Reconstructing a Ninth-Century Sacramentary-Lectionary from Saint-Victor

Rabelais and the Abbey of Saint-Victor Revisited

The seventh chapter of François Rabelais’s Pantagruel concludes with a list of books attributed to the Abbey of Saint-Victor. The chapter’s brief nar­ rative foregrounds the catalog by touching on aspects of intellectual life in Paris, mentioning both the “great University of Paris” and the “seven liberal arts.” It is not surprising, then, that critics have viewed the catalog as a broad critiqu...

Reconstructing early 17th century estuarine drought conditions from Jamestown oysters.

Oysters (Crassostrea virginica) were a central component of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem in 1607 when European settlers established Jamestown, VA, the first permanent English settlement in North America. These estuarine bivalves were an important food resource during the early years of the James Fort (Jamestown) settlement while the colonists were struggling to survive in the face of inadequate...

Victor Bonney: the gynaecological surgeon of the twentieth century

exercise in excessive regulation based on overly abstracted scientific norms. To counter this, Warren ends with a call for a reconstituted coalition of science and public activism. In this sense Brush with death participates in the history it chronicles: a book written with a rare combination of scholarly rigour and passionate public concern, it provides an intelligent and provocative platform ...

Vocabularies of Grief and Consolation in Ninth-Century Francia

The enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Domingue.

Enslaved healers including herbalists, kaperlatas, hospitalières, infirmières, and accoucheuses existed and flourished in the medical world of Saint Domingue. They were responsible for the creation of an indigenous form of medicine on the island. Using Western, African, and Caribbean remedies, they treated their fellow slaves and white residents of the island. Slaves were more comfortable and m...