1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781934203321

Autore

Simms Norman Toby

Titolo

Marranos on the moradas [[electronic resource] ] : secret Jews and Penitentes in the southwestern United States, from 1590 to 1890 / / Norman Simms

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Academic Studies Press, 2009

ISBN

1-61811-032-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (519 p.)

Collana

Judaism and Jewish life

Disciplina

979/.004924

Soggetti

Crypto-Jews - Southwest, New - History

Jews - Southwest, New - History

Crypto-Jews - Religious life - Southwest, New

Crypto-Jews - Southwest, New - Social life and customs

Southwest, New Religious life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter I. What Did the Penitentes Really Do? -- Chapter II. Marranos, Penitentes, and the Baroque Anamorphoses in Action -- Chapter III. The Machinery of Secrets and the Machinations of Silence: Conspiracies, Contraptions and Ludibria -- Chapter IV. Crosscurrents and Undercurrents -- Chapter V. Penitentes and the Crazy Things They Do: Or, How to Be Jewish and Christian at the Same Time -- Chapter VI. Festivals of Blood Here and Bloody Trials There: Playing Roles and Rolling Along -- Chapter VII. Reaching Towards a Conclusion and Some New Questions -- Chapter VIII. Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Two groups were persecuted over the course of four hundred years in what is now the southwestern United States, each dissimulating and disguising who they truly were. Both now declare their true identities, yet raise hostility. The Penitentes are a lay Catholic brotherhood that practices bloody rites of self-flagellation and crucifixion, but claim this is a misrepresentation and that they are a community and a charitable organization. Marranos, an ambiguous and complicated population of Sephardic descendants, claim to be anousim. Both peoples have a



complex, shared history. This book disentangles the web, redefines the terms, and creates new contexts in which these groups are viewed with respect and sympathy without idealizing or slandering them. Simms uses rabbinics, literary analyses, psychohistory, and cultural anthropology to consolidate a history of mentalities.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910138348803321

Autore

Arbuthnot Patrick

Titolo

Antiviral drugs : aspects of clinical use and recent advances / / edited by Patrick Arbuthnot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

IntechOpen, 2012

[Place of publication not identified] : , : InTech, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

953-51-6885-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

616.925061

Soggetti

Antiviral agents

Virus diseases - Chemotherapy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

The articles that appear in Antiviral Drugs - Aspects of Clinical Use and Recent Advances cover several topics that reflect the varied mechanisms of viral disease pathogenesis and treatment. Clinical management and new developments in the treatment of virus-related diseases are the two main sections of the book. The first part reviews the treatment of hepatitis C virus infection, the management of virus-related acute retinal necrosis, the use of leflunomide therapy in renal transplant patients, and mathematical modeling of HIV-1 treatment responses. Basic research topics are dealt with in the second half of the book. New developments in the treatment of the influenza virus, the use of animal models for HIV-1 drug development, the use of single chain camelid antibodies against negative strand RNA viruses,



countering norovirus infection, and the use of plant extracts to treat herpes simplex virus infection are described. The content of the book is not intended to be comprehensive, but aims to provide the reader with insights into selected aspects of established and new viral therapies.