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- The crystallization of counter-enlightenment and philosophe identities: theological controversy and catholic enlightenment in pre-revolutionary France
- RECENT works of modern French history have found it fashionable, when focusing on the eighteenth century from across the jagged shoals of nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, to reductively treat Francophone national identity as the dialogical interaction of two related "imagined communities." (1) On the one hand, as scholars such as...
- Research articles 2008-12-01
- SUSPENDING THE DEBATE ABOUT DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY AND HUMAN FREEDOM
- The debate about divine sovereignty and human freedom is a series of competing attempts to reconcile two apparently conflicting components of Christian belief. Each of these attempts, or reconciliation projects, offers an account of how it can be true both that God is sovereign omnipotent and omniscient and that human...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- A shilling for Queen Elizabeth: the era of state regulation of church attendance in England, 1552-1969
- Throughout Christian history, churchgoing has been widely regarded as one of the most important and tangible expressions of religious observance. Yet, before the Reformation, failure to attend services was subject solely to ecclesiastical sanctions, such as admonition, penance, and excommunication, as applied by the Episcopal courts. Partly as a consequence,...
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- 'The comforts of married life': Metis family life, labour, and the Hudson's Bay Company
- SINCE THE 1980S, scholars have sought to understand how the Canadian fur trade shaped the Metis. Less attention has been paid to the impact of Metis concepts of family and community on the nature of their relationship with their employer, the Hudson's Bay Company HBC. This article focuses on how...
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- Violence, sacrifice and chiefship in Central Equatoria, Southern Sudan
- ABSTRACT This article explores specific oral histories and chiefship debates in the aftermath of the SPLA war in two Southern Sudanese chiefdoms. It argues that these local histories reveal much about the historical relationship between state and society--and in particular the mediation with external violence--which is central to understanding...
- Research articles 2007-09-22
- Ritual time in British Plantation Colonies, 1650-1780
- Four thousand miles of ocean divided the plantation colonies of the first British Empire from the English metropole, a great physical distance that was augmented by the cultural divergence that divided those slave societies from England. Colonists in Barbados, Jamaica, and South Carolina thus made the re-creation of English ritual...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- The John Askin family library: a fur-trading family's books
- John Askin, [1739]-1815, was a well-known eighteenth-century fur trader in Michigan and the Great Lakes region. He and his family possessed a library, the contents of which have not yet been fully studied. Works in the Askin library reveal the family's intellectual and cultural interests, attributes that we do not...
- Research articles 2007-03-22
- "A funny thing happened on the way to the dystopia": the culture industry's neutralization of Stephen King's The Running Man
- The whole of literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron--they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be. Introduction In the above epigraph from George Orwell's classic dystopia,...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Recent titles in Philosophy
- ABLONDI, FRED. Gerauld de Cordemy: Atomist, Occasionalist, Cartesian. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2005. 128 pp. Paper, $17.00. ADLER, JONATHON E. Beliefs Own Ethics. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. xv + 375 pp. Cloth, $40.00. ALLEN, BARRY. Knowledge and Civilization. Boulder: Westview Press, 2004. x + 342 pp. Cloth, $95.00;...
- Research articles 2006-06-01
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- General Studies ALONSO GIRALDEZ, Jose Miguel, 'El fulgor y la tragedia en la vida domdstica. Mito, realidad y "Sense of Place" en la poesfa irlandesa contempordnea / Splendour and Tragedy in Domestic Life. Myth, Reality, and "Sense of Place" in Contemporary Irish Poetry', in Woodward Smith, Elizabeth, ed., About...
- Research articles 2005-09-22
- Pope and plagiarism
- Pope is the poet of the English Augustan age whose peace of mind and posthumous reputation were most disturbed by allegations of plagiarism. This article discusses his general sensitivity to the ethics of literary borrowing and the numerous accusations of plagiarism that were made against him in his lifetime. It...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- Embedded in the "Battle of the Lakes": a report from the textual frontlines of the 1833 Humboldt Sink massacre
- The first battle between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in what is today Nevada occurred in 1833 when a party of forty or fifty beaver trappers led by Joseph Walker killed more than twenty-five Paiute Indians near the Humboldt Sink. (1) This battle, where the Humboldt River pools up and sinks...
- Research articles 2004-12-01
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- calendar Calendar of the principal feasts of saints in this volume who are or were venerated on these days January1 B. V. M., Odilo, Joseph Tomasi, Zdislava Berka.2 Basil and Gregory of Nazianzus, Munchin,...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
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- The Cathedral of St. Etienne at Bourges, which Ribault justly styles "un chef d'oeuvre gothique" a Gothic masterpiece, (1) did not escape the Huguenot depredations of 1562. Especially vulnerable to the pikes and pry-bars of the Reformers were the choir screen in front of the main altar, the north and...
- Research articles 2003-06-01
- IASIL Bibliography Bulletin for 2001
- The Bibliography Subcommittee continues to produce the IASIL Bibliography with unflagging energy. Lis Christensen and Gerd Bjorhovde, who have provided the Danish and Norwegian material respectively for many years, retire from the committee this year, and IASIL would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their detailed...
- Research articles 2002-09-22
- A Fond Farewell to an Original Mover and Shaker
- Melada, Geoffrey W. Jewish Exponent 07-18-2002 Murray Friedman leans back in his oversized desk chair, smiling in between scoops of lemon-flavored Italian ice. There's a heat wave on in Philadelphia and no air-conditioning in his 10th floor, Center City office....
- Research articles 2002-07-18
- Books, articles, and reviews by Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J., published since 1985
- THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY continues the earlier one published by John R Meier, "Books and Articles by Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J.," CBQ 48 (1986) 379-86. Book reviews, omitted in that earlier bibliography, are included in this one, since the period of time covered here (1986-2000) is shorter, but letters to editors and...
- Research articles 2000-10-01
- The bilateral security relationship: will "National" Missile Defense involve Canada?
- Introduction: Beyond the "End" Four years ago, Joseph Jockel and I proclaimed the "end" of the Canada-U.S. defense relationship. (1) With the passing of the Cold War, its two central elements--collaboration in the aerospace defense of North America through the North American Aerospace Defence Command NORAD and cooperation in...
- Research articles 2000-06-22
- Two Schools of Desire: Nature and Marriage in Seventeenth-Century Puritanism
- In Milton's description of the marriage of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost, the entire Garden of Eden is seen to participate in the celebration of their union. Spousal and nature imagery are woven together, beauty and desire joined in the mystery of Adam's amazement at this gift of his...
- Research articles 2000-06-01
- Everest Re Group, Ltd Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. [Operator Instructions]. And we will go to Tom Cholnoky with Goldman Sachs. Thomas V. Cholnoky - Goldman Sachs Hi. Good morning everyone. I have three questions, if I can. I know you didn't want get too much into the asbestos study, but...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-23
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