Peter Stein

English summary: This volume, the second on the ancient south Arabic language of Sabaean (Sabaic), presents a choice selection of inscriptions. Besides well-known examples of monumental inscriptions in stone and rock, lesser-known common inscriptions on wood are also included. The selection of texts reflects all periods of Sabaean language history. The texts are presented in facsimile and transliteration, with a commentary and glossary. German text. German description: Mit Grammatik und Chrestomathie des Sabaischen (SILO 4,1 und 4,2) legt Peter Stein ein Lehrwerk dieser altsudarabischen Sprache vor, das nicht nur die Grammatik auf dem neuesten Forschungsstand prasentiert, sondern mit einer sorgfaltigen Auswahl sabaischer Inschriften zugleich der praktischen Vertiefung des Sprachstudiums dient. Die Chrestomathie bietet einen Querschnitt durch alle wesentlichen Textgattungen, die in sabaischer Sprache uberliefert sind. Neben den altbekannten Monumentalinschriften auf reprasentativen Schrifttragern wie Stein oder Fels wird auch das in Holz geritzte Alltagsschrifttum berucksichtigt. Die Textauswahl erstreckt sich uber alle Epochen der Sprachgeschichte und spiegelt nicht nur die Vielfalt des sprachlichen Formenrepertoires und der diversen Inschriftenformulare wider, sondern auch die historische und kulturgeschichtliche Entwicklung Sudarabiens in vorislamischer Zeit (10. Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis 6. Jahrhundert n. Chr.). Die in Faksimile und Transliteration dargebotenen Texte werden philologisch kommentiert und durch ein Glossar vollstandig erschlossen. Sie eignen sich daher zum Gebrauch sowohl im Unterricht als auch im Selbststudium.

Legal evolution is a way of explaining how the law changes. Basically it suggests that a society's law develops along predetermined lines parallel to those of its other institutions. The idea came to prominence in the mid-eighteenth century as a response to the difficulties experienced by theorists in the field of natural law when applying the notion of universal natural rights to different types of society. Professor Stein traces the beginning of the idea and considers the theories of its main exponents in relation to the prevailing legal thought of their times. He examines in particular the special place of Roman law in shaping ideas of legal development. Finally he considers the different types of opposition which Maine's ideas encountered in the late nineteenth century and the attempts to retain the essentials of legal evolution in a modified form.

Durch Reduktion von Unsicherheit werden Bankleistungen fur Nachfrager nutzenstarker und attraktiver. In dieser Arbeit wird das Grundgerust eines umfassenden Unsicherheitsmanagements theoretisch fundiert herausgearbeitet. Vor dem spezifischen Hintergrund des Anlagegeschafts mit Privatkunden werden zunachst dort anzutreffende Unsicherheitsaspekte analysiert. Im weiteren wird differenziert auf Effizienz, Aufbau und Erhaltung stabiler Geschaftsbeziehungen eingegangen. In das Unsicherheitsreduktionskonzept werden zugleich die Grundstrukturen eines hoherwertigen Leistungsangebots integriert. Als theoretische Basis dienen uberwiegend Erkenntnisse der Informationsokonomik und der Transaktionskostentheorie. Im Ergebnis steht eine zukunftsweisende wettbewerbsstrategische Positionierung filialgestutzter Universalbanken im Wege einer klaren Differenzierung bei Beratung und Service."

This is a short and succinct summary of the unique position of Roman law in European culture by one of the world's leading legal historians. Peter Stein's masterly study assesses the impact of Roman law in the ancient world, and its continued unifying influence throughout medieval and modern Europe. Roman Law in European History is unparalleled in lucidity and authority, and should prove of enormous utility for teachers and students (at all levels) of legal history, comparative law and European Studies. Award-winning on its appearance in German translation, this English rendition of a magisterial work of interpretive synthesis is an invaluable contribution to the understanding of perhaps the most important European legal tradition of all.

This is a short and succinct summary of the unique position of Roman law in European culture by one of the world’s leading legal historians. Peter Stein’s masterly study assesses the impact of Roman law in the ancient world, and its continued unifying influence throughout medieval and modern Europe. Roman Law in European History is unparalleled in lucidity and authority, and should prove of enormous utility for teachers and students (at all levels) of legal history, comparative law and European Studies. Award-winning on its appearance in German translation, this English rendition of a magisterial work of interpretive synthesis is an invaluable contribution to the understanding of perhaps the most important European legal tradition of all.

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Grober in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied Romance languages. The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and English. Each collected volume should be as uniform as possible in its contents and in the choice of languages.

Since the appearance of its first edition in Germany in 1979, A History of German Literature has established itself as a classic work used by students and anyone interested in German literature. The volume chronologically traces the development of German literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Throughout this chronology, literary developments are set in a social and political context. This includes a final chapter, written for this latest edition, on the consequences of the reunification of Germany in 1990. Thoroughly interdiscipinary in method, the work also reflects recent developments in literary criticism and history. Highly readable and stimulating, A History of German Literature succeeds in making the literature of the past as immediate and engaging as the works of the present. It is both a scholary study and an invaluable reference work for students.

Goethe is said to have likened the Roman civil law to a duck: sometimes it is visible, swimming prominently on the surface of the water, at other times it is hidden, diving amid the depths. but it is always there. This may be said to be true not only in continental Europe and Scotland, where Roman law has been a dominant influence, but also in England and the U. S. A., where Roman law has often informed and supplemented Common law. None of the great writers on Common law, with the exception perhaps of Coke, failed to take Roman law in to consideration, especially on the matters of legal theory. Indeed the differences between the two systems can easily be exaggerated. Ne one is better qualified to write on these matters than Peter Stein; this collection of his articles covers both the nature and the tradition of Roman law and ranges from classical to modern times. The Character and Influence of the Roman Civil Law includes discussions of the ethos and principles of Roman law and of their transmission and transformation in medieval and modern times. Attention is drawn to the working of Roman law in San Marinom which retains the uncodified ius commune. Civil lawyers in England whose work is examined include Vacarius, Thomas Smith and Thomas Legge. Roman law in Scotland is looked at in depth, with special consideration for the natural law tradtition there. A piece on the origin of the four stage theory of social development, which grew out of that tradition and was adopted by Adam Smith, appears for the first time. Finally Professor Stein shows the attraction of Roman law to lawyers in the U. S. A. when they were trying to establish their own legal system following Independence.

A central problem in the history of nuclear weapons has been how to assure that they will only be used when directed and authorized) not in an accident, not by terrorists, not by allies, and not by battlefield commanders acting on their own. Permissive Action Links (PALs) were developed in the 1960s as a technological solution to this problem. This book first examines the factors of that led to the first decision to develop PALs.

1m vorliegenden Buch wird ein Verfahren entwickelt, das die vollstandige "Obertragung der Theorie der statisch bestimmten und unbestimmten Tragwerke auf die Losung von linearen gewohnlichen Differentialgleichungen und simultanen Systemen gestattet. Die Grundzuge dieser Methode wurden erstmals in der Antrittsvorlesung, die der Verfasser am 17. Juni 1966 an der Technischen Hoch- schule Wien gehalten hat, mitgeteilt. Die Herausgabe der erweiterten Fassung dieses Vortrages verfolgt mehrere Zwecke. Einmal 5011 das Buch dem Student en als Erganzung der Vorlesung dienen und ihm zeigen, wie mit geringem theoretischem Aufwand auch viele Aufgaben gelost werden konnen, die bei der Anwendung geschlossener Ansatze ein umfang- reiches Studium der spezie11en Losungsmethoden verlangen. Weiterhin solI das Verfahren dem in der Praxis stehenden Ingenieur helfen, die verschiedensten Aufgaben zu behandeln, ohne sich fUr jedes spezie11e Problem immer wieder erneut mit einer besonderen Methode befassen zu mussen, auf deren Erarbeitung der Ingenieur aus Zeitmangel oft verzichten muB. Ein weiterer Grund, diese Arbeit einem groBeren Kreis zuganglich zu machen, ist darin zu suchen, daB mit diesem Verfahren Frageste11ungen behandelt werden konnen, die einer exakten Darste11ung gar nicht zuganglich sind. Auch die Tatsache, daB die mitgeteilte Methode dem Ingenieur die Moglichkeit bietet, in einfacher und anschaulicher Weise die ihm von den Recheninstituten zur Verfugung gestellten Ergebnisse zu uberprufen und zu deuten, war fUr die Drucklegung dieses Verfahrens mitentscheidend.