locum tua tempora poscunt: topography in Ovid’s Fasti by Heyworth, SJ

“…The first section reflects on the prominence given to Rome’s physical and metaphorical place in the world: it is the city to which migrants travel, from which armies depart, to which victorious generals return with new sacra. The poem also treats Rome as urban space, and uses topography to help give meaning to sequences of adjacent temples and festivals. …”

The firm as an entity before the Companies Acts by Getzler, JS, Macnair, M

“…The Bubble Act interrupts this teleology but general corporate form emerges by the midnineteenth century victorious. Our general thesis is that without the benefit of formalized organizational law the courts (with some help from legislative enactments) were able to construct a veil between investors and traders affording much of the benefit of the limited liability policy of later law. …”

The Roman past in the consciousness of the Roman elites in the ninth and tenth centuries by West-Harling, V

“… <p style="text-align:justify;"> Pope Leo placed a crown on his head, and he was hailed by the whole Roman people: To the august Charles, crowned by God, the great and peaceful emperor of the Romans, life and victory! After the acclamations the pope addressed him in the manner of the old emperors. …”

The church of Ravenna, Constantinople and Rome in the seventh century by West-Harling, V

“…<br/><br/> From the end of the sixth century the empire had had to contend with Persian attacks on its eastern front as well as Avar-Slav attacks in the Balkans, only temporarily halted by the victories of the emperor Heraclius both in defending Constantinople (626) and in recapturing Jerusalem in... …”

Voting to leave: Economic insecurity and the Brexit vote by Halikiopoulou, D, Vlandas, T

“…The victory of the Brexit camp in the 2016 United Kingdom (UK) referendum on whether to stay or leave the European Union (EU) represents a turning point in the history of European integration. …”

AlphaGo’s move 37 and its implications for AI-supported military decision-making by Simpson, TW

“…Move 37 turned out to be key to AlphaGo’s victory in that game, and it displays what I describe as the property of ‘unpredictable brilliance’. …”

Neoliberalism, consumerism and the end of the Cold War by Priestland, D

“…As the Berlin Wall fell, the American academic Francis Fukuyama declared that state socialism had collapsed because it was on the wrong side of History in two respects: its rejection of liberal democracy had failed to grant the mass of people the ‘dignity’ they demanded; and its hostility to the market had prevented it from providing decent living standards for populations that had been living under it. 1 And while Fukuyama’s thesis on the inevitable victory of liberal capitalism has come under a great deal of criticism, his analysis of the reasons for communism’s failure has become commonplace – and especially its economic side. …”