Conversion, Family, and Authority in Seventeenth-Century Saumur

Medicines and the Mediation of Authority: Blacks and Mulattos in Seventeenth- Century New Spain

Medicines and the Mediation of Authority: Blacks and Mulattos in SeventeenthCentury New Spain Joan Bristol George Mason University Paper presented to WASHLA, November 8-9, 2002 THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. PLEASE DO NOT CIRCULATE OR CITE WITHOUT AUTHOR’S PERMISSION. In 1618 a Spanish man named Esteban Dominguez denounced a mulatto woman named Ana de Pinto at the court of the Inquisition in Mexic...

Syphilis in seventeenth century Lancashire.

Medicine in seventeenth century England

ALLEN G. DEBUS (editor), Medicine in seventeenth century England, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xiii, 485, illus., £8.50. Reviewed by Kenneth Dewhurst, D.Phil., M.Litt., F.R.C.Psych., The Manor House, Sandford-onThames, Oxford 0X4 4YN. A symposium has some merits but more disadvantages, and this collection of papers in honour of the late C. D. ...

European science in the seventeenth century

Dr. Knight has written an excellent book that will prove invaluable as an introductory explanation of science for a wide audience, but especially for the younger person entering this discipline. It will also be a useful text for those interested in the history of science and medicine. It is very well written and does not demand of the reader much previous knowledge of science. It richly deserve...

The Role of Language in Accusations of Witchcraft in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain

Linguistic factors played a significant role in the origin and spread of accusations of witchcraft in Early Modern Spain. The preoccupation with witches’ words is at its root a preoccupation about the power of speech and, to a great extent, of female speech. Studies in some Early European countries have connected aggressive female speech styles with accusations of witchcraft, and this article o...