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En los días de borrascas invita al lector un recorrido por los discursos e imaginarios sociales que se erigieron en la ciudad de Buenos Aires cuando reinó la epidemia de fiebre amarilla durante los fatídicos meses de 1871. Partiendo de fuentes primarias producidas en los ámbitos médico, periodístico, religioso y artístico, estas líneas intentan aproximarse e hilvanar esos constructos que tuvieron lugar en un contexto histórico anterior a los saberes contribuidos por la bacteriología moderna, donde la epidemia se trasformó en un nudo problemático para discutir aspectos que...

The contributions to this volume are concerned with the Roman law of antiquity in its broadest sense, covering both private and public law from the Roman Republic to the Byzantine era, including legal papyrology. They also examine the reception of Roman law in Western Europe and its colonies (specifically the Dutch East Indies) from the Middle Ages to the promulgation of the German Burgerliche Gesetzbuch in 1900. They reflect the wide interests of Professor Boudewijn Sirks, whom the volume honours on the occasion of his retirement and whose work and career have transcended frontiers and...

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