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Health and Well Being: A Medieval Handbook
Story posted: 16. December 2011 by Andrew Forbes
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The Tacuinum Sanitatis is a medieval handbook on Health and Well Being. First printed in Europe in 1531, it was aimed at an educated secular readership and offered concise and sensible advice on how to live a long, healthy and enjoyable life.
Four handsomely illustrated manuscripts of the Tacuinum survive, all produced in Lombardy and now housed, respectively, at libraries in Rome, Vienna, Paris and…
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Fatal Impact: Europe and the South Pacific
Story posted: 30. May 2011 by CPA Media
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Fatal Impact: Europe and the South Pacific
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Dreams of Xanadu - The Allure of Orientalism
Story posted: 28. May 2011 by CPA Media
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Dreams of Xanadu - The Allure of Orientalism
'Orientalism' is the name given to a romanticised and even meretricious vision of The East that developed following Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1799. From about this time Western adventurers and explorers began to penetrate the back-blocks of Asia and the Middle East, often followed by poets and painters. In fact this process of ‘discovery' was not only commercially driven, but also by a genuine lust…
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Women in Asian and African History
Story posted: 21. May 2011 by CPA Media
Pictures From History / Themes / WOMEN IN HISTORYWomen in Asian and African History
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It will come as no surprise that men have dominated Asian and African history just as completely as they have in Europe and the West. Indeed, perhaps even more completely. Take China, for instance – five thousand years of more-or-less continuous civilization but only one female ruler in her own right, Empress Wu Zetian (r. 690-705). Plenty of consorts and concubines, to be sure, and one…
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