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Insecurity and the invisible: The challenge of spiritual (in)security (2020)
Journal Article
Fisher, J., & Leonardi, C. (2021). Insecurity and the invisible: The challenge of spiritual (in)security. Security Dialogue, 52(5), 383-400. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010620973540

The search for security has become an almost permanent feature of the contemporary lived experience and what Brian Massumi has called an ‘operative logic’ for states across the globe. The modern study – and practice – of security has, nonetheless, be... Read More about Insecurity and the invisible: The challenge of spiritual (in)security.

The Theology of the Afterlife in the Early Middle Ages, c.400-c.1100 (2020)
Book Chapter
Foxhall Forbes, H. (2020). The Theology of the Afterlife in the Early Middle Ages, c.400-c.1100. In R. Pollard (Ed.), Imagining the medieval afterlife (153-175). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316823255.013

Between AD c.400 and AD c.1100, Christian ideas about the afterlife changed in subtle but important ways. This chapter outlines broad trends in thought about the afterlife in this period in the Latin West, and examines the concomitant changes in thin... Read More about The Theology of the Afterlife in the Early Middle Ages, c.400-c.1100.

Foreword (2020)
Other
Perna, A. (2020). Foreword

Salvage and Speculation: The London Art Market After the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) (2020)
Book Chapter
Stammers, T. (2021). Salvage and Speculation: The London Art Market After the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). In K. Hill (Ed.), Museums, modernity and conflict : museums and collections in and of war since the nineteenth century (15-38). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429295782-2

The aptly named année terrible 1870–1871 – which comprised the Franco-Prussian War, the Siege of Paris and the insurrection and civil war of the Paris Commune – had dramatic consequences for the conservation and dispersal of French works of art. The... Read More about Salvage and Speculation: The London Art Market After the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71).

La Península Ibérica y el mundo transpirenaico: analizando transformaciones culturales a través de las representaciones de indumentaria y técnicas de equitación en los manuscritos iluminados (2020)
Journal Article
De Oliveira Dias, A. (2020). La Península Ibérica y el mundo transpirenaico: analizando transformaciones culturales a través de las representaciones de indumentaria y técnicas de equitación en los manuscritos iluminados. Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 50(2), https://doi.org/10.3989/aem.2020.50.2.06

Images preserved in medieval manuscripts can provide invaluable insights not only into the artistic and technical developments of a past society but also into its culture and identity. They are crucial forms of evidence for the examination of cultura... Read More about La Península Ibérica y el mundo transpirenaico: analizando transformaciones culturales a través de las representaciones de indumentaria y técnicas de equitación en los manuscritos iluminados.

The Hohenstaufen and the shape of history (2020)
Book Chapter
Scales, L. (2020). The Hohenstaufen and the shape of history. In S. Bowden, M. Eikelmann, S. Mossman, & M. Stolz (Eds.), Geschichte erzählen: Strategien der Narrativierung von Vergangenheit in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters (403-418). (XXV). Narr Francke Attempto

James I and Gunpowder treason day (2020)
Journal Article
Williamson, P., & Mears, N. (2021). James I and Gunpowder treason day. Historical Journal, 64(2), 185-210. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x20000497

The assumed source of the annual early-modern English commemoration of Gunpowder treason day on 5 November – and its modern legacy, ‘Guy Fawkes day’ or ‘Bonfire night’ – has been an act of parliament in 1606. This article reveals the existence of ear... Read More about James I and Gunpowder treason day.

The culture of fasting in early Stuart parliaments (2020)
Journal Article
Mears, N. (2020). The culture of fasting in early Stuart parliaments. Parliamentary History, 39(3), 423-441. https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-0206.12522

The fasts, proposed and observed by parliament in the first half of the seventeenth century, have always been defined as opportunities for propaganda. This article focuses instead on their cultural and religious meanings: why MPs believed that the ac... Read More about The culture of fasting in early Stuart parliaments.

The Vita Bedae and the Craft of Hagiography (2020)
Journal Article
Gameson, R., & Gameson, F. (2020). The Vita Bedae and the Craft of Hagiography. History, 105(367), 567-587. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229x.13025

Bede was (and is) justly renowned for his scholarship and admired for his piety; an early cult, such as it was, proved abortive and he was never canonised. Nevertheless, he was subsequently the subject of a Vita which, in sharp contrast to his own au... Read More about The Vita Bedae and the Craft of Hagiography.

Tories and the Language of 'Liberalism' in the 1820s (2020)
Journal Article
Craig, D. (2020). Tories and the Language of 'Liberalism' in the 1820s. The English Historical Review, 135(576), 1195-1228. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceaa250

This article reconsiders the problem of ‘liberal Toryism’ in the 1820s not by looking at the government’s policies, but instead at the very ‘liberal’ language through which they were expressed. It argues that an existing domestic language of ‘liberal... Read More about Tories and the Language of 'Liberalism' in the 1820s.

The Adjudication of Slave Ship Captures, Coercive Intervention, and Value Exchange in Comparative Atlantic Perspective, ca. 1839–1870 (2020)
Journal Article
Richards, J. S. (2020). The Adjudication of Slave Ship Captures, Coercive Intervention, and Value Exchange in Comparative Atlantic Perspective, ca. 1839–1870. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 62(4), 836-867. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417520000304

What were the consequences of creating jurisdictions against the transatlantic slave trade in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world? Answering this question requires a comparative focus on the courts of mixed commission that adjudicated naval capture... Read More about The Adjudication of Slave Ship Captures, Coercive Intervention, and Value Exchange in Comparative Atlantic Perspective, ca. 1839–1870.