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In The Age of Reformation, first published in 1955, E. Harris Harbison shows why sixteenth-century Europe was ripe for a catharsis. New political and social factors were at work--the growth of the middle classes, the monetary inflation resulting from an influx of gold from the New World, the invention of printing, the trend toward centralization of political power. Against these developments, Harbison places the church--nearly bankrupt because of the expense of defending the papal states, supporting an elaborate administrative organization and luxurious court, and financing the...

The relationship between law and literature is rich and complex. In the past three and half decades, the topic has received much attention from literary critics and legal scholars studying modern literature. Despite the prominence of law and justice in Ancient Greek literature, there has been little interest among Classical scholars in the connections between law and drama. This is the first collection of essays to approach Greek tragedy and comedy from a legal perspective. The volume does not claim to provide an exhaustive treatment of law and literature in ancient Greece. Rather it...

How successful were the Athenians and other Greeks in bringing about the rule of law? What did the Greeks recognise as 'law' both in the 'polis' and internationally? How did the courts attempt to implement this ideal, and how successful were they?

This collection of essays sets out to answer these questions, focussing on the following themes: law, religion and the sources of legitimacy; substance and procedure; legal arguments in court; documents and witnesses; and law in an international context. There is much here to interest not only specialists in Greek law, but also those...

This is the fifth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C. in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the needs and interests of today's undergraduates, Greekless scholars in other disciplines, and the general public.

Classical oratory is an invaluable resource for the study of ancient Greek life and culture. The speeches offer evidence on Greek moral views, social and economic...

Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1752-1831) schrieb das Trauerspiel "Die Zwillinge" 1775 fur das von Friedrich Ludwig Schroder und Sophie Charlotte Ackermann ausgelobte "Hamburger Preisausschreiben" und gewann damit in Konkurrenz zu Johann Anton Leisewitz' motivgleichem Drama "Julius von Tarent" den Wettbewerb. Klingers Stuck handelt vom Streit um das Erstgeburtsrecht zwischen zwei gegensatzlichen Charakteren, der im Brudermord endet. Als eine der bedeutendsten Dramenproduktionen der Sturm-und-Drang-Periode eingeschatzt, weisen "Die Zwillinge" auf die geistigen Spannungsfelder der Epoche:...