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A COLLECTION OF REVOLTING REMEDIES FROM THE MIDDLE AGES

Jun 13, 2023

archaeology, Book Reviews, humour, Science, sources

acne, aphrodisiacs, Bodleian Library, breasts, British Library, constipation, diorrhea, earache, freckles, genitalia, haemorroids, hair growth, manuscripts, medicine, Middle English, Museum of London, nosebleeds, Oxford University, Revolting Remedies from the Middle Ages, swelling, translation

Reblogged fromA COLLECTION OF REVOLTING REMEDIES FROM THE MIDDLE AGES Revolting Remedies from the Middle Ages. Edited by Professor Daniel Wakelin. Published by the Bodleian Library Oxford. Under the Dreaming Spires of Oxford – well Oxford University to be precise – a group of students have compiled and transcribed this entertaining selection of remedies from…
WAS LAMBERT SIMNEL A TUDOR HOAX?

Jun 5, 2022

anniversaries, art, battles, buildings, law, religion, sources

“Lambert Simnel”, “Perkin”, AF Pollard, age, Arthur “Tudor”, attainder, banquets, Barrie Williams, Battle of Bosworth, Battle of StokeStoke, Bermondsey Abbey, Bernard Andre, Book of Howth, Cheneygates, Christ Church Cathedral Dublin, Christopher Urswick, Coldridge, Convocation of Canterbury, coronations, council meeting, David Baldwin, Earl of Kildare, Edward of Warwick, Edward V, Elizabeth Wydeville, Francis Viscount Lovell, Gordon Smith, Harleian Manuscript, Henry VII, heralds, House of York, imprisonment, Ireland, Jean Molinet, John Ashdown-Hill, John Earl of Lincoln, John Morton, John Yonge, Lambeth Palace, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Michael Barrett, Michael Bennett, Old St. Paul’s, Oxford University, Piel Island., Polydore Vergil, Randolph Jones, re-legitimisation, Reginald Bray, revolutions, Richard Fox, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Richmond Palace, Robert Markenfield, Robert Stillington, Sheen, Sheriff Hutton, Sir John Evans, T.B. Pugh, The Dublin King, The Heralds Memoir, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, titles, Titulus Regius, Titulus Regius 1486, treason, Wenceslaus Holler, Westminster Abbey, William Simmonds

Reblogged from A Medieval Potpourri @ sparkypus.com ‘So rude a matter and so strange a thinge, As a boy in Dublin to be made a kinge..’ * Old St Paul’s where the tragic Edward Earl of Warwick was displayed in February 1487 and with ‘Lambert Simnel’ on the 8 July 1487. ‘Old St Paul’s Cathedral Seen…
SIR THOMAS MORE , A MAN FOR ALL REASONS: SAINT OR SINNER?

Feb 7, 2019

anniversaries, religion, sources

“Perkin”, “Princes”, “The History of King Richard III”, “Tudor” Despotism, “Tudors”, Alan Grant, Anthony Woodville, Archbishop of Canterbury, bigamy, Bishop of Norwich, Carmeliano, Carthusian Monastery, Colet, Domenico Mancini, Dr. Horsey, Edward IV, Edward of Buckingham, Elizabeth Lucy, Elizabeth Wydeville, Erasmus, executions, Fabyan, Geoffrey Chaucer, Greek, Hanseatic League, Henry VII, Henry VIII, heresy, Horace Walpole, humanism, Hunne Case, John Morton, John Rous, Kincaid, King’s Bench, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lambeth Palace, Latin, law, Lollards, London Charterhouse, Lord Chancellor, Lutheran texts, More, New Inn, Oxford University, Paul Murray Kendall, Peter Ackroyd, Polydore Vergil, pre-contract, Ralph Shaa, Reformation, renaissance, Richard III, Richard Sylvester, saints, Sallust, sanctuary, satire, Sir John Harrington, Stony Stratford, Tey, The Daughter of Time, Thomas Wolsey, Threadneedle Street, Tillyard, Utopia, William Roper

‘Not exactly the horse’s mouth’ In Josephine Tey’s spellbinding novel ‘The Daughter of Time’, Detective Inspector Alan Grant has a reputation for being able to spot a villain on sight. Whilst in hospital with a broken leg, Grant is idly flipping through some old postcard portraits to while away the time. He turns over a…
A strange Reformation relic

Jul 5, 2018

humour, law, religion, Science

Act of Supremacy, Archbishop Cranmer, clerical celibacy, clerical marriage, cold weather, Edward VI, Henry VIII, Lewis Carroll, Mary I, mathematics, metaphors, novelists, Oxford University, priesthood, Reformation, thawing

Think of a cold week in this or your own country, with snow. On the last day, it thaws. You look out during the late afternoon and there remains a small patch of snow, in a seemingly random location. In a way, the English Reformation was like this. It began, arguably, in 1534. By the…
Edward & Richard in Oxford

May 20, 2018

anniversaries, battles, buildings, heraldry

“Tudor” rose, Cloisters, colleges, Duke Humphrey’s Library, Edward IV, Henry VI, Humphrey of Gloucester, Magdalene College, Oxford, Oxford University, Richard I, rose en soleil, School of Divinity, sunne in splendour, Wars of the Roses, William Orchard, William Waynflete

Oxford is well-known for its stunning medieval college buildings. It would take days, if not weeks, to carefully visit them all. Several, however, have items of particular interest to those who study the House of York and Wars of the Roses time period. The old Divinity School is an interesting stop. It was built between…

Oxford University

A COLLECTION OF REVOLTING REMEDIES FROM THE MIDDLE AGES

WAS LAMBERT SIMNEL A TUDOR HOAX?

SIR THOMAS MORE , A MAN FOR ALL REASONS: SAINT OR SINNER?

A strange Reformation relic

Edward & Richard in Oxford