Robert Mills
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Mills |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Mills |
| SIGNATURE | MILLS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5936-8737 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Péter Hartl, Hume's Minimal Theism and the Supervised Christian Church: A Philosophical and Historical Analysis of the Idea of True Religion
In Pursuit of The Emerald City: Cable-Access Television and the Gay 1970S
This article works to unpack the sociocultural significance of The Emerald City , the world's first regularly scheduled gay television show (airing on Manhattan Cable's Channel J from late 1976 to 1978). Focusing primarily on the show's magazine format—its construction as a series of tenuously related segments spanning the humorous, the informative, the political, and the mundane—the article considers the relationship between this particular mode…
Are you inspired or overwhelmed? The benefits of teachers setting challenging expectations
Gordon Graham, Scottish Philosophy after the Enlightenment
The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books
Red list: MI5 and British intellectuals in the twentieth century
Religion and the Start of the Science of Human Nature: Campbell, Turnbull and Hume
Conclusion
John Gregory on Human Nature, Happiness and Religious Devotion
Henry Home, Lord Kames on Mechanistic Human Nature
George Campbell on Miracles and the Weakness of Hume’s “Science of Man”
Sex, or the Illegible: Aids Video Art and the Erotics of Abstraction
Sex, or the Illegible: AIDS Video Art and the Erotics of Abstraction Robert J. Mills (bio) A typeface “A” emerges from an empty black screen, its faded orange hues casting an extended glow across the otherwise impervious background. After a moment’s pause, this background is slowly eclipsed. A textured image of whites and purples fades in and takes its place; it might be marble, liquid captured in stasis (figure 1). Stasis is, however, shortly me…
Derek Jarman’s Revelation: Aids, Apocalypse and History
This article investigates the critical interplay between utopian collectivity and post-industrial ruins as "apocalyptic commons" in Derek Jarman's film The Last of England. This film's Thatcher-era critique reveals global capitalism's repressed yet intensified settler-colonial dimensions, portraying abandoned manufacturing sites intercut with nonlinear evocation of Britain's imperial past. I argue that this film's post-apocalyptic ruins perform a…
Beyond anglicised politeness: Addison in eighteenth-century Scotland
Joseph Addison played a key role in Nicholas Phillipson's pioneering studies of eighteenth-century Scottish culture and philosophy. Post-Union Scots were in search of renewed civic purpose now political power had headed to Westminster. They found it in Addison's Spectator essays discussing virtuous living. This article pays homage to Phillipson's work by expanding the scope of the study of Addison's reception in eighteenth-century Scotland. A sur…
The ‘Almost Wilfully Perverse’ Lord Monboddo and the Scottish Enlightenment’s Science of Human Nature
The Scottish Enlightenment: Human Nature, Social Theory and Moral Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Christopher J. Berry
Examines the achievements and legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment, drawing inspiration from the work of Christopher BerryFocuses on key Scottish Enlightenment ideas: political economy, the science of human nature, self-interest, commerce, politics and luxurySurveys the achievements of recent literature on the Scottish Enlightenment and identifies areas for future researchDraws on a range of disciplines: philosophy, economics, history and politic…
James Beattie, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the character of Common Sense philosophy
Professor of Moral Philosophy at Marischal College, Aberdeen, James Beattie (1735–1803) was one of the most prominent literary figures of late eighteenth-century Britain. His major works, An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth (1770) and the two-canto poem The Minstrel (1771–1774), were two of the best-sellers of the Scottish Enlightenment and were key to Beattie’s role in the emergence of both the ‘Scottish School’ of Common Sense Phil…
Seen from Behind: Perspectives on the Male Body and Renaissance Art
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Positive images: Gay men and HIV/Aids in the culture of ‘post-crisis’
The years immediately following 1996, when the standardized implementation of antiretroviral therapy as responsive AIDS treatment took place across the developed Global North, have thus far been ch
Defining Man as Animal Religiosum in English Religious Writing ca. 1650–ca. 1700
This article surveys the emergence and usage of the redefinition of man not as animal rationale (rational animal) but as animal religiosum (religious animal) by numerous English theologians between 1650 and 1700. Across the continuum of English Protestant thought, human nature was being redescribed as unique due to its religious, not primarily its rational, capabilities. This article charts said appearance as a contribution to debates over man's …
Visibly Trans
What happens when medieval depictions of gender-crossing saints get refracted through a transgender prism? Focusing on objects and artifacts associated with St. Eugenia of Rome, this article considers the extent to which medieval artists confronted the genderqueer potential of Eugenia's legend. Often the saint was overtly feminized, patently obscuring her road to sanctity as a gender crosser. But sometimes the crossing itself was rendered at leas…
William Falconer’s Remarks on the Influence of Climate (1781) and the study of religion in Enlightenment England
This study argues that the English-born, Edinburgh-educated and Bath-based physician William Falconer (1744–1824) authored the only stadial history published during the British Enlightenment that analysed the influence of socio-economic context upon religious belief. A survey of the conjectural histories of religion written by the leading literati demonstrates that discussion of religion by the Scottish literati was undertaken separate from the “…
Historical writing in Britain, 1688–1830: Visions of history
Historical writing in Britain, 1688–1830: visions of history." Intellectual History Review, 26(2), pp. 314–315
Alexander Ross’s Pansebeia (1653), religious compendia and the seventeenth-century study of religious diversity
Recently, our scholarly understanding of how religion was studied during the seventeenth century has changed. Contributions made by historians of scholarship have provided a more detailed picture through studies of the emerging genre of the history of idolatry. This article, however, looks at another new but overlooked genre in the seventeenth century: the religious catalogue. It does so through an examination of the most popular compendium of th…
Archibald Campbell's Necessity of Revelation (1739)—the Science of Human Nature's First Study of Religion
This article argues that Archibald Campbell's Necessity of Revelation (1739) can be viewed as the first application of the ‘science of human nature’, a characteristic branch of the Scottish Enlightenment, to the study of religious belief. Adopting Baconian and Newtonian methodological principles, Campbell set hypotheses, collected historical data, and inferred conclusions about the capabilities of human nature to come to fundamental religious ide…
Theorizing the Queer Museum
One response to the marginalization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) perspectives in museums has been to make a bid for increased inclusivity. Such a gesture potentially foregrounds universalist notions of LGBT identity and desire. Queer theory, however, understands gender and sexuality as relational constructs, subject to historical and cultural variation. Against this backdrop, what would it mean to theorize the queer museum? T…
Queer is Here? Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Histories and Public Culture
This article documents the emergence, in recent years, of a prominent discourse on queer history in the public sphere. Focusing especially on LGBT History Month, an events programme launched in February 2005 that sets out to ‘mark and celebrate the lives and achievements of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered people', as well as reviewing an exhibition at the Museum of London called ‘Queer is Here’, which opened in February 2006, I consider …
Sovereign Power and Bare Life in Poetry by Françols Villon
Whatever you do is a delight to me!”: Masculinity, Masochism, and Queer Play in Representations of Male Martyrdom
Whatever you do is a delight to me!"Life of St. Lawrence"What shall I do with you?" she asked."Do what you will," I replied with resignation, "whatever you please."Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Red list: MI5 and British intellectuals in the twentieth century
Visibly Trans
What happens when medieval depictions of gender-crossing saints get refracted through a transgender prism? Focusing on objects and artifacts associated with St. Eugenia of Rome, this article considers the extent to which medieval artists confronted the genderqueer potential of Eugenia's legend. Often the saint was overtly feminized, patently obscuring her road to sanctity as a gender crosser. But sometimes the crossing itself was rendered at leas…
William Falconer’s Remarks on the Influence of Climate (1781) and the study of religion in Enlightenment England
This study argues that the English-born, Edinburgh-educated and Bath-based physician William Falconer (1744–1824) authored the only stadial history published during the British Enlightenment that analysed the influence of socio-economic context upon religious belief. A survey of the conjectural histories of religion written by the leading literati demonstrates that discussion of religion by the Scottish literati was undertaken separate from the “…
Alexander Ross’s Pansebeia (1653), religious compendia and the seventeenth-century study of religious diversity
Recently, our scholarly understanding of how religion was studied during the seventeenth century has changed. Contributions made by historians of scholarship have provided a more detailed picture through studies of the emerging genre of the history of idolatry. This article, however, looks at another new but overlooked genre in the seventeenth century: the religious catalogue. It does so through an examination of the most popular compendium of th…
The Reception of ‘That Bigoted Silly Fellow’ James Beattie's Essay on Truth in Britain 1770–1830
This article examines the Scottish philosopher James Beattie's (1735–1803) controversial work of moral philosophy An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth (1770), noted for its pugnacious attack on the sceptical philosophy of David Hume. Usually treated only as an ephemeral success in the early 1770s, the Essay actually had two distinct periods of enormous popularity that account for its contemporary significance in the period between 177…
Religion and bureaucracy: A spiritual dialogue
Family and synagogue: Partners in a search for the holy
An anatomy of hope
Books
Whatever you do is a delight to me!”: Masculinity, Masochism, and Queer Play in Representations of Male Martyrdom
“Whatever you do is a delight to me!”Life of St. Lawrence“What shall I do with you?” she asked.“Do what you will,” I replied with resignation, “whatever you please.”Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Whatever you do is a delight to me!”: Masculinity, Masochism, and Queer Play in Representations of Male Martyrdom
Whatever you do is a delight to me!"Life of St. Lawrence"What shall I do with you?" she asked."Do what you will," I replied with resignation, "whatever you please."Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Fifteenth-Century Studies Vol. 27: A Special Issue on Violence in Fifteenth-Century Text and Image
Regarding pain
Nigel Spivey Enduring Creation: Art, Pain and Fortitude
Sovereign Power and Bare Life in Poetry by Françols Villon
Defaced: The Visual Culture of Violence in the Late Middle Ages . Valentin Groebner , Pamela Selwyn
Queer is Here? Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Histories and Public Culture
This article documents the emergence, in recent years, of a prominent discourse on queer history in the public sphere. Focusing especially on LGBT History Month, an events programme launched in February 2005 that sets out to ‘mark and celebrate the lives and achievements of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered people', as well as reviewing an exhibition at the Museum of London called ‘Queer is Here’, which opened in February 2006, I consider …
Theorizing the Queer Museum
One response to the marginalization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) perspectives in museums has been to make a bid for increased inclusivity. Such a gesture potentially foregrounds universalist notions of LGBT identity and desire. Queer theory, however, understands gender and sexuality as relational constructs, subject to historical and cultural variation. Against this backdrop, what would it mean to theorize the queer museum? T…
Rethinking Medieval Translation: Ethics, Politics, Theory
Seeing Sodomy in the Bibles moralisées
It has long been remarked by historians of sexuality that sodomy is an incoherent category. Michel Foucault has insisted on the concept's “utterly confused” status; Jonathan Goldberg has mediated between highlighting sodomy's categorical confusions in Renaissance England and deployments of the category in modern contexts (especially in North America) that continue to be precarious; Alan Bray has emphasized how sodomy emerges into visibility only …
Joan Cadden. Nothing Natural Is Shameful: Sodomy and Science in Late Medieval Europe
The Problemata, a work originating with Aristotle, collates hundreds of questions mainly about natural phenomena. Book four, which focuses on venereal matters, turns in its 26th problema or “problem” to the issue of men who have sex with men. Why do some men who like being anally stimulated enjoy only a “passive” role in coitus, whereas others delight in both “active” and “passive” roles? What in nature causes these dispositions? In this absorbin…
Archibald Campbell's Necessity of Revelation (1739)—the Science of Human Nature's First Study of Religion
This article argues that Archibald Campbell's Necessity of Revelation (1739) can be viewed as the first application of the ‘science of human nature’, a characteristic branch of the Scottish Enlightenment, to the study of religious belief. Adopting Baconian and Newtonian methodological principles, Campbell set hypotheses, collected historical data, and inferred conclusions about the capabilities of human nature to come to fundamental religious ide…
The Reception of ‘That Bigoted Silly Fellow’ James Beattie's Essay on Truth in Britain 1770–1830
This article examines the Scottish philosopher James Beattie's (1735–1803) controversial work of moral philosophy An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth (1770), noted for its pugnacious attack on the sceptical philosophy of David Hume. Usually treated only as an ephemeral success in the early 1770s, the Essay actually had two distinct periods of enormous popularity that account for its contemporary significance in the period between 177…
Historical writing in Britain, 1688–1830: Visions of history
Historical writing in Britain, 1688–1830: visions of history." Intellectual History Review, 26(2), pp. 314–315
Alexander Ross’s Pansebeia (1653), religious compendia and the seventeenth-century study of religious diversity
Recently, our scholarly understanding of how religion was studied during the seventeenth century has changed. Contributions made by historians of scholarship have provided a more detailed picture through studies of the emerging genre of the history of idolatry. This article, however, looks at another new but overlooked genre in the seventeenth century: the religious catalogue. It does so through an examination of the most popular compendium of th…
William Falconer’s Remarks on the Influence of Climate (1781) and the study of religion in Enlightenment England
This study argues that the English-born, Edinburgh-educated and Bath-based physician William Falconer (1744–1824) authored the only stadial history published during the British Enlightenment that analysed the influence of socio-economic context upon religious belief. A survey of the conjectural histories of religion written by the leading literati demonstrates that discussion of religion by the Scottish literati was undertaken separate from the “…
Visibly Trans
What happens when medieval depictions of gender-crossing saints get refracted through a transgender prism? Focusing on objects and artifacts associated with St. Eugenia of Rome, this article considers the extent to which medieval artists confronted the genderqueer potential of Eugenia's legend. Often the saint was overtly feminized, patently obscuring her road to sanctity as a gender crosser. But sometimes the crossing itself was rendered at leas…
Positive images: Gay men and HIV/Aids in the culture of ‘post-crisis’
The years immediately following 1996, when the standardized implementation of antiretroviral therapy as responsive AIDS treatment took place across the developed Global North, have thus far been ch
Defining Man as Animal Religiosum in English Religious Writing ca. 1650–ca. 1700
This article surveys the emergence and usage of the redefinition of man not as animal rationale (rational animal) but as animal religiosum (religious animal) by numerous English theologians between 1650 and 1700. Across the continuum of English Protestant thought, human nature was being redescribed as unique due to its religious, not primarily its rational, capabilities. This article charts said appearance as a contribution to debates over man's …
James Beattie, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the character of Common Sense philosophy
Professor of Moral Philosophy at Marischal College, Aberdeen, James Beattie (1735–1803) was one of the most prominent literary figures of late eighteenth-century Britain. His major works, An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth (1770) and the two-canto poem The Minstrel (1771–1774), were two of the best-sellers of the Scottish Enlightenment and were key to Beattie’s role in the emergence of both the ‘Scottish School’ of Common Sense Phil…
Seen from Behind: Perspectives on the Male Body and Renaissance Art
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
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