Waters established the first anesthesiology residency program at the University of Wisconsin in 1927, and Virginia Apgar was one of the residents in early 1937. When she became chief of the Division of Anesthesia at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital...
“The Wheel of Fortune” and “The Treachery of Worldly Delights” from Christine de Pizan, Epitre d’Othea, by the “Epitre Master,” about 1405, a ms in which all of her works were collected.
The teaching which the Goddess Othéa reveals...
14th century (1300-1399), 15th century (1400 - 1499
1) Looting a house (late 14th c) and. 2) Assasination of John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy, in 1419. )
The scene of looting underscores the painful effects of war on civilian population and explains complaints by subjects about their...
13th century (1200 - 1299)
14th century (1300 - 1399)
The Ideal Convent is portrayed in this French ms of about 1300. In top row, Mass is being celebrated; behind the priest and his assistants stands the abbess with her crozier and the sacristan, pulling the bell ropes. One of the other nuns, with a...
14th century (1300 - 1399) 15th century (1400-1499)
Interior of Castle.
Great contrast in furnishing with more modern times lies in complete absence of chest of drawers and its derivatives, the rarity of chairs, and absence of pictures hanging on walls. For colour, main resource was textiles. Wall...
. Songe de Verger is a treatise dealing with relationship between ecclesiastical and secular power, especially between papacy and king of France. Written in Latin, it was translated into French in 1378 at order of Charles V. The writer uses dream...
