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The St Gall Psalter gloss: people and places across Carolingian Europe (11,000 words)
No full textThe St Gall Psalter gloss, a ninth-century corpus of annotations on the Psalms, left its mark on Carolingian, Ottonian-Salian, Anglo-Saxon, and early printed book culture. Copied in manuscripts from a wide geographical area stretching across Austria, Switzerland, and southern Germany, the corpus appeared in luxury psalters in Bavaria by the eleventh century. Despite having traction, very little is known about its early transmission. This paper focuses on the people and places connected with the corpus. <br/
Doing the right thing? Managerial ethics in social engaged arts
No full textWho, if anyone, is responsible for ensuring arts organisations working in Social Engaged Arts do the ‘right thing’ in a ‘good’ way and how is it determined? Although established as a distinct field managerial ethics (and indeed business ethics) has rarely been applied to the study of arts and cultural organisations or their management. Using interviews and Mission/Vision analysis, this chapter applies a managerial ethics lens to the ethical decision-making and rationalities of the artistic and executive leads (the ‘managers’) and arts organisations in Northern Ireland who work in or deliver Social Engaged Arts (by their definitions: ‘community arts’ and ‘participatory arts’). It examines what they consider ethical concerns and what influences their ethical decision-making. In doing so, we articulate insights to the relational and values-based approaches adopted to decision-making, the ethics of self-exploitation and disillusion, and the ambiguous space between personal and organisational responsibility and politics. The work thus fills a gap in more traditional business ethics inquiry while at the same time opening up new considerations in the field of arts management, leadership and governance. It demonstrates how arts and cultural organisations and their managers in this context prioritise a sense of ‘common good’, their beneficiaries and artists over artform and pursuit of social justice. This work opens up debate and fuels understanding of the structural inhibitions around ideals of shared decision-making, collectivism and ethicality at individual, organisational and sector levels. In this way, it may enhance managers’ and organisations’ capacity to refashion ways to resist neoliberalism while also highlighting contradictions between ‘good’ governance, accountability and lived reality.<br/
Children, human rights and vaccination in the pursuit of the highest attainable standard of health in Europe
No full textThere is a tightrope between the need to safeguard the health of children and broader society and the need to protect the manifestation of children’s rights under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). This chapter examines the tension between these competing but parallel rights. Accordingly, it considers the historical relationship between the vaccination of children and European human rights law and ethics. Focus is placed on the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) judgment in Vavřička and Others v. the Czech Republic. The chapter recognises and validates the importance of vaccination in the context of global health, but queries whether mandatory vaccination of children is an ethically appropriate approach. Attention is given to the specific concepts such as solidarity, autonomy, best interests, justice and harm as they apply to vaccination of children. The chapter argues that mandatory childhood vaccination, as it stands, is not fully aligned with some medical ethical principles. A new approach based on ‘Solidaristic autonomy’ is presented as a means of addressing this difficulty and of promoting best practice in vaccination policy
Evaluation of Ireland’s pilot medically supervised injection facility (Lot 1): 6-month report on impact and effectiveness
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AXA v Lord Advocate [2011] UKSC 46. AXA and the two roads of devolution
No full textThis chapter critically examines the Supreme Court's decision in AXA v Lord Advocate, arguing that it provided two visions of devolution: a holistic workable vision and a narrow textualist vision. The chapter argues that the textualist vision has since come to predominate, giving rise to unprecedented problems with the functioning of the devolved settlements, and that the Supreme Court needs to revisit its two visions and choose the better one