Author: Daniel A. BinchyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Corpus Iuris Hibernici Ad Fidem Codicum Manuscriptorum Recognovit D.A. Binchy
Author: Daniel A. BinchyCorpus iuris Hibernici
Author: Corpus iuris Hibernici
Author: Corpus iuris Hibernici
Author: Corpus iuris Hibernici : ad fidem codicum manuscriptorum. 6
Author: Daniel A. BinchyCorpus Iuris Hibernici
Author: Daniel Anthony BinchyCorpus iuris Hibernici : ad fidem codicum manuscriptorum. 5
Author: Daniel A. BinchyCorpus iuris Hibernici : ad fidem codicum manuscriptorum. 4
Author: Daniel Anthony BinchyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The Rule of Laws
Author: Fernanda PiriePublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541617959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
From ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order. But laws were not simply instruments of power and social control. They also offered ordinary people a way to express their diverse visions for a better world. In The Rule of Laws, Oxford scholar Fernanda Pirie traces the rise and fall of the sophisticated legal systems underpinning ancient empires and religious traditions, while also showing how common people—tribal assemblies, merchants, farmers—called on laws to define their communities, regulate trade, and build civilizations. Although legal principles originating in Western Europe now seem to dominate the globe, the variety of the world’s laws has long been almost as great as the variety of its societies. What truly unites human beings, Pirie argues, is our very faith that laws can produce justice, combat oppression, and create order from chaos.
Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Author: Albrecht ClassenPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110245485
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Despite popular opinions of the ‘dark Middle Ages’ and a ‘gloomy early modern age,’ many people laughed, smiled, giggled, chuckled, entertained and ridiculed each other. This volume demonstrates how important laughter had been at times and how diverse the situations proved to be in which people laughed, and this from late antiquity to the eighteenth century. The contributions examine a wide gamut of significant cases of laughter in literary texts, historical documents, and art works where laughter determined the relationship among people. In fact, laughter emerges as a kaleidoscopic phenomenon reflecting divine joy, bitter hatred and contempt, satirical perspectives and parodic intentions. In some examples protagonists laughed out of sheer happiness and delight, in others because they felt anxiety and insecurity. It is much more difficult to detect premodern sculptures of laughing figures, but they also existed. Laughter reflected a variety of concerns, interests, and intentions, and the collective approach in this volume to laughter in the past opens many new windows to the history of mentality, social and religious conditions, gender relationships, and power structures.