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The archaeological evaluation done in July 2011, at the bottom of the bailey of Betz-le-Château, in the south of the Touraine region, gave us significant information about the methods used to defend the village during the feudal era.
Samuel Riou, Flore Marteaux
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The feudal structure of global health and its implications for decolonisation. [PDF]
Keshri VR, Bhaumik S.
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Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax
Abstract This article discusses the relationship between the systemization of kharāj (land tax) and the higher objective of Islamic law or Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa. After the conquest of Sawād region (located in modern‐day southern Iraq), the First Caliph ʿUmar (634 ‐ 644 CE) introduced a new approach to the distribution of ghanīmah (spoils of war), leaving ...
Öznur Özdemir, Mehmet Asutay
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On Robustness to Random Breaks in Panel Data
ABSTRACT One of the attractions of panel data is the ability to pool information regarding parameters that are common across the cross‐section. In fact, pooling is standard even though there are often reasons to believe that parameters are not common. One reason for this practice is that there is quite some evidence to suggest that estimators of common
Yousef Kaddoura, Joakim Westerlund
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How can we live together? It is a question that Pierre Manent is raising in one of his pathbreaking works. One of his answers is because we learned to create lines of separations.
Liviu Radu
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This paper presents Jacques Flach’s Collège de France course in primitive law, which he taught from 1892 until 1904. It insists on the specificity of his historical and comparative approach. Ever attentive to studying institutions in their context, Flach
Frédéric Audren
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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INSTITUTE OF PROPERTY RIGHTS THROUGH A HISTORICAL PRISM
The institute of property rights is one of the oldest legal institutes. It appears as a historically determined form of social relations that arises in connection with the appropriation and possession of material goods.
Vesna Rajaković Jovčić +2 more
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A Taxonomic Hierarchy of Blockchain Consensus Algorithms: An Evolutionary Phylogeny Approach. [PDF]
Kim H, Kim D.
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Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
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