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.

¿'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

La acción performativa en la liturgia medieval : ¿gesto o palabra?

Este trabajo analiza las características del gesto ritual propio de la liturgia medieval, en particular su carácter de “eficaz". La gestualidad litúrgica “hace cosas", al decir de John Austin; en tanto produce cambios en sus destinatarios que llevan, incluso, a provocar modificaciones permanentes en sus vidas. ¿En qué consiste esa eficacia? ¿La eficacia la posee la palabra o el gesto litúrgico? La hipótesis que se plantea es que, si bien en el discurso académico la performatividad proviene de la palabra, no sucede lo mismo en el discurso popular puesto que, en este caso, la eficacia proviene del gesto. El trabajo se estructura en cuatro partes. Luego de una introducción y presentación de la problemática, se avanza en una aproximación al tema a partir de propuestas de teorías filosóficas y antropológicas contemporáneas. Se tiene en cuenta, particularmente, a John Austin. Luego, se realiza un análisis de algunos casos en un contexto histórico. En particular se trabajan la formula consecratoria de la eucaristía y el rito del bautismo. Finalmente, se trazan los aspectos conclusivos del artículo.

Claudia D' Amico (editora). Todo y nada de todo. Selección de textos del neoplatonismo latino medieval. Buenos Aires, Winograd, 2008. ISBN 978-987-24090-0-5, 274 páginas.

Fil: Alby, Juan Carlos.