Charlemagne, Common Sense, and Chartism: how Robert Blakey wrote his History of Political Literature

Robert Willan and his kinsmen.

A. THE ANCESTRY AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND OF ROBERT WILLAN, THE DERMATOLOGIST IN THE spring of 1812, the year of Napoleon's ill-fated venture into Russia, Richard Willan, a gentleman farmer in Yorkshire, received a letter from Madeira. The letter, dated 14 April, came by Penzance and Kendal, and it took four weeks to reach its destination at the Hill, in Marthwaite near Sedbergh, where Richard live...

The Not So Common Sense Differences in How People Judge Social and Political Life

Common Sense Philosophy and American Political Theology: Preliminary Considerations

A "political theology," as I use the term here, is a society's understanding of its ultimate meaning in the context of reality as a whole, and in particular in light of what is taken to be divine or ultimate reality. Because human beings collectively as well as individually need their lives to have meaning, they will have a political theology of some sort, whether explicit or implicit, whether ...

the present study is a survey os postmodern historical novel with respect to the voice of women. it argues how the recorded history is regulated by the rules of power and how women have been excluded from this discourse.ther study analysez angela carters nights at the circus as an example of postmodern historical novel to illustrate how this novel has questioned the historical narrative and how it has inserted women into history by breaking the rules of patriarchy.

the present thesis is a study of postmodern historical novel with respect to the voice of women. according to postmodern historiography,the established institution of history is one of the other manifestations of patriarchys power which has silenced women. the study analyzes angela carters nights at the circus as a postmodern historical novel which makes its female characters transgress the pat...

Episodic memory and common sense: how far apart?

Research has revealed facts about human memory in general and episodic memory in particular that deviate from both common sense and previously accepted ideas. This paper discusses some of these deviations in light of the proceedings of The Royal Society's Discussion Meeting on episodic memory. Retrieval processes play a more critical role in memory than commonly assumed; people can remember eve...