This text consists of the 'lectio praecursoria' given at defense my doctoral dissertation "The Good Noblemen Who Conquered Kingdom: Islam, Historiography, and Aristocratic Legitimation in Late-Medieval Portugal". deals with aristocratic historiography political legitimation late-medieval Portugal (late thirteenth fourteenth centuries). It offers a perspective into historical imaginary Portugues...

The notion of the labour-aristocracy is one of the oldest Marxian explanations of working-class conservatism and reformism. Despite its continued appeal to scholars and activists on the Left, there is no single, coherent theory of the labour-aristocracy. While all versions argue workingclass conservatism and reformism reflects the politics of a privileged layer of workers who share in ‘monopoly...

The aim of this study is to explore the application of Boston matrix combined with SWOT analysis on operational development and evaluations of hospital departments. We selected 73 clinical and medical technology departments of our hospital from 2011 to 2013, and evaluated our hospital by Boston matrix combined with SWOT analysis according to the volume of services, medical quality, work efficie...

Professors Wallace, Delaney, and Sullivan provide us with an unsettling glimpse into the arcane world of industrial scale medical science.1 I am reminded of the European Enlightenment, the birth place of this very scientific approach to the mysteries of nature. Between 1750 and 1770 the French philosopher, Denis Diderot, devoted himself to the creation of the Encyclopédie, a monumental attempt ...

The British Industrial Revolution was a time of major socio-economic transformations. We review a number of recent economic theories which analyze the transition from a preindustrial world characterized by high fertility, stationary standards of living, and rigid social hierarchies to modern capitalism. One of the key social transformations that accompanied the Industrial Revolution was the eco...