Tag: Binding

January 3, 2024

In Blood and Ashes Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece [Audiobook]

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Free Download In Blood and Ashes: Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in Ancient Greece (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CP6DZYFW | 2023 | 10 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 314 MB
Author: Jessica L. Lamont
Narrator: Mary Helen Gallucci
In Blood and Ashes provides the first historical study of the development and dissemination of ritualized curse practice from 750-250 BCE, documenting the cultural pressures that drove the use of curse tablets, charms, spells, and other private rites. This book expands our understanding of daily life in ancient communities, showing how individuals were making sense of the world and coping with conflict, vulnerability, competition, anxiety, desire, and loss, all while conjuring the gods and powers of the Underworld. Bringing together epigraphic, literary, archaeological, and material evidence, Jessica L. Lamont reads between traditional histories of Archaic, Classical, and early Hellenistic Greece, drawing out new voices and new narratives to consider: here are the cooks, tavern keepers, garland weavers, helmsmen, barbers, and other persons who often slip through the cracks of ancient history. The texts and objects presented here offer glimpses of public and private lives across many centuries, illuminating the interplay of ritual and conflict-management strategies among citizens and slaves, men and women, pagans and Christians. Filled with new material and insights, Lamont’s volume offers a groundbreaking perspective on ancient Greek social history and religion, highlighting the role of ritual in negotiating life’s uncertainties.

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March 30, 2023

The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights as a Binding Instrument Five Years Old and Growing

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Free Download The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights as a Binding Instrument: Five Years Old and Growing By Sybe de Vries (editor), Ulf Bernitz (editor), Stephen Weatherill (editor)
2015 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 1782258256 | PDF | 3 MB
The entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009 caused the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights to be granted binding effect. This raised a host of intriguing questions. Would this transform the EU’s commitment to fundamental rights? Should it transform that commitment? How, if at all, can we balance competing rights and principles? (The interaction of the social and the economic spheres offers a particular challenge). How deeply does the EU conception of fundamental rights reach into and bind national law and practice? How deeply does it affect private parties? How much flexibility has been left to the Court in making these interpretative choices? What is the likely effect of another of the reforms achieved by the Lisbon Treaty, the commitment of the EU to accede to the ECHR? This book addresses all of these questions in the light of five years of practice under the Charter as a binding instrument.

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