John Watts, The Making of Polities (Europe, 1300-1500)

john steinbeck: friend of the american common man

in his last years of life americans had almost forgotton steinbeck, and those who had not, occasionally criticized him for supporting and praising the u. s. military intervention in the vietnam war. althought ateinbeck incorporates different themes into his works, each one bears many signs of his concern and sympathy for america and the american common people in particular. steinbecks to a god ...

Gay sex crimes in Europe 1500-1790.

Received 9 August 2012 Accepted 9 August 2012 Terminology The sexual behaviour of people has always been of interest to others throughout history and many forms of sexual activity have been the subject of control by the established church or state. What is interesting though is the response at different times to the same sex act, which can range from a public round of applause to the death sent...

Medicine at the courts of Europe, 1500–1837

suggestion, appropriately in the year of the bicentenary of the French Revolution, that unrest among peasants, triggered by symptoms of ergot poisoning, contributed to the events leading up to that revolution. This engaging theory is supported by a great many "puzzling facts", "clues" which purport to show that "in the summer of 1789 many French citizens may have suffered from ergot poisoning" ...

A history of the university in Europe. Volume II: Universities in early modern Europe (1500–1800)

Lloyd asks who claimed to possess specialist knowledge of the body, and what it was used for. In both cultures the body was seen as a symbol of order. In Chinese medicine there was a greater interest in the social hierarchy of organs, but also the free flow of qi was seen as essential for health. Analogies between body and state were used to show that political health depended on the ruler's vi...

European witch trials. Their foundations in popular and learned culture, 1300–1500