This master thesis aims to show how a qualitative approach to early modern medical practitioners’ perspectives can provide a basis for a better understanding of the disease of dysentery. The focus is on: 1) How the disease of dysentery was described and how the challenge of dysentery was perceived. 2) What individual measure and commitments were taken for the patients and why. 3) How the cause of the disease was understood and explained. 4) How perspectives differed between physicians and surgeons.Of particular interest when it comes to the disease of dysentery is how the disease and its cause were perceived.Eleven texts written by mainly British medical practitioners from primary sources such as reports, logbooks and letters on dysentery written during the years 1740 - 1800 have been used for close readings and a qualitative analysis was performed on the collected data.The analysis showed (i) that medical practitioners expressed considerable interest in dysentery and in trying to understand it as a great suffering for individuals, for society and for humanity as a whole. (ii) Medical practitioners took treatment measures based on how they understood the cause of the disease outbreak. Either the dysentery was referred to internal causes, as sickness in organs, especially the organs that produced bodily fluids, or it was referred to external causes, as a sickness caused by heat, cold, weather, winds, air, climate, seasons, lunar position, etc. (iii) The cause of the disease was understood and explained both as an infection and as a pre-disposition for imbalances in body fluids. (iv) Both physicians and surgeons understood that the disease of dysentery was a global phenomenon and that the disease often was connected to the climate and weather. This standpoint was based on the fact that dysentery distinguished itself as an autumnal disease. Its eruption usually began with a few scattered cases in July, then increased in August and culminated in September. Theories about the disease, its causes and treatment did not differ significantly between physicians and surgeons. However, the views of different physicians did differ.The thematic map of understanding related to disease of dysentery, shows that medical practitioners’ knowledge, theories and ideas behind the medical practice of dysentery, have an ambiguity in the view of both the dysentery and the treatment of it. This was probably due to interpretation based both on observable causes of diseases, and on a more theoretical abstract meaning, where diseases to a greater extent was understood on the basis of symptoms and signs.It is suggested that regardless of the knowledge base of the individual medical practitioner, no one represented an independent knowledge base for their treatment of dysentery; rather they participated actively with each other in a mutually constitutive way in order to shape their understanding of the dysentery. This theses’ qualitative approach, allows dysentery patients and their medical practitioners via the texts of the medical practitioners, to offer very personal accounts of a highly contagious disease.

Disease is not a unique or singular phenomenon. The medical literature contains multiple reports discussing disease interactions and co-occurrence which remains an important issue. Despite this, there has been no systematic investigation of disease co-occurrence in paleopathology. This thesis will begin to fill the gap by producing a detailed analysis of the pathological indicators for scurvy, rickets, and their co-occurrence, focussing on features of co-occurrence and their identification. The Collégiale Saint-Amé collection from 16th to 18th century Douai, France includes 48 individuals ranging from fetal to five years of age. Previous research indicated a large number of potential cases of scurvy and rickets in the juveniles (Devriendt et al. 2010). The current study identified 12 cases of possible co-occurrence based on macroscopic, radiographic, and microscopic techniques; biocultural and historical data supported disease presence. Macroscopic results indicate that lesions associated with scurvy are identifiable and the vascular system is not known to be directly affected by rickets. Rickets features are present but changes are subtle and reduced in prevalence. Radiographs demonstrate features of both diseases but the presence or absence of the line of Fraenkel, a scurvy feature, was useful in identifying the likely dominant disease process. Diagenetic change significantly impacted microscopic investigations but the technique provided some supporting evidence for the presence of rickets. The results clearly demonstrate that cases of co-occurrence of scurvy and rickets are present and identifiable in the archaeological record. Important factors for recognition include the sequence in which conditions develop and duration of illness. Presently only cases with moderately or better developed features of both scurvy and rickets can be identified. Use of multiple techniques was critical to observe subtle changes and build a case for disease presence. Further research on co-occurrence of any diseases is encouraged to create a fuller understanding of past disease. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

<p>This work is a local study of charity in seventeenth-century Marseilles. Civic councillors, inspired by the <em>dévot</em> movement, were the chief agents of charitable poor relief. Responding to external political pressures from the Bourbon monarchy and religious inspiration from within the community, charity became a facet of local political authority and a vehicle of social moral reform. The collective purpose of the newly emerging specialized asylums was to mould orderly and spiritually orthodox members of society. In light of the city’s ongoing hopes for civic autonomy and its unwavering commitment to Catholicism, the desire for citizen-virtue crystallizes as a struggle for distinctly <em>Marseillais</em> identity. My study emphasizes not the ‘<em>enfermement</em>’ but the concept of ‘charity’ as the central concept in treatment of the poor. The asylums were ‘rehabilitative’ rather than purely punitive. In showing charity as a mechanism of social reform – tailored to each group’s material, moral and spiritual lowliness and to the threat they allegedly posed – the study implicitly unveils the exclusionary aspects of the social mosaic.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

In my diploma thesis is analyzed economic security of the collegiate chapter house in Stará Boleslav (near Prague). After an outline of the issue in the Middle Ages, the study concentrates on an evaluation of the profitability and economic impact of the estates of the Stará Boleslav chapter in the early modern period; also other possibilities of economic security are analysed here (including financial effect resulting from the Baroque pilgrimage). In some respects, the comparison is made here between Stará Boleslav collegiate chapter and some similar Czech church institutions. The topic is examined primarily on the basis of unpublished sources (land registers, population censuses etc.; list of the most important of them is included in appendix), taking into account also printed sources and secondary literature.

Thesis title in English Constitutio Criminalis Josephina and its influence on the decision-making practice of the Court of Appeal: Sexual offences in the years 1687-1727 Abstract This paper captures the development of the juridical practice of the Prague Court of Appeal between years 1687-1727 and examines the influence of the Constitutio Criminalis Josephina of 1707/8 on this practice. The research is focused on punishing of the sexual offenses, ie adultery, bigamy, fornication, incest, rape and sodomy. The primary sources for the research are law codes, especially Koldín's Code Práva městská Království českého (1579) and "Josephina"; besides them others are used: the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina (1532), the Constitutio Criminalis Ferdinandea (1656) and Brikcí's Práva městská (1536). The practice of the appellate court itself has been examined on the basis of the books of sentences that contain the judgments of that court. Firstly, the relevant legislation of the period was described for each of the offenses and then the judicial practice was examined. The applied methodology can be qualified as quantitative-qualitative comparative analysis which makes possible recognizing the changes that occurred with the implementation of "Josephina". The main findings of the thesis suggest that "Josephina" was an...

L’historiographie ottomaniste traitant de la question de l’esclavage s’est surtout concentrée sur la période tardive de l’Empire (XIXe-XXe s.) produisant des livres de recherche et de synthèse (B. Lewis 1971, 1990 ; E. Toledano 1982, 1997, 2007 ; H. Erdem 1996 ; M. Zilfi 2010). Sur l’époque moderne, on dispose d’un corpus grandissant d’études portant sur des aspects ponctuels du phénomène servile. L’objectif de cette thèse est de réaliser la première monographie (en quelque langue que ce soit) sur l’esclavage dans la société ottomane de l’époque dite « classique » (XVIe-XVIIe s.), en s’intéressant à l’esclavage pratiqué dans l’espace privé et non au domaine, beaucoup plus étudié, des esclaves du sultan et du système d’asservissement militaro-administratif. À partir essentiellement de documents d’archives de l’État ottoman, du corpus juridique et législatif et de textes littéraires, la thèse aborde des questions d’histoire juridique, sociale, économique, culturelle et des mentalités. Les axes principaux de la recherche concernent ainsi le cadre juridique doctrinaire de l’esclavage en tant qu’institution et l’application du droit par les autorités ottomanes, le commerce des esclaves, les différentes formes de la main d’œuvre servile, l’esclavage au quotidien, le devenir des affranchis, mais aussi la représentation que se faisait l’élite ottomane de l’esclavage, sujet auquel est consacré un tiers de la thèse. Le cadre géographique couvre les « provinces centrales » (Roumélie, Istanbul, Anatolie), mais des micro-études sont consacrées à la Syrie (arabophone mais indissociable de l’Anatolie), l’Égypte, la Crimée, le Caucase et le Kurdistan. / Ottoman historiography dealing with slavery has been concentrated particularly on the later period of the Empire (19th-20th c.) and produced monographs of research and synthesis (B. Lewis 1971, 1990 ; E. Toledano 1982, 1997, 2007 ; H. Erdem 1996 ; M. Zilfi 2010).). For the early-modern period, there is a growing body of articles on localized aspects of the servile phenomenon. This dissertation’s objective is to realize the first monograph on slavery in the Ottoman society of the so-called “classical” period in whatever language it may be. The main focus is on slavery in the private space as opposed to the more well-known and studied sultan’s slaves and the military-administrative servitude (the “kul system”). Based essentially on archival documents of the Ottoman state, legal and juridical records, as well as literary texts, the dissertation tackles problems of juridical, social, economical, cultural history, as well as that of mentalities. Thus the research’s main axes concern the legal doctrine of slavery as an institution and the implementation of law by the Ottoman authorities; the slave trade; various forms of slave labour; slavery in everyday life; the fate of manumitted slaves; but also the representations of slavery by the Ottoman elites (topic to which a third of the thesis is devoted). The geographical framework covers the “central provinces” (Rumelia, Istanbul, Anatolia), but the dissertation also includes micro-studies on Syria (Arab-speaking but inseparable from Anatolia), Egypt, Crimea, Caucasus and Kurdistan.

This thesis investigates the reclamation of mires (fens and bogs) in Sweden with a focus on the early modern period. Today, the mires are valued natural habitats and their cultivation is controversial. International research describes wetland reclamation and the related knowledge transfer between European countries already from the 12th century. In Sweden, despite some early records of reclamation of mires in the 17th century, has earlier research focused on reclamation during the 19th and 20th centuries. The aim of the thesis is to study the landscape, actors and driving forces behind the early reclamation (before 1800). Understanding the early reclamation can provide a new perspective on current views on wetlands. It is also an interesting example of how the landscape is changed constantly by people with different goals through history. The subject is studied through a multimethod approach using sources such as historical maps, diaries, 17th- and 18th-century literature and place names. The main conclusions of the study are that reclamation of mires is seen already in 17th-century maps, with local wider distribution during the 18th century. The crown and scientists expressed a growing interest in reclamation of the mires from the early 18th century. Links to Europe, in particular Holland, can be seen within this discourse. In both literature and the experimentation that took place, the Swedish migrant group, the Dalecarlians, played a key role. They shared with the early Dutch groups the practical knowledge needed in major reclamation projects. Furthermore, this study shows that a number of actors assumed at various times the role of mobile innovation spreaders. Dutch farmers and experts, labour migrants, landlords and scientists all acted to spread knowledge of mire reclamation. Ample resources, networking and geographical mobility appear to have been prerequisites for all actors, from peasants to landlords, but they had different underlying motives for the practice.

This dissertation is a quantitative study of the spatial business strategies of 130 late medieval and 16th-century European commercial and banking firms, the business networks of which have been put together for a structural analysis of the European city network between ca. 1300 and ca. 1600. Concretely this investigation has been carried out through the application of an interlocking network model – specifically developed for the study of the present-day global city network produced by the office networks of business service firms – to this historical case study, in order to challenge predominantly hierarchical conceptualisations of city networks which are often influenced by central place theory. After a methodological section, in which solutions are designed for reconciling the geographical model with the particularities of historical research, a first part of the analysis focuses on agency within the network, identifying and reconstructing the multiple spatial strategies used by the different agents. In a second part the overall structure and dynamics in the network are investigated, revealing the operation of Christaller's traffic principle, as well as a cyclical variation in emphasis on continental and maritime nodes within the European city network. More generally, this study demonstrates that the functioning of dynamic transnational networks based upon complementarity and cooperation rather than competition is not limited to our contemporary globalised world, but can also be found in particular historical societies.

Submitted by Oliveira Santos Dilzaná (dilznana@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-12-12T17:25:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese - Moreno Laborda Pacheco.pdf: 5315895 bytes, checksum: b5c532db795c6925548f3e9997639c3b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Portela (anapoli@ufba.br) on 2013-12-12T18:14:30Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese - Moreno Laborda Pacheco.pdf: 5315895 bytes, checksum: b5c532db795c6925548f3e9997639c3b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-12-12T18:14:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese - Moreno Laborda Pacheco.pdf: 5315895 bytes, checksum: b5c532db795c6925548f3e9997639c3b (MD5) / O século XVII português assistiu ao florescimento de uma escrita conventual feminina concentrada majoritariamente na epistolografia, na lírica e na elaboração de registros de cariz biográfico sobre religiosas crescidas em virtude — as vidas. Mas não só. Esta tese se dedica a estudar outra fração dessa produção, mais intimamente ligada a registros memorialísticos de tipo institucional. Obras que, na ausência de um gênero ou de uma categoria taxonômica que as definam, são aqui designadas pelo termo genérico "livros de fundação". No centro da análise desenvolvida estão o Tratado da antiga e curiosa fundação do Convento de Jesus de Setúbal (redigido entre 1630 e 1644) e a Notícia da fundação do Convento da Madre de Deus das religiosas descalças de Lisboa (1639-1652). Amparando-se em obras coevas e de perfil semelhante, esta investigação lança luz sobre alguns dos modelos que influenciaram suas autoras, mas sem descurar dos diálogos que elas estabelecem com outras modalidades de escrita conventual feminina — incluídas aí aquelas de tipo administrativo, ligadas à governança dessas instituições. Por fim, o destino dessas obras também serve para perceber os múltiplos agenciamentos que interferiam no caminho das religiosas modernas até o prelo, assim como iluminar de que maneira as zonas de interação entre as culturas do impresso e do manuscrito ofereciam um caminho para evitá-los. The 17th century in Portugal saw the burgeoning of a feminine conventual writing, which focused mainly on epistolography, on lyric poems and on biographical registries of virtuous religious women – called vidas. But that was not all of it. The present work addresses another fragment of this production, closely related to institutional memorialistic registration. In the absence of a genre or a taxonomic category that defines those pieces, they are here designated by the generical expression "livros de fundação". In the core of the present analysis are two of such works: Tratado da antiga e curiosa fundação do Convento de Jesus de Setúbal (1630-1644) and Notícia da fundação do Convento da Madre de Deus das religiosas descalças de Lisboa (1639-1652). With the support of contemporaneous pieces and other works with similar structure, this investigation sheds a light on some of the models that inspired their authors, without neglecting the dialogue they have established with other modalities of feminine conventual writing — including the administrative registries, related to the governance of such institutions. Finally, the trajectories of those pieces help us perceive the multiple interferences in the path of the modern religious women's work to the press. It also illuminates the means in which the interaction between the printing culture and the manuscript culture offered ways to avoid those interferences.

The Master Thesis World of Women of the Town of Český Krumlov in 1500-1650 is based on the studies of the book of testaments, separately filed last wills and probate Inventories and the book of wedding contracts stored in the State District Archives of Český Krumlov. As another source, two types of prescriptive literature were used, namely the moralistic literature dealing with the roles of women, and the books of good deaths. Gradually the attention was paid to the transformation of sources, to women in the norms of the Early New Age, marriages and matrimony, structures of families, family relations and the social enviroments of women. The Thesis is also aimed at the piety of women, perception of death and the material culture of the women´s households.