Making Practicality a Virtue: Morality, Law, and Fortitude in Giovanni da Legnano’s De Bello
While Giovanni da Legnano's De bello (ca.1360) deals primarily with practical issues related to the law of war, he also delved into the areas of moral philosophy and theology by examining the cardinal virtue fortitude. Giovanni's interest in fortitude continues longstanding medieval concerns about the morality of war and other forms of sanctioned violence, but his approach to the subject is that of a jurist attempting to bring licit violence more firmly under the rule of law. The historical context in which he wrote, furthermore, provides a useful framework for understanding his motivations and his treatment of various issues in the work.
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Sheilas on the Move? Religion, Spirituality, and Tourism
How might we consider the emergent field of religion and tourism and its sub-field of spiritual travel? This review article engages with two recent publications that provide a mapping of this emergent territory. Yet is mapping a critical engagement? Does discussion of what Michael Stausberg terms the “social fact” of religion and tourism suffice? The rise of the academic study of religion within the modern, secular university tends to exclude the possibilities offered by critique from theology, even if this is a theological critique aligned with critical theory and neo-Marxism. However in this review, arising out of Greenberg's identification of the limitations of the middlebrow, a secular theological critique, that keeps in the “difficult bits” is undertaken. A central question is that of how might we critically understand the rise and expansion of modern pilgrimage and the travel of modern, individualised spirituality in search of geopiety.
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