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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
wiley   +1 more source

Quantification of the early small-scale fishery in the north-eastern Baltic Sea in the late 17th century. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2013
Verliin A, Ojaveer H, Kaju K, Tammiksaar E.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Text as tape: On the voice in the late prose of Friederike Mayröcker

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract For a text to have a voice means to be caught in a paradox: the text obviously does not speak, so what is that tone rising from the pages? Taking hold of a striking ambivalence, this essay examines the relationship between text and voice in the late prose of Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker.
Astrid Elander
wiley   +1 more source

Case report: Floating-clavicle from the 17th century: the oldest case? [PDF]

Clin Orthop Relat Res, 2012
Liria J, Carrascal S, Fernández-Fairén M, Malgosa A, Isidro A.   +4 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

Correction: Integrated multidisciplinary analysis of mobile digital radiographic acquisitions of the mummies of the Hermits from the Sanctuary of Madonna della Corona (Italy - 17th to 19th Century CE). [PDF]

Front Med (Lausanne)
Larentis O, Gorini I, Campus M, Lorenzetti M, Mansueto G, Bortolotto S, Zappa E, Gregorini A, Rampazzi L, Vanin S, Carta G, Carli A, Simonaitis L, De Luca L, Tonina E.   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Suárez on the Contingency of Causal Origin

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Do individuals have their actual causal origins necessarily? Or could one and the same individual also have had a causal origin other than its actual one? Late medieval and early modern Aristotelians confront this question in the course of their discussions of the metaphysics of causation. In this paper, I discuss and evaluate Francisco Suárez'
Han Thomas Adriaenssen
wiley   +1 more source

Movement beyond data: epistemic and pictorial challenges in understanding moving life. [PDF]

Front Bioinform
Wellmann J.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Test of Time: Art Encyclopedias and the Formation of the Canon of 17Th-Century Painters in the Low Countries

, 2013
F. Vermeylen, Maarten F. Van Dijck, Veerle de Laet   +2 more
semanticscholar   +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