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The Advent of the Tasburghs: A Documentary Study in the Adair Family Collection
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (2): 296–336.
Published: 01 April 2014
... historiography, despite all claims to the contrary, is possible and valuable. In this monograph-length article, the texts of selected documents in the Adair Family Collection (Suffolk Record Office, Lowestoft Branch, call number 741) are set forth, often verbatim, and, though minutely contextualized...
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Fuzzy Categories and Religious Polemics: The Daily Life of Christians and Muslims in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean World
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 474–489.
Published: 01 August 2013
... but also against anonymous Christians, Muslims, and Jews who, untouched by such polemics, had lived close to one another and, without conflict, had accepted the undefined character of their daily life together. In support of this argument, the author makes use of hitherto unknown archival documents...
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Fuzzy Histories
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 239–248.
Published: 01 April 2012
... between precise and fuzzy historians. In the first phase, in the nineteenth century, precise history, firmly based on documents, was defined, by Leopold von Ranke and the Rankeans, against an older fuzzy or “conjectural” history. In a second phase, at the beginning of the twentieth century, a new fuzzy...
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WATCH OUT FOR THINKING (EVEN FUZZY THINKING): Concept and Percept in Modern Art
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (1): 65–87.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Richard Shiff This article, a contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies: On the Consequence of Blur,” documents how some modern artists and critics have argued against any sort of verbal thinking about art. Beyond describing works of visual art and pronouncing on their relative...
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Introduction: Telling the Untold Story of Random Political Recruitment
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (2): 173–186.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., it is now (except for the randomly selected jury) a largely discontinued practice. While a good deal is known about when and where this procedure was used, there is little surviving documentation of exactly why it was used and of what it was thought to contribute to the political systems in which...
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THE BRITISH MUSLIM BARON: Lord Headley and Islam, 1913 – 35
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (3): 468–495.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Jamie Gilham This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium on xenophilia documents and discusses the life and work of an important but neglected early British convert to Islam, the fifth Baron Headley, Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn (1855 – 1935), and also comments on the nature...
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Footprints: The Xenophilia of a European Medievalist
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (2): 291–311.
Published: 01 April 2018
... in Western Europe seemed to graduate students to represent a kind of “other.” Recently the European Middle Ages has come to seem familiar, and medievalists, still in search of the unfamiliar, have reached beyond the borders of Western Europe and the type of documents traditionally studied to research new...
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Conversation in a Limousine, from Montbrison to Saint-Étienne: Remembering Henry J.-M. Levet, March 22, 1911
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 483.
Published: 01 August 2018
... into English of a potentially important literary document revealing the characters and biographical backgrounds of three exceptional talents during the watershed of early French modernism. Henry J.-M. Levet Valery Larbaud Léon-Paul Fargue Montmartre French modernist poetry Copyright © 2018 by Duke...
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Loving Judaism through Christianity: The Cases of Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik and Oswald Rufeisen
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 88–124.
Published: 01 January 2020
... on the Gospels in order to document and argue for the symmetry or symbiosis that he perceived between Judaism and Christianity. Oswald Rufeisen, from a twentieth-century secular Zionist background in Poland, converted to Catholicism during World War II, became a monk, and attempted to immigrate to Israel...
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Deliberation and Precipitation: Fresh Eggs, C. 1890 – C. 1910
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 11–13.
Published: 01 January 2014
... in England at the turn of the last century: the novelist Henry James and the painter Edwin Austin Abbey. Detailed evidence is mustered to document James's love of fresh hens' eggs and of the undignified lengths he would go to obtain them through the agency of Abbey and his wife. This short piece is written...
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WRITING RITUALS: The Case of Aby Warburg
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (1): 86–105.
Published: 01 January 2012
... illuminates the legacy of Warburg's Library, today at the core of the Warburg Institute in London, since the crisis that the page documents — larger than Warburg's personal one — still lies at the heart of humanistic scholarship as it attempts to grasp the essence of what it means to be human. © 2012...
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SPEAKING OF LILLIPUT?: Recollections on the Warburg Institute in the Early 1970s
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (1): 160–173.
Published: 01 January 2012
.... Sabra, Michael Podro, Michael Screech, Arnaldo Momigliano, and Nikolaus Pevsner. The author's focus is on differences between the milieu of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, as it had been in Hamburg, and the ethos of the Warburg Institute in London. The key document for establishing...
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The Case of “THE Yellow Notebook”: Wittgenstein in Leningrad
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (3): 374–379.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Eugene Ostashevsky “The Case of `The Yellow Notebook'” contains reminiscences of Wittgenstein's conversations with the philosopher Tatiana Gornshteyn (1904-80) on his visit to Leningrad in 1935. The reminiscences are contained in a document written by her daughter Ludmila. It records a story about...
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The World as Archive
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (2): 402–406.
Published: 01 April 2002
...G. Thomas Tanselle Duke University Press 2002 THE WORLD AS ARCHIVE
G. Thomas Tanselle
When historians speak of “archives,” they usually mean collections of documents
that accumulated as the by-products of the operation of organizations...
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Truths in the Archives
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (2): 387–401.
Published: 01 April 2002
... Social Democrats and Latter-
Day Saints. The visitor spends the night reading the record of her recently 389
deceased father’s life. The documentation is astonishingly detailed and efficiently
organized. It is wholly factual but transportingly evocative; it reveals both com-
monplaces and secrets...
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LESSONS OF THE CROCODILE
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Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (2): 215–239.
Published: 01 April 2005
... so documented, conqueredeasily conqueroris and between Hostility advancement. or native natives against discrimination systemic any notbeen tohave seem does there gymnasium, the like structures social Greek in together clustered and Greek remained elite imperial...
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THE FUTURE OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS: In Light of the Visit of Pope John Paul II to the Holy Land
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (1): 10–19.
Published: 01 January 2002
... during the Passion. “Jews,”
the document added, “should not be spoken of as rejected or accursed as if this
followed from Sacred Scripture.”1
For some of the Catholic bishops gathered in Rome on that occasion, this
document was the cause of much...
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ROMAN CATHOLICISM AND THE TEMPTATION OF SHARI'A
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (2): 269–315.
Published: 01 April 2009
... on “natural an teaching writing in engaged days these is pope present the that understood is It XVI. Benedict of theFaith at whenthe time its head was Joseph Ratzinger, Cardinal now Pope Doctrine for the Congregation were the preparedby documents of these third Those Obstinately...
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The Restored “Finnegans Wake”
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (3): 506–508.
Published: 01 August 2014
... capabilities. moremadeeven linking appropriateits by documentation, minous volu record such to way best the is database electronic An impractical. been have would offoreach them, explanations let alonethe alterations, thousand of nine itto a list but attaching goal, a desirable ofis...
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Assembling Neighbors: The City as Hardware, Method, and “a Very Messy Kind of Archive”
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 150–171.
Published: 01 January 2014
..., oftaking charge in erator, asecretary “aby mod facilitated be assemblies all that recommends document The layout. cultural and aspatial and for conviviality, ofapraxis roles, asociology includes organon...
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