Reduction in Northward Incursions of the South Asian Monsoon Since ~1400 AD Inferred from a Mt. Everest Ice Core

A highly resolved Mt. Everest ice core reveals a decrease in marine and increase in continental air masses related to relatively high summer surface pressure over Mongolia, and reduction in northward incursions of the summer South Asian monsoon since similar to 1400 AD. Previously published proxy records from lower sites south of the Himalayas indicate strengthening of the monsoon since this time. These regional differences are consistent with a south north seesaw in convective activity in the Asian monsoon region, and reflect a southward shift in the mean summer position of the monsoon trough since similar to 1400 AD. The change in monsoonal circulation at 1400 AD is synchronous with a reduction in solar irradiance and the onset of the LIA. This demonstrates a hemispheric scale circulation reorganization at this time, and the potential for future large shifts in monsoonal circulation.

Professors of German Universities (e.g. Cologne, Heidelberg) in Italy (1400-1550) and the Repertorium Academicum Germanicum (RAG)

The RAG’s task is to collect biographical and social data on those Theologians, Jurists, Physicians, and Masters of Arts, who studied at a university between 1250 and 1550. The information is entered into a prosopographic database that will finally cover the entire territory of the Holy Roman Empire. Non-graduated noble visitors of universities are also taken into account. The RAG, which in the end will be a “who is who” of the scholars of the Old Empire, offers divers new and interdisciplinary perspectives due to its vast collection of data. Qualitative and quantitative statements on the intellectual elite of the Empire, their European networks, as well as institutional and territorial comparisons will be possible. Thus the scholars' role in pre-modern society can be described on a firm empirical basis and explained within the framework of modern educational research, with special reference to social, cultural, and scientific history. Up to 50,000 scholars are to be expected.

Changes of olfactory abilities in relation to age: odor identification in more than 1400 people aged 4 to 80 years

The currently presented large dataset (n = 1,422) consists of results that have been assembled over the last 8 years at science fairs using the 16-item odor identification part of the "Sniffin' Sticks". In this context, the focus was on olfactory function in children; in addition before testing, we asked participants to rate their olfactory abilities and the patency of the nasal airways. We reinvestigated some simple questions, e.g., differences in olfactory odor identification abilities in relation to age, sex, self-ratings of olfactory function and nasal patency. Three major results evolved: first, consistent with previously published reports, we found that identification scores of the youngest and the oldest participants were lower than the scores obtained by people aged 20-60. Second, we observed an age-related increase in the olfactory abilities of children. Moreover, the self-assessed olfactory abilities were related to actual performance in the smell test, but only in adults, and self-assessed nasal patency was not related to the "Sniffin' Sticks" identification score.

Dierick (Dirk) Bouts (um 1400-1475): "Feier des Passahfestes"

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Jüdische Hofärzte der türkischen Sultane zwischen 1400 bis 1800 n. Chr.

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Die spanisch-jüdische Bilderbibel um 1400

Zofia Ameisenowa

Die Namen der Frankfurter Juden bis zum Jahre 1400

Isidor Kracauer

Die Namen der Frankfurter Juden bis zum Jahre 1400

Isidor Kracauer

"Cor d'acer, de carn e fust" : Ausiàs March (1400-1459)

Descripción basada en: Ausiàs March : Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional del 13 de mayo al 27 de junio. Valencia, Generalitat Valenciana, 1999, pp. 33-85

Corts en la centúria 1400 a 1500 [Manuscrito]

Alcance y contenido: Copia ms. de fragmentos de varios capitulos de las Cortes celebradas entre 1418 en Valencia y 1510 en Monzón siendo reyes Alfonso V el Magnánimo (1416-1458) y Fernando el Católico (1474-1517).