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Differences in Textile Metal Threads in Croatia Through the Centuries. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Šimić K, Martinčić O, Doračić D, Pušić T.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Occasion and audience as poetic constructs in early modern occasional poetry

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Occasional poetry, composed for specific events such as weddings or funerals, was a dominant form of poetry in early modern Europe. Despite its historical prominence, the role of the occasion as a literary and rhetorical construct in occasional poetry has been very little studied.
Eeva‐Liisa Bastman
wiley   +1 more source

Genotyping Yersinia pestis in Historical Plague: Evidence for Long-Term Persistence of Y. pestis in Europe from the 14th to the 17th Century. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2016
Seifert L, Wiechmann I, Harbeck M, Thomas A, Grupe G, Projahn M, Scholz HC, Riehm JM.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Who is the Gael who Would Not Weep?’: The Book of the O’Conor Don, Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird, and Late Bardic Poetry of Exile

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how late bardic poetry transforms the condition of exile into a literary mode that reimagines community and tradition. I argue that poetry of lament, blessing and devotion articulates a broader literary consciousness that anticipates modern notions of a national consciousness. The compilation of bardic verse in manuscript
Daniel T. McClurkin
wiley   +1 more source

Discovery of taeniid eggs from a 17th century tomb in Korea. [PDF]

Korean J Parasitol, 2011
Lee HJ, Shin DH, Seo M.
europepmc   +1 more source

A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

Francesco Torti (1658-1741) and his description on the therapeutic use of quinine: the first effective method of treating malaria based on an extract of the bark of the Peruvian cinchona tree. [PDF]

Malariaworld J
Artico M, Costi R, Gazzaniga V, Iorio S, Pastore FS, Cofone L.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Grocery Retail Location Patterns in Brno: Clustering, Inequality and Street Network Centrality

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract This study aims to evaluate the spatial distribution and clustering patterns of grocery retail chains in Brno, Czech Republic, focusing on national and multinational stores. By employing Geographic Information Systems and advanced spatial analysis techniques, including the nearest neighbour method, standard deviational ellipse, Kernel density ...
Josef Kunc, František Križan, Markéta Novotná, Ján Výbošťok, Klára Charvátová, Kristína Bilková   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enema fumosum: the contribution of the North American first nations to drowning resuscitation - A historical review. [PDF]

Resusc Plus
Brandt L, Artmeier-Brandt U, Brandt KL.
europepmc   +1 more source

17^th Century Variola Virus Reveals the Recent History of Smallpox. [PDF]

Curr Biol, 2016
Duggan AT, Perdomo MF, Piombino-Mascali D, Marciniak S, Poinar D, Emery MV, Buchmann JP, Duchêne S, Jankauskas R, Humphreys M, Golding GB, Southon J, Devault A, Rouillard JM, Sahl JW, Dutour O, Hedman K, Sajantila A, Smith GL, Holmes EC, Poinar HN.   +20 more
europepmc   +1 more source