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The Catalan Hermaphrodite and the Inquisition
This book examines the life of Maria Duran, who was born with female genitalia, but was accused of being a man and subsequently put on trial for sorcery by the Portuguese Inquisition during the 18th century. François Soyer uses Maria's story to open a window onto the world of the experience of 'transing' gender, as well as the gendered attitudes and responses to the transgression of gendered norms that were adopted by churchmen, medical practitioners and ordinary lay men and women. Drawing on the surviving (and staggeringly 736-page long) sorcery trial dossier, Soyer analyses the secretive life of an individual who actively and deliberately 'transed' gender. The dossier analysis enables ins...
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Blacksmiths of Ilamba
This study analyzes the establishment of an iron foundry in the interior 18th-century of Angola. It was a fruit of the Portuguese Enlightenment, which encouraged investment in manufacturing, particularly of iron, a metal indispensable for military and technological purposes. However, the plans faced the resistance of African blacksmiths and founders who refused to learn foreign techniques and work processes. By emphasizing Central African agency, the book highlights the successful strategies of historical actors who scholars have largely ignored. Based upon a wide variety of sources from Brazilian, Portuguese, and Angolan archives, the book reconstructs how Africans were taken to work at the...
Precedentes Vinculantes e Assunção de Competência
Apresentamos como o incidente de assunção de competência trabalha de maneira dinâmica no contexto de valorização de precedentes legais, ou seja, a fixação de normas jurídicas gerais e concretas a partir de determinação do Código de Processo Civil, com base na constatação de que a compreensão da legislação a partir de conceitos jurídicos organizados de maneira teórica em textos doutrinários não é suficiente para a atuação rigorosa e técnica de qualquer estudioso e operador do Direito. O incidente de assunção de competência é precedente legal com ampla incidência nos tribunais de segunda instância e nos tribunais superiores. Com base nessa consideração, demonst...
The Statesman's Year-Book 1981-82
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Statesman's Year-Book 1980-81
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
