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Abstract: In his treatise On Benefits, Seneca claimed that gratitude was a central virtue and ingratitude as among the basest of the vices, and gratitude remained an important moral concern during the medieval and well into the early modern periods. For most of the past century, it has been neglected, though that neglect is beginning to be redressed. This paper focuses on Shakespeare's Roman plays to explore moral and political dimensions of gratitude and ingratitude.

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Abstract: Two limitations on the findings of Weberian historical sociology (WHS) have been its temporal and spatial focus on early modern Europe (Hobson 1998). These limitations tend to push WHS theorists to underestimate and under-theorize the role of territoriality. Using the Roman Empire as a case study to address one of the problems, this paper argues that understanding the territorial organization of the Roman Empire helps to explain the specific process of decay that led to its fall. This paper considers and rejects many of the existing explanations of the fall of the empire including imperial overstretch, stagnation, and the classic focus on Christianity and barbarians. Instead it argues that Rome’s decreasing ability to order its territory as it had because of changing principles of social organization explain the fall. It was not a lack of innovation as Mann has suggested, but an increasing inability to provide a cohesive vision of what Rome was and how its subjects fit into the empire that led ultimately to the fall. It was the idea of Rome that fell first. This paper explains how and why.

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Abstract: In the current priest sexual abuse case, debate has repeatedly addressed priestly sexuality. Although public discourse looks to role constraints on priests (marital status, sexual orientation, biological sex) to explain the crisis, this study problematizes the enactment of Catholic masculinity. This paper argues that the church is indeed a gendered organization in which multiple masculinities are enacted. Literature on the gendered nature of organizing is the backdrop against which structures and processes of Roman Catholic gendering are deconstructed. Deconstructing the masculinity of Roman Catholic leaders creates a space in which a series of paradoxical masculinities can emerge, be named, and be unpacked.

Such an analysis of Roman Catholic gender problematizes a static, totalizing view of masculinity, and thus broadens the literature and thinking about how multiple masculinities enact organizing. Rather than presenting Roman Catholic gender as essentially paternalistic or managerial (possible categorizations on extant masculinity typologies), this paper argues for a more complex organizational gendering. Specifically, four masculinities emerge as organizational leaders enact power, catholicity, sexuality, and visibility. The first masculinity, consensual submission, is enacted as leaders manage contradictory issues of power. The second masculinity, hierarchical brotherhood, emerges at the nexus of catholic and episcopal structuring. The third masculinity, hermaphroditic asexuality, is seen as priests confront paradoxes of Catholic sexuality. The fourth, constrained public presence, is evident where Roman Catholic priests manage visibility, or the public-private continuum.

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Abstract: Modern realist approaches to understanding wars of conquest are limited in a myriad of ways. Due to their theoretical commitments, they can only account for expansionist motivations that are generated by what they consider to be the transhistoric structural constraints of global anarchy. Accordingly, these theories attest that political units engage in wars of conquest as a means of security enhancement. Alas, these modern realist theories fail to capture expansionist behavior by units that have relatively little security concerns. In this paper I explore Roman expansionism at the height of the Empire and show how conquest was driven by ideological factors relating to the glory of subjugation and honor.

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Abstract: The Roman Law is a course for the first year students of law faculties in Turkey.
The Turkish Republic was established in 1923 and Turkish Law system is revolved at the beginnig of the Republic. As a result of this revolution the old law system, which was based on Law of Islam and essentially different from the Roman Law, superseded and by the reseption of Swiss Civil Law a new civil law system is estahlished. Turkish legal education also effected by this progress. Although Turkey is not seen as an inheritor of Roman Empire, Roman Law had to be taught as a basis of Western type of legal foundations.
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the place of Roman Law in Turkish Legal Education through a historical perspective.