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Operational contemporary diagnostic reasoning. [PDF]
Mansur AJ.
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Appel : "Studies in Medievalism"
Studies in Medievalism, a peer-reviewed print and on-line publication, seeks 3,000-word essays on the application of ecotheory to medievalism and neomedievalism. To what degree do ecocriticism and ecomaterialism inform these fields? How are constructed
Anne Besson
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This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Medieval Medicine in Medieval Society
This issue focuses on the history of medieval medicine in Western and Latin Europe, but the ensemble may appear lacking on several topics. In fact, none of the authors directly addresses diseases and therapies, nor do they, in some way, center their studies on the medical thinking produced by the great authorities of the past.
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The Experimental Conception Hospital: Dating Pregnancy and the Gothic Imagination. [PDF]
Davis I.
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Arqueología medieval: hàbitats medievals
Àgira, topònim d’origen àrab documentat des del segle x corresponent a l’actual Algerri, dona ara nom a una col·lecció de Pagès Editors, coordinada científicament des del Grup de Recerca Consolidat en Estudis Medievals “Espai, Poder i Cultura”, de la Universitat de Lleida.
Sabaté, Flocel, Brufal Sucarrat, Jesús
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ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy
ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
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