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Hace 5 días · Explore a chamber of Dutch secrets at Van Cortlandt House Museum in The Bronx, where a room curated in the early 20th century tells the story of a 17th-century family in the New Netherland colony ...
Hace 2 días · Classic explanations include yellow fever, bubonic plague, influenza, smallpox, chickenpox, typhus, and syndemic infection of hepatitis B and hepatitis D. 1,143,000–3,429,000 (estimated 30–90% of population) [68] [69] 1629–1631 Italian plague (part of the second plague pandemic ) 1629–1631. Italy. Bubonic plague.
Hace 5 días · A 12th-century manuscript of the Hippocratic Oath in Greek, one of the most famous aspects of classical medicine that carried into later eras. The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies.
Hace 4 días · Phil Withington examines the long-debated relationship between the law, legal practitioners, and the Renaissance. Withington specifically explores the vernacularisation of discourse on the ‘modern’ in 16th- and 17th-century English literature.
Hace 5 días · Literary Salons Across Britain and Ireland in the Long Eighteenth Century. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, ISBN: 9781137512703; 250pp.; Price: £55.00. In this engaging book, Amy Prendergast focuses primarily on the period between 1750 and the 1820s and seeks to provide ‘the first detailed examination of the literary salon in Ireland ...
Hace 3 días · Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN: 9780199546480; 464pp.; Price: £35.00. Thicker than Water is an impressive book, both in terms of its quality and its size. At over 400 pages, it presents a daunting challenge to the reviewer with its wide-ranging discussions of the literature on families and sibling relationships which span the ...
Hace 4 días · Above all, the book provides a satisfying collective portrait of an often diverse noble community as it reacted to, and influenced, the upheavals of 17th–century Ireland. The overall argument of the book, as its title suggests, is that the 17th century saw the ‘Anglicisation’ of the aristocracy, as part of a wider agenda by a succession of monarchs and rulers to make Ireland more like ...
