Javanese Way of Law. Early Modern Sloka Phenomena, Hardback - Mason Hoadley

Traditional Javanese law of the pre- and early-colonial period does not draw upon the contents of recognized texts, but -- as preserved and often e...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Roni WeinsteinNumber of pages: 262Collection: Anthem Intercultural Transfer StudiesPublication date: 2022Dimensio...

Peacey unearths and reconstructs a strange early modern dispute over a small estate in Gloucestershire that was contested over a period of 160 year...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressNumber of pages: 304Collection: Edinburgh Studies in LawPublication date: 2020Dimensions: 165 x 239 x 29Cover ...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Judith HudsonNumber of pages: 256Collection: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance CulturePubli...

This new edition of Wiesner-Hanks's prize-winning survey has been thoroughly updated with significant changes designed to reflect the newest schola...

Jurisdictional accumulation reveals varieties of early modern extraterritorial practices and how consuls, ambassadors, merchants and lawyers drove ...

The Mishnaic Moment describes a remarkable encounter between Jews and Christians in seventeenth-century northern Europe, where scholars from both c...

Publisher: Modern Language Association of AmericaNumber of pages: 396Collection: Options for Teaching 25Publication date: 2010Cover type: HardbackE...

Explores the ambivalent legacy of indigenous peoples' natural rights articulated by Europeans in Spanish and English colonial contexts. It will app...

Probate Disputes and Remedies provides clear, practical and in-depth guidance to the law and procedure of contentious probate.

DescriptionThe Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature traces a genealogy of ecology in seventeenth-century literature and natural phi...

DescriptionThe "Ethiope, " the "tawny Tartar, " the "woman blackamoore, " and "knotty Africanisms"--allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance te...

This is the first broad study of large-scale violence and the methods of its restraint in the early modern world. Its case studies range from the e...

Through fifteen essays that draw on a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like m...

Reducere. This classic book explains the mental phenomena that comprise mentalism, which is a discipline which encompasses aspects of hypnosis, mental scienc...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Susan (University of Auckland, New Zealand) WatsonNumber of pages: 336Collection: Contemporary Studi...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Timothy PetersNumber of pages: 256Collection: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the...

This book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and culture. Ullyot argues that e...

Reducere. DescriptionOverview of the Virginia Judicial System, 1st Edition outlines Virginia's court system from historical and practical perspectives. Court...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work is comprised of several short essays addressing various aspects of Freemasonry written by the author since joining the Prince ...

Looking beyond the emergence of print, this collection of ground-breaking essays highlights the pivotal role of theology in the formation of the ea...

Reducere. Reveals the interaction of politics and religion in France during the crucial years of the long seventeenth century. The author begins with the War...

This first comprehensive account of Daniel Defoe's Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain explores the content, sources, form, and historical...

In the first edition of this groundbreaking book, Robert Kagan explained why America is much more adversarial--likely to rely on legal threats and ...

DescriptionThis anthology is a unique collection of rare women's writing written during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This collection in...

Reducere. Excerpt: In point of fact, that which, for convenience, I have chosen to designate as the subjective mind, appears to be a separate and distinct en...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Studies the work of the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974) to explore how modern British poetry has engaged with the early medieva...

The idea of the separation of powers, a bedrock of modern constitutionalism, has a deeper history. David Flatto uncovers striking antecedents in th...

Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, village...

This collection of essays opens a new perspective on the interplay of religious conflict and literary culture in early modern England. Focusing on ...

Giving translations of Iberian chivalric Romance a centrality they have never before received, this collection explores their impact on Elizabethan...

Examines Catholic engagement in the Holy Land, a place of immense spiritual significance for Christians, Muslims and Jews. It explores its spiritua...

How should you choose your dissertation topic? What is the best research method to adopt? What is going to make your dissertation achieve the best ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Drew DanielIllustration(s): 3 halftonesNumber of pages: 288Collection: Thinking Lite...

Reducere. First published in 1939, Clark's Positioning in Radiography is the preeminent text on positioning technique for diagnostic radiographers. Whilst re...

DescriptionThis agenda-setting volume on travel and drama in early modern England provides new insights into Renaissance stage practice, performanc...

Jurists of the nascent Maliki, Hanafi, and Shafi'i legal schools frequently compared marriage to purchase and divorce to manumission. This title pr...

Publisher: Mason Crest PublishersNumber of pages: 48Collection: Science and TechnologyPublication date: 2019Dimensions: 234 x 170 x 7Cover type: Ha...

Examines two anonymous manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Explores how scribes ...

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionAuthor(s): Jake RansohoffNumber of pages: 400Collection: ExtravagantesPublication date: 2022...

By the eighteenth century, personal networks bound together the widening British world. In The Opened Letter, Lindsay O'Neill argues that the Briti...

Lavishly illustrated and impressively interdisciplinary, Inventing Exoticism narrates a vital chapter in the history of European exoticism and Euro...

This interdisciplinary collection takes a deep dive into early modern Hispanic health and demonstrates the multiples ways medical practices and exp...

Reducere. The great eighteenth-century theorist of international law Emer de Vattel (1714-1767) was a key figure in sustaining the practical and theoretical ...

Electronic Signatures in Law - Stephen Mason

Reducere. Thomson Jay Hudson attempts to explain mental phenomena in a way which reconciles with the physical sciences; phenomena such as hypnotics, spiritua...

Conventional wisdom dates the origins of activist federal government to the New Deal. William J. Novak shows that the roots run deeper. Tracing the...

Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts explores the administration of justice during Islam's founding period, 632-1250 CE. Inspired by the ...