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Law as Weak Integrity: Deflating Dworkinianism

open access: yesRatio Juris, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, I want to sketch out a conception of law that combines elements of Dworkinianism, positivism, and realism. I will argue that while Dworkin gets some fundamental things right, he should have stayed closer to the positivists and realists.
Christian Hiebaum
wiley   +1 more source

‘He Seems Like a Morisco to Me, / Even in the Way He Talks’: Articulating morisco Difference in Lope de Vega and Cervantes

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between 1609 and 1614, after over a century of forced conversions, cultural oppression and inquisitorial persecution, Spain expelled its morisco subjects. Despite being baptised Christians, the descendants of Spain's Muslim population had been deemed incapable of sincerely following the Christian faith and assimilating into society due to ...
Elizabeth Liliann Blakemore
wiley   +1 more source

Liberation/Subversion/Sovereignty (Section Divider)

open access: yes
A section divider for "Liberation/Subversion/Sovereignty.
Genre Editorial Collective (2025-26)
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A Natural History of ‘Annoyances’: Knowing Weeds and Weeding Knowledge in the Early Royal Society and its ‘Georgicall Committee’

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Seventeenth‐century virtuosi often figured themselves as epistemic weeders, grubbing up rank thickets of accumulated error. In this article, I argue that these metaphors were unnerved by the shifting status of weeds—ostensibly unwanted plants from the margins of cultivated space, unploughed land or the disturbed soils between growing crops—in ...
Francis Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Nature/Grief/Repair (Section Divider)

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A section divider for "Nature/Grief/Repair.
Genre Editorial Collective (2025-26)
core  

Performing Papal Supremacy: Niccolò Cieco's Capitoli for Martin V and Eugenius IV

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses two poems performed by the blind oral poet (or canterino) Niccolò Cieco of Arezzo for the first two popes elected after the Great Schism, Martin V and Eugenius IV. It argues that Niccolò's characterisation of the papal office must be understood in relation to both medieval canon law and contemporary ecclesiological ...
Isaac Figliuoli
wiley   +1 more source

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