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9 Mar 2013, 4:46 pm by Ernster the Virtual Library Cat
  If you've ever been bored during a class lecture with a heavy casebook open on the desk, you can relate to the medieval law student who created a doodle of his boring instructor right on this page of Justinian's Institutes, the introductory textbook for Roman Law. [read post]
16 Oct 2021, 11:07 am
"Writes Brett Simpson in "Why Cars Don’t Deserve the Right of Way/The simplest way to make roads safer and reduce police violence at the same time" by (The Atlantic)(pointing to the embedded film that shows San Francisco in 1906, days before the devastating earthquake).From the Roman viae publicae to the king’s roads of medieval England, Western public roads operated around a common premise: that every person has the right to travel unimpeded, with equal… [read post]
22 May 2022, 7:37 am
Whatever the jury decides, a man who was once the King of Cool now seems like a washed-up, abrasive shell of his former self.... [read post]
3 Sep 2013, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
 However the British initiative retains the ban on a Catholic actually becoming king or queen of England. [read post]
15 Mar 2020, 9:30 pm by Thomas J. McSweeney
There were professional or at least semi-professional lawyers working in the king’s courts in between the 1220s and the 1250s. [read post]
13 Jan 2019, 7:50 am by Tamar Herzog
In France, where this struggle was particularly strong, the kings succeeded to have the upper hand. [read post]
30 May 2018, 2:15 pm
King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, along with Jerusalem's then patriarch, gave approval to the formation of a military holy order to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy City. [read post]
30 May 2018, 2:15 pm
King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, along with Jerusalem's then patriarch, gave approval to the formation of a military holy order to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy City. [read post]
16 Nov 2019, 8:03 am
" article:The head on a platter is a classic artistic theme....According to the Synoptic Gospels, Herod, who was tetrarch, or sub-king, of Galilee under the Roman Empire, had imprisoned John the Baptist because he reproved Herod for divorcing his wife... and unlawfully taking Herodias, the wife of his brother Herod Philip I. [read post]
28 Sep 2007, 6:32 pm
In 711, Moorish general Tarik ibn Ziyad defeated the king of the Visigoths. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 9:20 pm by Ross
I was thinking about a tip for today and it hit me with the sparkling commotion of a roman candle – digital ways to celebrate America’s 236th birthday! [read post]
28 Jun 2022, 10:50 am by Thorsten Bausch (Hoffmann Eitle)
Having financed the rise of Maximilian I, Jakob Fugger made considerable contributions to secure the election of the Spanish king Charles I to become Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. [read post]
6 Apr 2018, 8:27 am by Zietlow, Rebecca E.
Janus, the two faced Roman god of duality, is an apt name for this case. [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 8:09 am by Dennis Crouch
The Romans, as with many other things, copied the jury system from the Greeks and implemented a jury system as a part of ancient Rome. [read post]
4 Jun 2012, 10:01 am by Nick Robinson
  He traces the beginning of these roots not to Roman, Greek, or Hebrew civilization, but before this to the Harappan Civilization and the Indus Valley. [read post]