Monastic Women and Religious Orders in Late Medieval Bologna

Voting in the Medieval Papacy and Religious Orders

We take institutions seriously as both a rational response to dilemmas in which agents found themselves and a frame to which later rational agents adapted their behaviour in turn. Medieval corporate bodies knew that they needed choice procedures. Although the social choice advances of ancient Greece and Rome were not rediscovered until the high middle ages, the rational design of choice institu...

Signa mortifera: death and prognostication in early medieval monastic medicine.

Medieval monastic mortality: hazard analysis of mortality differences between monastic and nonmonastic cemeteries in England.

Scholarship on life in medieval European monasteries has revealed a variety of factors that potentially affected mortality in these communities. Though there is some evidence based on age-at-death distributions from England that monastic males lived longer than members of the general public, what is missing from the literature is an explicit examination of how the risks of mortality within medi...

Educational Needs of Women in Relation to Postpartum Religious Orders

INTRODUCTION Religious orders are one of the educational needs of the postpartum period. This study was conducted to determine the educational needs of postpartum religious orders. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted among 421 postpartum women and 15 specialists. Quota random sampling was conducted from January to March 2014 in Isfahan, Iran. Data analysis was perfo...

Diagnostics in late medieval sources.

In this paper I focus on the nature of diagnosis in the Czech written medical sources. In the first part, the character of medieval medicine is described. Further, I deal with contemporary definitions of disease and some important aspects of diagnostic; finally, I adduce the signs of diseases described in examined sources: primarily the manuscript texts created in the first half of the 15th cen...