Stories
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The bishop’s profitable sex workers
How did the Church rake in revenue from 14th-century sex regulations? Kate Lister explores a bishop’s lucrative rulebook.
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Revelations of blindness in the Middle Ages
Medieval texts, from Islamic medical treatises to Christian books of miracles, reveal surprisingly varied and complex experiences of blindness. But when medieval scholar Jude Seal experienced visual impairment themselves, they gained an even deeper understanding of the lives they were studying.
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Diagnosing OCD in the past
Mining the writings of and about famous historical figures, retrospective psychologists try to diagnose their mental health problems. But, inevitably, partial evidence is open to misinterpretation.
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Considerations on the injustice and impolicy of punishing murder by death. Extracted from the American museum. With additions. By Benjamin Rush, M.D. professor of the institutes, and of clinical medicine, in the University of Pennsylvania.
Rush, Benjamin, 1745-1813.Date: May 4--M.DCC.XCII. [1792]- Books
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A sermon, occasioned by the execution of a man found guilty of murder, preached at Boston in N.E., March 11th, 1685/6 : (together with the confession, last expressions, & solemn warning of the murderer to all persons, especially to young men, to beware of those sins which brought him to his miserable end) / by Increase Mather.
Mather, Increase, 1639-1723Date: 1687- Books
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Pictures and punishment : art and criminal prosecution during the Florentine Renaissance / Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr.
Edgerton, Samuel YDate: [1985], ©1985- Books
Choosing life : a dialogue on Evangelium vitae / edited by Kevin Wm. Wildes, Alan C. Mitchell.
Date: [1997], ©1997- Pictures
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Sins and subsequent punishment in Hell. Chromolithograph.
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