Rituals and superstitions in neurosurgery. [PDF]
Ajaj S+6 more
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“The Growth of Interest”. Richard Wollheim on F. H. Bradley's Moral Psychology
Abstract This paper aims to reconstruct two key stages of Richard Wollheim's engagement with the moral psychology of F. H. Bradley—first in his 1959/1969 book on Bradley, and later in his 1993 collection of essays, The Mind and its Depths—and to connect them to Wollheim's own account of a dynamic moral psychology, as detailed in The Thread of Life ...
Paolo Babbiotti
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Reconstructing the intellectual neighbourhood: tracing Ali Qushji's influence in science. [PDF]
Nurulla-Khoja N.
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The Dialectic of Backsliding: Thinking with Habermas About Democratic Progress and Regression
Abstract There is widespread agreement that we are living in an age of “democratic backsliding,” in which a growing number of formally democratic countries are falling behind previously achieved levels of democratization. But on what grounds can we claim that one level of democratic development is “higher” or “lower” than another?
Fabio Wolkenstein
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Historic Genomes Uncover Demographic Shifts and Kinship Structures in Post-Roman Central Europe
Blöcher J+54 more
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Gender, kinship, and other social predictors of incrimination in the inquisition register of Bologna (1291-1310): Results from an exponential random graph model. [PDF]
Zbíral D+3 more
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Between theft and treason: latrocinium in Carolingian capitularies
Suppressing robbery, latrocinium, was a priority for Charlemagne, Louis the Pious, Charles the Bald, and Louis II at key political moments. Latrones were conceptualized as ordinary thieves, as highway robbers, and as threats to peace and security. In capitularies, latrocinium was implicitly and explicitly associated with infidelity.
James R. Burns
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund
This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
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New Advances in Iberian Medieval Agriculture: Plant Remains from the Islamic Site of Castillo de Valtierra (Navarre, Northern Spain). [PDF]
Peralta-Gómez A+2 more
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Poetry, citizenship and diplomacy: The case of Western Sahara
Short Abstract This article argues for greater consideration of the role of poetry and poets in diplomacy and as a medium for the recognition of contested citizenships. We take Western Sahara, the site of an ongoing anti‐colonial war, as our case study and explore how Saharawi poets engage foreign publics in their national struggle to become citizens ...
Joanna Allan, Moiti Mohamed Azrouk
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