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De Jean de Berry, l’histoire a retenu l’image d’un prince mécène et bibliophile, ardent défenseur de la couronne au temps de Charles V et de Charles VI. Doté d’une principauté au centre du royaume, tenue en apanage, il a développé une administration dont les contours ont déjà été reconnus. Sa chancellerie, en revanche, a peu retenu l’attention. C’est autour des pratiques de l’écrit documentaire, actes en tête, que s’organise la présente publication. Celle-ci se veut une contribution à une meilleure connaissance de l’acte princier des xive et xve siècles, un domaine qui, s’il a été illustré par divers historiens et diplomatistes, ne l’a été jusqu’à maintenant que de façon discontinue et incomplète. Par l’extension géographique et la variété de ses pouvoirs, par sa proximité avec la personne royale (il a été successivement fils, frère, oncle de roi), par la durée de son activité (une soixantaine d’années, de 1356 à 1416), Jean de Berry a légué un corpus central pour l’étude de l’acte princier. Un acte princier qui devient, à l’époque, une pièce importante de la production diplomatique et, par la captation de traits royaux, un outil efficace de la genèse de l’État moderne et de l’apprentissage de la sujétion. Organisation, recrutement, fonctionnement de la chancellerie, gestion de la mémoire des actes, traits internes et externes des productions, manifestations du pouvoir dans les titulatures et les sceaux, méthodes d’édition… sont scrutés dans les contributions de ce volume, non seulement pour Berry, mais aussi, de façon délibérément comparative, pour plusieurs de ses contemporains (princes anglais et navarrais, ducs de Bourbon, d’Anjou et de Bretagne).

The application properties and the final coating properties of waterborne polymer dispersions are poor compared to the ones of polymer solutions with organic solvents. This is expressed by a short open time and by inhomogeneities and defects that are visible in the final dry coating.Aim of this work is an investigation and discussion of the different aspects that are responsible for the poor application and coating properties of aqueous latex dispersions by experiments and model calculations.

Die Reihe besteht seit 1980 und setzt ihren Schwerpunkt auf Arbeiten zur theoriebasierten Beschreibung der Grammatik und Lexik slawischer Gegenwartsprachen. Sie umfasst Monographien, thematische Sammelbände und Tagungsbände. Publiziert wird in jenen slawischen Sprachen, die der Thematik und dem Zielpublikum am besten entsprechen, und darüber hinaus auf Deutsch und Englisch. Publikationsvorschläge und Manuskripte werden vom Herausgeber und einem fachlich kompetenten ExpertInnenkreis begutachtet.

As the fastest growing source of energy in the world, wind has a very important role to play in the global energy mix. This text covers a spectrum of leading edge topics critical to the rapidly evolving wind power industry. The reader is introduced to the fundamentals of wind energy aerodynamics; then essential structural, mechanical, and electrical subjects are discussed. The book is composed of three sections that include the Aerodynamics and Environmental Loading of Wind Turbines, Structural and Electromechanical Elements of Wind Power Conversion, and Wind Turbine Control and System Integration. In addition to the fundamental rudiments illustrated, the reader will be exposed to specialized applied and advanced topics including magnetic suspension bearing systems, structural health monitoring, and the optimized integration of wind power into micro and smart grids.

This volume, the second of a five-volume edition of the third order of the Jerusalem Talmud, deals in part I (Soṭah) with the ordeal of the wife suspected of adultery (Num 5) and the role of Hebrew in the Jewish ritual. Part II (Nedarim) is concerned with Korban and similar expressions, vows and their consequences, and vows of women (Num 30).

The Specter of AIDS is a transdisciplinary text originally written in 1980s Brasil in a time of pandemic emergency. It situates how HIV/AIDS reconfigured intimacy, sexuality, and power while also providing a minoritarian theory of desire lived by dissident sexualities in 1980s Latin America. Perlongher’s paper exposes a new barometer of life undergirded by medico-scientific reason, religious ideology, and morality — in other words, a re-actualization and intensification of normative reason. In nuanced prose combined with wit, rigorous scholarship, political alertness, and poetics, Perlongher delineates how HIV/AIDS serves as a blueprint for how viral threats shed light on the inequitable unevenness of this world. Written in Portuguese in 1987 and then published in Spanish in 1988, this translation offers an un/timely reading for the 21st century as it shows how new contaminants threaten national public health’s paradigms of gendered and racialized structures: their borders, bodies, and good comportment.

Der Reichshofrat zählt zu den herausragenden europäischen Höchstgerichten seiner Zeit und zu den wichtigsten Institutionen des Heiligen Römischen Reichs deutscher Nation in der Frühen Neuzeit (16.-18. Jahrhundert). In unmittelbarer Nähe zum Kaiser bearbeitete er Rechtsstreitigkeiten und Lehenssachen, Privilegienangelegenheiten und die Bitten Einzelner um Hilfe, Schutz und Vermittlung. Die systematische und ausführliche Verzeichnung der im Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv in Wien erhaltenen Reichshofratsakten vermittelt einen umfassenden Einblick in die Aufgaben zur Erhaltung des Rechtsfriedens, mit denen sich der Reichshofrat zu beschäftigen hatte. Dabei werden nicht nur politisch hochbrisante Konflikte um Herrschaft, Konfession und Territorien zwischen den Mächtigen des Reichs erfasst. Sichtbar werden auch alltägliche Streitigkeiten um Schulden, Erbschaften und Versorgung, die von Adeligen und Nichtadeligen, Geistlichen und Laien, Frauen und Männern aus dem gesamten Reich vor das Reichsoberhaupt getragen wurden. Die Verzeichnung wird damit zu einem ergiebigen Hilfsmittel sowohl für die Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte als auch für die gesamte Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte des Alten Reichs und Europas.

Digitalization is reshaping the world of law; this also necessitates changes in legal education. The volume is dedicated to central questions of this change: transformations in the law and its professions, essential competencies as well as teaching concepts and their curricular anchoring. It contains the contributions of a conference organized at the University of Hamburg by the Center for Legal Didactics in cooperation with the Center for Law in the Digital Transformation. The authors are experts in law and legal education from academia and practice in Germany and abroad. They address fundamental questions as well as developments in the legal profession and concrete examples from teaching. With contributions by Bettina Mlieke | Prof. DR. Nora Rzadkowski, MHE | Prof. Dr. Tilmann Repgen | Dr. Werner Schäfke-Zell | Prof. Dr. Mareike Schmidt | Prof. Dr. Margit Seckelmann | Anton Sefkow | Ri’in OLG Dr. Dagmar Synatschke | Prof. Dr. Eric Steinhauer | Dr. David Tebel | Prof. Dr. Hans-Heinrich Trute

Este livro resulta desse processo e conta com a participação de docentes e discentes que integram o Grupo de Estudos, Pesquisas e Assessoria em Políticas Sociais (GEAPS) e o Núcleo de Estudos, Pesquisas e Práticas Sociais (NUPEPS). Apresenta discussões de grande importância para o Serviço Social, na medida em que se propõem refletir sobre Seguridade Social no Brasil, trazendo discussões mais amplas como: o financiamento e a mercantilizarão das políticas sociais; a trajetória histórica do controle social, especialmente no âmbito da saúde; e a gestão do trabalho no Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) no contexto da reestruturação produtiva. Encontramos também nesta coletânea textos que apresentam resultados de investigação que tiveram por objetivo analisar de forma mais específica a realidade do município de Campina Grande (PB), no que se refere à implantação da Estratégia Saúde da Família, a partir da avaliação de profissionais da área; às concepções de aconselhamento de DST/Aids a gestantes por parte dos profissionais das Unidades Básicas de Saúde da Família; e às Organizações da Sociedade Civil de atendimento às pessoas com deficiência.

"Myst and Riven is well-written, interesting, on-topic, insightful, and a real pleasure to read." -Edward Castronova, Indiana University Video games have become a major cultural force, and within their history, Myst and its sequel Riven stand out as influential examples. Myst and Riven: The World of the D'ni is a close analysis of two of the most popular and significant video games in the history of the genre, investigating in detail their design, their functionality, and the gameplay experience they provide players. While scholarly close analysis has been applied to films for some time now, it has only rarely been applied at this level to video games. Mark J. P. Wolf uses elements such as graphics and sound, the games' mood and atmosphere and how they are generated, the geography and design of the digital worlds, and the narrative structures of the games to examine their appeal to both critical and general audiences, their legacy, and what made them great. Myst and Riven is the inaugural book in the Landmark Video Games series, edited by Mark J. P. Wolf and Bernard Perron, which is the first series to examine individual video games of historical significance.

The Gothic Novel in Ireland, 1760-1830 reveals how the Irish contribution to the rise of the gothic novel is all too frequently overlooked. Irish writers were actively engaged in shaping the form now conventionally understood as beginning with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764). Obviously an important text in the evolution of the gothic mode, the ostensibly pioneering Castle of Otranto was actually preceded by two Irish novels: Thomas Leland’s Longsword (1762) and The Adventures of Miss Sophia Berkley (1760), by ‘A Young Lady’. Neither of these texts overshadows Walpole’s, but their omission from the literary history of the British gothic novel is nevertheless a telling indication of the exclusionary nature of current scholarly perspectives. Christina Morin’s adroit and percipient text reveals how the Gothic was very much an international genre.

Irish language place-names were largely recorded in non-standardized anglicized spelling, which is variously subject to influences like diverging dialects, and socio-historical change. Following the partition of Ireland in 1921, place name research and authority is disconnected. In the Republic of Ireland, Irish is the first official language, reflected in support via a number of statutory bodies. The Placenames Committee within the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Government of Ireland) is the main authority on place names, and advises government on official place names as defined in legislation (Official Languages Act, 2003). The Logainm.ie place names database and Meitheal Logainm.ie community place name collection project, developed by Dublin City University, reflect further Government support for place-name scholarship and usage. Irish has (currently) no similar legal protection in Northern Ireland, and therefore no official requirement for Irish versions of names for administrative or other purposes. Despite this, the Northern Ireland Place-Name Project (NIPNP), based in Queen’s University, Belfast (currently funded by the Northern Ireland Executive, conducts research on the origins of place names. This paper outlines the background and current state of place name research in Ireland in both jurisdictions, and highlights areas of overlap and future all-Ireland collaboration.

In recent years, the areas of German as a Foreign Language (GFL) and German as a Second Language (GSL) have taken quite different developmental paths. To unify these contrasts was the purpose of the 46th Annual Convention of the Association for German as a Foreign and a Second Language (FaDaF e.V.) in Chemnitz from 28 to 30 March 2019. The proceedings of this conference comprise contributions from both academic research and practice in the area of teaching German as a Foreign or Second Language as well as the Associations’ resolution concerning the recent German Immigration Act for Skilled Workers. Thematically, the contributions focus on didactics and methodology of German language teaching, transnational networking and the many facets of understanding – from language comprehension to (intercultural) hermeneutics. Opening with contributions from the young academics’ conference held prior to the annual convention, the volume Teaching – Networking – Understanding attempts to unify the many interfaces of research and practice.