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Medical Saints
Cosmas and Damian were martyred around the year 300 A.D. in what is now Syria. Called the Anargyroi ("without silver") because they charged no fees, they became patrons of medicine, surgery, and pharmacy and the focus of cults ranging across Europe. They were popular in Byzantine and Orthodox traditions and their shrines are numerous in Eastern Europe, southern Italy, and Sicily. The Medici family of Florence viewed the "santi medici" as patrons, and their deeds were illustrated by great Renaissance artists. In medical literature they are now revered as patrons of transplantation. Jacalyn Duffin offers a profound exploration of illness and healing experiences in contemporary society through ...
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Une amitié millénaire
La 4e de couv. indique :"Depuis la fin du premier millénaire, époque où le Septentrion se christianise, la France et la Suède entretiennent des relations suivies, plus étroites qu'on ne l'imagine d'ordinaire, et empreintes de cordialité. Sans doute les aléas de la politique internationale ont-ils parfois entraîné des refroidissements passagers, mais sans jamais vraiment altérer cette amitié séculaire dont l'ouvrage se propose de montrer la fécondité. Tous les collaborateurs, comme le note Stig Strömholm dans son Avant-Propos, ont ressenti au cours de leur travail à quel point "les relations franco-suédoises constituaient un domaine où régnait de part et d'autre une bonne v...
Antiquity
Includes section "Reviews."
