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
Technologien des Glaubens : Schubkräfte zwischen technologischen Entwicklungen und religiösen Diskursen : Tagung veranstaltet vom Landesforschungsschwerpunkt "Aufklärung - Religion - Wissen" der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in Kooperation mit den Franckeschen Stiftungen und der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften : 24.-26. September 2015 in Halle (Saale) / herausgegeben von: Sebastian Böhmer [and 3 others].
Date: 2017- Books
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Religio medici and other essays.
Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.Date: 1906- Books
Mothers in waiting / Crystal Bowman & Meghann Bowman.
Bowman, CrystalDate: [2019]- Books
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Religio medici and other essays / by Sir Thomas Browne ; edited, with an introduction, by D. Lloyd Roberts.
Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.Date: 1892