Tuberculosis in early medieval Switzerland - osteological and molecular evidence

Lesions consistent with skeletal tuberculosis were found in 13 individuals from an early medieval skeletal sample from Courroux (Switzerland). One case of Pott’s disease as well as lytic lesions in vertebrae and joints, rib lesions, and endocranial new bone formation were identified. Three individuals with lesions and one without were tested for the presence of MTBC aDNA, and in two cases, evidence for MTBC aDNA was detected. Our results suggest the presence of tuberculosis in the analyzed material which is in accordance with other osteological and biomolecular research that reported high prevalence of tuberculosis in medieval skeletons.

The Medieval Quiet Period

For several centuries in early Medieval times the climate system was relatively unperturbed by natural forcing factors, resulting in a unique period of climate stability. We argue that this represents a reference state for the Common Era, well before anthropogenic forcing became the dominant driver of the climate system.

The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England

Edited by Annette Kern-Stähler, Beatrix Busse, and Wietse de Boer The essays collected in The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England examine the interrelationships between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the medieval into the early modern periods. They address canonical texts and writers in the fields of poetry, drama, homiletics, martyrology and early scientific writing, and they espouse methods associated with the fields of corpus linguistics, disability studies, translation studies, art history and archaeology, as well as approaches derived from traditional literary studies. Together, these papers constitute a major contribution to the growing field of sensorial research that will be of interest to historians of perception and cognition as well as to historians with more generalist interests in medieval and early modern England.

El método iconográfico como herramienta en la medición de la calidad en afiches callejeros de propaganda y/o culturales : iconografía en el análisis de los afiches del grupo GRAPO. Tercera parte

Con los objetivos de aportar a la Teoría del Diseño Gráfico y optimizar su práctica profesional a través de la obtención de una metodología de evaluación que mida la calidad de afiches callejeros de propaganda y/o culturales; el proyecto de investigación Imagen & Conducta 2 analizó cuantitativa y cualitativamente los niveles funcionales, operativos, contextuales y los efectos sobre el público receptor, en diversos productos gráficos, entre ellos, las series de afiches del grupo GRAPO. El novedoso método iconográfico de observación, información y comunicación empleado en el análisis de dichos afiches, complementó la información obtenida con el tradicional análisis cuantitativo.

¿'Ubi sunt' Jorge Manrique y Jorge Luis Borges? : recreación borgiana de una fórmula medieval tradicional

Fil: Lizabe, Gladys Isabel. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras