Month: August 2016
We recognise modern tourist impulses and experiences in Medieval pilgrims. Our prevailing image of Medieval Europe is a static, narrow world in which most people never left their home …
Medieval Breastfeeding Royal and noble babies were almost always given to wet-nurses when they were born. Which is ironic if you consider that even then Medieval Breastfeeding chroniclers stressed …
Medieval Astrology was taken very seriously. Although some Medieval astrologers were thought to be magicians, many were highly respected scholars. Astrologers believed that the movements of the stars influenced …
The church’s stance was that Medieval marriage was okay if you weren’t strong enough to remain virginal all your life. As 1 Corinthians 7:9 puts it : “But if …
In the middles ages, red hair was considered a mark of a beastly sexual desire and moral degeneration. “Do not dye her hair red and thereby presage for her …
What sort of a man was the Medieval executioner? How did people in their communities feel about them? Was their job well-paid? For many a Medieval executioner, his career …
Many Medieval European rulers were believed to have miraculous healing powers, including the King’s Evil. The House of Habsburg could kiss stuttering away. The Monarchs of Castile could supposedly …
In medieval popular literature, men are often browbeaten by their sinful, shrewish, wandering wives. The most common symbol of the peasant woman was the distaff – a tool used …
Bet you thought that Pokémon first appeared in Japan in the 1990s. Not so, fartuous knave! The British Library has revealed that they have already caught them all – …
In Medieval times, food was medicine, religion and status. And in Medieval feasts, an art-form The Medieval poor mostly ate pottage – basically cabbage soup with some barley or …
This ancient Olympic athlete competed 2,500 years ago With the body of a Greek statue, he would have been the ideal of the Olympic style hero. While his name …
Emoji – we love ’em. The celebrity ones. The celebrity ones where the celebrity doesn’t understand emojis. Emoji for dissing celebrities.Sports star emoji. Mum emoji complete with post-partum mesh …
