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Worlds of Arthur

Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages

By: Guy Halsall

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Worlds of Arthur

Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages

By: Guy Halsall

King Arthur is probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary medieval king. From the early ninth century through the middle ages, to the Arthurian romances of Victorian times, the tales of this legendary figure have blossomed and multiplied. And in more recent times, there has been a continuous stream of books claiming to have discovered the 'facts' about, or to unlock the secret or truth behind, the 'once and future king'. Broadly speaking, there are two Arthurs. On the one hand is the traditional 'historical' Arthur, waging a doomed struggle to save Roman civilization against the relentless Anglo-Saxon tide during the darkest years of the Dark Ages. On the other is the Arthur of myth and legend - accompanied by a host of equally legendary people, places, and stories: Lancelot, Guinevere, Galahad and Gawain, Merlin, Excalibur, the Lady in the Lake, the Sword in the Stone, Camelot, the Round Table. The big problem with all this is that 'King Arthur' might well never have existed. And if he did exist, it is next to impossible to say anything at all about him. As this challenging new look at the Arthur legend makes clear, all books claiming to reveal 'the truth' behind King Arthur can safely be ignored. Not only the 'red herrings' in the abundant pseudo-historical accounts, even the 'historical' Arthur is largely a figment of the imagination: the evidence that we have - whether written or archaeological - is simply incapable of telling us anything detailed about the Britain in which he is supposed to have lived, fought, and died. The truth, as Guy Halsall reveals in this fascinating investigation, is both radically different - and also a good deal more intriguing.

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0191632716

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Cemeteries and Society in Merovingian Gaul

Selected Studies in History and Archaeology, 1992-2009

By: Guy Halsall

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Cemeteries and Society in Merovingian Gaul

Selected Studies in History and Archaeology, 1992-2009

By: Guy Halsall

Bundeling van de zeven belangrijkste essays over de sociale interpretatie van de Merovingische begraafplaatsen-archeologie.

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9004179992

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Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568

By: Guy Halsall

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Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568

By: Guy Halsall

An examination of the barbarian migrations and their role in the creation of medieval Europe.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521434912

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Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West, 450-900

By: Guy Halsall

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Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West, 450-900

By: Guy Halsall

This book looks at early medieval warfare in a broad context in the British Isles and western Europe between the end of the Roman Empire and the break-up of the Carolingian Empire.

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Psychology Press

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0415239400

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Understanding Collapse

By: Guy D. Middleton

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Understanding Collapse

By: Guy D. Middleton

In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted.

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Cambridge University Press

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110715149X

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Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568

By: Guy Halsall

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Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568

By: Guy Halsall

An examination of the barbarian migrations and their role in the creation of medieval Europe.

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“A Great Power of Attorney”

Understanding the Fiduciary Constitution

By: Gary Lawson,Guy Seidman

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“A Great Power of Attorney”

Understanding the Fiduciary Constitution

By: Gary Lawson,Guy Seidman

What kind of document is the United States Constitution and how does that characterization affect its meaning? Those questions are seemingly foundational for the entire enterprise of constitutional theory, but they are strangely under-examined. Legal scholars Gary Lawson and Guy Seidman propose that the Constitution, for purposes of interpretation, is a kind of fiduciary, or agency, instrument. The founding generation often spoke of the Constitution as a fiduciary document—or as a “great power of attorney,” in the words of founding-era legal giant James Iredell. Viewed against the background of fiduciary legal and political theory, which would have been familiar to the founding generation from both its education and its experience, the Constitution is best read as granting limited powers to the national government, as an agent, to manage some portion of the affairs of “We the People” and its “posterity.” What follows from this particular conception of the Constitution—and is of greater importance—is the question of whether, and how much and in what ways, the discretion of governmental agents in exercising those constitutionally granted powers is also limited by background norms of fiduciary obligation. Those norms, the authors remind us, include duties of loyalty, care, impartiality, and personal exercise. In the context of the Constitution, this has implications for everything from non-delegation to equal protection to so-called substantive due process, as well as for the scope of any implied powers claimed by the national government. In mapping out what these imperatives might mean—such as limited discretionary power, limited implied powers, a need to engage in fair dealing with all parties, and an obligation to serve at all times the interests of the Constitution’s beneficiaries—Lawson and Seidman offer a clearer picture of the original design for a limited government.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700624252

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How They Fared

The Impact of the Comprehensive School Upon the University

By: Guy Neave

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How They Fared

The Impact of the Comprehensive School Upon the University

By: Guy Neave

Originally published in 1975 How They Fared looks at some of the effects of ‘going comprehensive’. The book's investigation provides information about the inflow of students from comprehensive schools. In what way do these students differ from their fellows from selective establishments? What does this tell us about the relationship between school and university? Do comprehensive school students differ in in their reasons for entering higher education from the more ‘traditional’ pattern of university students? The book seeks to answer these questions by examining the effects of the changing pattern of secondary education upon the university.

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Routledge

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0429830122

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Introduction to the Physics of Silicene and other 2D Materials

By: Seymur Cahangirov,Hasan Sahin,Guy Le Lay,Angel Rubio

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Introduction to the Physics of Silicene and other 2D Materials

By: Seymur Cahangirov,Hasan Sahin,Guy Le Lay,Angel Rubio

This concise book offers an essential introduction and reference guide for the many newcomers to the field of physics of elemental 2D materials. Silicene and related materials are currently among the most actively studied materials, especially following the first experimental synthesis on substrates in 2012. Accordingly, this primer introduces and reviews the most crucial developments regarding silicene from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. At the same time the reader is guided through the extensive body of relevant foundational literature. The text starts with a brief history of silicene, followed by a comparison of the bonding nature in silicon versus carbon atoms. Here, a simple but robust framework is established to help the reader follow the concepts presented throughout the book. The book then presents the atomic and electronic structure of free-standing silicene, followed by an account of the experimental realization of silicene on substrates. This topic is subsequently developed further to discuss various reconstructions that silicene acquires due to interactions with the substrate and how such effects are mirrored in the electronic properties. Next the book examines the dumbbell structure that is the key to understanding the growth mechanism and atomic structure of multilayer silicene. Last but not least, it addresses similar effects in other elemental 2D materials from group IV (germanene, stanane), group V (phosphorene) and group III (borophene), as well as transition metal dichalcogenides and other compositions, so as to provide a general comparative overview of their electronic properties.

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Springer

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3319465724

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The Constitution of Empire

Territorial Expansion and American Legal History

By: Gary Lawson,Guy Seidman

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The Constitution of Empire

Territorial Expansion and American Legal History

By: Gary Lawson,Guy Seidman

The Constitution of Empire offers a constitutional and historical survey of American territorial expansion from the founding era to the present day. The authors describe the Constitution’s design for territorial acquisition and governance and examine the ways in which practice over the past two hundred years has diverged from that original vision. Noting that most of America’s territorial acquisitions—including the Louisiana Purchase, the Alaska Purchase, and the territory acquired after the Mexican-American and Spanish-American Wars—resulted from treaties, the authors elaborate a Jeffersonian-based theory of the federal treaty power and assess American territorial acquisitions from this perspective. They find that at least one American acquisition of territory and many of the basic institutions of territorial governance have no constitutional foundation, and they explore the often-strange paths that constitutional law has traveled to permit such deviations from the Constitution’s original meaning.

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Yale University Press

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0300128967

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Worlds of Arthur

Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages

By: Guy Halsall

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Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages

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The Constantinian Order of Saint George

and the Angeli, Farnese and Bourbon families which governed it

By: Guy Stair Sainty

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The Constantinian Order of Saint George

and the Angeli, Farnese and Bourbon families which governed it

By: Guy Stair Sainty

According to legend the Constantinian Order is the oldest chivalric institution, founded by Emperor Constantine the Great and governed by successive Byzantine Emperors and their descendants. While this chronology was supported by multiple writers even into the twentieth century, it has little historical basis. Nonetheless, the Angeli, Farnese and Bourbon families which held the Grand Mastership could legitimately claim Byzantine imperial descent, albeit in the female line, and the Order’s cross replicates that seen by Constantine in the vision recorded by both Lactantius and Eusebius, writing very soon after Maximian’s defeat at the battle of the Milvian Bridge. The Order’s emergence in the middle of the sixteenth century, when Christian Europe was under assault from a militant Ottoman empire, gained Papal support almost immediately and by the end of the seventeenth century the Order had mem-bers across the Italian peninsular, in Spain, Bavaria, Austria and Bohemia, Croatia and Poland. Today the majority of the Order’s members are found in Italy and Spain but there are also members in Portugal, France, Belgium, Great Britain and Luxembourg, with smaller groups in the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden as well as an expanding membership in the United States. This work examines the conversion of Constantine and the histories of the Angeli, Farnese and Bourbon Grand Masterships, with extensive reference to hitherto unpub-lished documents in the Vatican archives and in the Farnese and Bourbon archives in Naples. These serve to confirm the close relationship the Order had with the Church and the high regard in which it was held by successive Popes, as well as its autonomy as a subject of canon law independent from any crown or temporal sovereignty. This unique status has enabled its hereditary Grand Masters to maintain this dignity after the absorption of the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies into a united Italy. The Order’s autonomy, coupled with the Grand Master’s close links to the Spanish Crown, has meant that Spanish and Italian citizens (as well as the citizens of several other states which have accorded the Order recognition) may obtain official permission to wear the Order’s decorations. 2018 is the three hundredth anniversary of the Papal Bull Militantis Ecclesiae which confirmed and approved the previous Papal acts concerning the Order and laid out the rights and privileges of the Order, its Grand Masters and members. In the early 20th century Pope Saint Pius X and Benedict XV conferred further privileges on the Order, ap-proving the statutes, while the then future Pope Pius XII had been admitted to the Order in 1913. Today the Order is engaged in works of charity, in conformity with the Church’s teachings, and includes among its members some thirteen Cardinals as well as some thirty members of reign-ing or former reigning families.

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Boletín Oficial del Estado

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843402506X

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Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West 450-900

By: Guy Halsall

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Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West 450-900

By: Guy Halsall

Guy Halsall relates warfare to many aspects of medieval life, economy, society and politics.This book recovers its distinctiveness, looking at warfare in a rounded context in the British Isles and Western Europe between the end of the Roman Empire and the break-up of the Carolingian Empire. Examining the raising and organization of early medieval armies and looks at the conduct of campaigns, the survey also includes a study of the equipment of warriors and the horrific experience of battle as well as an analysis of medieval fortifications and siege warfare. Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West uses historical and archaeological evidence in a rigorous and sophisticated fashion. It stresses regional variations but also places Anglo-Saxon England in the mainstream of the military developments in this era, and in the process, provides an outstanding resource for students of all levels.

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Routledge

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1134553870

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Cemeteries and Society in Merovingian Gaul

Selected Studies in History and Archaeology, 1992-2009

By: Guy Halsall

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Cemeteries and Society in Merovingian Gaul

Selected Studies in History and Archaeology, 1992-2009

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Bundeling van de zeven belangrijkste essays over de sociale interpretatie van de Merovingische begraafplaatsen-archeologie.

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Settlement and Social Organization

The Merovingian Region of Metz

By: Guy Halsall

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Settlement and Social Organization

The Merovingian Region of Metz

By: Guy Halsall

This book examines one region of north-eastern Gaul around Metz in the period between the end of the Roman Empire and the accession of Charlemagne. It adopts a new, multi-disciplinary approach using all available evidence, both documentary and archaeological. It deals with a broad range of historical themes, and, by looking at the reasons behind the creation of different forms of evidence, it examines how the different facets of social organisation (ethnicity, gender, age and social hierarchy) were related intimately to each other and to contemporary settlement patterns of the region. As a result, it is argued that the Merovingian period was not one of slow 'transformation' from 'Roman' to 'medieval' but was one of constant, dynamic social change and diversity even between the recognised periods of dramatic upheaval.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521521890

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Early Medieval Cemeteries

An Introduction to Burial Archaeology in the Post-Roman West

By: Guy Halsall

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An Introduction to Burial Archaeology in the Post-Roman West

By: Guy Halsall

Grab/Gräberfeld - Bevölkerungsgeschichte - Grabbau.

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Worlds of Arthur

Worlds of Arthur

Cemeteries and Society in Merovingian Gaul

Cemeteries and Society in Merovingian Gaul

Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568

Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568

Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West, 450-900

Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West, 450-900

Understanding Collapse

Understanding Collapse

Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568

Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568

“A Great Power of Attorney”

“A Great Power of Attorney”

How They Fared

How They Fared

Introduction to the Physics of Silicene and other 2D Materials

Introduction to the Physics of Silicene and other 2D Materials

The Constitution of Empire

The Constitution of Empire

Worlds of Arthur

Worlds of Arthur

The Constantinian Order of Saint George

The Constantinian Order of Saint George

Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West 450-900

Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West 450-900

Cemeteries and Society in Merovingian Gaul

Cemeteries and Society in Merovingian Gaul

Settlement and Social Organization

Settlement and Social Organization

Early Medieval Cemeteries

Early Medieval Cemeteries

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