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This article offers a preliminary comparison of the thoughts of Alfonso de Madrigal and Juan de Segovia, two important fifteenth-century Spanish academics and authors whom scholars have seen as ideological allies. It identifies several areas of interest common to both writers, and then focuses on their conciliarist views. It argues that while Madrigal and Segovia both asserted several conciliar “common places,” often in similar terms, their ecclesiological positions differed in significant ways. Madrigal’s “theoretical” conciliarism is contrasted with Segovia’s “engaged” conciliarism in order to illuminate the notable differences in their respective careers and influence. The article concludes with a call for closer comparative study of these two wide-ranging thinkers.

Hypocrisy is a recurring concern in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron, part of the wider dynamic of dissimulation, pretence, and exposure explored in the storytelling project. This article discusses the contexts in which hypocrisy is revealed and debated in the Heptaméron. While clerical and feminine hypocrisies are familiar from medieval discussions of lecherous friars and unchaste women, Marguerite de Navarre’s evangelical emphasis presents hypocrisy more generically as an inevitable consequence of the Fall. Beyond general statements about the human condition, there emerges a more nuanced condemnation of hypocrisy that acknowledges relative positions of power and exploitation.

New Orleans was one of the first cities in the USA to be severely affected by the COVID‑19 pandemic. This article draws on long-term ethnography and recent remote fieldwork to explore how new-wave carnival krewes in New Orleans responded to the pandemic. New-wave krewes are one of the kinds of social clubs that produce carnival each year. During the first four months of the pandemic, some of them undertook various kinds of projects within their membership and in the broader community. I propose that these projects have three overlapping dimensions: creativity, sociability, and solidarity. My argument is that because they are so enmeshed in the social fabric of New Orleans, new-wave carnival krewes provided a solid foundation for social initiatives that sought to alleviate the existential and material insecurity of the pandemic. I further argue that carnival has emerged as an important way for New Orleanians to make the imaginative connection between the personal and the social that is necessary for grasping the scope of COVID‑19. More broadly, I contribute to what Joel Robbins has called an “anthropology of the good” in social relations.

Keywords: COVID‑19, carnival, New Orleans, creativity, sociability, solidarity, digital ethnography, anthropology of the good, COVID-19, carnaval, Nouvelle-Orléans, créativité, sociabilité, solidarité, anthropologie du bien

This article makes a case for "event anthropology"in today's world. "Event" is distinguished from"happening" and the characteristics of the world inwhich anthropology is situated today are delineated; theessay then turns to illustrative case-histories in Norwayand Israel. These highlight the increasing frequency of"under"-understood events and associated senses ofpowerlessness on the one hand, and on the other, theplace of invention in the conditions of contemporarymodernity - not just in response to events but also intheir making. Attention is paid to the crumbling ofgroup solidarity as an anthropological axiom.

The objective of this article is to test the reciprocal effects of well-being at work and innovative performance of employees, and the mediating effect of psychological capital on these relationships. Based on a study conducted with 400 Full Professors and Assistant Professors from French universities, the results of the research reveal positive and significant reciprocal effects between well-being at work and innovative performance. Moreover, they show that psychological capital has a positive mediating effect on these relationships. A virtuous spiral, mediated by the psychological capital of individuals, seems to emerge between well-being at work and innovative performance.

Keywords: Bien-être au travail, performance innovante au travail, capital psychologique, management public, universités françaises, Psychological capital, well-being at work, innovative performance, public management, French universities, capital psicológico, bienestar en el trabajo, rendimiento innovador, gestión pública, universidades francesas

This paper presents a microhistorical account of the Ku Klux Klan and its leader, George Marshall, in the Bay of Quinte region in the 1920s. It argues that the Klan and its opponents engaged in a largely non-violent war of words reflecting two competing visions of Ontario's Britishness. The first being the Klan's narrowly defined model of citizenship—one that was racialized, exclusive, and based on the superiority of Anglo-Saxon Protestantism. The second stood in opposition to the Klan and was comprised a loosely organized network advocating the mending of racial divides, religious tolerance, and a more open society. The activities of the Klan, and even those purporting to represent it, included violence and intimidation directed against Jews and Asians, but the mainstay of their vitriol was directed against Roman Catholics. This paper will add greater depth to and challenge the assertion that Ontario's historical Britishness was monolithic; in fact it had multiple interrelated and competing strains providing the impetus for debates surrounding the province's evolving identity during the 1920s.