... of frequent speculation. When Wilson imagines Bernice working inside Mammoth Cave, he indicates the lasting mark of the Black underground that the entangled imaginations of Stephen Bishop, Materson Bransford, Nicholas Bransford, and their visitors helped create. We might also see other nineteenth-century...

... of carte blanche for human beings to use animals as they saw fit; even bear baiting and cock fighting were entirely above reproach because "Christianity gives us a placard to use these sports:'30 Others were more circumspect, maintaining, as did Bishop Ezekiel Hopkins, that "we may put them to any kind...

... In the late fourth century, this Romanist tradition intersected with ecclesiastical tradition and was given over to the authority of the bishops . For a fixed period of time , generally forty days, the sanctuary churches housed subj ects who had violated a law in order to reach an agreement between...