Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Pruetting, Hanns (Hrsg.), Festschrift 100 Jahre Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultaet Universitaet Koeln, 1919-2019. 198 S. 2020 (O. Schmidt, GW) <667-715>
ISBN 978-3-504-06059-6 hard ¥16,430.- (税込) EUR 69.80 *

Die Universitaet zu Koeln und damit zugleich die Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultaet feierte im Jahr 2019 ihr 100-jaehriges Bestehen. Die alte Universitaet war im Jahr 1798 von Napoleon geschlossen worden und es hat eines 120-jaehrigen Bemuehens bedurft, bis es gelungen ist, die neue Universitaet wiederum zu eroeffnen. Aus Anlass der vielfaeltigen Feiern zum Jubilaeum 2019 hatte die Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultaet eine Vortragsreihe veranstaltet, mit der sie sich an die Koeaelner Buerger wenden wollte. Neben Beitraegen zur Geschichte der Rechtswissenschaftlichen Fakultaet finden sich unterschiedlichste Beitraege wie z.B. Weltraumschrott, Digitalisierung und Recht, Doping im Sport, Der Fall Gurlitt usw.

Hooton, Brett / Koning, Robin / Thurston, Meaghan (eds.), With the World to Choose From: Celebrating Seven Decades of the Beatty Lecture at McGill University. 336 pp. 2021:9 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <667-2210>
ISBN 978-0-228-00800-2 hard ¥8,181.- (税込) US$ 37.95 *

The Beatty Lecture, established in 1952 in honour of former Canadian Pacific Railway president and McGill chancellor Sir Edward Beatty, is McGill University's most anticipated annual event. Some of the series' greatest lectures, delivered by Nobel Prize laureates, world leaders, and cultural icons, have been forgotten, carefully stowed away in the McGill Archives.To help us understand some of the most significant moments and discoveries of our time, With the World to Choose From spotlights fifteen outstanding Beatty Lectures, spanning seven decades. Readers can discover - or rediscover - these important and inspiring lectures, all in print for the first time. One of the twentieth century's most influential visionaries, the economist Barbara Ward, opens this anthology with her future-looking 1955 lecture. Lectures from acclaimed biologist Robert Sinsheimer, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, philosopher Charles Taylor, and author and social commentator Roxane Gay carry readers through the decades that followed and up to the present, treating subjects from the tensions of Cold War politics and the implications of genetic engineering to the origins of life in the universe and the watershed #MeToo movement. Some of today's leading academics add contextual and biographical information to each chapter, and an introduction sheds light on the history of the Beatty Lecture and the life of its notable namesake.Illustrated with a selection of photographs and ephemera, With the World to Choose From provides a historical and behind-the-scenes look at one of Canada's longest-running lecture series.

Somerville, R. A., The Early Residential Buildings of Trinity College Dublin: Architecture, Financing, People. 288 pp. 2021:11 (Four Courts Pr., IE) <667-2212>
ISBN 978-1-84682-968-0 hard ¥14,245.- (税込) GB￡ 50.00 *

Crone, Rosalind, Illiterate Inmates: Educating Criminals in Nineteenth Century England. 464 pp. 2022:5 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <667-1004>
ISBN 978-0-19-883383-3 hard ¥33,475.- (税込) GB￡ 117.50 *

The nineteenth-century prison, we have been told, was a place of 'hard labour, hard board, and hard fare'. Yet it was also a place of education. Schemes to teach prisoners to read and write, and sometimes more besides, can be traced to the early 1800s. State-funded elementary education for prisoners pre-dated universal and compulsory education for children by fifty years. In the 1860s, when the famous maxim, just cited, became the basis of national penal policy, arithmetic was included by legislators alongside reading and writing as a core skill to be taught in English prisons. By c.1880 every prison in England used to accommodate those convicted of criminal offences had a formal education programme in which the 3Rs - reading, writing, and arithmetic - were taught, to males and females, adults and children alike. Not every programme, however, had prisoners enrolled in it. Illiterate Inmates tells the story of the emergence, at the turn of the nineteenth century, of a powerful idea - the provision of education in prisons for those accused and convicted of crime - and its execution over the century that followed. Using evidence from both local and convict prisons, the study shows how education became part of the modern penal regime. While the curriculum largely reflected that of mainstream elementary schools, the delivery of education, shaped by the penal environment, created an entirely different educational experience. At the same time, philosophies of imprisonment which prioritised punishment and deterrence over reformation undermined any socially reconstructive ambitions. Thus the period between 1800 and 1899 witnessed the rise and fall of the prison school in England.