Although the transitions were gradual, and exact dates for the demarcation of the Middle Ages are misleading, convention often places the beginning of the period between the death of the Roman emperor Theodosius I in 395 and the fall of Rome to the Visigoths in 410. The Dark Ages, formerly...
Why were horny nuns such a stereotype of the medieval period? Well, firstly as everyone in the medieval period agreed, and as we’ve discussed before,women were by nature Very Horny. (Yes, that is a technical term.) That is why they were always running about,making dildos,cuckolding their...
Brazilwood, sappanwood, brazilin and the red dye brazilein: from textile dyeing and folk medicine to biological staining and musical instruments. Biotech Histochem. 2015;90(6):401–23. Article CAS Google Scholar Dominique C. Natural dyes: sources, traditions, technology & science. London: ...
If you want more on the alchemy/ medicine distillation crossover, an earlier period of it was that of Ar Rhazi, in Iraq in the 8/9thcenturies AD. At that point they were basically throwing anything and everything into a cucurbit and distilling it, getting all sorts of waters of dubious ...
Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Václav Smrčka Margulan Institute of Archaeology, Almaty, Kazakhstan Dmitry Voyakin N. N. Miklouho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of...
The first (or Bondurant) straightening response began a period of several hundred to 1400years of low river sinuosity which evidences a similar period of ... John Holbrook a,Whitney J. Autin b,Tammy M. Rittenour e,... - 《Tectonophysics》 被引量: 79发表: 2006年 An analysis of prehospita...
satiety and eating, burningand contact with fire, light and theappearance of the sun, death and decapitation, healingandthe drinkingofmedicine, the purgingofthe bowels and the usingofapurgative,and so ontoinclude all that is observable amongconnected things in medicine, astronomy, arts,and crafts...
Once a Master of Arts degree had been conferred, the student could leave the university or pursue further studies in one of the higher faculties, law, medicine, or theology, the last one being the most prestigious. Originally, only few universities had a faculty of theology, because the popes...
and caraways are mentioned in cookery books of the period. In France, Dijon and Angers became famous for their mustard, which was cultivated and manufactured in the neighborhood. Garlic was intensively used in cooking, and also as a medicine, especially by peasants. In towns, people enjoyed a...
There are specific features of London’s society and economy in the period around 1500 which need to be borne in mind in any consideration of the family and family structures. In the long term, between c.1380 and 1550, the framing dates for which we can make population estimates, London’...