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Premodern kings and queens had splendid courts to show their God-given power. But where did the money for these come from? Following the money trail back often leads to unexpectedly savvy women who knew how to deal with money, and how to manage huge estates, treasuries, or accou…
Biographical note: Hajo Greif and Martin G. Weiss, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria. Taking a fresh view on Wittgenstein's apparent ethical skepticism, many contributions to this volume explore the reach of what can be said in ethical terms, while others provide crit…
While ancient states are often characterized in terms of the powers that they claimed to possess, this book argues that they were in fact fundamentally weak, both in the exercise of force outside of war and in the infrastructural and regulatory powers that such force would, in t…
"Language and Power is widely recognised both as a classic and an essential introductory textbook to the field of Critical Discourse Analysis. It focusses on how language functions in maintaining and changing power relations in modern society, the ways of analysing language whic…
"Language and Power is widely recognised both as a classic and an essential introductory textbook to the field of Critical Discourse Analysis. It focusses on how language functions in maintaining and changing power relations in modern society, the ways of analysing language whic…
Home and the unhomely: the foundational nature of female genital power -- Genies, witches, and women: locating female powers -- Matrifocal morality: FGP and the foundation of "home"--Gender and resistance: the "strategic essentialism" of FGP -- Worldliness: FGP in the making of …
London is in ruins, in the hands of two warring families of ganglords, the Volsons and the Conors. To cement a truce between the two families, Val Volson offers Conor the hand of his 14 year old daughter, Signy. The wedding feast is disrupted by the dramatic coming to life of a …
