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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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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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Sanctuary and crime in the middle ages, 400-1500 by Shoemaker, Karl

Table of Contents: “…Authority, intercession, and penance -- Roman aristocratic traditions, imperial penal law, and sanctuary -- Reassessing early medieval sanctuary legislation -- The transmission and reception of sanctuary legislation in the early middle ages -- Sanctuary, blood feud, and the strength of Anglo-Saxon government -- Sanctuary in the century after the Norman conquest -- Sanctuary and Angevin law reforms -- The role of canon law in the destruction of sanctuary.…”
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The laws of late medieval Italy (1000-1500) foundations for a European legal system / by Ascheri, Mario

Table of Contents: “…Irnerius and the Roman law of Justinian -- The multi-faceted eleventh century -- The characteristic of eleventh-century law -- The beginning of university teaching and groundwork for Corpus Juris Canonici -- Territorial laws and various social categories and institutions -- Protagonists of theory and practice -- Perfecting and consolidating the system -- Doctrinal and institutional developments -- University texts and legislation -- Justice and its institutions -- The end of the middle ages.…”
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Looking Jewish : visual culture and modern diaspora / by Zemel, Carol M.

Table of Contents: “…Beyond the ghetto walls: shtetl to nation in photography by Alter Kacyzne and Moshe Vorobeichic -- Modern artist, modern Jew: Bruno Schulz's diasporas -- Z'chor! Roman Vishniac's photo-eulogy of Eastern European Jews -- Difference in diaspora: the Yiddishe mama, the Jewish mother, the Jewish princess, and their men -- Diasporic values in contemporary art: Kitaj, Katchor, Frenkel.…”
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FDR's ambassadors and the diplomacy of crisis from the rise of Hitler to the end of World War II / by Mayers, David Allan, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Rising sun; 2. Third Reich; 3. New Roman Empire; Part II. Victims: 4. Middle Kingdom; 5. …”
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Eastern Orthodox and Anglicans diplomacy, theology, and the politics of interwar ecumenism / by Geffert, Bryn, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Nineteenth-century precedents -- Outbreak of ecumenism -- The Roman Catholic Church -- False starts -- Anglican orders and Orthodox politics -- Jubilee, 1925 -- The Russian Student Christian Movement -- The prayer book crisis, 1927-1928 -- Lausanne, 1927 -- The fellowship of St. …”
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Desiring Rome : Male Subjectivity and Reading Ovid's Fasti / by King, Richard Jackson, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Desire and Ovid's Fasti -- Elite males, the Roman calendar and desire of mastery -- Ovid, Germanicus and homosocial desire -- Fasti, fantasy and Janus: an anatomy of libidinal exchange -- Monthly prefaces and the symbolic screen -- Under the Imperial name: Augustus and Ovid's "January" (Fasti, book one) -- Patrimony and transvestism in "February" (Fasti, book two) -- Epilogue: Ovid and broken form: three views.…”
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Chaucer and the Poets : An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde / by Wetherbee, Winthrop, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Love psychology: the Troilus and the Roman de la rose -- 3. History versus the individual: Vergil and Ovid in the Troilus -- 4. …”
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La fiction des déclamations by Mal-Maeder, D. van

Table of Contents: “…Un univers fictionnel -- Suasoires, controverses et les libertés de l'histoire -- Comédie humaine, tragédie humaine-- Mécanique du paratexte -- Un cas paradigmatique: la jeune fille violée -- Réalité et plaisir de la fiction -- Rhétorique de l'énonciation -- Jeux de rôles et de perspectives -- Déclamateur fictif: requérant ou intime -- Déclamateur fictif: avocat représentant un client -- Déclamateur fictif: avocat plaignant dans une accusation publique -- Descriptions et poésie -- Vraisemblance et persuasion -- Une esthétique de l'horreur -- Intertextualité et re exivite -- Autres voix -- Représentations de femmes -- Image de l'homosexualité -- Déclamations et romans -- La mise en scène déclamatoire dans le roman latin -- La double vie des personnages romanesques: le père, le fils et la marâtre assassine -- Héros déclamateurs: l'exemple de Leucippe et Clitophon .…”
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Papal justice subjects and courts in the Papal State, 1500-1750 / by Polverini Fosi, Irene

Table of Contents: “…A complex geography -- Roman tribunals in the early modern period -- The "new" inquisition and the pope's city -- The theater of justice -- Restless nobles -- Collaboration and conflicts : governors, bishops, inquisitors -- Sins and crimes -- Inside the family -- Disciplining the clergy -- Buon governo : between Utopia and reality -- Little fatherlands : local identity and central power -- Rivers of ink : petitions, memorials, letters -- Justice represented, justice recounted.…”
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George Sand toujours présente /

Table of Contents: “…L'amour et le mariage / Audrey Gendron -- Un ideal de perfectionnement personnel / Jeanne Gaudreau Rousseau -- Les romans champêtres et le realisme timide de George Sand / Catherine Larochelle -- L'espace mythique / Corinne Loumede -- Nature, ville et campagne / Karine St-Germain-Blais -- Un feminisme particulier / Dominique L. …”
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Roland Barthes at the Collège de France by O'Meara, Lucy

Table of Contents: “…Barthes's heretical teaching -- Leçon and 'Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure ... ' -- Comment vivre ensemble, Le Neutre and their context -- Japonisme and minimal existence in the Cours -- La Preparation du roman: the novel and the fragment -- Afterword -- Appendix: List of Roalnd Barthes's seminars and lecture courses at the École pratique des hautes etudes and the College de France, 1963-1980.…”
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Paul and his theology

Table of Contents: “…Blomberg -- Was Paul a Trinitarian? : a look at Romans 8 / Ron C. Fay -- Pauline pneumatology and the question of Trinitarian presuppositions / Andrew K. …”
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The birthday book by Censorinus

Table of Contents: “…-- Seed and conception -- Pregnancy -- The fetus -- Growth in the womb -- The origins of astrology -- The teachings of the pythagoreans -- Harmony and music -- Harmony in the womb -- Harmony in the mind and body -- Harmony in the universe -- Crisis years and the length of life -- The praise of caerellius -- Time and eternity -- Ages and centuries. the Roman secular games -- The great year -- The year -- The calendar -- The history of the world -- Months -- Days -- Hours.…”
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