The Administrative Structure of Narva and Its Role in Promoting of “Unusual Trade” in Livonian-Russian Borderlands During the 15th and Early 16th Centuries by Valentina A. Yakunina

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Marginal Uncertainties Making a Living and Working on the Outskirts of Milan by Giacomo Pozzi, Luca Rimoldi

“…Through the reconstruction of several narratives, we shed light on how uncertainty characterises the professional everyday lives of those social actors who play a particularly significant role in Milan’s complex arena of social housing management (social workers; bailiffs; inspectors; “trouble-solvers”). Isolation, neglect and conflict are the main terms used by the social actors, both to describe the ongoing housing precarity of those who are at risk of losing their homes and to frame the current conditions of social housing. …”
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Hospitaller Castles and Fortifications in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1136-1291 by Denys Pringle

“…In each case, equal attention is paid to the buildings themselves and to the administrative system of bailiffs and castellans through which they were managed and operated. …”
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Family mediation: problems of negotiability and domestic violence in the focus of professional discourse (on the materials of sociological research) by O. E. Gracheva, I. V. Mkrtumova

“…The main methods of empirical research are questionnaire surveys of family mediation specialists, specialists of family centres, psychologists, teachers, psychiatrists, bailiffs, lawyers on this topic as well as methods of observation and analysis of the divorcing spouses’ behaviour who came to the first information meeting before mediation conducted by the authors of the article. …”
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