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Dignity's Dilemma: Categorical Objections to Autonomous Weapons and Their Pacifist Entailments
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Dignity objections to autonomous weapon systems are prominent in contemporary military ethics, yet their theoretical foundations remain underexamined. This article reconstructs those foundations, showing what categorical dignity objections require to function as absolute prohibitions.
Timothy Dubber
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi +15 more
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Medieval Stained Glass: Text and Context
, 2006 Lecture held April 4, 2006, 7 p.m. in Woodward Hall, UNM as the third lecture of the Institute for Medieval Studies' Spring Lecture Series 2006.The development of a method for creating stained glass windows was one of the outstanding technical ...
Raguin, Virginia Chieffo
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Upland farming in Europe is frequently assumed to have been limited and precarious, despite relict spade‐dug ridges providing firm evidence of past crop growing. Direct evidence for crop types in post‑Medieval to Modern (~since 1500 CE) uplands is rare; yet, in Ireland, relict spade‐dug ridges that date to this period are commonly interpreted ...
Helen Essell, Gill Plunkett
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Tradition, Innovation, and the Illuminated Manuscript in the Middle Ages
, 2006 Lecture held April 3, 2006, 7 p.m. in Woodward Hall, UNM as the first lecture of the Institute for Medieval Studies' Spring Lecture Series 2006."Innovation" was a quality often viewed with suspicion during the Middle Ages-it could even lead to ...
Brown, Michelle P.
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Southern Portugal hydroclimate of the last millennium from near‐annually resolved speleothem records
Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Hydroclimate in Portugal is influenced by the North Atlantic subtropical high‐pressure system (the Azores High) and by internal climate modes, most prominently the North Atlantic Oscillation, which may shift in position and/or intensity due to anthropogenic climate change.
Alaina Chormann +10 more
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Image, Sign, and Vestige in the Augustinian Theory of Time
ReligionsThe relationship between time and eternity is a central theme in Augustine’s thought and has often been interpreted, under Neoplatonic influence, through the paradigm of image and model.
Salomea Slobodian
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The Modern Devout and `Private' Religion
, 2006 Lecture held April 6, 2006, 7 p.m. in Woodward Hall, UNM as the final lecture of the Institute for Medieval Studies' Spring Lecture Series 2006.The influential and innovative religious movement known as the Devotio Moderna or "Modern Devotion" first ...
Van Engen, John H.
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The frequency of tobacco use during the postmedieval period is widely underexplored; this has repercussions for our understanding of the intoxicant's health impacts during this time. Our study assesses the frequency rates of tobacco consumption in different social groups in England and the Netherlands, two countries in which tobacco use became
Anna M. Davies‐Barrett +1 more
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‘Sacred Kingship, Genealogy and the Late Medieval Roodscreen: Catfield and Beyond’
, 2018 A study (10,000 words) of the royal imagery of English medieval church screens, with special reference to the screen of Catfield church ...
Luxford, Julian Marcus
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