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Demons & Droids: Nonhuman Animals On Trial, Gerrit D. White Oct 2022

Demons & Droids: Nonhuman Animals On Trial, Gerrit D. White

PANDION: The Osprey Journal of Research and Ideas

Nonhuman animal trials are ridiculous to the modern sensibilities of the West. The concept of them is in opposition to the idea of nonhuman animals—entities without agency, incapable of guilt by nature of irrationality. This way of viewing nonhuman animals is relatively new to the Western mind. Putting nonhuman animals on trial has only become unacceptable in the past few centuries. Before this shift, nonhuman animal trials existed as methods of communities policing themselves. More than that, these trials were part of legal systems ensuring they provided justice for all. This shift happened because the relationship between Christian authorities and …


The Books Of Margery Kempe And Alice Rowley: Literate Religious Expression And Women In Late Medieval England, Carol Lynne Hemmingway Jan 2020

The Books Of Margery Kempe And Alice Rowley: Literate Religious Expression And Women In Late Medieval England, Carol Lynne Hemmingway

Dean's Leadership Council Library Research Prize

No abstract provided.


"Contra Haereticos Accingantur": The Union Of Crusading And Anti-Heresy Propaganda, Bryan E. Peterson Jan 2018

"Contra Haereticos Accingantur": The Union Of Crusading And Anti-Heresy Propaganda, Bryan E. Peterson

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study assesses the intersection of crusading and heresy repression in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. The event that encapsulates this intersection was the Albigensian Crusade, a two-decades long conflict that befell the south of France, or Occitania. The papacy, aligned with northern lords and other willing Christians, took up arms to defend the Church from the Cathar heresy’s corrupting influence. This conflict marked a new development in Christian acts of violence. While the Church had crusaded against many different enemies—even branding some as heretics—before 1209, the Church had never called a crusade for the explicit purpose of …


Pilgrimage Project, David Sheffler, Mike Boyles, Christopher Baynard, Ron Lukens-Bull Nov 2016

Pilgrimage Project, David Sheffler, Mike Boyles, Christopher Baynard, Ron Lukens-Bull

DHI Digital Projects Showcase

The University of North Florida Pilgrimage Project combines interdisciplinary approaches with digital and STEM technologies and applies them to the study of pilgrimage with a special focus on the Camino de Santiago.


Ansel Brooks Smith-Mrs. Marie Smith, August 5, 1918, France, Ansel Brooks Smith Sr. Aug 1918

Ansel Brooks Smith-Mrs. Marie Smith, August 5, 1918, France, Ansel Brooks Smith Sr.

Ansel Brooks Smith, Sr. Letters

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Letter: Wesley Bouslog To Opal Valentine Baker, March 28, 1918, Wesley Bouslog Mar 1918

Letter: Wesley Bouslog To Opal Valentine Baker, March 28, 1918, Wesley Bouslog

Camp Joseph E. Johnston Collection Correspondence

A letter from Wesley Bouslog to his girlfriend Opal Valentine Baker, Sulphur Springs, Henry County, Indiana describing his day to day activities and feelings, written in March 28, 1918. Written on YMCA letterhead. “Young Men’s Christian Associations”, “WITH THE COLORS”, logo and slogan on the envelope.


Ansel Brooks Smith-Mrs. Marie Smith, March 20, 1918, France, Ansel Brooks Smith Sr. Mar 1918

Ansel Brooks Smith-Mrs. Marie Smith, March 20, 1918, France, Ansel Brooks Smith Sr.

Ansel Brooks Smith, Sr. Letters

No abstract provided.