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Автор: Miller Timothy S., Nesbitt John W.
Название: Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West
ISBN: 0801451353 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801451355
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Leprosy has afflicted humans for thousands of years. It wasn't until the twelfth century, however, that the dreaded disease entered the collective psyche of Western society, thanks to a frightening epidemic that ravaged Catholic Europe. The Church responded by constructing charitable institutions called leprosariums to treat the rapidly expanding number of victims. As important as these events were, Timothy Miller and John Nesbitt remind us that the history of leprosy in the West is incomplete without also considering the Byzantine Empire, which confronted leprosy and its effects well before the Latin West. In Walking Corpses, they offer the first account of medieval leprosy that integrates the history of East and West.In their informative and engaging account, Miller and Nesbitt challenge a number of misperceptions and myths about medieval attitudes toward leprosy (known today as Hansen’s disease). They argue that ethical writings from the Byzantine world and from Catholic Europe never branded leprosy as punishment for sin; rather, theologians and moralists saw the disease as a mark of God’s favor on those chosen for heaven. The stimulus to ban lepers from society and ultimately to persecute them came not from Christian influence but from Germanic customary law. Leprosariums were not prisons to punish lepers but were centers of care to offer them support; some even provided both male and female residents the opportunity to govern their own communities under a form of written constitution. Informed by recent bioarchaeological research that has vastly expanded knowledge of the disease and its treatment by medieval society, Walking Corpses also includes three key Greek texts regarding leprosy (one of which has never been translated into English before).

Автор: Timothy Miller
Название: Communes in America, 1975-2000
ISBN: 0815636482 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815636489
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Описание: Communes in America: 1975–2000 is the final volume in Miller's trilogy on the history of American intentional communities. Providing a comprehensive survey of communities during the last quarter of the twentieth century, Miller offers a detailed study of their character, scope, and evolution. Between 1975 and 2000, the American communal experience evolved dramatically in response to social and environmental challenges that confronted American society as a whole. Long-accepted social norms and institutions—family, religion, medicine, and politics—were questioned as the divorce rate increased, interest in spiritual teachings from Asia grew, and alternative medicine gained ground. Cohousing flourished as a response to an increasing sense of alienation and a need to balance community and private lives. At the same time, Americans became increasingly concerned with environmental protection and preservation of our limited resources. In the face of these social changes, communal living flourished as people sought out communities of like-minded individuals to pursue a higher purpose.Organized topically, each chapter in the volume provides basic information about various types of communities and detailed examples of each type, from ecovillages and radical Christian communities to pagan communes and cohousing experiments. Miller also takes a step back to look at the prevalence of communal living in American life over the twentieth century. Based on exhaustive research, Miller's final volume provides an indispensable survey and guide to understanding utopianism's enduring presence in American culture.

Автор: Miller Steve M., Allen J. Timothy
Название: Slave Escapes & the Underground Railroad in North Carolina
ISBN: 1531698972 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531698973
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Автор: Whitney Parkhurst
Название: Trial of Parkhusrt [Sic] Whitney, Timothy Shaw, Noah Beach, William Miller, and Samuel M. Chubbuck: For a Conspiracy: The Abduction, False Imprisonmen
ISBN: 127560109X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781275601093
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Описание: Title: Trial of Parkhusrt sic] Whitney, Timothy Shaw, Noah Beach, William Miller, and Samuel M. Chubbuck: for a conspiracy: the abduction, false imprisonment, and assault and battery, of William Morgan: had at a special circuit court, held at Lockport, Niagara County, Feb. 1831, The Hon. Samuel Nelson, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, presiding, embracing the testimony, arguments of counsel, judge's charge, &c.

Author: Parkhurst Whitney

Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana

Description:

Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.

Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.

Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.

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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library

DocumentID: SABCP00501200

CollectionID: CTRG10173913-B

PublicationDate: 18310101

SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America

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Collation: 63 p.; 23 cm