The legal language is harsh and cumbersome for most people, something that law students who have to learn the law would surely subscribe to. Would they have it easier if they were written in verse? This was believed by Carondas, an ancient legislator, who applied it to the corpus normative that he m
One of the most iconic corners of the Roman Forum is a fragment of the wall of a cella surrounded by five Corinthian columns that, supported on a podium, support the remains of a linteled entablature with frieze and architrave. It is what remains of the ancient temple of Vesta, which guarded the s
To approach the history of women in the Middle Ages is to play hide and seek with shadows, silhouettes without faces or bodies. Almost dreamed of, these ladies of yesteryear? No, of course. Like a curtain-raiser after a long wait, portraits, startling in their embodied precision, will appear at the
To deal with the situation that had arisen after the Soviet attack of January 1945, Hitler had formed a new Army Group (OS), that of the Vistula. The new OS was established, by order of Hitler and despite the fierce dispute with Guderian, under the orders of Heinrich Himmler. Finally, after a har