromonte Abbey in Granada preserves a historical treasure: Arabic texts on a sheet of parchment and on numerous small tablets of lead, which were discovered in Granada at the end of the sixteenth century in the tower of the old Friday Mosque and in caves of the "Valparaíso" hillock, from then on called "Sacromonte". They became the object of heated discussions in Europe an…
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- 9789004685277
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- 617 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Texts and Sources in the History of Religions
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The Law of Nations and Natural Law 1625–1800
The Law of Nations and Natural Law 1625-1800 offers innovative studies on the development of the law of nations after the Peace of Westphalia. This period was decisive for the origin and constitution of the discipline which eventually emancipated itself from natural law and became modern international law. A specialist on the law of nations in the Swiss context and on its major figure, Emer …
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- 9789004384200
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- 348 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Early Modern Natural Law: Studies & Sources
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Becoming Human: Li Zehou's Ethics
The book Becoming Human: Li Zehou’s Ethics offers a critical introduction and in-depth analysis of Li Zehou’s moral philosophy and ethics. Li Zehou, who is one of the most influential contemporary Chinese philosophers, believes that ethics is the most important philosophical discipline. He aims to revive, modernize, develop, and complement Chinese traditional ethics through what he calls …
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- Volume: 20
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- 978-90-04-42366-4
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Astrophysics, Astronomy and Space Sciences in the History of the Max Planck S…
This book provides the first comprehensive historical account of the evolution of scientific traditions in astronomy, astrophysics, and the space sciences within the Max Planck Society. Structured with in-depth archival research, interviews with protagonists, unpublished photographs, and an extensive bibliography, it follows a unique history: from the post-war relaunch of physical sciences in W…
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- Volume: 4
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- 978-90-04-52913-7
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The Philosophy of Leopold Blaustein: Descriptive Psychology, Phenomenology, a…
Ini adalah buku akses terbuka yang didedikasikan untuk menemukan kembali sejarah awal fenomenologi dalam konfrontasi dengan warisan Franz Brentano dengan membahas filosofi Leopold Blaustein. Buku ini menawarkan perspektif unik tentang sejarah gerakan fenomenologis dengan mempresentasikan perkembangan teori Blaustein. Blaustein adalah seorang filsuf yang dididik oleh Kazimierz Twardowski di Lvov…
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- 978-3-031-63685-1
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- online resource ( IX, 325 Pages)
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- Sumber-sumber Utama dalam Fenomenologi; Fenomenologi Awal
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- 190 PLO p
An Invisible Thread: Heresy, Mass Conversions, and the Inquisition in the Kin…
Author: Stefania Pastore In Toledo in 1529, a converso named Pedro de Cazalla declared that the connection between man and God was but a thread and that it should not be mediated by the Church. Hardly an isolated phenomenon, Cazalla’s inner spirituality was a widespread response to the increasing repression of religious dissent enacted by the Inquisition. Forced baptisms of Jews and Muslims…
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- Volume: 85
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- 978-90-04-71423-6
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Tracing Private Conversations in Early Modern Europe : Talking in Everyday Life
This open access book provides a multifold exploration of how people in early modern Europe understood, conducted, and actively used private conversations. From sharing personal matters to discussing delicate secrets, all layers of early modern society had their motives for wanting to keep certain exchanges out of public eyes and ears, and ways of trying to achieve this. Detecting such instance…
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- 978-3-031-46630-4
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- XX, 350
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