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Maritime Risk Management
Insurance is a legal, an actuarial and a financial product, and it is one out of many risk management strategies. It follows that its history can only be studied in the broader context of the development of such strategies, applying an interdisciplinary approach. The theme of the present volume is maritime risk management. After an overview over the history of insurance, the contributions to the present volume examine different maritime risk management strategies by adopting a variety of methodological approaches. Some contributions focus on normative provisions, others contrast practice with legal scholarship, or focus on the emergence of insurance companies as opposed to individual insurers. Again, other contributions give insights in marine insurance practice in specific cities or analyse insurance practice through the lens of specific insurance litigation. As to the time frame, the different contributions span from antiquity to the nineteenth century.
Textual Agency
Textual Agency examines the massive proliferation of poetic texts in fifteenth-century Spain, focusing on the important yet little-known cancionero poetry – the largest poetic corpus of the European Middle Ages. Ana M. Gómez-Bravo situates this cultural production within its social, political, and material contexts. She places the different forms of document production fostered by a shifting political and urban model alongside the rise in literacy and access to reading materials and spaces. At the core of the book lies an examination of both the materials of writing and how human agents used and transformed them, giving way to a textual agency that pertains not only to writers, but to the inscribed paper. Gómez-Bravo also explores how authorial and textual agency were competing forces in the midst of an era marked by the institution of the Inquisition, the advent of the absolutist state, the growth of cities, and the constitution of the Spanish nation.
2005
Annually published since 1930, the International Bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The IBOHS is thus currently the only continuous bibliography of its kind covering such a broad period of time, spectrum of subjects and geographical range. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and alphabetically according to authors names or, in the case of anonymous works, by the characteristic main title word. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.
The Old Law of Bizkaia (1452)
In 1452, Bizkaians assembled at the Oak of Gernika and approved the Fuero Viejo de Bizkaia (the Old Law of Bizkaia) one of Europe's most important yet little known medieval legal codes. Its laws encompassed an extraordinary range of individual and collective liberties, anticipating the 18th-century Declarations of Rights contained in the constitutions of the U.S. and France. It was extraordinarily modern in both spirit and letter and attracted the attention and admiration of John Adams and William Wordsworth. Its influence survives to the present day, underpinning Bizkaian and Basque claims to their own political identity within the Spanish state. Distributed for the Center for Basque Studies.
Protegierte und Protektoren
Protektion ist ein Schlüsselbegriff der politisch-sozialen Sprache der europäischen Neuzeit. Der vorliegende Band rückt die sich wandelnden Semantiken und Praktiken des Schutzes vom 16. bis frühen 20. Jahrhundert erstmals systematisch in den Blick. Die Beiträge spannen einen weiten Bogen von Jean Bodins Definition von Protektion als ungleiche Allianz über das völkerrechtliche Institut des Protektorats bis hin zu den gegenwärtigen Debatten um eine responsibility to protect. Ausgewählte Fallbeispiele zeigen auf, dass politische Schutzverhältnisse nicht nur ein Macht- und Legitimationsinstrument der Großen waren. Sie stellten auch eine Option für mindermächtige Akteure dar, um ihre Unabhängigkeit zu wahren oder sich gegen Übergriffe des eigenen Herrschers zur Wehr zu setzen. Zugleich konnte die erlangte Sicherheit jedoch stets wieder in den Verlust der eigenen Selbständigkeit münden. Der Band leistet einen Beitrag zum vertieften historischen Verständnis einer Problematik, die nichts an Aktualität eingebüßt hat.
Les entourages princiers à la fin du Moyen Âge
Auscultant les entourages princiers des deux derniers siècles du Moyen Âge sous l'angle particulier des effectifs qui les composent, cet ouvrage s'attache à explorer la question de la perception numérique que les princes et leurs contemporains avaient du nombre de leurs serviteurs et curiaux. Les études ici réunies réfléchissent aux discours tenus sur l'ampleur des Cours et Hôtels, ainsi qu'aux raisons de l'enrôlement à leur service d'un nombre d'hommes et de femmes plus ou moins conséquent et fluctuant. Ce faisant, elles analysent à la fois les besoins administratifs, politiques, matériels, mais aussi les motivations symboliques ou idéologiques qui déterminent les variations de la taille des entourages princiers, pour mieux questionner l'adaptation de leurs effectifs au principe de réalité comme à l'idéal de gouvernement. À travers le nombre des hommes, ce volume prête donc une attention particulière aux représentations de la grandeur, aux ambitions des princes et à leur positionnement par ce biais les uns par rapport aux autres.
Teatro
Teatro de Ernesto Burgos (Zaragoza, 1897-Barcelona, 1948) supone la recuperación de las obras dramáticas conservadas de este desconocido autor aragonés, que ejerció la escritura teatral desde mediados de los años veinte a mediados de los cuarenta. Fue también el fundador y director de la revista zaragozana Pluma Aragonesa, en la que colaboraron muchos autores aragoneses, tanto escritores como pintores. Su teatro aborda temas muy diferentes, entre los que dominan la familia, la educación o la herencia genética. Escribió dramas bíblicos en verso (Ismael), teatro histórico (Pregón) o comedia de costumbres.
Fuentes del Derecho histórico de Bizkaia
Esta obra examina la evolución de las fuentes del Derecho de Bizkaia, centrándose en el Derecho Territorial. En el Derecho territorial general de todo el Señorío, se incluyen los tres cuerpos normativos que en la segunda mitad del siglo XV recibieron el nombre de Quadernio de Vizcaya. Estuvo compuesto por dos textos de contenido fundamentalmente penal –el de Juan Núñez de Lara de 1342 y las Ordenanzas de Gonzalo Moro de 1394– y por un tercero, el Fuero Viejo de 1452, que puede considerarse el texto general de Derecho consuetudinario vizcaíno. Lo destacable es su carácter fundacional, puesto que sus fórmulas normativas y las instituciones de Derecho público y privado que contien...
