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modernmedievalcuisine.com
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| | | | | What do pre-Conquest documents show about the use of parsley in early medieval England? One of the things I didn't go into much detail about in my recent post Wild about parsley? was the use of parsley in medicine in early medieval England (more familiarly, the 'Anglo-Saxon' period). So I thought I would just share... | |
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forthewynnblog.wordpress.com
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| | | | | A while ago, in my post on fruit, I mentioned that the word 'peach' entered England in the Anglo-Saxon period, even if the fruit itself probably didn't. The word is ultimately derived from persicum malum, Persian apple, indicating that the fruit entered Europe via Iran. This is the trouble with writing about Anglo-Saxon medical works... | |
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| | | | | After the invention of the printing press, old handwritten books and documents were commonly recycled as reinforcements in new bookbindings made in the 15th through 18th centuries. Now, thanks to an x-ray technique developed in the Netherlands, these hidden manuscript fragments are readable without destroying the book they're a part of. It's all possible with... | |
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www.realmofhistory.com
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| | | The history, organization, and evolution of the early medieval (Eastern Roman) Byzantine army, from circa 7th to 11th century. | ||