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After the populist mayor of London John Northampton was defeated in the election of 383 by Nicholas Brembre, Brembre ...
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Proving that "what goes around comes around"—although we should probably just allude to the medieval concept of the W...
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Despite his past as a troublemaker being involved in public brawls, even being imprisoned in the Tower for a time bec...
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1376 was a time of unrest in England under King Edward III. The court was considered corrupt, the wealth gap was incr...
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John Northampton was a citizen of London his whole life, from a decent-sized family (two brothers and two sisters). H...
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When the Mayor of London says you have to dress for diner, you dress for dinner. On the Feast of Pentecost in 1382, t...
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Sometimes the "punishment" was more of a restriction. Take the case of Thomas Welford, who sold salted herring. He ha...
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We've talked about death and destruction in war, and all sorts of dangerous and aggressive behavior that is not seen ...
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William of Malmesbury tells us that William the Conqueror fell from his horse in summer of 1087 while fighting on the...
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We started a conversation yesterday on the use of urine by medieval Western European physicians to determine health. ...
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Last post mentioned that a medieval illustrator indicated a physician by showing him holding a flask. There was a ver...
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We've been talking about blood as food, and some recipes using blood in cooking, but now let's talk about health-rela...
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We talked yesterday about preparing and preserving blood for culinary use, now let's look at some more specific uses ...
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There's a scene early in The Name of the Rose involving barrels of pigs' blood. It was autumn, and time to slaughter ...
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One of the most famous cases of anti-semitism took place in Lincoln in 1255.On 31 July 1255, a nine-year-old named Hu...
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The Lindum Colonia fell into decline after the departure of Roman Legions from Britain, but remained a viable communi...
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After 1066 there was more fighting to do. Once William the Conqueror took over England, he had to go about the island...
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In the pipe rolls (the records of royal finances in Medieval England) for 1166 is a mention of £616 12s 8d owed to Aa...
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The Exchequer of the Jews was created in 1194 by King Richard I of England in order to keep track of all records of d...
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The catalyst for the 1189 tragedy in York after the coronation of King Richard I was three men who wanted to criminal...