MLA Commons | Karen Reeds | Group Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/karenmreeds/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Karen Reeds is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:18:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8b34632df8b320903afc1736e431282d Laura Francis started the topic CFP: Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire (June 10-12, 2026 @ NUIM) in the forum Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/forum/topic/cfp-migration-and-the-early-modern-spanish-empire-june-10-12-2026-nuim/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:35:22 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to announce the following call for papers for a conference on “Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire” that will take place from June 10th-12th, 2026 at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth.

Please see the attached PDF for more details. <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>The deadline for…[Read more]

]]> 0 638e7e0117ad13579f2e48d1d9b07b13 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:05:25 -0400 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Dear colleagues,</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>For its upcoming issues, </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”> is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.</span>

<i><span…[Read more]

]]> 0 f82e1f398e78e3babc6513beae686bcd Peter Bain edited the doc Script/Handwriting Teaching Materials in the group Printing History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1911820/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:51:34 -0500 0 b8379afe605651c33052960cab24f839 Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/forum/topic/cfp-2026-mla-convention-9/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:42:10 -0500 Dear All,

 

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

 

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

]]> 0 3ed9a675309a0f5e0353d3db4bdefe10 Meredith Lynn Goldsmith started the topic NEH Virtual Convening: Collaborating beyond the Humanities (Health Humanities) in the forum Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/medical-humanities/forum/topic/neh-virtual-convening-collaborating-beyond-the-humanities-health-humanities/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:26:41 -0500 Dear colleagues, I write to invite you a virtual convening sponsored by the NEH Division of Education Programs. More information below:

“Collaborating Beyond the Humanities”

The Education Division of the National Endowment for the Humanities fosters curricular innovation through its grant programs, including the Humanities Connections pro…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd4bf7355a21804cfd27bae1569d7fe3 John Mark R. Asio deposited Comparative Analysis of the In-House Review (Revalida) Program and the Student's Performance in the Licensure Examination for Midwives: Inputs for Program Enhancement in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1903330/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:00:02 -0400 This paper aimed to analyze the effectiveness of the in-house review (Revalida) program among midwifery graduates of batch 2022 in the previous licensure board exams for midwives last 2023. This study used a descriptive-comparative research design. One hundred thirty-five graduate midwives participated voluntarily in the study using a purposive…[Read more]

]]> 0 42586d4c93f5ca19c5fa5d3cd8c62316 Ian Willis deposited Australia Day 1915 in Camden: Record-breaking Wartime Fundraiser in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897195/ Sun, 25 Aug 2024 03:00:56 -0400 This blog post examines the story of mid-1915, when the Camden Patriotic Fund took over Australia Day fundraising, directing proceeds to the Red Cross for Australian wounded. Supporting the Camden Red Cross, the fund raised substantial funds through various events. Meanwhile, on a national scale, Australia Day’s significance evolved, and in 1915,…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e796df87189948066df1f94cff08ac9 Ian Willis deposited Camden and the Great War in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897124/ Sat, 24 Aug 2024 03:00:12 -0400 This presentation provides an overview of the Great War’s impact on the town of Camden, including its effects, serving overseas and on the homefront, and the collective memory of Camden and the Great War.

]]> 0 31d60db6300767eaf03cffe6cfaaaf0f Ian Willis deposited Camden Red Cross 110 Years Display: Objects and Ephemera Exhibition 2024 in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894889/ Mon, 29 Jul 2024 03:00:54 -0400 The Camden Red Cross exhibition at Camden Library in August 2024 showcased the historical contributions of local women to the Red Cross during World Wars I and II. Women from the Camden district played a pivotal role in supporting soldiers and shaping the narrative of the Australian Red Cross, creating over 20,300 articles in 40,000 volunteer…[Read more]

]]> 0 b025c109d62ba0f4347ec6ae58810d51 Ian Willis deposited Ministering Angels, Myth and the Red Cross on the Australian Wartime Homefront in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894809/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:00:46 -0400 The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 saw thousands of women across rural Australia set up local Red Cross branches. Country women sewed, knitted and cooked for God, King and Country, while they were encouraged to see themselves as ‘ministering angels’ dutifully serving ‘their boys’ and the imperial cause. Their successes meant that by 1918…[Read more]

]]> 0 582c5faa4f1dc21419c9bc6b1ec0a4bd Ian Willis deposited ‘Guardian Angels’, the Red Cross on the wartime homefront in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894764/ Sat, 27 Jul 2024 03:01:05 -0400 Thousands of women rallied to the call of the wife of the Governor-General and formed Red Cross branches across Australia at the outbreak of the First World War. Women sewed, knitted and cooked for God, the King and Country and were encouraged to see themselves as ‘guardian angels’ serving ‘their boys’ and the imperial cause. Local Red Cross b…[Read more]

]]> 0 1602d3d8d578295f1e61f7006e402b9e Ian Willis deposited ‘Angels Of Mercy’, The Red Cross On the Homefront During the First World War in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894761/ Sat, 27 Jul 2024 03:00:37 -0400 This blog post examines how the Australian Red Cross mobilized women during World War I as ‘Angels of Mercy’ and ‘ministering angels’ to provide aid with a strong moral overtone. The organisation used motherhood imagery to rally support, portraying itself as the ‘Greatest Mother in the World’. This approach effectively garnered community backing…[Read more]

]]> 0 979feb4f497ce72fafae4925b086f1b4 Ann E Mullaney deposited The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, 1982: Guide with Definitions by Ann Mullaney, July 6, 2024 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891475/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:01:26 -0400 J. N. Adams (1943-2021) examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin (roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE). Here you will find first the Table of Contents from Adams’s book with live links to sections below. Next, about 70 pages of a sort of map f…[Read more]

]]> 0 70fcf8064a2c01347aca265f94f847b8 Ann E Mullaney deposited The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, 1982: Guide with Definitions by Ann Mullaney, July 6, 2024 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891472/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:01:10 -0400 J. N. Adams (1943-2021) examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin (roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE). Here you will find first the Table of Contents from Adams’s book with live links to sections below. Next, about 70 pages of a sort of map f…[Read more]

]]> 0 3bbe4207d2d02a8f4c38a980eac41410 Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Goitres, Worms, and Haemorrhoids: Geographical Localisation of Endemic Diseases in Classical Āyurveda in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890603/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 03:06:25 -0400 As Āyurveda is at its core a highly individualistic science, information on how collective suffering was understood and treated is scarce in its foundational works. While the passages referring to epidemics and similar events have attracted some attention in the last decades, endemic diseases are an almost completely neglected topic. Francis…[Read more]

]]> 0 24c31d99011cf9444e0f0684dba48bac Anthony Cerulli deposited “Always Already Theorizing … in the Field, Elsewhere, All at Once” in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890336/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:13:00 -0400 Reflecting on his fieldwork experiences between 2003 and 2017 at the same healing center in central Kerala, in this chapter Cerulli addresses continuity and change in medical ethnographers’ awareness of themselves and the people, places, and things they study in the field. He draws on experiences in south India and in the classroom teaching a s…[Read more]

]]> 0 19321d2a1327b5904de75a16c34f3fbc Ian Willis deposited The Role of British Red Cross in NSW Wartime Front: Home Truths in Australian History in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890019/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 03:00:24 -0400 This blog post details a talk by Dr Ian Willis OAM that challenges myths of WWI at the 2024 Australian Historical Association conference. He examines the Australian military’s response to sick and wounded soldiers and the role of the British Red Cross. The conference aims to uncover home truths and dispel historical myths. Dr Willis’s research…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c2b29146f482d8a4920ea6cc0469bb7 Ian Willis deposited The convalescent soldier and the British Red Cross on New South Wales wartime home front in the First World War. in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889916/ Sun, 23 Jun 2024 03:00:30 -0400 The sick and wounded soldier was the central actor in the performance of Red Cross care during the First World War. This paper uses Jeffrey Reznick’s ‘culture of caregiving’ in his book Healing the Nation to examine the role of the British Red Cross in New South Wales in the convalescent stage in the lines of communications in the early month…[Read more]

]]> 0 5374a10a192da8a5a86362dfcf2a1d43 Elisabeth Moreau deposited Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889652/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:01:00 -0400 In the past decades, historians have emphasized the multidisciplinary nature and conceptual disparateness of the atomist revival in the early modern sciences. However, they have not investigated how medicine, and specifically the authority of Galen, has contributed to the emergence of this revival. Indeed, despite Galen’s rejection of atoms and c…[Read more]

]]> 0 085434c45a5e5ad45a5ddc789ec61ba9 Elisabeth Moreau deposited Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889651/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:00:53 -0400 In the past decades, historians have emphasized the multidisciplinary nature and conceptual disparateness of the atomist revival in the early modern sciences. However, they have not investigated how medicine, and specifically the authority of Galen, has contributed to the emergence of this revival. Indeed, despite Galen’s rejection of atoms and c…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6d64ae476bff0afadb04926cb34555a Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Doctors Between Civilisation and Wilderness. Medical Geography in Pre-modern South Asia in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889649/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:00:42 -0400 Usually theories on disease causation and treatment in early Āyurveda focus on the individual patient, his diet, and his lifestyle. There are however certain contexts, in which the locality or origin of factors jeopardising health is significant. Some climatic regions are understood to constitute more unhealthy surroundings in relation to others.…[Read more]

]]> 0 28366b3b6babbc3a1c665997332d6ec3 Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited Kemp y Juan Rana: reconstrucción e implicaciones culturales del gesto dancístico en la Inglaterra y España de la modernidad temprana in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887548/ Thu, 30 May 2024 03:00:06 -0400 Comparative study examining the dance of Will Kemp (England) and Juan Rana (Spain), in the theatrical context of early modern Europe.

]]> 0 353e3276aeb475fee839c03ed58b4f2e Cristina León Alfar edited the doc Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886884/ Wed, 22 May 2024 17:19:23 -0400 0 692aa0918ce4eb45edb644e6ba5bcf89 Cristina León Alfar created the doc Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886883/ Wed, 22 May 2024 17:18:17 -0400 0 0c9a16de8c5dcbc1aa0a7de81e0da6a8 Martine van Elk deposited Politics, Authorship, and Philosophy: Teaching Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World in the Diverse Graduate Classroom in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886480/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:08:22 -0400 This essay explores how Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World works differently when taught and read on its own and in combination with Cavendish’s other works. Focusing specifically on the graduate classroom, I examine and present strategies for teaching the book alongside works by other early modern women and for teaching it in a sin…[Read more]

]]> 0 126c86dc5b996732060e7e87d60ccbe5 Pramod Ranjan deposited बिल गेट्स की भारत यात्रा : व्यावसायिक अनुदानों की राजनीति [“Bill Gates’ visit to India: The politics of business grants.”] in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884587/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:21:52 -0400 प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा यह लेख बिल ‘गेट्स की भारत यात्रा’ पर दो भागो में लिखा गया है, पहला भाग 22 नवम्बर को और दूसरा भाग 23 नवम्बर 2002 को शिमला से प्रकाशित साध्य दैनिक अखबार भारतेन्दु शिखर में छपा है।

प्रमोद रंजन ने वर्ष 2002 में बिल गेट्स की भारत यात्रा के अवसर पर “छोटी चाहतों के संगीन निहितार्थ- बिल गेट्स की भारत यात्रा: व्यवसायिक अनुदानों…[Read more]

]]> 0 89ac8895aba3324b69cfcda7aa22d6ff Patrick Hart deposited From Pulpit to Parish: Preaching Dance and Parish Dances in England and Scandinavia, 1300-1700 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881705/ Mon, 01 Apr 2024 03:00:04 -0400 This article considers English and Scandinavian sermon tales alongside accounts of parish practice from 1300-1700, focusing on dance among the laity. It posits that the negative perspective of Scandinavian Protestants towards dance was a result of the medieval North Sea networks that brought England’s approach to dance to Nordic parishes, s…[Read more]

]]> 0 f4baa646ffb7287d7e90d25fb938c6ec Pramod Ranjan deposited संक्रामक बीमारियों के भारतीय महासागर में कोरोना कितनी जगह घेरता है? in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878449/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:01:38 -0500 इस लेख में बताया गया है कि किसी प्रकार कोविड 19 अन्य कई बीमारियों की तुलना में बहुत कम घातक था, इसके बावजूद इसका हौव्वा बनाया गया, जिससे अफरातफरी मची और अधिक मौतें हुई। ऐसा इसलिए हुआ क्योंकि विश्व स्वास्थ संगठन ने बीमारियों से होने वाली मौतों का आंकड़ा जमा करने की विधि में कोविड के मामले में बदलाव कर दिया था।

इस लेख में आंकड़ों के साथ बताया…[Read more]

]]> 0 5ff203d2338da884c2782d612c745181 Pramod Ranjan deposited अनूपातहीन भय के कथासूत्र in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878447/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:01:26 -0500 इस लेख में विस्तार से बताया गया है कि किसी प्रकार कोविड 19 के बारे में अतिशयोक्तिपूर्ण सूचनाएं फैलाईं गईं, जिससे और अधिक मौतें हुई।

The article details how exaggerated information about COVID-19 was somehow deliberately spread, leading to more deaths.

]]> 0 ae059865261723cf222c8253f2c77ff9 Pramod Ranjan deposited कोविड-19 का टीका: क्या हम सही सवाल पूछ पा रहे हैं? in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878445/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 03:01:08 -0500 वर्ष 2021 में कोविड 19 के टीके के संबंध में काफी वाद-विवाद हुआ था।

प्रमोद रंजन इस लेख में बताते हैं कि उस समय कोविड-19 के टीके से संबंधित अनेक भ्रामक प्रश्न जनता के सामने रख दिए गए थे, जिससे चर्चा की दिशा की बदली जा सके।.

इस लेख में कहा गया है कि टीका से संबंधित असली सवाल ये तीन थे। पहला सवाल यह कि, टीकों के निर्माण और वितरण में…[Read more]

]]> 0 f4969cb67a3019b37d641bf56026afb8 Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited Reconstructing Relationships of Desire: Homosexuality in Spanish Golden Age Theater in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874118/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:04:59 -0500 The figure of the marión, maricón or puto—the male homosexual—appears in many Spanish Golden Age plays. The critical approaches to this dramatic type have centered on thematic and textual issues, ignoring the performative cues inscribed on the character. For this reason, this paper reconstructs the acting of male homoeroticism in the comed…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d1154f20d12f544dce5c736950dd594 Anthony Cerulli deposited “Religion and Medicine in Sanskrit Literature: The Rāmāyaṇa and the Politics of an Epic Plant” in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874091/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 03:00:30 -0500 In Vālmīki’s Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa, in an episode I am calling ‘Hanumān’s medicine journey’, we learn about a resuscitative plant that grows in the Himalayas called saṃjīvanī. Although the plant has a somewhat unclear place in the materia medica of India’s classical ‘life science’ (āyurveda), in recent decades politicians in north India have attempte…[Read more]

]]> 0 0693d3d59a6522a1852a4654f3d998e5 Kit Yee Wong replied to the topic Open access special issue publication in the discussion Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/medical-humanities/forum/topic/open-access-special-issue-publication/#post-77947 Sat, 20 Jan 2024 17:14:11 -0500 Apologies, the link to the WHOLE special issue (not just to the Introduction) is here:

https://olh.openlibhums.org/collections/447/

Kit Yee Wong

]]> 0 3a56710a3e462cba3905ca47e3aae13b Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited Superhero Segismundo: Uncovering the Politics of Angry Gestures in the 2018 Graphic Novel Adaptation of La vida es sueño in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871309/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 03:00:37 -0500 The comic adaptation of La vida es sueño by Calderón de la Barca (2018) emphasizes the emotion of anger as one of the forces that guides the plot. The protagonist, Segismundo, displays aggression through two main gestures: the clenching fist and the frown on his face. This article aims to answer the following questions: Why did the comic artist d…[Read more]

]]> 0 4ccaf03dd2a9955532f55f6a372a9b98 Vitus Angermeier deposited Dharma and the Physicians: Ethic reflections in early Ayurvedic literature (pre-submission draft) in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869006/ Sat, 23 Dec 2023 03:01:17 -0500 This essay shows that physicians of early Āyurveda adopted a pragmatic approach to the challenges dharma imposed on them. While the concept and its importance is generally accepted in the medical compendia, various passages stress the fact that good health is an indispensable precondition to pursue dharma and other goals of life. In the interests…[Read more]

]]> 0 43a9b4bb13f02fc8c5bdc24d05f14e56 Anthony Cerulli deposited “Vies et renaissances des manuscrits en Asie du Sud” in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868292/ Sun, 17 Dec 2023 03:00:16 -0500 article + 6 photographs from the Manuscriptistan Project

]]> 0 a93222414dbbbfc2ad5ce38227c419d9 Vitus Angermeier deposited Causes of Suffering: From the Buddha to Ayurveda (accepted manuscript) in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868103/ Fri, 15 Dec 2023 03:00:27 -0500 Abstract: The causes of suffering are a central topic in Buddhism as well as in Ayurveda. The Pāli Canon and other early Buddhist texts like the Milindapañha mention eight specific causes resulting in disease or suffering at several places. In contrast, early Ayurveda, as presented in the Carakasaṃhitā, knows a threefold causal complex of dise…[Read more]

]]> 0 085832a14c7e6f2f0937d52730bc339e Elisabeth Moreau deposited Temperament and the Senses: The Taste, Odor and Color of Drugs in Late-Renaissance Galenism in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865830/ Sat, 25 Nov 2023 03:00:15 -0500 According to the medical tradition, the temperament of bodies came from the balance of their primary qualities – hot, cold, dry, and moist. However, physicians associated additional sensory properties with temperament in the field of pharmacology. These sensations included taste, color, and odor, which allow an appraisal of the constitution and a…[Read more]

]]> 0 cfc5d8859e61b248a54712c01ea1c3f1 Elisabeth Moreau deposited Temperament and the Senses: The Taste, Odor and Color of Drugs in Late-Renaissance Galenism in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865829/ Sat, 25 Nov 2023 03:00:06 -0500 According to the medical tradition, the temperament of bodies came from the balance of their primary qualities – hot, cold, dry, and moist. However, physicians associated additional sensory properties with temperament in the field of pharmacology. These sensations included taste, color, and odor, which allow an appraisal of the constitution and a…[Read more]

]]> 0 76a9c56a72bc8b0ca4c46a28bcc0970c Pruritus Migrans deposited 1963.11.22-12:30 in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865712/ Thu, 23 Nov 2023 03:01:58 -0500 1963.11.22-12:30 * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

]]> 0 2b57c7f028e76bb1f3fd4b833f04edc4 Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Crisis in Ancient South Asia – Concepts, Causes, Countermeasures in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862537/ Wed, 25 Oct 2023 03:00:24 -0400 Although a plethora of ancient South Asian sources refer to situations that would be considered crises by modern standards, the early Sanskrit vocabulary lacks a word that we could understand as a distinct equivalent of the term “crisis” and its Greek and Latin predecessors. Nevertheless, the descriptions and discussions of personal and col…[Read more]

]]> 0 f88890b56addb291db769c325765c4d3 Jeremy Fradkin deposited Christian Hospitality and the Case for Religious Refuge in Interregnum England in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862463/ Tue, 24 Oct 2023 03:00:07 -0400 This article shows how English supporters of Jewish immigration in the 1650s articulated a universal model of Christian hospitality for all foreigners fleeing religious persecution, regardless of whether they adhered to the Protestant faith of their English hosts. It thus urges a reconsideration of the widespread assumption that European…[Read more]

]]> 0 81b2a56932c8aafed1acfe036216efec Ian Willis deposited Graeme Clark, a world-famous Camden identity in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861154/ Mon, 09 Oct 2023 03:00:13 -0400 This paper provides a background on the life and times of Graeme Clark, a founder of the area of biomedical engineering and the cochlear implant, who grew up in the small town of Camden, NSW.
The life and times of Professor Graeme Clark, the pioneer of the Cochlear Implant, are part of the Camden story. He was a local boy who made good, improved…[Read more]

]]> 0 520cb8a46e24e96dcba84d7117418bb7 Ian Willis deposited Community Workers - Colin and Dorothy Clark in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860262/ Sun, 01 Oct 2023 03:00:22 -0400 This paper contributes to the history of small communities in Australia by examining the life and times of a local pharmacist and his wife in a small country town, the business they ran and their contribution to the local community. Colin and Dorothy Clark were local identities and made a significant contribution to the Camden community. Colin as…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9388f332d689899dede8ff32d2cfb70 Christopher Crosbie deposited Publicizing the Science of God: Milton's Raphael and the Boundaries of Knowledge in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859610/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:02:25 -0400 This essay reads Raphael, the principal expositor of scientific knowledge in Milton’s Paradise Lost, as embodying divergent, virtually antithetical, dispositions towards the prospect of free engagement with natural philosophy within the public sphere. At once stimulating Adam’s curiosity about the natural world while also overzealously cur…[Read more]

]]> 0 78328ca5455964c48418e28faa4de8b7 Christopher Crosbie deposited Sexuality, Corruption, and the Body Politic: The Paradoxical Tribute of The Misfortunes of Arthur to Elizabeth I in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859608/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:02:10 -0400 This article examines how Thomas Hughes’s “The Misfortunes of Arthur” pays homage to Elizabeth I through its eclectic use of Arthurian traditions and deployment of imagery centered on corrupted sexuality and the body politic.

]]> 0 fd4f994f707175fb94c7a6b7a21e56aa Elisabeth Moreau deposited Simple and Compound Drugs in Late Renaissance Medicine: The Pharmacology of Andrea Cesalpino (1593) in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1858430/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 01:06:27 -0400 From antiquity, Galenic physicians extensively discussed the active powers of simple and compound drugs. In their views, simple drugs, that is, single ingredients, acted according to their material qualities and the properties of their substance. As for compound drugs, their efficacy resulted from the mutual interaction of their ingredients and…[Read more]

]]> 0 627cb873cbfa426b7fe9bdbf3c79cb91 Elisabeth Moreau deposited Simple and Compound Drugs in Late Renaissance Medicine: The Pharmacology of Andrea Cesalpino (1593) in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1858429/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 01:06:18 -0400 From antiquity, Galenic physicians extensively discussed the active powers of simple and compound drugs. In their views, simple drugs, that is, single ingredients, acted according to their material qualities and the properties of their substance. As for compound drugs, their efficacy resulted from the mutual interaction of their ingredients and…[Read more]

]]> 0 7889b4220743f92692f7a1f87100e403 David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, "Explorando la presencia de personajes femeninos en la comedia en tiempos de Lope de Vega desde las Humanidades Digitales" (Hipogrifo 11.1, 2023) pp. 39-54 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856823/ Tue, 29 Aug 2023 01:08:38 -0400 Este artículo visibiliza el uso que se le puede dar a una serie de proyectos de Humanidades Digitales, como son las bases de datos de Rolecall, DICAT y CATCOM o la biblioteca digital EMOTHE, a la hora de analizar las dinámicas escenográficas en el teatro español de finales del siglo XVI y principios del siglo XVII, coincidiendo con las déc…[Read more]

]]> 0 9c699252eda54ba4b52e6d1e3afa7ae6 Christopher Crosbie deposited Francis Bacon and Aristotelian Afterlives in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855433/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:23:44 -0400 The Baconian oeuvre remains the most extensive and influential assault on Aristotelianism in English writing of the early modern period. Where convention respected Aristotelian logic as a viable instrument for studying natural philosophy, Bacon instead sought to initiate an instauration, or restoration, of learning by proposing his inductive…[Read more]

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