All posts by Jess Fenn
Recipe in Margery Kempe’s Manuscript Finally Deciphered with Multi-Spectral Imaging
And the recipe is a sweet “drug” made of sugar, aniseed, fennel seed, nutmeg, cinnamon, and ginger.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/28/recipe-found-in-medieval-mystics-writings-was-probably-for-drugges-margery-kempe?CMP=share_btn_fb
Dressing like a Woman in the Middle Ages
Geneseo’s own Prof. Yvonne Seale on what it means to #dresslikeawoman:
Champing, anyone? Camp in abandoned medieval English churches.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/in-england-you-can-camp-in-abandoned-medieval-churches?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=atlas-page
English Virgin and Child on Display
The British Museum displays this 14th-century alabaster Virgin and Child. The “faces have been worn away by devotional kissing and touching.”
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/dec/10/british-museum-medieval-virgin-child-statue?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
A Medieval Caesarean in 1337
Machinima of Wulf and Eadwacer
Hi Res Photography Reveals New Details of Aberdeen Bestiary
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hi-res-photography-reveals-new-details-aberdeen-bestiary-180961011/?no-ist
The Medieval Movement of Holy Women that Shaped Belgian Cities
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-medieval-movement-of-holy-women-that-shaped-belgian-cities?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=f013fca63f-Newsletter_10_26_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-f013fca63f-63460201&ct=t%28Newsletter_10_26_2016%29&mc_cid=f013fca63f&mc_eid=c99d39ea8b
What did the Odyssey sound like when sung in ancient Greek?
http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/what-homers-odyssey-sounded-like-when-sung-in-the-original-ancient-greek.htmlᐧ