Two eastern Christian sources on Medieval Nusantara

Diagnostics in late medieval sources.

In this paper I focus on the nature of diagnosis in the Czech written medical sources. In the first part, the character of medieval medicine is described. Further, I deal with contemporary definitions of disease and some important aspects of diagnostic; finally, I adduce the signs of diseases described in examined sources: primarily the manuscript texts created in the first half of the 15th cen...

Comparing Offertory Melodies of Five Medieval Christian Chant Traditions

In this study, we compare the melodies of five medieval chant traditions: Gregorian, Old Roman, Milanese, Beneventan, and Mozarabic. We present a newly created dataset containing several hundreds of offertory melodies, which are the longest and most complex within the total body of chant melodies. For each tradition, we train ngram language models on a representation of the chants as sequence o...

On taking vows in two priesthoods, scientific and christian.

I come as a practicing scientist and teacher and like most teachers I collect exam questions. Two of my favorites are as follows. 1. You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a bottle of alcohol. Remove your appendix. Do not suture until your work has been inspected. You have fifteen minutes. 2. Define the Universe and give three examples. The question I pose to you tonig...

Political Theology and the Theology of Politics: Carl Schmitt and Medieval Christian Political Thought1

In societies where religion plays a strong and important role, the institutions of the society reflect the religion. Yet in societies where religion plays a more secondary role to say that all political concepts are secularized theological concepts is an overstatement. While Carl Schmitt does make a persuasive argument on the role of religion in political thought, he is also mistaken. In this a...

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