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16 hours ago · Geoffrey Chaucer's Hodge of Ware, the London cook from the Canterbury Tales, is described as a sleazy purveyor of unpalatable food. French cardinal Jacques de Vitry 's sermons from the early 13th century describe sellers of cooked meat as an outright health hazard. [ 51 ]
16 hours ago · While chivalric romances abound, particularly notable literary portrayals of knighthood include The Song of Roland, Cantar de Mio Cid, The Twelve of England, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and other ...
16 hours ago · c. 134. The Death of Adolf Hitler: Unknown Documents from Soviet Archives[ a] is a 1968 book by Soviet journalist Lev Bezymenski, who served as an interpreter in the Battle of Berlin. The book gives details of the purported Soviet autopsies of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, Joseph and Magda Goebbels, their children, and General Hans Krebs.
16 hours ago · Later texts mention the Wyrds as a group, with Geoffrey Chaucer referring to them as "the Werdys that we clepyn Destiné" in The Legend of Good Women. [230] [226] [note 8] A goddess spinning appears in a bracteate from southwest Germany and a relief from Trier shows three mother goddesses, with two of them holding distaffs.
16 hours ago · Satan appears in several stories from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, [259] including "The Summoner's Prologue", in which a friar arrives in Hell and sees no other friars, [260] but is told there are millions. [260] Then Satan lifts his tail to reveal that all of the friars live inside his anus. [260]
Sep 1, 2024 · Medieval names carry a rich history that reveals much about the cultures and societies of the time. These names not only served as identifiers but also reflecte