In the oldest hunting manual in #England (written between 1406-13), we are taught that if “evil befalls in the ballock purse” of a dog, to boil linseed in wine, dunk a cloth diaper in it & tie it around the backside of the dog - but leave the important bits out so that he may “scombre and piss”.
Archaeologists search for King John’s lost treasure after 800 years
Archaeologists are gearing up to search for King John’s legendary lost treasure.
The saga of King John’s treasure traces back to 1216 when, amid the chaos of war, his baggage train carrying the English Crown Jewels was swallowed by the unpredictable tides of Wash Bay in Norfolk...
L’exposition du Musée de Cluny, Voyage dans le cristal, est extraordinaire ! Elle présente des objets de la Préhistoire au XXIe siècle, caractérisés par leur utilisation de ce matériau particulier. Reliquaires aux formes étonnantes, plaques gravées d’une grande finesse, montre un peu effrayante, cette très belle présentation est étonnante et fascinante.
Appel à contributions !
"Montrer les collections médiévales" -> on attend vos réflexions sur la façon d'exposer les œuvres du Moyen Âge, sur les discours induits par les expositions, les collections des œuvres de la période, etc.
Did you know that all a #medieval#woman needed to be barren-by-choice, was some grain?
Pregnancy was dangerous in the #middleages. So if a woman wanted to become barren after a difficult birth, she'd throw a handful of barley kernels into the afterbirth & that would be the years without babies.
For some historical #fun, I have checked what "a handful" looks like.
Turns out, the average barley corn weighs ~0.065mg & my hand can hold 22g.
The European Middle Ages to non-medievalists: knights, damsels, castles, jousts, vikings, and stories about dragons!
The European Middle Ages to medievalists: land charters, church councils, Latin manuscripts, corroded remnants of farming implements, and counting the animal bones in excavations of middens.
(p.s. Knights were mostly a**holes, and the Crusades were mass war crimes.)
Quite popular among several countries, there was the belief that, during childbirth, knots had to be untied.
Everything, in the house, had to be loose to ease the delivery.
Also, a broom was kept in a corner of the room – this custom was followed in #Japan, too!
#Roman husbands wrapped their wives with special belts, which then were untied, to ease the pain of the labor.
Also, in the #MiddleAges, special birth girdles¹ were used.
A giant vulva and labia, wearing a crown, and holding a crossbow and what is either a firey torch or a flogger/whip/cat of nine tails, rides on horseback
Did you know that some #medieval countries did not know queens?
A variety of #European countries had two types of rulers in the #MiddleAges: those by marriage & those by their own right (descent). If a ruler ascended the #throne by their own right, they were crowned “#king” - no matter the #gender.
Examples: Jadwiga, King of Poland (1384-1399), Anna Jagiellon, King of Poland (1575-1587), Anjou Mária, King of Hungary & Croatia (1382-1385 & 1386-1395)
Shipboard Cannon Found On The Swedish West Coast May Be Europe's Oldest! - Ancient Pages (www.ancientpages.com)
Scientists have studied what might be Europe's oldest shipboard cannon. The cannon was found in the sea off Marstrand on the Swedish west coast.