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James Louis Smith deposited Net-work: Irish Sea Crossings with and beyond Infrastructure on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
This article explores the co-constitution of networks and infrastructure in the context of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture. We consider Maria Edgeworth’s conceptualization of the term network with and alongside infrastructure in her Harry and Lucy stories (1801–25) and offer an analysis of a manuscript tour by Mary Anne Eade fro…[Read more]
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Thinking about Chemistry in Byzantium and the Islamic World on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
The term “alchemy,” born out of early modern professional polemics among chemists, is problematic as a historical category. The present article shifts away from asking what pre-modern alchemy “really” was, to asking how medieval scholars writing in Greek and Arabic thought about the practice of treating and combining naturally occurring substan…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited Memory and the Arts: Justice, Environment and Ruin – Dora Apel in Conversation with Martin Pogacar in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis conversation revolves around Dora Apel’s work in the field of art and memory. Memory, in its mediating force, is critical for our understanding of the present and the construction of a future, or, rather, as Dora Apel posits it in her recent book Calling Memory Into Place: “Memory effects are not about the past. How do they shape the pre…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited Memory and the Arts: Justice, Environment and Ruin – Dora Apel in Conversation with Martin Pogacar in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis conversation revolves around Dora Apel’s work in the field of art and memory. Memory, in its mediating force, is critical for our understanding of the present and the construction of a future, or, rather, as Dora Apel posits it in her recent book Calling Memory Into Place: “Memory effects are not about the past. How do they shape the pre…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited Memory and the Arts: Justice, Environment and Ruin – Dora Apel in Conversation with Martin Pogacar in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis conversation revolves around Dora Apel’s work in the field of art and memory. Memory, in its mediating force, is critical for our understanding of the present and the construction of a future, or, rather, as Dora Apel posits it in her recent book Calling Memory Into Place: “Memory effects are not about the past. How do they shape the pre…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited Memory and the Arts: Justice, Environment and Ruin – Dora Apel in Conversation with Martin Pogacar on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
This conversation revolves around Dora Apel’s work in the field of art and memory. Memory, in its mediating force, is critical for our understanding of the present and the construction of a future, or, rather, as Dora Apel posits it in her recent book Calling Memory Into Place: “Memory effects are not about the past. How do they shape the pre…[Read more]
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James Louis Smith deposited Imaginary Worlds: Plural Seas, Liminal Foundations, Contested Identities in the group
The Medieval landscape/seascape on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoA Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age, ed. by Elizabeth Lambourn.
The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European sources, this innovative volume pushes out beyond this European heartland to explore the shape and potential of a cultural…[Read more]
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James Louis Smith deposited Imaginary Worlds: Plural Seas, Liminal Foundations, Contested Identities in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoA Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age, ed. by Elizabeth Lambourn.
The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European sources, this innovative volume pushes out beyond this European heartland to explore the shape and potential of a cultural…[Read more]
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James Louis Smith deposited Imaginary Worlds: Plural Seas, Liminal Foundations, Contested Identities in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoA Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age, ed. by Elizabeth Lambourn.
The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European sources, this innovative volume pushes out beyond this European heartland to explore the shape and potential of a cultural…[Read more]
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James Louis Smith deposited Imaginary Worlds: Plural Seas, Liminal Foundations, Contested Identities in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoA Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age, ed. by Elizabeth Lambourn.
The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European sources, this innovative volume pushes out beyond this European heartland to explore the shape and potential of a cultural…[Read more]
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James Louis Smith deposited Imaginary Worlds: Plural Seas, Liminal Foundations, Contested Identities in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoA Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age, ed. by Elizabeth Lambourn.
The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European sources, this innovative volume pushes out beyond this European heartland to explore the shape and potential of a cultural…[Read more]
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James Louis Smith deposited Imaginary Worlds: Plural Seas, Liminal Foundations, Contested Identities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
A Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age, ed. by Elizabeth Lambourn.
The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European sources, this innovative volume pushes out beyond this European heartland to explore the shape and potential of a cultural…[Read more]
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Alexander D'Alisera's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
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Alexander D'Alisera's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
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Henry Colburn's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
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Brad Hostetler deposited Image, Epigram, and Nature in Middle Byzantine Personal Devotion on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
In Nectar and Illusion, Henry Maguire examines Byzantium’s ambiguous relationship with nature in both art and literature. He demonstrates that after Iconoclasm, visual representations of the terrestrial world displayed in public settings were in “a constant tension between acceptance and denial,” but “tended to flourish most abundantly in…[Read more]
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