Studies bearing on the relationship between religion and violence in Islam are numerous. So are those on Ibn Khaldūn’s theory of the State, which bases the latter’s emergence on the ‘natural’ violence of peripheral tribes. This contribution aims to put the general theory that can be drawn from these studies into perspective by confronting it with s...
This paper contributes to the new climate-society literature (Carleton and Hsiang, 2016) by analyzing the role of climate in conflicts over the pre-industrial period in Europe, in the vein of the recent literature initiated by Tol and Wagner (2010) and Burke and Hsiang (2014). As far as we know, this study is the first to apply a (time-varying) cop...
Published in Culture, medicine and psychiatry
The seventeenth-century British Civil Wars had a scale and impact to rival modern conflicts and its effects extended to children as well as adults. What might be today termed "child soldiers" were found in the armies in combat and supporting roles. Many more were witnesses to the conflict or had their lives changed by its consequences. This article...
Published in Chinese journal of traumatology = Zhonghua chuang shang za zhi
It is challenging to prepare military surgeons with the skills of combat damage control surgery (CDCS). The current study aimed to establish a damage control surgery (DCS) training platform for explosive combined thoraco-abdominal injuries. The training platform established in this study consisted of 3 main components: (1) A 50 m × 50 m square yard...
Abstract The evolution of obligate kleptoparasitism, the theft of food, has led to remarkable innovations, including physical weapons and chemical signals that can evolve into chemical weapons. Stingless bees in the genus Lestrimelitta are excellent examples of this phenomenon because they are obligate kleptoparasites that no longer collect floral ...
Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the types of occupations during Franco’s dictatorship, specifically during the postwar years, in order to determine the classification and differences between genders in the daily activities of that time and observe the evolution of the gender perspective to date. Methods: Using qualitative methods...
Evidence of massacre, trauma on human skeletal remains, finds of used weapons, depictions of fighting on rock carvings and pottery, destruction of monuments, built defensive structures such as earth forts, and descriptions of warfare and violence in oral traditions point to the existence of organised warfare in pre-text societies. The aim of this c...
Published in Journal of Ancient History
This article reevaluates the origins of the First Romano-Parthian War (56/5–50 BCE) to better understand the different perspectives, policies, and objectives of the various Parthian and Roman leaders in the early and middle 50 s that helped forge the great rivalry that emerged between Parthia and Rome. This article breaks from the dominate Rome-cen...
A partir du XIIIe siècle, la Maison des comtes de Luxembourg connaît une ascension fulgurante. En 1346, Charles IV, fils de Jean, cumule les dignités de ses prédécesseurs : comte de Luxembourg, roi de Bohême, roi des Romains et empereur. L’armée accompagne cette évolution. A travers l’étude des armées, des guerres, de la conduite de la guerre, mais...
Published in The Journal of medical humanities
Nature has been widely represented in literature and culture as healing, redemptive, unspoilt, and restorative. In the aftermath of the First World War, writers grappled with long cultural associations between nature and healing. Having survived a conflict in which relations between people, and the living environment had been catastrophically ruptu...
