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This book examines the Roman imperial court as a social and political institution in both the Principate and Late Antiquity. By analysing these two periods, which are usually treated separately in studies of the Roman court, it examines continuities, changes, and connections in the six hundred years between the reigns of Augustus and Justinian.

An exploration of the extraordinary story of Jewish POWs in German captivity during the Second World War - extraordinary because of the contrast between Germany's genocidal policy towards Jews on one hand, and its relatively non-discriminatory treatment of Jewish POWs from western countries on the other.

Women in seventeenth century France enjoyed few rights, particularly regarding the choice of a husband. This book explores how Molière's comedies presented women using one of the few assets they had: their mastery of words, particularly the rhetoric of irony, to frustrate the plans of fathers, guardians, and other authority figures.

This book is the first monograph on neglected Portuguese poet and painter António Quadros (1933-1994). It analyses the question of what it means to be an author in Mozambique through Quadros's quirky literary works, which he published under three pennames, and interrogates Barthes's and Foucault's influential theories on authorship.

This volume builds upon social movement studies in the attempt to illuminate the dynamics of these protests in the various steps of their emergency, growth and decline.

A book-length treatment on the scholarship of John Gardner, engaging with many of the concepts, themes, and issues that were central to his philosophical work and outlook, written by a team of contributors whose own work has been influenced by Gardner.

This volume proposes a method for reading Milton's De Doctrina Christiana as an artifact of his process of theological thinking rather than as a repository of his doctrinal views. Jason A. Kerr argues that Milton's approach to theology underwent significant change in the course of his work on this treatise.

EU Citizenship Law analyses the legal framework and legal development of EU Citizenship and its relationship to other rights protected by EU law. By examining the complex legal status of Union citizenship, this book reflects on the wider economic, political, social, and emotional contexts that both complicate and inform EU membership.

This volume of Charles Burney's letters runs from 1794 to 1800, opening with his recovery from illness and ending with the shocking death of his daughter. His letters present his hectic social life, the publication of his final book, and his ever-present anxiety over the impact of the French Revolution.

Intruders in the Mind is an interdisciplinary attempt to bring together high-quality contributions to fundamental debates arising from the study of thought insertion. Making thought insertion its central topic, this compilation gathers a series of essays that offer a broad and thoughtful approach to several aspects of the study of the phenomenon.

Much of our knowledge of civic festivals in the Graeco-Roman East comes from material culture-inscriptions, coins, architecture, and art-works. This volume draws attention to the choices made on what to record (and where, and how) in a variety of different forms of material culture relating to Greek festivals from the Hellenistic to Roman periods.

The Germ of Justice covers the leading problems of contemporary jurisdiction to introduce current conversations surrounding the morality of law in an accessible way. Through the works of Hume, Hart, and others, it addresses the nature of law, relations between law and morality, and the demands that law makes of its officers and its subjects.

From 1938 to 1945, the Protestant church leader Martin Niemöller was detained as 'Hitler's Personal Prisoner' in Nazi concentration camps, and has been widely hailed as an icon of Christian resistance against the Nazis. Benjamin Ziemann uncovers a more problematic 'historical' Niemöller behind the legend of the resistance hero.

An indispensable guide for anyone working in or studying the field of diplomacy, this eighth edition of Satow's Diplomatic Practice provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of all areas of diplomacy and diplomatic practice.

This book is an article by article commentary on the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and its three Protocols on Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants. It analyses the nature of transnational organized crime, and examines how the Convention has been implemented since it came into force in 2003.

This edited volume explores the combination of cultural phenomena that have established and canonized the work of John Milton in a global context, from interlingual translations to representations of Milton's work in verbal media, painting, stained glass, dance, opera, and symphony.

This Handbook represents a collective exploration of the emerging field of applied philosophy of language, where philosophy engages with linguistic aspects of our social world. It explores such hot topics as dehumanizing speech, dogwhistles, taboo language, pornography, appropriation, implicit bias, speech acts, and the ethics of communication.

This Handbook contains everything you need to manage Read Write Inc. Phonics in your school. It provides the Reading Leader with advice on how to build an effective team of reading teachers, with guidance for day-to-day coaching and monitoring. Detailed assessment, grouping and tracking systems ensure children complete the programme quickly.

This groundbreaking and detailed study uses the province of Asia as a case study to examine the formation and evolution of Rome's imperial administrative institutions. Bradley Jordan examines Asia's rich epigraphy to show how local actors and communities helped to establish and maintain Rome's hegemony in the province.

This imaginative and richly detailed study explores the deep connection between desire and recollection in Shakespeare's poetry. Drawing on cognitive science, the early modern memory arts, and psychoanalysis, as well as works by contemporary authors, the book shows how Shakespeare's Sonnets treat memory as a form of poetic narrative.

The book is based on introductory lectures on financial economics delivered to master students in law in the Department of Law, University of Oxford. It seeks to give a basic understanding of financial economics, treating it as a field of economics applied to the study of financial markets and institutions.

This expansive and compelling literary biography details the many trips to Spain and Portugal that Graham Greene took in the last years of his life in the company of his friend, the priest and professor Leopoldo Durán. It shows how these trips provided the inspiration for Monsignor Quixote (1982), which became Greene's favourite of his own novels.

Confronting Colonial Objects traces recurring justifications and contestations of takings and returns in colonial history through the life story of cultural objects. It develops a theory based on justice, ethics, and human rights that confronts ongoing historic, legal, and economic entanglements and enables normative transformation.

How, why, and by whom was history written in medieval European monasteries? Benjamin Pohl investigates the communities' abbots or abbesses as prolific authors, patrons, commissioners, project managers, and facilitators of historical narratives; transforming our understanding of the writing of history in this fascinating period of Europe's history.

The Cambridge IGCSE Complete Mathematics Core Teacher Handbook offers expert support for the latest IGCSE Mathematics syllabus at Core level.

This stunning Oxford Children's Classic edition is the perfect introduction to Anne of Green Gables-the unbeatable coming-of-age story. Features the complete unabridged text, an introduction by Emma Norry, and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities and more . . .

This stunning Oxford Children's Classic edition is the perfect introduction to A Christmas Carol-the ultimate ghostly christmas tale. Features an introduction by Neil Gaiman and other bonus material including insights for readers, facts, activities and more . . .