Enacting the Bible in Medieval and Early Modern Drama

Working With English: Medieval and Modern Language, Literature and Drama

Science, optics and music in medieval and early modern thought

A. C. CROMBIE, Science, optics and music in medieval and early modern thought, London and Ronceverte, Hambledon Press, 1990, pp. xxii, 474, illus., £37.50 (0-907628-79-6). This is a collected volume of essays written over the last forty years by Alistair Crombie, whose major achievement lies in establishing the history of science as a legitimate and viable discipline on British soil. It is Crom...

Medieval and Early Modern Coinage and Its Problems*

This paper describes the chaotic monetary environment of medieval and early modern Europe. The poor quality of the coinage was a result both of problems with the supply of bullion and with deficiencies of monetary policy. The paper examines the supply and demand of bullion and the determinants of bullion flows. It then discusses the economics and politics of debasement. It concludes with a desc...

Genealogical Relationships between Early Medieval and Modern Inhabitants of Piedmont

In the period between 400 to 800 AD, also known as the period of the Barbarian invasions, intense migration is documented in the historical record of Europe. However, little is known about the demographic impact of these historical movements, potentially ranging from negligible to substantial. As a pilot study in a broader project on Medieval Europe, we sampled 102 specimens from 5 burial sites...

cancer terminologies used in the medieval texts to the early modern iranian traditional medicine (itm)

a large number of people are affected by cancer and the primeval history of this malady has attracted attention toward complementary and alternative therapies to manage this disease. the present study has performed a survey on cancer in the iranian traditional medicine during the islamic era (itm) by focusing on cancer terminologies and related diseases over a millennium, from medieval to the e...