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Joseph Hall’s Mundus Alter et Idem and Cross-Dressing in Early Modern England

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Maczelka C.

Gender Studies

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2012

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vol. 11

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68-85

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This paper argues that early modern English utopias in general, and Joseph Hall’s Mundus alter et idem (1605/1606) in particular, engage in the contemporary debate on cross-dressing. After a look at the problem of early modern cross-dressing, the paper introduces Hall’s work, together with some of the opinions about it. Out of the four books of the work, only the second part (the description of Viraginia/Shee-landt) is discussed here in detail, since it abounds in instances of cross-dressing and related phenomena (for example, sexual licence and hermaphroditism). In my reading, Hall’s work readily joins the ongoing debate, but because of its masterful rhetorical strategies and its satirical perspective, the text poses a great challenge if one tries to accurately identify its position in that debate. Yet the text and some of Hall’s other works testify to a serious interest in cross-dressing and other gender-related issues.

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The Content/Object Equivocation: Shepherd’s Neglected Contribution

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Whitaker M.

Dialogue and Universalism

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2022

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issue 1

233-248

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John Searle roundly rejects what he calls the Bad Argument: a long-standing equivocation in philosophy over the contents and the objects of perception. But, as Josh Armstrong points out, this insight is not unique to Searle. By the late 19th Century the equivocation had been observed by Franz Brentano and students of his, such as Alexius Meinong and Kazimierz Twardowski, and was highlighted too in the 20th century by G. E. M. Anscombe. What Armstrong does take to be a novel to Searle is his use of this observation to undermine some of the primary objections to a realist theory of perception. In fact, though, it had already been put to much the same use by Mary Shepherd in her 1827 book Essays on the Perception of an External Universe and Other Subjects Connected with the Doctrine of Causation. Shepherd not only argues that the equivocal use of the term “things we perceive” is a crucial flaw in Berkeley’s case for Idealism, but also goes on to use this in service of her own, largely realist, theory of perception.

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History of Early Modern Poland in Syntheses by Jerzy Topolski

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Wijaczka J., Mikulski K.

Historyka Studia Metodologiczne

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2020

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vol. 50

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Infanticide and the Conflicts in Early Modern South Bohemia (1690–1710). Five Women from Jindřichův Hradec

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Stůj P.

Folia Historica Cracoviensia

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2018

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vol. 24

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issue 1

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Early Modern Child-Murder Investigations Were Characterized by Many Conflicts and Struggles on Different Levels of the Social Organization. Sources like broadside ballads or pamphlets highlighted the infanticide as a matter of considerable public concern. There the conflict between idea of early modern motherhood and family life and the everyday life of single-mothers dealing with unwanted children was apparent. These moralizing pamphlets were describing virtues of motherhood like self-sacrifice, solicitude, economic and social responsibility and on the other hand authors criticized murdering mothers. Finally, conflicts, antipathy and personal confrontations between members of the family and sexual partners can be traced in these sources. Events prior the crime can be characterized by disagreements between sexual partners, violence and verbal abuse. This contextual analysis of conflicts in five infanticide proceedings from south Bohemia (1690–1710) is the centre of the paper.

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Nowożytne śledztwa w sprawie morderstw dzieci charakteryzowały się wieloma konfliktami i walkami na różnych poziomach organizacji społecznej. Źródła, takie jak ballady czy pamflety, publikowane w gazetach dużego formatu, ukazują dzieciobójstwo jako kwestię, którą żywo interesowała się opinia publiczna. Widać było w tym konflikt między nowożytnym ideałem matki i życiem rodzinnym a samotnymi matkami z niechcianymi dziećmi. Moralizatorskie pamflety przywoływały takie cnoty macierzyństwa, jak samopoświęcenie, troska o innych czy ekonomiczna i społeczna odpowiedzialność, jednocześnie krytykując matki dzieciobójczynie. Co więcej, w tych źródłach można doszukać się konfliktów, antypatii i personalnych konfrontacji między członkami rodziny a kochankami. Wydarzenia poprzedzające zbrodnię dzieciobójstwa to przede wszystkim niesnaski między partnerami seksualnymi, przemoc i słowne zniewagi. Przedmiotem niniejszego artykułu jest analiza kontekstualna pięciu spraw sądowych dotyczących dzieciobójstwa, które to postępowania miały miejsce w południowej Bohemii w latach 1690–1710.

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Joseph Hall’s Mundus Alter et Idem and Cross-Dressing in Early Modern England

The Content/Object Equivocation: Shepherd’s Neglected Contribution

History of Early Modern Poland in Syntheses by Jerzy Topolski

Infanticide and the Conflicts in Early Modern South Bohemia (1690–1710). Five Women from Jindřichův Hradec