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Although many of Spain's earliest poetic texts give expression to a female voice, 1 it is not until the fifteenth century that Spain's first female authors are documented.2 It is perhaps for this reason that gender-conscious studies of medieval Spain have been so scarce in relation to those concerning other parts of Europe. Researchers with a feminist perspective have had to limit their investi...

Article History The paper received on: 01/01/2015 Accepted after peerreview on: 21/02/2015 Published on: 07/03/2015 Translation has a crucial role in human life. Despite the importance of the influence of ideology in translation, there is lack of research in this area. This study tries to investigate the influence of ideology on translations from English into Persian. The corpus consists of “A ...

1. Research Center for Traditional Medicine and History of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 2. Essence of Parsiyan Wisdom Institute, Traditional Medicine and Medicinal Plant Incubator, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 3. Student Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 4. Research Office for the History of Persian Me...

BACKGROUND Vertigo Symptom Scale (VSS) is a proper instrument for assessing the patient status, clarifying the symptoms, and examining the relative impact of the vertigo and anxiety on reported handicap. Our aim is the translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the VSS into Persian language (VSS-P) and investigating its validity and reliability in patients with peripheral vestibular disorders...

Was the Christian encounter with Jewish society in medieval Europe defined by the emergence of a “persecuting mentality,” in which Jews and other subalterns were subjected to an aggressive policy of social and political exclusion, as framed by Robert Moore in his seminal book, The Formation of a Persecuting Society? 1 Should the Jewish experience in medieval Christian Europe be viewed as a “lac...