Category Archives: Bartolus of Sassoferrato

Émile Benveniste, Problèmes de linguistique générale – Problems in General Linguistics and other English translations

Émile Benveniste’s Problèmes de linguistique générale was published in two volumes in 1966 and 1974 by Gallimard, and later reprinted in the Tel series (volumes 1 and 2). The first volume brought together essays from 1939 to 1964, and was compiled … Continue reading

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Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Three Tracts on City Government and Related Writings, ed. and trans. George Garnett and Magnus Ryan – Cambridge University Press, 2024

Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Three Tracts on City Government and Related Writings, ed. and trans. George Garnett and Magnus Ryan – Cambridge University Press, 2024 The medieval jurist Bartolus of Sassoferrato (d. 1357) has long been accorded seminal importance by historians of political thought. This volume … Continue reading

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Books received – Calvino, Malpas & White, Balibar, Villamizar, González and Astudillo, Saussure, Cheng

Some books bought or sent recently – Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Jeff Malpas and Kenneth White, The Fundamental Field, Étienne Balibar’s Écrits pour Althusser, Carlos Salamanca Villamizar, Gabriela González and Francisco Astudillo (eds.), Estudios sobre la espacialización … Continue reading

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Dante Fedele, The Medieval Foundations of International Law: Baldus de Ubaldis (1327–1400), Doctrine and Practice of the Ius Gentium – Brill 2021

Dante Fedele, The Medieval Foundations of International Law: Baldus de Ubaldis (1327–1400), Doctrine and Practice of the Ius Gentium – Brill 2021 This looks a really interesting study of Baldus, who was significant in the argument I make in The Birth … Continue reading

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Geo-metrics – audio recording of lecture at Balsillie School

In late September I gave the keynote address to the workshop Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Ontario. The title of the talk was ‘Geo-metrics’ and you can listen to the audio … Continue reading

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Earth, Terricide, Geo-metrics

I’ve now nearly finished writing my keynote lecture for the Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance workshop at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (September 19-20). The title is “Geo-metrics” (abstract here). This is the third in a sequence of … Continue reading

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A day of minor things

Yesterday was the busiest day yet on this blog, though of course it was mainly to see a post that I didn’t write. I’m sure that I should have followed up today with some insightful thoughts or hard-hitting polemics, but … Continue reading

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Bartolus consilia found

A week ago I discussed the last few references I’ve been trying to find for The Birth of Territory. I’m back at the British Library today, and thought I would just check one more time. And I found the Bartolus … Continue reading

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Four out of six

I should have noted in the earlier message that these were not just any six references, but included three or four of the most problematic in the book, which I’d not left to last through choice or neglect, but because … Continue reading

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Chapter Seven

The work on Chapter Seven in this redraft was minor. This is largely because of the amount of work I’d already put into this chapter; a chapter which caused me more textual difficulties than any other. The chapter discusses Roman law, … Continue reading

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