There was a time when some bacon fat and flour were thought to heal a bad bruise, and internal bleeding was remedied by wearing a dried toad around one’s neck. In The Doctor, students will get the lowdown on the life of a doctor practicing during the Middle Ages. Focusing on the different beliefs and practices carried out by members of this important profession, this lively program investigates the role that religion and social status played in curing everyday maladies,
Family Business - Litigation and the Political Economies of Daily Life in Early Modern France
In seventeenth-century France, families were essential as both agents and objects in the shaping of capitalism and growth of powerful states -- phenomena that were critical to the making of the modern world. For household members, neighbors, and authorities, the family business of the management of a broad range of tangible and intangible resources -- law, borrowing, violence, and marital status among them -- was central to political stability, economic productivity and cultural morality.
Women and Work in Britain since 1840 (Women's and Gender History)
This essential student resource is the first of its kind to study this period. Working chronologically from the early 1840s up to the end of the twentieth century, it examines over 150 years of women's employment history and the struggles they have faced. With suggestions for research topics, an annotated bibliography to aid further research and a chronology of important events which places the subject in a broader historical context, Gerry Holloway considers how factors such as class, age, marital status, race and locality, along with wider economic and political issues, have affected women's job opportunities and status.
That medicine becomes professionalized at the very moment that literature becomes "Romantic" is an important coincidence, and James Allard makes the most of it. His book restores the physical body to its proper place in Romantic studies by exploring the status of the human body during the period.
Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives
Americans’ infatuation with their cars is critiqued in this readable treatment. Replete with the ironic and irrational aspects of owning and driving cars, it partakes of car psychology to deliver its message about the statistical costs of four-wheeled freedom. Emphasizing the attachment of values such as personal independence to car ownership, not to mention self-image and status, Lutz and Fernandez cheerily saunter through automobile advertising and movies to show how mass media exploit people’s desire to buy cars.
