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Final Judgments

Duty and Emotion in Roman Wills, 200 B.C.-A.D. 250

By: Edward Champlin

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Final Judgments

Duty and Emotion in Roman Wills, 200 B.C.-A.D. 250

By: Edward Champlin

Freed from the familial and social obligations incumbent on the living, the Roman testator could craft his will to be a literal "last judgment" on family, friends, and society. The Romans were fascinated by the contents of wills, believing the will to be a mirror of the testator's true character and opinions. The wills offer us a unique view of the individual Roman testator's world. Just as classicists, ancient historians, and legal historians will find a mine of information here, the general reader will be fascinated by the book's lively recounting of last testaments. Who were the testators and what were their motives? Why do family, kin, servants, friends, and community all figure in the will, and how are they treated? What sort of afterlife did the Romans anticipate? By examining wills, the book sets several issues in a new light, offering new interpretations of, or new insights into, subjects as diverse as captatio (inheritance-seeking), the structure of the Roman family, the manumission of slaves, public philanthropy, the afterlife and the relation of subject to emperor. Champlin's principal argument is that a strongly felt "duty of testacy" informed and guided most Romans, a duty to reward or punish all who were important to them, a duty which led them to write their wills early in life and to revise them frequently. Freed from the familial and social obligations incumbent on the living, the Roman testator could craft his will to be a literal "last judgment" on family, friends, and society. The Romans were fascinated by the contents of wills, believing the will to be

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Univ of California Press

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0520910397

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9780520910393

Land Use Regulation

Cases and Materials

By: Daniel P. Selmi,James A. Kushner,Edward H. Ziegler,Joseph F. C. DiMento,John Echeverria

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Land Use Regulation

Cases and Materials

By: Daniel P. Selmi,James A. Kushner,Edward H. Ziegler,Joseph F. C. DiMento,John Echeverria

Land Use Regulation: Cases and Materials, Fifth Edition is a dynamic, scholarly, yet practical teaching approach that focuses on the role of the lawyer in land use regulatory matters and the factors that influence land development decisions. Offering more comprehensive changes than in any edition since the book was first published, the Fifth Edition offers a new chapter addressing emerging issues in the field, including regulation of medical marijuana and fracking, responses to problems posed by vulnerable populations such as the homeless, continuing developments in “smart growth,” and changes in redevelopment law. It also features a thorough reorganization of takings materials, combining all of them in one chapter and addressing emerging issues.

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1304

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Aspen Publishing

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1454887966

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9781454887966

History of the Upper Mississippi Valley. Containing the Geology of the Upper Mississippi and Saint Louis Valleys

By: Edward Duffield Neill,John Fletcher Williams,H. N. Winchell,Charles S. Bryant

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History of the Upper Mississippi Valley. Containing the Geology of the Upper Mississippi and Saint Louis Valleys

By: Edward Duffield Neill,John Fletcher Williams,H. N. Winchell,Charles S. Bryant

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385467047

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9783385467040

The Art of Translation in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry

Toward Heaven

By: Edward T. Duffy

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The Art of Translation in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry

Toward Heaven

By: Edward T. Duffy

The Art of Translation in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry is a critical study of the poet's later work. While exploring his practice as a translator, it also traces his increasing preoccupation with the possibilities and conditions of translation in the theological sense of being lifted up in spirit. To the work of this philosophical poet, who would be both “earthed and heady” this book brings the insights of ordinary language philosophy as practiced by Stanley Cavell. It devotes separate chapters to Station Island and three later collections: Seeing Things, Electric Light and Human Chain. The first of these addresses the most fundamental change in Heaney’s life when he acknowledges the “need and chance to re-envisage” his Irish-Catholic upbringing; it is also replete with both the activity and the trope of translation. Published seven years later, Seeing Things begins with a translation of Virgil’s golden bough episode and ends with a similar crossing over into the underworld by Dante. Heaney transforms both into poems about poetry. In Electric Light, Heaney returns to Virgil, but now he concentrates not on the hero of the Aeneid but on Virgil's earlier efforts in pastoral, a mode of writing that Heaney takes as a model for his own time and place of “devastated order.” Heaney returns to the Aeneid in Human Chain, but this time around he gives all his attention to the scene of the human souls in Elysium seeking rebirth and turns it into an image for the need and chance of pronouncing “a final Yes” to our world and our place in it.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003853714

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9781003853718

Dark Genius of Wall Street

The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons

By: Edward J. Renehan Jr.

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Dark Genius of Wall Street

The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons

By: Edward J. Renehan Jr.

Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's greatest villain, Jay Gould was in fact its most original creative genius. Gould was the robber baron's robber baron, the most astute financial and business strategist of his time and also the most widely hated. In Dark Genius of Wall Street, acclaimed biographer Edward J. Renehan, Jr., combines lively anecdotes with the rich social tapestry of the Gilded Age to paint the portrait of the most talented financial buccaneer of his generation -- and one of the inventors of modern business.

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Basic Books

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0786722312

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9780786722310

Roman Inequality

Affluent Slaves, Businesswomen, Legal Fictions

By: Edward E. Cohen

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Roman Inequality

Affluent Slaves, Businesswomen, Legal Fictions

By: Edward E. Cohen

Roman Inequality explores how in Rome in the first and second centuries CE a number of male and female slaves, and some free women, prospered in business amidst a population of generally impoverished free inhabitants and of impecunious enslaved residents. Edward E. Cohen focuses on two anomalies to which only minimal academic attention has been previously directed: (1) the paradox of a Roman economy dependent on enslaved entrepreneurs who functioned, and often achieved considerable personal affluence, within a legal system that supposedly deprived unfree persons of all legal capacity and human rights; (2) the incongruity of the importance and accomplishments of Roman businesswomen, both free and slave, successfully operating under legal rules that in many aspects discriminated against women, but in commercial matters were in principle gender-blind and in practice generated egalitarian juridical conditions that often trumped gender-discriminatory customs. This book also examines the casuistry through which Roman jurists created "legal fictions" facilitating a commercial reality utterly incompatible with the fundamental precepts--inherently discriminatory against women and slaves---that Roman legal experts ("jurisprudents") continued explicitly to insist upon. Moreover, slaves' acquisition of wealth was actually aided by a surprising preferential orientation of the legal system: Roman law--to modern Western eyes counter-intuitively--in reality privileged servile enterprise, to the detriment of free enterprise. Beyond its anticipated audience of economic historians and students and scholars of classical antiquity, especially of Roman history and law, Roman Inequality will appeal to all persons working on or interested in gender and liberation issues.

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Oxford University Press

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0197687342

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Final Judgments

Final Judgments

Land Use Regulation

Land Use Regulation

History of the Upper Mississippi Valley. Containing the Geology of the Upper Mississippi and Saint Louis Valleys

History of the Upper Mississippi Valley. Containing the Geology of the Upper Mississippi and Saint Louis Valleys

The Art of Translation in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry

The Art of Translation in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry

Dark Genius of Wall Street

Dark Genius of Wall Street

Roman Inequality

Roman Inequality

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