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Women Played a More Important Role in Producing Medieval Manuscripts Than Previously Thought
New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and ...
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Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
The heart is read as a metaphor for human desire and will ... owe a great debt to John Leyerle. As teacher, scholar and administrator, John has been a leader in the rise and renewal of medieval ...
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What Is Medieval Islamic Medicine?
Medicine was an important part of medieval Islamic life ... as it is instituted for the benefit and welfare of the human race, and God imposed on physicians the oath not to compose mortiferous ...
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Robert Chazan, 87, NYU scholar of medieval Jewry who helped build field of Jewish studies
Chazan was among those leading the charge as a scholar at Ohio State University ... First Crusade” and “Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe,” he depicted Jews “not only as victims ...
3 things to learn about patience − and impatience − from al-Ghazali, a medieval Islamic scholar
It’s clear to me, as a scholar of religious ethics ... and how does being patient make us better people? The writings of ...