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To Date and Not to Date

On the Date and Status of Byzantine Law Books

By: Thomas Ernst van Bochove

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To Date and Not to Date

On the Date and Status of Byzantine Law Books

By: Thomas Ernst van Bochove

Scientific reserach implies progress. Sometimes, however, progress merely consists of a step back to the past, as in the case of the dating of the Prochiron, one of the Byzantine law books dealt with in this study. Recently, progress seemed to imply that the Prochiron had been issued by Leo the Wise in the year 907. This book sets out to show that the Prochiron was promulgated by Basil the Macedonian in the years 870-879, thus confirming the view of Karl Eduard Zachariä von Lingenthal, one of the first scholars who paved a way in the ‘ungodly jumble’ of Byzantine law books. Of course, the present study does not exclusively deal with the dating of law books: their status appeared to be inextricably bound up with their dating. Moreover, recent research has come up with results that shed new light on the Basilica and the Novels of Leo the Wise. Reason enough to investigate Leo’s legislative intentions..... To date and not to date, that is the issue in the realm of Byzantine legal history.

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BRILL

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9004675655

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9789004675650

Under the Greenwood Tree

By: Thomas Hardy

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Under the Greenwood Tree

By: Thomas Hardy

Hardy's second published novel, Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), the first of his great series of Wessex novels, was originally published anonymously. As part of the Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy, this edition of the novel provides readers with an authoritative and accurate text of the novel; moreover it gives access to every revision that Hardy made, and to notations of all the errors introduced by printers' compositors. The annotated text is surrounded by an introduction that gives a very full account of the genesis, the writing and the publishing history of the novel. A range of appendices and comprehensive explanatory notes explore significant aspects of the composition, production and marketing of the novel, touched on in the introduction, to provide a full understanding of the nature and life of this classic work.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108340679

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9781108340670

Aristotle's Teaching in the Politics

By: Thomas L. Pangle

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Aristotle's Teaching in the Politics

By: Thomas L. Pangle

With Aristotle’s Teaching in the “Politics,” Thomas L. Pangle offers a masterly new interpretation of this classic philosophical work. It is widely believed that the Politics originated as a written record of a series of lectures given by Aristotle, and scholars have relied on that fact to explain seeming inconsistencies and instances of discontinuity throughout the text. Breaking from this tradition, Pangle makes the work’s origin his starting point, reconceiving the Politics as the pedagogical tool of a master teacher. With the Politics, Pangle argues, Aristotle seeks to lead his students down a deliberately difficult path of critical thinking about civic republican life. He adopts a Socratic approach, encouraging his students—and readers—to become active participants in a dialogue. Seen from this perspective, features of the work that have perplexed previous commentators become perfectly comprehensible as artful devices of a didactic approach. Ultimately, Pangle’s close and careful analysis shows that to understand the Politics, one must first appreciate how Aristotle’s rhetorical strategy is inextricably entwined with the subject of his work.

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350

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University of Chicago Press

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022601617X

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9780226016177

Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome

By: Thomas A. J. McGinn

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Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome

By: Thomas A. J. McGinn

This is a study of the legal rules affecting the practice of female prostitution at Rome approximately from 200 B.C. to A.D. 250. It examines the formation and precise content of the legal norms developed for prostitution and those engaged in this profession, with close attention to their social context. McGinn's unique study explores the "fit" between the law-system and the socio-economic reality while shedding light on important questions concerning marginal groups, marriage, sexual behavior, the family, slavery, and citizen status, particularly that of women.

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Oxford University Press

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019802486X

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9780198024866

The Doctrine of Grace in the Apostolic Fathers

By: Thomas F. Torrance

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The Doctrine of Grace in the Apostolic Fathers

By: Thomas F. Torrance

T.F. Torrance aims in this book to discover how and why there came about in the early history of the Christian Church the enormous difference that exists between the faith of the New Testament and that of the second and third centuries. He explores how the concept of grace is distinctively characteristic of every doctrine of the New Testament, and yet at the same time is the most sensitive to change.

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158

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725208091

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9781725208094

The Book of Revelation and its Eastern Commentators

Making the New Testament in the Early Christian World

By: Thomas Schmidt

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The Book of Revelation and its Eastern Commentators

Making the New Testament in the Early Christian World

By: Thomas Schmidt

In this volume, T.C. Schmidt offers a new perspective on the formation of the New Testament by examining it simply as a Greco-Roman 'testament', a legal document of great authority in the ancient world. His work considers previously unexamined parallels between Greco-Roman juristic standards and the authorization of Christianity's holy texts. Recapitulating how Greco-Roman testaments were created and certified, he argues that the book of Revelation possessed many testamentary characteristics that were crucial for lending validity to the New Testament. Even so, Schmidt shows how Revelation fell out of favor amongst most Eastern Christian communities for over a thousand years until commentators rehabilitated its status and reintegrated it into the New Testament. Schmidt uncovers why so many Eastern churches neglected Revelation during this period, and then draws from Greco-Roman legal practice to describe how Eastern commentators successfully argued for Revelation's inclusion in the New Testaments of their Churches.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009021028

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9781009021029

Book's by Thomas Stuart Jones

To Date and Not to Date

To Date and Not to Date

Under the Greenwood Tree

Under the Greenwood Tree

Aristotle's Teaching in the Politics

Aristotle's Teaching in the Politics

Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome

Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome

The Doctrine of Grace in the Apostolic Fathers

The Doctrine of Grace in the Apostolic Fathers

The Book of Revelation and its Eastern Commentators

The Book of Revelation and its Eastern Commentators

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