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Marsilius of Padua and 'the truth of history' by Garnett, George

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Providential history from the fall of man to the conversion of Constantine -- Providential history from the reign of Constantine -- Christian providential history : a dialectic of perfection and perversion -- The history of the Holy Roman Empire -- Canon law and the conflict between emperor and pope -- The historian's use of his canon law sources.…”
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Love Cures : Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance / by Doggett, Laine E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Background considerations -- On artifice and realism : Thessala in Chretien de Troyes's Cliges -- Tristan and Iseut : beyond a symbolic reading of empirical practice -- Tristan and Iseut : empirical practice amidst competing claims -- Love and medicine in the Roman de silence -- Reworked elements in Amadas et Ydoine -- Conclusion.…”
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Ancient Rome from Romulus to Justinian / by Martin, Thomas R., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Roman values, the family, and religion -- From the founding of Rome to the Republic -- War and expansion during the Republic -- The destruction of the Republic -- From Republic to Empire -- From the Julio-Claudians to the Empire's golden age -- From Jesus to crisis in the early Empire -- From persecution to Christianization in the later Empire -- Barbarian migrations and the fates of the Empire.…”
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Ancient Rome from Romulus to Justinian / by Martin, Thomas R., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Roman values, the family, and religion -- From the founding of Rome to the Republic -- War and expansion during the Republic -- The destruction of the Republic -- From Republic to Empire -- From the Julio-Claudians to the Empire's golden age -- From Jesus to crisis in the early Empire -- From persecution to Christianization in the later Empire -- Barbarian migrations and the fates of the Empire.…”
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Leo the Great and the spiritual rebuilding of a universal Rome by Wessel, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to Leo the Great and the late Roman world that was his stage -- The study of Leo the Great -- Imperial regimes and the Roman Senate -- Structure of the empire in Italy and the West -- Ecclesiastical administration -- Advance of the barbarian kingdoms -- Survey of the life of Leo the Great -- The relationship between Rome and the western churches -- A controversy develops with the See of Arles in Southern Gaul -- Eclesiastical law is debated and settled in North Africa -- Priscillianis misconfronted in Spain -- The Vicariate of Illyricum -- Persecution and discipline in Italy -- The idea ofjustice and its bearing upon law and mercy -- Justice and its human failings -- Ecclesiastical law as the expression of justice -- The practical manifestation ofjustice in the application of mercy -- Suffering, compassion, and the care of the poor -- The theology of poverty, charity, and altruism -- The humanity of Christ as a model for compassion -- Assembling a christology -- Polemics shape the development of Christ's human nature -- The quality of Christ's humanity -- Christ as example -- The symmetry of justice -- Overturning the Robber Synod and preserving Christ's human nature -- Negotiating with the Imperial Court -- Enlisting the help of the bishops -- Elaboration of the Roman Primacy -- The idea of Apostolic succession and the Primacy of Rome -- The controversy over the 28th Canon -- The focus shifts to Anatolius -- Striving for unity after Chalcedon -- Eliciting the support of the eastern Imperial Court -- The apocrisiarius in Constantinople -- Arenewed correspondence with Anatolius -- The'City of God' unfolds in history -- Christian intellectuals respond to the sack of Rome in 410 -- Anewidea of his Tory emerges.…”
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Leo the Great and the spiritual rebuilding of a universal Rome by Wessel, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to Leo the Great and the late Roman world that was his stage -- The study of Leo the Great -- Imperial regimes and the Roman Senate -- Structure of the empire in Italy and the West -- Ecclesiastical administration -- Advance of the barbarian kingdoms -- Survey of the life of Leo the Great -- The relationship between Rome and the western churches -- A controversy develops with the See of Arles in Southern Gaul -- Eclesiastical law is debated and settled in North Africa -- Priscillianis misconfronted in Spain -- The Vicariate of Illyricum -- Persecution and discipline in Italy -- The idea ofjustice and its bearing upon law and mercy -- Justice and its human failings -- Ecclesiastical law as the expression of justice -- The practical manifestation ofjustice in the application of mercy -- Suffering, compassion, and the care of the poor -- The theology of poverty, charity, and altruism -- The humanity of Christ as a model for compassion -- Assembling a christology -- Polemics shape the development of Christ's human nature -- The quality of Christ's humanity -- Christ as example -- The symmetry of justice -- Overturning the Robber Synod and preserving Christ's human nature -- Negotiating with the Imperial Court -- Enlisting the help of the bishops -- Elaboration of the Roman Primacy -- The idea of Apostolic succession and the Primacy of Rome -- The controversy over the 28th Canon -- The focus shifts to Anatolius -- Striving for unity after Chalcedon -- Eliciting the support of the eastern Imperial Court -- The apocrisiarius in Constantinople -- Arenewed correspondence with Anatolius -- The'City of God' unfolds in history -- Christian intellectuals respond to the sack of Rome in 410 -- Anewidea of his Tory emerges.…”
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Encounters & reflections conversations with Seth Benardete : with Robert Berman, Ronna Burger, and Michael Davis / by Benardete, Seth

Table of Contents: “…John's, 1955-57 -- Harvard, 1957-60 -- Brandeis, New York University, and the New School, 1960-2001 -- From pattern to dynamic -- The "indeterminate dyad" -- Eros and the city -- Philosophy and science -- Christianity and Roman writers.…”
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Encounters & reflections conversations with Seth Benardete : with Robert Berman, Ronna Burger, and Michael Davis / by Benardete, Seth

Table of Contents: “…John's, 1955-57 -- Harvard, 1957-60 -- Brandeis, New York University, and the New School, 1960-2001 -- From pattern to dynamic -- The "indeterminate dyad" -- Eros and the city -- Philosophy and science -- Christianity and Roman writers.…”
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Human Rights, Inc the world novel, narrative form, and international law / by Slaughter, Joseph R.

Table of Contents: “…Novel subjects and enabling fictions: the formal articulation of international human rights law -- Becoming plots: human rights, the bildungsroman, and the novelization of citizenship -- Normalizing narrative forms of human rights: the (dys)function of the public sphere -- Compulsory development: narrative self-sponsorship and the right to self-determination -- Clefs à roman: reading, writing, and international humanitarianism.…”
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The rule of empires those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall / by Parsons, Timothy, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…The subjects of empire -- Roman Britain : the myth of the civilizing empire -- Muslim Spain : blurring subjecthood in imperial Al-Andalus -- Spanish Peru : empire by franchise -- Company India : private empire building -- Napoleonic Italy : empire aborted -- British Kenya : the short life of the new imperialism -- France under the Nazis : imperial endpoint -- Imperial epitaph.…”
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Vico and Naples the urban origins of modern social theory / by Naddeo, Barbara Ann

Table of Contents: “…The origins of Vico's social theory : Vichian reflections on the Neapolitan Revolt of 1701 and the politics of the metropolis -- Vico's cosmopolitanism : global citizenship and natural law in Vico's pedagogical thought -- Vico's social theory : the conundrum of the Roman metropolis and the struggle of humanity for natural rights -- From social theory to philosophy : Vico's disillusions with the Neapolitan magistracy and the new frontier of philosophy.…”
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We are being transformed deification in Paul's soteriology / by Litwa, M. David

Table of Contents: “…: defining divinity in the Greco-Roman world -- Survey of deification: assimilation to specific deities -- The roots of a Jewish vision of deification -- Divine corporeality and the pneumatic body -- Divine corporeality and deification -- Deification and the cosmic rule of the saints -- Paul and moral assimilation to God -- Monotheism and divine multiplicity -- Creation and the objection of absolute transcendence.…”
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The Latin clerk the life, work, and travels of Adrian Fortescue / by Nichols, Aidan

Table of Contents: “…Background and boyhood -- The formative years -- Ordination and first steps in priesthood -- The Levantine grand tour (1906-7) and the Greek fathers -- Studies of the Eastern churches, far and near -- Letchworth and beyond -- The theory of the liturgy: encyclopaedias, and the Mass -- The practice of the liturgy: Rivalis Villa, the ceremonial and the chant -- Anglo-Roman debates -- Liberal Catholicism, Catholic modernism and the posthumous Boethius.…”
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Human Rights, Inc the world novel, narrative form, and international law / by Slaughter, Joseph R.

Table of Contents: “…Novel subjects and enabling fictions: the formal articulation of international human rights law -- Becoming plots: human rights, the bildungsroman, and the novelization of citizenship -- Normalizing narrative forms of human rights: the (dys)function of the public sphere -- Compulsory development: narrative self-sponsorship and the right to self-determination -- Clefs à roman: reading, writing, and international humanitarianism.…”
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The rule of empires those who built them, those who endured them, and why they always fall / by Parsons, Timothy, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…The subjects of empire -- Roman Britain : the myth of the civilizing empire -- Muslim Spain : blurring subjecthood in imperial Al-Andalus -- Spanish Peru : empire by franchise -- Company India : private empire building -- Napoleonic Italy : empire aborted -- British Kenya : the short life of the new imperialism -- France under the Nazis : imperial endpoint -- Imperial epitaph.…”
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Vico and Naples the urban origins of modern social theory / by Naddeo, Barbara Ann

Table of Contents: “…The origins of Vico's social theory : Vichian reflections on the Neapolitan Revolt of 1701 and the politics of the metropolis -- Vico's cosmopolitanism : global citizenship and natural law in Vico's pedagogical thought -- Vico's social theory : the conundrum of the Roman metropolis and the struggle of humanity for natural rights -- From social theory to philosophy : Vico's disillusions with the Neapolitan magistracy and the new frontier of philosophy.…”
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We are being transformed deification in Paul's soteriology / by Litwa, M. David

Table of Contents: “…: defining divinity in the Greco-Roman world -- Survey of deification: assimilation to specific deities -- The roots of a Jewish vision of deification -- Divine corporeality and the pneumatic body -- Divine corporeality and deification -- Deification and the cosmic rule of the saints -- Paul and moral assimilation to God -- Monotheism and divine multiplicity -- Creation and the objection of absolute transcendence.…”
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The Latin clerk the life, work, and travels of Adrian Fortescue / by Nichols, Aidan

Table of Contents: “…Background and boyhood -- The formative years -- Ordination and first steps in priesthood -- The Levantine grand tour (1906-7) and the Greek fathers -- Studies of the Eastern churches, far and near -- Letchworth and beyond -- The theory of the liturgy: encyclopaedias, and the Mass -- The practice of the liturgy: Rivalis Villa, the ceremonial and the chant -- Anglo-Roman debates -- Liberal Catholicism, Catholic modernism and the posthumous Boethius.…”
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Investing in the disadvantaged assessing the benefits and costs of social policies /

Table of Contents: “…Caulkins -- Juvenile crime interventions / Jeffrey A. Butts and John K. Roman -- Prisoner reentry programming / John K. Roman and Christy Visher -- Housing assistance to promote human capital / Lance Freeman -- Encouraging work / Robert Lerman -- Next steps in welfare-to-work / Michael Wiseman -- Welfare-to-work and work-incentive programs / David Greenberg -- Overview of the state-of-the-art of CBA in social policy / Aidan R. …”
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Investing in the disadvantaged assessing the benefits and costs of social policies /

Table of Contents: “…Caulkins -- Juvenile crime interventions / Jeffrey A. Butts and John K. Roman -- Prisoner reentry programming / John K. Roman and Christy Visher -- Housing assistance to promote human capital / Lance Freeman -- Encouraging work / Robert Lerman -- Next steps in welfare-to-work / Michael Wiseman -- Welfare-to-work and work-incentive programs / David Greenberg -- Overview of the state-of-the-art of CBA in social policy / Aidan R. …”
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