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The Recipes of Alessio Pietmontese: A Sixteenth-Century Book of Secrets
Agaynst the biting of all venomous beastes as soone as the person feeleth hymselfe bytten, with any venomous beaste (or at the leaste as soone as is possible) take greene leaves of a fyg tree, and presse the milke of them, three or foure tymes into the wound.” Read More
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Writing Queer Community: Tim Dlugos at Burns Library
In a kind of minimalist “zine” on colored construction paper, Tim Dlugos cut out a quote from a newspaper that reads “. . . The spark, the dynamo, the driving force / the podium . . . the crowd roars approval.” Read More
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Shaping Women’s History: Organizational Archives of Pine Manor College
Organizational records don’t immediately scream wicked cool archives, but they are. They can be the most fascinating sources of historical inquiry you’ll encounter. Read More
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Jesuits in the New World: Diego de Torres Bollo in Sixteenth Century Peru
Published in Italian in 1604, the second edition of Breve Relatione describes the region of Peru from the perspective of the Spanish Jesuit missionary Diego de Torres Bollo. Originally published in Rome in 1603, Breve Relatione represents one of the first printed sources of Jesuit missionary endeavors in early modern South America. Read More
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Daniel Linehan and the Weston Observatory
Twelve and a half miles northeast of Boston College’s Chestnut Hill campus is the Weston Observatory. Bought by Boston College in 1947, the observatory has been monitoring earthquakes since 1931. Currently the facility hosts instruments for the New England Seismic Network and the World-Wide Standardized Seismograph Network. Read More
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St. Patrick’s Day and Seachtain Na Gaeilge
Over the next few days, millions of people will flock to march in and watch numerous St. Patrick’s Day parades. But do you know the larger history of St. Patrick’s Day? Why do we wear green? What else does the month of March represent? Read More
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Collections We Love: Recommendations from Burns Public Services
Burns Library holds over 600 archival collections, over 215,000 volumes and hundreds of three dimensional objects ranging from a 14th century Franciscan antiphoner to the records of a “house of hospitality” founded in Roxbury in 1966. With such a range of resources, it can be difficult to know where to start! Read More
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Finding BC’s History Using the University Archives: Case in Point, Maurice Dullea, SJ.
The Burns Library reading room is the place to bring reference questions about Boston College history. Because Burns holds the BC Archives, we regularly hear from students, alumni, and other researchers who are seeking sources and information. Read More