Sophia — Divine Wisdom, and justice in seventeenth-century Russia

Donne, disease and doctors. Medical allusions in the works of the seventeenth-century poet and divine.

IN his poem 'Whispers of Immortality' Mr. T. S. Eliot places John Donne in the same category as the dramatist John Webster as a man who was 'much possessed by death and saw the skull beneath the skin'. Superficially, the preoccupation with death ofboth authors suggests a common depressive disposition. Nevertheless, Donne wears his rue with a difference, and the melancholy he exhibits is as char...

Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Russia

This is a fascinating, highly readable, and well-illustrated tome that looks at Muscovite maps created in the seventeenth century as a still poorly exploited source that can inform our understanding of the politics and culture of the time. The book comprises two distinct parts. Chapters 1–4 focus on spatiality in the heartland, scrutinizing local maps drawn to substantiate and defend positions ...

The Production and Consumption of Medical Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Russia: The Apothecary Chancery

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Syphilis in seventeenth century Lancashire.

Medicine in seventeenth century England

ALLEN G. DEBUS (editor), Medicine in seventeenth century England, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xiii, 485, illus., £8.50. Reviewed by Kenneth Dewhurst, D.Phil., M.Litt., F.R.C.Psych., The Manor House, Sandford-onThames, Oxford 0X4 4YN. A symposium has some merits but more disadvantages, and this collection of papers in honour of the late C. D. ...