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Emotion and the Self in English Renaissance Literature

Well over a decade ago, scholars acknowledged an “affective turn” or “turn to emotions” taking place across disciplines. Yet within the “turn to emotion,” certain types of emotion still turn...

Paul Joseph Zajac | 23 Dec 2022

Science, Religion, and Explanation

Human beings are explanation-seeking creatures. When something happens in our lives or in the world around us, we long for a satisfying understanding of it. That sense of satisfaction usually only emerges...

Peter N. Jordan | 22 Dec 2022

Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-roll?

The flower children of the 60s are now in their 60s and beyond, but their hippiedom is not just a vague memory of their rebellious youth. My recent study of aging hippies reveals that “once a hippie,...

Galit Nimrod | 15 Dec 2022

A two-way approach to Early Christianity

By writing counter-clockwise, beginning from the Medieval Ages moving backwards towards the beginnings of Christianity. Based on the restrospective account that has been introduced by How to write Early...

Markus Vinzent | 14 Dec 2022

Objects, Memory, and Place: The Background of Gruesome Looking Objects

Historians are people of the paper, always hoping for the revelation of some remarkable event sitting unremarked upon in an archival page. We are equally sure that such revelations are rare, and usually...

Elijah Gaddis | 14 Dec 2022

Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages

At Gateshead, along the A1 south of Newcastle, a 20-meter-high colossus stares out over the landscape. While some passersby have referred to it as the “Gateshead Flasher,” for its outstretched arms...

Joseph Taylor | 13 Dec 2022

Spirituality and Psychiatry

What is spirituality, and what does it have to do with psychiatry? These are good questions but not easily answered; they evoke a lot of debate. Some people think that spirituality is indefinable. Some...

Christopher C. H. Cook | 13 Dec 2022

The Justice that Rolls Down like Waters

Art by Ramūnas Čeponis (Ramunas Ceponis).

Ligita Ryliškytė | 13 Dec 2022

Re-assessing magic in premodern England

…when we be in trouble, or sickness, or lose any thing, we run hither and thither to wyssardes, or sorcerers, whom we call wise men; when there is no man foolish and blind as they be: for the devil...

Tabitha Stanmore | 12 Dec 2022

Why a Textbook on Health Systems?

The importance of health systems has been reinforced by the commitment from Low- and Middle-Income Countries (L&MICs) to pursue the target of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), health security, and...

Sameen Siddiqi, Awad Mataria, Katherine D. Rouleau, Meesha Iqbal | 12 Dec 2022

Long COVID as a Case Study for Race/Disability Intersectionality

Chimére Smith is one of tens of millions of Americans with symptoms of long COVID. According to an August 2022 NBC News story, the 40-year-old Black woman from Baltimore was experiencing extreme fatigue,...

Mary Crossley | 12 Dec 2022

The new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease is only modestly effective: What else can we do now?

The media have been busy in discussion with the results of a large clinical trial that is a new monoclonal antibody therapy, designed to treat patients with the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease....

Robert Friedland | 9 Dec 2022