Civic builders

This chapter briefly outlines the history, key concepts, and main practice methods from public health approaches to end-of-life care. Although linked to psychosocial care approache...

The practice of annual election to the major civic offices was a distinguishing feature of urban polities in late medieval England, where political power was not based upon lineage...

This chapter studies the ways in which associations were able to take part in the slow elaboration of civic identity in sixth-century Athens. For a period within which politics has...

Migrant integration and addressing the challenges of cultural and religious diversity in liberal democratic societies is arguably one of the pressing challenges of the twenty-first...

Based on an extended empirical research project, this open access book advances the theoretical, normative and practical understanding of civil society under the conditions of digi...

This interdisciplinary volume offers new insights into the connections between populism and performance. As a driving force of the contemporary left, populist logic offers a way fo...

The exercise of political power in late medieval English towns was predicated upon the representation, management, and control of public opinion. This chapter explains why public o...

This volume offers the first annotated English translation of the first two books of On Celibacy (1473) by the eminent Venetian humanist Ermolao Barbaro (1454–93); Books 3 and 4 of...