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What Voting Power Cannot Be

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “Almost everyone,” Ronald Dworkin wrote in Sovereign Virtue, “assumes that democracy means equal voting power.” What, then, is voting power? The standard view defines it as the probability that a vote changes the outcome assuming that each possible combination of votes is equiprobable.
Daniel Wodak
wiley   +1 more source

Tudor England and Stewart Scotland Through Spanish Eyes: A Complete Transcription and Translation of Pedro de Ayala's Letter of 1498 to King Ferdinand of Castile and Queen Isabella of Aragon

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime, Valeria Tapia Cruz, Mairi Cowan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
wiley   +1 more source

Bibliografía de las historias caballerescas breves (1995-2015) [PDF]

, 2015
La presente bibliografía de las historias caballerescas breves incluye únicamente los artículos, libros y tesis doctorales publicados entre 1995 y 2015 que aluden a los textos hispánicos del corpus, especialmente, los referidos a sus primeras ediciones ...
Luna Mariscal, Karla Xiomara
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‘Who is the Gael who Would Not Weep?’: The Book of the O’Conor Don, Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, and Late Bardic Poetry of Exile

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
wiley   +1 more source

A Flourynge Aege: Tracing the Sacred and Secular in the Book of St. Albans [PDF]

, 2018
With the introduction of the printing press to England around the mid-fifteenth century, English authors were not only writing under the lingering influence of Chaucer and the conventions of established medieval genres, but now had to confront the ...
Treese, Allison
core   +2 more sources

Does Non‐Idealism Entail Particularism?

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
John Lawless
wiley   +1 more source

Seriality and style: The embodiment, perception, and normalization of collectives

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Within existential phenomenology, both seriality and style have been drawn on to theorize the embodiment and perceptibility of (social) ontological differences. While style refers to how we encounter the world and others not in the abstract, but as immediately and intuitively meaningful, seriality is a form of collective being that pertains to
Tris Hedges
wiley   +1 more source

From Tweets to Tyranny: Exploring the Symmetry Between State and Social Media Censorship of Speech

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Bhanuraj Kashyap, Paul Formosa
wiley   +1 more source

Two Pathways to Proletarianization: Understanding Professionals' Adaptation to the “Corporatization” of Chinese Law Firms

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how lawyers in China adapt to the “corporatization” of law firms, which limits their professional autonomy within bureaucratic structures. “Proletarianization” theory, which emerged in the 1970s, effectively explains employment relations and internal stratification within the legal profession, but it has been underestimated
Xinyi Shen
wiley   +1 more source