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The impact of international law on British foreign policy to the United States, 1836-1846
(2019-10-26)The impact of international law on British foreign policy to the United States, 1836-1846 (Candidate: Charles Graham Earles, Sidney Sussex College) The decade from 1836 produced major tensions in British-American relations ... -
Citizenship, exile, and natural rights in medieval Roman law, ca. 1200-1400
(2016-11-10)This dissertation lies at the intersection of the history of political thought and legal history. It concerns the relationship between the political community (civitas) and the individual, as citizen (civis) and as human ... -
Jews and Muslims under Christian rule in the Iberian Peninsula in the mirror of fueros and cartas de población, c. 1017-1189
(2019-07-19)This dissertation reappraises the treatment of Jews and Muslims under Christian rule in eleventh- and twelfth-century Iberia as it is reflected in fueros and cartas de población. The proliferation of these charters coincided ... -
Virtue and the Philosophical Life in the Thomist Tradition at the University of Padua, from Aquinas to Cajetan (1225-1534)
(2019-07-19)This dissertation examines the place of the philosophical life at the University of Padua in the late Middle Ages. Scholars like Alain de Libera have addressed the question of whether arts faculty members in other medieval ...
