Luther and the Turks

Bad for Business: Luther Against the Papacy

This paper analyzes Martin Luther’s criticism of increasingly corrupt church practices, including, the papacy’s granting of indulgences, the promotion of pilgrimage, the preservation and exploitation of relics, the cult of saints, and the belief in saintly intercession. I will examine how Luther’s critiques of these practices were expressed in the religious propaganda that circulated during thi...

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The “Bun-Turks” in Ancient Georgia

Turkic languages are an integral part of the linguistic landscape of present-day Caucasia, both north and south of the mountain ridge. Different from the so-called “autochthonous” Caucasian languages, i.e. the languages pertaining to the Kartvelian (South-Caucasian), (North-)West Caucasian and (North-East) Caucasian families, both the southern (Oghuz) and the northern (Qypchaq) idioms of Turkic...

Hemoglobin S in Eti-Turks and the Allewits in Lebanon.

I ‘ ‘ HAS been known for sonic tulle that the Eti-Turks pOSSCSS tile iligheSt incidence of sickling in the white race.’ Several previous papers have diScussed the characteristics of these people and have described the incidence of abnormal genes responsible for thalassemia and abnormal hemoglohins.25 It was also pointed out in some of these i tpers that tile Eti-Turks and the Allewits of Syria ...

Clarence Luther Herrick on the Organization of the Motor Cortex

INTRODUCTION In 1889-90 the young energetic chairman of the Biology Department at the University of Cincinnati was facing a dilemma. He was already recognized nationally for his research in geology (about 24 papers in this area since 1877) and had, in 1885, established a scientific journal that was rapidly gaining an international reputation. However, his new line of scientific endeavor, that b...