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Saxon and Medieval Antecedents of the English Common Law
This volume provides an interdisciplinary approach to legal history, utilizing law, linguistics, cultural anthropology and social history to document and analyze the slow but steady growth of the English common law from Anglo-Saxon times to the 19th century.
The Mind of Leibniz
This volume attempts to resolve the century old dispute between Newton and Leibniz over the discovery of the calculus, and also explores both the mind and the life long research of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, documenting his phenomenal mathematical and philosophical research, as well as the apparent nature and possible origins of genius and human intelligence.
Historical Dictionary of Leibniz's Philosophy
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was one of the first modern philosophers and one of the most important. His contributions were often groundbreaking, and his impact remains in such fields as logic, mathematics, science, international law, and ethics. Historical Dictionary of Leibniz's Philosophy, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on Leibniz’s philosophy, written work, teachers, contemporaries, and philosophers influenced by him. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Leibniz's Philosophy.
Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780–1940
Revised edition of the author's Science, sexuality, and race in the United States and Australia, 1780s-1890s, 2009.
Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 31
Ten papers from the 10th conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists held at the University of Helsinki in 2001. Contents: The landscape of Beowulf ( Margaret Gelling ); Sceaf, Japheth and the origins of the Anglo-Saxons ( Daniel Anlezark ); The Anglo-Saxons and the Goths: rewriting the sack of Rome ( M R Godden ); The Old English Bede and the construction of Anglo-Saxon authority ( Nicole Guenther Discenza ); Daniel, the Three Youths fragment and the transmisssion of Old English verse ( Paul G Remley ); An integrated re-examination of the dating of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 11 ( Leslie Lockett ); Aelfric on the creation and fall of the angels ( Michael Fox ); The colophon of the Eadwig Gospels ( Richard Gameson ); Public penance in Anglo-Saxon England ( Brad Bedingfield ); The Bayeux Tapestry': invisible seams and visible boundaries ( Gale R Owen-Crocker ); Bibliography.
The Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human Rights
The Scottish Invention of America, Democracy and Human Rights is a history of liberty from 1300 BC to 2004 AD. The book traces the history of the philosophy and fight for freedom from the ancient Celts to the creation of America, asserting the roots of liberty originated in the radical political thought of the ancient Celts, the Scots' struggle for freedom, John Duns Scotus and the Arbroath Declaration (1320), a tradition that influenced Locke and the English Whig theorists as well as our Founding Fathers, particularly Jefferson, Madison, Wilson and Witherspoon. Author Alexander Klieforth argues the Arbroath Declaration (1320) and its philosophy was the intellectual foundation of the America...
The Political Thought of Thomas Spence
The book is an intellectual analysis of the political ideas of English radical thinker Thomas Spence (1750–1814), who was renowned for his "Plan", a proposal for the abolition of private landownership and the replacement of state institutions with a decentralized parochial organization. This system would be realized by means of the revolution of the "swinish multitude", the poor labouring class despised by Edmund Burke and adopted by Spence as his privileged political interlocutor. While he has long been considered an eccentric and anachronistic figure, the book sets out to demonstrate that Spence was a deeply original, thoroughly modern thinker, who translated his themes into a popular la...
