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co-geeking.com
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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medievalbooks.nl
Written by hand, medieval manuscripts are very different fromprinted books, which started to appear after Gutenberg's mid-fifteenth-century invention of moving type. One difference in particular is important forour understanding of manuscripts. While printed books were produced in batches of a thousand or more, handwritten copieswere madeone at the time. In fact, medieval books, especially those... |
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modernmedievalcuisine.com
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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www.susanhigginbotham.com
Why Isabelle d'Angoulême is hard to love: Guest Post by Sharon Bennett Connolly - Susan Higginbotham |
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