Marco Leonardi, La medievistica «siciliana» e l’«età del vespro» (1250-1302). Fonti, ricostruzione storica, polemica storiografica). Catania: Algra Editore, 2020. 92 pp. ISBN: 978-88-9341-313-8

Evaluación del nivel de desarrollo de la e-Salud en Espana: Propuesta de Marco Teorico

Critical Play: Radical Game Design by Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 353 pp., ISBN 978-0-262-06268-8

THE PAST DECADE HAS SEEN A RAPID EXPANSION in the field of academic writing on the subject of computer and video games. The formerly marginalized field is now receiving its scholarly due as part of an increased focus on popular culture influenced by the development of Cultural Studies departments in universities. Early contributors to this scholarly field, such as Michel de Certeau and Dick Heb...

Sighard Neckel, Anna Katharina Schaffner, Greta Wagner (eds), Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Affliction (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. ix+316, £88/£70, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 978-3-319-52886-1 / 978-3-319-52887-8.

thinking about this material culture, we can shed light on the relationship of time to imperialism and the transmission of cartographic and ethnographic knowledge during the colonial period’ (p. 119). Her study exploits long-overlooked design features of these little dials. For instance, dials frequently included gazetteers, lists of places and their latitudes where the dials might be used. The...

435 pp., $109.00, ISBN 3-540-66986-8

The theory of profinite groups is flourishing! This is the first immediate observation from looking at the four books on the subject which have come out in the last two years. The subject, which only two decades ago was somewhat remote, has made its way to mainstream mathematics in several different ways. What is a profinite group? A profinite group G is a topological group which is Hausdorff, ...

Joël Coste, Les Ecrits de la souffrance: la consultation médicale en France, 1550-1825 (Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2014), pp. 272, €25, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-87673-973-4.

This book by Joël Coste tries to fill a gap in the medical historiography of Early Modern France. Indeed, studies specific to medical correspondence are extremely rare; it is what makes the book all the more invaluable. A specialist of the consilia, the epistolary consultations which date from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century, Professor Coste has produced a new, quality volume which wi...