Stories
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Witches
Many of the women persecuted as witches in the 16th-century “witch craze” were over 50 and exhibited signs of menopause. Helen Foster suggests that the stigma of the wicked witch still affects older women and how they deal with menopause.
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Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
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The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth
Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
Catalogue
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Christophorus Parisiensis
Parisiensis, ChristophorusDate: Late 16th century - early 17th centuryReference: MSS.192-193- Books
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A catalogue of curious and valuable books,being several libraries lately purchased; among which are included those of Mr. John Chapman, Late Fellow Ofmerton-College. Also those of a Member of Parliament. Among which are, Folio. Blair's Chronolog. Tables Danville's Art Andmod Maps Churchill's Voyages, 8 vols Biographia Britannica, ... 8 vols Carte's History of England,4 vols Whitlooke's Memorials Dugdale's Summons Toparliament Bacon's, Temple's and Clarke's Workspatrick and Lowth's Comment. 4 vols Atkins'sgloucestershire Morton's Northamptonshire Spencer'spolymetis, best edit, ... Lucian, Bourdelotii Pindar West. Chart. Max. Aesehylus Stanlei Plutarchi opera, 2 vols Paris Euripides, Barnesii Polybius, Casauboni Dion. Hallicar, 2 vols Hudson Plato, Serrani, 2 vols Thucydides, Dukeri Plinius Hardini, 3 tom Biblia Polyglotta & Castell. Lex, 3 vols - Heb. Houbigant, 4 vols Constantini Lexicon Scapulae Lexicon, Elaecvir H. Stephani, Thes. Graec. 4 vols ... Locke's Works, 4 vols Shakespeare, 6 vols Oxen. Ruffhead's Statutes, 9 vols Hume's Hist, of Eng. fine Paper, 7 vols Robertson's Scotland, 2 vols - Charles V. 3 vols Virgil, Masvicii, 2 vols Claudian, Burman Theocritus, Warton, 2 vols Ovid, Burman, 4 vols Sallust, Havercamp. 2 vols Aristophanes, Burman, 2 vols Livius Crevier, 6 vols Cicero Oliveti, Paris, 9 vols - Geneva, 9 vols Demosthenes, Taylor, 2 vols Lucretius Oudendorp Suetonius Pitisci, 2 vols Octavo. ... Claudian, Livius, Lucian, &c. cum notis variorum. Xenophon, per Wells, 6 vols - Ernesti, 6 vols Universal History, 21 vols Biographical Dictionary, 12 vols Parliamentary History, 24 vols Pope's and Swift's Works Shakespeare's Theobald, 7 vols Which will be sold cheap (the Price printed in the Catalogue) on Tuesday, April 16th, 1771, at James Fletcher's, in the Turle, Oxford.
Fletcher, James, 1710-1795.Date: 1771]- Books
Children of wrath : possession, prophecy and the young in early modern England / by Anna French.
French, AnnaDate: [2015]- Books
The Tudor kitchen : what the Tudors ate & drank / Terry Breverton.
Breverton, Terry, 1946-Date: [2015]- Books
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Notes on some early references to tropical diseases / Charles Singer.
Singer, Charles, 1876-1960.Date: 1912