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Lawful sovereignty: the political criminalisation and decriminalisation of Jacobitism, 1688–1788
No full textFollowing the Revolution of 1688–89 and the exile of the Catholic Stuarts, Jacobitism was a socio-political alternative to the constitutional and religious settlements established in its aftermath. Propaganda campaigns favouring the royal dynasties at the centre of this ideological conflict remained fundamental as it developed. The Jacobites’ failure to recognise the Williamite and Hanoverian monarchs, regimes and the laws enacted in their names resulted in a swathe of mass criminality. It included considerable sedition and a near-universal association with high treason. This political irritant continued to subsist, and in the wake of the Treaty of Union of 1707, the Jacobite movement became the ideological challenger to the nascent British state. This thesis examines the Scottish, English (at times, Irish) and British states’ responses to the incendiary Jacobite threat beyond the battlefield. Successive administrations’ actions formed an overarching programme of political criminalisation and decriminalisation that lasted for around one hundred years, from 1688 to 1788. It looks at four thematic aspects of state weaponry employed on the Jacobites across several decades: ideology, policy, legislation and punishment. Doing so reveals that these mechanisms were inextricably entwined, and research has focused on materials relating to these themes, primarily those of a political and legislative nature. They include state papers and cabinet correspondence, policy-related memoranda, statutory public legislation and applicable punishment data. It assesses the policy formation, implementation and reformation required to tackle the ‘Jacobite problem’. The institution of a formidable legislative framework shows that the authorities regarded it as a severe danger. Their approach towards punishment involved a delicate balancing act between affording much clemency alongside a raft of ruthless retribution and cautionary warnings. The results suggest a significant amount of politico-legal precedent and institutional memory influenced the collective administrative response to, but also the evolution of, the Jacobite movement. It argues that a state-sanctioned political criminalisation programme was essential to obliterate all facets of Jacobitism
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Gods and Monsters: Classical Allusion and the Jacobites
Get PDFThe myths and legends of the classical world provided a wealth of material that Scottish Jacobites exploited to signal support for, and spread messages about, the exiled Stuarts. Dr Calum Cunningham and Dr Alan Montgomery delve into these clandestine allusions in architecture, text and material cultur
Charles III: the difficult legacy and political significance of the new king’s name
Get PDFFirst paragraph: On the day of Queen Elizabeth II’s death, the former Prince of Wales was proclaimed King Charles III. Although it’s been known for decades that Charles would succeed his mother, there were rumours that he might, once king, choose the name George due to the contentious legacies of Kings Charles I and Charles II.https://theconversation.com/charles-iii-the-difficult-legacy-and-political-significance-of-the-new-kings-name-19038
Gods and Monsters: Classical Allusion and the Jacobites
Get PDFThe myths and legends of the classical world provided a wealth of material that Scottish Jacobites exploited to signal support for, and spread messages about, the exiled Stuarts. Dr Calum Cunningham and Dr Alan Montgomery delve into these clandestine allusions in architecture, text and material cultur
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