The Early Medieval Riddle Tradition

Azazel in Early Jewish Tradition

The term" Azazel," which appears four times in the prescriptions for the Day of Atonement (Lev 16:8, 10, 26), has elicited much debate. Although many scholars have identified Azazel with a demonic figure to whom the sin-laden scapegoat was dispatched, the term remains undefined in the biblical text. This article will attempt to demonstrate that two noncanonical Jewish works, 1 Enoch and the Apo...

Hygiene in the early modern medical tradition

"reading" the body as well as the texts. Helen King examines how the healer could read the body and avoid being deceived by it, and what made reading a female body different. In Chapter 3, it is the case histories in the Hippocratic Epidemics that are subjected to scrutiny, with particular focus on one specific case of a girl who died after a nosebleed. In Chapters 4 and 5, the author turns to ...

The Medieval Origins of the Western Natural Rights Tradition : the Achievement of Brian Tierney

Brian Tierney has established himself over the course of forty-five years of writing and teaching as one of the world's leading authorities on the history of medieval canon law and political thought. In a series of foundational works, he has offered important new interpretations of the origins of Western constitutionalism, tracing many concepts believed to be modem or early modem innovations to...

Nutrition and the Early-Medieval Diet

Uncovering difference: encoded homoerotic anxiety within the Christian eremitic tradition in medieval England.