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Human Placenta in Premodern Europe-a Cultural and Pharmaceutical Agent. [PDF]
Ber WissAbstract 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.
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The science of talismans today
History Compass, Volume 21, Issue 3-4, April 2023., 2023 Abstract The science of talismans was cultivated in Arabic, Greek, and Latin in the first millennium AD and entered European vernaculars in the seventeenth century. Its primary concern is the ability of images to produce effects in the world, even at a distance.
Benjamin Anderson
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A visual testament by Luca Riva, a deaf and mute pupil of the Procaccini
Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 222-251, April 2022., 2022 Abstract The paper investigates the visual testament by Luca Riva, a mute and deaf artist who studied in Milan under Camillo Procaccini. Dated 9 September 1624, the document consists of twelve folios bound together in a small volume. On the sheets, ten brown‐ink drawings illustrate the beneficiaries of Riva’s testament, identifying the inheritance ...
Angelo Lo Conte
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Truth as Conformation in Herbert of Cherbury
New Blackfriars, Volume 102, Issue 1102, Page 857-872, November 2021., 2021 Abstract Thomas Aquinas, like many other, but by no means all medieval theologians and philosophers, espoused a theory of truth by identity. Truth exists primarily in the mind, but insofar as it realises the truth of things, truth exists in things also.
Catherine Pickstock
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The Life and Works of Luca Pacioli (1446/7–1517), Humanist Educator
Abacus, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 126-152, March 2021., 2021 Accounting has few heroes, but one that most acknowledge as worthy of that accolade is Luca Pacioli, the man who published the first printed exposition of double entry bookkeeping in 1494. This was the publication that led to the development of the accounting systems we use today. However, if we consider our literature on Pacioli, it is found to be not
Alan Sangster
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The Solitary Mind in the Anatomy of Melancholy
, 2023 Critical Quarterly, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 5-24, July 2023.
Angus Gowland
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Medievalia, 2018 El objetivo principal de este artículo, es presentar la traducción del capítulo III del libro II de la Teología platónica de Marsilio Ficino, aportando algunas notas sobre la forma de escribir de Ficino, que pueden servir como una primera base para ...
Ernesto Priani Saisó +1 more
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Praxis Filosófica, 2019 El presente artículo tiene como objeto de estudio la interpretación que Marsilio Ficino ha propuesto del poema Donna me prega de Guido Cavalcanti.
Fabián Ludueña -Romandini
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BEYOND NARCISSISM: THE MULTI‐LAYERED NARCISSUS REFERENCE IN HERMANN HESSE'S NARZISS UND GOLDMUND*
German Life and Letters, Volume 73, Issue 2, Page 270-296, April 2020., 2020 Abstract Freud's theory of narcissism, developed in the 1910s and 1920s, can be seen as a radical break with the Narcissus tradition in that the myth of Narcissus is turned into a theory about man's psychosexual constitution. This prompts the question of whether, or to what extent, Freud's theory influenced subsequent literary treatments of the theme ...
Niclas Johansson
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TranScript, 2022 This paper analyses and publishes a diptych of texts on the origins of the Orsini family preserved in the manuscript Florence, BNC, II.VII.82. The texts are fully in line with the trend of ‘unbelievable genealogies’ developing in Italy during the 16th
Vaccaro, Giulio
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