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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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Corps et représentation de soi dans les Lettres de Pline le Jeune
Cahiers Mondes Anciens, 2022 Michel Foucault’s work made Pliny’s correspondence one of the turning issues towards the so-called self-care, initiated at the beginning of the second century BC. This paper proposes an analysis of the corporal constructions in Pliny’s correspondence via
Kévin Blary
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Evidence, hints and assumptions for late pregnancy in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Acta Paediatrica, Volume 112, Issue 7, Page 1371-1377, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Ancient women, who survived childhood mortality, received good and adequate nutrition, did not work hard and escaped death during childbirth could live fairly long lives. Girls started procreation after marriage, usually at 15 years, had on average seven children, childbearing lasted 14–21 or more years and could happen at the age of 35 or ...
Ariadne Malamitsi‐Puchner +1 more
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Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Viscum album
Journal of Ecology, Volume 111, Issue 3, Page 701-739, March 2023., 2023 Mistletoe is a charismatic parasite of tree crowns with a long history of folklore and connections with Christmas celebrations. This, and its need for light, helps explain why it is most common in human‐made habitats across Europe. Once thought to benignly take just water and nutrients from its host it is now known to take carbon as well which can lead
Peter A. Thomas +5 more
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Syllabic quantity patterns as rhythmic features for Latin authorship attribution
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 74, Issue 1, Page 128-141, January 2023., 2023 Abstract It is well known that, within the Latin production of written text, peculiar metric schemes were followed not only in poetic compositions, but also in many prose works. Such metric patterns were based on so‐called syllabic quantity, that is, on the length of the involved syllables, and there is substantial evidence suggesting that certain ...
Silvia Corbara +2 more
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Trajan and the revolt of Antonius Saturninus
RUDN Journal of World History, 2021 The article points out that the starting positions of the young native of the Spanish city of Italica were provided by his father, a prominent follower of the Flavian dynasty, who became a consul, a patrician and, yes, was awarded a rare and prestigious ...
Victor Nikolaevich Parfyonov
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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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Acque reflue e rischio ambientale: inquinamento fluviale nella Roma imperiale
Erga-Logoi, 2021 The paper intends to examine a specific area of research concerning the pollution of large rivers – the Tiber above all but not exclusively – and the resulting contamination of water and air as well as the depletion of fish fauna and related food risks ...
Gaetano Arena
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Food Frontiers, Volume 2, Issue 4, Page 449-485, December 2021., 2021 An overview of licorice application and its health benefits Abstract Since the beginning, human beings have consistently been using plants and their components for the prevention and treatment of various ailments. However, in the last few decades, plant‐based medicines and health supplements are gaining more acceptability and rapid popularity. Licorice
Islam Husain +3 more
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Pliniu cel Tânăr și împăratul Traian [PDF]
Revista de Istorie și Teorie Literară, 2020 In his discourse uttered with the occasion of assuming the function of consul, Pliny the Younger did not spare praise of Trajan. His encomium depicts Trajan as an ideal princeps, his virtues being contrasted with the defects of Domitian, perceived as a ...
Alexandra Ciocârlie
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