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PubMed2001

Teaching with symbols tangentially related to topic: using a linked multimedia approach to enhance learning.

40 undergraduate students, none of whom were history or literature majors, attended a lecture on Medieval literature. For half the students the lecture was supplemented by two sets of slides. One set summarized course content while the second set contained slides of paintings or other forms of visual art which were only tangentially related to the topic. For the other half of the student-group, the lecture was supplemented by course content slides only. Students viewing symbolic slides had significantly higher test scores on a written 20-question multiple-choice test given immediately after the lecture.

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PubMed1984

[Surgery attributable to Abu l-Qasim in Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Parzifal'].

None of the medieval chivalresque romances deals with topics from natural science to such an extent as the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach. In the Urjans-episode this highly learned German poet describes a thoracocentesis by means of a wooden tube, which evacuates accumulated blood out of the wounded knight's chest. Due to the relief of the blood's pressure on his heart the normal circulation of his blood is restored and Urjans awakes from unconsciousness. Up to now this outstanding description of a not everyday surgical therapy could not be traced back into the history of medicine. There is, however, a striking parallel in the Chirurgia (chapter 100) of Abu l-Qasim Halaf Ibn al-'Abbas az-Zahrawi, which reads, even in details, like Wolfram's text except the fact that Wolfram takes a tube for evacuating the blood whereas Abu l-Qasim suggests a cord made of cotton. Wolfram must have had a professional knowledge of surgery, yet we do not know in which way he became acquainted with Gerard's of Cremona latin translation of his arabic source.

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PubMed2001

Introducing death: a 15th century Croatian Glagolitic literary text.

We explored the notions of life and death as perceived and presented in a 15th century Croatian literary text, Slovo Mestra Polikarpa, in which master Polikarp, a well-learned man of medieval times, engages in a lengthy dialogue with Death itself. This contrast/debate is a rare piece of medieval literature, not only by its Old Croatian language, but also by the angular Glagolitic script in which it was written. As a part of Croatian cultural heritage, it is deeply rooted in and clearly belongs to the common context of Western European medieval views on life, health, ailing, and death. A medieval perspective on such issues might be interesting to broad readership and, in many aspects, to medical professionals, whose everyday practice necessarily involves not only practical and scientific, but also moral, philosophical, and religious deliberations about life and death.

Attitude to Death↗
PubMed2004

[A report of St. Bonaventura in the mirror of the history of neurology].

Ancient and medieval literature contain few case reports of specific syndromes. But there is no lack of such accounts in theological literature, with its long tradition of gathering and documenting individual case studies involving miracle cures--a practice which stretches from the ancient sanctuaries of Asclepius to today's places of pilgrimage. Among the many miracles attributed to St. Francis, complied around 1260 by his biographer, St. Bonaventura, is the case of a young monk afflicted by a sudden hemiplegia accompanied by aphasia and mental confusion. According to legend, he was miraculously and completely healed by the appearance of St. Francis. The report can be interpreted from a number of different approaches: medical, theological, literary or even autobiographical. Neurologists may treat this "case history" as an early description of a "prolonged ischaemic neurological deficit" (PRIND).

Aphasia↗