Historians of medieval philosophy have always paid attention to the topic of intentionality. This is not surprising. For medieval authors, the analysis of the metaphysics and the mechanisms of human cognition became over time one of the most important instruments for approaching a bundle of basic philosophical and theological questions, such as the nature of universals, the mind-world relation,...

Yersinia pestis, the causative organism of the plague, has played an important role in shaping human history. Plague is an illness that may manifest in bubonic, pneumonic, or septicemic form. Natural outbreaks devastated entire populations in medieval times and an estimated 200 million humans were killed by plague throughout history. The organism can still be found today throughout the world, i...

A Monte Carlo inverse method has been used on the temperature profiles measured down through the Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP) borehole, at the summit of the Greenland Ice Sheet, and the Dye 3 borehole 865 kilometers farther south. The result is a 50, 000-year-long temperature history at GRIP and a 7000-year history at Dye 3. The Last Glacial Maximum, the Climatic Optimum, the Medieval Warm...

biological and cultural. She sees clearly how the medieval world has been used by later writers, from the Renaissance onwards, with their own agendas for reform and their own reasons for writing the medieval world in particular ways. Thanks to Green's work, the medieval medical world is a far more clear, but also more varied, landscape than it was before; medical, social, and gender historians ...

On 1 December 1989 Professor Michael W. Dols died in the United States after a long and difficult illness. With his passing, medical history lost one ofits foremost Arabist representatives. A native of Baltimore, Michael Dols received his BA in History from Trinity College (Hartford) in 1964 and an MA from the University of North Carolina in 1967. Drawn to the study ofthe Middle East at a time ...

St. Anselm of Canterbury’s place in both the history of philosophy and the history of theology is firmly recognized, but his place in the history of logic is often overlooked. We argue that this is primarily the result of four factors: (1) the primary propagator of Anselm’s logical works in the 20th century, D.P. Henry, used a system of logic unfamiliar and objectionable to most mainstream logi...

This article is devoted to the activities of Section Medieval History which was a structural department Institute at Faculty Social Sciences Moscow State University (1921–1925) and later joined Russian Association Research Institutes (RANION) (1925–1929). Relying on minutes section records reports History, authors demonstrate that staff headed by D. M. Petrushevsky remained faithful high academ...

The article for the first time analyzes stages of study Shah Fazil architectural complex, from references by medieval authors to beginning 21st century. A complex history emergence and connection with historical cultural processes in Kyrgyzstan Central Asia as a whole is traced.

Vermilion red, mercury sulphide (a-HgS), was one of the most important reds in art and its use as a pigment dates back to Antiquity. In medieval Europe, it could be mined as cinnabar, or produced as vermilion by heating mercury with sulphur. This work aims to study the production of synthetic vermilion as a medieval pigment and to confirm which was the source (mineral or artificial) of the reds...

Systematic archaeological excavations at the multicultural site of Foeni-S?la? in Romanian Banat conducted during first half 1990s uncovered evidence that was inhabited Early Neolithic, Copper, Bronze, Iron, Late Antique and Medieval Ages. This paper summarises cultural history settlement describes relevant deposits material culture each period.