Tag: middle ages
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October 22, 2006 08:54 AM EDT --
I found this while doing research.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medicine_in_the_middle_ages.htm
Diagnosis was influenced by astrology. Medical charts informed physicians . . . more
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January 17, 2007 02:40 PM EST --
Hear ye! Hear ye! Welcome to the Maryland Renaissance Festival, now in it's 30th season! This Fest is, of course, in a 125-acre field located on Crownsville Road, in Anne Arundel County . . . more
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August 16, 2007 09:47 AM EDT --
Amy Cohen is best known for her work as a writer on television shows like "Caroline in the City" and "Spin City." Amy recently published a memoir, The Late Bloomer's . . . more
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January 17, 2008 02:10 PM EST --
Perhaps the only people today who can understand what it was like for women in the Middle Ages are those who live under Taliban rule though, actually, even medieval life wasn't quite as tough as it . . . more
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January 24, 2008 05:05 PM EST --
Here they come. From down the road we can hear harnesses jingling and see dust rising into the warm spring sky.
Pilgrims returning after Easter in Canterbury. Tokens of the mitered, martyred . . . more
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October 22, 2006 09:52 AM EDT --
In the midst of research, I have found this list from various sources. Thought they were fun and may help a historical writer or two in the process. I am going to go search out an acorn today, but . . . more
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January 31, 2008 05:16 PM EST --
. . . to the year 1170. A screaming year. A king screamed to be rid of his archbishop. Monks of Canterbury screamed as knights spilled the brains of said archbishop onto the stones of his cathedral.
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February 05, 2008 10:00 AM EST --
Personally, I like men. I even went so far as to marry one. What's more, I've stayed married to him. Happily.
But – and I'm putting this mildly – as historians . . . more
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July 19, 2007 01:12 PM EDT --
Cat got your tongue?
So I have heard this phrase many times throughout my life, and I never really thought about what it meant or why people said it. No one really knows it's exact origin, . . . more
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August 26, 2006 05:24 PM EDT --
with princess sea (our daughter lillie), it's all about the princess. lately we've been reading more medieval books and focusing on princess-like behaviour. we've learned about chivalry, and . . . more
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January 30, 2008 09:47 AM EST --
Why I started to write historical fiction, I'm not sure. I wasn't fitted for it, having left school at sixteen to become a newspaper reporter. But, later, when I'd married a fellow journalist . . . more
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September 19, 2006 06:22 PM EDT --
I've read about him in several dharma-related books (like Suzuki's "Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist" and Thich Nhat Hahn's "Living Buddha, Living Christ"), and the more . . . more
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October 31, 2006 10:53 AM EST --
Whew, what a long subtitle! Written by John Kelly, 2005
A most interesting book, I LOVED this one! A book about the plague and dying horrible deaths shouldn't be entertaining, but that's . . . more
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June 19, 2008 03:09 PM EDT --
In about six weeks I will be on a plane headed for Germany to celebrate my Mom's 80th birthday. I am so excited!
Hunting for a good deal on plane tickets was a real eye opener. The ticket . . . more
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November 06, 2006 09:15 AM EST --
What was the judicial system like in Medieval times? Living in a castle, or in the village surrounding it?
Most medieval communities held hearings which were much speedier than today's lengthy trials. . . . more
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November 20, 2006 04:48 PM EST --
I am a castle freak. I have a kind of internal radar that leads me to them if there is one within 50 kilometres. Such was the case on a recent weekend run to Ballarat, Australia. The end-goal was to be . . . more
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April 01, 2007 09:25 AM EDT --
“You are the leader of Jack and shit, and Jack just left town”
So says our beloved hero, Ash, to Duke Henry... just before Ash gets tossed into a deep hole to fight a frightful creature that . . . more
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May 24, 2006 12:36 AM EDT --
True Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) tales from the files of Baroness Aliste von Falkenhof, aka Annina Anton:
A friend of mine, worried that the costume police might pounce upon her hand-studded . . . more
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March 08, 2007 08:51 AM EST --
Falconry, hunting with birds of prey, now more of an art than a necessity, has been practiced for over four thousand years. At first, it was a way to bring home a fresh meal that would otherwise have to . . . more
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October 26, 2006 04:18 PM EDT --
In Days of old
When Knights were bold
And toilets were not invented
They dropped their loads
Along the roads
And went on quite contented.
Author is unknown
I think my grandmother . . . more
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