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    L’archive traduite : W. S. Merwin troubadour de Hawaii by Françoise Palleau-Papin

    Published 2017-12-01
    “…In The Folding Cliffs (1998), his epic poem about the resistance of the Hawaiian island Kaua’i to the deportation of lepers by the colonizers, Merwin translates and adapts into verse a missing or faulty archive, composing a long poem in which the English language sounds estranged from its roots, adopting a local viewpoint. …”
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    The Monsters of Geoffrey Chaucer: The Miller in The General Prologue and the Miller in The Reeve’s Tale in The Canterbury Tales by Nazan Yıldız

    Published 2019-06-01
    “…The Others of the Middle Ages were not limited to beasts, but embraced Saracens and Jews as the monstrous Others alongside heretics, pagans, homosexuals, lepers and witches. With their atypical social positions, millers were among those monstrous Others or “Them” of the Middle Ages as they could not be fitted into any of the three estates; namely the clergy, the nobility and the commoners. …”
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    The evolution of hospitals from Antiquity to the Renaissance by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

    Published 2005-06-01
    “…Specialised institutions like leper houses also originated at this time. During the Golden Age of Islam the Muslim world was clearly more advanced than its Christian counterpart with regard to the magnificent hospitals which were built in various countries, institutions which eventually became the true forerunners of the modern teaching hospital. …”
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