Margam Environmental Discovery Centre [Design and construction]

In this project the challenge of design and construction of a substantial residential, educational building that has outstanding sustainable credentials set within a cultural and historic landscape is tackled but in the context of real world constraints of the necessity to build quickly and to a modest budget. The research has been conducted through a design process involving testing of architectural form, environmental performance particularly through passive measures and constructional techniques. This relies predominantly on physical modeling techniques

Both “illness and temptation of the enemy”: melancholy, the medieval patient and the writings of King Duarte of Portugal (r. 1433–38)

Recent historians have rehabilitated King Duarte of Portugal, previously maligned and neglected, as an astute ruler and philosopher. There is still a tendency, however, to view Duarte as a depressive or a hypochondriac, due to his own description of his melancholy in his advice book, the Loyal Counselor. This paper reassesses Duarte's writings, drawing on key approaches in the history of medicine, such as narrative medicine and the history of the patient. It is important to take Duarte's views on his condition seriously, placing them in the medical and theological contexts of his time and avoiding modern retrospective diagnosis. Duarte's writings can be used to explore the impact of plague, doubt and death on the life of a well-educated and conscientious late-medieval ruler

The papal state under Martin V. The administration and government. in the early fifteenth century?

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