Damian Shaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 4592712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Damian Shaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Damian |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaw |
| SIGNATURE | SHAW D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Macau |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4162-1079 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Devil’s Advocates
Johan Zopf and Christian van Dalen's 1733 treatise on the vampiric events at Medvedia is one of the most theologically thorough and doctrinally censorious explications of the phenomenon. It has been cited (by Montague Summers and Nick Groom) as an example of a supernaturalist explanation. Certainly, unlike the medical scholars Nikolaus Boye (1732), Nils Retzius (1736), and the theological scholars Stock and Nobling (1732), these two proposed that…
Marlowe’s “Faustus”, the Horse-Courser, and Werewolves
The story of the Horse-Courser’s encounter with Doctor Faustus in Marlowe’s The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus resists easy interpretation.1 This article will explore the
Lutherans and vampires, medicine and faith
One of the earliest refutations of the Visum et Repertum (1732) by Johann Flückinger was from Johann Wilhelm Nöbling, a young student of philosophy and theology at the University of Jena, who attacked the findings from a position of scientific scepticism enshrouded with Lutheran theology in his thesis Concerning the Blood-Sucking Corpses of those so-called Vampires or People-Suckers. While he is best remembered for first proposing the incubus or …
The vampire hypothesis’
The following article consists of an introduction by the first author, an annotated translation by the second, and then an analysis by the first, of the earliest known Scandinavian response to the Vampire phenomenon of Medvedia in 1732 by Nicolaus Boye, a state-employed physician residing in Stockholm. The translation shows that Boye’s own article, which constitutes a complete refutation of Johann Flückinger’s claims, was meticulously organised, …
Slaying vampires in eighteenth-century Sweden
In this article, the first author provides a summary and translation from the Latin of an important early medical lecture on vampires by Nils Retzius. The lecture was delivered in Sweden, at Lund University, in 1737, and was published almost immediately thereafter. This important text has been overlooked by modern scholars of vampires. This article will bring the lecture back into circulation in its first English translation. The second author th…
Suetonius, Paracelsus and the Flimsy Foundations of Physiognomy
Suetonius, Paracelsus and the Flimsy Foundations of Physiognomy." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 34(3), pp. 182–183
A Question of Innocence
Daphnis and Chloe is a Greek bucolic romance, set in Lesbos, written in the second century of the Christian era by Longus. In this famous story the naive pair fall in love, but are initially sexual
Were it worth knowing’
This essay accepts that discourses (in the Foucauldian sense) shape what we know and can know about the world, but this process is extraordinarily complex. The 1840s can be viewed as a time of particularly significant ideological shifts in imperial and colonial attitudes towards China. Critics have often highlighted a transition in colonial representations of China from Romantic ‘Orientalism’, which tends to exoticise alterity as distant or alien…
Harriett Low
The article introduces the Journal of Harriett Low, a substantial section of which was written in the Cape from 12 January 1834 to 4 May 1834. A brief summary of the Journal's main preoccupations is given, and then Low's presentation of Cape fauna and flora and landscape, the Cape Dutch, and slavery, is considered in greater detail. Low's identity as a young American woman who had spent several years in Macao (China) offers a fresh perspective on…
Thomas Pringle's Plantation
Thomas Pringle (1789-1834) was perhaps the most famous of the British settlers who landed at the Cape in 1820. He exerted an enormous influence on subsequent poetic and literary representations of Southern Africa. In this article, I investigate how Pringle's early experience as a settler moulded his attitude to the Cape landscape, and how he represented this in his early poetry. In this early poetry we see the germ of various attitudes towards th…
Gallegos
Todo verdor perecera
Ganivet's Espana filosofica contemporanea and the Interpretation of the Generation of 1898
A Reply to Deshumanizacion, Baroja on the Art of the Novel
Slaying vampires in eighteenth-century Sweden
In this article, the first author provides a summary and translation from the Latin of an important early medical lecture on vampires by Nils Retzius. The lecture was delivered in Sweden, at Lund University, in 1737, and was published almost immediately thereafter. This important text has been overlooked by modern scholars of vampires. This article will bring the lecture back into circulation in its first English translation. The second author th…
The vampire hypothesis’
The following article consists of an introduction by the first author, an annotated translation by the second, and then an analysis by the first, of the earliest known Scandinavian response to the Vampire phenomenon of Medvedia in 1732 by Nicolaus Boye, a state-employed physician residing in Stockholm. The translation shows that Boye’s own article, which constitutes a complete refutation of Johann Flückinger’s claims, was meticulously organised, …
A Question of Innocence
Daphnis and Chloe is a Greek bucolic romance, set in Lesbos, written in the second century of the Christian era by Longus. In this famous story the naive pair fall in love, but are initially sexual
A Reply to Deshumanizacion, Baroja on the Art of the Novel
Ganivet's Espana filosofica contemporanea and the Interpretation of the Generation of 1898
Todo verdor perecera
Gallegos
Thomas Pringle's Plantation
Thomas Pringle (1789-1834) was perhaps the most famous of the British settlers who landed at the Cape in 1820. He exerted an enormous influence on subsequent poetic and literary representations of Southern Africa. In this article, I investigate how Pringle's early experience as a settler moulded his attitude to the Cape landscape, and how he represented this in his early poetry. In this early poetry we see the germ of various attitudes towards th…
Were it worth knowing’
This essay accepts that discourses (in the Foucauldian sense) shape what we know and can know about the world, but this process is extraordinarily complex. The 1840s can be viewed as a time of particularly significant ideological shifts in imperial and colonial attitudes towards China. Critics have often highlighted a transition in colonial representations of China from Romantic ‘Orientalism’, which tends to exoticise alterity as distant or alien…
Harriett Low
The article introduces the Journal of Harriett Low, a substantial section of which was written in the Cape from 12 January 1834 to 4 May 1834. A brief summary of the Journal's main preoccupations is given, and then Low's presentation of Cape fauna and flora and landscape, the Cape Dutch, and slavery, is considered in greater detail. Low's identity as a young American woman who had spent several years in Macao (China) offers a fresh perspective on…
A Question of Innocence
Daphnis and Chloe is a Greek bucolic romance, set in Lesbos, written in the second century of the Christian era by Longus. In this famous story the naive pair fall in love, but are initially sexual
Suetonius, Paracelsus and the Flimsy Foundations of Physiognomy
Suetonius, Paracelsus and the Flimsy Foundations of Physiognomy." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 34(3), pp. 182–183
Slaying vampires in eighteenth-century Sweden
In this article, the first author provides a summary and translation from the Latin of an important early medical lecture on vampires by Nils Retzius. The lecture was delivered in Sweden, at Lund University, in 1737, and was published almost immediately thereafter. This important text has been overlooked by modern scholars of vampires. This article will bring the lecture back into circulation in its first English translation. The second author th…
The vampire hypothesis’
The following article consists of an introduction by the first author, an annotated translation by the second, and then an analysis by the first, of the earliest known Scandinavian response to the Vampire phenomenon of Medvedia in 1732 by Nicolaus Boye, a state-employed physician residing in Stockholm. The translation shows that Boye’s own article, which constitutes a complete refutation of Johann Flückinger’s claims, was meticulously organised, …
Lutherans and vampires, medicine and faith
One of the earliest refutations of the Visum et Repertum (1732) by Johann Flückinger was from Johann Wilhelm Nöbling, a young student of philosophy and theology at the University of Jena, who attacked the findings from a position of scientific scepticism enshrouded with Lutheran theology in his thesis Concerning the Blood-Sucking Corpses of those so-called Vampires or People-Suckers. While he is best remembered for first proposing the incubus or …
The Devil’s Advocates
Johan Zopf and Christian van Dalen's 1733 treatise on the vampiric events at Medvedia is one of the most theologically thorough and doctrinally censorious explications of the phenomenon. It has been cited (by Montague Summers and Nick Groom) as an example of a supernaturalist explanation. Certainly, unlike the medical scholars Nikolaus Boye (1732), Nils Retzius (1736), and the theological scholars Stock and Nobling (1732), these two proposed that…
Marlowe’s “Faustus”, the Horse-Courser, and Werewolves
The story of the Horse-Courser’s encounter with Doctor Faustus in Marlowe’s The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus resists easy interpretation.1 This article will explore the
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