Els testaments del jurista i polític Miquel Sarrovira (ca. 1514-1604) i d'Altília Cordelles (1602)

A través dels testaments inèdits de Miquel Sarrovira i Pla (1604) i de la seva esposa, Altília Cordelles (1601), contextualitzem un dels grans juristes de la Catalunya moderna, fins ara poc conegut. Miquel Sarrovira, membre del patriciat de Barcelona, durant dècades va ser advocat de la ciutat i va exercir-hi càrrecs polítics de primer ordre. Dissortadament, va deixar una família fracturada. Els seus descendents no van donar continuïtat a la seva tasca al servei del Cap i Casal català.A través de los testamentos inéditos de Miquel Sarrovira i Pla (1604) y de su esposa, Altília Cordelles (1601), contextualizamos uno de los grandes juristas de la Cataluña moderna, hasta ahora poco conocido. Miquel Sarrovira, miembro del patriciado de Barcelona, durante décadas fue abogado de la ciudad y ejerció cargos políticos de primer orden. Desgraciadamente, dejó una familia fracturada. Sus descendientes no dieron continuidad a su tarea al servicio del Cap i Casal catalán.Using the unpublished wills of Miquel Sarrovira i Pla (1604) and his wife Altília Cordelles (1601), in this paper we place into context one of the major lawyers of modern Catalonia, about whom very little was known hitherto. Miquel Sarrovira, a member of Barcelona aristocracy, was a lawyer in the city for decades where he also held several top political positions. Regrettably, he left behind a fragmented family. His offspring did not pursue his endeavours working for Barcelona city

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Jeroni Pujades: cronista i literat per evadir-se d’una praxi del dret poc estimulant?

La documentació localitzada en diversos arxius de Barcelona, Girona i Castelló d’Empúries sobre la praxi de Jeroni Pujades com a advocat o com a assessor jurisdiccional en diverses institucions i cúries és prou abundant. I, sobretot, és il·lustrativa d’una quotidianitat sovint poc estimulant i de subsistència. Pujades se n’evadirà sempre que pugui per viure la seva realitat paral·lela, il·luminada amb històries, corresponsals, inscripcions lapidàries i numismàtiques, cròniques i dietaris. Abstract The documents located in the archives of Barcelona, Girona and Castelló d’Empúries about the praxi of Jeroni Pujades as a lawyer or as a judicial advisor in different institutions and curiae is plenty. And in particular it demonstrates how his work was often unattractive. Considering this, it is understandable that he prefered to spend his time reading epigraphical inscriptions, exchanging letters with people throughout Catalonia and writing his famous Chronicles and Dietaries

Aquellas cosas, secretas y necesarias: el orfanato de Aldo van Eyck

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Fundamentals, the XIV International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale 2014, is an exercise of architectural criticism in exhibition format where curator Rem Koolhaas proposes a both personal and collective review of the essential characteristics of discipline, of what belongs to it. Unlike other disciplines in architecture there is no collective agreement or single definition of its basic elements. The redefinition of its vocabulary remains open in accordance with times, theories, or through the contribution that the very architecture works make when being built. The books on display in the lobby of the exhibition Elements of Architecture are an example of this diversity of approaches, some contradictory, some similar, all complementary. Texts like Elements (Book / exhibition catalog) address and attempt to answer the difficult question of what is architecture?Peer Reviewe

Corruption and urban issues: comments on the social consequences about political discredit

Public corruption, which can be defined as «the abuse of public power for private benefit»1, is not equally widespread among every public activity or service. There are, indeed, certain activities with more corruption risks, since only a few of them can generate enough potential private benefit

Teaching Environmental Management Competencies Online: Towards “Authentic” Collaboration?

Environmental Management (EM) is taught in many Higher Education Institutions in the UK. Most this provision is studied full-time on campuses by younger adults preparing themselves for subsequent employment, but not necessarily as environmental managers, and this experience can be very different from the complexities of real-life situations. This formal academic teaching or initial professional development in EM is supported and enhanced by training and continuing professional development from the major EM Institutes in the UK orientated to a set of technical and transferable skills or competencies expected of professional practitioners. In both cases there can be a tendency to focus on the more tractable, technical aspects of EM which are important, but may prove insufficient for EM in practice. What is also necessary, although often excluded, is an appreciation of, and capacity to deal with, the messiness and unpredictability of real world EM situations involving many different actors and stakeholders with multiple perspectives and operating to various agendas. Building on the work of Reeves, Herrington and Oliver (2002), we argue that EM modules need to include the opportunity to work towards the practice of authentic activities with group collaboration as a key pursuit. This paper reports on a qualitative study of our experiences with a selected sample taken from two on-line undergraduate EM modules for second and third year students (referred to respectively as Modules A and B) at the Open University, UK where online collaboration was a key component. Our tentative findings indicate that on-line collaboration is difficult to ensure as a uniform experience and that lack of uniformity reduces its value as an authentic experience. Whilst it can provide useful additional skills for EM practitioners the experience is uneven in the student body and often requires more time and support to engage with than originally planned

Els testaments del jurista i polític Miquel Sarrovira (ca. 1514-1604) i d'Altília Cordelles (1602)

A través dels testaments inèdits de Miquel Sarrovira i Pla (1604) i de la seva esposa, Altília Cordelles (1601), contextualitzem un dels grans juristes de la Catalunya moderna, fins ara poc conegut. Miquel Sarrovira, membre del patriciat de Barcelona, durant dècades va ser advocat de la ciutat i va exercir-hi càrrecs polítics de primer ordre. Dissortadament, va deixar una família fracturada. Els seus descendents no van donar continuïtat a la seva tasca al servei del Cap i Casal català.A través de los testamentos inéditos de Miquel Sarrovira i Pla (1604) y de su esposa, Altília Cordelles (1601), contextualizamos uno de los grandes juristas de la Cataluña moderna, hasta ahora poco conocido. Miquel Sarrovira, miembro del patriciado de Barcelona, durante décadas fue abogado de la ciudad y ejerció cargos políticos de primer orden. Desgraciadamente, dejó una familia fracturada. Sus descendientes no dieron continuidad a su tarea al servicio del Cap i Casal catalán.Using the unpublished wills of Miquel Sarrovira i Pla (1604) and his wife Altília Cordelles (1601), in this paper we place into context one of the major lawyers of modern Catalonia, about whom very little was known hitherto. Miquel Sarrovira, a member of Barcelona aristocracy, was a lawyer in the city for decades where he also held several top political positions. Regrettably, he left behind a fragmented family. His offspring did not pursue his endeavours working for Barcelona city