Published in Journal of endocrinological investigation
Ivan Mestrovic (1883-1962), a Croatian sculptor and architect, portrayed his close friend Marija Banac (born Racic) with a goiter. She died from flu in 1918 in Rome, just few days apart from her brother Edi Racic and his fiancée. In the tragic memory of the Racic family that disappeared in the burst of a terrible pandemic, Mestrovic built a church ...
The Luxatlas represents a collection of maps and structures (e.g., building, fortress, streets) combined with explanatory texts, chronological tables and images. On this basis, the historical town atlas documents historical processes of change diachronically for research purposes and education (university and school), for people interested in histo...
Le collège fétial, organe sacerdotal, fait partie des institutions archaïques majeures de Rome. La participation de ses membres à la constitution d’une pratique diplomatique proprement romaine en fait à ce titre un acteur important du développement de la jeune cité en empire territorial. Mais que savons-nous réellement de cette institution durant l...
O presente artigo analisa como as mulheres do sertão são representadas nos Jogos Digitais produzidos na Bahia. Propõe-se um estudo focado nas personagens femininas construídas pelo gameÁrida: Backland’s Awakening que retrata mulheres do sertão baiano do século XIX. Com base nos estudos de representação, identidade e no contexto sócio-histórico que ...
Thirty years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and while most former and current communist states have integrated themselves into the global economy, North Korea is still largely, and fiercely, resistant to it. It is one of the poorest countries in the world, with millions living without electricity and suffering from malnutrition...
This paper builds upon qualitative research in El Museo del Bucardo – The Bucardo Museum – an exhibition space in the village of Torla, high in the Spanish Pyrenees. The bucardo was declared extinct on 6 January 2000 and rose to international fame three years later when scientists in Zaragoza delivered a bucardo clone; this event is commonly portra...
Tel qu’il est transmis, le récit du Liber pontificalis s’arrête à la fin du IXe siècle avec les Vies d’Hadrien II et d’Étienne V, connues uniquement dans un état incomplet. La fin du LP marque une profonde césure dans l’historiographie pontificale, tant médiévale que moderne. Cette communication a pour but d’explorer la manière dont cet arrêt se pr...
Published in Journal of endocrinological investigation
In the partition of the church of San Bernardino in Caravaggio (Lombardy), Fermo Stella (c. 1490-1562) depicted a cycle of frescoes of "The Passion of Christ". In the central panel, "The Crucifixion" one of the tortures of Christ, the sponge-bearer, shows a large goiter and other signs of hypothyroidism (macroglossia, expressionless face, and puffi...
