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A Commercial Soul in a Corporate Body: From the Medieval Merchant Guilds to the East India Company
No full textThis paper was presented in the framework of the workshop Companies and Company Law in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, held at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) in February 2012. In this occasion my expertise in commercial law history was recognized and the publication of the papers of the workshop gave me the opportunity to develop a topic which I had already touched in my PhD thesis, i.e., the very close link between the medieval merchant guilds and the chartered companies of the modern period. With reference to the juridical organization of the EIC, I underline the connection with the past during the first century after its foundation (e.g. voting system) rather than stressing the connections with the present structure of contemporary business corporations. The EIC is in fact usually described as an example of public company limited by shares, which is a questionable definition and cannot be applied to the EIC in the 17th century. This is my first publication in English
Reseña de la obra Theologians and Contract Law de Wim Decock
No full textReview of the work Theologians and Contract Law by Wim Decock.Reseña de la obra Theologians and Contract Law de Wim Decoc
Before Grotius. Some Remarks on Rebellion and Civil Strife in the Late-Medieval Ius Commune
No full textConveners: Wim Decock, Randall Lesaffer, Viktorija Jakjimovskastatus: Publishe
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Kapitel 16: Der Eid
No full textEver since the Middle Ages, the oath has been an effective means for avoiding or resolving conflicts, both in the sphere of private and criminal law.
In the Early Modern Period, its use has grown in various fields (contractual obligations, criminal justice, infrajustice), up to becoming excessive, with the consequence of being perceived – depending on the sphere of application – as ineffective or, on the contrary, oppressive. The essay seeks to outline the evolution and the crisis of the oath in the age of its secularization
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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