Eileen Reeves examines the ways in which a long-standing association of reportage with covert surveillance and astrological prediction was altered by the near simultaneous emergence of weekly newsheets, the invention of the Dutch telescope, and the appearance of Galileo Galilei'…
Dominium and object extinction -- Accessio -- Specificatio -- Form, being, and name -- Ferruminatio, adplumbatio -- Factae and infectae -- Praevalentia -- Pretium and pretiositas -- The part and the whole -- Ornandi causa -- Qualitas and substantia.
Tabula picta: painting and writing in medieval law
by Madero, Marta, Chartier, Roger
fromMaterial texts
Who owns the tabula picta, the painted tablet? The owner of the tablet? Or to the person who painted it? This meticulous analysis of how medieval jurists responded to these questions is a major a contribution to the history of the proprietary rights to artistic works and to the …
