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Culture and university in the late Middle Ages: a recent Italian study and its European dimensions
(Firenze University Press, 2018-12-18)
This short essay considers Paolo Rosso’s book as a contribution to the history of medieval universities; it discusses the feasibility and merits of works of synthesis by single authors, and reflects on the Italian perspective ...
'Calculated to Strike Terror': The Amritsar Massacre and the Spectacle of Colonial Violence
(Oxford University Press (OUP): Past and Present, 2016-11-17)
Dislocation and Record-Keeping: The Counter Archives of the Catholic Diaspora
(Oxford University Press, 2016-10-16)
A Holy Relic of War: The Soviet Victory Banner as Artefact
(Routledge, 2017-06-21)
'The Black Lines of Damnation': Double Predestination and the Causes of Despair in Timothy Bright's A Treatise of Melancholie
(Institut du Monde Anglophone, 2015-12-08)
The relationship between melancholy and religious enthusiasm in England has been the subject of a number of historical studies. This article examines a lesser-known type of religious melancholy, the fear that one was among ...
‘Between the bridge and the brook’: suicide and salvation in England c. 1550-1650
(2015-04-21)
That suicide was a damnable sin in Reformation England has been emphasized so far in the historiography of self-killing, but in practice the clergy were equivocal over the question of whether all self-killers were damned. ...
Message in a Bottle: Vaccines and the Nature of Heredity after 1880
(MIT Press, 2016-07-01)
This book examines the wide range of scientific and social arenas in which the concept of inheritance gained relevance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.