Calculating promises : the emergence of modern American contract doctrine / / Roy Kreitner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910962172503321
• Autore: Kreitner Roy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, CA, : Stanford University Press, c2007
• ISBN: 9780804768054; 0804768056; 9781435608887; 1435608887
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 242 p. )
• Disciplina: 346.7302
• Soggetti: Contracts - United States - History; Promise (Law) - United States - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Gifts and promises revisited. The revolution in consideration doctrine ; The gift from beyond the grave: case law ; Responding to revolution: moving gifts and consideration through the twentieth century ; Speculating on gifts and promises -- pt. II. Speculations of contract. Distinguished gambles: the struggle to separate speculation and insurance from gambling ; "Contracts" for "futures": Commercial speculation and the gambling stigma ; Wagering in lives: the life insurance speculators ; Acquistive individuality vs. communal efficiency: conflicting policies and the love-hate relationship with risk -- pt. III. The narratives of incomplete contracts. Framing incomplete contracts ; The use and abuse of historical narrative: debates over incomplete contracts ; Evaluating the frame of incompleteness discourse.
• Sommario/riassunto: Presents the history of American contract law around the turn of the twentieth century. This book details shifts in our conception of contract by juxtaposing scholarly accounts of contract with case law, and shows how the cases exhibit conflicts for which scholarship offers just one of many possible answers.

Laura Battiferra and her literary circle : an anthology / / Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati ; edited and translated by Victoria Kirkham

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910955226403321
• Autore: Battiferri degli Ammannati Laura <1523-1589.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006
• ISBN: 9786611125301; 9781281125309; 128112530X; 9780226039244; 0226039242
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (527 p.)
• Collana: The other voice in early modern Europe
• Altri autori (Persone): KirkhamVictoria
• Disciplina: 851/.5
• Soggetti: Italian poetry - 16th century - History and criticism
• 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: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- THE OTHER VOICE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES -- VOLUME EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION -- VOLUME EDITOR'S BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTE ON TRANSLATION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- I POEMS FROM RIME DI MADONNA LAURA BATTIFERRA DEGLI AMMANNATI -- II POEMS FROM OTHER COLLECTIONS -- III "ORISON ON THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD" -- IV LETTERS -- APPENDIXES -- NOTES -- SERIES EDITORS' BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF FIRST LINES -- GENERAL INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Internationally known during her lifetime, Laura Battiferra (1523-89) was a gifted and prolific poet in Renaissance Florence. The author of nearly 400 sonnets remarkable for their subtlety, intricate narrative structure, and learned allusions, Battiferra, who was married to the prominent sculptor and architect Bartolomeo Ammannati, traversed an elite literary and artistic network, circulating her verse in a complex and intellectually fecund exchange with some of the most illustrious figures in Italian history. In this bilingual anthology, Victoria Kirkham gathers Battiferra's most essential writing, including newly discovered poems, which provide modern readers with a valuable social chronicle of ; sixteenth-century Italy and the courtly culture of the Counter-Reformation.