A striking instance of this is the minimal role played by judgment and damnation in modern NDEs; unlike the medieval cases, the modern life-review tends to be therapeutic rather than judgmental in emphasis.
In addition, medieval cases referred to the clauses in Magna Carta which dealt with specific issues such as wardship and dower, debt collection, and keeping rivers free for navigation.
Royalty needs these modern connotations and its female stars, but it is in fact a deeply old-fashioned patriarchal institution, positively medieval in the case of Monaco.
In any case, medieval practice followed Boethius by basing endoxa on the expert status of those who issued them.
A promising approach is the creation of semantic networks that encompass marked up texts of records (in this case, medieval documents preserved at Latvian State Historical Archives) and corresponding meta-information.
Previously Ms. Wagner moderated a forensic forum about murders committed by health care professionals, including toxicology cases from medieval medical murder to the infamous Long Island hospital homicides of Michael Swango and Richard J. Angelo.
A visit to Legal London can also take in, as did my trip late last winter, Staple Inn and Barnard's Inn (the two surviving Inns of Chancery), the courts in which lawyers plead their cases, and medieval Westminster Hall.
The present paper focuses on five putative pre-Columbian cases from medieval Denmark with bone changes attributable to treponemal infection.
But medieval logicians regarded such cases as problematic because they require us to assign different truth values to propositions that are semantically exactly alike; there is no reason to pick a as the true proposition rather than b or conversely.
(For example, it is well-known that Maimonides directly knew and employed a number of Arabic philosophical sources, but it should be admitted that, in many cases, Late Medieval Jewish authors knew and employed these sources not directly, but through Maimonides).
But, as is typical of LaChiusa's work, it is situated somewhere between talent and pretension — or, in this case, between medieval Japan and contemporary Central Park.
