Formed as a word and a chemical compound in an culturally diverse Europe, calomel came to America as a solution to epidemics also imported. It grew into a primary gesture, both medical and commercial, of the healing professions. Opposition to its use, founded on experience with the effects of consuming it, took the form of song and satire that echoed faintly after the drug was forgotten.

This is a study of the St. Peter's Fiesta celebrated annually by the Italian, or better, Sicilian-American community of Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA. The study deals specifically with the fiesta that took place 25-28 June 1970.

A moment of the human body came and passed in the late 19th -early 20th century. For the first time numbers of people from temperate climates travelled far to the north by land and sea and remained there for extended periods of time. Their purpose was to seek resources, animal, mineral and human, to exploit and to find a route that would bypass continental land masses and permit ocean trade of a world scope. The nature of the polar region was not known. It might be continuous land, clusters of islands, ice or open ocean. It might be inhabited or empty, but in any case it was enticing for the...

The story of a Jewish merchant in Paris who procured a host, the Blessed Sacrament of Christianity, from an indigent Christian woman and witnessed the miracle of its bleeding and indestructibility when he abused was doctrinally and economically opportune for religious and secular authorities. The burning of the Jew after he refused to convert to Christianity added to the force of the narrative. This book explores the origins of the story, presented as a historic event occurring at Eastertime, 1290, and its transformations over time and through different media. Its institutionalization split...