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Anglo-Norman Medicine
Translation with original Latin text of medieval medical treatises, extending current knowledge of medieval medical science and learning.
Chaucer the Alchemist
The secrets of nature's alchemy captivated both the scientific and literary imagination of the Middle Ages. This book explores Chaucer's fascination with earth's mutability. Gabrovsky reveals that his poetry represents a major contribution to a medieval worldview centered on the philosophy of physics, astronomy, alchemy, and logic.
The Funeral Performances among the Bukusu of Kenya
This book is about interactions in the funeral context among the Bukusu people of Kenya that brings together many religions. The author describes and accounts for hybridity as it is revealed by communicative techniques used by the priest and the comforter in the two communicative genres-the sermon and the traditional public comforting-that belong to the Christian and the Traditional Bukusu religions respectively. By approaching the co-existence of the two religions from a linguistic perspective, the study aims at ascertaining the relationship between the two religions. Dissertation. (Series: Contributions to Africa Research / Beitr�¤ge zur Afrikaforschung, Vol. 84) [Subject: Anthropology, African Studies, Religious Studies, Sociology]
The New Historians of the Twelfth-century Renaissance
Examination of the striking new style of writing history in the twelfth century, by men such as Gaimar, Wace and Ambroise.
