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Thinking Poetically and Thinking Politically—Arendt, Benjamin, Heidegger, and Arendt's Benjamin
Constellations, EarlyView.
Jacob Abolafia
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The King's Evil Without the King: The Royal Touch during the Interregnum
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines how far, and in what ways, the traditional belief that English monarchs could cure scrofula (the “King's Evil”) by royal touch survived during the eleven years of the Interregnum (1649–1660). Charles I had been executed and the monarchy abolished, and Charles II was in exile for the vast majority of this period. It might seem that
David L. Smith
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Medieval church history and queer ministry: using the historical imaginary to build theological community [PDF]
, 2007 <p>“A woman who takes up devilish ways and plays a male role in coupling with another woman is most vile in My sight, and so is she who subjects herself to such a one in this evil deed…..”1</p> <p>This statement, made by Hildegard ...
Gunn, V.
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What About Eco‐Populism? A Neglected Historical Tradition
Constellations, EarlyView.
Federico Tarragoni
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This essay examines the role of sound in accounts of Methodism in England during the era of the French Revolution. Drawing on religious writings and political tracts, it explores how the conflict between loyalism and radicalism in the 1790s shaped perceptions of the sonic aspects of Methodist piety among both supporters and opponents of the movement ...
Peter Denney
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Transatlantic Anti‐Catholicism and Sexual Scandal: The Case of Mgr. Thomas John Capel
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article investigates the public scandal that enveloped a famous English priest who was living in the United States. Monsignor Thomas John Capel (1836–1911) was one of the stars of the English Church in the Victorian era. Following a disciplinary process for breaking his vow of chastity, the Vatican dispatched him to America, where in 1886 he was ...
Timothy Verhoeven
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Byzantine and Medieval History as represented in Hagiography
, 2022 International ...
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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Historical revisit: Edmund Curtis, A history of medieval Ireland (1923, 1938) [PDF]
, 1999 James Lydon
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