Comparative law in the courtroom and classroom : the story of the last thirty-five years / Basil Markesinis ; foreword by the Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451346803321
• Autore: Markesinis B. S.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; Portland, Oregon, : Hart Publishing, 2003
• ISBN: 1-4725-5937-1; 1-280-80091-7; 9786610800919; 1-84731-202-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Disciplina: 340/.2
• Soggetti: Comparative law; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index
• Nota di contenuto: Abbreviations -- Table of Cases -- 1. Reflections on the State of Comparative Law I: The Twilight of the Heroes -- 1. Of Ghettoes and Smart Neighbourhoods -- 2. Decline -- 2. Reflections on the State of Comparative Law II: The Death of Heroes and the Era of Societal Needs -- 1. The Emergence of a Strategy -- 2. The Rabel Method Over Time -- 3. Functional Specificity: More of the Same Medicine -- 4. Old (Bad) Habits and New (Silly) Threats -- 5. From Heroes to Movements of Contemporary Globalisation -- 3. Spreading the Gospel (and the Name of the Evangelist) -- 1. Aims to be Pursued -- 2. Warnings and Caveats -- 3. Some Raw Data -- 4. Drawing the First Lessons -- 5. The Situation in Germany -- 6. The Case of South Africa -- 7. A Postscript -- 4. Foreign Law Inspiring National Law: Lessons from Greatorex v Greatorex -- 1. The Theory Put into Practice -- 2. The German Model -- 3. The Application of the German Idea to Greatorex -- 4. Unresolved Questions -- 5. The American Dimension -- 6. Some Tentative Conclusions -- 5. The Focused Approach in Public Law -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Study in Parallel -- 3. The Reasoning of the Courts -- 4. In Search of a Rapprochement -- 5. Wider Conclusions -- 6. ; Reflecting on the Future: An Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Correspondence Between Lord Atkin and Professor H C Gutteridge -- Appendix 2: The German Approach -- Appendix 3: Databases Searched -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents an original, deliberately controversial and, at times, disturbing appraisal of the state of comparative law at the beginning of the 21st century: its weaknesses, its strengths, and its protagonists (most of whom were personally known to the author) during the preceding thirty-five years. It is also a reminder of the unique opportunities the subject has in our shrinking world. The author brings to bear his experience of thirty-five years as a teacher of the subject to criticise the impact the long association with Roman law has had on the orientation and well being of his subject. With equal force, he also warns against some modern trends linking it with variations of the critical legal studies movement, and urges the study of foreign law in a way that can make it more attractive to practitioners and more usable by judges. At the end of the day, this monograph represents a passionate call for greater intellectual co-operation and offers one way of achieving it. A co-operation between practitioners and academics on the one hand and between Common and (modern) Civilian lawyers on the other, in an attempt to save the subject from the marginalisation it suffered in the 1980s and from which the globalisation movement of the 21st century may be about to deliver it

Saints of the Christianization age of Central Europe (Tenth-Eleventh century) [[electronic resource] =] : Vitae sanctorum aetatis conversionis Europae Centralis (Saec. x-xi) / / edited by Gábor Klaniczay ; translated and annotated by Cristian Gaspar and Marina Miladinov ; with an Introductory essay by Ian Wood

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786314503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Budapest, : Central European University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 9786155225406; 615-5225-40-0; 1-283-83610-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (420 p.)
• Collana: Central European medieval texts, , 1419-7782 ; ; volume 6
• Altri autori (Persone): KlaniczayGábor
• Disciplina: 274.3/030922; B
• Soggetti: Christian saints - Europe, Central; Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern); Europe, Central Church history Early works to 1800
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The hagiography of conversion / Ian Wood -- Passion of Saint Wenceslas by Gumpold of Mantua / Marina Miladinov -- Life of Saint Adalbert Bishop of Prague and Martyr / Cristian Gaspar -- Life of the five brethren by Bruno of Querfurt / Marina Miladinov -- Lives of the Holy Hermits Zoerard the Confessor and Benedict the martyr by Blessed Maurus, Bishop of Pecs / Marina Miladinov -- Life of Blessed Gaudentius, Bishop of Osor / Marina Miladinov, with a preface by Zrinka Nikolic.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume is the first of two containing hagiographical narratives from medieval Central Europe. The lives of the saints in this volume, from the tenth to eleventh centuries, written not much later, are telling witnesses for the process of Christianization of Bohemia, Poland, Hungary and Dalmatia. Most of them became patrons of their region and highly venerated throughout the Middle Ages. The volume presents the first English translation of a legend of each of these saints with the ; most recent critical edition of the Latin original and prefaces discussing the textual tradition. In an appendix the extensive hagiographical literature of the saints is being critically surveyed.