THE ALTAR PULPIT IN ESTONIAN CHURCH INTERIORS

The Altar Machine in the Church Mother of Gangi (Palermo, Italy). Interpretation of the past uses, scientific investigation and preservation challenge

BACKGROUND The aim of this work was to study the Altar Machine in the Church Mother of Gangi, a little town near Palermo (Italy) regarding the history, the technical manufacture, the constitutive materials and the state of preservation.The Altar Machine was dated back to the second half of the 18th century; it is constituted by carved and painted wood, a complex system of winch and pulleys allo...

Radicals in the church.

The Church and healing, (Studies in Church History, No. 19)

W. J. SHEILS (editor), The Church and healing, (Studies in Church History, No. 19), Oxford, Basil Blackwell for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1982, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 440, £19.50. This collection of essays represents a thoughtful, stimulating, and generally successful cooperative attempt by medical and ecclesiastical historians to study an important topic, the relationship between the Christi...

Altar and Table: A phenomenology of the surgeon-priest

I will never forget the first night I stood alone beside the operating table as the only surgeon in the room. I was beginning my fourth year of residency. Two patients from the same car wreck arrived simultaneously. Both were unstable. Both required urgent laparotomy. The sickest patient went to OR 9 with the attending surgeon. The other patient went with me to OR 6. The preliminaries were the ...

Foot Isochrony in Estonian

The duration of Estonian disyllabic feet varies relatively little with the three degrees of quantity. This is due to the duration distribution between the syllables: the first syllable increases with the degree of quantity and the second decreases. The amount of isochrony varies with speaking style: in conversational speech, foot duration is more dependent on the degree of quantity than in list...