Download or read book Forgotten Healers written by Sharon T. Strocchia and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize A new history uncovers the crucial role women played in the great transformations of medical science and health care that accompanied the Italian Renaissance. In Renaissance Italy women played a more central role in providing health care than historians have thus far acknowledged. Women from all walks of life—from household caregivers and nurses to nuns working as apothecaries—drove the Italian medical economy. In convent pharmacies, pox hospitals, girls’ shelters, and homes, women were practitioners and purveyors of knowledge about health and healing, making significant contributions to early modern medicine. Sharon Strocchia offers a wealth of new evidence about how illness was diagnosed and treated, whether by noblewomen living at court or poor nurses living in hospitals. She finds that women expanded on their roles as health care providers by participating in empirical work and the development of scientific knowledge. Nuns, in particular, were among the most prominent manufacturers and vendors of pharmaceutical products. Their experiments with materials and techniques added greatly to the era’s understanding of medical care. Thanks to their excellence in medicine urban Italian women had greater access to commerce than perhaps any other women in Europe. Forgotten Healers provides a more accurate picture of the pursuit of health in Renaissance Italy. More broadly, by emphasizing that the frontlines of medical care are often found in the household and other spaces thought of as female, Strocchia encourages us to rethink the history of medicine.
Download or read book Finland in World War II written by Tiina Kinnunen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on innovative scholarship on Finland in World War II, this volume offers a comprehensive narrative of politics and combat, well-argued analyses of the ideological, social and cultural aspects of a society at war, and novel interpretations of the memory of war.
Download or read book Memoirs written by Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dead Dogs written by Jon Fosse and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man lives alone with his mother and his beloved dog in a house in a small village overlooking the fjord. The dog has run off and gone missing. This has never happened before... In The Dead Dogs, lives are shockingly disrupted by an event that changes the direction of their future. Fosse’s drama explores life lived in unexpected ways, with a sense of otherness pervading the present and colouring the characters’ relationships.
Download or read book The Pina Bausch Sourcebook written by Royd Climenhaga and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pina Bausch's work has had tremendous impact across the spectrum of late twentieth-century performance practice. It helped to redefine the possibilities of what both dance and theater can be. This edited collection presents a compendium of source material combined with contextual essays that serve as a base for the study of Pina Bausch's performance work. Edited by a renowned Bausch expert, Royd Climenhaga, it promises to help to open up Bausch's performative world for students, scholars and practitioners alike.
Download or read book The Tumbling Sky written by Hugh A. Halliday and published by Stittsville [Ont.] : Canada's Wings. This book was released on 1978 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beretter om canadiske piloter, der udmærkede sig under 2. verdenskrig hovedsagelig i RAF.
Download or read book Rhythm n Jazz written by Alain Caron and published by Norac Editions / Norac Pub. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scores, parts and MASTER TRACKS Alain Caron's CD Rhythm'n Jazz. The play-along CD contains the exact tracks that appear on Alain's album -- minus the bass -- so you can play with these great musicians. Songs include: The Bump * Fat Cat * District 6 * Slam the Clown * Little Miss Match * I.C.U. * Cherokee Drive * Fight of the Bumble Bee * Donna Lee * Intuitions.
Download or read book Forgotten Italians written by Konrad Eisenbichler and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarship on Italian emigration has generally omitted the Julian-Dalmatians, a group of Italians from Istria and Dalmatia, two regions that, in the wake of World War Two, were ceded by Italy to Yugoslavia as part of its war reparations to that country. Though Italians by language culture, and traditions, it seems that this group has been conveniently excised from history. And yet, Julian-Dalmatians constitute an important element in twentieth-century Italian history and represent a unique aspect of both Italian culture and emigration. This ground-breaking collection of articles from an international team of scholars opens the discussion on these "forgotten Italians" by briefly reviewing the history of their diaspora and then by examining the literary and artistic works they produced as immigrants to Canada. Forgotten Italians offers new insights into such celebrated authors as Diego Bastianutti, Mario Duliani, Caterina Edwards, and Gianni Angelo Grohovaz, as well as visual artists such as Vittorio Fiorucci and Silvia Pecota. Profoundly marked by the experience of being uprooted and forced into exile, by life in refugee camps, and by the encounter with a new culture, first-generation Julian-Dalmatians in Canada used art and writing to come to terms with their anguished situation and to rediscover their cultural roots.
Download or read book Allied Encounters written by Marisa Escolar and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention for the 2019 American Association for Italian American Book Prize (20-21st Centuries) Allied Encounters uniquely explores Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic, and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique, and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied–Italian encounter. The arrival of the Allies’ global forces in an Italy torn by civil war brought together populations that had long mythologized one another, yet “liberation” did not prove to be the happy ending touted by official rhetoric. Instead of a “honeymoon,” the Allied–Italian encounter in cities such as Naples and Rome appeared to be a lurid affair, where the black market reigned supreme and prostitution was the norm. Informed by the historical context as well as by their respective traditions, these texts become more than mirrors of the encounter or generic allegories. Instead, they are sites in which to explore repressed traumas that inform how the occupation unfolded and is remembered, including the Holocaust, the American Civil War, and European colonialism, as well as individual traumatic events like the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine and the mass civilian rape near Rome by colonial soldiers
Download or read book The Art of Objects written by Luca Cottini and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Objects explores the experimental encounter of arts and industry in Italy at the turn of the 20th century, tracing the origins of the Italian culture of design in the social and aesthetic construction of the age's most iconic industrial objects.
Download or read book Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan In Session written by Albert King and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Guitar Recorded Versions). Notes and tab for seven tracks off the collaborative album from these two blues legends: Ask Me No Questions * Blues at Sunrise * Don't Lie to Me * Match Box Blues * Overall Junction * Pride and Joy * (They Call It) Stormy Monday (Stormy Monday Blues).
Download or read book Studies on Vietnamese Language and Literature written by Nguyen Dinh Tham and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work contains over 2,500 entries to guide students and scholars interested in the languages and literature of Vietnam. The books, monographs, and journal articles considered are those written in the Western languages (especially French and English). Meticulously researched and indexed, this bibliography is both the first of its kind and an invaluable reference tool.
Download or read book Screening Religions in Italy written by Clodagh J. Brook and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion has had been foundational in shaping Italy. Home to the Vatican State, the Italian peninsula is the religious centre for one billion Catholics globally. It is also increasingly home to those of other faiths, especially Islam. Italy’s development as a contemporary post-secular and multi-religious society is fraught and fascinating. The recent resurgence of religious discourse is a sign of what German philosopher, Jürgen Habermas, has defined as the post-secular condition. Habermas and others have questioned what most people in the West had, up to a few years ago, taken for granted: the unstoppable forward march of secularization and the subsequent marginalization of religion. Instead, one of the greatest global fault-lines in the contemporary world – the divide between absolutist, extremist Islamic faith and liberal, but Christian-inflected, secular values – has religious identity at its core. The first book-length study to examine religion in contemporary Italian cinema and television, Screening Religions in Italy spans genres such as horror, comedy, hagiopics, and TV fiction, and explores both commercial and art-house filmmaking. In a discussion of films and television series that range from Moretti’s Habemus Papam to Sorrentino’s The Young Pope, the author identifies two key issues: how Italian filmmaking constructs the continuing position of religion in the public sphere and why religion persists on Italian screens.
Download or read book Clocking Out written by Karen Pinkus and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original reflection on Italy’s postwar boom considers potentials for resistance in today’s neoliberal (dis)order What can 1960s Italian cinema teach us about how to live and work today? Clocking Out challenges readers to think about labor, cinema, and machines as they are intertwined in complex ways in Italian cinema of the early ’60s. Drawing on critical theory and archival research, this book asks what kinds of fractures we might exploit for living otherwise, for resisting traditional narratives, and for anticapitalism. Italy in the 1960s was a place where the mass-producing factory was the primary mode of understanding what it meant to work, but it was also a time when things might have gone another way. This thinking and living differently appears in the cracks, lapses, or moments of film. Clocking Out is organized into scenes from an obscure 1962 Italian comedy (Renzo e Luciana, from Boccaccio 70). Reconsidering the origins of paradigms such as clocking in and out, “society is a factory,” and the gendered division of labor, Karen Pinkus challenges readers to think through cinema, enabling us to see gaps and breakdowns in the postwar order. She focuses on the Olivetti typewriter company and a little-known film from an Italian anthology movie, thinking with cinema about the power of the Autonomia movement, the refusal to work, and the questions of wages, paternalism, and sexual difference. Alternating microscopic attention to details and zooming outward, Pinkus examines rituals of production, automation, repetition, and fractures in a narrative of labor that begins in the 1960s and extends to the present—the age of the precariat, right-wing resentment, and nostalgia for an order that was probably never was.
Download or read book Divine Raiment Magical Girl Howling Moon Vol 1 written by Kenji Saito and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a field trip with their middle school classmates, childhood friends Kaguya and Himawari are abducted by the secret society Millennium. The evil organization is notorious for the havoc it's wreaked, but is it possible they're...not the bad guys? After Kaguya gets a glimpse behind the curtain, everything starts to change, and she becomes privy to the truth underneath the world she lives in. Now that she's bestowed with the power to transform into a magical girl, what path will she choose?
Download or read book Moral Combat written by Gerry Milligan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral Combat explores dozens of primary texts to ask why women's militarism became one of the central discourses of sixteenth-century Italy.
Download or read book Dieppe written by Jacques Mordal and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
