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New Insights Into Mortality Patterns of Early Modern Cities

Mortality Past and Present: John Graunt's Bills of Mortality - Introduction

An introduction to the conference marking the 350th anniversary of the...

The White Plague

The third lecture in the series deals with tuberculosis, of all...

Markets, Freedom and Choice

This lecture focuses on the relationship between markets and freedom...

The Great Pox

The sexually transmitted disease syphilis is generally thought to have been...

Markets in their Place: Moral Values and the Limits of Markets

The aim of this lecture is to be both self...

The Black Death

Bubonic plague first swept Europe in the age of Justinian, in...

Illuminated Psalter Manuscripts

Psalters containing the 150 Psalms were immensely popular medieval manuscripts...

Drawings in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts

Medieval drawings are frequently viewed as the poor cousins of...

The Making of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

Illuminated manuscripts are some of the most beautiful artefacts to...