The Justice of Venice
Author: James E Shaw
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-04-27
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780197263778
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Author: James E Shaw
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-04-27
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780197263778
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Author: William Shakespeare
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 108
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Quentin Skinner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-01-25
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1108622437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of judicial rhetoric. One chapter considers the place of these rules in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, while two others concentrate on the technique of rhetorical redescription, pointing to its use in Machiavelli's The Prince as well as in several of Shakespeare's plays, notably Coriolanus. The second half of the book examines the humanist background to the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. A major new essay discusses his typically humanist preoccupation with the visual presentation of his political ideas, while other chapters explore the rhetorical sources of his theory of persons and personation, thereby offering new insights into his views about citizenship, political representation, rights and obligations and the concept of the state.
Author: Joanne M. Ferraro
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2008-12
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0801889871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNefarious Crimes, Contested Justice also traces shifting attitudes toward illegitimacy and paternity from the late sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Both the Catholic Church and the Republic of Venice tried to enforce moral discipline and regulate sex and reproduction. Unmarried pregnant women were increasingly stigmatized for engaging in sex. Their claims for damages because of seduction or rape were largely unproven, and the priests and laymen that they were involved with were often acquitted of any wrongdoing. The lack of institutional support for single motherhood and the exculpation of fathers frequently led to abortion, infant abandonment, or even infant death.
Author: Rena N. Lauer
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2019-05-10
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0812250885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Venice conquered Crete in the early thirteenth century, a significant population of Jews lived in the capital and main port city of Candia. This community grew, diversified, and flourished both culturally and economically throughout the period of Venetian rule, and although it adhered to traditional Jewish ways of life, the community also readily engaged with the broader population and the island's Venetian colonial government. In Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete, Rena N. Lauer tells the story of this unusual and little-known community through the lens of its flexible use of the legal systems at its disposal. Grounding the book in richly detailed studies of individuals and judicial cases—concerning matters as prosaic as taxation and as dramatic as bigamy and murder—Lauer brings the Jews of Candia vibrantly to life. Despite general rabbinic disapproval of such behavior elsewhere in medieval Europe, Crete's Jews regularly turned not only to their own religious courts but also to the secular Venetian judicial system. There they aired disputes between family members, business partners, spouses, and even the leaders of their community. And with their use of secular justice as both symptom and cause, Lauer contends, Crete's Jews grew more open and flexible, confident in their identity and experiencing little of the anti-Judaism increasingly suffered by their coreligionists in Western Europe.
Author: Dr. Ujjwal Patni
Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9788189605919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Shakespeare
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Published: 1750
Total Pages: 78
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donna Leon
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1555849083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wall of silence surrounds a cadet’s death at an elite military academy: “Superb . . . This is an outstanding book.” —Publishers Weekly Detective Commissario Guido Brunetti has been called to investigate a parent’s worst nightmare. A young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice’s elite military academy. Brunetti’s sorrow for the boy, so close in age to his own son, is rivaled only by his contempt for a community that is more concerned with protecting the reputation of the school, and its privileged students, than understanding this tragedy. The young man is the son of a doctor and former politician—a man of impeccable integrity, all too rare in politics. Dr. Moro is clearly devastated; but while both he and his apparently estranged wife seem convinced that the boy’s death could not have been suicide, neither appears eager to talk to the police or involve Brunetti in any investigation of the circumstances in which he died. As Brunetti pursues his inquiry, he is faced with a wall of silence. Is the military protecting its own? And what of the other witnesses? Is this the natural reluctance of Italians to involve themselves with the authorities, or is Brunetti facing a conspiracy far greater than this one death? “Brunetti is a compelling character, a good man trying to stay on the honest path in a devious and twisted world.” —The Baltimore Sun
Author: Eliza Garnsey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1108494390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on novel case studies, this book provides the first substantive theoretical framework for understanding transitional justice and visual art.