Georgius Cassander's De officio pii viri (1561) : critical edition with contemporary French and German translations / / Rob van de Schoor ; edited by Rob van de Schoor and Guillaume H. M. Posthumus Meyjes

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910798613003321
• Autore: Schoor Rob van de
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, , 1861-5996 ; ; Band 134
• Disciplina: 230.42
• Soggetti: Reformed Church - Doctrines; Counter-Reformation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table Of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Conspectus siglorum -- Abbreviations -- De officio pii viri / Le debvoir de l’homme de bien / Wie sich ein yeder Gottsfürchtiger … halten soll -- On the duty of the pious believer, the true lover of public peace during the present religious disunity within the Church -- The Afterlife of De officio pii viri -- A Closer Examination of some Editions -- Bibliography -- General index
• Sommario/riassunto: The printing history of perhaps the most influential tract in the history of irenicism (church reunification), Georgius Cassander's De officio pii viri, in 1561 presented at the Colloquy at Poissy, together with an overview of its afterlife and the numerous reactions it provoked, both by Protestants and Roman Catholics, will contribute to our understanding of the history of erasmian humanist irenicism. Two contemporary translations, one in German by Georg von Cell and one in French by Jean Hotman, show us how De officio pii viri was adapted to the ongoing struggle for church peace in different parts of Europe, a struggle that was led by jurists and theologians, outstanding members of the Republic of Letters, who were able to spread their ideas by their large epistolary networks. The life story of De officio pii viri highlights the birth, expansion and failure of ideas; how they profit from the ; support of the mighty and how they fail when opposed by the uncompromising: those who think they speak in the name of God.

Beyond Camelot [[electronic resource] ] : rethinking politics and law for the modern state / / Edward L. Rubin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792398303321
• Autore: Rubin Edward L. <1948->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2005
• ISBN: 1-282-15851-1; 9786612158513; 1-4008-2662-4; 0-691-11808-6
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (479 p.)
• Classificazione: 88.02
• Disciplina: 320/.01
• Soggetti: State, The - History; Political science - Philosophy; Public administration - History; Bureaucracy - History; Rule of law - History; United States Politics and government
• 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 (p. [341]-453) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. The structure of government -- pt. 2. Legal operations.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book argues that many of the basic concepts that we use to describe and analyze our governmental system are out of date. Developed in large part during the Middle Ages, they fail to confront the administrative character of modern government. These concepts, which include power, discretion, democracy, legitimacy, law, rights, and property, bear the indelible imprint of this bygone era's attitudes, and Arthurian fantasies, about governance. As a result, they fail to provide us with the tools we need to understand, critique, and improve the government we actually possess. Beyond Camelot explains the causes ; and character of this failure, and then proposes a new conceptual framework, drawn from management science and engineering, which describes our administrative government more accurately, and identifies its weaknesses instead of merely bemoaning its modernity. This book's proposed framework envisions government as a network of connected units that are authorized by superior units and that supervise subordinate ones. Instead of using inherited, emotion-laden concepts like democracy and legitimacy to describe the relationship between these units and private citizens, it directs attention to the particular interactions between these units and the citizenry, and to the mechanisms by which government obtains its citizens' compliance. Instead of speaking about law and legal rights, it proposes that we address the way that the modern state formulates policy and secures its implementation. Instead of perpetuating outdated ideas that we no longer really believe about the sanctity of private property, it suggests that we focus on the way that resources are allocated in order to establish markets as our means of regulation. Highly readable, Beyond Camelot offers an insightful and provocative discussion of how we must transform our understanding of government to keep pace with the transformation that government itself has undergone.