Steadfast Saints or Malleable Models? Seventeenth-Century Irish Hagiography Revisited

John Punch, Scotist Holy War, and the Irish Catholic Revolutionary Tradition in the Seventeenth Century.

During the 1640s, the Irish Franciscan theologian John Punch taught his theology students in Rome that war against Protestants was made just by their religion alone. Jesuits like Luis de Molina identified the holy war tradition in which Punch stood as a Scotist one, and insisted that the Scotists had confused the natural and supernatural spheres. Among Irishmen, Punch was unusual. The main Iris...

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. ...

Completely Non-malleable Encryption Revisited

Several security notions for public-key encryption schemes have been proposed so far, in particular considering the powerful adversary that can play a so called “man-in-the-middle” attack. In this paper we extend the notion of completely non-malleable encryption introduced in [Fischlin, ICALP 05]. This notion immunizes a scheme from adversaries that can generate related ciphertexts under new pu...

Saviors as saints or sinners?

Advances in medical science are frequently characterized by two related phenomena. First, they create the opportunity for individuals to make choices previously unavailable and thereby pose new moral questions that challenge both our moral intuitions and social institutions. Second, innovation in healthcare unfolds, both in the sense that its utilization spreads geographically but also that it ...