Ross Swanson

Biographic Data

ID9615422
NAMERoss Swanson
GIVEN NAMESRoss
FAMILY NAMESwanson
SIGNATURESWANSON R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Birmingham
ORCID0000-0002-7144-7307
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR18
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Remembering the Empire

    Open AccessRoss Swanson, Nae Hanashiro ÁvilaARTICLERevista Canadiense de Estudios…2024

    This article analyzes the Spanish film 1898: Los últimos de Filipinas (2016) by director Salvador Calvo, a dramatization of an episode of the Spanish-American War. Several critics have read the film as a nuanced and anti-patriotic adaptation of this historical event, in contrast to the Francoist propaganda film Los últimos de Filipinas (1945) by Antonio Román. Drawing on the term “imperial amnesia”, we argue that the film patriotically highlights…

  • Archive and Authenticity

    Open AccessRoss SwansonARTICLEBulletin of Hispanic Studies2022

    The film El abrazo de la serpiente (2015) by Colombian director Ciro Guerra has been praised for its decolonial and ecological aesthetics. In this article I problematize these readings by arguing that the film, through its references to the archive of Amazonian photography and writing, works to satisfy touristic desires for contact with an ‘authentic’ Other, expressed most clearly in the indigenous shaman character, Karamakate. The film’s tourist…

  • A Companion to Medieval Rules and Customaries

    R N Swanson, Ross SwansonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2022

  • El discurso nacionalista mexicano en el cómic Águila Solitaria de Víctor Fox

    R N Swanson, Ross SwansonARTICLEStudies in Latin American Popular…2017

    This article examines how the Mexican comic Águila Solitaria, published in the second half of the 1970s and throughout the 1980s, incorporates themes related to the Mexican postrevolutionary nationalist discourse (especially as presented in the works of José Vasconcelos and Manuel Gamio) to avoid censorship related to the representation of sex and violence and, at the same time, to achieve economic success. This is done first and foremost through…

  • The Civic Cycles

    R N Swanson, Ross SwansonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2017

  • Religion, Power, and Resistance from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Centuries

    R N Swanson, Ross SwansonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2015

  • Catholic England

    R N Swanson, Ross SwansonBOOKCatholic England2013

    Using original source material, This book seeks to explore the nature of religious belief and practice in pre-Reformation England. For most people in England the main access to the Bible, and indeed to instruction in the faith, would be through hearing priests from their pulpits. The book demonstrates with immediacy and potency the diverse expressions of faith and observance. It discusses the varieties of spirituality in later medieval England an…

  • Marriage on Trial

    R N Swanson, Ross SwansonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2013

  • A Companion to Bernard of Clairvaux. Companions to the Christian Tradition

    R N Swanson, Ross SwansonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2012

  • Stephen Langton

    R N Swanson, Ross SwansonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2011

  • The Limburg Sermons

    R N Swanson, Ross SwansonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2010

  • Poverty's Proprietors

    R N Swanson, Ross SwansonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2010

  • The Other Friars

    R N Swanson, Ross SwansonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2008

    In 1274 the Council of Lyons decreed the end of various 'new orders' of Mendicants which had emerged during the great push for evangelism and poverty in the thirteenth-century Latin Church. The Franciscans and Dominicans were explicitly excluded, while the Carmelites and Austin friars were allowed a stay of execution. These last two were eventually able to acquire approval, but other smaller groups, in particular the Friars of the Sack and Pied F…

  • Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London

    R N Swanson, Ross SwansonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2008

  • "Considerans fragilitatem humanae naturae…"

    R N Swanson, Ross SwansonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2007

  • Religious Identities in Henry VIII's England

    R N Swanson, Ross SwansonARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2007

  • Before the Protestant Clergy

    Open AccessR N Swanson, Ross SwansonCHAPTERProtestant Clergy of Early Modern…2003

    The Reformation signals a crux in the history of the western clergy. As medieval Catholicism dissolved, confessionalization generated new ministries, and a major shift in appreciations produced new conceptions of clerical roles and functions. The clergy, both Catholic and Protestant, became more professional and self-consciously elite cadres.1 KeywordsPastoral CareThirteenth CenturyCatholic PriesthoodCanonical CodeCatholic ClergyThese keywords we…

  • Indulgences at Norwich cathedral priory in the later middle ages

    Open AccessR N Swanson, Ross SwansonARTICLEHistorical Research2003

    Indulgences were a vital element in late medieval English religion, but evidence of their attractiveness is limited. Material from the sacrists' rolls of Norwich cathedral priory offers information to cast light on their local appeal, changing over time yet open to manipulation and exploitation. Records of offerings at shrines and images within the cathedral also provide comparative figures to set the scale of indulgence receipts in perspective