The natural electrical phenomena fascinated humans since antiquity. The electrical discharges produced by the torpedo fish were highly appreciated among ancient physicians as Hippocrates, Scribonius Largus and Galen and were prescribed for headache, gout and prolapsed anus. In the medieval period, torpedo's electrical properties were attributed to occult powers, while Renaissance physicians' an...

English medical terminology developed from medieval Latin terminology, which had absorbed a developed Greek terminology. Only a few medical terms come from the oldest developmental period of English language (from Anglo-Saxon). During the Middle Ages, French became an excellent medium for introducing new medical terms developed from Greek/Latin elements. Nowadays English more and more uses its ...

biological and cultural. She sees clearly how the medieval world has been used by later writers, from the Renaissance onwards, with their own agendas for reform and their own reasons for writing the medieval world in particular ways. Thanks to Green's work, the medieval medical world is a far more clear, but also more varied, landscape than it was before; medical, social, and gender historians ...

[1] On the basis of long simulations performed with a three-dimensional climate model, we propose an interhemispheric climate lag mechanism, involving the long-term memory of deepwater masses. Warm anomalies, formed in the North Atlantic when warm conditions prevail at surface, are transported by the deep ocean circulation towards the Southern Ocean. There, the heat is released because of large...

Vermilion red, mercury sulphide (a-HgS), was one of the most important reds in art and its use as a pigment dates back to Antiquity. In medieval Europe, it could be mined as cinnabar, or produced as vermilion by heating mercury with sulphur. This work aims to study the production of synthetic vermilion as a medieval pigment and to confirm which was the source (mineral or artificial) of the reds...

Examination Committee Chair László Kontler (Department of History – CEU) Members Endre György Szőnyi – Supervisor (Department of Medieval Studies – Department of History – CEU) Marcell Sebők – Supervisor (Department of Medieval Studies – CEU) Pál Ács – external reader and external member (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Literary Studies) Mária Dobozy– external reader and external m...

Abstract This paper is devoted to wall painting in the Middle Ages (ca. late fifth early fifteenth centuries), with a focus on twelfth century Italy. It conceived as critical conflation of diverse methodologies, approaches and research tools, aim investigating topic from different complementary perspectives. Historical textual sources provide interpretive framework for examination, which conduc...