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Author: David Sandler Berkowitz
Publisher: Associated University Presses
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780918016911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lively account of the early life and times of John Selden, man of letters, jurist, historian, linguist, and parliamentarian. The discussion encompasses all of his writings, the tensions between parliament and the crown, and the Petition of Right and Selden's precedent cases.
Author: John Witte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-10-12
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 1108415342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive analysis of Christian influences on Western family law from the first century to the present day.
Author: Kevin Killeen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 135195542X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKevin Killeen addresses one of the most enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits provide an unparalleled insight into how early modern scholarly culture understood the relations between its disciplines. Browne's work encompasses biblical commentary, historiography, natural history, classical philology, artistic propriety and an encyclopaedic coverage of natural philosophy. This book traces the intellectual climate in which such disparate interests could cohere, locating Browne within the cultural and political matrices of his time. While Browne is most frequently remembered for the magnificence of his prose and his temperamental poise, qualities that knit well with the picture of a detached, apolitical figure, this work argues that Browne's significance emerges most fully in the context of contemporary battles over interpretative authority, within the intricately linked fields of biblical exegesis, scientific thought, and politics. Killeen's work centres on a reassessment of the scope and importance of Browne's most elaborate text, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, his vast encyclopaedia of error with its mazy series of investigations and through this explores the multivalent nature of early-modern enquiry.
Author: Ann Blair
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-06-27
Total Pages: 1172
ISBN-13: 9004263314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this tribute to Anthony Grafton, a preeminent historian of early modern European intellectual and textual culture and of classical scholarship, fifty-eight contributors present new research across the many areas in which Grafton has been active. The articles span topics from late antiquity to the 20th century, from Europe to North American, and a full spectrum of fields of learning, including art history, the history of science, classics, Jewish and oriental studies, church history and theology, English and German literature, political, social, and book history. Major themes include the communities and dynamics of the Republic of Letters, the reception of classical texts, libraries and book culture, the tools, genres and methods of learning. Contributors are: James S. Amelang, Ann Blair, Christopher S. Celenza, Stuart Clark, Thomas Dandelet, Lorraine Daston, Mordechai Feingold, Paula Findlen, Anja-Silvia Goeing, Robert Goulding, Alastair Hamilton, James Hankins, Nicholas Hardy, Kristine Louise Haugen, Bruce Janacek, Lisa Jardine, Henk Jan de Jonge, Diane Greco Josefowicz, Roland Kany, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Arthur Kiron, Jill Kraye, Urs B. Leu, Scott Mandelbrote, Suzanne Marchand, Margaret Meserve, Paul Michel, Peter N. Miller, Glenn W. Most, Martin Mulsow, Paul Nelles, William R. Newman, C. Philipp E. Nothaft, Laurie Nussdorfer, Jürgen Oelkers, Brian W. Ogilvie, Nicholas Popper, Virginia Reinburg, Daniel Rosenberg, Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Ingrid D. Rowland, David Ruderman, Hester Schadee, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, Richard Serjeantson, Salvatore Settis, Jonathan Sheehan, William H. Sherman, Nancy Siraisi, Jacob Soll, Peter Stallybrass, Daniel Stolzenberg, N.M. Swerdlow, Dirk van Miert, Kasper van Ommen, Arnoud Visser, Joanna Weinberg and Helmut Zedelmaier.
Author: R.T. Bienvenu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-11
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9401137641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe broad canvas covered by the articles in the present volume celebrates the diversity and richness of the writings of Frank Manuel during a scholarly career that spans over five decades. The subjects of the articles - ranging from science to utopia, from theology to political thought - mirror many of the themes Manuel has written about with erudition, flair and uncommon perception. It is only fitting that in paying tribute to such a defiant intellect each author brings to his treatment a distinct perspective and texture, the result of his own original forays into the history of ideas. Yet underlying all the essays is the conviction that the study of the intersection of individuals and ideas still yields a rich harvest. Presented to Frank on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, In the Presence o/the Past honors a teacher, a friend and, above all, a scholar. R. T. Bienvenu and M. Feingold (eds). ln the presence of the past. vii. MARTIN PERETZ Frank Manuel: An Appreciation It was finally because of Frank Edward Manuel that I decided (however belatedly) to forgo a proper academic career. Since I had not left so much as a leafscar on the tree of the scholarly culture this is not a fact which anyone else would have reason to notice. It is also not, I am happy to add, something for which Manuel will be especially remembered.
Author: Reid Barbour
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780802087768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Selden: Measures of the Holy Commonwealth in Seventeenth-Century England is the first text in over a century to examine the whole of Selden's works and thought. Reid Barbour brings a new perspective to Selden studies by stressing Selden's strong commitment to a 'religious society,' by taking a closer and more sustained look at his poetic interests, and by systematically examining his Latin publications (particularly those using Jewish sources). Offering critical close readings of Selden's oeuvre, Barbour posits that the overriding aim of Selden's career was to bolster religious society in the face of its imminent demise. He argues that Selden's scholarly career was committed to resolving an essentially religious question about how best to establish the holy commonwealth in both lawfulness and spiritual abundance. Perhaps the greatest strength of Barbour's analysis emerges from his overall interpretation of Selden's corpus within the context of what the author calls a "religious society"; this approach emphasizes the religious commitments of Selden and subverts earlier readings of him as a cynical, skeptical, secular thinker who attacked, rather than upheld, a Judeo-Christian model of society. Engaging in style and substantive in analysis, Barbour's John Selden will add considerably to the limited body of work on this important seventeenth-century savant.
Author: Harold Joseph Berman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780674020863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarold Berman's masterwork narrates the interaction of evolution and revolution in the development of Western law. This new volume explores two successive transformations of the Western legal tradition under the impact of the sixteenth-century German Reformation and the seventeenth-century English Revolution, with particular emphasis on Lutheran and Calvinist influences. Berman examines the far-reaching consequences of these apocalyptic political and social upheavals on the systems of legal philosophy, legal science, criminal law, civil and economic law, and social law in Germany and England and throughout Europe as a whole. Berman challenges both conventional approaches to legal history, which have neglected the religious foundations of Western legal systems, and standard social theory, which has paid insufficient attention to the communitarian dimensions of early modern economic law, including corporation law and social welfare. Clearly written and cogently argued, this long-awaited, magisterial work is a major contribution to an understanding of the relationship of law to Western belief systems.
Author: Martin Mulsow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-07-31
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 100924115X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA vivid account of the diverse intellectual landscape of the German Enlightenment, exploring radical writing between 1680 and 1720.
Author: Mark Hill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-06-09
Total Pages: 621
ISBN-13: 1108135986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Great Christian Jurists series comprises a library of national volumes of detailed biographies of leading jurists, judges and practitioners, assessing the impact of their Christian faith on the professional output of the individuals studied. Little has previously been written about the faith of the great judges who framed and developed the English common law over centuries, but this unique volume explores how their beliefs were reflected in their judicial functions. This comparative study, embracing ten centuries of English law, draws some remarkable conclusions as to how Christianity shaped the views of lawyers and judges. Adopting a long historical perspective, this volume also explores the lives of judges whose practice in or conception of law helped to shape the Church, its law or the articulation of its doctrine.
Author: John Selden
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1584774088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelden, John. Tracts Written by John Selden of the Inner-Temple, Esquire. The first Entituled, Jani Anglorum Facies Altera, rendred into English, with large Notes thereupon, by Redman Westcot, Gent. The Second, England's Epinomis. The Third, Of the Original of Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions of Testaments. The Fourth, Of the Disposition or Administration of Intestates Goods. The Three last never before Extant. London: Printed for Thomas Basset at the George in Fleet-Street, and Richard Chiswell, 1683. [xxxiii], 131; [7], 39; [4], 24 pp. With a new introduction by Stephen M. Sheppard. Reprint available August 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-408-8. Cloth. $195. * Reprint of first edition. In three parts; each part has separate title page; the last two tracts form the third part. Included are four works: The Reverse or Back-Face of the English Janus. To-wit, all that is met with in story concerning the Common and Statute-Law of English Britanny, from the first memoirs of the two nations to the decease of Henry II...Written in Latin...; England's Epinomis; Two Treatises Written by John Selden...The First, Of the Original of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of testaments: The Second, Of the Disposition or Administration of Intestates Goods. The first tract Jani Anglorum... (The Reverse or Back-Face of the English Janus) begins John Selden's [1584-1654] study of the sources of English common law and the English constitution. This is carried through to the Magna Carta in the second tract, England's Epinomis. Holdsworth regards Selden "as the first scientific historian of English law" and goes on to state: "...his great intellectual qualities justify us in regarding him both as the pioneer of the select band of English legal historians, and one of the most eminent of its representatives." Holdsworth, The Historians of Anglo-American Law 50-51. Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 146. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations I:42(33). Catalogue of the Library of the Law School of Harvard University (1909) II:557.
