Voices in Medieval History Writing

Epistolary Documents in High-Medieval History- Writing

Writing History in the Anthropocene

At an international scientific meeting held in 2000, the NobelPrize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen became increasingly frustrated by the repeated use of the term “Holocene” to describe the earth’s most recent geological epoch. “After the term Holocene was mentioned yet again,” one observer recounts, Crutzen became “visibly agitated” and then “interrupted” the session. “‘Stop using the...

, " Writing Tibetan History : The

Introduction In his 1971 Journal of Asian Studies article, "Serfdom and Mobility: An Examination of the Institution of 'Human Lease' in Traditional Tibetan Society," Melvyn Goldstein proclaims, "Tibet was characterized by a form of institutionalized inequality that can be called pervasive serfdom," and thereby launched his narrative of serfdom. In this chapter I will deconstruct Goldstein's nar...

The voices of neurosurgeons: doctors' non-medical writing.

Biomedical publishing is an integral part of medicine--both to those who produce it and those who consume it to improve the care of their patients. Non-medical writing by surgeons usually takes the form of creative non-fiction, generally reflective essays on moving and emotionally charged situations such as working in the trenches in war-time or in natural disasters, or dealing with individual ...

A liquid history Blood and animation in late medieval art

In 1276 Giles of Rome compared sperm’s effect on menstrual blood to the work of an artist carving idols from wood.2 His modification of a famous argument by Plato, later taken up by Aristotle, is highly original and points to an important junction of theories about human procreation and theories of artistic creation. Aristotle drew analogies between divine, natural, and artisanal creation with ...