The Community of the Vill: A Study in the History of the Family and Village Life in Fourteenth-Century England. Edward Britton

Abstract The relationship of peasants and villagers with their animals in the premodern era is a missing chapter in the history of human-animal relations. Works on peasant culture ignore animals, and works on animals neglect their place in rural lives. This article, based on the depiction of premodern peasant and village life in hundreds of local-color novels and stories of the early nineteenth century, begins to fill in this gap in animal studies scholarship. It reveals that many of the defining boundaries between humans and animals introduced in the ideologies of modernity are fuzzy, fluid, or indeed nonexistent in premodernity, where animals are seen as subjects, companions, and, often, parts of the family.

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The Prevalence of Hereditary Antithrombin-III Deficiency in Patients with a History of Venous Thromboembolism

Thrombosis and Haemostasis ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1660123 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 54 (04) ◽

pp. 744-745 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

R Vikydal ◽

C Korninger ◽

P A Kyrle ◽

H Niessner ◽

I Pabinger ◽

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Keyword(s):

Venous Thrombosis ◽

Antithrombin Iii ◽

Positive Family History ◽

Normal Range ◽

The Family ◽

History Of ◽

Antithrombin Iii Deficiency ◽

Recurrent Venous Thrombosis ◽

Antithrombin Iii Activity ◽

Slight Deficiency

SummaryAntithrombin-III activity was determined in 752 patients with a history of venous thrombosis and/or pulmonary embolism. 54 patients (7.18%) had an antithrombin-III activity below the normal range. Among these were 13 patients (1.73%) with proven hereditary deficiency. 14 patients were judged to have probable hereditary antithrombin-III deficiency, because they had a positive family history, but antithrombin-III deficiency could not be verified in other members of the family. In the 27 remaining patients (most of them with only slight deficiency) hereditary antithrombin-III deficiency was unlikely. The prevalence of hereditary antithrombin-III deficiency was higher in patients with recurrent venous thrombosis.

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Can a Narcissist Ever Marry?: James Fisher and The Uninvited Guest

Couple and Family Psychoanalysis ◽

10.33212/cfp.v4n1.2014.86 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Brett Kahr

Keyword(s):

Clinical Material ◽

Couple Relationships ◽

Cocktail Party ◽

False Self ◽

Winter's Tale ◽

Pathological Narcissism ◽

The Family ◽

History Of ◽

Marital Partners

Few books in the burgeoning field of couple psychoanalysis have garnered as much admiration as James Fisher's The Uninvited Guest: Emerging from Narcissism towards Marriage. In this memorial essay, the author pays tribute to the late Dr Fisher and to his perennial book which explores the ways in which pathological narcissism, among other factors, inhibit the development of spousal intimacy, often destroying partnerships entirely. The author describes the creative way in which Fisher drew upon great works of literature, most notably William Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale, and T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party, as well as long-forgotten clinical material from Fisher's predecessors at the Family Discussion Bureau (forerunner of the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships), in order to understand the ways in which marital partners struggle with false self couplings. The author assesses the importance of Fisher's contribution in the context of the history of couple psychoanalysis.

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