Zusammenfassung Für die 1923 ins Leben gerufene DVjs sollten gemäß dem Programm ihrer Gründer das Mittelalter und mittelalterliche Literatur eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert, wie dieses in der Praxis realisiert Verhältnis von Literaturwissenschaft Geistesgeschichte wechselnden Perspektiven konturiert wurde: den frühen Ansätzen eines Günther Müller, Wolfgang Stamml...

Tracheostomy was first described by Greco-Roman physicians, including Paulus of Aegina. Medieval Islamic clinicians extended the Greco-Roman ideas with substantial contributions to the field of surgery, including tracheostomy. Although Al-Zahrawi (936-1013 CE) stated that he had not heard or read of any Islamic physicians having performed tracheostomy, there is evidence that many prominent Isla...

This paper gives a genera l ized overview of RESEDA, an i n t e r a c t i v e quest ion answering system designed p r i m a r i l y f o r use by h i s t o r i a n s . I t s data base cons is ts o f h i s t o r i c a l i n f o rma t i on , which a t temps to descr ibe the a t t i t u d e s , p o l i t i c a l , r e l i gious and i n t e r p e r s o n a l , of the ch ie f characters of the pe r i...

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...

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...