Female Dress and “Slavic” Bow Fibulae in Greece
Female Dress and “Slavic” Bow Fibulae in Greece BY Florin Curta Hesperia, Vol. 74:1 (2005) Abstract: Long considered an “index fossil” for the migration…
Sewerage in Ancient and Medieval Times
Sewerage in Ancient and Medieval Times By Harold Farnsworth Gray Sewage Works Journal, Vol. 12:5 (1940) Synopsis: Examines the sanitation efforts of various civilizations…
The Medieval Peasant House
The excavations have exposed a very interesting series of building techniques and revealed that the medieval peasant houses at Wharram Percy were rebuilt about every generation suggesting that they were very flimsy structures.
Between Herbals et alia: Intertextuality in Medieval English Herbals
The study points out the close relationship between medical recipes and recipe-like passages in herbals (recipe paraphrases). The examples of recipe paraphrases show that they may have been perceived as indirect instruction.