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Heresy and Liminality in Shingon Buddhism: Deciphering a 15th Century Treatise on Right and Wrong

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Traditional historiography of Japanese Buddhism presents the Muromachi period as an era of triumph for Zen, and of decline for the previous near-hegemony of Esoteric Buddhism. However, for the Shingon school, the period from the late Middle Ages to early
Gaétan Rappo
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The concept of leadership and constitution of a country from the Islamic and Malay archipelago perspectives according to Taj Al Salatin manuscript [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The concept of leadership has been present eversince the dawn of time, with scholars steering broad studies from various directions and viewpoints, which were then formed into literary works. In the Malay Archipelago, Taj al-Salatin manuscript (1603M) is
Abdul Rahim, Mohd Hisyam   +3 more
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Data Mining a Medieval Medical Text Reveals Patterns in Ingredient Choice That Reflect Biological Activity against Infectious Agents

open access: yesmBio, 2020
The pharmacopeia used by physicians and laypeople in medieval Europe has largely been dismissed as placebo or superstition. While we now recognize that some of the materia medica used by medieval physicians could have had useful biological properties ...
Erin Connelly   +2 more
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Cultural Syncretism and Interpicturality: The Iconography of Throne Benches in Medieval Icelandic Book Painting

open access: yesOpen Cultural Studies, 2023
In relation to the major topic of the present volume, this article is intended to provide new methodological and iconographic insights into the cultural adaptation and integration of European iconographic motifs in the medieval western Scandinavian arts ...
Drechsler Stefan
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How Many Glyphs and How Many Scribes? Digital Paleography and the Voynich Manuscript

open access: yesManuscript Studies, 2020
:It can be safely claimed that there is no medieval script that has been seen, analyzed, and debated more than that of the mysterious and as-yet-unread Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS 408).
L. Davis
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Scribal networks: Visualizing twelfth-century Cistercian book production through network analysis

open access: yesJournal of Historical Network Research, 2023
This paper tests the application of network analysis to the visualization and analysis of paleographical data. In recent years, the twelfth-century scriptoria of the Austrian Cistercian monasteries of Heiligenkreuz, Zwettl and Baumgartenberg have been ...
Katharina Kaska
doaj   +1 more source

Investigation on the collation of the first Fight book (Leeds, Royal Armouries, Ms I.33)

open access: yesActa Periodica Duellatorum, 2016
This paper investigates the collation of the first Fight Book, the Leeds, Royal Armouries, Ms I.33. It critically reviews previous hypotheses about the composition of the quires and the identification of the material lacuna, and proposes a new hypothesis.
Binard Fanny, Jaquet Daniel
doaj   +1 more source

Parallel Glosses, Shared Glosses, and Gloss Clustering: Can Network-Based Approach Help Us to Understand Organic Corpora of Glosses?

open access: yesJournal of Historical Network Research, 2023
Glossing was an important element of medieval Western manuscript culture. Yet, glosses are notoriously difficult to analyze because of their philological triviality, fluid nature, heterogeneity of origin, complex transmission histories, and anonymity ...
Evina Stein
doaj   +1 more source

Treatment for depression following mild traumatic brain injury in adults: A meta-analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Primary objective: Development of depression after TBI is linked to poorer outcomes. The aim of this manuscript is to review evidence for the effectiveness of current treatments.
Barker-Collo, Suzanne   +2 more
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Case notes and clinicians : Galen's commentary on the Hippocratic epidemics in the Arabic tradition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Galen’s Commentaries on the Hippocratic Epidemics constitute one of the most detailed studies of Hippocratic medicine from Antiquity. The Arabic translation of the Commentaries by Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (d. c. 873) is of crucial importance because it preserves
Pormann, Peter E.
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