THE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY CATALAN PRETERIT

Mythologies of Witchcraft in the Fifteenth Century

Medico-legal practices in the fifteenth century Dubrovnik.

We analyzed the beginnings of medico-legal practices in Dubrovnik, using the first eight books of criminal records series Liber de maleficiis from the early 15th century. We also looked into the mechanisms of individual and public control of the issues such as the patient-physician relationship and the control of epidemics. At that time, surgeons rather than physicians reported wounds to the co...

Mortality in the fifteenth century: some new evidence.

F decades medieval historians have placed population at the centre of their concerns, but it is only in recent years that their studies have begun to constitute a respectable branch of historical demography. From the scrutiny of oblique records which provide indications of such matters as settlement, the size of landholdings, land values, prices and wages, attention has increasingly turned towa...

The Inventory of John Hexham, a Fifteenth-century Apothecary.

Now mark (6i) also further: if the artery is small and from day to day and from beat to beat gets bigger (62) and increases in size, that means an improving constitution. However, if it shrinks and the sick man weakens (63) from day to day and has fever, the man is fatally ill beyond a (64) doubt. But if the man improves so that he sleeps well and (65) gets stronger, and the fever lessens and t...

"tafsir rahnama" ushering interpretation of the fifteenth century

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