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Medieval Political Philosophy

Someone unfamiliar with the Middle Ages in the Western Christian, Jewish, and Islamic worlds might evince doubts about whether political philosophy existed at all during that period.
Nederman, Cary, Mulieri, Alessandro
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Divine Self‐Placement, Sacred Placemaking: The Virgin of El Rocío and Territorial Custodianship in Early Modern Spain

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
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Qu’attendre d’une comparaison des scolastiques ?

Socio-anthropologie, 2017
The geographical, cultural and historical context of the study of medieval philosophy has been remarkably extended during the last decades, with “medieval philosophy” referring to all Latin, Islamic, Jewish and Byzantine—i.e.
Vincent Eltschinger
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Eco’s Semiotics and Medieval Philosophy

, 2017
After a review of the references to Medieval philosophy in Eco’s theoretical (pre-semiotic) works, the article focuses on the relationships between Eco's semiotics and medieval philosophy (in general, and medieval philosophy of language and semiotics, in
Marmo
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THE FORMALITY OF PETER OF SPAIN’S THEORY OF SUPPOSITION

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia, 2018
Relatively recent literature on supposition theory seems to use different modern logical tools of interpretation that can be generally described as formalizations. Since the act of formalizing may be understood as a process of changing its object in the
Vlad-Lucian ILE
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‘Childish’ and ‘Minors’? Deconstructing Prejudice and Identity Transformation Among Spanish Women Religious During the Long Sixties1

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
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Does the Rule of Law Require the Separation of Powers?

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
The separation of powers is an enigmatic political ideal, particularly in the context of the modern administrative state, in which administrative officials routinely perform a combination of legislative, judicial, and executive functions. In this article we reexamine this ideal by interrogating Adrian Vermeule's provocative claim that the separation of
Dimitrios Kyritsis, Matthew Lewans
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Carl Schmitt's International Order: A Decolonial Reappraisal

Constellations, EarlyView.
Andrea Mura
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