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À nos lecteurs
No full textPirie Fernanda. À nos lecteurs. In: Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 26, 2017. Droit et Bouddhisme. Principe et pratique dans le Tibet prémoderne / Law and Buddhism. Principle and Practice in Pre-modern Tibet pp. 3-5
To Our Readers
No full textPirie Fernanda. To Our Readers. In: Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 26, 2017. Droit et Bouddhisme. Principe et pratique dans le Tibet prémoderne / Law and Buddhism. Principle and Practice in Pre-modern Tibet pp. 7-8
À nos lecteurs
No full textPirie Fernanda. À nos lecteurs. In: Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 26, 2017. Droit et Bouddhisme. Principe et pratique dans le Tibet prémoderne / Law and Buddhism. Principle and Practice in Pre-modern Tibet pp. 3-5
To Our Readers
No full textPirie Fernanda. To Our Readers. In: Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 26, 2017. Droit et Bouddhisme. Principe et pratique dans le Tibet prémoderne / Law and Buddhism. Principle and Practice in Pre-modern Tibet pp. 7-8
Albanian law and nation-building in northern Albania and Kosovo
No full textMy thesis explores the roles in Albanian nation-building of the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjin, an early-twentieth century codification of northern-Albanian customary practices, and the Pajtimi i Gjaqeve, a late-twentieth century movement to conciliate blood feuds in Kosovo. To understand them, we need to know: what both were, in their own terms; their significance; and how they relate to other aspects of nation-building, and comparative examples. I draw on participant-observation fieldwork, archive work and extensive interviews. Nation-building is necessarily complicated and the Albanian case particularly so. The existence of an Albanian nation was contested by neighbouring peoples, and its characteristics, by Albanians themselves. In this complex context, the text of the Kanun, and the Pajtimi i Gjaqeve, give us good insights into Albanian understandings of the nation, and associated nation-building activities, at pivotal points in national history. While the nation-building projects of the region had many elements in common, prominent ideas of a ‘national’ legal tradition are a distinctive aspect of the Albanian case. Both the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjin and the Pajtimi i Gjaqeve need to be understood as aspects of nation-building. In the context of a crumbling Ottoman Empire, by presenting Albanian customary practices in the form of a legal code, the Albanian codifier made claims about the contents and the people from whom they came. The Kanun demonstrated the existence of a distinct people with a tradition of self-governance and mediation; and made significant contributions to the crucial process of language standardisation. In the context of the 1990s break-up of Yugoslavia, ideas of an Albanian legal tradition re-emerged in Kosovo, in the Pajtimi i Gjaqeve which presented intra-Albanian disputes as national concerns, and drew on traditional values and customary practices to effect conciliations. Subsequently, the Movement itself has become a national resource, through reference to which important ideas about the nation are expressed
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The rule of laws ::a 4,000-year quest to order the world /
No full textFrom ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations. Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order. But laws were not simply instruments of power and social control. They also offered ordinary people a way to express their diverse visions for a better world. In The Rule of Laws, Oxford scholar Fernanda Pirie traces the rise and fall of the sophisticated legal systems underpinning ancient empires and religious traditions, while also showing how common people--tribal assemblies, merchants, farmers--called on laws to define their communities, regulate trade, and build civilizations. Although legal principles originating in Western Europe now seem to dominate the globe, the variety of the world's laws has long been almost as great as the variety of its societies. What truly unites human beings, Pirie argues, is our very faith that laws can produce justice, combat oppression, and create order from chaos
Pirie, Fernanda. Ordenar el mundo. Cómo 4.000 años de leyes dieron forma a la civilización. Traducción de Yolanda Fontal. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 2022.
No full textRecensión de: Pirie, Fernanda. Ordenar el mundo. Cómo 4.000 años de leyes dieron forma a la civilización. Traducción de Yolanda Fontal. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 2022
Pirie, Fernanda. Ordenar el mundo. Cómo 4.000 años de leyes dieron forma a la civilización. Traducción de Yolanda Fontal. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 2022.
No full textRecensión de: Pirie, Fernanda. Ordenar el mundo. Cómo 4.000 años de leyes dieron forma a la civilización. Traducción de Yolanda Fontal. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 2022
'To Save Them from the Dangers to their Faith’: Documenting Student Life at Catholic Women's Colleges
No full textThis article focuses on student life at Catholic women's colleges in the United States during the 20th century. These colleges helped acculturate many daughters of immigrants to middle-class American society, at the same time creating a specifically female and Catholic culture on college campuses. This evolving culture, which was characterized by the ideals of femininity, religion, and service, can be reconstructed through documentation from the college archives.Peer reviewe
‘A Well-Balanced Education’: Catholic Women’s Colleges in New Jersey, 1900-1970
No full textBy examining Catholic women's colleges in New Jersey during the period 1900-1970, this paper illustrates the complexity of developing a typology of Catholic women's colleges in the United States. The first Catholic women's college in New Jersey, College of Saint Elizabeth was established in 1899 by the Sisters of Charity; followed by Mount St. Mary's, later known as Georgian Court College, in 1908; Caldwell College in 1939; and Felician, originally a junior college, in 1967. Earlier typologies of Catholic women's colleges have divided them into elite liberal arts institutions and local, vocationally-oriented colleges which served the working and lower-middle-class daughters of immigrants. Using college catalogs and yearbooks from the four New Jersey colleges, this study compiles data on curriculum, the education of faculty, college costs, and student origins, and compares it to similar data from two elite colleges, Trinity in Washington, D.C. and Manhattanville in Purchase, New York. In spite of some pressure to offer vocational courses and the challenge of giving women religious faculty members the opportunity to pursue doctoral degrees, during this period New Jersey's Catholic women's colleges provided a Catholic liberal arts education for white middle-class women not unlike that offered at better known and more prestigious colleges. Only after 1970 did social and demographic changes begin to have an impact on the curriculum and student population of this sector of Catholic higher education.Peer reviewe
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