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In the mid- to late-1930s, while he was a student at the Gregorian University in Rome, Bernard Lonergan wrote a series of eight essays on the philosophy and theology of history. These essays foreshadow a number of the major themes in his life's work. The significance of these essays is enormous, not only for an understanding of the later trajectory of Lonergan's own work but also for the development of a contemporary systematic theology. In an important entry from 1965 in his archival papers, Lonergan wrote that the "mediated object" of systematics is Geschichte or the history that is lived and written about. In the same entry, he stated that the "doctrines" that this systematic theology would attempt to understand are focused on "redemption." The seeds of such a theology are planted in the current volume, where the formulae that are so pronounced in his later work first appear. Students of Lonergan's work will find their understanding of his philosophy profoundly affected by the essays in this volume

"The medical compendium entitled Zād al-musāfir wa-qūt al-ḥāḍir (Provisions for the Traveller and Nourishment for the Sedentary) and compiled by Ibn al-Jazzār from Qayrawān in the tenth century is one of the most influential handbooks in the history of western medicine. In the eleventh century, Constantine the African translated it into Latin; this translation was the basis for several commentaries compiled from the twelfth century on. The text was also translated into Byzantine Greek and three times into medieval Hebrew. The present volume includes a new critical edition of the Arabic text of books I and II, along with an annotated English translation, as well as critical editions of Constantine's Viaticum and the Hebrew versions by Ibn Tibbon, Abraham ben Isaac, and Do'eg ha-Edomi"--

Ranulf Higden (d.1364) was a monk at the abbey of St Werburgh in Chester. His most important literary work is this universal chronicle, which survives in over a hundred Latin manuscripts, testifying to its popularity. The earliest version of it dates from 1327, but Higden continued writing until his death, expanding and updating the text. It was also continued in other monastic houses, most importantly by John Malvern of Worcester. The English translation made by John Trevisa in the 1380s was also widely circulated and is included in this work, published in nine volumes for the Rolls Series between 1865 and 1886. The chronicle shows how fourteenth-century scholars understood world history and geography. Volume 2 contains the remainder of Book 1, on the description of Britain, and twenty-eight chapters of Book 2, on the early history of the world to the reign of Saul in Israel

Freedom from arrest -- Parliamentary elections -- Parliamentary wages -- The process of statutory regulation -- The royal courts and their procedures -- The texts -- Documents relating to parliamentary privilege -- Documents relating to parliamentary elections -- Documents relating to the payment of members of parliament

Brill authors Leen Spruit and Pina Totaro discovered the original manuscript of Spinoza's "Ethica" in the Vatican library. This spectacular discovery attracted a lot of media attention. This edition will be published in Brill's Texts and Sources on Intellectual History (BSIH) in August.The Vatican codex, which contains the complete text of Spinoza's Ethics, is the only surviving manuscript of this work and constitutes a document of great importance, as it predates the publication of the Opera Posthuma, which appeared in the first months of 1678

Der vorliegende Band verfolgt das Ziel, eine Auswahl von Texten, die mit der Selbstbezeichnung statutum seit dem 12. Jahrhundert aus allen Bereichen der spätmittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Herrschafts- und Gesellschaftsordnung überliefert sind, zum Gegenstand der interdisziplinären Diskussion zu machen. Kirchliche Statuten ebenso wie landesherrliche und städtische Ordnungen und Texte des Adels und der Bruderschaften erfahren als Phänomen von europäischer Bedeutung eine eingehende Analyse ihrer Genese. Ein weiterer großer Themenkreis ist die formalliterarische Bestimmung dieser Texte und ihre Zuordnung zur Kultur gelehrter Rechtswissenschaft. Dabei wird auch die normative Qualität von Statuten im Verhältnis zu anderen normierenden Texten geprüft. Damit verknüpft sich die Untersuchung der Rezeption und Verbreitung von Statutentexten: Die Fülle bezeugter Verwendungen zeigt ein Spannungsfeld, das von einer rein repräsentativen oder legitimatorischen Funktion bis hin zur unentbehrlichen Normgrundlage komplexer Institutionen reicht. Verblüffend ist hierbei ihre Funktionalität und die statuarische Modernität.

"Coming to terms with the rhetorical arts of antiquity necessarily illuminates our own ideas of public discourse and the habits of speech to which they have led. Tacitus wrote the Dialogus at a time (ca. 100 CE) when intense scrutiny of the history, the definitions, and the immediate relevance of public speech were all being challenged and refashioned by a host of vibrant intellects and ambitious practitioners. This book challenges the notion that Tacitus sought to explain the decline of oratory under the Principate. Rather, from examination of the dynamics of argument in the dialogue and the underlying literary traditions there emerges a sophisticated consideration of eloquentia in the Roman Empire. Tacitus emulates Cicero's legacy and challenges his position at the top of Rome's oratorical canon. He further shows that eloquentia is a means by which to compete with the power of the Principate"--