owing to the difficulty of framing general rules for all contingencies." In ancient Rome the Corpus Juris Civilis established a complex body of procedural and substantive rules, reflecting a strong commitment to the belief that law, not the arbitrary will of an emperor, is the appropriate vehicle...
It would become one of two magnetic poles of western civilization, the other being the Vatican. Just as the Essenes guarded the Holy Law during the troubled era of the first century, so did the Benedictine monks guard and copy in their Scriptoria, which played the role of medieval publishing...
Slavery is an ancient human practice of owning other people and using them to serve the personal or business needs of the individual or society. Slavery exists in many forms and, while abolished by most governments today, continues illegally primarily in the practice...
Shia believes that a caliph should be an imam selected by God from the Ahl al-Bayt (the “Household of the Prophet”). THE RASHIDUN CALIPHS A group of Muslim elders in Medina appointed Abu Bakr, the Prophet’s father-in-law, as the political leader of the Muslim community in response...
Commodus ordered the execution of his son and the beheading of Cleander at the suggestion of his mistress Marcia. Commodus’s cousin Annia Fundania Faustina, the praetorian prefect Julius Julianus, and his brother-in-law Mamertinus were also victims during this period. ...
Lord of Misrule, official of the late medieval and early Tudor period in England, who was specially appointed to manage the Christmas festivities held at court, in the houses of great noblemen, in the law schools of the Inns of Court, and in many of the colleges at the universities of ...
This idea of empire as a unifying force was never again realized after the fall of Rome. The nations arising from the ashes of the Roman Empire in Europe, and in Asia on the common basis of Islamic civilization (see Islamic world), pursued their individual imperialist policies. Imperialism be...
Ancient Rome Study Guide 7 chapters | 87 lessons Ch 1. Founding of Rome Ch 2. Politics of the Roman Republic Ch 3. Rulers of the Roman Empire Emperor Augustus Caesar | Titles, Reign & Death 9:47 Mark Antony of Rome | Overview, Biography & Death 5:33 Ancient Egypt's Cleopatra ...
the ancient world, accessible only to priests and to the initiated. In her bookMesopotamia, the Invention of the City, Gwendolyn Leick notes that ‘the overall impression of the Uruk monuments is of well-planned public spaces…designed for maximum accessibility, with great care being taken to ...
Leslie Mitchell's Spartacus (1933), his fictional representation of the slave rebellion in ancient Rome led by the eponymou... S Lyall - 《Clotho》 被引量: 0发表: 2022年 The aging effect on corneal curvature and the validity of Javal's rule in Hong Kong Chinese The current study ...