Schmid cannot offer role models for those engaged in present day struggles in different contexts, which might require very different forms of resistance. However, Arendt suggests that such stories can be a powerful way to dismantle heroic mythologies that
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“Give Me Back My Son!”
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Emotion Talk, and the Gendering of Political Rhetoric
Linda E. Mitchell
Pontius Pilate. In fact, she refers specifically to Judas: Leopold has no other equal in evil. Eleanor wonders why Celestine continues to do nothing, even though the emperor is hardly a role model of Christian piety. “He does not spare monks, recluses
Women and Family Law in Byzantium
Some Notes
Niki Megalommati
consolidate family life and promote it as the primary model in society. Hence, they integrated the canons of the Quinisext Council (691/692)—also known as the Council in Trullo—into the civil legislation system with an aim to reinforce the importance of
Envisaging Eternity
Salian Women’s Religious Patronage
Nina Verbanaz
, Roman, and the Carolingian. Among coronation practices, the Carolingian example of papal oversight prevailed, even though the Ottonians had encouraged a classical model of imperial authority by acclamation. 18 The Salians, when planning their dynastic
Learning to Judge Politics
Professor John Dunn (Interviewed by Professor Lawrence Hamilton)
John Dunn and Lawrence Hamilton
degree of personal accountability, I don't think that the problem can be fixed. On my model of a more successfully politically educated citizenry, that citizenry would be far more interested in political parties. Political parties are the selection
Coulthard, Glen Sean. Red Skin, White Masks
Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
Elaine Coburn
Canada’ (27). In what seems to me to be a similarly careless or, if he is serious, misguided way, he claims that: ‘Benhabib’s model potentially renders rectifying forms of recognition and redistribution unattainable for Indigenous groups … her theory
Wrist Clasps and Patriliny
A Hypothesis
Frank Battaglia
principle. 51 Gelling’s assessment would seem to indicate that communities on that model had become the administrative units of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom by Redwald’s time. 52 D-bracteates, Beowulf , and Patriliny Five coastal fylker —roughly counties
Book Roundtable
Discussion text: Chin, C. 2018. The Practice of Political Theory: Rorty and Continental Thought.
Lasse Thomassen, Joe Hoover, David Owen, Paul Patton, and Clayton Chin
interpretations are brought into play. However, if one is also seeking to persuade one's audience that Rorty offers a model of the practice of socio-political criticism that deserves to be widely taken up, then I think that something more is required, namely, a
Territorial Sovereignty
A Discussion
Professor Anna Stilz and Interviewed by Dr Christine Hobden
order, which is what many cosmopolitans advocate for. The contemporary debate is marked by these two models for international order – a kind of more Vattalian pluralistic system that would be composed of distinct self-determining peoples, and then a more
The Future of Representative Politics
On Tormey, Krastev and Rosanvallon
Mihail Evans
tradition. It is thus not surprising that when protests broke out anarchist organising models were turned to and that the ‘participants resisted any attempt to elect leaders or a body that could represent the occupations and assemblies themselves’ ( Tormey