Showing posts with label domestic life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label domestic life. Show all posts
Tuesday, 11 December 2012

To Bring on the Flowers: Medieval Women Menstruating.

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 It happened once a month for most of their adults lives. So, on a practical level, how did medieval women cope with menstruation and how ...
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Sunday, 11 November 2012

Interview with Amy Licence

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Read my interview with Mimi Moore on her interesting website "The Royal Firm": full of stories about the royals past and presents...
Saturday, 10 November 2012

Bring up the (Animal) Bodies: Martinmas Day.

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  The modern world remembers November 11 for marking the end of the First World War, but celebrations on that day were nothing new: ...
Wednesday, 7 November 2012

When breast wasn't best: Breastfeeding in Medieval and Tudor England

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                                    "Caritas" by Lucas Cranach the elder, early C16th   The medieval manuscript “Le Chanso...
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Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Tudor Women United: Birth, Misogyny and Female Space.

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                                           “Gossips are frogs, they drink and talk.” [1] Tudor men were deeply suspicious of Tudor...
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Tuesday, 28 August 2012

You are what you eat: Food and Status in Tudor Times.

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What people ate in Tudor times depended on who they were. Every aspect of the process, from the formal to the informal, was indicative...
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Saturday, 25 August 2012

A Prince’s Household in life and death: the worldly goods of Henry Fitzroy, England's illegitimate Tudor heir.

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    Henry VIII is well known for his desperate attempts to father a son. His first two wives failed in this respect; Catherine of Ara...
Wednesday, 22 August 2012

What was it like to be a child in Tudor times ?

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Today we value our children's early years as a time of innocence and important formative experiences. A huge market exists for furni...
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