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James Smith deposited “So the satiated man hungers, the drunken thirsts” The Medieval Rhetorical Topos of Spiritual Nutrition in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThis article explores the representation of hunger and thirst as faculties within medieval spiritual allegory that existed at two forms. In their bodily form, hunger and thirst represented a feeling of lack indicating the need for sustenance. In their figurative moralised form these needs came to represent a longing for that which was missing…[Read more]
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James Smith deposited “So the satiated man hungers, the drunken thirsts” The Medieval Rhetorical Topos of Spiritual Nutrition in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThis article explores the representation of hunger and thirst as faculties within medieval spiritual allegory that existed at two forms. In their bodily form, hunger and thirst represented a feeling of lack indicating the need for sustenance. In their figurative moralised form these needs came to represent a longing for that which was missing…[Read more]
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James Smith deposited “So the satiated man hungers, the drunken thirsts” The Medieval Rhetorical Topos of Spiritual Nutrition in the group
History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThis article explores the representation of hunger and thirst as faculties within medieval spiritual allegory that existed at two forms. In their bodily form, hunger and thirst represented a feeling of lack indicating the need for sustenance. In their figurative moralised form these needs came to represent a longing for that which was missing…[Read more]
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James Smith deposited Europe’s confused transmutation: the realignment of moral cartography in Juan de la Cosa’s Mappa Mundi (1500) in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoFollowing the voyages of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Alonso de Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci in the last decade of the fifteenth century, the New World of the Americas entered the cartographic and moral consciousness of Europe. In the 1500 mappa mundi of Juan de la Cosa, navigator and map-maker, we see Europe as a hybrid moral entity, a…[Read more]
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James Smith deposited Europe’s confused transmutation: the realignment of moral cartography in Juan de la Cosa’s Mappa Mundi (1500) in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoFollowing the voyages of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Alonso de Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci in the last decade of the fifteenth century, the New World of the Americas entered the cartographic and moral consciousness of Europe. In the 1500 mappa mundi of Juan de la Cosa, navigator and map-maker, we see Europe as a hybrid moral entity, a…[Read more]
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James Smith deposited Europe’s confused transmutation: the realignment of moral cartography in Juan de la Cosa’s Mappa Mundi (1500) in the group
History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoFollowing the voyages of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Alonso de Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci in the last decade of the fifteenth century, the New World of the Americas entered the cartographic and moral consciousness of Europe. In the 1500 mappa mundi of Juan de la Cosa, navigator and map-maker, we see Europe as a hybrid moral entity, a…[Read more]
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James Smith deposited Premodern Streams of Thought in Twenty-First-Century Water Management in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIn the context of the global water crisis, we seek an understanding of the histories of water management, their fashioning, and their legacy today. We juxtapose temporally diverse narratives to explore the premodern imaginings that have shaped our inheritance of hydrological thought. Rather than conceptualize their historical influence as a linear…[Read more]
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James Smith deposited Premodern Streams of Thought in Twenty-First-Century Water Management in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIn the context of the global water crisis, we seek an understanding of the histories of water management, their fashioning, and their legacy today. We juxtapose temporally diverse narratives to explore the premodern imaginings that have shaped our inheritance of hydrological thought. Rather than conceptualize their historical influence as a linear…[Read more]
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James Smith deposited Premodern Streams of Thought in Twenty-First-Century Water Management in the group
History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIn the context of the global water crisis, we seek an understanding of the histories of water management, their fashioning, and their legacy today. We juxtapose temporally diverse narratives to explore the premodern imaginings that have shaped our inheritance of hydrological thought. Rather than conceptualize their historical influence as a linear…[Read more]
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James Smith deposited Premodern Streams of Thought in Twenty-First-Century Water Management in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIn the context of the global water crisis, we seek an understanding of the histories of water management, their fashioning, and their legacy today. We juxtapose temporally diverse narratives to explore the premodern imaginings that have shaped our inheritance of hydrological thought. Rather than conceptualize their historical influence as a linear…[Read more]
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James Smith deposited New Bachelards?: Reveries, Elements and Twenty-First Century Materialisms in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoRecent years have seen an infusion of new ideas into material philosophy through the work of the so-called ‘new materialists’. Poignant examples appear within two recent books: the first, Vibrant Matter by Jane Bennett (2010), sets out to “enhance receptivity to the impersonal life that surrounds and infuses us” (2010: 4). The second, Element…[Read more]
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James Smith deposited New Bachelards?: Reveries, Elements and Twenty-First Century Materialisms in the group
History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoRecent years have seen an infusion of new ideas into material philosophy through the work of the so-called ‘new materialists’. Poignant examples appear within two recent books: the first, Vibrant Matter by Jane Bennett (2010), sets out to “enhance receptivity to the impersonal life that surrounds and infuses us” (2010: 4). The second, Element…[Read more]
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James Smith deposited New Bachelards?: Reveries, Elements and Twenty-First Century Materialisms in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoRecent years have seen an infusion of new ideas into material philosophy through the work of the so-called ‘new materialists’. Poignant examples appear within two recent books: the first, Vibrant Matter by Jane Bennett (2010), sets out to “enhance receptivity to the impersonal life that surrounds and infuses us” (2010: 4). The second, Element…[Read more]
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James Louis Smith's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months ago
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James Smith deposited Caring for the Body and Soul with Water: Guerric of Igny’s Fourth Sermon on the Epiphany, Godfrey of Saint-Victor’s Fons Philosophiae, and Peter of Celle’s Letters on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months ago
The use of water as an expressive trope of spiritual hygiene was widespread among monastic
writers of the twelfth century, adapted for different uses in different genres. Aqueous imagery was
particularly frequent within allegories or didactic figurae exploring the care of the soul as if it were
a material body, with a constitution that could be…[Read more] -
James Smith deposited Brendan meets Columbus: A more commodious islescape on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months ago
This paper proposes that we can reimagine insular literatures and medieval islescapes as commodious seas of cultural and intellectual loci that span time, culture, and text alike. By moving beyond the rhetoric of insular separation or connectivity, we can see that islands connect even when medieval minds saw separation. The essay focuses on the…[Read more]
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James Smith deposited Medievalisms of Moral Panic: Borrowing the Past to Frame Fear in the Present on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months ago
This essay argues that understanding both the process by which medievalism tropes feature in the formation of moral panics and the manner in which medievalists are drawn into the debate reveals much about the imagination of the medieval in the shaping of the modern, and also some salient points relating to role of scholars in public discourse.
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James Smith deposited I, River?: New materialism, riparian non-human agency and the scale of democratic reform on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months ago
This article is a discussion of the “discourse on the unthinkable” surrounding potential future democratic engagements with rivers as non-human persons or natural objects. In the context of the Asia–Pacific region, this article suggests that the developments in material philosophy entitled “new materialism” are essential tools in the reconcept…[Read more]
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James Smith deposited Philosophia Divitur: The Ecodiagrammatic Patterns of the Pierpont Morgan, M. 982 Leaf on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months ago
This article explores the diagram found on the recto side of Pierpont Morgan, M. 982, a single leaf from a twelfth-century manuscript held by the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, and believed to originate in the scriptorium of Saint Peter’s Abbey in Salzburg, Austria. The diagram represents knowledge as an ‘ecodiagrammatic’ pattern, depic…[Read more]
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Gathering into lively conversation scholars in medieval, early modern and object studies, Inhuman Nature explores the activity of the things, forces, and relations that enable, sustain and operate indifferently to us. Enamored by fictions of environmental sovereignty, we too often imagine “human” to be a solitary category of being. This col…[Read more]
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