does neither. The twelve essays that make up the book range randomly over more than 2,500 years and are in no sense a comparative study. Each of the essays-whether on the healing power of medieval women, or the role of the blues in African-American women's literature, or on women doctors in Virginia Woolf's writing-is discrete and unrelated to every other essay. It is an example of a burgeoning...

Summary The present paper seeks to discuss and clarify the notions of ‘Grades’ ‘Calls’ traditional Chinese rime tables, which are commonly related presence or absence glides, continue be taken as a basis for reconstructing vocalic semi-vocalic portions post-initial elements in medieval pre-medieval syllables. It is argued that, based on discussions Grades/Calls by scholars sixteenth through nin...

“In Defence of the Nominalist Ontology Money” by Geoffrey Ingham (published Journal Post Keynesian Economics in 2021) contends that “Historicising Money Account: A Critique same journal 2020) is based on misunderstanding, misrepresentation, and imprecisions. The core proposition Account” money account, which generally understood to be a universal attribute money, fact an institution late mediev...

This study attempts to address the issue of relative living standards in Portuguese medieval and early 20th century periods. Since the growth of children provides a good measure of environmental quality for the overall population, the skeletal growth profiles of medieval Leiria and early 20th century Lisbon were compared. Results show that growth in femur length of medieval children did not dif...

Hazing is defined as committing acts against an individual or forcing an individual into committing an act that creates a risk for harm in order for the individual to be initiated into or affiliated with an organization. Hazing is an enduring activity with roots that date back to the ancient and medieval eras. It has become increasingly prevalent in fraternities and sororities, high school and ...

PURPOSE To identify the characteristics of people with hip or knee osteoarthritis (OA) attending a regional triage centre for an initial consult who are deemed not yet ready for total joint arthroplasty (TJA). METHODS Initial consultation notes (n=482) were reviewed retrospectively. Predictive variables were derived from the literature a priori, and 14 of these variables were suitable for inc...

This paper focuses on the potential of the latest generation of Airborne laser scanning (ALS) for the detection and the spatial characterization of microtopographic relief linked to ancient landscapes and palaeoenvironmental features. ALS is an optical measurement technique for obtaining high-precision information about the Earth’s surface including basic terrain mapping (Digital terrain model,...

OWSEI TEMKIN, The doubleface ofJanus and other essays in the history ofmedicine, No-one can deny that Owsei Temkin is now the world's most distinguished historian of medicine. Who else in their writings can cover the whole span of medical history from pre-Greek Antiquity to the twentieth century with authority, flair, and impeccable scholarship? Which medically qualified historian of medicine h...

the field of medieval history has produced several hundred, if not thousands of volumes on kingship in the Middle Ages. Students of medieval studies are well acquainted with much of this literature, particularly that sparked by Ernst Kantorowicz' s historiographical game changer, The King's Two Bodies (1957). Katherine Lewis's innovative study of the monarchy and masculinity of Henry V (r.1413-...