Monica White, Military Saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200

Moral Monsters and Saints

This paper argues for the moral significance of the notion of an evil person or character. First, I argue that accounts of evil character ought to support a robust bad/evil distinction; yet existing theories cannot plausibly do so. Consequentialist and related theories also fail to account for some crucial properties of evil persons. Second, I sketch an intuitively plausible “affective-motivati...

Holistic Healing in Byzantium Epistemologies and Methodologies

The tradition of healing in Orthodox Christianity emphasizes the human being as a psychosomatic unity. In Western society, however, the practice of healing is often separated into disciplines that independently address the body, the mind, and the soul. Orthodox Christian physicians, psychologists, and religious leaders trained in Western institutions may therefore find a conflict between modern...

Theory for Searching in a Thesau- rus

In this article we present a framework based on Situation Theory which models the Query by Navigation process in a Hypertext environment. Descriptors in the Hyperindex are transformed to so-called infons. Documents in the Hyperbase are represented as situations, which can support infons. Similarly, search paths are modeled as a number of followed information links between the infons expressing ...

The saints of epilepsy.

E PILEPSY, at least in its grand mal variety, presents so dramatic and, to the lay observer, so terrifying a spectacle that it is not strange that its victims readily resorted to supernatural aid for alleviation. Unlike so many other diseases it offers no external signs of its presence and the horrifying suddenness with which apparently healthy and normal people could be transformed into writhi...

The saints among the Saints: a study of curanderismo in Utah.