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Could a pandemic destroy an economy? Iran and the Black Death (medievalists.net)
7 points by diodorus on Nov 16, 2020 | past
Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle? (medievalists.net)
288 points by ynac on Nov 10, 2020 | past | 311 comments
Acorns in the Middle Ages (medievalists.net)
33 points by diodorus on Oct 11, 2020 | past | 23 comments
Iceland and its medieval past (medievalists.net)
58 points by bookofjoe on Sept 30, 2020 | past | 35 comments
Podcast: Environmental History and the Fall of Rome, with Kristina Sessa (medievalists.net)
1 point by ciconia on Sept 27, 2020 | past
Fatness and Thinness in the Middle Ages (medievalists.net)
76 points by ubac on June 11, 2020 | past | 61 comments
Immigrants made up 1% of the population in Medieval England, researchers find (medievalists.net)
2 points by BerislavLopac on May 2, 2020 | past
Did people in the Middle Ages take baths? (medievalists.net)
1 point by Torwald on April 2, 2020 | past
The Medieval Invention of Toilet Paper (medievalists.net)
57 points by vo2maxer on March 24, 2020 | past | 30 comments
How to Make Medieval Soap (medievalists.net)
105 points by diodorus on Sept 23, 2019 | past | 45 comments
What was the role of the blacksmith in medieval society? (medievalists.net)
89 points by petethomas on Nov 26, 2018 | past | 71 comments
How did medieval people dance? (2013) (medievalists.net)
59 points by gpvos on Sept 19, 2018 | past | 19 comments
How to Murder a Byzantine Emperor (medievalists.net)
115 points by diodorus on July 5, 2017 | past | 41 comments
The Golden Haggadah Now Online (medievalists.net)
1 point by bootload on April 7, 2017 | past
The Tablet, Medieval-Style (medievalists.net)
1 point by wyclif on July 15, 2016 | past
Can you move in armour? (medievalists.net)
1 point by jjp on July 5, 2016 | past
How did people sleep in the Middle Ages? (medievalists.net)
110 points by pepys on Jan 5, 2016 | past | 42 comments
Why Cats Were Hated in Medieval Europe (medievalists.net)
89 points by diodorus on Oct 5, 2015 | past | 78 comments
How to Make Ink in the Middle Ages (medievalists.net)
64 points by benbreen on Sept 21, 2015 | past | 18 comments
The earliest use of the F-word discovered (2015) (medievalists.net)
3 points by xefer on Sept 11, 2015 | past | 1 comment
Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages (medievalists.net)
148 points by diodorus on Sept 7, 2015 | past | 43 comments
Courtly Magic in the Middle Ages (medievalists.net)
5 points by yk on June 3, 2015 | past
Make-Up and Medicine in the Middle Ages (medievalists.net)
15 points by benbreen on Jan 15, 2015 | past
Jobs in the Middle Ages (medievalists.net)
2 points by pepys on Nov 8, 2014 | past
Voynich Manuscript partially decoded, text is not a hoax, scholar finds (medievalists.net)
197 points by sweedy on Feb 21, 2014 | past | 102 comments

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