One of the main arguments used to legitimise Christian military expansion in medieval Iberia was location origin Iberian kingdoms ancient Visigothic Kingdom Toledo (507–711), which established a notion political continuity between these entities. The legitimacy reflected polities that emerged out process expansion, enabling activity against Muslims be portrayed as restoration Gothic Spain. In p...

These are curious points. Rather than simply “widely held and false beliefs,” a myth, and more specifically, a political myth, can be understood as “an ideologically marked narrative which purports to give a true account of...political events and which is accepted as valid in its essentials by a social group.”2 Our use of the term “myth” was in this sense, an understanding that Ferraz seems to ...

How do people respond to different decision-making processes in high courts? One long-standing view suggests that citizens expect courts be neutral arbiters of legal controversies. Although the relevance such “myth legality” has been challenged, we know very little about relationship between portrayals motives and justices public attitudes civil law countries. We explore this question a pair ex...

Snow is not the first man to be honoured for valor-ous acts he never accomplished , nor is he the first to have honest, partially successful work transformed into a miraculous success. On the 200th anniversary of Snow's death it is time to acknowledge the glorious failure to accept that Snow's cholera studies were not good enough. The problem is not Snow, but the mythology that has grown around...

This study aims: Higher levels of gender-based rejection sensitivity would be related to higher tendencies to objectify women, i.e., with higher tendencies to perceive women as lacking of human mental states and uniquely human emotions. In turn, verifying whether such enhanced tendency to perceive women as objects would increase men’s tendencies to accept the myth rape acceptance. More specific...