Staging the Tyrant on the Seventeenth-Century French Stage

Une forme frondeuse: the function of discontinuity in La Rochefoucauld's maximes.

The Role of Language in Accusations of Witchcraft in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain

Linguistic factors played a significant role in the origin and spread of accusations of witchcraft in Early Modern Spain. The preoccupation with witches’ words is at its root a preoccupation about the power of speech and, to a great extent, of female speech. Studies in some Early European countries have connected aggressive female speech styles with accusations of witchcraft, and this article o...

تحول در مفهوم تقصیر پزشکی و مصادیق آن در نظام حقوقی فرانسه

The course of the medical liability developments in the French law since the beginning of the present century up to now has been noticed in different respects. The fundamental basis of the mentioned developments should be sought in the social movements shaped at the outset of past century. The joint point of the related philosophical schools is the protection of the individual rights the most o...

Fear of Not Flying

IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND there was a curious gap between the study and practice of law. From the thirteenth century to the seventeenth, the main language used for pleading in common law courts was Law French. It seems to have developed because Latin, the language of formal records, carried too much historical freight from Roman law for the peculiarities of English circumstances, whereas medieval Eng...

Marūfī’s Paykar Farhād [Farhād’s Corpse]:

By baroque, one implies the “general attitude” and “the formal quality” of a work of art which is trans-historical and “radiates through” histories, cultures, and works of art. In that way, just a seventeenth-century work of art cannot be considered baroque; on the other hand, even a postmodern work can display “baroque” features. However, as a slave to its era, the baroque of 2oth and 21th cen...