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Proteus and the Moles
This article contributes to the history of settler colonial relations in early New England by revealing previously missed allusions in Thomas Morton's May Day poem. I uncover references to Captain Robert Gorges and the Council for New England that provide new information about the colonial history of Massachusetts from 1624 to 1627. I also demonstrate how Morton wrote his poem not only as a critique of Puritan colonial ambitions, but also as a defense of his own cavalier form of settler colonialism. In contrast to the typological and isolationist practices of the \"moles\" at New Plymouth, Morton encourages social and sexual relations with the Wampanoags in his May Day poem to promote an aristocratic and cavalier future for America. Morton poetically fashions himself a colonial Proteus, uniquely capable of adapting to the American landscape and husbanding the First Peoples in a way the Pilgrims never could.
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New world, known world : shaping knowledge in early Anglo-American writing
New World, Known World examines the works of four writers closely associated with the early period of English colonization, from 1624 to 1649: John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia, William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, Thomas Morton's New English Canaan, and Roger Williams's A Key into the Language of America (in conjunction with another of Williams's major works, The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution). David Read addresses these texts as examples of what he refers to as \"individual knowledge projects\"- the writers' attempts to shape raw information and experience into patterns and narratives that can be compared with and assessed against others from a given society's fund of accepted knowledge.
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Morton’s neuroma: who, when and how contributed to its description and treatment?
Purpose
The interdigital nerve neuroma of the forefoot is commonly known as Morton’s Neuroma. Many authors have described and treated this condition before and after Morton. This study aims to investigate the past scientific literature to better understand what comprehension and treatments have been used to master this pathology.
Methods
Historical and modern scientific accounts were searched for descriptions of interdigital nerve neuroma or metatarsalgia (as some authors described it) to have a thorough overview of the subject. The scientific literature was searched to highlight the evolution of the nomenclature and to summarise historical and current treatments, especially conservative ones.
Results
Influential authors described the interdigital nerve neuroma and its symptoms. Durlacher, the King’s podiatrist in England in the 1800s, was the first to understand that this was a neuralgic affection; with his practical approach, he treated the Neuroma using pressure-relieving footwear. The first anatomical description should be credited to the Italian anatomist Civinini. Morton, the American Civil War surgeon, was the first to understand the aetiology of pain better and the first to propose a surgical treatment to relieve symptoms. Tubby, the British alpine climber, linguist, archaeologist and orthopaedic surgeon, observed a nodular mass on the third common digital nerve and proposed surgical treatment with resection of the metatarso-phalangeal joint.
Conclusion
the use of a term widely accepted and recognised by all its users with a precise meaning and symbolisation makes it easily understandable and lasting. Also, if it is known that what is called Morton’s neuroma is not a neuroma but a benign perineural fibrosis of a common plantar digital nerve, the use of the terminology Morton’s neuroma is still universally accepted and recognised.
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Indians and Antiquity
Two exceptional colonial poems, Thomas Morton's version of the events around his Maypole at Merrymount and Benjamin Tompson's epics on King Philip's War, are heavily classical, especially in their descriptions of Native Americans. The essay examines the advantages that the use of classical comparisons have over the more common tropes of Biblical typology.
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Patent slipways of Bakumatsu and Meiji Japan: 1861-1900s
The paper explores patent slipways in which an inclined railway is used to haul ships from the water for repairs, and in particular those built in Japan during the Bakumatsu and Meiji periods (1860s-1910s), from the viewpoint of technology transfer from Victorian Britain. After describing the origin of patent slipways and their development in Britain, the particulars of seven patent slipways in Japan are investigated, referring to original drawings, contemporary records and published sources. Their size and power are examined and compared statistically according to an 1890 list of the world's ship-repairing facilities of the time. It is found that the patent slipways of Bakumatsu and Meiji Japan are regarded as relatively larger and more powerful than those in England and other countries. In addition, looking into their geographical locations and considering the characteristics of civil engineering works, it is found that the construction of these marine structures in nineteenth-century Japan, especially with regard to the selection and preparation of the grounds they are situated on, can be regarded as a mixture of traditional native techniques and imported western technologies.
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Equivocation, Cognition, and Political Authority in Early Modern England
The increasing critical interest paid to Roman Catholicism and in particular the place of recusancy within the political, religious, and literary world of early modern England, however, has begun to bring renewed attention to both equivocation and Robert Persons, its primary Catholic expositor.2 Critics have begun to uncover the complexity of Persons's efforts in nurturing Catholicism, and in particular the Jesuit mission to England, from the late 1580s onward, recognizing that this project was not simply a matter of doctrine or politics but of writing, one in which the struggle for souls (and by extension for more temporal allegiances) was carried out through books, pamphlets, and manuscripts that themselves display some concern with the nature of text and practices of reading.3 Equivocation itself has experienced a similar growth in critical attention, with its focus on dissimulation being used to interpret the work of John Donne and Elizabeth Cary, as well as the position of Catholic women writers negotiating the constraints of politics and gender.4 Olga Valbuena in particular has situated equivocation within a larger trend toward what she terms \"divorsive thinking,\" itself sprung initially out of the religious and political conflicts engendered by Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and the Reformation that followed (xvii).
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