Tag: Human History
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Medieval Vampires
As Halloween has just passed, I thought it only fitting that I would do a themed blog post. At some point during my undergrad, I remember reading an article that spoke about graves found buried with things in their mouths that were believed to be graves of suspected vampires. So I thought I would dig…
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Royal People: Isabella of France, “She-Wolf of England”
As my last blog post on medieval English royals was about a woman from my masters dissertation, I thought I would continue the trend and go back to my undergraduate dissertation for the next in the series. For this we go back to the previous century, the early fourteenth century, and look at the wife…
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The Humanity of Manuscripts
Following on from my previous blog post, where I discussed the idea that the use of historical pictures in social media could highlight to modern eyes the humanity of people who lived long ago, I thought I would delve deeper into this idea by looking at examples from medieval manuscripts. During my Masters, I was…
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