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What the nose doesn’t know
Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.
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The bishop’s profitable sex workers
How did the Church rake in revenue from 14th-century sex regulations? Kate Lister explores a bishop’s lucrative rulebook.
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Living with less for spiritual gain
Today, a minimalist lifestyle is trumpeted as a route to happiness. Find out what religious ascetics from history and modern proponents of the spartan-looking home can teach us.
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Booze and bad behaviour
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.
Catalogue
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Nuns of the battlefield / by Ellen Ryan Jolly, LL. D.
Jolly, Ellen Ryan.Date: ©1930, ©1927- E-books
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Nuns as artists : the visual culture of a medieval convent / Jeffrey F. Hamburger.
Hamburger, Jeffrey F., 1957-Date: c1997- Books
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Nuns as artists : the visual culture of a medieval convent / Jeffrey F. Hamburger.
Hamburger, Jeffrey F., 1957-Date: [1997], ©1997- Pictures
Nuns kneeling in prayer; in the foreground, a man kneeling on the ground. Etching by A. Pond, ca. 1736, after Agostino Carracci.
Carracci, Agostino, 1557-1602.Date: 1736Reference: 3015537i- Pictures
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Nuns and mourning women lamenting the death of a man laid out in an open coffin. Coloured stipple engraving by A.J. Lallemand after F. Gonin after Cominotti.
Cominotti, Giuseppe, 1792-1833.Reference: 44244i