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...Thinking History What do Renaissance hospitals tell us about? Not just about medicine, but also about concepts of the body to which that medicine was applied, the destiny of the soul (should the medicine not work), the priorities of the society from which the funds for the treatment were forthcoming (or extracted). But the people who documented the work at the Florentine...

...think Nature ever made a more solitary, desolate pile of rock;—it well deserves its name ofHurtado, or separated. The mountain is steep, extremely rugged, and broken, and so entirely destitute of trees, and even bushes, that we actually could not make a skewer to stretch out our meat over the fire of thistle-stalks. The strange aspect of this mountain is contrasted by...

...think about the role of music in this quintessentially British cinematic institution. We can certainly consider the musical richness of Bond’s world and the composers who have written for the series. But two things immediately spring to mind: the songs that accompany the main title, and the Bond theme. The former can be used as a barometer of public taste in popular...

...think of traditional Welsh hymns. The pairing of words and music is, however, little more than a hundred years old, while the original Welsh-language hymn has enjoyed a markedly different musical history. The relationships between texts and tunes are often complicated in the history of hymns, and this is even more the case when textual translation is added to the picture....