Описание: The death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey has baffled scholars and armchair detectives for centuries; this book offers compelling new evidence and, at last, a solution to the mystery.
Автор: Lane, Joan. Название: A social history of medicine ISBN: 0415200385 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415200387 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6583.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Traces the development of medical practice from the Industrial Revolution to the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of source material, it charts the changing relationship between patient and practitioner.
Описание: Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors points to the vital connection between metaphors and bodily illnesses, though her analyses deal mainly with modern literary works. This collection of essays examines the vast extent to which rhetorical figures related to sickness and health-metaphor, simile, pun, analogy, symbol, personification, allegory, oxymoron, and metonymy-inform medieval and early modern literature, religion, science, and medicine in England and its surrounding European context. In keeping with the critical trend over the past decade to foreground the matter of the body and the emotions, these essays track the development of sustained, nuanced rhetorics of bodily disease and health ” physical, emotional, and spiritual. The contributors to this collection approach their intriguing subjects from a wide range of timely, theoretical, and interdisciplinary perspectives, including the philosophy of language, semiotics, and linguistics; ecology; women's and gender studies; religion; and the history of medicine. The essays focus on works by Dante, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton among others; the genres of epic, lyric, satire, drama, and the sermon; and cultural history artifacts such as medieval anatomies, the arithmetic of plague bills of mortality, meteorology, and medical guides for healthy regimens.
Описание: Shows how the investigation of local outbreaks of typhoid fever in Victorian Britain led to the emergence of the modern discipline of epidemiology as the leading science of public health
Автор: Theilmann John Название: Disease and Society in Premodern England ISBN: 1032104120 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032104126 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Disease and Society in Premodern England examines the impact of infectious disease in England from the everyday to pandemics in the period c. 500-c.1600, with the major focus from the eleventh century onward.
Автор: Theilmann John Название: Disease and Society in Premodern England ISBN: 1032104139 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032104133 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5970.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Disease and Society in Premodern England examines the impact of infectious disease in England from the everyday to pandemics in the period c. 500-c.1600, with the major focus from the eleventh century onward.
Описание: In late medieval and early modern Europe, textual and visual records of disaster and mass death allow us to encounter the intense emotions generated through the religious, providential and apocalyptic frameworks that provided these events with meaning. This collection brings together historians, art historians, and literary specialists in a cross-disciplinary collection shaped by new developments in the history of emotions. It offers a rich range of analytical frameworks and case studies, from the emotional language of divine providence to individual and communal experiences of disaster. Geographically wide-ranging, the collection also analyses many different sorts of media: from letters and diaries to broadsheets and paintings. Through these and other historical records, the contributors examine how communities and individuals experienced, responded to, recorded and managed the emotional dynamics and trauma created by dramatic events like massacres, floods, fires, earthquakes and plagues.
Описание: In late medieval and early modern Europe, textual and visual records of disaster and mass death allow us to encounter the intense emotions generated through the religious, providential and apocalyptic frameworks that provided these events with meaning.
Описание: First published between 1858 and 1870, Froude`s influential twelve-volume history of the English Reformation contends that the establishment of Protestantism paved the way for modernity in England. Volume 5 is devoted to the reign of Edward VI and the struggle for power during his Protectorate.
Описание: First published between 1858 and 1870, Froude`s influential twelve-volume history of the English Reformation contends that Protestantism paved the way for modernity in England. Volume 4 focuses on Scotland and Ireland, war with France, and the Peace of Crepy, ending with the death of Henry VIII.
Описание: First published between 1858 and 1870, Froude`s influential twelve-volume history of the English Reformation contends that Protestantism paved the way for modernity in England. Volume 3 concerns the foreign and domestic aspects of the Reformation, the Pilgrimage of Grace, Anne of Cleves, and the fall of Thomas Cromwell.
Описание: First published between 1858 and 1870, Froude`s influential twelve-volume history of the English Reformation contends that the establishment of Protestantism paved the way for modernity in England. Volume 2 considers the early English Protestants, the Irish rebellion, Catholic martyrdom, and the trial and execution of Anne Boleyn.
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