The Winchester Geese were medieval prostitutes and this blog looks at how they got their name.
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Bishop of Winchester, brothel, burial, buried, church, Cross Bones, england, Knightfall, London, mcmahon, medieval, Middle Age, Obidos, prostitution, sex, sin, Southwark, stew, stews, taverns, Templar, Winchester Palace
Medieval medicine appears very strange to people today. Disease was associated with sin and wrongdoing as Tony McMahon discovers
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Anglo-Saxon, black death, Bubonic Plague, channel 4, Disease, illness, medicine, Medieval, Middle Age, Roman Empire, Tony Robinson
Stephen Pinker writes about some of the terrible and random acts of violence in medieval Europe
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Afghanistan, John, Medieval, Middle Age, nose, Pinker, punishment, Saturday, Steven Pinker, Wellington, William
Telling the time in the Middle Ages was not an exact science but there were smart ways of knowing the hour of the day
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Medieval torture and violence was shocking for its frequency with the state executing and torturing in the name of the law and crime rampant
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Category: Templar History
Tags: Ackroyd, angels, better, Daily Life, death, england, Foundation, history, Medieval, Middle Age, nature, Peter, Peter Ackroyd, Pinker, professor, Steven Pinker, Templar, torture, violence
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