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    Introduction: sacralisation in early modern Europe
    History of European Ideas 50 (1): 68-85. 2024.
    Did early modern European states make themselves sacred? The historian Paolo Prodi insisted that they did, whereas for the philosopher Giorgio Agamben sacred and secular power were so indistinguishable that the question was moot. This group of articles seeks to explain and explore the approaches of these two accomplished Italian scholars to the problem of early modern sacralisation. This introduction reviews the context in which Prodi and Agamben worked, sketches brief biographies, and describes…Read more
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    The Jewish Family, Forced Baptism, and Holy War in Early Modern Roman Scotism
    Journal of the History of Ideas 83 (4): 659-670. 2022.
    Abstract:Early modern Europeans organized important reflections on the nature of political society and the justice of warfare around their image of the American Indian. But Jewish parents and children, living in Europe at the mercy of Christian societies and states, also provided Europeans with the occasion to reflect on government and holy war. This article will describe the relevance of Christian theology to the experiences of one Roman Jewish family in the 1640s, before reviewing the place of…Read more
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    Rethinking War, Nature, and Supernature in Early Modern Scholasticism: Introduction
    Journal of the History of Ideas 83 (4): 601-611. 2022.
    Abstract:The History of Political Thought is a discipline which is very closely aligned with the Anglophone liberal political tradition. It has not, consequently, ever had very much to say about warfare. Richard Tuck's important research marks an exception in this field, but Tuck's work is marked by significant omissions. He defined Catholic scholasticism too narrowly, omitting the Franciscan followers of John Duns Scotus, and excluded Protestant scholasticism (except the work of Hugo Grotius) e…Read more
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    Annual Dinner
    with Catherine Wallace Australian Federal Police, Public Prosecutions, Kristen Wittholz, Michael Paes, Sara Nolan, Marty Fallens, Rebecca Tesic, and Kelisiana Thynne
    Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. forthcoming.
  • The editor, his collaborators and contributors
    Literature & Aesthetics 18 (1): 69-83. 2008.
  • Death of a Colleague, Byzantium, Leaving Beirut
    Literature & Aesthetics 16 (1): 130. 2006.
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    Commencement of the Legal Year Reception
    with Penny Campbell, Thena Kyprianou, Michael Phelps, Michael Higgins, President Greg Walker, Gavin Howard, Jason Parkinson, Mussa Hijazi, and John Jasinski
    Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. forthcoming.