A study of the Arundel Society 1848-1897 by Ledger, T

“…The penultimate chapter attempts to relate the prints and monographs published by the Society to the art historical scholarship of the period. It is shown that the council's publication of decorative quattrocento, provincial cinquecento and early Flemish and German artists was influenced by Henry Layard's preferences. …”

Would-be great powers, status, and stigma: the case of Brazil, 1970-1979 by De Bhal, J

“…This critical engagement involves bringing the SIT framework into dialogue with a literature that it has hitherto neglected: the emerging scholarship on stigma in IR. Through this dialogical synthesis, I make two theoretical arguments. …”

The Greek hero Perseus : myths of maturation by Dillon, JEM

“…<p>Owing to a certain fascination with the Gorgon and its origins, past scholarship has given less consideration to Perseus as a heroic figure in his own right than might be expected. …”

Epic, idealism, and romanticism by Wynn Owen, A

“…I suggest that a central function of the scholarship and criticism of art is to assist the experiencer in this experiencing. …”

Early Christian scripture and the Samaritan Pentateuch: a study in hexaplaric manuscript activity by Marsh Jr, BJ

“…Despite the claims of some previous scholarship, the manuscript evidence for the Samaritan Pentateuch in Greek attests two distinct, textually unrelated groups of readings: a σαμ΄-type (i.e., the Samareitikon) and a μονον-type. …”

The sub-stance of Joyce's gramma(r) and language(s) at the Wake by Milesi, L

“…We shall then summarise the manuscript approach in Wakean scholarship before attempting to redefine the notion of "theme" and "thematic criticism" from this genetic angle. …”

Living waste, living on waste: a bioeconomy of urban cows in Delhi by Turnbull, J, Barua, M

“…The economic implications of biopolitics – or the administration, regulation, and control of life – have received significant attention in recent geographical and cognate scholarship. An emerging theme of inquiry, largely focused on the Global North, makes contributions to specifying ‘lively capital’, defined here as bodily value in motion – predicated on accumulation from other-than-human life. …”

Alternative ESG ratings: How technological innovation is reshaping sustainable investment by Hughes, A, Urban, M, Wojcik, D

“…Tech-driven Alternative ESG ratings are becoming increasingly influential yet remain critically underexplored in sustainable finance scholarship. Grounded within financial geography and using mixed methods, this paper fills this gap by comparing a set of Traditional ratings, sourced from MSCI ESG, with an Alternative AI-based set of ESG ratings sourced from Truvalue Labs. …”

The enigma of Cornelius and the salvation of the involuntarily ignorant in the theology of Aquinas and other medieval theologians by McDonnell, L

“…The perspectives of these theologians can only be understood properly if two prevailing tendencies in recent scholarship are corrected: (1) the study of scholastic theologians in relative isolation from their own predecessors and contemporaries, and (2) the artificial segregation of these theologians’ interconnected ideas, such as the tendency to draw inaccurate conclusions about Aquinas’s position on predestination whilst totally ignoring his proposal of limbo. …”

Victims and survivors of rape in late medieval France and Burgundy by Akard, L

“…This thesis addresses that gap in the scholarship, proposes new methods for how we might examine victim/survivor experience in medieval documents, and argues that the only ethical study of rape is one that foregrounds such experiences. …”

How bureaucracies address complex social issues by Monteiro, P, Mangla, A, Meyer, RE, Besharov, M, Pandey, SK, DeHart-Davis, L, Manoharan, A

“…By bringing together scholars across fields, we hope the symposium will stimulate synergies and enhance the impact of the scholarship on emerging challenges for organizations, management, and society.…”

The Communists and the Roman Catholic Church in Yugoslavia, 1941-1946 by Palmer, P, Palmer, Peter

“…In recent years, a comprehensive reappraisal of the Communist takeover has been going on in the countries of former Yugoslavia, and this work draws on this new scholarship, as well as on hitherto unused archival material. …”

Who we be: the musical and social aesthetics of grime in London by O'Reilly, JP

“…</p> <p>Despite its cultural importance, grime has remained an under-studied topic in musical scholarship. While several recent studies have attempted to address this critical gap, they exemplify what I perceive as an almost exclusively sociological focus prevalent in rap studies, often situating grime within wider socio-economic considerations; the music itself is often examined as an artefact of specific social formations, and thus secondary to other concerns. …”

William Perkins's anti-popery and its underlying worldview in historical context by Beach, EA

“…Third, contrary to the view that has dominated scholarship from Rosemary Sisson (1952) to W. B. Patterson (2014), Perkins is best understood not as an apologist for the English Church’s doctrine and polity. …”

Renewing Athens: the ideology of the past in Roman Greece by McHugh, S

“…While this Athenian ‘golden age’ is a standard feature of scholarship on Greek culture under Rome, my thesis delves further to explore the renewal of the urban and rural landscapes at this time and the relationship between that process and constructions of Athenian identity.…”

The evolution of music: Theories, definitions and the nature of the evidence by Ian, C, Morley, I

“…Human behaviour seems to be as much motivated by inherited biology as by acquired culture, yet most musical scholarship and research has treated music solely from a cultural perspective. …”

Liminal geopolitics: the subjectivity and spatiality of diplomacy at the margins by McConnell, F

“…This paper argues that the lens of liminality has the potential to enrich scholarship in critical geopolitics by offering a nuanced approach to the geographies and ambivalence of political subjectivity. …”

Culture, politics and form in the long nineteen sixties: reappraising the British experimental novel by Burley, P

“…Contesting long-held presuppositions that render postwar writing as secondary or transitional within the wider literary-historical narrative, recent scholarship has uncovered a rich variety of responses to the challenging legacies of literary modernism and a rapidly changing socio-cultural sphere.…”

Financial sector change in the context of oil-abundance: Angola, 1991-2014 by Engebretsen, R

“…This study of Angola moreover adds to the growing scholarship seeking to nuance the assumption that leaders of resource rich authoritarian countries are autonomous from societal demands. …”

Copyright and collective authorship by Simone, D

“…This thesis analyses four case studies of large scale collaboration (Wikipedia, Indigenous art, scientific collaborations and film) in order to consider how best to determine the authorship of the creative works that they produce for the purposes of copyright law. Current scholarship and much of the case law has tended to favour a restrictive approach to the grant of joint authorship status, in order to minimise the number of potential authors of a work. …”