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De Musica Disserenda, 2015 It is significant for medieval Latin liturgical texts (including plainchant texts) that early Christian authors adopted the language of war and heroism in a metaphorical sense to describe the character and behavior of the saints, and especially of ...
Roman Hankeln
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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The Obligations of Exempt Monasteries: The Practice in England
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This note draws on the extensive sources surviving from the fourteenth century to examine, in the light of debates about the medieval papacy, the observance by English houses of papal obligations imposed on exempt monasteries. It concludes that these arrangements, reflecting the complex history of exemption, were more fluid, negotiable and ...
Peter McDonald
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The Early Historical Influences on Separation of Property in English Law
Journal on European History of Law, 2014 It is curious that a community of property regime has never developed between the spouses in England and Wales, as it has in continental Europe. This paper seeks to examine the historical factors which have influenced the development of separation of ...
Meryl Thomas
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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Chaucer’s Treatment of Outlawry in 'Wife of Bath’s Tale' and 'Knight’s Tale'
Anglo Saxonica, 2020 The medieval outlaw appears in historical, religious, and legal texts of late Medieval England and is imagined in fiction as well, specifically in the romance narratives of Geoffrey Chaucer. Outlawry was a legal state that could be imposed. Chaucer found
Carolyn Gonzalez
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All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
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Carl Schmitt's International Order: A Decolonial Reappraisal
Constellations, EarlyView.
Andrea Mura
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Does the Rule of Law Require the Separation of Powers?
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.The separation of powers is an enigmatic political ideal, particularly in the context of the modern administrative state, in which administrative officials routinely perform a combination of legislative, judicial, and executive functions. In this article we reexamine this ideal by interrogating Adrian Vermeule's provocative claim that the separation of
Dimitrios Kyritsis, Matthew Lewans
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