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James Louis Smith's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
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James Louis Smith's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
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James Louis Smith's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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James Louis Smith's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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What strange transactions take place in the mobile spaces between loci? How does the flow of forces between fixed points enliven texts, suggest new connections, and map out the dizzying motion of myriad interactions? The essays in this volume were first presented at the 2014 New Chaucer Society Congress in Reykjavik, Iceland where a meeting of…[Read more]
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James Louis Smith's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month ago
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James Louis Smith's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
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James Smith deposited Rethinking Clean: Historicising religion, science and the purity of water in the twenty-first century in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe historical narrative of water purity tends to chart a process of secularisation with an
increasing importance on cleanliness. We suggest otherwise – that rhetorically at least, water
has never been secularised. Moral impurity and water contamination have a long and
interrelated history. Even before the connection had been made between c…[Read more] -
James Smith deposited Rethinking Clean: Historicising religion, science and the purity of water in the twenty-first century in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe historical narrative of water purity tends to chart a process of secularisation with an
increasing importance on cleanliness. We suggest otherwise – that rhetorically at least, water
has never been secularised. Moral impurity and water contamination have a long and
interrelated history. Even before the connection had been made between c…[Read more] -
James Smith deposited Rethinking Clean: Historicising religion, science and the purity of water in the twenty-first century in the group
History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe historical narrative of water purity tends to chart a process of secularisation with an
increasing importance on cleanliness. We suggest otherwise – that rhetorically at least, water
has never been secularised. Moral impurity and water contamination have a long and
interrelated history. Even before the connection had been made between c…[Read more] -
James Smith deposited Rethinking Clean: Historicising religion, science and the purity of water in the twenty-first century in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe historical narrative of water purity tends to chart a process of secularisation with an
increasing importance on cleanliness. We suggest otherwise – that rhetorically at least, water
has never been secularised. Moral impurity and water contamination have a long and
interrelated history. Even before the connection had been made between c…[Read more] -
James Smith deposited Rethinking Clean: Historicising religion, science and the purity of water in the twenty-first century in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe historical narrative of water purity tends to chart a process of secularisation with an
increasing importance on cleanliness. We suggest otherwise – that rhetorically at least, water
has never been secularised. Moral impurity and water contamination have a long and
interrelated history. Even before the connection had been made between c…[Read more] -
James Smith deposited Rethinking Clean: Historicising religion, science and the purity of water in the twenty-first century in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe historical narrative of water purity tends to chart a process of secularisation with an
increasing importance on cleanliness. We suggest otherwise – that rhetorically at least, water
has never been secularised. Moral impurity and water contamination have a long and
interrelated history. Even before the connection had been made between c…[Read more] -
James Smith deposited Rethinking Clean: Historicising religion, science and the purity of water in the twenty-first century in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe historical narrative of water purity tends to chart a process of secularisation with an
increasing importance on cleanliness. We suggest otherwise – that rhetorically at least, water
has never been secularised. Moral impurity and water contamination have a long and
interrelated history. Even before the connection had been made between c…[Read more] -
James Smith deposited Rethinking Clean: Historicising religion, science and the purity of water in the twenty-first century in the group
History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe historical narrative of water purity tends to chart a process of secularisation with an
increasing importance on cleanliness. We suggest otherwise – that rhetorically at least, water
has never been secularised. Moral impurity and water contamination have a long and
interrelated history. Even before the connection had been made between c…[Read more] -
James Smith deposited Rethinking Clean: Historicising religion, science and the purity of water in the twenty-first century in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe historical narrative of water purity tends to chart a process of secularisation with an
increasing importance on cleanliness. We suggest otherwise – that rhetorically at least, water
has never been secularised. Moral impurity and water contamination have a long and
interrelated history. Even before the connection had been made between c…[Read more] -
James Smith deposited Rethinking Clean: Historicising religion, science and the purity of water in the twenty-first century in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe historical narrative of water purity tends to chart a process of secularisation with an
increasing importance on cleanliness. We suggest otherwise – that rhetorically at least, water
has never been secularised. Moral impurity and water contamination have a long and
interrelated history. Even before the connection had been made between c…[Read more] -
James Smith deposited Rethinking Clean: Historicising religion, science and the purity of water in the twenty-first century on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
The historical narrative of water purity tends to chart a process of secularisation with an
increasing importance on cleanliness. We suggest otherwise – that rhetorically at least, water
has never been secularised. Moral impurity and water contamination have a long and
interrelated history. Even before the connection had been made between c…[Read more] -
James Louis Smith's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months ago
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James Smith deposited Water as medieval intellectual entity: case studies in twelfth-century western monasticism on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
In this thesis, the imagery of water serves as a point of focus for an inquiry into the composition of
medieval abstract space. As a ubiquitous element of human life with distinct properties and
connotations across time, water touches, and has ever touched upon, both what is historically and
culturally unique and what is ongoing within…[Read more] - Load More