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Attitudes to Pregnancy, Childbirth and Postnatal Complications in Medieval English Miracula

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 543-560, July 2025.
Abstract This article re‐examines the evidence about childbirth and related topics in the posthumous miracle collections of English saints. It finds forty‐eight such miracles in collections of thirteen English saints, mostly from the century or so after 1170. The article argues that the context in which the stories were composed is vitally important to
Ben Nilson, Ruth Frost
wiley   +1 more source

Giovan Battista Codronchi’s De morbis Veneficis ac Veneficiis (1595). Medicine, Exorcism and Inquisition in Counter-Reformation Italy

open access: yesReligions, 2019
The physician Giovan Battista Codronchi (1547−1628) is a key figure of sixteenth-century medicine. A study of his main work De morbis veneficis ac veneficiis (1595) and his letters sent to the Congregation of the Index in Rome (1597) can teach us ...
Fabiana Ambrosi
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The Unsuccessful Inquisition in Tudor England

open access: yes, 2014
The Spanish Inquisition was tasked with finding heretics and either returning them to their faith or punishing them for their unfaithfulness. This institution lasted for hundreds of years and prosecuted thousands of cases across the Iberian Peninsula ...
Dell, Sarah J.
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The Use of Large Language Models and Their Association With Enhanced Impact in Biomedical Research and Beyond

open access: yesMedComm – Future Medicine, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2025.
This study analyzed articles from arXiv, bioRxiv, and medRxiv published between 2022 and 2024, using a novel tool for detecting LLM usage. We found that (1) LLMs have been widely adopted since late 2022, and (2) their usage appears to enhance the impact of research papers.
Huzi Cheng   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Judeo-Conversos en la audiencia del Nuevo Reino de Granada. Siglos XVI y XVII.

open access: yesHistoria Crítica, 2002
A large number of Portuguese “New Christians” (Jewish converts to Catholicism) constituted one of the most important components of the white population of the Indies during the 16th and 17th centuries.
Maria Cristina Navarrete.
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Auto-da-fe in Lwów in 1728 : the Jan Filipowicz trial and Jewish re-conversion to Judaism in the early modern Poland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article discusses the question of neophytes’ return to Judaism, especially the case of Jan Filipowicz, who was condemned to death for this crime in 1728 in Lwów.
Kaźmierczyk, Adam
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Gender, Feeling and the Making of Korean Christian Knowledge in Sengoku Japan*

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 141-156, June 2025.
This essay explores the production of Korean Christian knowledge in Sengoku Japan by analysing narratives about a vision said to have been experienced by an evangelised Korean woman, which circulated within Jesuit correspondence from Japan and in subsequent publications.
Susan Broomhall
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of the Catholic Church in Establishing the Portuguese Colonial Empire in India in the first half of the 16th century

open access: yesRUDN Journal of World History, 2012
The article deals with the role of the Catholic Church in the context of Portuguese colonial policy in India and describes the methods of Christianizing the local population. The problem of interaction between the Hindu and Christian religious systems is
O Leonidovna Solodkova
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Le diable à Cîteaux : le procès pour sorcellerie de Regnault Robergeot (1480-1481)

open access: yesCriminocorpus
This article analyzes the witchcraft trial of Regnault Robergeot, prosecuted between December 1480 and January 1481 by the secular justice of Cîteaux Abbey in Corcelles-lès-Cîteaux. The edited document, preserved at the Departmental Archives of Côte-d’Or
Maxime Gelly-Perbellini
doaj   +1 more source

Forenames and Surnames in Spain in 2004 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper quantifies the corpus of forenames and surnames in Spain in 2004 using the telephone directory. It describes their frequency patterns, major measurable characteristics, and gives some geographical distributions, international comparisons, and ...
Mateos, P, Tucker, DK
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