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Iconoclasm – A Road to Modernization?

open access: yesEuropean Review, 2022
My point of departure is a conflict over images in the churches in Bergen, Norway in the 1560s, around 30 years after the Reformation. This introduced a brief period of iconoclasm in Denmark–Norway, inspired by Reformed theology. Soon, however, mainstream Lutheranism took over and statues and pictures were reintroduced. The different views on images in
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Contradicting Kuhn's Popular Notion of Scientific Revolution: Conservative Revolutionaries in the History of Biology

open access: yesNatural Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Proposing the concept of a conservative revolutionary generally and using the examples of Gregor Mendel, Max Delbrück, and Eric Davidson, I fundamentally call into question Thomas Kuhn's ideas of scientific revolutions. I also highlight some problematic consequences of the increasing appreciation of Kuhn's work among scientists and show that ...
Ute Deichmann
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Methodios I patriarch of Constantinople: churchman, politician and confessor for the faith [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The chapter concerning the life and times of Methodios, Patriarch of Constantinople, begins with a summary of the history of the iconoclastic controversy. This provides the background for a review of Methodios' vita.
Bithos, George P., Bithos, G.P.
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Historia de dos monumentos: el ascenso del héroe, la caída de un villano y el olvido de Rodin

open access: yesNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2023
While Captain Arturo Prat was an early victim of the Pacific War (1879-1883), turning his defeat into a symbol of heroism, General Manuel Baquedano led the Chilean army to victory in that same war, turning his triumph into a ...
José de Nordenflycht
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An elegant model of the geodesic flow on the modular surface

open access: yesJournal of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 114, Issue 1, July 2026.
Abstract Caroline Series' [The modular surface and continued fractions, J. Lond. Math. Soc. (2), 31, no. 1, (1985), 69–80] gives a clear framework linking, in a deceptively simple way, the dynamics of the geodesic flow on the modular surface with the dynamics of the regular continued fraction, through a well‐chosen symbolic coding.
Pierre Arnoux, Thomas A. Schmidt
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Iconoclasm in European Cinema:The Ethics and Aesthetics of Image Destruction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Exploring anti-mimesis and image destruction in Western European films, Iconoclasm in European Cinema: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Image Destruction offers the first comprehensive study of philosophical iconoclasm in the cinema.
Quaranta, Chiara
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Blue plaque review series: Thomas Graham Brown: Before his time

open access: yesExperimental Physiology, Volume 111, Issue 7, Page 3191-3202, 1 July 2026.
Abstract Thomas Graham Brown made a seminal discovery, published in 1911 while he was a Carnegie Fellow in the University of Liverpool laboratory of Nobel Prize winner Charles S. Sherrington. Working in cats, he showed that rhythmic ‘voluntary’ behaviour, such as stepping and, by inference, walking, does not result from a chain of reflex events, but ...
Ronald L. Calabrese, Eve Marder
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The ascending prayer to Christ: theodore Stoudite's defence of the Christ-єikwv against ninth century iconoclasm [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Theodore Stoudite (759-826) was at the centre of a revival of patristic learning which equipped him to apply the weight of the Christian tradition to the Byzantine image controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries.
Thorne, Gary Wayne Alfred
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« My dear audacious Moore » : les poses de l’artiste décadent dans Confessions of a Young Man

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2012
In George Moore’s Confessions of a Young Man, published in 1886 at the beginning of Moore’s career, audacity, which is manifested both in the story and in the telling, verges on iconoclasm yet also appears as a pose.
Fabienne Gaspari
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Norman and Nietzsche: The Political Project of Lindsay's The Magic Pudding

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 2, Page 256-268, June 2026.
Australian artist and writer Norman Lindsay (1879–1969) wrote 11 novels and two children's books, one of which—The Magic Pudding first published in 1918—remains a national classic. This article argues that readers and critics have long misunderstood Lindsay's intention in writing this lengthy cartoon‐story about the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum in ...
John Uhr
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