Mark Knight
Biographic Data
| ID | 5636284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Knight |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Knight |
| SIGNATURE | KNIGHT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Roehampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3280-4858 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Legislating for human security
Conventional approaches to legislating to protect individual rights in Australia have utilised the language and discourse of international human rights law, attracting both support and criticism from key political actors and commentators. In South Australia, where no human rights legislation exists, past efforts to generate sustained public and political support for the enactment of international human rights principles into legislation have been…
Marilynne Robinson's Worldly Gospel
"In her five novels and many essays, Marilynne Robinson develops a distinctive Christian vision animated by a powerfully affirmative and sacramental attitude toward the physical world and everyday human life. An in-depth philosophical exploration of her work -- from Gilead to her extensive non-fiction writing -- Marilynne Robinson's Worldly Gospel reads the author's theology as articulating a compelling response to the claim that Christianity is …
Wells, Chesterton, and a Theology of Semi-detached Reading
This article engages with the work of John Plotz on our experience of being caught between two worlds as we read—a world of fiction that partially absorbs us, and the actual world, to which we remain attached. Noting the lack of attention Plotz pays to religion as he writes about semi-detachment, I respond by developing a theology of semidetached reading. To think through the contribution that theology offers, I turn to two works of fiction: H. G…
The Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement
Victorian Literature and the Variety of Religious Forms
Literary studies is not the only discipline to show a new enthusiasm for religion in the opening decades of the twenty-first century. When Stanley Fish suggested back in 2005 that religion might become the new theoretical center of gravity in the humanities, his declaration was cited frequently and may have proved a little too convenient for those, like myself, who wanted to see a major theoretical realignment in the humanities’ attitude to relig…
Early Neolithic Pits and Artefact Scatters at North Fen, Sutton Gault, Cambridgeshire
This paper presents the results of an excavation at North Fen, Sutton Gault, Cambridgeshire, which revealed evidence of Early Neolithic occupation comprising some 48 pits together with two in situ artefact scatters preserved within buried soil horizons. Largely as a result of the spatial separation between scatters and pit sites/clusters, it has been possible to identify a series of ‘sites’, which appear to represent temporally discrete episodes …
Religion and Education
Convinced that the lessons of Victorian religion are more positive and more varied than we sometimes think, this essay explores different ways in which Christianity in particular sought to educate people in the nineteenth century. In doing so, the essay questions some of the perspectives on religion passed down through the critical tradition, particularly the idea that a hermeneutics of suspicion should be our primary mode of interpretation. Whil…
Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy
Journal Article Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC, 1874–1908 Get access Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC, 1874–1908, by William Oddie, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, ix + 401 pp., £25.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-955165-1 Mark Knight Mark Knight 1Roehampton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 16, Issue 2,…
Refitting Etton
This paper considers the dynamics of deposition around and across the causewayed enclosure at Etton, Cambridgeshire. As a result of detailed re-analysis (particularly refitting) of the pottery and flint assemblages from the site, it proved possible to shed new light both on the temporality of occupation and the character of deposition there. Certain aspects of our work challenge previous interpretations of the site, and of causewayed enclosures i…
Figuring Out the Fascination
Over the last thirty years or so , sensation fiction has shaken off its scandalous roots to become a respectable area of academic study. The transformation began with the publication of Winifred Hughes's The Maniac in the Cellar (1980) and Patrick Brantlinger's “What Is ‘Sensational’ about the ‘Sensation Novel’?” (1982), and gathered pace in the 1980s and 90s through the contributions of Ann Cvetkovich, Pamela Gilbert, D. A. Miller, Lyn Pykett, a…
New media technology and policy in developing countries N. C. Lesame Pretoria
This book fills a much-noted gap in the literature available to students of technology and communications in Africa and the developing world. Communications technology is a relatively new field, and the literature is sparse, especially when it comes to issues in the developing world. New media technology and policy in developing countries (2005), edited by N. C. Lesame, with contributions from her and several other South African academics, covers…
The Haunted and the Haunters”
Total Archaeology’ and Model Landscapes
This paper presents the results of fieldwork and archive ‘excavation’ relating to the causewayed enclosure at Great Wilbraham near Cambridge. Initiated in 1975 by David Clarke and John Alexander, the project effectively ceased after one further season following Clarke's untimely death. Combining original data with new results from geophysical and environmental surveys, a reappraisal of the site and its landscape context is offered. ‘The archive p…
Pit Clusters and the Temporality of Occupation
This paper discusses 226 earlier Neolithic pits found at Kilverstone in Norfolk. In particular, it focuses on the dynamics involved in the site's creation, investigating what had happened to the material found in the pits prior to deposition, and exploring the material connections (refitting sherds and flints) across the site. As a result of these material insights, it proved possible to shed important light on the character of that place in part…
Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860
Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800–1860 AnnaJohnston Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003 xii + 262 pp. £ 45 (hb)
Guns, Camps and Cash
The process of disarmament, demobilization, reinsertion and reintegration (DDRR) of former combatants plays a critical role in transitions from war to peace. The success or failure of this endeavour directly affects the long-term peacebuilding prospects for any post-conflict society. The exploration of the closely interwoven relationship between peacebuilding and the DDRR process also provides a theoretical framework for this article, which aims …
Guns, Camps and Cash
The process of disarmament, demobilization, reinsertion and reintegration (DDRR) of former combatants plays a critical role in transitions from war to peace. The success or failure of this endeavour directly affects the long-term peacebuilding prospects for any post-conflict society. The exploration of the closely interwoven relationship between peacebuilding and the DDRR process also provides a theoretical framework for this article, which aims …
Pit Clusters and the Temporality of Occupation
This paper discusses 226 earlier Neolithic pits found at Kilverstone in Norfolk. In particular, it focuses on the dynamics involved in the site's creation, investigating what had happened to the material found in the pits prior to deposition, and exploring the material connections (refitting sherds and flints) across the site. As a result of these material insights, it proved possible to shed important light on the character of that place in part…
Refitting Etton
This paper considers the dynamics of deposition around and across the causewayed enclosure at Etton, Cambridgeshire. As a result of detailed re-analysis (particularly refitting) of the pottery and flint assemblages from the site, it proved possible to shed new light both on the temporality of occupation and the character of deposition there. Certain aspects of our work challenge previous interpretations of the site, and of causewayed enclosures i…
Total Archaeology’ and Model Landscapes
This paper presents the results of fieldwork and archive ‘excavation’ relating to the causewayed enclosure at Great Wilbraham near Cambridge. Initiated in 1975 by David Clarke and John Alexander, the project effectively ceased after one further season following Clarke's untimely death. Combining original data with new results from geophysical and environmental surveys, a reappraisal of the site and its landscape context is offered. ‘The archive p…
Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860
Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800–1860 AnnaJohnston Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003 xii + 262 pp. £ 45 (hb)
The Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement
Figuring Out the Fascination
Over the last thirty years or so , sensation fiction has shaken off its scandalous roots to become a respectable area of academic study. The transformation began with the publication of Winifred Hughes's The Maniac in the Cellar (1980) and Patrick Brantlinger's “What Is ‘Sensational’ about the ‘Sensation Novel’?” (1982), and gathered pace in the 1980s and 90s through the contributions of Ann Cvetkovich, Pamela Gilbert, D. A. Miller, Lyn Pykett, a…
Victorian Literature and the Variety of Religious Forms
Literary studies is not the only discipline to show a new enthusiasm for religion in the opening decades of the twenty-first century. When Stanley Fish suggested back in 2005 that religion might become the new theoretical center of gravity in the humanities, his declaration was cited frequently and may have proved a little too convenient for those, like myself, who wanted to see a major theoretical realignment in the humanities’ attitude to relig…
Early Neolithic Pits and Artefact Scatters at North Fen, Sutton Gault, Cambridgeshire
This paper presents the results of an excavation at North Fen, Sutton Gault, Cambridgeshire, which revealed evidence of Early Neolithic occupation comprising some 48 pits together with two in situ artefact scatters preserved within buried soil horizons. Largely as a result of the spatial separation between scatters and pit sites/clusters, it has been possible to identify a series of ‘sites’, which appear to represent temporally discrete episodes …
Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860
Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800–1860 AnnaJohnston Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003 xii + 262 pp. £ 45 (hb)
Guns, Camps and Cash
The process of disarmament, demobilization, reinsertion and reintegration (DDRR) of former combatants plays a critical role in transitions from war to peace. The success or failure of this endeavour directly affects the long-term peacebuilding prospects for any post-conflict society. The exploration of the closely interwoven relationship between peacebuilding and the DDRR process also provides a theoretical framework for this article, which aims …
Pit Clusters and the Temporality of Occupation
This paper discusses 226 earlier Neolithic pits found at Kilverstone in Norfolk. In particular, it focuses on the dynamics involved in the site's creation, investigating what had happened to the material found in the pits prior to deposition, and exploring the material connections (refitting sherds and flints) across the site. As a result of these material insights, it proved possible to shed important light on the character of that place in part…
New media technology and policy in developing countries N. C. Lesame Pretoria
This book fills a much-noted gap in the literature available to students of technology and communications in Africa and the developing world. Communications technology is a relatively new field, and the literature is sparse, especially when it comes to issues in the developing world. New media technology and policy in developing countries (2005), edited by N. C. Lesame, with contributions from her and several other South African academics, covers…
The Haunted and the Haunters”
Total Archaeology’ and Model Landscapes
This paper presents the results of fieldwork and archive ‘excavation’ relating to the causewayed enclosure at Great Wilbraham near Cambridge. Initiated in 1975 by David Clarke and John Alexander, the project effectively ceased after one further season following Clarke's untimely death. Combining original data with new results from geophysical and environmental surveys, a reappraisal of the site and its landscape context is offered. ‘The archive p…
Figuring Out the Fascination
Over the last thirty years or so , sensation fiction has shaken off its scandalous roots to become a respectable area of academic study. The transformation began with the publication of Winifred Hughes's The Maniac in the Cellar (1980) and Patrick Brantlinger's “What Is ‘Sensational’ about the ‘Sensation Novel’?” (1982), and gathered pace in the 1980s and 90s through the contributions of Ann Cvetkovich, Pamela Gilbert, D. A. Miller, Lyn Pykett, a…
Refitting Etton
This paper considers the dynamics of deposition around and across the causewayed enclosure at Etton, Cambridgeshire. As a result of detailed re-analysis (particularly refitting) of the pottery and flint assemblages from the site, it proved possible to shed new light both on the temporality of occupation and the character of deposition there. Certain aspects of our work challenge previous interpretations of the site, and of causewayed enclosures i…
Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy
Journal Article Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC, 1874–1908 Get access Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC, 1874–1908, by William Oddie, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, ix + 401 pp., £25.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-955165-1 Mark Knight Mark Knight 1Roehampton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 16, Issue 2,…
Religion and Education
Convinced that the lessons of Victorian religion are more positive and more varied than we sometimes think, this essay explores different ways in which Christianity in particular sought to educate people in the nineteenth century. In doing so, the essay questions some of the perspectives on religion passed down through the critical tradition, particularly the idea that a hermeneutics of suspicion should be our primary mode of interpretation. Whil…
Early Neolithic Pits and Artefact Scatters at North Fen, Sutton Gault, Cambridgeshire
This paper presents the results of an excavation at North Fen, Sutton Gault, Cambridgeshire, which revealed evidence of Early Neolithic occupation comprising some 48 pits together with two in situ artefact scatters preserved within buried soil horizons. Largely as a result of the spatial separation between scatters and pit sites/clusters, it has been possible to identify a series of ‘sites’, which appear to represent temporally discrete episodes …
Victorian Literature and the Variety of Religious Forms
Literary studies is not the only discipline to show a new enthusiasm for religion in the opening decades of the twenty-first century. When Stanley Fish suggested back in 2005 that religion might become the new theoretical center of gravity in the humanities, his declaration was cited frequently and may have proved a little too convenient for those, like myself, who wanted to see a major theoretical realignment in the humanities’ attitude to relig…
The Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement
Wells, Chesterton, and a Theology of Semi-detached Reading
This article engages with the work of John Plotz on our experience of being caught between two worlds as we read—a world of fiction that partially absorbs us, and the actual world, to which we remain attached. Noting the lack of attention Plotz pays to religion as he writes about semi-detachment, I respond by developing a theology of semidetached reading. To think through the contribution that theology offers, I turn to two works of fiction: H. G…
Marilynne Robinson's Worldly Gospel
"In her five novels and many essays, Marilynne Robinson develops a distinctive Christian vision animated by a powerfully affirmative and sacramental attitude toward the physical world and everyday human life. An in-depth philosophical exploration of her work -- from Gilead to her extensive non-fiction writing -- Marilynne Robinson's Worldly Gospel reads the author's theology as articulating a compelling response to the claim that Christianity is …
Legislating for human security
Conventional approaches to legislating to protect individual rights in Australia have utilised the language and discourse of international human rights law, attracting both support and criticism from key political actors and commentators. In South Australia, where no human rights legislation exists, past efforts to generate sustained public and political support for the enactment of international human rights principles into legislation have been…
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