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Building borders in a borderless land: English colonialism and the alam Minangkabau of Sumatra, 1680–1730
(2021-01-01)This article adopts the concept of securitisation to understand the failure of the English East India Company’s attempt to build a territorial empire on the island of Sumatra in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. ... -
John of Damascus’s Theology of Icons in the Context of Eighth-Century Palestinian Iconoclasm
(Harvard University Press, 2022-02-08)John of Damascus, in his Three Treatises on the Divine Images, used traditional Christian arguments defending images against the accusation of idolatry in reaction to a larger conversation between Judaism, Christianity, ... -
"If they send him off, I think I shall not long be safe myself": Contesting Early American Citizenship in the Longchamps Affair, 1784–1786
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Atlantic Crossings Revisited
(2023-10-15)This roundtable reflects on the 25th anniversary of the publication of Daniel T. Rodgers's Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Harvard, 1998), a classic in our field. -
BELARUS REMEMBERS
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Beguines, Free Spirits, and the Inquisitorial Network Conundrum
(2023-07-24)The so-called heresy of the Free Spirit is today considered the epitome of the religious construct produced by ecclesiastical authorities to legitimise persecution. By situating the trial and sentence of the visionary Na ... -
"Catharism" in questions
(2023)