huntington's disease (hd) is thought to be due to genetically-programmed degeneration of neurons in certain areas of the brain. this degeneration causes uncontrolled movements, loss of intellectual faculties, and emotional disturbances. it is along time since the disease started tormenting human beings, and to date, conventional medications have failed to slow down the progression of hd. althou...

love and its transformative power have long been at the center of islamic sufism. for sufi writers profane love, perceived as the love of worldly beloved, was the first step on the path toward the union with the divine. farid al-din ‘attar (1145-1221) was one of the most significant authors to espouse and articulate profane love as a representation of both earthly and heavenly love. 'attar’s us...

 New research on networks has put individual well connected agents at the centre of the spread of many social phenomena, including religious ideas.  England in the 1550s provides a model of how a society can be radicalized through heavy‐handed public persecution.  Much can be learnt from the spread of the medieval Cathar heresy by relatively few individuals, the ‘perfecti’. The inquisitors s...

The prevailing paradigm of medieval manufacturing presumes guilds monopolized markets for durable goods in late-medieval England. The sources of the monopolies are said to have been the charters of towns, charters of guilds, parliamentary statutes, and judicial precedents. This essay examines those sources, demonstrates they did not give guilds legal monopolies in the modern sense of the word, ...

There are two reasons why medieval logic is of interest to modern logician: One is to see how similar it is to modern logic and the other is to see how different it is. We study three 13th-century works on modal logic and give two examples their views of modal logic differ from modern views of the same: the nature of modality and the truth conditions for modal sentences. Because of the differen...

The medical writings of early medieval western Europe c. 700 – c. 1000 have often been derided for their disorganised appearance, poor Latin, nebulous conceptual framework, admixtures of magic and folklore, and general lack of those positive features that historians attribute to ancient or later medieval medicine. This paper attempts to rescue the period from its negative image. It examines a n...

This paper deals with several lexicographic problems arising from the choice of hypernyms in the Dictionary of Medieval Scientific French (Créalscience database). The generic names used by medieval scholars indicate categorizations which differ from modern classifications. We examine some cases selected from the medieval domain of natural sciences where we can notice a conceptual discrepancy be...

Analysing “Celtic” chariots by using Iron Age archaeological material and Early Medieval Irish texts might seem to be more than just one step too far in breaking down boundaries. Considering the huge chronological and geographical gaps between the sources, the objections raised against the concept of “Celticity” by Celtosceptics, and the antinativist school of thought in Irish literature, such ...

AIM To analyze and compare the demographic profiles and disease frequencies of early (6th-9th century) and late (10th-13th century) medieval skeletal series from continental Croatia. METHODS Age and sex distributions in three early (n=277) and six late (n=175) medieval skeletal series were compared. All skeletons were analyzed for the presence of dental enamel hypoplasia, periostitis, trauma,...

OBJECTIVES This study provides the first large scale analysis of the age at which adolescents in medieval England entered and completed the pubertal growth spurt. This new method has implications for expanding our knowledge of adolescent maturation across different time periods and regions. METHODS In total, 994 adolescent skeletons (10-25 years) from four urban sites in medieval England (AD ...