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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.

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  • Manuscript belonging to one of F. Nightingale's nuns
  • Saints, martyrs, Blessed Virgins and Nuns of the Augustinian order, in the centre, Saint Monica. Engraving by Oliviero Gatti, 1614.
  • Saints, martyrs, Blessed Virgins and Nuns of the Augustinian order, in the centre, Saint Monica. Engraving by Oliviero Gatti, 1614.
  • An eye hospital (?), Trinidad: a ward with two nuns. Photograph, 1910/1930 (?).
  • The Hôtel Dieu, Paris: interior showing patients being nursed by monks and nuns. Woodcut.
  • Val-de-Grâce, Paris: nuns walking in the gardens of the convent. Coloured line engraving.
  • Two nuns at prayer. Engraving by G.R. Levillain after Lefort after Philippe de Champaigne.
  • The Virgin and the Christ Child with two nuns. Lithograph by E. Manche after H. Memlinc.
  • Hôpital des Enfants-Trouvés, Paris: nuns and babies in the hospital. Lithograph by J.H. Marlet.
  • 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.
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