Northern European Reformations: Transnational Perspectives
(2020)
Book
Kelly, J. E., Laugerud, H., & Ryan, S. (Eds.). (2020). Northern European Reformations: Transnational Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54458-4
Outputs (13)
‘The Moon Quivered Like a Snake’: A Medieval Chronicler, Lunar Explosions, and a Puzzle for Modern Interpretation (2020)
Journal Article
Gasper, G. E., & Tanner, B. K. (2020). ‘The Moon Quivered Like a Snake’: A Medieval Chronicler, Lunar Explosions, and a Puzzle for Modern Interpretation. Endeavour, 44(4), Article 100750. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2021.100750Despite some scepticism, the suggestion by Hartung in 1976 that the report in the chronicle of Gervase of Canterbury corresponded to a meteorite impact with the moon in 1178, creating the Giordano Bruno crater, retains considerable support, particula... Read More about ‘The Moon Quivered Like a Snake’: A Medieval Chronicler, Lunar Explosions, and a Puzzle for Modern Interpretation.
Censorship: The Challenge of Writing in Oppressive Regimes (2020)
Book Chapter
Harrington, A. (2020). Censorship: The Challenge of Writing in Oppressive Regimes. In T. Boes, R. Braun, & E. Spiers (Eds.), World Authorship (46-59). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198819653.013.4Eastern Europe has been provocatively defined as ‘that part of the world where serious literature and those who produce it have traditionally been overvalued’ (Baruch Wachtel Remaining Relevant after Communism (2006)). This situation arose because of... Read More about Censorship: The Challenge of Writing in Oppressive Regimes.
England and the Catholic Reformation: The Peripheries Strike Back (2020)
Journal Article
Kelly, J. E. (2020). England and the Catholic Reformation: The Peripheries Strike Back. Journal of Early Modern Christianity, 7(2), 271-285. https://doi.org/10.1515/jemc-2020-2022Although the Protestant Reformation has traditionally been the focus of research on early modern England, the last two decades have witnessed a rapid increase in scholarship on the experience of the country’s Catholics. Questions surrounding the impl... Read More about England and the Catholic Reformation: The Peripheries Strike Back.
Against the Theistic Multiverse (2020)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2020). Against the Theistic Multiverse. Kriterion (Salzburg), 34(4), 1-14We argue that Kraay’s “theistic multiverse” response to the objections to theism [11] is unsuccessful as it simply shifts the problems leveled against theism from the level of possible worlds to the level of possible universes. Furthermore, when we r... Read More about Against the Theistic Multiverse.
William of Sherwood on Necessity and Contingency (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Uckelman, S. L. (2020). William of Sherwood on Necessity and Contingency. In N. Olivetti, R. Verbrugge, S. Negri, & G. Sandu (Eds.), Advances in modal logic
“Scientia vera? Holcot and Chaucer on Astrological Determinism, Magic, Talismans, and Omens (2020)
Journal Article
Cartlidge, N. (2020). “Scientia vera? Holcot and Chaucer on Astrological Determinism, Magic, Talismans, and Omens. The Chaucer Review, 55(3), 279-297. https://doi.org/10.5325/chaucerrev.55.3.0279This article suggests that Robert Holcot’s Wisdom commentary served as the immediate source for the House of Fame, 1259–70, and the Parson’s Tale, X 603–7. To prepare the ground for these suggestions (which are new), it begins with a discussion of th... Read More about “Scientia vera? Holcot and Chaucer on Astrological Determinism, Magic, Talismans, and Omens.
Review of Peter Adamson, Medieval Philosophy, History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, volume 4 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), xxii+637pp (2020)
Journal Article
Uckelman, S. L. (2020). Review of Peter Adamson, Medieval Philosophy, History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, volume 4 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), xxii+637pp. Philosophical Quarterly, 70(281), 890-892. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqaa014
"Was Atticus an Epicurean?" (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Gilbert, N. (2020). "Was Atticus an Epicurean?"
Political Mysticism: Augustine Baker, the Spiritual Formation of Missionaries and the Catholic Reformation in England (2020)
Journal Article
Kelly, J. E. (2020). Political Mysticism: Augustine Baker, the Spiritual Formation of Missionaries and the Catholic Reformation in England. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 72(2), 300-322. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022046920000019Augustine Baker, the seventeenth-century Benedictine monk, is primarily remembered as an advocate of mystical spiritual contemplation. This reputation was shaped by a contemporary supporter, whose synopsis of Baker’s works is the source most commonly... Read More about Political Mysticism: Augustine Baker, the Spiritual Formation of Missionaries and the Catholic Reformation in England.