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Human Placenta in Premodern Europe-a Cultural and Pharmaceutical Agent. [PDF]

open access: yesBer Wiss
Abstract This paper was prompted by some striking similarities between both the ritual and the medical use of placenta in Ming China and in premodern Europe. Contrary to most accounts, which focus either on the rise of chemiatric medicine or on the growing interest in “exotic” substances, the seventeenth century in Europe also reveals a revived ...
Wahrig B.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Brief von Wilhelm Grimm an Jacob Rinald

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BRIEF VON WILHELM GRIMM AN JACOB RINALD Brief von Wilhelm Grimm an Jacob Rinald ( -
Grimm, Wilhelm, Rinald, Jacob
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Julie von Bechtolsheim, a Political Life: Women's Work and Governance in the Age of Revolution

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 475-498, December 2023., 2023
Abstract This article understands how women and girls in the Grand Duchy of Saxe‐Weimar‐Eisenach negotiated core issues in the Age of Revolutions: early industrialization and political representation. The baroness Julie von Bechtolsheim (1751–1847) leveraged war, widowhood, courtly connections, and poetry to pursue a public ‘career’ as First Principal ...
Patrick Anthony
wiley   +1 more source

James Cowles Prichard and the Linguistic Foundations of Ethnology**

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 76-91, March 2023., 2023
Abstract This article examines the English scholar James Cowles Prichard's attention to language and comparative philology within his wider project on the natural history of man. It reveals that linguistic evidence was among the most important elements for Prichard in his overarching scientific aim of investigating human physical diversity, and served ...
Ian Stewart
wiley   +1 more source

Language as a Specimen

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 92-113, March 2023., 2023
Abstract Language was never studied by linguists (or philologists) alone. The greater part of the languages of the world was first known in the West through the reports of missionaries, explorers, and colonial administrators, and what they documented reflected their specific interests.
Floris Solleveld
wiley   +1 more source

Brief von Jacob Grimm an Wilhelm Grimm

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BRIEF VON JACOB GRIMM AN WILHELM GRIMM Brief von Jacob Grimm an Wilhelm Grimm ( -
Grimm, Jacob, Grimm, Wilhelm
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‘ES IST EINE DESOLATE IDEE, GENIE WERDEN ZU WOLLEN’: ZUM BÖRSENWERT DES BEGRIFFS GENIE BEI NESTROY

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 365-377, July 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT In his farces, Johann Nepomuk Nestroy seizes on prevailing stereotypes of genius, treating the concept with an irony that contributed to its critical revision in his day. Drawing on the theories of Michail Bachtin, the article examines how genius – as a term and as a series of (con)figurations – features in Nestroy's works, differentiating ...
Arno Dusini
wiley   +1 more source

‘SCHÖNE JUGENDLICHE MÄDCHENKÖPFE’: GENDER AND ‘GENIE’ IN LOU ANDREAS‐SALOMÉ’S MENSCHENKINDER

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 448-464, July 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT In her essay ‘Der Mensch als Weib’ (1899) Lou Andreas‐Salomé compares women to trees: both produce their ‘fruit’ unintentionally. This comparison seems to allow very little scope for active female creativity, let alone ingenuity. Closer inspection, however, reveals a more differentiated view of questions of gender and creativity.
Marlen Mairhofer
wiley   +1 more source

SARS‐CoV‐2 infection and venous thromboembolism after surgery: an international prospective cohort study

open access: yesAnaesthesia, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 28-39, January 2022., 2022
Summary SARS‐CoV‐2 has been associated with an increased rate of venous thromboembolism in critically ill patients. Since surgical patients are already at higher risk of venous thromboembolism than general populations, this study aimed to determine if patients with peri‐operative or prior SARS‐CoV‐2 were at further increased risk of venous ...
COVIDSurg Collaborative   +16163 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hänsel e Gretel: fiaba per adulti e genitori

open access: yesStudi sulla Formazione, 2019
Taking back to the cultural context of the German Neuhumanismus the work realized by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the search and arrangement of fairy tales coming from the tradition of Germanic popular poetry, the article focuses in particular
Paolo Levrero
doaj   +1 more source

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