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Beneath the butterfly hunter's camouflage
Nabokov's Butterflies
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Leeches were not the only option
Research shows Anglo-Saxons could teach today's herbalists a thing or two about healing Although they might appear less advanced than other Dark Age cultures, it seems the Anglo-Saxons could hold...
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Four of the 11th-century therapies
* FOOT ACHE Take helenium roots and boarthroat roots and dock roots. Boil very well in butter; drain out through woollen cloth; let cool. Afterwards, smear the swelling; he will soon be better....
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Following in our ancestors' footwear
Patricia Reid has been literally following in our ancestors'footsteps. The postgraduate student at University College London has tracked a route back to the lives of ordinary people in the Dark Ages...
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Strategic siring of useful children
Why did Henry I father more children than any other English monarch? With nine sons and 11 daughters from at least seven mothers, it was suggested by his contemporary, the historian William of...
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To limn is divine, burbs are for borons
Her students worry about academic jargon, but Marjorie Garber says it is an essential scholarly tool Juxtaposition and context are everything. Readers of The New York Times in March 1999 had a chance...
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The unknown patriot
After 800 years, the tale of the Scottish 'man in the iron mask' is being told, writes Steve Farrar For more than two decades, Malcolm MacAlisdair was held prisoner in a bleak border castle,...
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European home for Medieval Congress
Until the first International Medieval Congress took place in 1994, scholars of the European Middle Ages had to travel to the United States if they wished to discuss their research with fellow...
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Flight of fancy reveals truth of first big shot
Historians authenticate the first reference to the gun with an epic re-creation. Steve Farrar reports A beautiful July afternoon on the edge of the Yorkshire town of Huddersfield. An anxious knot of...
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Justice for cockroaches
Insects and animals felt the weight of medieval law. But eviction notices granted baby mice some leeway The peasants of the village of Glurns in southern Tyrol, Italy, were in despair. Times were...
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Childish games or harbingers of conflict?
The anxious voices chimed a familiar warning: society would pay a high price if children were not stopped from playing such violent games. What prompted medieval social commentators to warn: "It is a...
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Middle Age spin and European disunion
What do football fans have in common with English kings? An identity crisis, says Steve Farrar As the dust settles on the football pitches and beery battlegrounds of Belgium and Holland, that elusive...
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Worming your way out of Anglo-Saxon literature
"A moth ate words: to me that seemed a marvellous deed when I heard of that wonder, that a worm, the thief in the darkness, devoured a man's words, his glory-fast sayings and their strong foundations...
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Jerusalem
Israel's education minister, Yossi Sarid, resigned last week, bringing to an end months of bickering and conflict between his leftwing Meretz party and one of the orthodox parties in Israel's...