The martyrdom of Saint Sebastian

Saint Sebastian and the Black Death.

The martyrdom of Saint Sebastian is one of the most enduring themes in Western religious art. The execution scene so often portrayed - with the Saint transfixed with arrows - is based on the legend about his life and death during the reign of the Roman emperor, Diocletian. However, it is the symbolic association of arrows with the Black Death - during the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance ...

Martyrs, Martyrdom, and the Comedia

Sebastian

The work with Sebastian has centered around an attempt to correlate certain factors of efficiency in adolescence and an analysis of increased Binet I. Q. with increased physical fitness. Sebastian comes of American stock of average social status. His parents are of average mentality. There is no history of specific disease, but for some ten years the family finances have been at a very low leve...

Hoffman, Sebastian

meaning. The first OEC entry for this item, “Þhan may Þe saules in purgatory, By way of grace specialy, be delivered of pyn” (67) dates from 1340. Not until the eighteenth century are found such uses as, “I ... left the city by way of the Bowery” (OED, 1787, 69), in which the meaning is concrete, as a ‘path’ or ‘route’. This item demonstrates how the corpus approach in this study make possible ...

Bachelor / Master Thesis Topics Supervisor : Sebastian Dorok sebastian

In life sciences, scientists collect increasing amounts of data that must be stored, integrated, processed, and analyzed efficiently to make effective use of them. Thereby, not only the huge volume of available data raises challenges regarding storage space and analysis throughput, but also data quality issues, different data formats, and compliance issues such as data provenance make it hard t...