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Page 529 of 174903

Quantum Engineering
  • Theory and Design of Quantum Coherent Structures
  • 2nd edition
  • A. M. Zagoskin
  • Published online:
    25 June 2026
    Print publication:
    16 July 2026
  • 'Quantum Engineering' covers the theory, design, fabrication and applications of quantum coherent solid-state structures. This updated and expanded second edition provides a self-contained presentation of the theoretical methods and experimental results in both first and second waves of quantum technology innovation. Topics span the quantum theory of electric circuits, theoretical methods of quantum optics in application to solid-state circuits, the quantum theory of noise, decoherence and measurements, Landauer formalism for quantum transport, the physics of weak superconductivity and the physics of two-dimensional electron gas in semiconductor heterostructures. The author introduces microscopic ion- and defect-based qubits, currently among the most successful platforms for quantum computation and quantum sensing. Reflecting the significant progress of quantum hardware, state-of-the-art implementations such as quantum metamaterials and quantum reservoir computing are also added to the discussion. Written for graduate students in physics, this book also serves electronic engineers working in quantum engineering.

Jewish-Christian Dialogue in Medieval French Literature
  • Inscribing Biblical Encounters in the Vernacular
  • Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 June 2026
  • Examines a range of vernacular works within the context of Jewish and Christian exegetical traditions.

    Just as Jews and Christians encounter each other in unequal power relations in the "contact zones" of medieval cities, so the Hebrew Bible meets two Christian Testaments in dynamic tension. Vernacular literature mirrors that confrontation whenever it integrates biblical material, whether quotations and images, translation and paraphrase, people, events or practices. In whatever shape or form, the use of biblical matter introduces vital questions, as competing claims to possession and authority are enmeshed with new approaches to interpretation. Christians and Jews, Judaism and Christianity, meet each other figuratively around the reinvention of their shared sacred texts to define and dispute their identities.

    This study examines how biblical material enters into a variety of twelfth- and thirteenth- century French works by following the way literal and spiritual meanings are intimately entwined. In examples ranging from the romances of Chrétien de Troyes and bestiaries to theatre and moralized bibles, biblical citation serves as an expression of belief, a tool of persuasion, and a weapon of aggression. As current debates on antisemitism intensify, a brief epilogue considers what this study can contribute to Jewish-Christian dialogue when medieval and modern, past and present, challenge each other to deepen knowledge and expand possibilities.

Diary of W. G. Footitt
  • Architectural Draughtsman of Durham, 1897-1914
  • Edited by Michael Johnson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 June 2026
  • W. G. Footitt was an architectural draughtsman in the office of Charles Hodgson Fowler, architect to Durham, Lincoln and Rochester Cathedrals. Recently discovered in a private collection, his personal diary illuminates the professional practice and daily life of an individual immersed in the design and restoration of ecclesiastical architecture during the last years of the Gothic Revival. Significantly, it highlights the important contribution made by draughtsmen, whose names rarely appear in published histories of architecture. Their meticulous work, translating design concepts into detailed plans and drawings, is essential to the realisation of architectural visions.

    A talented artist with a passion for antiquities, Footitt also produced many drawings to illustrate the publications of leading archaeologists in County Durham and Northumberland, thus playing a crucial role in bringing their discoveries to a wider audience.

    Spanning nearly two decades, this unique primary source is a fascinating record of social history during a transitional era. Footitt was a keen observer of the world around him, travelling widely across Britain and recording holidays in Ireland and Switzerland. His first-hand impressions of social, cultural and technological change make the diary a vivid chronicle of modernity.

Rewriting the Past in Scottish Literature, 1350-1550
  • Kate Ash-Irisarri
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 June 2026
  • Considers how Anglo-Scottish conflict was memorialised, reimagined and embedded by later writers.

    The Anglo-Scottish Wars of Independence are often treated in historical and poetical works produced in Scotland between the fourteenth and sixteenth century, from chronicles and hagiographical romances to advisory and commemorative poems. Through an examination of such texts, this book explores how late-medieval writers drew on the memory of the wars to articulate a collective identity; and how literary and historical frameworks were deeply influenced by shifting Anglo-Scottish relations. It covers a range of topics: how borders - textual, geographic, and cultural - became a focus for articulations of national memory; the utilisation of origin myths and royal genealogy; anxieties around failures of memory or deliberate acts of forgetting; and the impact of the Battle of Flodden (1513) on writing about Scottish nationhood. Dealing in particular with Bower's Scotichronicon, Hary's Wallace, The Complaynt of Scotland and Lyndsay's Dreme, this study argues that these writers drew on understandings of the arts of memory to shape selective, and collective, recollections of the past as a response to contemporary concerns, providing an emotive memorialisation of Scotland's history.

Forests and the Power of Marginalised People in Southern Africa
  • Politics of Chronic Liminality
  • Frank Matose
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 June 2026
  • Decades after independence and the end of apartheid, why have forest communities in Zimbabwe and South Africa not been able to recover the land and resource rights they lost under colonialism?

    This book explores the politics of conservation in southern Africa through the lens of chronic liminality, a 'state of in-betweenness' or 'waiting', to explain the status quo in local people-state forest relationships and why progress has been so slow. Using the Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve, the Gwayi Forest and Mafungabusi Forest as cases studies, it examines the consequences on people living in and around protected areas of neoliberal approaches to conservation and of the legacy of colonial property relations.

    The book asks why local communities have not engaged in collective or rebellious action against the government and how they have instead found themselves in a liminal position, caught between waiting for conditions to change and advancing their rights through collective action. It also asks why states have likewise pursued a politics of liminality and continue to prevaricate about whether to restore local rights or maintain the status quo around forest reserves. Overall, the book advances scholarship around conservation in Africa and other postcolonial regions by providing a different perspective on the continued marginalisation of local people and arguing for a need to rethink forest ownership and management.

    Published in association with the Collaborative Research Centre FUTURE RURAL AFRICA, funded by the German Research Council (DFG).

Reading Jaume Roig’s Espill
  • Misogyny, Religion, and Readers’ Annotations in Early Modern Print
  • Jean Dangler
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 June 2026
  • What lessons did readers take from the Espill (The Mirror)?

    This book examines key marginalia in sixteenth-century printed copies of the fictional, pedagogic tale about the alleged dangers of earthly women composed by Valencian physician Jaume Roig. Written in Catalan verse in approximately 1460, the Espill focuses on two main themes, misogyny and religious material, including the critique of religious personnel but also absolute praise of the Virgin Mary. More than 50 printed copies of the work exist today, an extraordinary number for the period.

    The book argues that readers seemed to interpret contrasting secular misogyny and holy topics as harmonious, with the Espill's misogyny synchronizing with its religious message and materials. Readers appear to have considered the Espill as a guide, whether with regard to biblical stories and lessons, women's menstruation, or women's shameful character, and did not demonstrate outrage or perplexity about women's portrayal. The annotative evidence, previously overlooked, sheds light on misogyny's relationship to larger systems of power and on the broader connection between women's depiction in the Espill and in Isabel de Villena's proto-feminist Vita Christi, both of which derived from Valencia's same late fifteenth-century social and professional milieu.

Bad Poetry? New Perspectives on the Value of Sixteenth-Century Literature
  • Edited by Richard Danson Brown, Andrew Hadfield
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 June 2026
  • An examination of the messy, often contradictory processes of poetic production and reception. The volume offers an invitation to read widely, question deeply and think critically.

    In the wake of C. S. Lewis's still-contested taxonomy of 'drab' and 'golden' poetic ages, this volume rethinks the critical and aesthetic stakes of bad poetry in early modern England-not to dismiss it, but to ask what it meant, how it functioned, and why it mattered.

    Revisiting poets like Arthur Gorges, Walter Ralegh, Thomas Lodge, and Thomas Churchyard, contributors interrogate the literary marketplace, aesthetic judgment, and evolving generic conventions between 1520 and 1609. Through close readings of works by Spenser, Shakespeare, Skelton, and others-alongside notorious outliers like Richard Stanyhurst-the collection considers poetic failure as both historical artifact and interpretive opportunity. From the clumsy excess of hexameters to the ideological weight of neo-Latin verse, from scribal emendations of Mother Hubberds Tale to the uncertain metrical charge of the lengthy fourteener, these essays reveal how poets and readers alike navigated shifting ideas of taste, style, and literary value.

    Grounded in close reading, textual scholarship, and formal analysis, this collection offers a model of sustained, comparative literary criticism that is both theoretically engaged and deeply historicised. It foregrounds the interpretive value of stylistic awkwardness and aesthetic resistance while charting the long afterlives of poetic judgment from Lewis to the present.

Coastal Policing in Eighteenth-Century Britain
  • The Riddle of the Coast, c.1660-1822
  • Hannes Ziegler
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 June 2026
  • The first comprehensive study of Britain's coastal policing and administration across the long eighteenth century.

    Throughout Britain's past its coast has presented security concerns. Despite this long history of raids, smugglers and warfare, consistent, designated and permanent coastal enforcement bodies were only established in England in the 1690s. Initially a reaction to the threats of the Nine Years' Wars, their creation spoke to a new understanding of "The Coast" as a politically distinct and liminal space - a region neither land nor sea - with its own issues and social dynamics that had to be controlled through new, more sophisticated, methods.

    This study explores the circumstances that both necessitated a formalised policing of coastal areas and influenced the subsequent development of these enforcement bodies, showing how their missions and practices fluctuated in relation to key political events and economic policies across the century. In doing so, the book encompasses a long eighteenth century, starting with political developments in the run-up to the Glorious Revolution and ending with the overhaul of coastal bureaucracies in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars.

    In conjunction with this larger historical sweep, through extensive archival research, the book reveals the failures in coastal policing, arguing that these shortcomings stemmed not from the cunning of smugglers or bureaucratic inefficiency but from inherent contradictions in Britain's imperial ambitions. In highlighting the complexities of this watery borderland, Hannes Ziegler sheds new light on the inner workings of Britain's fiscal-military enterprises and state-building challenges of its evolving imperial identity.

Music and Desire among the Austro-German Romantics
  • Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner, Brahms, and the Schumanns
  • Chris Walton
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 June 2026
  • Investigates the composition and reception of works by key Romantics such as Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Wagner and the Schumanns with attention to the role of sexual desire in the composers' lives and music.

    Scholars have for several decades been devoting increasing attention to aspects of sexuality and desire in the music of the Austro-German Romantics. Undertaking a close analysis of the sources, the four chapters of this book show how our assumptions about what those composers desired are often in fact contingent on what we, their commentators, have wanted them to desire over the course of reception history. Beethoven's Fidelio and Schubert's Winterreise tend to be regarded as a hymn to freedom, on the one hand, and an interior monologue of an alienated lover, on the other, though in neither case does such a view correspond to what the composer intended. In contrast, Richard Wagner dismissed his own opera The Ban on Love as a youthful indiscretion extolling the "free love" of the Young German movement; but he was reinterpreting an early work to align it with his later aesthetic.

    The final chapter examines the chronology of the friendship of Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms in order to discern the likely truths about their triangular relationship before and after Robert Schumann's incarceration in a mental asylum. By adhering to the sources and placing them in the social, linguistic, and geographical contexts of their time, author Chris Walton grants all these protagonists a greater agency of desire than has hitherto been the case.

In the Realm of Tones
  • A Composer's Memoir
  • Allen Shawn
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 June 2026
  • A poignant, compelling and clear-eyed memoir of a life in music, with the dogged pursuit of composing at its center.

    Perhaps no art form has ever splintered into as many factions, genres, languages, philosophies, and mutually exclusive audiences as the art of music did in the mid-twentieth century.

    Allen Shawn's memoir fascinatingly evokes this tumultuous time, while weaving together his art and his life, hinting at their unexpected and sometimes paradoxical interconnections.

    Shawn grew up in an atmosphere of cultural privilege in New York City, the son of New Yorker editor William Shawn. An instinctive composing prodigy at age ten, it took him until the age of thirty to compose music he was proud of.

    Shawn sketches his childhood and long apprenticeship, his experiences composing for theater, dance, and concert hall, his forty years as a teacher at Bennington College, and his unexpected emergence as a writer. The book balances an account of his musical evolution, ups and downs, and life choices, offering glimpses into family life and of the many people with whom he interacted, including Leon Kirchner, Earl Kim, Nadia Boulanger, Pierre Petit, Jacques-Louis Monod, J. D. Salinger, John Updike, Benny Goodman, Louis Malle, and Vivian Fine.

    Along the way, Shawn offers reflections on such issues as social class, aging, loneliness, politics, and music education. In the Realm of Tones: A Composer's Memoir is a unique and touching account of one individual's internal search for self-expression and self-understanding, and of his effort to construct a life around it.

Work and its Representations in Early Medieval Saints' Lives
  • Christina M Heckman
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 June 2026
  • Explores the dynamics of saints' work as represented by their hagiographers.

    The lives of many early medieval saints show them working with their hands. Radegund cooks in the kitchen, carries firewood, and cleans privies; Fiacre cultivates a garden; Brigid milks cows and makes cheese; Dunstan shapes metal and constructs buildings. Other saints raise crops, herd cattle, write books, or weave cloth. Equally at home in garden, workshop, and scriptorium, these saints work alongside other people, interacting regularly with livestock, materials, and the land: miracles and other supernatural events are embedded in the habitual, everyday routines of the saints' own communities. Saints exemplify the balance between productive, creative work and the toil or effort required to accompany it, sometimes aligned with penitential labour. But more often, the saints celebrate work as a rewarding result of divine gift, human ingenuity and communal cooperation.

    This book examines the representation of work - from arable and pastoral agriculture to textile arts and caretaking - in the vitae of saints who lived in Ireland, Britain, and Francia between the fifth and twelfth centuries. Bringing together close readings of these texts, evidence from archaeology, and anthropological approaches to material culture, it argues that through such work, saints showed others how to survive, thrive, and build a world that promised both physical security and spiritual rewards.

The Brewers’ Book, Part 2, 1429-40
  • An Edition of the Minute Book of William Porlond, Clerk of the Brewers’ Company
  • Edited by Caroline Anne Metcalfe
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 June 2026
  • This book presents the second part of William Porlond's Brewers' Book, 1429-40. It provides a fascinating glimpse of this craft and fraternity, and the gaining of the company's Royal charter in 1438.

    This is the second part of William Porlond's Brewers' Book, for the years 1429-40, until the clerk's death. After a gap, his records resumed, listing income, expenditure, entries to the freedom of the craft, to the fraternity and matters concerning the Brewers of London. Many payments were recorded in pursuit of the Brewers' Royal charter, which King Henry VI granted in 1438. Costs for making the commonalty seal were also recorded. At this time of change, when beer, rather than ale, was being made and sold in London, the clerk questioned the virtue of beer. He recorded the annual feasts, some important guests, and the purchase and distribution of livery cloth. The clerk gave insight into national events, with lists of the Brewers' contributions towards waging soldiers in Calais. Inventories of the goods of three Brewers' almsmen give glimpses of their lives. Porlond's records, kept mostly in English in this part of the book, illustrate the developing role of the company clerk.
Theorizing Hedging

Theorizing Hedging
  • Explaining Shifts and Variations in Alignment Choices
  • Cheng-Chwee Kuik
  • Published online:
    25 June 2026
    Print publication:
    16 July 2026
  • Hedging, not balancing or bandwagoning, is the modal behavior of the non-great powers under uncertainty. Despite its prevalence as a state alignment choice, hedging has remained an undertheorized subject in the study of international relations. This Element presents one of the first theoretical works on strategic hedging in world politics. Tracing the multidisciplinary roots of hedging as an instinctive human behavior, I contend that sovereign actors hedge in ways similar to commodity traders, farmers, fund managers, academic writers, politicians, and individuals in competitive organizations under conditions of high-stakes and high-uncertainties. I then develop a two-level theoretical framework to explain when, how and why states hedge, rather than balance or bandwagon. Using selected Indo-Pacific countries as empirical cases, I conclude that while structural-level conditions largely explain the shifts in alignment decisions (e.g., from non-hedging to hedging, or vice versa), domestic factors explain the variations in hedging choices.

Kent and Europe, 1450-1640
  • Merchants, Mariners, Shipping and Defence
  • Edited by Robert Blackmore, Craig Lambert
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 June 2026
  • An in-depth overview of Kent's economy, society and politics, and their relationship with Kent's environs over two centuries.

    Kent is surrounded by water on three sides, close to both the European continent and London: geography that has influenced those who have lived there in countless ways. This book explores their history in this setting from the mid-fifteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries, emphasising Kent's deep connection with Europe. Its chapters, which draw on a wide range of local and national sources, primarily centre on maritime affairs, reflecting the historical and ongoing significance of the sea to the region's inhabitants. These include a bold new description of Kent at the end of the Middle Ages and a reconstruction of the county's early modern maritime trade, including its merchants, both native and foreign, the commodities traded, as well as the impact of migration. An in-depth study also provides quantitative analyses of shipping and of the lives and careers of the shipboard community.

    Furthermore, there is a detailed examination of the military community of Kent, with a particular focus on the county's coastal fortifications and a chapter on predatory maritime activities in adjacent waters. Overall, the book puts forward the findings of deep research that connects Kent's economy, society and politics with its environs over a long period. As such, it exemplifies how future county studies might be composed.

Alfonso X, the Dream of Empire, and (Re)Writing History in the Estoria de Espanna
  • Elena Caetano Álvarez
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 June 2026
  • Why did Alfonso X of Castile-Leon-Galicia relentlessly pursue his claims to the imperial thrones of the Holy Roman Empire and the Iberian 'empire', despite the high costs and probability of failure?

    WINNER: 2021-22 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication Prize

    This book examines how the concept of imperium shapes the structure and ideology of the Estoria de España, the first major history of Spain in the vernacular, written under Alfonso's patronage. Through a detailed analysis of its Roman section, it explores how Alfonso's scriptorium translated, adapted, and expanded sources to bolster his imperial claim. More than a chronicle, the Estoria served as propaganda, reinforcing Alfonso's legitimacy by challenging papal authority in imperial elections and appealing to both the Castilian-Leonese nobility-whose financial support was crucial-and other Iberian monarchs.

    Alfonso's imperial vision drew not only on the Imperium Hispanicum of his father, Fernando III, but also on his Staufen lineage through his mother, Beatriz of Swabia, whose ties to the Holy Roman Empire likely influenced the historiographical models of the Estoria. By blending Iberian and European traditions, Alfonso positioned Castile as heir to both the Roman and Hohenstaufen legacies, setting a new standard for Iberian historiography that endured for centuries.

Ipomedon
  • A Twelfth-Century Romance in the French of England
  • Translated by Neil M R Cartlidge, Judith Weiss
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 June 2026
  • The first modern English translation of Hugh of Rhuddlan's Ipomedon.

    The Anglo-Norman Ipomedon, composed in the late twelfth century by Hugh of Rhuddlan, is a witty, notoriously scabrous romance, set in the Mediterranean. In a version of the Fair Unknown motif, the work's eponymous hero, the son of the king of Apulia, falls in love with the queen of Calabria, conceals his identity and serves in her retinue. He undertakes a number of adventures, including participating in a three-day tournament, each day under different colours, before revealing his true identity and marrying her. Alert to the conventions of Arthurian romance from which it pointedly takes ironic distance, Ipomedon invokes the Continental romans d'antiquité in its protagonists' names and in its surprising claim to be the source material for the chronologically earlier Roman de Thèbes. It was popular amongst its contemporary readers, being translated later into three different Middle English versions.

    This book offers the first modern English translation; it also provides explanatory notes, and a full introduction, discussing the author, its audience, dating, sources and analogues, themes, humour and narrative style. It will make this important text, of great interest to medieval romance studies, available to a wider audience.

  • Ambulatory antibiotic prescribing for acute sinusitis: a multicenter, retrospective cohort study evaluating appropriateness

  • Kellie Arensman Hannan, Dan Ilges, Kimberly T. Le, Kristin Cole, Ryan W. Stevens, Kelsey Jensen
  • Journal:
    Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology / Volume 6 / Issue 1 / 2026
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 June 2026, e193
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  • Objective:

    Antibiotics are frequently prescribed for acute sinusitis despite national guidelines recommending antibiotics only if specific symptom criteria are met. We aimed to define the proportion of acute sinusitis encounters meeting criteria for antibiotic prescribing, characterize prescribing practices, and identify factors associated with guideline-discordant prescribing.

    Design:

    This retrospective cohort study included 1,000 randomly selected adult ambulatory encounters with a primary diagnosis of acute sinusitis between January 1, 2024 and March 31, 2024. Encounter notes were reviewed for appropriate antibiotic prescribing criteria as per national guidelines. Encounters were evaluated for drug selection and duration concordance based on local guidelines. A multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed to identify predictors of inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.

    Setting:

    Emergency departments, urgent care centers, and primary care clinics.

    Results:

    Antibiotic prescribing criteria were met for 67.6% of included encounters. Antibiotics were prescribed in 93.5% of encounters that met prescribing criteria, and 80.2% of encounters that did not. Both drug selection and duration were guideline-concordant in 49.2% of total encounters. On multivariable analysis, predictors of inappropriate antibiotic prescribing included cough (OR 2.15, 95% CI 1.08–4.29; P = 0.03) and symptom duration between 7 and 9 days (compared to <6 days; OR 7.70, 95% CI 3.24–18.31; P < 0.001). Electronic encounters were associated with lower odds of prescribing compared to in-person encounters (OR 0.03, 95% CI 0.01–0.09; P < 0.001).

    Conclusions:

    Most encounters for acute sinusitis result in an antibiotic prescription, despite prescribing criteria not being met. These findings may aid antimicrobial stewardship programs in benchmarking and optimizing antibiotic prescribing for acute sinusitis.

  • Familial hypercholesterolaemia in children: diagnostic profile and factors influencing diagnosis in a tertiary referral centre

  • Gülşah Kavrul Kayaalp, Mehmet Cihan Balcı, Dilek Kürkçü Güneş, Seda Gunes, Mübeccel Demirkol, Gülden Fatma Gökçay
  • Journal:
    Cardiology in the Young / Volume 36 / Issue 6 / June 2026
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 June 2026, pp. 1256-1261
  • Background:

    Early identification of familial hypercholesterolaemia is critical to prevent long-term cardiovascular complications. This study assessed diagnostic features and age at diagnosis in children with familial hypercholesterolaemia to identify factors influencing the diagnostic process and improve screening strategies.

    Methods:

    A retrospective review was conducted on 129 paediatric patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia. Data on demographics, family history, clinical findings, lipid levels, and initial reasons for lipid testing were collected.

    Results:

    Of 129 patients, 20.2% had homozygous and 79.8% had heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia. Diagnostic delay occurred in 82.9%, with a median of 6.8 years. The most common reason for lipid testing was incidental detection (29.5%), followed by clinical symptoms (23.2%). No significant association was found between testing reasons and age at diagnosis, diagnostic delay, duration of delay, or familial risk factors. Patients with parental hypercholesterolaemia had longer diagnostic delays (7.03 ± 3.54 vs. 4.18 ± 2.70 years, p = 0.016). No differences were observed in age at diagnosis or delay between patients with and without familial risk factors or clinical findings.

    Conclusion:

    The findings reveal significant diagnostic delays in paediatric familial hypercholesterolaemia, with most cases being diagnosed incidentally rather than through structured screening. There is a pressing need for systematic, context-specific screening strategies to improve early detection and reduce long-term cardiovascular risk.

  • 14 - The Irish Composer and the World

  • Harry White
  • Book:
    Fieldwork: Essays on the Cultural History of Music in Ireland
    Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    25 June 2026, pp 187-210

  • Summary

    Composing the Island, the September 2016 festival of twenty-seven concerts over nineteen days, was a pretty hefty event by any measure. And it was not even designed to celebrate the full history of composition in Ireland, just the works of the last hundred years… Yet the tradition of music it salutes has long had in Ireland a Cinderella-like position, an invisibility that can sometimes seem like the airbrushing or photoshopping into non-existence of a major art form.

    —Michael Dervan, Foreword to The Invisible Art: A Century of Music in Ireland, 1916–2016 (Dublin: New Island, 2016) xii.

    We must find an explanation as to why the majority of Irish people seem to think they have no history of classical music.

    —Axel Klein, ‘No State for Music’, in Dervan (ed.), The Invisible Art, p. 48.

    From the ‘hidden Ireland’ of an ‘unreclaimed and fugitive’ musical tradition as this was perceived in the early nineteenth century to the ‘invisible art’ disclosed in a major series of concerts given at the National Concert Hall in Dublin in 2016 suggests a dispiriting trajectory. To many, it may seem that in the interim we have exchanged one ‘hidden Ireland’ for another. This is a route map, nevertheless, that is borne out by the historiography examined in this book.

  • 3 - Thinking Like an Economist and Brexit

  • Beatrice Magistro, Northeastern University
  • Book:
    Who Thinks Like an Economist?
    Published online:
    11 May 2026
    Print publication:
    25 June 2026, pp 54-68

  • Summary

    Chapter 3 examines how the Economist Mental Model (EMM) influenced voting behavior in the 2016 Brexit referendum. Using British Election Study data, the chapter shows that individuals with higher economic knowledge – a proxy for the EMM – were 11 percentage points more likely to vote than those with lower economic knowledge – a proxy for Alternative Mental Models. The effect of economic knowledge on Brexit preferences is comparable in size to established predictors like income and regional exposure to globalization, underscoring its importance. Robustness checks confirm the relationship remains strong after accounting for media consumption patterns. Moreover, EMM-oriented individuals also favor other welfare-enhancing policies, such as free trade and immigration, yet do not differ from others on noneconomic social issues like LGBTQ+ rights. Thus, economic reasoning specifically shapes economic policy preferences, rather than reflecting broader ideological leanings.

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