The Collected Short Plays Of Thornton Wilder: Volume I : Edited By Donald Gallup and A. Tappan Wilder: With Additional Material By F.J. O'neil

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911099054603321
• Autore: Wilder Thornton
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Theatre Communications Group, 1997
• ISBN: 9781559368131; 1559368136
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 972.91064
• Soggetti: Dramatists, American; One-act plays
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Preface, Introduction and additional material omitted. Love and How to Cure It Pullman Car Hiawatha Queens of France The Seven Deadly Sins: A Ringing of Doorbells The Seven Deadly Sins: Bernice The Seven Deadly Sins: Cement Hands The Seven Deadly Sins: In Shakespeare and the Bible The Seven Deadly Sins: Someone from Assisi The Seven Deadly Sins: The Drunken Sisters The Seven Deadly Sins: The Wreck of the Five-Twenty-Five Such Things Only Happen in Books The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden The Long Christmas Dinner The Seven Ages of Man: Childhood The Seven Ages of Man: Infancy The Seven Ages of Man: The Rivers Under the Earth The Seven Ages of Man: Youth.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface by A. Tappan Wilder; Introduction by John Guare; Part I THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER AND OTHER PLAYS IN ONE ACT; The Long Christmas Dinner; Queens of France; Pullman Car Hiawatha; Love and How to Cure It; Such Things Only Happen in Books ; The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden ; Part II PLAYS FOR BLEECKER STREET (Plays in One Act for an Arena Stage); Introductory Note by Donald Gallup ; ""The Seven Deadly Sins""; The Drunken Sisters; Bernice; The Wreck on the Five-Twenty-Five; A Ringing of Doorbells ; In Shakespeare and the Bible; Someone from Assisi; Cement Hands; ""The Seven Ages of Man"" Infancy; Childhood; Youth; The Rivers Under the Earth; The Two Worlds of Thornton Wilder by John Gassner; Bibliographic and Production Notes
• Sommario/riassunto: Volume One of the collected short plays by one of the greatest American playwrights of the Twentieth Century.

Infectious Ideas : Contagion in Premodern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean / / Justin K. Stearns

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911149359403321
• Autore: Stearns Justin K. <1974->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011; ©2011
• ISBN: 1-4214-0105-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.196/9
• Soggetti: Plague - history - Spain; Plague - history - Portugal; Plague - history - Africa, Northern; Leprosy - history - Spain; Leprosy - history - Portugal; Leprosy - history - Africa, Northern; Islam - Spain - History; Islam - history - Portugal; Islam - history - Africa, Northern; Cross-Cultural Comparison - Spain; Cross-Cultural Comparison - Portugal; Cross-Cultural Comparison - Africa, Northern; Communicable diseases - Spain; Communicable diseases - Portugal; Communicable diseases - Africa, Northern; Christianity - history - Spain; Christianity - history - Portugal; Christianity - history - Africa, Northern; Medicine in literature - Spain; Medicine in literature - Portugal; Medicine in literature - Africa, Northern; Medicine - Religious aspects - Christianity - History - To 1500; Medicine - Religious aspects - Islam - History - To 1500; Epidemiology - History - To 1500; Medicine, Medieval - Western Mediterranean; Diseases - Causes and theories of causation - History - To 1500
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contagion in the commentaries on prophetic tradition -- Contagion as metaphor in Iberian Christian scholarship -- Contagion contested : Greek medical knowledge, prophetic medicine, and the first plague treatises -- Situating scholastic contagion between miasma and the evil eye -- Contagion between Islamic law and theology -- Contagion revisited : early modern Maghribi plague treatises -- Reframing Muslim and Christian views on contagion.
• Sommario/riassunto: Based on Stearns's analysis of Muslim and Christian legal, theological, historical, and medical texts in Arabic, Medieval Castilian, and Latin, Infectious Ideas is the first book to offer a comparative discussion of concepts of contagion in the premodern Mediterranean world.