MARRIAGE, MONEY AND DIVORCE IN MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC SOCIETY

Medieval marriage and superstitions.

Marriage and Divorce

The Report of the Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce (Comd. 9678, March 1956) is a document whose importance is not only to be measured by its size-?344 pages of lucid text and 51 pages of interesting appendices. To us in the Mental Health field it is also a valuable index of the distance travelled by responsible people outside our own ranks towards the incorporation of socio-psychologica...

Dietetics in medieval Islamic culture.

The origins of dietetics understood as "the systematic control of food and drink in order to conserve health or combat disease"1 may be traced back to the Hippocratic Corpus, written chiefly between 430 and 330 BC. In Tradition in medicine the author argues that in the beginning man must have eaten the same food as the animals, that is, the produce of the earth, fruits, vegetables and grass. Th...

Life, marriage and death in a medieval parish. Economy, society and demography in Halesowen 1270–1400

for discussion. This was clearly part of a more widespread reaction against these unorthodox practitioners who, as trained doctors, could not be dismissed easily as quacks. Homoeopathy was outlawed by the Liverpool profession in the face of considerable lay support manifest through the homoeopathic dispensaries and hospital. In the account of the Institution in the later nineteenth and twentiet...

CORBA & DSA: Divorce or Marriage?

This paper presents a comparison between CORBA and the Ada 95 Distributed Systems Annex. We also focus on the latest developments made by the ENST research team to GLADE that are related to CORBA services.1