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  • THE WORLD OF WORM: PHYSICIAN, PROFESSOR, ANTIQUARIAN, AND COLLECTOR, 1588-1654
    OLE PETER GRELL
    This monograph offers the first comprehensive treatment of the multi-faceted scholarly interests of Ole Worm, professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen. Scholarship about Worm has focused mainly on Worm’s collecting and the creation of his cabinet of curiosity, the Museum Wormianum, resulting in Worm’s rationale for his research being largely overlooked. Worm shared...

    $1,160.00

  • IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE DOSE
    OLE PETER GRELL
    This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can be transformed into medicines, while medicines can turn out to be poisons. The b...

    $1,140.00

  • CALVINIST EXILES IN TUDOR AND STUART ENGLAND
    OLE PETER GRELL
    This volume is a synthesis of the research articles of one of Europe’s leading scholars of 16th-century exile communities. It will be invaluable to the growing number of historians interested in the religious, intellectual, social and economic impact of stranger communities on the rapidly changing nation that was Elizabethan and early Stuart England. Southern England in genera...

    $1,240.00

  • HEALTH CARE AND POOR RELIEF IN 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY SOUTHERN EUROPE
    OLE PETER GRELL
    The poor and the sick-poor have always presented a problem to the governments and churches of Europe. Whose responsibility are they? Are they a wilful burden on the honest working population, or are they a necessary presence for the true Christian to live the true Christian life? In the 18th and 19th centuries what happened to the poor and the sick-poor in the north and south ...

    $1,340.00

  • HEALTH CARE AND POOR RELIEF IN 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY NORTHERN EUROPE
    OLE PETER GRELL / ANDREW CUNNINGHAM
    Throughout history governments have had to confront the problem of how to deal with the poorer parts of their population. During the medieval and early modern period this responsibility was largely borne by religious institutions, civic institutions and individual charity. By the eighteenth century, however, the rapid social and economic changes brought about by industrialisati...

    $1,480.00

  • THE IMPACT OF THE EUROPEAN REFORMATION
    OLE PETER GRELL
    Recent decades have witnessed the fragmentation of Reformation studies, with high-level research confined within specific geographical, confessional or chronological boundaries. By bringing together scholars working on a wide variety of topics, this volume counteracts this centrifugal trend and provides a broad perspective on the impact of the European reformation. The essays p...

    $1,240.00