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Divine Iconoclasm and the Making of Sacred Space in John Capgrave’s Life of Saint Katherine of Alexandria

open access: yesReligions
The polemics of idol worship in John Capgrave’s Life of Saint Katherine of Alexandria have been interpreted by previous scholars as either the author’s engagement with the Lollard image controversy or a political critique of Henry VI. This essay, however,
Yun Ni
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World War Two Iconoclasm: The Destruction and Reconstruction of memorials to Queen Victoria and Edward VII on the French Riviera

open access: yesE-REA, 2017
This essay explores the process linked to the desecration and subsequent rebuilding of monuments erected on the French Riviera to commemorate the British monarchs who had a positive influence on the development of Menton, Cannes and Nice as coastal ...
Gilles TEULIÉ
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No Art on a Dead Planet: Political Iconoclasm as Climate Activism

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 215-234, February 2026.
ABSTRACT A trend has recently emerged among climate activists of attacking artworks as a means of registering protest. I analyse this mode of protest, which I term political iconoclasm, and offer a novel partial defence of political iconoclasm as a protest strategy for environmental activists. I focus on Just Stop Oil's attack on van Gogh's Sunflowers.
A. M. Hilder Jarvis
wiley   +1 more source

Back Again to the Future: A New Era for Cerebroprotection

open access: yesAnnals of Neurology, Volume 99, Issue 1, Page 19-34, January 2026.
Cerebroprotection is a fresh framework for designing neurological therapy that targets glia and vascular cells, in addition to neurons. In the future, successful cerebroprotection will involve targeting all elements of the neurovascular unit. Preclinical trials must include functional outcomes, as well as lesion morphometry.
Patrick Lyden
wiley   +1 more source

The Ethics of Blindness and the Postmodern Sublime: Levinas and Lyotard

open access: yesВестник Мининского университета, 2017
The excerpt below is the final chapter of M. Jay’s “Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought” concerning the long-term confrontment “iconoclasm vs visual imaginary” within modern European culture.
M. .. Jay, A. V. Khazina, F. V. Nicolai
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‘That Profession and Habit that None Other Be of Within this Realm’: The Battel Hall Retable, Visual Culture and Intersections of Community Identity in a Late Medieval English Convent

open access: yesHistory, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 30-53, January 2026.
Abstract The Battel Hall Retable – created around the late fourteenth to early fifteenth century and once belonging to the Dominican nuns of Dartford Priory – offers a rare glimpse into the visual lives of late medieval English nuns, inviting an insight into the intersections of communal identities for these women religious.
ELIZABETH GOODWIN
wiley   +1 more source

Staging Uncivility, Or, The Performative Politics of Radical Decolonial Iconoclasm

open access: yesKrisis, 2022
In this article I reflect on the deployment of crass vandalism in contemporary decolonial and anti-racist struggles, as exemplified by the recent activist campaign against Belgium’s colonialist patrimony.
Matthias Pauwels
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Effectively Maintained Inequality in Canada Revisited

open access: yesCanadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 281-298, November 2025.
ABSTRACT The mass expansion of higher education (HE) systems during the 20th century pushed social scientists to theorize how high participation systems continued to reproduce inequalities across socio‐economic lines. One popular theory in sociology, dubbed effectively maintained inequality (EMI), suggests that families from the upper economic strata ...
Roger Pizarro Milian, David Zarifa
wiley   +1 more source

Collaborative diffusion: The dynamics of policy output in COVID‐19 interstate compacts

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 944-970, November 2025.
Abstract Interstate compacts are formal structures through which multiple states work together towards a common goal or shared agenda. Previous research on compacts focuses almost exclusively on the decision to join the compact, leaving questions on post‐formation diffusion patterns unexplored.
Isaac Pollert   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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