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Introduction: Exile and Innovation☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 8-25, February 2025.Abstract The early modern period was an age marked by the forced migration and displacement of social groups and individuals around the world. Huguenots, conversos, Catholics, cavaliers, Jacobites, and French emigrés alike fled or were expelled from their homes and communities.
Annalisa Nicholson, Christophe Gillain
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Exploring mothers' metaphorical sensemaking of dyslexia
Dyslexia, Volume 30, Issue 4, November 2024.Through a reflexive thematic analysis of a large online support group for dyslexia and a sensemaking lens, this study investigated how mothers made sense of their child's dyslexia through metaphors. Mothers used metaphors to characterise their feelings surrounding dyslexia, their school‐based interactions and their identity as advocates.
Jenna S. Abetz
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Margaret Cavendish’s Femmes Fortes: The Paradoxes of Female Heroism in Bell in Campo (1662)
XVII-XVIII, 2016 This paper proposes to read Margaret Cavendish’s Bell in Campo (1662) in the light of Pierre Le Moyne’s Gallerie des femmes fortes (1647). It shows how this celebration of women’s high deeds sheds an interesting light on the the ambiguous staging of ...
Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille
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"For concerning the Philosophical World, I am Empress of it myself". Margaret Cavendish's vindication of authorship in The Blazing World (1666) [PDF]
, 2017 Cavendish's organic materialism defends that humankind's prowess of nature is unattainable due to nature's greatness and heterogeneity. Accordingly, our cognitive processes are at times unavailing at providing accurate accounts of nature.
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, 2017 Since ancient times, curiosity (curiositas) was perceived as a misdeed, negative passion resulting from an irrepressible drive in the pursuit of knowledge and associated with conceit. However, its positive aspect did not go unnoticed. This was associated
Partyka, Joanna
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Stoic-influenced epistemology in Margaret Cavendish’s theory of perception
Filosofia UnisinosRecent scholarship has explored various aspects of Cavendish’s epistemology and some concepts of her philosophy of nature have been shown to trace back to Stoic mechanics and aetiology. This paper argues that there was also a significant influence of
Matheus Tonani
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Texts Less Travelled: The Case of Women Philosophers [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter discusses several possible reasons why works by women philosophers have traveled significantly less than those written by men, although women’s contributions go back to the start of European history of philosophy.
Pettersen, Tove
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The Modern Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 4, Page 833-863, July 2024.Retrospective facial recognition (RFR) marks a step change in police surveillance capability that has received surprisingly little attention to‐date. As the legal issues surrounding RFR are uncertain, and as legal challenge is likely, this article makes four key contributions. First, the surveillance capability made possible by RFR is set out.
Daragh Murray
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Veil of Light: The Role of Light in Cavendish’s Visual Perception
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of PhilosophyMargaret Cavendish’s views about the nature of bodies and perception leave her with a potentially problematic implication: that light has no role in visual perception.
Brooke Willow Sharp
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Skin Colour and Priesthood. Debating Bodily Differences in Early Modern Catholicism*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 135-152, June 2024.Can people of different skin colours become Catholic priests? What may seem self‐evident from today's perspective, Catholic theologians and canon lawyers controversially debated in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. While most authors agreed that colour per se was not a problematic factor, an increasing number argued that non‐white ...
Brendan Röder
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