隋唐两京寺观丛考

本文澄清隋代清禅寺遗址的性质并非僧侣墓葬,而是佛塔地宫所在。考订隋代净觉寺的位置不在曲池坊,而应在晋昌坊;崇先寺不在长安,而在洛阳。另外,本文梳理了恒济寺以及武则天外家纪念性寺观的名称沿革。     

The Poisoned Arrows of Amor: cases of syphilis from 16th-century Iceland

While syphilis spread rapidly in Europe during the late 15th and early 16th centuries, scholars have doubted that the disease reached Iceland at that time. Still, discoveries of nine cases of venereal and congenital syphilis during a recent excavation on a monastic site, Skriðuklaustur (1496–1554) in East Iceland, indicate that the disease became an epidemic there, as it did worldwide. These findings may also be regarded as an important source of information on the contacts and communications of a country, which is commonly regarded as having been socially isolated from the outer world, with its neighbouring countries during the medieval times.