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John Eliot's Logick Primer: A bilingual English-Massachusett logic textbook (2023)
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Uckelman, S. L. (2023). John Eliot's Logick Primer: A bilingual English-Massachusett logic textbook. History and Philosophy of Logic, https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2023.2207244

In 1672 John Eliot, English Puritan educator and missionary to New England, published The Logick Primer: Some Logical Notions to initiate the INDIANS in the knowledge of the Rule of Reason; and to know how to make use thereof (Eliot 1672) The Logick... Read More about John Eliot's Logick Primer: A bilingual English-Massachusett logic textbook.

‘Eternal convivencia’: From Madrid’s Painters of Africa to the School of Tetouan (2023)
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Hopkins, C. (2023). ‘Eternal convivencia’: From Madrid’s Painters of Africa to the School of Tetouan. World Art, 13(1), 29-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2022.2150886

The annual Pintores de África exhibitions, organised by Franco’s colonial administration in mid-twentieth-century Madrid, offered audiences a colourful feast of artistic representations of Spain’s colonial territories in Africa, and of Spain’s archit... Read More about ‘Eternal convivencia’: From Madrid’s Painters of Africa to the School of Tetouan.

Transformed ecologies and transformational saints: Exploring new pilgrimage routes in North East England (2022)
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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.

Lorhard, Ramus, and Timpler and “The Birth of Ontology” (2022)
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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)
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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.

What Problem Did Ladd-Franklin (Think She) Solve(d)? (2021)
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Uckelman, S. L. (2021). What Problem Did Ladd-Franklin (Think She) Solve(d)?. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 62(3), 527-552. https://doi.org/10.1215/00294527-2021-0026

Christine Ladd-Franklin is often hailed as a guiding star in the history of women in logic—not only did she study under C. S. Peirce and was one of the first women to receive a PhD from Johns Hopkins, she also, according to many modern commentators,... Read More about What Problem Did Ladd-Franklin (Think She) Solve(d)?.

Magnifying Grains of Sand, Seeds, and Blades of Grass: Optical Effects in Robert Grosseteste’s De iride (On the Rainbow) (circa 1228–1230) (2021)
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White, R. C., Gasper, G. E., McLeish, T. C., Tanner, B. K., Harvey, J. S., Sønnesyn, S. O., …Smithson, H. E. (2021). Magnifying Grains of Sand, Seeds, and Blades of Grass: Optical Effects in Robert Grosseteste’s De iride (On the Rainbow) (circa 1228–1230). Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, 112(1), 93-107. https://doi.org/10.1086/713724

In his treatise On the Rainbow (De iride), composed nearly four hundred years before the first known telescope, the English polymath Robert Grosseteste identified three striking optical effects: distant objects can be rendered close by; close-by larg... Read More about Magnifying Grains of Sand, Seeds, and Blades of Grass: Optical Effects in Robert Grosseteste’s De iride (On the Rainbow) (circa 1228–1230).

‘The Moon Quivered Like a Snake’: A Medieval Chronicler, Lunar Explosions, and a Puzzle for Modern Interpretation (2020)
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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.2021.100750

Despite 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.

England and the Catholic Reformation: The Peripheries Strike Back (2020)
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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-2020-2022

Although 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)
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Uckelman, S. L. (2020). Against the Theistic Multiverse. Kriterion (Salzburg), 34(4), 1-14

We 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.

“Scientia vera? Holcot and Chaucer on Astrological Determinism, Magic, Talismans, and Omens (2020)
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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.55.3.0279

This 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.

Political Mysticism: Augustine Baker, the Spiritual Formation of Missionaries and the Catholic Reformation in England (2020)
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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/s0022046920000019

Augustine 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.

Bernard of Clairvaux, Material and Spiritual Order, and the Economy of Salvation (2019)
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Gasper, G. E. (2019). Bernard of Clairvaux, Material and Spiritual Order, and the Economy of Salvation. Journal of Medieval History, 45(5), 580-596. https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2019.1658617

This article explores themes connected to the spiritual and the material, especially in connection with order and economy, in the thought of the Cistercian abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (1090/1–1153). It argues that these themes are particularly useful... Read More about Bernard of Clairvaux, Material and Spiritual Order, and the Economy of Salvation.

"Lucius Saufeius and his lost prehistory of Rome: intellectual culture in the Late Republic" (2019)
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Gilbert, N. (2019). "Lucius Saufeius and his lost prehistory of Rome: intellectual culture in the Late Republic". Classical Philology: A Journal Devoted to Research in Classical Antiquity, 14(1), 25-46. https://doi.org/10.1086/701063

THE SCATTERED EVIDENCE FOR the life and activities of Lucius Saufeius allows us to catch glimpses of a colorful, opinionated, and well-connected Roman knight who chose to abstain from political office and instead devoted himself to the cultivation of... Read More about "Lucius Saufeius and his lost prehistory of Rome: intellectual culture in the Late Republic".