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...Giovanni Ceccarelli © by Duke University Press 2001 a Risky Business: Theological and Canonical Thought on Insurance from the Thirteenth...

... Fund, and the United Nations was supposed to insure the world even more against the risks of sudden shifts in the global system. But since the beginning of the twentieth century, a resurgence of popular nationalism has eroded the credibility of such institutions and the assumptions of inter- national...

... elites sought from the king their own parlement in order to insure local privileges and powers. The authority to challenge formally the edicts of the king and obtain concessions was theo- retically available to those localities that enjoyed their own parlement. Humanists in the provinces deployed...

... the potential for academic tokenism, out of a determina- tion to insure that Awkward’s appearance at the Kalamazoo Medieval Con- gress, whatever its value as spectacle, leads to further engagement with medieval race. If, by the high Middle Ages, artists possessed...

... impulse to bring all peoples into the fold of the Church before the end of time. Multitudinous baptisms would insure the legitimacy of forcing “con- verted” Indians to listen to the Holy Gospel, but beyond disapproving of 520  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 37.3 / 2007 such methods...

.... Otherwise the state would have to be crushingly oppressive in order to insure social stability” (186). But apart from the opiate of consumerism, he continues, “nothing has replaced Christianity in providing for shared goods” (187). But once we shift from the common good to certain goods...

... before leaving Portugal — probably under suspicions of 582  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 41.3 / 2011 Judaizing — and had spent some four years in Lyon before moving to Italy. He and his son João were active in a variety of commercial activities —  from maritime insurance...

..., since the voivode is referred to as a pious Orthodox ruler many years before, in His conversion is rather the out- come of his contemplation of imminent death in a nal insurance of his reconciliation with God. It is likely that Voivode Alexander rst took the name Nicholas in articulo mortis...

... after the Ridolfi plot), and kidnap Cecil s sons as insurance.44 Leicester continues: the duke of Norffolke shalbe arraigned one wensday next, his case will fall out ill against him. I beleeue his prolonginge hith- erto hath geven some new cause of other shrewd matters to be attempted, chieflie against...

..., as is evident in a sternly worded memorandum that advises her to exclude Jews from all official posts and insure that they live apart from Christians and wear a dis- tinguishing badge. He also imperiously calls for her to punish severely the many who in her kingdom “blaspheme and deny God and the saints...

..., which in turn insured the procure- ment of food. It was in this stream of fluid sociosomatic transmutations that waste assumed new meaning. Fletcher spoke of a theory of economic nutri- tion, Goodwin Brown explained, because “its fundamental purpose is to save the body from unnecessary labor...

...), Xian ju cong gao (Wen yuan ge Siku quan shu edition), vol. 1210, 10.4b–5. Pu, writing some time after 1316, goes on to describe an insur- rection in which few officials proved loyal, concluding with the familiar refrain, “never were they able to preserve the right like widows do.” 28...

... When the word grace actually appears in medical remedies, we should take pause. The most common locution, by far, is the phrase “by goddes grace,” as in the recipes of Lambeth Palace MS 306 or Fitzwilliam College MS 51.68 It can be seen as a kind of practitioners’ insurance clause...

... that the job will be completed before he consummates his “flirtation.” In a bid to insure his romantic success, Calandrino “cominciò molto a strignere e a sollecitar Bruno” [began to Legassie / Lies of the Painters  493 solicit Bruno’s aid with all of the power...

... facilitated it. Furthermore, the shift was never complete in that the two regimes contin- ued to coexist (as they still do). The highly partisan, controversial nature of print culture in the seventeenth century insured that most readers could not take words printed...

... of the Bible also has a certain practical appeal. Liturgical historian William D. Maxwell has pointed out the utili- 108 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 33.1 / 2003 tarian value of such a lectionary, for it insures that nothing is left out: “the consecutive method of reading is the chosen...

... at Bury, which is located within the same contested region and which suffered under the appropriation of lands described by the Ely chronicler, the house’s pre-Conquest regard for the Normans insured that the cult of St. Edmund was a favored one after the Saxon defeat. Indeed, many of the royal...