Crime and punishment, criminal law and its administration, are areas of ancient history that have been explored less than many other aspects of ancient civilizations. Throughout history women have been affected by crime both as victims and as offenders. Yet, in the ancient world, customary laws were created by men, formal laws were written by men, and both were interpreted and enforced by men. This 2-volume explores the role of gender in the formation and administration of ancient law and examines the many gender categories and relationships established in ancient law, including marriage, parentage, widowhood, adoption, inheritance, debt, liability, and so forth. It presents data that has been newly discovered, underreported, or omitted from previous works on ancient law. It also re-examines and reevaluates prior interpretations and conclusions, to enable the silent voices of ancient women to be heard and their invisible lives to be seen in the light of modern feminist scholarship.

Crime and punishment, criminal law and its administration, are areas of ancient history that have been explored less than many other aspects of ancient civilizations. Throughout history women have been affected by crime both as victims and as offenders. Yet, in the ancient world, customary laws were created by men, formal laws were written by men, and both were interpreted and enforced by men. This 2-volume explores the role of gender in the formation and administration of ancient law and examines the many gender categories and relationships established in ancient law, including marriage, parentage, widowhood, adoption, inheritance, debt, liability, and so forth. It presents data that has been newly discovered, underreported, or omitted from previous works on ancient law. It also re-examines and reevaluates prior interpretations and conclusions, to enable the silent voices of ancient women to be heard and their invisible lives to be seen in the light of modern feminist scholarship.

This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-workshop documentation of the ECAI'96 Workshop on Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems, held in Budapest, Hungary, in August 1996, during ECAI'96.
The volume presents 16 revised full papers including a detailed introduction and survey paper by the volume editors. The papers are organized in sections on foundations of spoken language dialogue systems, dialogue systems and prosodic aspects of spoken dialogue processing, spoken dialogue systems-design and implementation, and evaluation of systems. The book reports on work being pursued both in academia and in industry as a crucial issue in speech processing.

Die Autorin rekonstruiert anhand zahlreicher deutscher und franzoesischer Quellen und der Methoden der Taterforschung den komplexen Unterdruckungsapparat wahrend des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Lyon und beleuchtet jenseits des Mythos einer allmachtigen Gestapo die Frage nach den Tatern. Lyon nimmt als "Hauptstadt des Widerstands" eine zentrale Rolle im franzoesischen Kollektivgedachtnis ein. Erinnerung wie Forschung sind dabei eng mit der Person Klaus Barbies verbunden, der durch seine Tatigkeit als Gestapo-Chef von Lyon und seinen Prozess 1987 zum Hauptsymbol der NS-Verbrechen in Frankreich wurde. Dieser einseitige Fokus liess die Rolle weiterer Sipo-SD-Mitglieder und erst recht der militarischen Besatzer voellig in den Hintergrund treten. Beispielhaft dafur steht Werner Knab, Oberhaupt der Lyoner Sipo-SD.

Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, V99, No. 17.