The Healing Power of Erotic Dreams in the Age of Humanism

The article explores the perception of erotic dreams in the works of fifteenth to seventeenth century humanists. Erotic dreams were undoubtedly a delicate theme, which humanists attempted to treat scientifically, to naturalize them, chiefly in medical works. The appearance of erotic dreams (most often dreams about sexual acts) was supposed to indicate the imbalance of humor in the human body. In other words, humanists argued that they not be signs of the devil’s work, tempting people to sin, but a symptom of a diagnosable and curable physiological process. Moreover, erotic dreams did not merely help in diagnosing the imbalance of humors but could also have healing power because they could restore the appropriate proportion of the bodily fluids. Through antique, medieval and fifteenth- to seventeenth-century medical treatises, the article outlines how erotic dreams were interpreted in history, connected as much to spirituality as to bodily and mental diseases – especially to melancholy – and to love frenzy

Software Development with Continuous Delivery

Tato práce se zabývá vysvětlením zásad Continuous Delivery. Mezi ně patří automatizace nasazování, časté a opakovatelné nasazení, verzování konfigurace aplikace a infrastruktury. Jeho pomocí je možné docílit, aby doručení výsledků vývojového týmu bylo co nejefektivnější, koncový zákazník získal objednaný produkt co nejrychleji. Je kladen důraz na platformu Windows, na automatizace, ale i na šifrování citlivých dat. Z práce dozvíme, jak vyřešit verzování schémat relačních databází a jak zajistit automatizované migrace dat. Součástí práce je i postup, jak zavést krok za krokem Continuous Delivery do vývojového týmu.Purpose of this work is to make the reader familiar with the principles of Continuous Delivery. Among them belongs automated deployment, frequent and repeatable delivery, versioning of applications and infrastructures configuration. These principles allow the develop-ment team to deliver the product very effective and ensure that customers get the ordered product in time and the fastest way possible. In the focus is the Windows platform, automatization and encryption of sensitive data. We will learn how to solve the problem of versioning relational databases and how to ensure working migration of database schema and data. Part of the work is a description, how to introduce Continuous Delivery in a team.

Ioannes Pannonius levele: egy irodalmi vagy irodalomtörténeti fikció nyomában

This paper deals with the letter and identity of Ioannes Pannonius, who had a philosophical theological dispute with Marsilio Ficino. The main question is, was he a work of Ficino’s fiction or a real person? After the presentation of three hypotheses which have tried to identify the unknown Hungarian correspondent, the paper argues against them and tries to outline a fragmentary biography of a real person based on the little information we have. Considering his Florentine studies, he might have been born around 1440. His identification as János Váradi is false, and although Pajorin’s hypothesis of János Vitéz Jr. is much more plausible, there are at least as many arguments against it as there are for it. Nevertheless, that he was an invention of Ficino is the least likely

Elragadott lelkek

Enraptured souls: remembering and imagination in the Renaissance theory of furor This paper investigates the connection of the Renaissance theory of furor with the images which can be essential and timeless forms of the knowledge given by divinity. It first seeks the answer to the question how the inspired person receives the true knowledge during his enrapturing, and how he can convey this knowledge to others. Secondly, how these relate to remembering and phantasy. And finally, which antique author can be suspected behind the 16th-century theoretical writings which promulgated the primacy of the fine arts

Álom és emésztés

Dream and digestion: Antonio Gazio on the medical relationship between mental and corporeal activities The Paduan physician Antonio Gazio’s book entitled 'De somno ac eius necessitate' was published in 1539. Because of his activities in Hungary, the present paper outlines first a still incomplete and unwritten biography of him, then summarizes the views of this book on the relationship between sleep, dreams and digestion. Gazio gives practical and useful advice on eating which affects our sleeping and our dreams too. He deals with the diagnosis based on the dreams and mentions the sexual ones as well. The paper draws attention to the special significance of the sensual and voluptuous dreams that can have beneficial effects on the nocturnal digestive disorders which has not been examined to date. The question is how to avoid these nocturnal - either enjoyable or unpleasant - disorders with the help of proper nutrition according to 15th and 16th-century medicine