Stories
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Spiritual joy
Spiritual joy can be a source of strength. Like the optimistic Pollyanna, there’s a lot to be said for finding reasons to rejoice, even in adversity.
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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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You, a thousand years ago
Jack Hartnell argues that, if we were transported into the medieval past, we’d find ourselves somewhere different yet strangely familiar.
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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.
Catalogue
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Akzeleration der Zeit als geschichtliches und heilsgeschichtliches Problem / von Ernst Benz.
Benz, Ernst, 1907-1978.Date: 1977- Books
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Thoughts on marriage and a single life. By John Wesley, M.A. Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxon.
Wesley, John, 1703-1791.Date: M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]- Books
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Religio medici and other essays.
Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.Date: 1906- Books
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Cheap Repository. 'tis all for the best.
More, Hannah, 1745-1833.Date: [1799?]- Books
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The living believer's view of his course: and the dying believer's confidence in his Lord. Being the substance of two sermons preached at Swanland, in the county of the town of Kingston upon Hull, September 19, 1784, occasioned by the death of Mrs. Hannah Gill, ... By George Lambert. ...
Lambert, George, 1742-1816.Date: [1784?]