1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450648603321

Titolo

Between poverty and the pyre : moments in the history of widowhood / / edited by Jan Bremmer and Lourens van den Bosch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995

ISBN

1-134-88882-1

1-134-88883-X

1-280-33149-6

0-203-30853-0

0-203-03698-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BremmerJan N

BoschLourens van den <1944->

Disciplina

305.48/9654/09

Soggetti

Widowhood

Life cycle, Human

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-251) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Editors' note; WIDOWS' WORLDS Representations and realities Marjo Buitelaar; THE PUBLIC IMAGE OF THE WIDOW IN ANCIENT ISRAEL Karel van der Toorn; PAUPER OR PATRONESS The widow in the Early Christian Church Jan N.Bremmer; WIDOWS IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND Rolf H.Bremmer Jr; WIDOWS AND THE LAW The legal position of widows in the Dutch Republic during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Dieneke Hempenius-van Dijk; 'EUROPEAN' WIDOWS IN THE DUTCH EAST INDIES Their legal and social position Heleen C.Gall

WOMEN WITHOUT MEN Widows and spinsters in Britain and France in the eighteenth century Olwen HuftonNOBLE WIDOWS BETWEEN FORTUNE AND FAMILY Yme Kuiper; THE ULTIMATE JOURNEYSat and widowhood in India Lourens P. van den Bosch; WIDOWS IN ISLAM Willy Jansen; WIDOWS HIDDEN FROM VIEW The disappearance of mourning dress among Dutch widows in the twentieth century Geertje van Os; WIDOWS IN WESTERN HISTORY A select bibliography Frouke Veenstra



and Kirsten van der Ploeg; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Between Poverty and the Pyre examines the history of the experience of widowhood across different cultures. It brings together a collection of essays by historians, anthropologists and philologists. The book shows how difficult it is to define the 'typical' widow, as the experiences of these women have differed so widely, not simply because of their different time periods and locations, but also becuase of their varying legal and religious status and economic conditions. The study is diverse with subjects ranging from: *Hindu wives who followed their husbands to the pyre *

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910261140103321

Autore

Katrine L. Whiteson

Titolo

Virus Discovery by Metagenomics: The (Im)possibilities

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Frontiers Research Topics

Soggetti

Microbiology (non-medical)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Since the late 1800s, the discovery of new viruses was a gradual process. Viruses were described one by one using a suite of techniques such as (electron) microscopy and viral culture. Investigators were usually interested in a disease state within an organism, and expeditions in viral ecology were rare. The advent of metagenomics using high-throughput sequencing has revolutionized not only the rate of virus discovery, but also the nature of the discoveries. For example, the viral ecology and etiology of many human diseases are being characterized, non-pathogenic viral commensals are ubiquitous, and the description of environmental viromes is making progress. This Frontiers in Virology Research Topic showcases how metagenomic and



bioinformatic approaches have been combined to discover, classify and characterize novel viruses.