“Rise Up, Lord, Scatter Your Enemies (Please)”: Faith And Doubt In The Anglo-Saxon Staffordshire Hoard1,
2012
Idaho State University
“Rise Up, Lord, Scatter Your Enemies (Please)”: Faith And Doubt In The Anglo-Saxon Staffordshire Hoard1, Thomas Klein
Quidditas
As is now well known, in July of 2009, an unemployed metal “detectorist” named Terry Herbert was plying his device in the recently plowed field of a friend in the farmland outside of Lichfield, in Staffordshire, in the English West Midlands, and came upon a remarkable find.2 Over the course of several days, he uncovered hundreds of items of what turned out to be early Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork. The find was subsequently reported to the British Portable Antiquities Scheme, which took over the site, and eventually some 1300 distinct objects (and many more pieces) were recovered. The news …
Marking The Woman A Sinner: Testimony And Legal Fiction In Renaissance England,
2012
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Marking The Woman A Sinner: Testimony And Legal Fiction In Renaissance England, Lesley Skousen
Quidditas
Throughout Medieval England, ordained clergy could avoid secular punishment for felony by claiming a privilege known as benefit of clergy. During the Reformation, this privilege was repurposed by the ministers of Henry VIII and offered as a lay benefit. The plea of clergy left women ineligible, as they could not be priests and were rarely convicted in the same numbers as men. Even when accused of crimes, women could rely on legal fictions and evasive testimonies to escape conviction. Then in 1624 and 1691, Parliament redesigned benefit of clergy to include women, first for slight theft and then on equal …
Midwives As Agents Of Social Control: Ecclesiastical And Municipal Regulation Of Midwifery In The Late Middle Ages,
2012
University of Utah
Midwives As Agents Of Social Control: Ecclesiastical And Municipal Regulation Of Midwifery In The Late Middle Ages, Ginger L. Smoak
Quidditas
Regulation of Midwifery in the Late Middle Ages was the result of both the trend toward supervisory social and institutional control and also the harnessing of midwives as agents of that control. This paper examines the procedure of ecclesiastical and municipal regulation through oaths and licensure, arguing that midwives were able to gain agency and autonomy, as well as protection, by occupying a liminal role between the private world of the birthing chamber and the public world of the witness stand. They were therefore vital to both sides of the process of regulation
Play Fair With Recidivists,
2012
University of Richmond
Play Fair With Recidivists, Richard Dagger
Political Science Faculty Publications
Retributivists thus face a difficult challenge. Either we must go against the social grain, and perhaps our own intuitions, by insisting that a criminal offense carry the same penalty or punishment no matter how many previous convictions an offender has accrued; or we must find a way to justify the recidivist premium. I shall take the second route here by arguing that recidivism itself is a kind of criminal offense. In developing this argument, I shall rely on Youngjae Lee's insightful analysis of "recidivism as omission." I shall complement his analysis, however, by grounding it in a conception of criminal …
The Next Fifty Years,
2012
University of Richmond
The Next Fifty Years, Ladelle Mcwhorter
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Faculty Publications
Continental philosophy tends to be very textual, defined not so much by a set of problems as by a set of interpretive practices. We read Levinas or Irigaray and write interpretations of those texts. Of course, we do more than issue commentary; we think through texts, grappling with problems, concepts, and historical and cultural phenomena. Still, most of our work remains closely tied to texts. Consequently, it often reproduces a distinction between primary and secondary philosophical work that we might question. Nobody would deny the creativity of John Sallis’ or David Wood’s work or that of Debra Bergoffen or Kelly …
The Implications Of Migration Theory For Distributive Justice,
2012
Portland State University
The Implications Of Migration Theory For Distributive Justice, Alexander Sager
Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations
This paper explores the implications of empirical theories of migration for normative accounts of migration and distributive justice. It examines neo-classical economics, world-systems theory, dual labor market theory, and feminist approaches to migration and contends that neo-classical economic theory in isolation provides an inadequate understanding of migration. Other theories provide a fuller account of how national and global economic, political, and social institutions cause and shape migration flows by actively affecting people's opportunity sets in source countries and by admitting people according to social categories such as class and gender. These empirical theories reveal the causal impact of institutions regulating …
A Living Citizenship Model For The Public Schools: The Philosophical Foundations Of Friendship In The Works Of Epicurus And Ralph Waldo Emerson,
2012
Lesley University
A Living Citizenship Model For The Public Schools: The Philosophical Foundations Of Friendship In The Works Of Epicurus And Ralph Waldo Emerson, Debra Sherblom
Educational Studies Dissertations
In an interdisciplinary, hermeneutical study using primary and secondary documents from history, philosophy, political theory, and critical pedagogy, the dissertation focuses on dialogue, friendship, and citizenship. The philosophical foundations of friendship in the works of Epicurus and Ralph Waldo Emerson are discussed. Included in the study is the history of citizenship and analysis of works on dialogue and community. A critical consciousness is significant for real dialogue to precipitate friendship. The philosophical foundations of friendship in the works of Epicurus and Ralph Waldo Emerson are echoed in the Peaceable Schools Model for secondary schools. Based on social justice and the …
Oyun: A New, Free Program For Iterated Prisoner’S Dilemma Tournaments In The Classroom,
2012
Louisiana State University
Oyun: A New, Free Program For Iterated Prisoner’S Dilemma Tournaments In The Classroom, Charles H. Pence, Lara Buchak
Faculty Publications
Evolutionary applications of game theory present one of the most pedagogically accessible varieties of genuine, contemporary theoretical biology. We present here Oyun (oy-oon, http://charlespence.net/oyun), a program designed to run iterated prisoner's dilemma tournaments, competitions between prisoner's dilemma strategies developed by the students themselves. Using this software, students are able to readily design and tweak their own strategies, and to see how they fare both in round-robin tournaments and in “evolutionary” tournaments, where the scores in a given “generation” directly determine contribution to the population in the next generation. Oyun is freely available, runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers, …
Front Matter,
2012
Louisiana State University
Front Matter
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
Aspects Of High Churchmanship In Eighteenth-Century England Charles Wheatly (1686-1742) And The Rational Illustration Of The Book Of Common Prayer,
2012
Louisiana State University
Aspects Of High Churchmanship In Eighteenth-Century England Charles Wheatly (1686-1742) And The Rational Illustration Of The Book Of Common Prayer, Richard Sharp
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
Savage Europeans And Gentlemanly Savages Capitalism And Blurred Identity In Robinson Crusoe,
2012
Louisiana State University
Savage Europeans And Gentlemanly Savages Capitalism And Blurred Identity In Robinson Crusoe, Susan Lydon
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
Dilettante And Amateur Our Evolving Language,
2012
Louisiana State University
Dilettante And Amateur Our Evolving Language, Beverly Jerold
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
"The Splendour Of Our Golden Age" The Duchess Of Mazarin And Epicurean Voluptuousness In Late Stuart England,
2012
Louisiana State University
"The Splendour Of Our Golden Age" The Duchess Of Mazarin And Epicurean Voluptuousness In Late Stuart England, James E. Evans
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
The Catholic Enlightenment,
2012
Louisiana State University
The Catholic Enlightenment, Theodore E.D. Braun
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
From Colonist To Revolutionary John Adams (1735-1826),
2012
Louisiana State University
From Colonist To Revolutionary John Adams (1735-1826), James J. Kirschke, Scott Grapin
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
The Problem Of Cultural Reproduction In Gulliver's Travels,
2012
Louisiana State University
The Problem Of Cultural Reproduction In Gulliver's Travels, Keely Mccarthy
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
Female, French, And Alone The Case Of Luisa De Dufressi Before The Mexican Inquisition During The Time Of Viceroy Bernardo De Galvez (Hero Of The Battle Of Baton Rouge And Other Notable Feats),
2012
Louisiana State University
Female, French, And Alone The Case Of Luisa De Dufressi Before The Mexican Inquisition During The Time Of Viceroy Bernardo De Galvez (Hero Of The Battle Of Baton Rouge And Other Notable Feats), Frieda Koeninger
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
Philipp Otto Runge And The Semiotic Language Of Nature And Patriotism,
2012
Louisiana State University
Philipp Otto Runge And The Semiotic Language Of Nature And Patriotism, Sharon Worley
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
The Secret History Of Eliza Haywood's Works The Early Novel And The Book Trade,
2012
Louisiana State University
The Secret History Of Eliza Haywood's Works The Early Novel And The Book Trade, Al Coppola
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
"The Story Told Well": Thought, Feeling, And Speech In Jane Austen's Proposal Scenes,
2012
Louisiana State University
"The Story Told Well": Thought, Feeling, And Speech In Jane Austen's Proposal Scenes, Francesca Saggini
1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era
No abstract provided.
