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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Medieval and early modern Europe"”.
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Tracing the Finger of God: The Role of Wonders In Catholic Spirituality In Early America
… America between the founding of colonial Maryland and the early national United States. It argues that the traditional spirituality and theology that stressed God's activity in the natural world--most closely associated with late medieval and early modern Europe--persevered among Catholics in …
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The burden and the beast: An oracle of apocalyptic reform in early sixteenth-century Salzburg
… between apocalypticism, criticism of the church and ecclesiastical reform at the beginning of the sixteenth century. It focuses on Berthold Purstinger (1465-1543), bishop of Chiemsee (reg. 1508-1526), and forms a commentary on his apocalyptic treatise Onus ecclesiae (1519, 1524, 1531), about a …
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Listening to Birth: Metallurgy, Maternity, and Vocality in the Reproduction of the Patriarchal State
… by instituting particular modes of listening and sound production. Situating my research within feminist sound studies, I argue that meanings conjured around the audible, material bodies of women were carefully crafted by elites in antiquity, in order to construct gendered ideologies of …
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The diffusion of public banking initiatives in Europe, 1500–1650
… of the phenomenon of public banking in late-medieval and early modern Europe (1350–1650), with a focus on the sixteenth and early-seventeenth century. The adjective ‘human’ symbolizes a shift away from a canon composed solely of a selection of banks considered public de jure, despite the …
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Ten Centuries of Celsus’s De Medicina: Practical Histories of Medical Humanism
… Cornelius Celsus’s De medicina between the tenth and the nineteenth century to revise accepted definitions of medical humanism and show how ancient texts spurred the development of medicine at intellectual and practical levels across ten centuries. While considered virtually unknown in the Middle …