This article analyzes master Joan's Trotula, a late fourteenth-century Catalan text on women's health addressed to an infanta of Aragon which survives in one late fourteenth-century manuscript. It presents a hypothesis regarding its genre, its composition and use at the Catalan-Aragonese Court, and its later fortuna. It considers how Master Joan inscribed in the text a conception of women's med...

Abstract In his 1877 Storia della letteratura (History of Literature), Luigi Settembrini wrote that Petrarch’s fourteenth-century poem, the Africa , ‘is forgotten …; very few have read it, and it was judged—I don’t know when by whom—a paltry thing’. Yet, just four decades later, early Renaissance poet’s epic Second Punic War, written in Latin hexameters, being promoted as national poem Italy em...

Abstract This set continues the series of EPPO datasheets at present constituted by Quarantine Pests for Europe (2nd edition), first supplementary published in 1999 Bulletin issue 29, 459–506, second 2005 35, 361–475, third 2006 36, 1–9, fourth 2007 37, 223–245, fifth, sixth and seventh sets 2008 38, 53–63, 161–166 439–449, respectively, eighth ninth 39, 41–64 487–499, tenth 40, 401–406, eleven...

Introduction Bismuth subgallate (BS) is a yellow and odorless powder that has hemostatic astringent properties. Some otorhinolaryngologists and dentists currently use this substance to enhance wound healing. Objective The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of bismuth subgallate on wound healing, through the analysis of inflammatory process, collagen production, and angiogenesis....

The Fourteenth Amendment was intended to protect people from discrimination and harm from other people. Racism is not the only thing people need protection from. As a constitutional principle, the Fourteenth Amendment is not confined to its historical origin and purpose, but is available now to protect all human beings, including all unborn human beings. The Supreme Court can define "person" to...

Whereas classical philological research aimed to present a convincing reconstruction of the original text, more recent research, i.e. material philology, focuses on transmission texts and their (unique) variation as such. One text in Middle Dutch that had an exceptionally successful is thirteenth-century Martijn trilogy by Flemish poet Jacob van Maerlant. In order better understand this transmi...