Educating physicians in seventeenth-century England - ADDENDUM
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DOI: 10.1017/s026988971900022x
Abstract: Argument The tension between theoretical and practical knowledge was particularly problematic for trainee physicians. Unlike civic apprenticeships in surgery and pharmacy, in early modern England there was no standard procedure for obtaining education in the… read more here.
Keywords: century england; england addendum; educating physicians; seventeenth century ... See more keywords
Physical Attractiveness and the Female Life-Cycle in Seventeenth-Century England
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DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2018.1518563
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article draws on evidence from diaries and letters to discuss how women of the aristocracy, gentry and middling-sorts in seventeenth-century England conceptualised their own physical attractiveness and that of other women. Moving beyond… read more here.
Keywords: physical attractiveness; seventeenth century; life cycle; century england ... See more keywords
The limits of strong government: attempts to control criminality in thirteenth-century England*
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DOI: 10.1093/hisres/htaa015
Abstract: This article examines how far centrally-directed structures of peacekeeping influenced communal reactions to criminality in thirteenth-century England, and the extent to which developments in the systems and procedures of criminal justice manifested into tighter control… read more here.
Keywords: thirteenth century; century england; criminality; control criminality ... See more keywords
The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England by Claire Preston (review)
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DOI: 10.1353/pgn.2017.0078
Abstract: specificities, may in fact be an artefact of the methodology Olsen employs. She acknowledges an explicit debt to Antonina Harbus’s ‘conceptual metaphor theory’ (which she renames ‘cognitive metaphor theory’ but elsewhere in the book refers… read more here.
Keywords: poetics scientific; seventeenth century; century england; investigation seventeenth ... See more keywords