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Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage

Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage

In this volume the author argues that blood was crucially a means by which dramatists negotiated shifting contours of domesticity in 16th and 17th century England. Early modern English drama vividly addressed contemporary debates over an expanding idea of the domestic which encompassed the domus as well as sex parenthood household order the relationship between home and state and the connections between family honor and national identity. The author contends that the domestic ideology expressed by theatrical depictions of marriage and household order is one built on the simultaneous familiarity and violence inherent to blood. The theatrical relation between blood and home is far more intricate than the idealized language of the familial bloodline; the home was itself a bloody place with domestic bloodstains signifying a range of experiences including religious worship sex murder birth healing and holy justice. Focusing on four bleeding figures—the Bleeding Bride Bleeding Husband Bleeding Child and Bleeding Patient—the author argues that the household blood of the early modern stage not only expressed the violence and conflict occasioned by domestic ideology but also established the home as a site that alternately reified and challenged patriarchal authority. | Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage

GBP 48.99
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Behavioral Political Economy and Democratic Theory Fortifying Democracy for the Digital Age

Behavioral Political Economy and Democratic Theory Fortifying Democracy for the Digital Age

Drawing on current debates at the frontiers of economics psychology and political philosophy this book explores the challenges that arise for liberal democracies from a confrontation between modern technologies and the bounds of human rationality. With the ongoing transition of democracy’s underlying information economy into the digital space threats of disinformation and runaway political polarization have been gaining prominence. Employing the economic approach informed by behavioral sciences’ findings the book’s chief concern is how these challenges can be addressed while preserving a commitment to democratic values and maximizing the epistemic benefits of democratic decision-making. The book has two key strands: it provides a systematic argument for building a behaviorally informed theory of democracy; and it examines how scientific knowledge on quirks and bounds of human rationality can inform the design of resilient democratic institutions. Drawing these together the book explores the centrality of the rationality assumption in the methodological debates surrounding behavioral sciences as exemplified by the dispute between neoclassical and behavioral economics; the role of (ir)rationality in democratic social choice; behaviorally informed paternalism as a response to the challenge of irrationality; and non-paternalistic avenues to increase the resilience of the democratic institutions toward political irrationality. This book is invaluable reading for anyone interested in behavioral economics and sciences political philosophy and the future of democracy. | Behavioral Political Economy and Democratic Theory Fortifying Democracy for the Digital Age

GBP 130.00
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Marriage Trafficking Women in Forced Wedlock

Marriage Trafficking Women in Forced Wedlock

This book examines the traffic in women for marriage a phenomenon that has been largely overlooked in international efforts to address the problem of human trafficking. In contrast to current international and state-based approaches to trafficking which tend to focus on sex trafficking and trafficking for forced labour this book seeks to establish how marriage as an institution is often implicated in the occurrence of trafficking in women. The book aims firstly to establish why marriage has tended not to be included in dominant conceptions of trafficking in persons and secondly to determine whether certain types of marriage may constitute cases of human trafficking in and of themselves. Through the use of case studies on forced marriage mail-order bride (MOB) marriage and Fundamentalist Mormon polygamy this book demonstrates that certain kinds of marriage may in fact constitute situations of trafficking in persons and together form the under-recognised phenomenon of ‘marriage trafficking’. In addition the book offers a new perspective on the types of harm involved in trafficking in women by developing a framework for identifying the particular abuses characteristic to marriage trafficking. It argues that the traffic in women for marriage cannot be understood merely as a subset of sex trafficking or trafficking for forced labour but rather constitutes a distinctive form of trafficking in its own right. This book will be of great interest to scholars and postgraduates working in the fields of human rights theory and institutions political science international law transnational crime trafficking in persons and feminist political theory. | Marriage Trafficking Women in Forced Wedlock

GBP 38.99
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Pseudo-Kodinos and the Constantinopolitan Court: Offices and Ceremonies

Pseudo-Kodinos and the Constantinopolitan Court: Offices and Ceremonies

The work known as Pseudo-Kodinos the fourteenth-century text which is one of two surviving ceremonial books from the Byzantine empire is presented here for the first time in English translation. With facing page Greek text and the first in-depth analysis in the form of commentary and individual studies on the hierarchy the ceremonies court attire the Blachernai palace lighting music gestures and postures this volume makes an important new contribution to the study of the Byzantine court and to the history and culture of Byzantium more broadly. The unique traits of this ceremony book include the combination of hierarchical lists of court officials with protocols of ceremonies; a detailed description of the clothing used at court in particular hats and staffs; an account of the functions of the court title holders a description of the ceremonies of the year which take place both inside the palace and outside; the service of the megas domestikos in the army protocols for the coronation of the emperor the promotions of despot sebastokrator and caesar of the patriarch; a description of the mourning attire of the emperor; protocol for the reception of a foreign bride in Constantinople all these are analysed here. Developments in ceremonial since the tenth-century Book of Ceremonies are discussed as is the space in which ceremonial was performed along with a new interpretation of the ’other palace’ the Blachernai. The text reveals the anonymous authors’ interest in the past in the origins of practices and items of clothing but it is argued that Pseudo-Kodinos presents descriptions of actual practice at the Byzantine court rather than prescriptions. | Pseudo-Kodinos and the Constantinopolitan Court: Offices and Ceremonies

GBP 39.99
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