Azzan Yadin-Israel: Scripture and Tradition: Rabbi Akiva and the Triumph of Midrash. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015; pp. viii + 308

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12431

Christopher Harding: Religious Transformation in South Asia: The Meanings of Conversion in Colonial Punjab. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008; pp. xv + 305

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12438

48 | 2014 – Usages du droit

Usages du droit

Quelle: http://rh19.revues.org/4646

Jesus and Augustine: The God of Terror and the Origins of European Doubt

This article explores a central current of religious doubt in the West, from Sebastian Castellio in the sixteenth century to Ludwig Feuerbach in the nineteenth. It argues that theologies of arbitrary judgment — chiefly Augustinian — have served as a major stimulus to scepticism and doubt in the modern era. The claim is that philosophical suspicion that the God of orthodoxy is an invention rests on a set of ethical intuitions, mostly Christian, leading to the apparent paradox that many of the fiercest critics of Christianity have listed Jesus Christ among their intellectual sources. Such an alignment, it is argued, cannot be regarded as purely tactical, even in Enlightenment figures such as Baruch Spinoza and Voltaire. If, as can be shown, religious reasoning was so central to the psychology of radical criticism and doubt, it may be time to drop the terminology of “secularisation” altogether.

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12451

Seamen, national welfare and global deregulation, 1850–1914

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Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0023656X.2017.1332569?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R

From ‘unofficial militants’ to de facto joint workplace control: the development of the shop steward system at the port of Liverpool, 1967–1972

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Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0023656X.2017.1332604?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R

Erratum

Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/47/2/413?rss=1

A Once and Future King: Sanctuary, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Pity in the Histories of Perkin Warbeck

John Ford's play Perkin Warbeck uses sanctuary, which bookends the life of the titular pretender to the English throne, as a figure for the tension between justice and mercy. The play associates legal sanctuary with the medieval past, as crystallized in Thomas More's account of Richard Plantagenet's extraction from sanctuary at Westminster in The History of Richard III (1557). Moreover, Ford redirects the language of contemporary chroniclers Francis Bacon and Thomas Gainsford in order to emphasize the link between sanctuary and practices of royal pity in the play. By positioning itself between a myth of medieval kingship as limited, contingent, and responsive to human need, on the one hand, and on the other, a myth of Tudor pragmatism as a sovereign assertion of law, the play offers two alternatives to the absolutism of Stuart monarchy without endorsing either.

Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/47/2/327?rss=1

New Books across the Disciplines

Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/47/2/391?rss=1

Alphabetizing the Nation: Medieval British Origins in Thomas Elyot’s Dictionary

Reading Thomas Elyot's Dictionary, this essay examines the legacy of medieval chronicle and fable for the early modern period. Elyot's influential work, here considered in its 1542 edition as Bibliotheca Eliotae, contains entries for both "Albion" and "Britannia," topics which plunged the work straight into the problematic inheritance of Galfridian history, recently discredited at Henry VIII's court by the Italian humanist Polydore Vergil. Elyot presents, only to dismiss, medieval legendary origins for Albion and Britain, using what he calls similitudo to find alternative explanations. His dictionary thereby transforms misleading medieval fables into something more "fitting" for England in the early days of the Reformation. Yet similitude remains problematic for Elyot; replacing the medieval Brutus legend with a story that privileges the humanist reconstruction of the illegible fragments of the past, Elyot does not avoid uncomfortable reminiscences of the senseless destruction of past cultural objects.

Quelle: http://jmems.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/short/47/2/305?rss=1