Medicine in India: Modern period

Indian Journal of Medical Research;  May 1, 2001 ;     507 words ...Medicine in India : Modern period, O.P. Jaggi, History of science...is a history of medicine of the modern period, it wisely expands its ambit...from Sushruta and Charaka. The modern period seems to extend roughly up to...

adstratum

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics;      31 words ...adstratum. A language which has influenced one spoken by a neighbouring population. Thus in the modern period French has been an adstratum in the development of English. Cf. substratum ; superstratum .

What Happened to the Renaissance in the German Academy? A Report on German...

Renaissance Quarterly;  December 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ......modern era, using instead the term early modern period (Fruhe Neuzeit), a term whose perimeters...distinct from the Middle Ages and the modern period, in favor of the traditional terms...Neuzeit, argues that during the early modern period the ancient and medieval traditions...

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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......China's development during the early modern period in the context of global developments...Hostetler argues that during the early modern period China was not a passive recipient...further, she suggests that in the early modern period there was no sharp dichotomy between...

Mark Stoyle, West Britons: Cornish Identities and the Early Modern British...

Albion;  June 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......separate sense of identity in the early modern period; that such a sense endured into the...that found expression in the early modern period in six Cornish rebellions: two in 1497...Cornish identities across the early modern period, its heart (more than half of the chapters...

How to look at a hermaphrodite in early modern England.(Critical essay)

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......monsters and natural wonders in the early modern period, a number of literary and medical texts...the production of gender in the early modern period, the figure of the hermaphrodite still...surrounding hermaphrodites in the early modern period (as well as today) is generated by...

Maternal Measures: Figuring Caregiving in the Early Modern Period.(Book...

Shakespeare Studies;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......motherhood and/or gender in the early modern period. Editors Miller and Yavneh wisely have...worse, female caregivers in the early modern period participated in a spectrum of spectacles...mothers and others, both in the early modern period and our own (p. 19). The editors never...

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry.(Brief Article)(Book...

World Literature Today;  September 1, 2005 ;     267 words ......11129-0 paper) A NUMBER OF NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES from the modern period, particularly from the last two decades, have been translated...now a major collection of poetry from the beginnings of the modern period up to (but not including) the contemporary period. Within...

Gardening: Try a drop of the hard stuff; Hannah Stephenson looks at using...

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  October 23, 2004 ;     434 words ......looking at stunning period gardens. Owen's favourite era is the modern period, when concrete came into its own and became an ideal material...fluid shapes favoured by a new generation of designers. ``The modern period is totally fascinating for me. When it was first introduced...

Old Church Slavonic

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics;      28 words ...Old Church Slavonic. The earliest known Slavic language, attested by texts composed from the 9th century AD; surviving into the modern period in the liturgy of the Orthodox Churches.

Conspiracy Theories.(Brief Article)

History Today;  May 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......most compelling images of the early modern period. The cloak and dagger world of plots...politics and government in the early modern period certainly contributed to the popularity...less powerful at the end of the early modern period than they had been at its beginning...

Oral and Literate Culture in England 1500-1700

Folk Music Journal;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......lowland Scotland, too) in the early modern period - that is to say, roughly from late...medieval times well before the early modern period. Time and again. Fox demonstrates that...although towards the end of the early modern period (male) writers increasingly tended...

(book reviews)

Canadian Journal of History;  August 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......illuminates charity in both the early modern period, and in the neglected Italy outside...nature of charitable giving in the early modern period. The guiding assumption is that changes...accepted picture of charity in the early modern period. It did not represent a secularization...

Neiman, Susan. Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of...

The Review of Metaphysics;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......traditional accounts of philosophy in the modern period that divide philosophers into two groups...undergone a fundamental change during the modern period, a change that is illustrated by the...this period. At the beginning of the modern period, philosophers took the Lisbon ...

Ludwig Bechstein und die literarische Rezeption frühneuzeitlicher...

German Quarterly;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......mostly) women as witches in the Early Modern Period continues to produce a flood of publications...historical and literary context of the Early Modern Period and the 19th century, Schmidt examines...superstitions that stemmed from the Early Modern Period, but were still virulent in ...