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Book SynopsisEvery lawyer knows of Woolmington v. Director of Public Prosecutions, the ruling which established the ‘Golden thread of English law’ whereby the burden of proof lies with the prosecutor in a criminal trial. But who was Woolmington and how many people know that he escaped the death penalty at the eleventh hour, or that he was in fact twice tried for murder? ‘Lords give man back his life’ as the Western Gazette put it. In the civil law, how and why did a Mrs. Donoghue come to be drinking a bottle of ginger beer containing the remnants of a snail, an event which would determine that ‘the categories of negligence are never closed’? And how did the tranquil market town of Wednesbury become shorthand for ‘unreasonableness’? In Famous Cases: Nine Trials that Changed the Law the authors have painstakingly assembled the less well-known background to a selection of leading cases. From Mareva (synonymous with a type of injunction) to Lord Denning’s classic ruling in the High Trees House case (the turning point for equitable estoppel) to that of the former Chilean head of state General Pinochet (in which the House of Lords heard the facts a second time) the authors offer a refreshing perspective to whet the appetite of newcomers, students and seasoned practitioners alike. The book has an authoritative introduction describing ‘The Origins of the Common Law’ and is enhanced by key extracts from the law reports reproduced courtesy of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales and the Butterworths Division of Reed Elsevier (UK) Ltd — making it not just an absorbing read but an important work of reference for every legal library and collection.Trade Review'An excellent book'-- Justice of the Peace.Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction - 1: Origin And Growth Of The Common Law; Part II: Criminal Trials - 2: George Joseph Smith And The Brides In The Bath”; 3: Woolmington’s Case; 4: Gypsy Jim Smith; Part III: Civil Cases - 5: Donoghue v. Stevenson; 6: Lord Denning’s “High Trees” Case; 7: Rookes v. Barnard; 8: The Mareva Injunction; 9: Wednesbury Unreasonableness; Part IV: International Law - 10:The Trials Of Augusto Pinochet. Index.

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Book SynopsisHere is unfolded the fascinating history and development of the Tarot, from its fifteenth-century beginnings as a conjunct to playing cards, to the massive explosion of its popularity as a system of occult symbolism. Gareth Knight presents his analysis of the basic archetypal principle behind each card and gives practical examples of magical work with the Tarot images in pathworkings and rituals. Several different approaches are adopted which can be used to develop familiarity and skill with the Tarot system. Originally published in 1986 as The Treasure House of Images, and later re-issued in the USA as Tarot & Magic, this new, expanded edition includes six extra chapters, pulling together many of the new insights garnered over the 25 years since it was first published.

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Book SynopsisVade-mecums are guide books you carry with you. They have been around forever and are common in Europe for all sorts of things. The Latin term literally means "go with me". Here, Dr. Montgomery invites you to go with him as he explores the literature of food and develops a theology of gastronomy. Along with being a theologian and philosopher, an attorney, a barrister, a French advocate, a teacher, a husband and many other things, Dr. Montgomery is a lover of fine dining and formally embraces its craft with care. In the age of the microwave, where food is either fast or frozen and almost always pre-prepared, he wants to introduce us to the glories of fine dining, where we can take joy in all our Father has provided to us beyond the simple requirements of sustenance. With Dr. Montgomery as your guide, you will meet great chefs, and travel across time and space with food as the focus, enjoying the views, flavors and smells (and recipes!) Everything Dr. Montgomery explores takes place in light of faith in a God who is now one of us, who made all the senses, loves variety, knows hospitality, and will culminate all of history in the best of wedding feasts to which every good meal points and of which every great meal participates.

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Book SynopsisThis study is devoted to the work of two early British filmmakers, George Albert Smith and James Williamson, and the films that they made around 1900. Internationally, they are known collectively as the ‘Brighton School’ and are positioned as being at the forefront of Britain’s contribution to the birth of film. The book focuses on the years 1896 to 1903, as it was during this short period that film emerged as a new technology, a new enterprise and a new form of entertainment. Beginning with a historiography of the Brighton School, the study goes on to examine the arrival of the first 35mm films in Britain, the first film exhibitions in Brighton and the first projection of film in Brighton. Both Smith and Williamson’s work features a progression from the production of single shot unedited films to multi-shot edited films. Their subject matter was inspired by a knowledge of contemporary pantomime, humour, literature, theatre, mesmerism, the magic lantern and current affairs and their practices were underpinned by active involvement in the new film trade. Through the exploration of how these filmmakers cultivated a new way of understanding film and its commercial potential, this book establishes them as key figures in the development of British film culture. Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Investigating the Brighton School.- 3. Invention and Wonder: The Arrival of Film in Britain and Brighton, 1894-96.- 4. Wonders and Marvels - Smith’s Early Years.- 5. 1897: Smith Turns to Film.- 6. Smith’s Visions and Transformations: the Films of 1898.- 7. Smith’s Edited Films, 1899-1903.- 8. Williamson’s Kinematograph Films.- 9. Williamson’s Picture Stories.- 10. Transitions, Chains and Flows.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the representation of London’s nightlife in popular films and newspapers of the interwar period. Through a series of case-studies, it analyses how British popular media in the 1920s and 1930s displayed the capital after dark. It argues that newspapers and films were part of a common culture, which capitalized on the transgressive possibilities of the night. At the same time both media ensured that those in authority, such as the police, were always shown to ultimately be in control of the night. The first chapter of the book provides an overview of the British film and newspaper industries in the interwar period. Subsequent chapters each explore a specific aspect of London’s nightlife. In turn, these chapters consider how films and newspapers of the interwar period depicted women navigating the street at night; the Metropolitan Police’s involvement in nightlife; and the capital’s newly built and expanded suburbs and public transport network. Finally, the book considers how newspapers and films depicted themselves and one another. Trade Review“One of the most impressive aspects of Interwar London After Dark is its catalogue of interwar films. … This makes the book an important resource, as readers will learn about films they might not have heard about otherwise.” (Michael McCluskey, The London Journal, August 29, 2023)Table of Contents1. Introduction: ‘Dancing Goes On Until Dawn’.2. Interwar London: Nights, Newspapers, Films.3. Women On The Night-Time Streets.4. The Metropolitan Police in Interwar Film and Newspapers.5. Suburbs and Public Transport at Night.6. Mirror Image: Newspapers and Films Reflecting Each Other.7. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book—along with its companion volume Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction—centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an equally wide chronological and geographical scope, accounting for the years prior to her accession in July 1553 through the centuries that followed her death in November 1558 and for her reach across England, and into Ireland, Spain, Italy, Russia, and Africa. Its intent is to foreground words and language—written, spoken, and acted out—and, by extension, to draw out matters of and conversations about rhetoric, imagery, methodology, source base, genre, narrative, form, and more. Taken together, these two volumes find in England’s first crowned queen regnant an incomparable opportunity to ask new questions and seek new answers that deepen our understanding of queenship, the early modern era, and modern popular culture.Table of Contents1. Introduction: "In the worde of a prince” - Jessica S. Hower and Valerie Schutte .- 2. “By your loving mother”: Lessons in Queenship from Catherine of Aragon to her Daughter, Mary - Theresa Earenfight .- 3. Negotiating Queenship: Ritual Practice, Material Evidence, and Mary I’s Narrative of Authority - Michaela Baca .- 4. “More to be feared than fearful herself”: Contrasting Representations of Mary I in Sixteenth-Century Chronicles and First-Hand Accounts - Courtney Herber.- 5. “Marie our Maistresse”: The Queen at Her Accession - Valerie Schutte .- 6. What Mary Did First: Re-assessing the Biblical Analogies of England’s First Female King - Aidan Norrie .- 7. “Horrible and Bloudye” or “Most Serene and Potent”: Mary I and Empire - Jessica S. Hower.- 8. Mary’s Participation in the Ritual of the New Year’s Gift Exchange as Princess and Queen - Jane Lawson .- 9. Accounting Legitimacy in Purple & Gold: Mary Tudor, Household Accounts, and the English Succession - Elizabeth McMahon .- 10. – Happily Ever After?: Posthumous Representations of Mary I and Philip II’s Marriage - Johanna Strong .- 11. “She…yielding a mild and gracious spirit into the hands of her Maker”: Three Catholic Accounts of the Death of Mary I - Carolyn Colbert .- 12. Mary I During the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis: Memory and Catholic Remembrance - Eilish Gregory.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Lily-White Republican: John J. Parker makes a big political decision.- Chapter 2: 1920 And Beyond: A fateful gubernatorial election.- Chapter 3: On The Bench: Landing a coveted federal judgeship.- Chapter 4: Precedents: How prior confirmation battles set the stage for Parker.- Chapter 5: Beware of Yellow Dog: Organized labor mobilizes.- Chapter 6: Raising Hell: The NAACP makes its move.- Chapter 7: “An Incident”: The Senate decides Parker’s fate.- Chapter 8: From the Ashes: Parker’s life after rejection.

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Book SynopsisSport is everything, but never solely sport. The commodification of human pleasure in or about many sports led to an increased political interest and dimension with regard to the major leagues and their stars. Corruption and scandals increased, while the human being in sports was and still is very often exploited or mistreated. These problems often relate to the political dimension as well. Consequently, it seems very promising and necessary alike to take a closer look at the interrelation of sports and politics. The present volume addresses this interrelation from different angles, when talking about issues like racism, gender inequality, or classism.

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Book SynopsisFrom the historic launch of the organization by such luminaries as Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes, to the recent era when international law is more and more in the public realm, Kirgis’s book traces the evolution of the organization and its relationship to events in the United States and around the world. As he says in the preface: '...In the end, the reader will have to make his/her own judgment about how well the Society has run the course it set out for itself in 1906. I hope this book will provide a basis for that judgment. And of course no judgment at this stage can be final. The American Society of International Law will carry on into its second century with new and continuing programs that take into account what it has done in its first one hundred years. It will continue to do its best to demonstrate not only what international law is or should be, but also that, in the words of former ASIL President Louis Henkin, international law matters.'Trade Review'Long anticipated, Rick Kirgis’s history of the ASIL has proved well worth the wait. It is a meticulously researched tale made lively in the telling. It is far more than just an ‘in-house history,’ however. Even non-members of the Society will find it valuable as a window into shifting American conceptions of and attitudes toward international law.' Anne-Marie Slaughter, Chair of the Centennial Committee of the American Society of International Law, 2002-2004Table of ContentsForeword, List of Illustrations, Preface, Chapter One The Formative Years, Chapter Two Adapting to a New World, Chapter Three Looking Forward in the Twenties, Chapter Four The Years Leading to World War II, Chapter Five War Years Again, Chapter Six The Immediate Post-War Years, Chapter Seven The Society in the Fifties, Chapter Eight A New Beginning, Chapter Nine Building on the New Foundation in a Time of National Turmoil, Chapter Ten A Change of Emphasis, Chapter Eleven Persevering During Lean Years, Chapter Twelve An External Focus at the End of the Cold War, Chapter Thirteen Infrastructure for Expanded Outreach, Chapter Fourteen Approaching and Celebrating the Centennial, Appendix A, The Original Constitution of the American Society of International Law, Appendix B, Prospectus (1906), Appendix C, ASIL Presidents, Appendix D, Manley O. Hudson Medal Recipients, Appendix E, Certificate of Merit Recipients, Appendix F, Goler T. Butcher Medal Recipients, Appendix G, Honorary Members, Index.

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Book SynopsisIn Kids Those Days, Lahney Preston-Matto and Mary Valante have organized a collection of interdisciplinary research into childhood throughout the Middle Ages. Contributors to the volume investigate childhood from Greece to the “Celtic-Fringe,” looking at how children lived, suffered, thrived, or died young. Scholars from myriad disciplines, from art and archaeology to history and literature, offer essays on abandonment and abuse, fosterage and guardianship, criminal behavior and child-rearing, child bishops and sainthood, disabilities and miracles, and a wide variety of other subjects related to medieval children. The volume focuses especially on children in the realms of religion, law, and vulnerabilities. Contributors are Paul A. Broyles, Sarah Croix, Gavin Fort, Sophia Germanidou, Danielle Griego, Máire Johnson, Daniel T. Kline, Jenni Kuuliala, Lahney Preston-Matto, Melissa Raine, Eve Salisbury, Ruth Salter, Bridgette Slavin, and Mary A. Valante.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Out from a Shadow  Lahney Preston-Matto and Mary A. Valante part 1: Children in Medieval Religion 1 The Disrobing Child in the Entry into Jerusalem Scene: An Element of Realism or Symbolism in Byzantine Art?  Sophia Germanidou 2 Boy Becoming Man   Liturgical Inversion in the Boy Bishop Ceremony in Medieval England  Gavin Fort 3 Apocryphal Youth   The Childhood of the Irish Saint  Máire Johnson 4 Minors and the Miraculous   The Cure-Seeking Experiences of Children in Twelfth-Century English Hagiography  Ruth J. Salter 5 The Infirm Child between Parental Worry and Divine Powers  Jenni Kuuliala part 2: Children in Medieval Law and Justice 6 “I Would Like to Make It Up to You by Fostering Your Son”   Fosterage and Fixing Relations in Medieval Iceland  Lahney Preston-Matto 7 Childhood in the Common Law Courts of Medieval Ireland  Bridgette Slavin 8 Puerile Justice   The Voice of a Boy in Jack and His Stepdame  Melissa Elizabeth Raine 9 Foreign Guardianship and the Networked Child in Medieval English Romance  Paul Broyles part 3: Vulnerable Children 10 The Loss of Innocence   Childhood and Transition to Adulthood in the Mortuary Practices of the Early Viking Age  Sarah Croix 11 It Takes a Village   Community Responses to Child Death in High and Late Medieval England  Danielle Griego 12 Havelok’s Sisters   Vulnerability and the Child Body  Eve Salisbury 13 Patriarchy, Violence and Sacrifice in the Middle English Slaughter of the Innocents Plays  Daniel T. Kline 14 Abandoned, Overworked, Abused   The Dark Side of Childhoods in Early Medieval Ireland  Mary A. Valante Bibliography Suggested Additional Reading Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2018 Josef IJsewijn Prize for Best Book on a Neo-Latin Topic Although many humanists, from Petrarch to Fulvio Orsini, had written briefly about library history, the De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius was the first self-contained monograph on the topic. The De bibliothecis proved to be a seminal achievement, both in redefining the scope of library history and in articulating a vision of a public, secular, research institution for the humanities. It was repeatedly reprinted and translated, plagiarized and epitomized. Through the end of the nineteenth century, scholars turned to it as the ultimate foundation for any discussion of library history. In Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism, Hendrickson presents a critical edition of Lipsius’s work with introductory studies, a Latin text, English translation, and a substantial historical commentary.Trade Review“This is a supremely useful book.” - Earle Havens, Johns Hopkins University, in: Renaissance Quarterly, 72:1 (Spring 2019), pp. 253-255 “The translation is lively, faithful to Lipsius’s much discussed, and difficult to characterize, style.” - Kathleen M. Comerford, Georgia Southern University, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies, 5:4 (November 2018), pp. 699-701 “The most important and innovative part of this volume is the generous commentary, which not only provides the reader with abundant material on the ancient libraries discussed by Lipsius, but also on ancient and modern authors who have contributed to the subject.” - in: Neo-Latin News 2017, pp 139-141 “This edition, with a detailed introduction, translation on facing pages, and commentary, is very welcome. The notes are full and well informed. The standard of production is high and the book is well illustrated” - Nigel Wilson, Lincoln College, Oxford, in: Library & Information History, 33:3 (2017), pp. 220-221 “Hendrickson’s translation of De Bibliothecis is judicious and eloquent; his analysis of its sources, Lipsius’s writing style, and the context of its production are excellent. This books offers a perfect model for the reissuing of Renaissance texts and making them available to a wider audience.” - Arthur der Weduwen, University of St Andrews, in: Sixteenth Century Journal, 49:4 (Winter 2018), pp. 1168-1170 “Thomas Hendrickson’s critical and annotated edition of Lipsius’s De bibliothecis syntagma is a work of great erudition and shows the editor’s affinity with both classical and more recent Latin on the one hand, and his familiarity with the history of the book on the other.” - Jeanine De Landtsheer, Leuven University, in: Quaerendo, 49:1 (March 2019), pp. 79-82 “a handsome volume, which provides us with the text in Latin and an English translation of the Renaissance work on libraries of the scholar Justus Lipsius that should be of considerable interest to scholars working in earlier book cultures [...]. Overall, Hendrickson has provided a great service to scholars interested in (ancient) libraries. This is a work that may, and probably will, prompt further study of the ancient materials about book collections and also of the Renaissance context in which book collections were subsequently found. Hendrickson’s volume thus rightly deserves a place in the scholar’s library!” - Yun Lee Too, Cambridge University, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.10.25Table of ContentsIntroduction List of Images Abbreviations 1 The De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius 1.1 The significance of the De bibliothecis 1.2 The Need for a New Edition of Lipsius’s De bibliothecis 2 Lipsius Proteus: The Career of a Scholar in an Age of Strife 3 Library Historiography before Lipsius 3.1 Manuals and Legends: Library Historiography in the Ancient World 3.2 Isidore of Seville: Literary Materiality and Literary Tradition in the Monastic World 3.3 Library Historiography and the Humanists 3.3.1 Francesco Petrarch 3.3.2 Michael Neander 3.3.3 Fulvio Orsini and Melchior Guilandinus 3.3.4 Library Historiography and Religious Authority 3.4 Library Historiography and Vatican Frescoes: Rocca and Lipsius 4 The De bibliothecis: Title, Structure, and Purpose 4.1 A Note on the Title of the De bibliothecis 4.2 Structure and Purpose of the De bibliothecis Table 4.2: Chapter Outline of the De bibliothecis 5 Lipsius and his Sources 5.1 Ancient Sources Table 5.1: Ancient Sources 5.2 Contemporary Sources 6 Print History 6.1 Latin Editions of the De bibliothecis Table 6.1: List of Latin Editions of the De bibliothecis 6.2 Translations of the De bibliothecis Table 6.2: List of Translations of the De bibliothecis 7 Editorial Principles 7.1 The Text 7.2 Orthography 7.3 Accents and Punctuation in Lipsius’s Latin 8 A Note on the Commentary De bibliothecis: Text and Translation De bibliothecis: Commentary Works Cited by Author and Date Index List of Images Figure 1: Title Page of the (1602) First Edition of the DB (digitized by Google Books) Figure 2: Relationships between the DB editions Figure 3: Ozymandias Fresco from the Vatican Library (photo: author) Figure 4: The Serapeum in the Roman Period (McKenzie 2007, figure 350; courtesy of Judith McKenzie) Figure 5: Hadrian’s Library in Athens (Sisson 1929, plate 21) Figure 6: Rooms Traditionally Identified as Pergamene Royal Library (Bohn 1885, table 3) Figure 7: Octavia’s Portico (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plan_portique_octavie.png (last access 30.7.16)) Figure 8: The Library of Palatine Apollo in the Augustan Era (Iacopi and Tedone 2005/6, table 8; courtesy of the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma) Figure 9: Twin Halls of the Post-Domitianic Palatine Apollo Library (De Gregori 1937, figure 5) Figure 10: Inscription of Antiochus, a bibliotheca latina Apollinis, from Orsini’s Imagines (digitized by Google Books) Figure 11: Inscription of Julius Falyx, a bibliotheca graeca palat., from Orsini’s Imagines (digitized by Google Books) Figure 12: Map of Libraries in Ancient Rome (adapted from Wikimedia Commons) Figure 13: Temple of Peace (Meneghini and Valenzani 2007, figure 65; courtesy of Roberto Meneghini) Figure 14: Trajan’s Forum (Meneghini 2002, figure 151; courtesy of Roberto Meneghini) Figure 15: The Sanctuary of Hercules Victor at Tivoli (Giuliani 2004, table 14; courtesy of Cairoli Fulvio Giuliani) Figure 16: Pluteus from the Biblioteca Laurenziana (Clark 1901, figure 102)

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Book SynopsisThis treatise investigates the emergence of the early modern law of nations, focusing on Alberico Gentili’s contribution to the same. A religious refugee and Regius Professor at the University of Oxford, Alberico Gentili (1552–1608) lived in difficult times of religious wars and political persecution. He discussed issues that were topical in his lifetime and remain so today, including the clash of civilizations, the conduct of war, and the maintenance of peace. His idealism and political pragmatism constitute the principal reasons for the continued interest in his work. Gentili’s work is important for historical record, but also for better analysing and critically assessing the origins of international law and its current developments, as well as for elaborating its future trajectories.Table of ContentsForeword by David Sugarman F.R. Hist. S. Preface Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations Note on Terminology and Translations 1 The Varied Fortunes of Alberico Gentili  1.1Introduction  1.2Methodological Framework  1.3Chapter Plan  1.4The Fame and Fortunes of Alberico Gentili  1.5The State of the Art  1.6Key Challenges  1.7Conclusions 2 The Adventurous Life of Alberico Gentili  2.1Introduction  2.2The Early Years in San Ginesio  2.3Studying Law at the University of Perugia  2.4The Italian Reformation  2.5Gentili’s Religious Belief  2.6Fleeing to London  2.7The Oxonian Years  2.8Family Life  2.9Advocate at the Admiralty Court  2.10Conclusions 3 Gentili, International Law, and the Humanities  3.1Introduction  3.2The Sixteenth-Century Revolution in the Methodology of Law  3.3From Mos GallicusandMos Italicus towards theUsus Modernus  3.4Gentili’s Sources  3.5Gentili’s Method  3.6Gentili and the Humanities  3.7The Gentilian Sonnets  3.8Debating Theatre in Elizabethan England  3.9Dialectical Antinomies  3.10Conclusions 4 Gentili and the Law of Nations  4.1Introduction  4.2The Founder(s) of International Law  4.3The Notion of International Community  4.4The Notion ofIus Gentium  4.5Diplomatic Law  4.6The Settlement of International Disputes  4.7The Secularization of Legal Theory  4.8Final Remarks 5 Gentili and the Law of War  5.1Introduction  5.2De iure belli   5.2.1 Defining War   5.2.2 The Causes of War   5.2.3 Neutrality   5.2.4 TheIus in Bello233   5.2.5 TheIus Post Bellum239  5.3Freedom of Religion  5.4Preventive War  5.5The Balance of Power  5.6Critical Assessment  5.7Conclusions 6 Gentili and the Law of the Sea  6.1Introduction  6.2The Sea: Between Freedom and Sovereignty   6.2.1 The Freedom of the High Seas   6.2.2 The Territorial Sea   6.2.3 Impact  6.3The Freedom of Communication, Movement and Commerce   6.3.1 The Freedom of Communication   6.3.2 The Freedom of Movement   6.3.3 The Freedom of Commerce  6.4Piracy and Privateering  6.5Advocacy at the High Court of Admiralty  6.6Critical Assessment  6.7Conclusions 7 Gentili and the Injustice of Empire  7.1Introduction  7.2Cultural Diversity and the Law of Nations   7.2.1 The Challenge of Cultural Diversity   7.2.2 Slavery and Freedom   7.2.3 Gross Violations of Natural Law   7.2.4 Critical Assessment  7.3The (Il)legitimacy of European Expansion   7.3.1 Discovery   7.3.2 Occupation   7.3.3 Ius Praedicandi369   7.3.4 Freedom of Movement   7.3.5 Just War   7.3.6 Converging Divergences  7.4The Roman Model: Empire or Commonwealth?   7.4.1 The Wars of the Romans   7.4.2 Diverging Interpretations   7.4.3 International Law and Empire  7.5TheRegales Disputationes   7.5.1 The Emergence of Absolutism and the Royal Disputations   7.5.2 Conceptualizing Sovereignty   7.5.3 The Royal Prerogative   7.5.4 Taming the Leviathan?   7.5.5 Critical Assessment   7.5.6 Epilogue: Gentili and Hobbes  7.6Critical Assessment  7.7Conclusions 8 Alberico Gentili and Hugo Grotius  8.1Introduction  8.2Comparing Gentili and Grotius’ Respective Works  8.3Diverging Writing Styles  8.4On Method  8.5Converging Arguments?  8.6Critical Assessment  8.7Conclusions Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSince its invention by Andrea Alciato, the emblem is inextricably connected to the natural world. Alciato and his followers drew massively their inspiration from it. For their information about nature, the emblem authors were greatly indebted to ancient natural history, the medieval bestiaries, and the 15th- and 16th-century proto-emblematics, especially the imprese. The natural world became the main topic of, for instance, Camerarius’s botanical and zoological emblem books, and also of the ‘applied’ emblematics in drawings and decorative arts. Animal emblems are frequently quoted by naturalists (Gesner, Aldrovandi). This interdisciplinary volume aims to address these multiple connections between emblematics and Natural History in the broader perspective of their underlying ideologies – scientific, artistic, literary, political and/or religious. Contributors: Alison Saunders, Anne Rolet, Marisa Bass, Bernhard Schirg, Maren Biederbick, Sabine Kalff, Christian Peters, Frederik Knegtel, Agnes Kusler, Aline Smeesters, Astrid Zenker, Tobias Bulang, Sonja Schreiner, Paul Smith, and Karl Enenkel.Trade Review“Emblems and the Natural World is not simply a series of motif studies; instead, it offers the first major foray into what must become a vital subject of analysis for emblem scholars. […]. With its painstakingly researched essays and gorgeous and plentiful full-color illustrations, [it] will surely inspire new growth in the field of emblem studies and further research into the complex literary and artistic symbolism of the natural world.” Deanna Smid, Brandon University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 1 (spring 2019), pp. 281-283. “Emblems and the Natural World is a handsomely produced volume, laid out clearly, sturdy in the hand, and generously illustrated throughout, often in color, and with a crisp quality that throws up a pleasing degree of detail. […] this is a volume to be highly commended, full of interest, variety, depth of argument, and fresh insights into one of the defining territories of the early modern emblem: its dependence upon the rich abundance of the Liber naturae.” Simon McKeown, Marlborough College. In: Emblematica, Vol. 2 (2018), pp. 371-378.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations 1 Introduction: Emblems and the Natural World (ca. 1530–1700)  Karl Enenkel and Paul J. Smith Part 1: Emblemetic Zoology—Zoological Emblem Books 2 “Natural” or “Unnatural”? Representation of the Animal World in Early French Emblem Books  Alison Saunders 3 Camerarius’s Quadrupeds (1595): A Plinius Emblematicus as a Mirror of Princes  Karl Enenkel 4 Joachim Camerarius’s Emblem Book on Birds (1596), with an Excursus on America’s Great Seal  Paul J. Smith 5 Ichthyology and Emblematics in Conrad Gesner’s Historia piscium and Joachim Camerarius the Younger’s Symbola et Emblemata  Sophia Hendrikx 6 The Daphnic Fate of Camerarius. Sweden’s First Printed Emblem Book Revealed in Olof Rudbeck the Younger’s Botanical Dissertation (1686)  Bernhard Schirg 7 Tradition and Empirical Observation—Nature in Giovio’s and Symeoni’s Dialogo Dell’ Imprese from 1574  Maren C. Biederbick Part 2: Emblem Books on Physical Phenomena 8 Comets—Celestial Objects in the Emblem Tradition of the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century  Sabine Kalff 9 Atmospheric Pressure: Natural Philosophy, Political Didactics and the Exigencies of Praise in Franz Reinzer’s Meteorologia Philosophico-Politica (1698)  Christian Peters Part 3: The Applied Use of Natural Emblems, Especially in Monarchial and Courtly Contexts 10 Transcending the Natural World: A Developing Sublime in André Félibien’s Tapisseries du Roy  Frederik Knegtel 11 ‘Maiestatis Hungariae Aquila’: Christoph Lackner and the Hieroglyph of the Habsburg Eagle  Agnes Kusler 12 The Secretion of a Pearl as a Symbol for the Birth of a Prince  Aline Smeesters 13 The Taming of the Lion: Passions, Power and Religion in Achille Bocchi’s Symbolicae Quaestiones (Bologna, 1555)  Anne Rolet Part 4: The Hermeneutic and Didactic Use of the Natural World 14 The Sagacity of Owls and the Mimetic Obscurity of Emblems in Joris Hoefnagel’s Four Elements  Marisa Anne Bass 15 The Owl and the Birds: Speeches, Emblems, and Fountains  Astrid Zenkert 16 Hermeneutic Animals—Johann Fischart’s Use of Emblems in his German Translation of Rabelais  Tobias Bulang 17 Orbis pictus For Boys—Emblematics for Men: Some Remarks on Learning by Studying Pictures and Interpreting Riddles  Sonja Schreiner Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisThe willingness to betray one’s country, one’s people, one’s family—to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another—is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have grappled with treason for centuries; the motivations, implications, and consequences are rarely clear cut and are often subjective. Set against the framework of modern political concerns, Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame considers the various forms of treachery in a variety of sources, including literature, historical chronicles, and material culture creating a complex portrait of the development of this high crime. Larissa Tracy artfully brings together younger critics as well as seasoned scholars in a compelling and topical conversation on treason. Contributors are Frank Battaglia, Dianne Berg, Tina Marie Boyer, Albrecht Classen, Sam Claussen, Freddy C. Domínguez, Melissa Ridley Elmes, Ana Grinberg, Iain A. MacInnes, Inna Matyushina, Sally Shockro, Susan Small, Peter Sposato, Sarah J. Sprouse, Daniel Thomas, and Larissa Tracy.Trade Review'Tracy’s volume offers a great deal to those interested in the workings of treason (and loyalty) in the medieval and early modern periods, not least for anyone interested in German and French literature and history, as well as in religious forms. I have left discussion of other fine chapters out due to constraints of space, but let those mentioned here recommend the others, as well. Tracy is right that an understanding of the history of treason is useful to thinking about the uses and abuses of accusations of treason today. The chapters assembled in this collection testify to the enduring struggle with how treason was defined, punished, used in the interest of the state, and sometimes deployed as a legitimate form of rebellion against the tyrant.' Cristina León Alfar, in Journal of British Studies 59.4, October 2020.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Shameful Business of Betrayal and Treason  Larissa Tracy Part 1: The Politics of Treason  1 Wiglaf’s Sword: The Coming of the State  Frank Battaglia  2 In Sickness and in Health: the Boethian Narrative of the Two Geralds of Brecon  Sarah J. Sprouse  3 Treasonous and Dishonorable Conduct: the Private Dimension of Treason and Chivalric Reform in Late Medieval Florence  Peter Sposato  4 Royal Punishment and Reconciliation in Trastámara Castile  Samuel A. Claussen  5 “A somewhat too cruel vengeance was taken for the blood of the slain”: Royal Punishment of Rebels, Traitors, and Political Enemies in Medieval Scotland, c. 1100–c. 1250  Iain A. MacInnes Part 2: Religious Treason and Heresy  6 Revolt in Heaven: Lucifer’s Treason in Genesis B  Daniel Thomas  7 Blessed Betrayal: The Opportunity of Treachery in Anglo-Latin Ecclesiastical Texts  Sally Shockro  8 Legal Ramifications of Ordeals and Treason in Morant und Galie  Tina Boyer  9 Religious Identity, Loyalty, and Treason in the Cycle du Roi  Ana Grinberg  10 Traitors Respond: English Catholic Polemical Strategies against Accusations of Treason at the End of the Sixteenth Century  Freddy C. Domínguez Part 3: Treasonous Love: Adultery and Shame  11 Treason and Deception in Late Medieval German Romances and Novels Königin Sibille, Melusine, and Malagis  Albrecht Classen  12 Treacherous Women at King Arthur’s Court: Punishment and Shame  Inna Matyushina  13 Treason and the Feast in Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur  Melissa Ridley Elmes  14 ‘Tis Fearful Sleeping in a Serpent’s Bed’: Arden of Favershamand the Threat of the Petty Traitor  Dianne Berg  15 The Spatial Configuration of Shame in La Princesse de Clèves  Susan Small Conclusion: the Shame Game, from Guinevere to Cersei: Adultery, Treason, and Betrayal  Larissa Tracy Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1870, a prominent samurai from Tōhoku sells his castle to become an agrarian colonist in Hokkaidō. Decades later, a man also from northeast Japan stows away on a boat to Canada and establishes a salmon roe business. By 1930, an investigative journalist travels to Brazil and writes a book that wins the first-ever Akutagawa Prize. In the 1940s, residents from the same area proclaim that they should lead Imperial Japan in colonizing all of Asia. Across decades and oceans, these fractured narratives seem disparate, but show how mobility is central to the history of Japan’s Tōhoku region, a place often stereotyped as a site of rural stasis and traditional immobility, thereby collapsing boundaries between local, national, and global studies of Japan. This book examines how multiple mobilities converge in Japan’s supposed hinterland. Drawing on research from three continents, this monograph demonstrates that Tohoku’s regional identity is inextricably intertwined with Pacific migrations.Table of ContentsPreface: Reading Harry Potter in Japan Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction Region Matters 1 Looking North Assessing the Boundaries of the Meiji State  1 Before Tōhoku: Placing Ōu Cartographically and Politically  2 Becoming a Borderland-in-Transition and Catalyzing Frontier-to-Frontier Migration  3 Dismantling Ken, Dismembering Maps, and Defining Tōhoku  4 Settling Hokkaidō through Patronage: Tōhoku Families Move North  5 Repositioning Power through Co-dependence: Date Kunishige in Iburi  6 Identifying a Pattern: Regionalism as Cornerstone of Private Settlement  7 Mobilized Regionalism and Reframing the Soldier-Settler Villages  8 Tondenhei in the Imperial Army: Confounding Loyalties and Readjudicating the Modern  9 Pragmatism and the Hokkaidō Modern: Blurring Class and Rising Regionalism  10 Conclusion 2 Exporting Regionalism Tōhoku-Japanese Immigrant Culture  1 To Be ‘Japanese’ Abroad: The Hegemonic Culture of Japan’s Southwestern Issei  2 Emigrants as Embodiments of National Prestige  3 Imagining ‘Japan,’ Discovering the ‘Japanese’  4 To Be from Both Japan and ‘Tōhoku,’ Regionalism from the Outside  5 To Be Both Emigrant and Immigrant: The Institutionalization of Difference within Unity  6 Tōhoku-Based Kenjinkai in Southern California: Sharing Wealth and Building Community  7 Sojourners and Settlers: Building Bridges between Japan and Canada through Kenjinkai  8 Conclusion 3 Normalizing the Exceptional History, Myth, and Memory in Immigrant Ethnicity  1 Narrating the Exceptional: History and Mythmaking  2 Gannen-Mono and Boshin War Refugees: Revisiting Wakamatsu Colony  3 Martyred Memories: The Ghost of Okei and the Nobility in Failure  4 The Roots of Migrant Lineages: ‘Fathers of Migration’ Narratives  5 Katsunuma Tomizō, Progenitor of a Migrant Network  6 Oikawa Jinzaburō, Patriarch of a Trans-Pacific Village  7 The Afterlives of Oikawa and the Suian Maru Story  8 Remembering to Forget: The Filipino-Japanese Community  9 Conclusion: Memorialization and Mobilization 4 Writing Domestic Regionalism Seeking ‘Authentic’ Tōhoku in Interwar Japan  1 Rooting Modernity in Tradition: Seeking Authenticity to Combat Modern Alienation  2 “Where Are You From?”: Linking People to the Land to Combat Alienation  3 Tōhoku and Tōno Monogatari: A Heterochronic Region Outside of Time  4 Tōhoku in the In-betweens: Region in International Waters and at Emigration Centers  5 The Postwar Satire of Inoue Hisashi: A Tōhoku Native Revisits Tōno Monogatari  6 Conclusion 5 “Leading Tōhoku Asia” Regional Identity within Imperial Japan  1 Love of Hometown as Love of Nation: Placing Empire through the Periodical Furusato  2 Patriotic Emigration to Greater Japan: An Extreme Makeover of the Countryside  3 Historicizing Manchurian Emigration: Hokkaidō and ‘Father of Migration’ Narratives  4 Divided Villages: Manufacturing Bridges to Greater East Asia  5 Tōhoku at War: Patriotic Expansionism as Regionalist Discourse  6 Conclusion: Coupling Patriotic Nationalism to a Mobile Tōhoku Identity Epilogue Tōhoku-damashī: Viewing Regionalism after the Triple Disaster of 11 March 2011 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first English translation of one of the most important treatises written during the late-Middle Ages in defense of converts from Judaism, favoring religious tolerance in the face of religious and racially motivated prejudice and violence. The book also includes a fresh Latin edition, drawing on all known manuscripts. The text was written in response to the actions of the "Old Christians" of Toledo against the "New Christians," also called conversos, in 1449. A letter of Pope Nicholas V favouring the converts is included.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Juan de Torquemada’s Defense of the Conversos  1 The Revolt in Toledo, 1449  2 The Manuscripts, Editions and Translation  3 Conspectus siglorum Tract against the Midianites and Ishmaelites, Foes and Detractors of the Faithful Who Originated from the Israelite People  [Prologue]  1 In Which It Is Shown from a Description of the Quality of the Aforesaid Trial That It Is of No Force or Moment  2 In Which the Things Cited against Christ’s Faithful Descended from the Israelite People Are Proved to Be Erroneous  3 In Which It Is Shown That the Second Foundation Cited by the Foe in Favor of Their Impiety against Those Newly Converted to Christ’s Faith Descended from the Israelite Nation Is Erroneous and Blasphemous  4 In Which the Aforesaid Error Is Refuted in a Second Way, with Reasons  5 In Which the Aforesaid Error Is Reproved from the Divine Promises Made to the Israelite People  6 In Which the Aforesaid Error Is Reproved from the Deeds Done by Christ among the Jewish People  7 In Which One Authority Cited in Favor and Proof of Their Aforesaid Errors Is Answered  8 In Which the Second Authority Cited on the Part of the Foe Is Answered  9 In Which the Third Authority Cited for the Adverse Part Is Answered  10 In Which the Fourth Authority Cited for the Adverse Part Is Answered  11 In Which the Fifth Passage Cited by the Often-Mentioned Midianites and Ishmaelites in Favor and Support of Their Sacrilegious Presumption Is Answered  12 In Which the Principal Conclusion of the Foe Is Shown from the above to Be False and Erroneous  13 That the Unbelief of Those from Whom They Descend Must Not Be Imputed to Those Converted to Christ’s Faith from the People of the Jews  14 In Which Reasons Are Assigned Why Converts to Christ’s Faith, and Especially Those from the Israelite People, Are Not to Be Despised by the Other Faithful, but Rather Loved and Honored  15 In Which the Error and Malice of Those Who Presume to Posit a Difference between Those Converted from the Israelite People and Other Christians Is Confuted  16 In Which Those Things Which the Aforesaid Adversaries Cite in Favor of Their Rashness Are Answered Appendix: Pope Nicholas V: Humani generis inimicus (Fabriano, 24 September 1449) Bibliography Index of Scripture References Index of Classical and Medieval Authors Index of Scholars Cited

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Book Synopsis“Constitution” is a rich term in Western political culture, encompassing political and juridical doctrine as well as government practices through the ages. This volume examines “constitutional moments” in history, those occasions or episodes when significant steps were taken in the definition or redefinition of polities. Their actors were writers or politicians, rulers or ruled, who found inspiration in a distant past or instead looked towards a future to be drawn anew. This book sheds light on such moments from Ancient Greece to the present day, mostly in Europe but also in the Ottoman world and the Americas, thereby uncovering a revealing variety of constitutional thinking and action throughout history. Contributors are: Jon Arrieta, Niall Bond, Luc Brisson, Peter Cholakov, Nora Chonowski, Angela De Benedictis, F. Sinem Eryilmaz, Hakon Evju, Pablo Fernández Albaladejo, Javier Fernández Sebastián, Merieke Gebhardt, Xavier Gil, Mark J. Hill, Ferenc Hörcher, Jaska Kainulainen, Thomas Lorman, Adriana Luna-Fabritius, Ere Nokkala, Brian Kjaer Olesen, András Pap, Nikola Regent, Alberto Mariano Rodríguez Martínez, Pablo Sánchez León, José Reis Santos, and Ersin Yildiz.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction   Xavier Gil Part 1 Ancient and Medieval Times 1 The Critic of the Family (oikos) at the Foundations of Plato’s Political Doctrine Myth and Reality   Luc Brisson 2 The Influence of Roman Law on Medieval Bulgarian Legislation Sources and Developments of the Main Constitutional Issues   Petar Cholakov Part 2 Renaissance and Early Modern Era Section 1 Myths and Politics 3 Biscay in the Spanish Monarchy Myth, History, and Law in the Making of Its Constitutional Regime (14th to 17th Centuries)   Jon Arrieta 4 The Myth of Sobrarbe between Old Europe and the New World A Reassessment   Angela De Benedictis 5 Law, Wisdom, and Politics in Making Süleyman “The Lawgiver”   Fatma Sinem Eryılmaz Section 2 Governance and Change 6 After Revolts Moments for Constitutional Refashioning in Early Modern Europe   Xavier Gil 7 Accommodatio in the Jesuit Constitutions   Jaska Kainulainen 8 The Monarchical Moment Constitutionalism, Lutheran Political Thought, and the Rise of Danish Absolutism   Brian Kjær Olesen 9 A Model Republican Constitution? Guicciardini vs. Machiavelli on the Roman Example   Nikola Regent 10 The Union of Utrecht An Unfinished Constitutional Definition between Federalism and Particularism in the Low Countries (1579–1621)   Alberto Mariano Rodríguez Martínez Part 3 The Enlightenment 11 Ancient Constitutionalism in the Age of Enlightenment The Case of Denmark-Norway   Håkon Evju 12 Rousseau and Poland Pragmatic Rebirth Rather than Idealistic Reforms?   Mark J. Hill 13 The Lawgiver in Eighteenth-Century Neapolitan Political Thought Charting Mediterranean Liberalism   Adriana Luna-Fabritius 14 From Masterpiece of Modern Legislation to an Aristocratic Oligarchy Contemporary European Appraisals of the Swedish Constitution of the Age of Liberty (1719–1772)   Ere Nokkala Part 4 The Nineteenth Century 15 “Dark Spots of Our History” Martínez Marina and Foundational Myths in Eighteenth-Century Spain   Pablo Fernández Albaladejo 16 The Metamorphoses of a Historical Constitution Longue durée Developments in Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Constitutional and Political Thought   Ferenc Hörcher and Thomas Lorman 17 Constitutional Imagination and “Catholic” Political Anthropology The Grammar of the Mixed Constitution in the Mid-19th Century Crisis of Spanish Liberalism   Pablo Sánchez León Part 5 The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 18 The Weimar Constitutional Moment Constitutionalism, Theoretical Debate and Political Conflict   Ersin Yildiz 19 The Portuguese Estado Novo Constitutional Process as a Model for Transitioning to Authoritarianism in the Europe of the New Order   José Reis Santos 20 The Framing of a Liberal Democratic Constitution in Post-War Western Germany   Niall Bond 21 From 1989 to 2010 Founding Myths and Moments of the Liberal and the Illiberal Constitutional Revolutions in Hungary   Nóra Chronowski and András L. Pap Part 6 Theoretical Issues 22 An Unbroken Continuity? Constitutional Crises and Historical Imagination   Javier Fernández-Sebastián 23 The Dirty Secret of New Beginnings Founding a Democracy between Nothing and Narration   Mareike Gebhardt Index

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Book SynopsisHow does the spectre appear in Icelandic literature and visual art created in the aftermath of the economic crash in Iceland in 2008? Why does it emerge at that specific point in time and what can it tell us about repressed collective memories in Iceland? The book explores how the crash becomes an implicit background setting in novels that address the silences and gaps of the family archive, and how crime fiction employs generic features of horror to explicitly tackle the ghosts residing in the lost homes of the financial crash. Spectral space is an apparent theme of cultural memories produced in times of crisis, and the book explores how this is made apparent in visual art of the period.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Introduction  1 Spectral Memory: What and Why?  2 What is Cultural Memory?  3 Spectral Memory as a Dynamic and Transformative Encounter Between Past and Present  4 Outline of Chapters Part 1:Spectral Memories of the Financial Crisis 1 The Spectral Spaces of the Economic Crisis: Visual Art  1 The Crash: A Collective Shock  2 The Crash: Crisis of Memory and Identity  3 Aesthetic Response to the Crash: The Spectral-Uncanny  4 Roles: Photorealist Drawings of the Unhomely Space  5 Roles: The House and the Human Subject  6 Waiting: Crash-Photographs of Emptiness and Melancholia in the Urban Space  7 Waiting: Contemporary Urban Space and Memory  8 Waiting: Capitalist Ruins  9 Spectral Mourning in the Urban Space: Conclusion 2 Ghosts and Specters of Crash Fiction: Literature  1 I Remember You: A Crash-Horror in the Time of Economic Crisis  2 I Remember You: Two Stories of Hauntings in the Wake of the Crash  3 I Remember You: The Haunted House  4 Reactions and Agency: Why Does the Ghost Return?  5 Hauntings in Ísafjörður: Three Different Types of Spectral Presence  6 Hauntings in Ísafjörður: Spectral Mourning as Haunting  7 Significance of the Haunting for the Narrative and Broader Context  8 Hvítfeld: Uncanny Family Novel  9 Hvítfeld and the Crash: The Falseness and Collapse of the Ideal  10 Hvítfeld: Unhomely Family Life and Melancholic Characters  11 Hvítfeld: Melancholic Mourning  12 Hvítfeld and the Spectral Space: The Unhomely Home  13 Literary Ghosts and Spectral Memories of the Financial Crisis:Conclusion Part 2: Spectral Memories From the Post-Crash Archive 3 Spectral Memories From the Institutional Archive: Visual Art  1 The Archive as Storage for Spectral Memories  2 Modernisation of the Archive: Colonialism and Photography  3 Musée Islandique and Das Experiment Island by Ólöf Nordal  4 Musée Islandique  5 The Colonial Archive and Historical Context  6 Das Experiment Island  7 The Uncanny Associations of the Archive  8 What Kind of Memories?  9 Traces by Unnar Örn Auðarson  10 Fragments From the Deeds of Unrest: Part II  11 The Photograph as an Archival Record  12 Photograph as Spectre  13 Fragments From the Deeds of Unrest: The Photograph and National Imagery  14 Fragments: Murmur of a Nation  15 Spectral Memories of the Institutional Archive: Conclusion 4 Spectral Memories From the Family Archive: Literature  1 The Family Archive in Fórnarleikar: The Spectral State of Postmemories  2 Postmemory and the Family Trauma  3 Postmemory and the Family Archive  4 Family Pictures: Archived Photographs  5 Fórnarleikar: The Impossibility of Writing a Life Story  6 Spectral Memories of the Childhood Archive in Elín, Ýmislegt  7 “Enigmatic Time-Capsules” and Archive Fiction  8 Archived Material: Spectral Memories  9 Elín, Ýmislegt: A Novel on Forgetting?  10 Spectral Memories From the Family Archive: Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWomen in Heroines of History are portrayed as courageous and influential figures who defied societal norms. From princesses turned heroines to activists and spies, these women reshaped their worlds through their bravery and resilience, leaving a lasting impact on history.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1 New Forms and New Context of People-centered Urbanization.- Chapter 2 People-centered Urbanization and Farmers' Actions and Choices.- Chapter 3 The Citizenization of Rural-dwelling Farmers.- Chapter 4 People-centered Urbanization and the Issues Related to Farmers, Agriculture and rural areas.- Chapter 5 People-centered Urbanization and Rural Social Governance.- Chapter 6 People-centered Urbanization and Poverty Alleviation through Urbanization.- Chapter 7 People-centered Urbanization and the Construction of Publicness.- Chapter 8 Institutional Improvements for People-centered Urbanization.

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Book SynopsisFounded in 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was the nation's first animal welfare organization.

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Book SynopsisThis is volume 1 in the set A History of British Socialism. These volumes study the political thought experienced as a result of the massive transition of the British countryside to capitalist agriculture and capitalist industry.

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Book SynopsisMost people born before 1950 can remember visiting or working in shops that had cash carriers - cash balls that ran on wooden rails, wire systems where the carrier was catapulted along an overhead steel wire, or pneumatic tube systems where the carrier was whisked off to the cash office. This title reveals details about these devices.

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Book SynopsisThese three volumes comprise a new history of Scotland's first parliament from the first surviving official records in the thirteenth century to its final dissolution in 1707.Trade ReviewThese essays greatly broaden our understanding of the political and institutional dynamics of the Scottish Parliament. -- Paul Seaward, History of Parliament Trust, London Parliaments, Estates and Representation The most detailed, authoritative and wide-ranging treatment of the Scottish parliament so far published. The organisation of the three volumes is ingenious and highly effective. The first two are arranged chronologically and contain analytical studies of particular parliaments, whereas the third is organised thematically, with articles on various aspects of the parliament's role and functions throughout its history. This combination of analytical and thematic approaches produces a rich variety of perspectives that are both illuminating and informative... Together, they bring our understanding of Scottish parliamentary history to an entirely new level of sophistication, and the editors and contributors are to be warmly congratulated on their achievement. -- David L Smith, Selwyn College, Cambridge Scottish Historical Review These essays greatly broaden our understanding of the political and institutional dynamics of the Scottish Parliament. The most detailed, authoritative and wide-ranging treatment of the Scottish parliament so far published. The organisation of the three volumes is ingenious and highly effective. The first two are arranged chronologically and contain analytical studies of particular parliaments, whereas the third is organised thematically, with articles on various aspects of the parliament's role and functions throughout its history. This combination of analytical and thematic approaches produces a rich variety of perspectives that are both illuminating and informative... Together, they bring our understanding of Scottish parliamentary history to an entirely new level of sophistication, and the editors and contributors are to be warmly congratulated on their achievement.Table of ContentsContents:; Introduction: Parliament and Politics in Scotland, 1567-1707; Keith M. Brown and Alastair J. Mann; 1. The Parliament of 1592: a crisis averted?; Alan R. MacDonald; 2. Constitutional conflict after the Union of the Crowns:; contention and continuity in the parliaments of 1612 and 1621; Vaughan Wells; 3. Charles I and the 1633 Parliament; John R. Young; 4. The Rise and Fall of the Covenanter Parliaments, 1639 to 1651; John J. Scally; 5. Arise King John: Commissioner Lauderdale and Parliament in the Restoration Era; Gillian H. MacIntosh; 6. 'James VII, King of the Articles': political management and parliamentary failure; Alastair J. Mann; 7. Unconventional Procedure: Scottish Electoral Politics after the Revolution; Derek J. Patrick; 8. Party-Politics and Parliament: Scotland's last election and its aftermath, 1702-3; Keith M. Brown.

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