AbstractAfter the city of Antioch was captured by crusaders in 1098 Bohemond ofTarentum declared himself Prince Antioch. In summer 1099 he bythe Danishmendids and remained a prisoner for four years. During his absence Antiochwas ruled nephew Tancred. 1104 left Holy Land neverreturned. Until death 1111 titled succeededby infant son, also called Bohemond. Tancred (1104–12) successor Roger(1112–19...

Abstract The article explores the uses in anti-discrimination law of social neuroscience—a broad interdisciplinary field that draws on insights brain science, medicine, epidemiology, psychology, behavioral economics, moral cognitive neuroscience and many other experimentally based disciplines. It discusses promising findings from all these subfields such matters as irrational biases “fast” thin...

By studying extensive and rapid changes in acculturation between Jew, Islamic,Christian societies of western eastern Mediterranean,Ibn Khaldun succeeded to presenting a secular model for justify behavior states, individuals tight conflict power circulation open Mediterranean societies, which has existed several centuries since his time. It is important human sciences it based on the natural nec...

A major change occurred in the dangers attributed to marihuana use in the mid-1960s in the United States: What had once been regarded as a "Killer Weed" became seen as a "Drop-out Drug." Lost amid the loud debates over the legality and morality of marihuana use, this change has rarely been noticed or studied; nonetheless, it is important, for it involves a major shift in how the public discussi...

its methodology (no grappling here with Foucault or the social construction ofdisease) and none the worse for that. Its chronological span is complete (chapter I is entitled 'Les Buveurs Antiques'), and though the focus becomes increasingly medical as we approach the present, the attitudes of preachers, moralists, and governments are not neglected. For the Anglo-Saxon reader, it is particularly...

AT THE end of the eleventh century a spate of intellectual activity in all fields, usually known as the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, began in Western Europe. Medical knowledge, consequently, made considerable advances with the rediscovery, mainly from Arabic sources, of Ancient Greek medical texts and with the translation of the works of skilled Arabic doctors who practised according to Greek p...

of Israel. Transjordan lost the 'trans' when it gained the West Bank from former parts of Palestine. Once more confined to the further shores of the river, Jordanians live more in hope than expectation of regaining their lost territory. The Allenby Bridge faint echoes of the Raj has become a difficult frontier for anyone to cross, especially Palestinians; yet cross it they must if they wish to ...

We never know self-realisation. We are two abysses – a well staring at the sky. Utrecht) is gratefully acknowledged. The Trimbos Institute and the Department of Clinical Psychology of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam are acknowledged, with many thanks, for granting the author sabbatical leave. The Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam is acknowledged for kindly giving permission to make us...