islamic golden age, 9-12 century ad, was the period through which persian scientists and physicians were most influential in improving medical sciences including cardiovascular knowledge. although post-islamic golden age witnessed a number of great persian scholars moving cardiovascular concepts forward, they failed to become as well known as their predecessors. one of these scholars was hakim ...

results bahaodowle razi, a persian physician from the 15th century anno domini (ad), reported two epidemics in harat and one in rey (inold persia) for the first time, one century before baillou. he named it as sorfe-ie-am (meaning public cough). those occurred during his lifetime. explaining about his observations and experiences about this epidemic, bahaodowle razi elaborated on prognosis, sym...

The catastrophic impact of fishing pressure on species such as cod and herring is well documented. However, the antiquity of their intensive exploitation has not been established. Systematic catch statistics are only available for ca.100 years, but large-scale fishing industries existed in medieval Europe and the expansion of cod fishing from the fourteenth century (first in Iceland, then in Ne...

Medieval manuscripts or other written documents from that period contain valuable information about people, religion, and politics of the medieval period, making the study of medieval documents a necessary pre-requisite to gaining in-depth knowledge of medieval history. Although tool-less study of such documents is possible and has been ongoing for centuries, much subtle information remains loc...

documentary, artistic, and ethnographic material, and the range of topics considered is as wide as the scope of the Maqa-mdt itself; urban, rural and nomadic life, women, religious practices and beliefs, politics and law, trade, education and literary life, medicine, music, slavery, and customs of hospitality. Of particular interest to medical historians is the account of cupping (pp. 108-13), ...

Most medieval scholarship arises from an encounter with the surviving texts of the Middle Ages and the documents which convey them. The use of computers to store and analyse these texts has a surprisingly long history. As early as 1949, when the computer was still in its infancy, Roberto Busa began developing an electronic concordance to the works of Thomas Aquinas the Index Thomisticus. Until ...

The project Script and Text in Time and Space will create a new foundation for working with medieval Danish texts by creating and deepening fundamental knowledge about the development of medieval script in Denmark as well as the dating and localization of relevant text bearing objects (manuscripts and other document types). The project is placed in the field of Digital Humanities, meaning that ...