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Christopher Warren deposited Henry V, Anachronism, and the History of International Law in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoHistorians, literary scholars, and international lawyers interested in the early modern period have all grappled with the problem of anachronism, yet mostly independently of one another. This essay uses the question of war crime in Shakespeare’s Henry V to argue that early modernists interested in international law need not reject synchronic h…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Henry V, Anachronism, and the History of International Law in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoHistorians, literary scholars, and international lawyers interested in the early modern period have all grappled with the problem of anachronism, yet mostly independently of one another. This essay uses the question of war crime in Shakespeare’s Henry V to argue that early modernists interested in international law need not reject synchronic h…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Henry V, Anachronism, and the History of International Law in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoHistorians, literary scholars, and international lawyers interested in the early modern period have all grappled with the problem of anachronism, yet mostly independently of one another. This essay uses the question of war crime in Shakespeare’s Henry V to argue that early modernists interested in international law need not reject synchronic h…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Henry V, Anachronism, and the History of International Law on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months ago
Historians, literary scholars, and international lawyers interested in the early modern period have all grappled with the problem of anachronism, yet mostly independently of one another. This essay uses the question of war crime in Shakespeare’s Henry V to argue that early modernists interested in international law need not reject synchronic h…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited To Ruin the Repairs: Milton, Allegory, Transitional Justice on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago
International legal theorists posit historical moments when conceptions of justice are “constituted
by, and constitutive of, the transition” (Teitel). This article uses the framework of transitional
justice to understand the cultural work of political allegory in the spring of 1660 on the eve of
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Christopher Warren deposited Big Leagues: Specters of Milton and Republican International Justice between Shakespeare and Marx on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago
Through Jacques Derrida’s extended discussion in Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International, Shakespeare’s Hamlet has become “an exemplary text for thinking together about the current state of the world” (Royle). This article concerns Shakespeare’s Hamlet alongside Milton’s Paradise Lost as texts centr…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Gentili, the Poets, and the Laws of War in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThis chapter illuminates a different sense in which Gentili’s work was influenced by humanist sensibilities. Differentiating between legal humanism (the mos Gallicus) on one hand and rhetorical humanism on the other, it argues that Gentili did not subscribe to the rigid historical approach to legal sources as practised by the French humanist…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Gentili, the Poets, and the Laws of War in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThis chapter illuminates a different sense in which Gentili’s work was influenced by humanist sensibilities. Differentiating between legal humanism (the mos Gallicus) on one hand and rhetorical humanism on the other, it argues that Gentili did not subscribe to the rigid historical approach to legal sources as practised by the French humanist…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Gentili, the Poets, and the Laws of War on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
This chapter illuminates a different sense in which Gentili’s work was influenced by humanist sensibilities. Differentiating between legal humanism (the mos Gallicus) on one hand and rhetorical humanism on the other, it argues that Gentili did not subscribe to the rigid historical approach to legal sources as practised by the French humanist…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Hobbes’s Thucydides and the Colonial Law of Nations in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThis essay investigates why Thomas Hobbes translated Thucydides, published as Eight Bookes of the Peloponesian Warres, and why Hobbes chose it to be published in 1628. It argues that Hobbes’s translation should be seen not just as a precursor to his later treatises but as part of broader attempt on the part of English humanists in the mid-1620s…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Hobbes’s Thucydides and the Colonial Law of Nations on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
This essay investigates why Thomas Hobbes translated Thucydides, published as Eight Bookes of the Peloponesian Warres, and why Hobbes chose it to be published in 1628. It argues that Hobbes’s translation should be seen not just as a precursor to his later treatises but as part of broader attempt on the part of English humanists in the mid-1620s…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Towards Interoperable Network Ontologies for the Digital Humanities in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoScholars have long been interested in networks. Networks of scholarly exchange, trade, kinship, and patronage are some of the many such longstanding subjects of study. Recent and ongoing digital humanities projects are now considering networks with fresh approaches and increasingly complex datasets. At the heart of these digital projects are…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Towards Interoperable Network Ontologies for the Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
Scholars have long been interested in networks. Networks of scholarly exchange, trade, kinship, and patronage are some of the many such longstanding subjects of study. Recent and ongoing digital humanities projects are now considering networks with fresh approaches and increasingly complex datasets. At the heart of these digital projects are…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Statistical Method for Reconstructing Large Historical Social Networks in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this paper we present a statistical method for inferring historical social networks from biographical documents as well as the scholarly aims for doing so. Existing scholarship on historical social networks is scattered across an unmanageable number of disparate books and articles. A researcher interested in how persons were connected to one…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Statistical Method for Reconstructing Large Historical Social Networks in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this paper we present a statistical method for inferring historical social networks from biographical documents as well as the scholarly aims for doing so. Existing scholarship on historical social networks is scattered across an unmanageable number of disparate books and articles. A researcher interested in how persons were connected to one…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Statistical Method for Reconstructing Large Historical Social Networks in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this paper we present a statistical method for inferring historical social networks from biographical documents as well as the scholarly aims for doing so. Existing scholarship on historical social networks is scattered across an unmanageable number of disparate books and articles. A researcher interested in how persons were connected to one…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Statistical Method for Reconstructing Large Historical Social Networks in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this paper we present a statistical method for inferring historical social networks from biographical documents as well as the scholarly aims for doing so. Existing scholarship on historical social networks is scattered across an unmanageable number of disparate books and articles. A researcher interested in how persons were connected to one…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Statistical Method for Reconstructing Large Historical Social Networks in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this paper we present a statistical method for inferring historical social networks from biographical documents as well as the scholarly aims for doing so. Existing scholarship on historical social networks is scattered across an unmanageable number of disparate books and articles. A researcher interested in how persons were connected to one…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Statistical Method for Reconstructing Large Historical Social Networks on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
In this paper we present a statistical method for inferring historical social networks from biographical documents as well as the scholarly aims for doing so. Existing scholarship on historical social networks is scattered across an unmanageable number of disparate books and articles. A researcher interested in how persons were connected to one…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited When Self-Preservation Bids: Approaching Milton, Hobbes, and Dissent in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoCritics have long used the heuristic device of opposing John Milton and Thomas Hobbes, but this essay explores surprising affinities between the two. After observing that Milton and other Restoration dissenters often agreed with Hobbes on questions of ecclesiastic jurisdiction and toleration nearly as much as they disagreed with what seemed at…[Read more]
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