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Who Holds the Record for the Most Children Born to One Woman?
A woman whose life story sounds like something out of a fairy tale or a legend. A woman who, centuries ago, accomplished ...
Manuscripts show how medieval doctors ‘cured infertility using weasels’ testicles’
One 15th Century manuscript compiled by a Carmelite friar, and translated from Latin, included a suggested infertility cure ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN3d
Women Played a More Important Role in Producing Medieval Manuscripts Than Previously Thought
During the Middle Ages, it was common to find monks huddled over their desks, painstakingly copying manuscripts by hand. But ...
Artnet News10d
Women Played a Pivotal Role as Scribes of Medieval Manuscripts, Research Reveals
A study provides new insights into the many overlooked women scribes who wrote manuscripts in the Middle Ages.
Smithsonian Magazine3d
Gutenberg Bible Reunited With Rare 15th-Century Devotional Print Once Tucked Inside Its Pages
But despite the high price, Huntington’s 15th-century Bible was incomplete. In 1825, an auctioneer had removed three devotional prints contained within the Bible’s pages since the 1450s to ...
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15th Century Flemish coffer made of oak
This coffer is the oldest item in the European Peasant Art Collection at Haslemere Educational Museum.This coffer was collected during the late Victorian period by Rev Gerald Davies, a master at ...