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Reassessing Legal Humanism and its Claims

By: Paul J du Plessis

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Reassessing Legal Humanism and its Claims

By: Paul J du Plessis

This book is a fundamental reassessment of the nature and impact of legal humanism on the development of law in Europe. It brings together the foremost international experts in related fields such as legal and intellectual history to debate central issues

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474408877

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New Frontiers

By: Paul J du Plessis

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New Frontiers

By: Paul J du Plessis

An interdisciplinary, edited collection on social science methodologies for approaching Roman legal sources. Roman law as a field of study is rapidly evolving to reflect new perspectives and approaches in research. Scholars who work on the subject are i

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748668195

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9780748668199

Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law

By: Paul J. du Plessis

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Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law

By: Paul J. du Plessis

Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law provides a thorough and engaging overview of Roman private law and civil procedure. It is the ideal course companion for undergraduate Roman law courses, combining clear, comprehensible language and a wide range of supportive learning features with the most important sources of Roman law.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198848013

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The Post-Earthquake City

Disaster and Recovery in Christchurch, New Zealand

By: Paul Cloke,David Conradson,Eric Pawson,Harvey C. Perkins

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The Post-Earthquake City

Disaster and Recovery in Christchurch, New Zealand

By: Paul Cloke,David Conradson,Eric Pawson,Harvey C. Perkins

This book critically assesses Christchurch, New Zealand as an evolving post-earthquake city. It examines the impact of the 2010–13 Canterbury earthquake sequence, employing a chronological structure to consider ‘damage and displacement’, ‘recovery and renewal’ and ‘the city in transition’. It offers a framework for understanding the multiple experiences and realities of post-earthquake recovery. It details how the rebuilding of the city has occurred and examines what has arisen in the context of an unprecedented opportunity to refashion land uses and social experience from the ground up. A recurring tension is observed between the desire and tendency of some to reproduce previous urban orthodoxies and the experimental efforts of others to fashion new cultures of progressive place-making and attention to the more-than-human city. The book offers several lessons for understanding disaster recovery in cities. It illuminates the opportunities disasters create for both the reassertion of the familiar and the emergence of the new; highlights the divergence of lived experience during recovery; and considers the extent to which a post-disaster city is prepared for likely climate futures. The book will be valuable reading for critical disaster researchers as well as geographers, sociologists, urban planners and policy makers interested in disaster recovery.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000839400

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Studying Roman Law

By: Paul du Plessis

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Studying Roman Law

By: Paul du Plessis

Studying Roman Law is an introductory guide aimed at sixth-formers, students and those with a general interest wishing to obtain a basic overview of Roman private law during the first three centuries of the Common Era. It is not meant to be a replacement for more comprehensive and technical manuals on Roman law, but should rather be seen as introductory reading. Written in non-specialist language, it contains a basic overview of the sources of Roman private law and a guide to their use together with a survey of the main areas of the law using primary sources in translation. It also explains the different contexts in which these rules arose and operated as well as the mechanisms by which they were enforced against the backdrop of one of the most sophisticated and influential legal systems of the ancient world.

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126

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A&C Black

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1472503058

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Letting and Hiring in Roman Legal Thought: 27 BCE - 284 CE

By: Paul Du Plessis

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Letting and Hiring in Roman Legal Thought: 27 BCE - 284 CE

By: Paul Du Plessis

This book is a fundamental reassessment of one of the most important commercial contracts in Roman law. By drawing on legal and non-legal source material, this book seeks to assess the development of the contract in light of Roman legal thought.

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BRILL

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9004229450

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The Search for the Man in the Iron Mask

A Historical Detective Story

By: Paul Sonnino

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The Search for the Man in the Iron Mask

A Historical Detective Story

By: Paul Sonnino

The Search for the Man in the Iron Mask triumphantly solves an enduring puzzle that has stumped historians for centuries and seduced novelists and filmmakers to this day. Who was the man who was rumored to have been kept in prison and treated royally during much of the reign of Louis XIV while being forced to wear an iron mask? Could he possibly have been the twin brother of the Sun King? Like every other serious scholar, intrepid historian Paul Sonnino discounts this theory, instead taking the reader along on his adventures to uncover the truth behind this ancient enigma. Exploring the hidden, squalid side of the lavish court of France, the author uncovers the full spectrum of French society, from humble servants to wealthy merchants to kings and queens. All had self-interested reasons to hold their secrets close until one humble valet named Eustache Dauger was arrested and jailed for decades, simply because he knew too much and opened his mouth at the wrong time. Presenting his dramatic solution to the mystery, Sonnino convincingly shows that no one will be able to tell the story of the man in the iron mask without taking into account the staggering array of evidence he has uncovered over the course of decades.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442253649

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Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law

By: Paul J. du Plessis

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Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law

By: Paul J. du Plessis

Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law is the leading textbook in the field of Roman law, and has been written with undergraduate students firmly in mind. The book provides an accessible and highly engaging account of Roman private law and civil procedure, with coverage of all key topics, including the Roman legal system, and the law of persons, property, and obligations. The author sets the law in its social and historical context, and demonstrates the impact of Roman law on our modern legal systems. For the fifth edition, Paul du Plessis has included references to a wide range of scholarly texts, to ground his judicious account of Roman law firmly in contemporary scholarship. He has also added examples from legal practice, as well as truncated timelines at the start of each chapter to illustrate how the law developed over time. The book contains a wealth of learning features, including chapter summaries, diagrams and maps. A major feature of the book is the inclusion throughout of extracts in translation from the most important sources of Roman law: the Digest and the Institutes of Justinian. Annotated further reading sections at the end of each chapter act as a guide to further enquiry. Online Resource Centre The book is accompanied by an extensive Online Resource Centre, containing the following resources: -Self-test multiple choice questions -Interactive timeline -Biographies of key figures -Glossary of Latin terms -Annotated web links -Original Latin versions of the extracts from the Digest and the Institutes of Justinian -Examples of textual analysis of Roman law texts -Guide to the literature and sources of Roman law

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0198736223

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Letting and Hiring in Roman Legal Thought: 27 BCE - 284 CE

By: Paul Du Plessis

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Letting and Hiring in Roman Legal Thought: 27 BCE - 284 CE

By: Paul Du Plessis

Building on the pioneering work undertaken by Fiori (1999) on Roman conceptual thought about letting and hiring, this book fills an important gap in the current scholarly literature.

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BRILL

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9004219595

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Paul

A Brief History

By: Robert Paul Seesengood

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Paul

A Brief History

By: Robert Paul Seesengood

Seesengood traces the life and impact of Paul – one ofChristianity’s most influential figures – through themajor periods Christian history. Exploring the changinginterpretations of Paul and his work, the author throws new lighton his writings and on religious history. Offers a unique, insightful journey through the many and variedinterpretations of Paul’s life and work over 2,000 years– from the Gnostic controversy, to Luther and theReformation, to contemporary debates over religion and science Explains Paul’s pivotal role within Christian history,and how his missionary journeys, canonized epistles and theologicalinsights were cornerstones of the early Church and central to theformation of Christian doctrine Argues that each new interpretation of Paul is the result of afresh set of cultural, social and ideological circumstances –and so questions whether it is ever possible to discover the realPaul

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444317946

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Book's by Paul J. du Plessis

Reassessing Legal Humanism and its Claims

Reassessing Legal Humanism and its Claims

New Frontiers

New Frontiers

Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law

Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law

The Post-Earthquake City

The Post-Earthquake City

Studying Roman Law

Studying Roman Law

Letting and Hiring in Roman Legal Thought: 27 BCE - 284 CE

Letting and Hiring in Roman Legal Thought: 27 BCE - 284 CE

The Search for the Man in the Iron Mask

The Search for the Man in the Iron Mask

Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law

Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law

Letting and Hiring in Roman Legal Thought: 27 BCE - 284 CE

Letting and Hiring in Roman Legal Thought: 27 BCE - 284 CE

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