A Marvellous Sign and A Fiery Globe: A Medieval English Report of Ball Lightning

Gasper, Giles E.M.; Tanner, Brian K.

doi:10.1002/wea.4144

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Transformed ecologies and transformational saints: Exploring new pilgrimage routes in North East England (2022)
Journal Article
Miles‐Watson, J. (2022). Transformed ecologies and transformational saints: Exploring new pilgrimage routes in North East England. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 33(3), 412-427. https://doi.org/10.1111/taja.12455

County Durham in the UK has witnessed dramatic social and environmental shifts over the past 50 years, yet Durham Cathedral has stood at the heart of the region, seemingly solid, unchanging and eternal. It is frequently narrated as a prestigious jewe... Read More about Transformed ecologies and transformational saints: Exploring new pilgrimage routes in North East England.

Fictional Modality and the Intensionality of Fictional Contexts (2022)
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Uckelman, S. L. (2022). Fictional Modality and the Intensionality of Fictional Contexts. Australasian journal of logic, 19(4), 124-132. https://doi.org/10.26686/ajl.v19i4.7542

In [4], Kosterec claims to provide "model-theoretic proofs" of certain theses involving the normal modal operators and and the truth-in- ction (a la Lewis) operator F which he then goes on to show have coun- terexamples in Kripke models. He concludes... Read More about Fictional Modality and the Intensionality of Fictional Contexts.

“A suppurating ulcer”: Religious Orders and Transnational Conflict in Valladolid at the Start of the Seventeenth Century (2022)
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Kelly, J. E. (2022). “A suppurating ulcer”: Religious Orders and Transnational Conflict in Valladolid at the Start of the Seventeenth Century. The Seventeenth Century, 37(5), 693-716. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2022.2079556

Lorhard, Ramus, and Timpler and “The Birth of Ontology” (2022)
Journal Article
Øhrstrøm, P., & Uckelman, S. L. (2022). Lorhard, Ramus, and Timpler and “The Birth of Ontology”

This review article offers a discussion of some aspects of the historical and conceptual context when the term “ontology” (Lat. ontologia) was first introduced in the scholarly circles of the early 17th century. In particular, Barry Smith’s (2022) an... Read More about Lorhard, Ramus, and Timpler and “The Birth of Ontology”.

A Marvellous Sign and A Fiery Globe: A Medieval English Report of Ball Lightning (2022)
Journal Article
Gasper, G. E., & Tanner, B. K. (2022). A Marvellous Sign and A Fiery Globe: A Medieval English Report of Ball Lightning. Weather, 77(7), 232-234. https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.4144

We describe an entry in a twelfth century monastic chronicle, compiled and composed by Gervase of Canterbury (c. 1145–c. 1210), which gives a credible description of ball lightning. It predates the earliest known report of the phenomenon from England... Read More about A Marvellous Sign and A Fiery Globe: A Medieval English Report of Ball Lightning.