The Edifying Science. Academies, Courtly Culture and the Patronage of Science in Early-modern Portugal (1647–1720)

The Eufemiaviser and the Reception of Courtly Culture in Late Medieval Denmark – Die dänischen Eufemiaviser und die Rezeption höfischer Kultur im spätmittelalterlichen Dänemark

10.24053/9783772057502 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Middle Ages ◽

Old French ◽

Early Modern Period ◽

15Th Century ◽

Late Middle Ages ◽

Courtly Culture ◽

Old Swedish ◽

Medieval Denmark ◽

Verse Romances

This book presents texts which are a unique testimony in Danish literature between the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period: the so-called Eufemiaviser (Eufemia poems), courtly verse romances, translated into Danish via Old French and Old Swedish sources in the later part of the 15th century. These texts have hardly been studied in Scandinavian research so far.

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Imagining Indian Medicine

Asian Medicine ◽

10.1163/15734218-12341462 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 83-106

Author(s):

Sabrina Datoo

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Cultural History ◽

Colonial Period ◽

Indian Policy ◽

Indigenous Medicine ◽

Policy Documents ◽

Main Text ◽

Courtly Culture ◽

Close Analysis ◽

Indian Medicine

Abstract In 1923, the Presidency of Madras published The Report of the Committee on the Indigenous Systems of Medicine, the first of many Indian policy documents to regulate indigenous medicine. At first glance, the report seems to offer more evidence of the increasing entrenchment of religious nationalist positions within medical networks in the colonial period. Scholars have analyzed its main text, and a significant “Memorandum” associated with it, and found them emblematic of the formation of Hindu science in the early twentieth century. In this article, drawing on the methods of intellectual and cultural history, I conduct a close analysis of the unstudied Urdu-language sections of the report, which suggest a different interpretation. I argue that within the Urdu-language testimonies written by Hindu men, one finds a continuity with early modern medical courtly culture, whose resonances in the colonial period have largely been elided by modern historiography.

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