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Tough time being a medieval woman

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Tony McMahon

The medieval mind had some crazy views of the medieval woman viewing her bodily functions as evil and dangerous as Tony McMahon discovers

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Category: Templar History Tags: Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Galen, Greek, Henrietta Leyser, history, medieval, middle ages, roman, woman, women

How to survive a medieval pandemic!

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Tony McMahon

Tony McMahon looks at how to survive a medieval pandemic by examining the comments and actions of people who went through the Black Death

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Category: Templar History Tags: black death, Bubonic Plague, Colorado, Coronavirus, Covid, cure, Decameron, disinfectant, flagellant, flagellation, florence, Galen, Giovanni Boccaccio, god, Hippocrates, humors, humours, Infectious disease, lockdown, lungs, medicine, Medieval, middle ages, onions, pandemic, quack, quarantine, sick