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May 14, 2020 · For much of the Middle Ages, the main message that churchmen gave in regard to magic was that it was foolish nonsense that didn't work. When Heinrich Kramer wrote the infamous Malleus Maleficarum in the late 15th century, his motive was to try to persuade people of the reality of witches. In fact, the book was initially condemned by the church ...
Feb 23, 2023 · Ian Mortimer. 4.01. 270 ratings43 reviews. The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe tend to think of the Middle Ages as a dark, backward and unchanging time characterised by violence, ignorance and superstition. By contrast we believe progress arose from science ...
Mar 29, 2018 · Jack Hartnell. Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different from our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention ...
Mar 23, 2017 · Europeans in the MiddleAges believed that lice were a sign of good health. Believe it or not, Europeans in the Middle-Ages didn’t wash themselves or changed their clothes more than once a year. This made stench and lice part of their everyday life. These Europeans were wearing animal furs because they actually believed that lice would jump ...
Nov 1, 2002 · This book is a history of monasticism from 500-1400 (or so). It is attempting to be thorough, but in the process it becomes very dry reading. It catalogues various monasteries and their chapter houses and their leadership, etc. often without getting at anything interesting that might be said about the thought, or the practices that made monasticism such a force during the middle ages.
The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the Middle Ages: The British Isles, 500 to 1500 (Writer's Guide to Everyday Life Series) by Sherrilyn Kenyon (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 410 ratings
by Larry D. Benson. My subject is courtly love, that strange doctrine of chivalric courtship that fixed the vocabulary and defined the experience of lovers in our culture from the latter Middle Ages until almost our own day. Some of its traces still survive -- or at least they do in the old Andy Hardy movies. if you are old enough to have seen ...
