REVIEW ARTICLE: Adam HORSLEY & Jonathan PATTERSON, “ Law and Literature in French Studies” (French Studies LXXVI (2022), nr. 3 (Jul), 436-352 (OPEN ACCESS)

 

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First sentence:

Since its emergence in the late twentieth century, the law and literature movement has been enriched by contributions from the field of French studies.

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ARTICLE: C. Annemieke ROMEIN, Max KEMMAN, Julie M. BIRKHOLZ, James BAKER, Michel DE GRUIJTER, Albert MEROÑO-PEÑUELA, Thorsten RIES, Ruben ROS & Stefania SCAGLIOLA, State of the Field: Digital History (History 2020 (May), 292-312

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Abstract:

Computing and the use of digital sources and resources is an everyday and essential practice in current academic scholarship. The present article gives a concise overview of approaches and methods within digital historical scholarship, focusing on the question ‘How have the digital humanities evolved and what has that evolution brought to historical scholarship?’ We begin by discussing techniques in which data are generated and machine searchable, such as OCR/HTR, born-digital archives, computer vision, scholarly editions and linked data. In the second section, we provide examples of how data is made more accessible through quantitative text and network analysis. The third section considers the need for hermeneutics and data-awareness in digital historical scholarship. The technologies described in this article have had varying degrees of effect on historical scholarship, usually in indirect ways. With this article we aim to take stock of the digital approaches and methods used in historical scholarship in order to provide starting points for scholars seeking to understand the digital turn in the field and how and when to implement such approaches in their work.

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REVIEW ARTICLE: Danielle CHARETTE & Max SKJÖNSBERG, 'State of the Field: The History of Political Thought' (History) (OPEN ACCESS)

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Abstract:

This article surveys the state of the field of the history of political thought. The premise of the discipline is that political arguments and ideas have developed historically and thus have theoretical histories that can be located and traced. But, as our survey of the field shows, what counts as ‘context’ is up for debate, and contextual methods have become more sensitive to present‐day concerns. The border between the history of political thought and political theory is increasingly porous. We begin with some of the main claims and criticisms of the ‘Cambridge’ method of political thought, chiefly associated with Quentin Skinner, John Dunn and J. G. A. Pocock. We then consider newer developments, such as the ‘global turn’, which have steered the discipline beyond its traditionally European or male subject matter. While this shift in direction is welcome, we caution against a history that abstracts away from local sites of political contestation. Finally, we stress that (Western) historians moving beyond the West have even more reason to stay conscious of their own linguistic and cultural limitations.

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REVIEW ARTICLE: Jens MEIERHENRICH, "The Force of Law" (English Historical Review CXXXIV (2019), nr. 569 (Aug))

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First paragraph:

If Frederick Schauer, the distinguished philosopher of law, is correct, ‘a new conventional wisdom’ has waylaid the study of law: the assumption ‘that force is not the characteristic or identifying feature of law’.1 Relegating the coercive aspect of law to the sidelines of theoretical interest, according to Schauer, is perverse. Relegating the coercive aspect of law to the sidelines of historical interest would be equally problematic. As luck has it, in the last decade or so, historians from different subfields—intellectual history, international history, legal history, political history—have avoided this perversity by burrowing into the crevices of law to locate violence in all its forms. Six new and innovative works have been selected here for closer scrutiny.

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