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Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is an inherited disease that affects the blood vessels, and is characterized by direct connections between arteries and veins with no intervening capillaries. These abnormal vessels may appear in the skin as tiny red dilated blood vessels in the mouth, lips, fingers and toes. The presence of these vascular lesions in the mucosa can lead to spontaneous and recurrent nose bleeding, typically beginning in mid-childhood, and this is the most common clinical manifestation of HHT, occurring in over 90% of patients. Gastrointestinal bleeding, derived from mucocutaneous vascular lesions, affects approximately 25% of patients, almost always presenting after...
The Hungry City is the story of medieval Barcelona, retold through the lens of food and famine. Between the summer of 1333 and the spring of 1334, severe weather-related grain shortages spread throughout the Mediterranean, and Barcelona's leaders struggled to bring food to the city as its residents grew increasingly desperate. Employing the perspectives of historical actors whose stories are drawn from the records of that catastrophic year, Marie A. Kelleher uses Barcelonans' varied responses to crisis in the food system to present multiple ways of understanding the city—as a physical space, as the center of a network of Mediterranean commerce, as one powerful entity within a broader monar...
Recull les ponències i comunicacions presentades i discutides dins les Jornades d’història de l’art a Catalunya, que es celebraren a Valls al juny del 2006, i que fou un marc de trobada obert entre investigadors universitaris i els estudiosos del nostre patrimoni barroc que treballen en l’àmbit dels museus, en els centres d’estudis comarcals i locals, i en el camp de la restauració-conservació. La proposta en el seu dia avançada pel Museu de Valls va ser recollida, atesa l’excel lència de la tradició artística barroca de la ciutat, amb la figura insigne de Lluís Bonifàs i Massó (1730-1786), de qui celebràvem els 275 anys del naixement, i la del seu germà Francesc Bonifàs (1735-1806), de qui es complien 200 anys de la mort. D’altra banda, l’origen vallenc de l’arquitecte i historiador Cèsar Martinell i Brunet (1888-1973), il lustre precursor en la reivindicació i en l’estudi de l’escultura i l’arquitectura barroques feien encara més adient la seu de Valls per a aquestes Jornades.
Widely associated with avant-garde gastronomy and lavish food markets, Barcelona has become a top destination for gourmands and chefs around the world, especially after the spectacular rise of chef Ferran Adrià of the famed elBulli, soon to be reborn as elBulli1846. Barcelona is a city that attracts millions of visitors in search of art and culinary experiences while cookery apprentices from around the world arrive looking to perfect their skills and expand their gastronomic horizon. The city offers an unequaled combination of restaurants, chefs, restauranteurs, media and local government initiatives to help those who arrive seeking an extraordinary culinary experience. But how has the city...
This publication by Dr. Antoni Riera Melis and Dr. Joan Santanach presents a bibliographic tour through the history of Catalan cuisine on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the first edition of the Llibre del coc, attributed to Master Robert, chef to King Ferdinand of Naples, and printed in Barcelona at the press of Carles Amorós in the year 1520. This work enjoyed great success and has had more than half a dozen editions in Catalan and a dozen in Spanish with the title: Libro de guisados. The Biblioteca de Catalunya holds a very rich bibliographic collection on gastronomy and this work shows a taste of the documentation that can be found there. The book contains interviews with specialists in the field who provide a multifaceted vision of gastronomy, among which are Salvador Capdevila, Narcís Comadira, Laura Conde, Jesús Contreras Hernández, Toni Massanés and Carme Ruscalleda. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography and a list of digital resources that contribute to the research and understanding of the Catalan gastronomic heritage.
The Crown of Aragon. A Singular Mediterranean Empire recovers the history of an empire which was of great importance in the late medieval Mediterranean, but which has since been relegated almost to oblivion by the course of history. The Crown of Aragon was a Mediterranean crossroads: between west and east for the economy, and between north and south for culture and religion, drawing in many different peoples, covering Iberia to Greece. A new vision of the Crown of Aragon as a framework of overlapping identities facilitates its historiographical recovery, showcased in the chapters of this volume which analyse the economy, institutions, social evolution, political strategy and cultural expression in literature and art of the Crown of Aragon. Contributors are David Abulafia, Lola Badia, Xavier Barral-i-Altet, Pere Benito, Maria Bonet, Jesús Brufal, Alessandra Cioppi, Damien Coulon, Luciano Gallinari, Isabel Grifoll, Adam J. Kosto, Esther Martí-Setañés, Sebastiana Nocco, Antoni Riera, Flocel Sabaté and Antoni Simon.