Kingship Ritual and Brahmin Priests:

Ascetic Priests and O'briens

Businessmen, Priests and Parishes

Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England

the field of medieval history has produced several hundred, if not thousands of volumes on kingship in the Middle Ages. Students of medieval studies are well acquainted with much of this literature, particularly that sparked by Ernst Kantorowicz' s historiographical game changer, The King's Two Bodies (1957). Katherine Lewis's innovative study of the monarchy and masculinity of Henry V (r.1413-...

Priests or engineers?

On 5 and 6 May the BMJ held a conference in Oxford to discuss the next 30 years. By invitation, five of the participants prepared working papers, which were circulated beforehand; we print these below, together with an edited version of the discussion. A sixth paper, also prepared for the conference by Professor Rudolf Klein, appears on p 73. The sessions were chaired by Professor Klein and mem...

Statistical Reanalysis of Jewish Priests’ and Non- Priests’ Haplotypes Using Exact Methods

Researchers in an article appearing in Nature used asymptotic (i.e., large sample) chi-square tests in analyzing haplotypes of Y chromosomes using the polymerase chain reaction applied to genomic DNA from male Israeli, North American, and British Jews. The use of classical methods for analyzing extremely sparse contingency tables is frequently done, but with the advent of statistical software c...