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Author: Gaius Florius Aetius
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2019-03-02
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0244164304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction to the Schola Aetii, a New School of Classic Philosophy and a reformed approach towards Roman Paganism / Polytheism for Cultors, Priests and Seers.
Author: Evan Michael Schultheis
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2019-01-30
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1526745666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reassessment of the famous fifth-century clash between Hun and Roman forces: “An excellent job of research with original documents.” —The Past in Review This book reconsiders the evidence for Attila the Hun’s most famous battle, the climax of his invasion of the Western Roman Empire that had reached as far as Orleans in France. Traditionally considered one of the pivotal battles in European history, saving the West from conquest by the Huns, the Catalaunian Fields is here revealed to be significant but less immediately decisive than claimed. This new study exposes oversimplified views of Attila’s army, which was a sophisticated and complex all-arms force, drawn from the Huns and their many allies and subjects. The ‘Roman’ forces, largely consisting of Visigoth and Alan allies, are also analyzed in detail. The author, a reenactor of the period, describes the motives and tactics of both sides. Drawing on the latest historiography and research of the primary sources, and utilizing Roman military manuals, Evan Schultheis offers a completely new tactical analysis of the battle and a drastic reconsideration of Hun warfare, the Roman use of federates, and the ethnography of the Germanic peoples who fought for either side. The result is a fresh and thorough case study of battle in the fifth century. Includes maps and illustrations
Author: Alexander Van Millingen
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 602
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Helen King
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-01-04
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1134772211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHippocrates' Woman demonstrates the role of Hippocratic ideas about the female body in the subsequent history of western gynaecology. It examines these ideas not only in the social and cultural context in which they were first produced, but also the ways in which writers up to the Victorian period have appealed to the material in support of their own theories. Among the conflicting tange of images of women given in the Hippocratic corpus existed one tradition of the female body which says it is radically unlike the male body, behaving in different ways and requiring a different set of therapies. This book sets this model within the context of Greek mythology, especially the myth of Pandora and her difference from men, to explore the image of the body as something to be read. Hippocrates' Woman presents an arresting study of the origins of gynaecology, an exploration of how the interior workings of the female body were understood and the influence of Hippocrates' theories on the gynaecology of subsequent ages.
Author: Sander L. Gilman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2024-03-29
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 0520309936
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others—especially women. How did this medical concept assume its power? What cultural purposes does it serve? Why do different centuries and different circumstances produce different kinds of hysteria? These are among the questions pursued in this absorbing, erudite reevaluation of the history of hysteria. The widely respected authors draw upon the insights of social and cultural history, rather than Freudian psychoanalysis, to examine the ways in which hysteria has been conceived by doctors and patients, writers and artists, in Europe and North America, from antiquity to the early years of the twentieth century. In so doing, they show that a history of hysteria is a history of how we understand the mind. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.
Author: Juvenal
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 598
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-13
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781032235868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers new insights into a largely understudied group of Greek texts preserved in selected manuscripts from the Library at Wellcome Collection, London. All chapters are illustrated with black and white and colour figures, highlighting some of the most significant codices in the collection.
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Publisher: CCEL
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 959
ISBN-13: 1610250699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Walter William Rouse Ball
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 576
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tomaso Garzoni
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780866984003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis translation of Tomaso Garzoni's Renaissance "best-seller" provides a rich and revealing window on 16th-century views of madness, foolishness, and social deviance. Garzoni's encyclopedic work is perhaps the most important contribution of the last half of the century to the "fools" genre to which Erasmus' Praise of Folly and Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools also belong. Garzoni provides a spoof of academic writing on madness, with extensive "reviews of the medical literature" on certain types of madness. A final, intriguing section on the varieties of madness to be found in Garzoni's female "patients" reveals much about late-Renaissance attitudes towards women. --Book Jacket.
