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More premodern Japanese women: Much like alewives in Europe, in medieval Japan, women were among sake brewers 🍶(seen in literature & art). They, too, would gradually be edged out in the early modern period by male counterparts.

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2018-03-09

Page o' veg

Manfredus de Monte Imperiali, Liber de herbis et plantis
BNF MS Lat. 6823 🥒

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2018-01-24

In this strange but wonderful herbal, plants tower over ruined castles.

Livre des simples médecines, or l'Herboriste
BNF MS Francais 9136 (15thc)

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2018-01-02

Last chance: Arthur and Welsh Mythology | Arthur a Chwedloniaeth Cymru closes in Aberystwyth this Saturday. Or browse medieval manuscripts online: https://t.co/MB5lqiOEEp

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2017-12-13

The medieval camel: a very short exhibition (part 3)

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2017-11-12

Subterranean mandrake blues

Liber medicinae ex animalibus, Netherlands or England ca. 1175 Harley 1585

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2017-09-24

14th & 15thC images of leprosy
from
Will be discussing in class

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2017-09-06

Sunstruck

Lyon, BM, ms. 0172 (Compilation of astronomical and mathematical treatises, 15thc)

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2017-04-30

Beautiful medieval science!

Douai, Bibl. mun., ms. 0759

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2017-02-01

When having heated suction cups attached to your bottom is the only solution to a bad day at work.

BL Royal 10 EIV, f.67v

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2017-01-10

For when you're surrounded and need a crossbow to fire in every direction.

Besancon, BM, ms 1360, fol. 83v.

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2016-12-31

New post by Lydia Zeldenrust: Mélusine the half-serpent woman. https://t.co/uww8ZEh9xj

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2016-12-05