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James Louis Smith deposited Imaginary Worlds: Plural Seas, Liminal Foundations, Contested Identities in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoA Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age, ed. by Elizabeth Lambourn.
The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European sources, this innovative volume pushes out beyond this European heartland to explore the shape and potential of a cultural…[Read more]
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Nelson Goering deposited Old Mercian: From Beowulf to Tolkien’s Rohan in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoAn overview of the dialect of Old English used by Tolkien to represent the language of Rohan. I argue that Tolkien chose the dialect represented by the early glossaries in Old Mercian, especially the eighth-century Corpus Glossary, as representatives of the kind of Old English he thought Beowulf was originally composed in.
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Ian Willis deposited Community Workers – Colin and Dorothy Clark in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis paper contributes to the history of small communities in Australia by examining the life and times of a local pharmacist and his wife in a small country town, the business they ran and their contribution to the local community. Colin and Dorothy Clark were local identities and made a significant contribution to the Camden community. Colin as…[Read more]
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Elisabeth Moreau deposited Simple and Compound Drugs in Late Renaissance Medicine: The Pharmacology of Andrea Cesalpino (1593) in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoFrom antiquity, Galenic physicians extensively discussed the active powers of simple and compound drugs. In their views, simple drugs, that is, single ingredients, acted according to their material qualities and the properties of their substance. As for compound drugs, their efficacy resulted from the mutual interaction of their ingredients and…[Read more]
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Monica H. Green deposited ‘Cliff Notes’ on the Circulation of the Gynecological Texts of Soranus and Muscio in the Middle Ages in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoBeyond the texts on women’s medicine associated with the name of a 12th-century female medical practitioner from Salerno named Trota (or the title, “Trotula”), the most widely circulated texts were those deriving from the ancient Greek *Gynecology* of Soranus (2nd century CE). In particular, the Latin translation/adaptation by Muscio (or Mustio),…[Read more]
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Monica H. Green deposited Assessment of the Dating Claims of Keller et al. 2023 in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThis document lays out a series of points in regard to a recently posted pre-print on the history of plague in late medieval and early modern Europe: Marcel Keller et al., “A Refined Phylochronology of the Second Plague Pandemic in Western Eurasia.” I am a historian of medicine and I am presenting these as historical questions. I have written it…[Read more]
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Thijs Porck deposited “Runenoefeningen. De Oudgermanistiek in Leidse kinderschoenen in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThijs Porck, “Runenoefeningen. De Oudgermanistiek in Leidse kinderschoenen”, in Tot publijcque dienst der studie: Boeken uit de Bibliotheca Thysiana, ed. Wim van Anrooij & Paul Hoftijzer (Hilversum: Verloren, 2023), 118-119
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Thijs Porck deposited “Runenoefeningen. De Oudgermanistiek in Leidse kinderschoenen in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThijs Porck, “Runenoefeningen. De Oudgermanistiek in Leidse kinderschoenen”, in Tot publijcque dienst der studie: Boeken uit de Bibliotheca Thysiana, ed. Wim van Anrooij & Paul Hoftijzer (Hilversum: Verloren, 2023), 118-119
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Thijs Porck deposited “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899) in the group
Old English / Early Medieval England on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThijs Porck, “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899)”, in Language Use, Usage Guides, and Linguistic Norms, ed. Luisella Caon, Marion Elenbaas & Janet Grijzenhout (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 107-129.
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Thijs Porck deposited “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899) in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThijs Porck, “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899)”, in Language Use, Usage Guides, and Linguistic Norms, ed. Luisella Caon, Marion Elenbaas & Janet Grijzenhout (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 107-129.
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Medkänsla vs extrem individualism av Dawkins själviska genfel-falsk premiss “gen själviskhet kommer vanligtvis att ge upphov till själviskhet i individuellt beteende = “begränsad form av altruism” vs 7 argument som backas upp av studier:- Sprecher-Fehr sp in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDawkins felslutning – vederläggning av att “egoism” är den vanliga normen och att det bara finns “begränsade former av altruism” Till att börja med vill jag betona att “även bakterier är mer reproduktivt framgångsrika i närvaro av andra av sin egen art.” Jag menar att bakterier har anslutningsmöjligheter för guds skull!
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Vitus Angermeier deposited Epidemic Prevention. Precursors of Public Health in Early Āyurveda? in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoĀyurveda, the predominant medical system in pre-modern South Asia, is by definition a very individualistic tradition of healing, discerning and treating the patients under special consideration of their personal constitution, diet, physical strength, habituation, character and age. Furthermore, the āyurvedic source texts show a strong commitment t…[Read more]
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Sara Margaret Butler deposited “Even a Compensation Culture has its Limits: Arbitrating Homicide in Fifteenth-Century England.” in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoHistorians have long argued that arbitration was the preferred means of
resolution for most disputes in later medieval England; but does this apply
also to the settlement of homicides? Despite the strenuous efforts of the
English legal system after the Norman Conquest to force homicides through
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Propaganda ideológica pro-Trastámara en el «Cancionero de Baena» in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDe entre las muchas y generosas lecciones que el maestro don Julio Valdeón ha brindado al medievalismo hispánico destacaremos aquella que fundamentará las páginas siguientes: la importancia de la propaganda ideológica favorable a la dinastía Trastámara durante la guerra civil castellana entre los años 1366 y 1371. Este conflicto fratric…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Juan Álvarez Gato en la villa y corte literaria del Madrid tardomedieval in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAún en la actualidad, cinco siglos más tarde de que fuese escrito, todavía impresiona la honrada confesión con la que Juan Álvarez Gato cerraba su cancionero particular, rematando los folios en los que había recopilado todo su acervo lírico con una singular confidencia poética. A través de ella, el hombre maduro y el poeta veterano renegaba…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Francisco Hernández Coronel, poeta converso del «Cancionero general» in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoQuizá Don Eloy sea bastante ajeno a la admiración que despertaba entre los jóvenes estudiantes, allá por los años finales de la pasada centuria, uno de sus trabajos menores, entendiendo ‘menor’ no por lo que se refiere a su valía (que en absoluto es nimia), sino sólo para separarlo, en cuanto a extensión y objetivos, de su scripta maiora. Nos…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Una posible corte literaria del siglo XV: la de Beltrán de la Cueva, Duque de Alburquerque in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEn uno de sus breves pero densos artículos, donde su siempre certera pluma se afilaba hasta el punto de transformarse con harta frecuencia en daga hiriente, Miguel de Unamuno realizaba una ácida declaración en contra de lo que él denominaba como «la plaga del literatismo», centrando sus críticas en las reuniones de literatos, bien fuese median…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Las rúbricas cancioneriles y la identificación de poetas de los siglos XV y XVI in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEl estudio de las rúbricas de los cancioneros ha sido uno de los campos más fructíferos en los últimos años de la investigación sobre lírica cancioneril medieval y renacentista, de suerte que, en la actualidad, contamos con una amplia lista de trabajos destinados a este elemento paratextual, destacando de forma en especial su importancia para e…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited El «Sumario del despensero» y la imagen de la política de Fernando I de Aragón con respecto a judíos y judeoconversos in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEl origen de este trabajo comenzó con el examen, para el proyecto de investigación PhiloBiblon–BETA (Bibliografía Española de Textos Antiguos) , de las diversas fuentes manuscritas que conforman una pequeña crónica conocida con el nombre de Sumario del despensero de la reina Leonor (BETA texid 2851). Desde la ya muy lejana edición de Llaguno…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Algunos documentos nuevos sobre Leonor López de Córdoba in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDe entre la escasa producción literaria medieval emanada de la pluma de mujeres hispánicas destacan sobremanera las comúnmente llamadas Memorias de Leonor López de Córdoba, un texto que está considerado como las primeras memorias autobiográficas de la literatura española. Por si esto fuera poco signo de la entidad con que el relato cuenta…[Read more]
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