Introduction: Remembering English Saints in 2020

Remembering remembering.

We developed a laboratory analogue of the "forgot-it-all-along" effect that J. W. Schooler, M. Bendiksen, and Z. Ambadar (1997) proposed for cases of "recovered memories" in which individuals had forgotten episodes of talking about the abuse when they were supposedly amnestic for it. In Experiment 1, participants studied homographs with disambiguating context words; in Test 1 they received stud...

English Corpus Linguistics An Introduction

Introduction to the English Edition

In his letter to the prospective contributors to the Cambridge Modern History, one of the greatest collaborative works of history published in the twentieth century, British historian Lord Acton triumphantly declared that “the long conspiracy against the knowledge of truth has been practically abandoned, and competing scholars all over the civilized world are taking advantage of the change.” Ci...

Moral Monsters and Saints

This paper argues for the moral significance of the notion of an evil person or character. First, I argue that accounts of evil character ought to support a robust bad/evil distinction; yet existing theories cannot plausibly do so. Consequentialist and related theories also fail to account for some crucial properties of evil persons. Second, I sketch an intuitively plausible “affective-motivati...

The saints of epilepsy.

E PILEPSY, at least in its grand mal variety, presents so dramatic and, to the lay observer, so terrifying a spectacle that it is not strange that its victims readily resorted to supernatural aid for alleviation. Unlike so many other diseases it offers no external signs of its presence and the horrifying suddenness with which apparently healthy and normal people could be transformed into writhi...