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The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief
Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
Petros Spanou
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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HISTORY AND THEORY AND PHILOLOGY NOW: TOGETHER IN THEORY
ABSTRACT In English‐speaking academe, philology has virtually disappeared as a defined discipline, although its traditional array of skills and techniques for reading, editing, and interpreting texts are indispensable to fields ranging from biblical studies through every language and literature and are central to historical research. Philology's status
Nancy Partner
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Abstract It has long been recognized that there are issues with the appropriateness of citations in the academic literature. Citations of sources that do not support the statement they are cited against are known as quotation errors, and there have been many previous studies of their prevalence.
Simon Wakeling +2 more
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A “Documentary Turn” in the Medieval History of Egypt and Syria?
ABSTRACT The field of medieval Middle East history has seen a renewed attention to the use of documentary sources in recent years. These sources have long seen some neglect, and their interpretation has suffered from a stubborn narrative of paucity that has tended to relegate them to the fringe of this history. With the impact of other scholarly trends
Daisy Livingston
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund
This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
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Abstract The BookSampo Linked Data portal was deployed in 2011 by the Finnish Public Libraries and has today nearly 2 million annual users. Its Linked Data covers virtually all Finnish fiction literature but the data has not been used for data analyses in Digital Humanities. This paper discusses how the Knowledge Graph can be used for literary research
Annastiina Ahola +2 more
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ABSTRACT Small extracellular vesicles (SEVs) are involved in diverse functions in normal and pathological situations, including intercellular communication, immunity, metastasis and neurodegeneration. Cell release of SEVs is assumed to occur passively right after multivesicular bodies of the endocytic pathway fuse with the plasma membrane. We show here
Chloé Bizingre +12 more
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Abstract Academic libraries, institutions, and publishers are interested in predicting future publishing output to help evaluate publishing agreements. Current predictive models are overly simplistic and provide inaccurate predictions. This paper presents Bayesian and frequentist statistical models to predict future article counts and costs.
Philip M. Dixon, Eric Schares
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Chesterfield, Scarbrough, and the Excise Bill: a new Manuscript Source*
Abstract A previously unpublished history of the Excise Crisis, written by Lord Chesterfield in 1761 and kept among his ‘loose papers’ after his death, provides an intriguing view of how members of the house of lords exerted influence on the Court – if not on the first minister – during this tumultuous period in 1733. Chesterfield recounts how the earl
Richard Wendorf
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