Glazed sgraffito ware from Torre Alemanna (Foggia, fifteenth to sixteenth century A.D.): technological aspects of a local production

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

A medico-legal report of the Sixteenth Century from Malta.

THE MANUSCRIPT Among the manuscripts bearing mainly on Maltese ecclesiastical affairs, preserved in the archives of the Cathedral at Mdina, one occasionally comes across documents containing material of interest to the medical historian. One such manuscript of the mid-sixteenth century deals with the procedure for the annulment of marriage on medical grounds. The manuscript consists of four fol...

Technological Aspects of Olive Oil Production

Virgin olive oil (VOO) is obtained exclusively by mechanical extraction from the olive fruit and can be consumed crude without any further physical-chemical treatments of refining. Its sensory and health properties are intimately linked to its chemical characteristics, in particular to several minor components, which are strongly affected by the operative conditions of oil processing and can th...

Felix Platter: a sixteenth-century medical student.

Mythologies of Witchcraft in the Fifteenth Century