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Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

Enforcement law in ancient Rome

Journal of Modern Science
The subject of this article is Roman enforcement law. It has undergone numerous changes and evolutions over the centuries, with differences evident in the approach to execution on the person and property of the debtor.
Bartosz Piotr Stróżewski
doaj   +1 more source

Empire of coercion: Rome, its ruler and his soldiers [PDF]

, 2005
This thesis explores the basis of the political power wielded by Roman emperors. Its hypothesis is that their power was of an essentially coercive nature, and was a manifestation of the Roman ethos of competition for personal dominance.
Foulkes, Martin Edward
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

MALARIA IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME. [PDF]

The Lancet, 1907
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openaire   +2 more sources

Does the Rule of Law Require the Separation of Powers?

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
The separation of powers is an enigmatic political ideal, particularly in the context of the modern administrative state, in which administrative officials routinely perform a combination of legislative, judicial, and executive functions. In this article we reexamine this ideal by interrogating Adrian Vermeule's provocative claim that the separation of
Dimitrios Kyritsis, Matthew Lewans
wiley   +1 more source

State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

The History of the Protojournalism of Ancient Civilizations. Part 2. The Types of Communications of the Hellenistic States and Ancient Roma

Управленческое консультирование, 2018
In the article, the main spaces of communication of the Hellenistic states and Ancient Rome are investigated. Emergence of a gloss as independent genre is proved, the epistolography role in formation of protojournalistic work is established, stages of ...
Larisa Vladimirovna Lytkina
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The politics of immorality in ancient Rome

, 2002
Book synopsis: This book addresses the question not how immoral the ancient Romans were but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with immorality.
Edwards, Catharine
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Legitimacy and Persuasion in the Anglo‐Scottish Wars of the 1540s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The considerable efforts of the invading English to justify their activities and garner support during the Anglo‐Scottish wars of the 1540s are well known. Recent welcome attention to Scottish texts produced during the conflict has begun to correct a previous historiographical imbalance towards English materials.
Amy Blakeway
wiley   +1 more source