634 research outputs found
Letter from Rory Cox to the U.S. Coast Guard Regarding the Ratepayers for Affordable Clean Energy
No full textLetter from Rory Cox to the U.S. Coast Guard Regarding the Ratepayers for Affordable Clean Energ
Torturing the new barbarians
No full textThis chapter reflects on the ways in which language and history have influenced both debates about torture and its employment by Western states since 2001. Primarily, it argues that the image and trope of the barbarian has played a central role in shaping discourses of terrorism. As terrorists have become the ‘new barbarians’ of the modern era, this has shifted expectations on how such individuals – characterized as fundamentally and existentially opposed to ‘civilization’ – can or should be treated. It argues that one of the most deleterious effects of this rhetoric of barbarism is that terrorists, or even those suspected of terrorism, have been subjected to illegal torture practices. Referring to the work of ontological security studies, the chapter attempts to explain why the barbarian metaphor is so attractive to developed states when confronted by the threat of modern terrorism. While the chapter focuses principally on the United States and the United Kingdom, it also highlights the pervasive spread of the connection between terrorism and barbarism across the international community
Rory O\u27More
No full textCourtship of Rory O\u27More and Kathleen Bawnhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/1961/thumbnail.jp
Letter from RACE's Roy Cox to U.S. Coast Guard
No full textRACE's (Ratepayers for Affordable Clean Energy) coordinator, Rory Cox writes letter to U.S. Coast Guard. Intention of letter is to submit a list of questions regarding the possible impacts of the Oceanway LNG facility
Origins of the just war:military ethics and culture in the ancient Near East
No full textOrigins of the Just War reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding the Greco-Roman period, establishing the extent to which ancient just war thought prefigured much of what we now consider to be the building blocks of the Western just war tradition.In this incisive and elegantly written book, Rory Cox traces the earliest ideas concerning the complex relationship between war, ethics and justice. Excavating the ethical thought of three ancient Near Eastern cultures—Egyptian, Hittite and Israelite—he demonstrates that the history of the just war is considerably more ancient and geographically diffuse than previously assumed. Cox shows how the emergence of just war thought was grounded in a desire to rationalise, sacralise and ultimately to legitimise the violence of war. Rather than restraining or condemning warfare, the earliest ethical thought about war reflected an urge to justify state violence. Cox terms this presumption in favour of war ius pro bello—the “right for war”—characterizing it as a meeting point of both abstract and pragmatic concerns.Drawing on a diverse range of ancient sources, Origins of the Just War argues that the same imperative still underlies many of the assumptions of contemporary just war thought and highlights the risks of applying moral absolutism to the fraught ethical arena of war.<br/
Patronage of the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and Ireland, 1291-1400
No full textThis study examines what motivated donors to the Knights Hospitaller throughout the British Isles from 1291 to 1400. The Hospitallers, a military-religious order which fought in the crusades, came to Britain and Ireland in the twelfth century. It soon became, due to the generosity of donors from all levels of society, one of the archipelago’s largest ecclesiastical institutions. This thesis is the first study of donations to the Hospitallers in the British Isles, allowing conclusions to be drawn about the Order’s patronage and relations with societies throughout Britain and Ireland. Chapter One discusses the role of the Hospitallers’ crusading, knighthood, and hospitality in motivating donors, finding that these traditional explanations behind patronage, particularly crusading, played only a minor role. Chapter Two finds that their military support of England did influence patronage by alienating support, but only in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The remaining chapters show what really motivated most patrons: personal and professional ties, particularly familial, religious benefactions, and localism. At each stage, the Hospitallers’ patronage is compared with that of other religious orders, finding that there was little difference between what motivated donations to military and non-military orders. Such a conclusion has important implications for the treatment of the military orders in studies of medieval religion, many of which relegate these orders to a subfield of crusade studies rather than treating them as a full part of mainstream religious life. It also suggests that we should reconsider the place of the military orders within the societies of late medieval Britain and Ireland. They were not valued by most donors primarily as outposts of the crusade movement, but rather were treated firstly as professed religious offering much the same services as any other house: intercessory prayer, employment, trade, and acting as a source of prestige for those who patronised them
Contesting torture:continuing debates, questions, and reflections
No full textThis chapter sets out some of the questions that orient the volume. It focuses on the contested nature of torture, proposing how this theme can be used to open up new questions, with attention to both practices and discourses that make torture possible
Stephen Partridge & Erik Kwakkel (eds.). Author, Reader, Book: Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice
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Divorce tools & techniques.
No full textHere are proven tactics, based on author Rory T. Weiler's 30 years of experience, for handling the common issues and complex problems that you encounter in your divorce practice
Open Educational Resources
No full textThe production, licensing, use and re-use of learning objects accessible through open access distribution will be the focus of this presentation. Noted author and scholar Dr. Rory McGreal will share his knowledge of the increasing opportunities and challenges associated with the open access publication of learning materials
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