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Decolonizing the Study of Religion by Malory Nye

“…As with many other subject areas within the humanities, the contemporary study of religion is the product of European colonial history and remains firmly…”
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Expletiveness in grammar and beyond by Tsiakmakis, Evripidis, Espinal, M.Teresa

“…This paper sets out to find the defining characteristics of so-called expletive categories and the consequences the existence of such categories has for…”
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How can a language have double-passives but lack antipassives? by Dikmen, Furkan, Demirok, Ömer, Öztürk, Balkiz

“…Passivization in Turkish may target both internal and external argument positions, for passives of unaccusatives, unergatives and transitives are possible in…”
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The Illusion of Accuracy: Simulating the Crusades in Ancestors Legacy (2018) by Juan Manuel Rubio Arevalo

“…Ancestors Legacy is a 2018 real-time strategy video game set in the Middle Ages. The game was developed by the controversial Polish studio Destructive…”
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Island Girl, Universal Woman: Peig: A Scéal Féin (1998) as Narrative of Class, Labour and Femininity by SORCHA SINÉAD DE BRÚN

“…This article reappraises the Irish-language autobiography, Peig, as a unique account of the experience of life and work by a woman of the rural Irish speaking…”
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Awesome, but Impractical? Deeper Engagement with the Middle Ages through Commercial Digital Games by Robert Houghton

“…Medievalist computer games possess a vast reach and potent influence over their audience, but this influence often runs counter to the goals of heritage and…”
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Cultural Heritage at Conisbrough Castle: Expanding Resident Narratives, Public Education, and Aspects of Medieval Domestic Life for a Diverse Audience by Emily Michelle Tuttle

“…English Heritage Trust (EH) prides itself on communicating the histories of its sites through playful forms of engagement. In the recent scholarship of EH…”
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Gesamtkunstwerk Transcriptions in the Polish Theatrical Avant-Garde by Justyna Michalik-Tomala

“…When considering the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk in the context of the avant-garde, it seems useful to use the term transcription, borrowed from musical…”
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Moments of Being-in-the-Archive by Barbara Cooke, Nonia Hazel Williams

“…This paper adopts a constellation or patchwork writing structure to examine five encounters with archival materials and practices occurring over the span of 15…”
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The Symbiosis of Language(s), Literature, and the Medical Humanities by Kit Yee Wong

“…This Special Collection focuses on the ‘pathological body’ in literature, from the socio-cultural anxieties around the human body to the sick body’s…”
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Anhyld þinre heortan eare: Mind as Body in the Sermons of Ælfric by Eleni Ponirakis

“…By using a metaphor of the mind as body, with eyes, and ears, a throat and voice, Ælfric explains the complexities of an Augustinian understanding of the mind…”
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Does the Mind Suffer? Living Bodies, Brain, and Pain in Alfanus of Salerno’s Premnon physicon and in Constantine the African’s Pantegni by María José Ortúzar Escudero

“…The 11th century translations Premnon physicon by Alfanus of Salerno and Pantegni by Constantine the African offered to the Latin West two systematic…”
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‘The Substance of Paint’: Class and Materiality in the Work of Ralph Balson by Georgina O'Donnell Cole, Shane Michael Haseman

“…Ralph Balson (1890–1964) was an English plumber and house painter who emigrated to Australia in 1913 and subsequently became a key member of Sydney’s artistic…”
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(Un)staþolfæstnes and its Problems: Grounding Minds in Early Medieval England by Merel Veldhuizen

“…The Old English text Solomon and Saturn includes a list of materials from which Adam, the first man, is made. A pound of cloud constitutes his modes…”
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Conflicts and Crises, Dialogues and (Dis-)Connections: Renegotiations of Identities through Irish Narratives of Community by Alessandra Boller

“…In the first two decades of the 21st century, the condition of glocality was rendered highly visible by the 2008 world financial crisis and the Covid-19…”
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Organised and Ambient Digital Racism: Multidirectional Flows in the Irish Digital Sphere by Eugenia Siapera

“…This article is concerned with the distinction between acceptable race talk in social media and organised, extreme or ‘frozen’ racism which is considered hate…”
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Machine Visions: Mapping Depictions of Machine Vision through Critical Image Synthesis by Richard Carter

“…This paper conducts a speculative examination of how AI image synthesisers, which generate novel imagery in response to inputted textual prompts — such as…”
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Early Medieval Language and Literature as Heritage: a Sutton Hoo Case Study by Fran Allfrey

“…This article is both a reflection on the cultural, social, and political stakes of how early medieval literature and language functions as heritage in England,…”
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Musikalische Autonomie und das Gesamtkunstwerk: Eduard Hanslick und Richard Wagner im Dialog mit der Idealistischen Musikästhetik by Alexander Wilfing

“…Der Kunstwert von ‚reiner‘ Musik—Musik ohne Programm, Überschrift und Text—geriet mit dem Niedergang des mimetischen Kunstprinzips im späten 18. und frühen 19…”
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The Lives Have It: Curating the Medieval Past at English Heritage Castles by William Wyeth

“…This paper outlines some of the challenges to the public curation of the medieval past at castles, as experienced in the author’s curatorial capacity at…”
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