Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy. Texts and Contexts, Hardback - Julius Kirshner

This unique collection makes available, for the first time, translations of medieval Italian jurisprudence, including commentaries, tracts, and leg...

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This book focuses on the broad concept of 'controversy' and issues pertaining to the translation of politically and historically controversial text...

This anthology of Buddhist texts in translation provides a framework that will transform contemporary scholarship on Pure Land Buddhism and instiga...

Exploring a millennium-long story of law and religion in Italy through a series of 26 biographical chapters written by distinguished legal scholars...

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An investigation into texts specifically addressed to women sheds new light on female literary cultures.Illustrations: No

Reconsidering Boccaccio explores the exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range of the Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio, his dialog...

Reducere. In the Middle Ages, the region of Tuscany and its surrounding area was, for around 150 years, home to a surprising number of holy women, from the b...

This volume elucidates the craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes of scribes of late medieval English manuscripts to students...

Bringing together ancient and medieval history, Papal Jurisprudence, c. 385-c. 1234 explains why bishops sought judgments from the papacy long befo...

This book is conceived as a handbook for graduates interested in texts and their manuscript presentation, not solely in editing them. As such, it i...

Publisher: UCL PressAuthor(s): Sebastian CoxonIllustration(s): 17 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 234Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 2...

The shocking massacre of the Jews in York, 1190, is here re-examined in its historical context along with the circumstances and processes through w...

This study will appeal to students and scholars of literature, history, and culture who are interested in Rome's persistence in medieval and early ...

Adaptations of Greek tragedy are increasingly claiming our attention as a dynamic way of engaging with a dramatic genre that flourished in Greece s...

Drawing on a wealth of sources from different disciplines, the essays here provide a nuanced picture of how medieval and early modern societies vie...

This volume is a comprehensive review of current scientific knowledge about the world's largest and most famous living reptiles.

Explore a timely introduction to the formation of the Bible in its historical and modern contexts In the newly revised Second Edition of A Contempo...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 13 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 572Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 246 x 175 x 30Co...

Reducere. A Medieval Book of Magical Stones is the first translation of the longest and most comprehensive medieval English treatise on the occult powers of ...

DescriptionThis third edition of the best-selling title Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence has been completely revised and substantially enlarged....

This volume examines the lives of more than thirty-five key personalities in Latin American law with a focus on how their Christian faith was a fac...

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A review of the journalism experience of blacks in one US state, with examples from newspapers, newsletters, magazines and the broadcast media. Bor...

Publisher: The Islamic Texts SocietyAuthor(s): Muhammad b. Idris al-Shafi'iTranslator: Majid KhadduriNumber of pages: 392Publication date: 1987Dime...

Family was a central feature of social life in Italian cities. This wide-ranging volume explores patrimony in legal thought and how family property...

This invaluable collection explores the many faces of murder and its cultural presences across the Italian peninsula in the Renaissance. Dealing wi...

This book presents a critique of current English as a Business Lingua Franca (BELF) practices using research conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina. T...

Conjuring Spirits contains both general surveys and analyses of magical texts and manuscripts by distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines...

Presents a new interpretation of sacred objects found in pagan Viking graves as indicating their introduction by Christian missionaries and re-exam...

The links between Napoleon and Italy are too often reduced to its dazzling campaigns of 1796 and 1800. This love story, consisting of moments of ha...

This volume of Medieval European Coinage is the first comprehensive survey of the coinage of north Italy c.950-1500, bringing the latest research t...

In this exquisitely designed and photographed volume, Britain's favourite Italian chef brings forth the work of a lifetime: combining old Locatelli...

In this thought-provoking collection, Muslim and non-Muslim academics take a multi-disciplinary approach to humour in Islam. They draw on examples ...

In 1505, Michelangelo began planning the magnificent tomb for Pope Julius II, which would dominate the next forty years of his career. This definit...

Examines the often graphic depictions of violence which are characteristic of many genres of Latin literature, from Plautine comedy to the Christia...

Ethics has become a particularly relevant topic for discussion and a subject for serious study. It has a very long tradition, of course; but nowada...

This edited book expands the current scholarship on teaching world languages for social justice and equity in K-12 and postsecondary contexts in th...

In blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, diplomats and travellers, English nation and Italian nation, Maura O'Connor shows us the exten...

Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern En...

Publisher: Penguin AdultAuthor(s): Hannah KirshnerIllustration(s): 46 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimension...

This book presents a concise, critical, and engaging tour through a variety of key understandings of judgment within legal study and analysis.Publi...

This book is conceived as a handbook for graduates interested in texts and their manuscript presentation, not solely in editing them. As such, it i...

Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell offers fresh perspectives from leading and emerging scholars on seventeenth-century British literature, wit...

Political life in Renaissance Italy was held together by principles which underlay, or were used to justify, political proposals and decisions in p...

Through its examination of the religious paintings by Pontormo, this book offers a new way to understand the fraught relationship between artistic ...

Galvani and Volta underwent two revolutions. This text is concerned with the revolution in published communications and in its research, aims to sh...