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Medicine and Charity in Eighteenth-century Northumberland: The Early Years of the Bamburgh Castle Dispensary and Surgery, c. 1772-1802. [PDF]
Soc Hist Med, 2016 Withey A.
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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
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The birth of biopower in eighteenth-century Germany. [PDF]
Med Hist, 2011 Stein C.
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A Consideration of Fiscal Targetry
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The UK's current fiscal rules and framework are not fit for purpose. Try as they might, the rules are more “honor'd in the breach than the observance”. They have introduced an unintended incentive on the margin (at fiscal events) to trade off government investment for government consumption.
Jagjit S. Chadha
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Teaching the Polyamorous (Long) Eighteenth Century
Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries, 2011 Christopher Nagle
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Illustrating phallic worship: uses of material objects and the production of sexual knowledge in eighteenth-century antiquarianism and early twentieth-century sexual science. [PDF]
Word Image (Lond), 2017 Funke J, Fisher K, Grove J, Langlands R.
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Images Assisting Wor[l]ds: Black History Murals in South and West Philadelphia
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Black history murals are often understood as examples of state or corporate obfuscation of racial inequality, sometimes known as “artwashing”; or, conversely, as “insurgent” political interventions. Focusing on murals in historically Black neighborhoods in South and West Philadelphia, this article instead highlights the processual, but no less
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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Bothy busi/yness: Recirculating representation and practice in the Scottish landscape
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Abstract This paper uses the ‘busi/yness’ of Scottish mountain bothies to explore the agency of representation and its entanglement with practice. In doing so it asks, firstly, what are the material and discursive impacts of a rise in the symbolic value of an object (or in this case a building)?
Rachel Hunt
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