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    Homemade mincemeat the only way to go  Nov 9, 2009
    Later, as a student of medieval history, I learned a great deal about how spices and sugars were used to preserve meats during the Middle Ages, how sweets and savories were often combined, and that mincemeat was indeed made with beef and beef suet, or simply suet - the hard fat surrounding the kidneys. I never found a proper recipe for mincemeat, and until two years ago, had never made it. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Dist. 7 candidates not much alike  Oct 30, 2009
    It's like moats and castles in the middle ages, where you had all these little fiefdoms are people willing to take the moats down and put bridges up to have consolidation. K: We need to look at the expenses and try to consolidate wherever that can happen, be it manpower, equipment, capital expenses, carrying costs. (Auburn Citizen, NY)

    Brief history of men's underwear  Oct 28, 2009
    Variations on the loincloth seem to have persisted into the Middle Ages, when loose-fitting trousers called braies came into fashion. These linen duds extended from the waist to around mid-calf, and once the wearer stepped into his breeches he had to lace them tight around his waist and shins. (CNN)

    Jeer the one about Strine?  Oct 25, 2009
    In the early 1960s the humour section in bookshops was very slender and had changed little since the Middle Ages. The selection contained especially few volumes relating to the experience, common to many of the citizens, of living in this part of the world. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)

    The Anti-Capitalist Impulse on the Right  Oct 24, 2009
    England during the Middle Ages prescribed the color, material and type of clothing for people of various ranks and trades. Such laws were not necessarily rigorously enforced, but their mere existence inhibited the development of business culture. (Townhall.com)

    Joan Acocella on Hilary Mantel  Oct 12, 2009
    England thereby progressed from the Middle Ages into the modern period, and you can t make that kind of revolution without breaking eggs. Elton s research revealed, furthermore, that under Cromwell only about forty people per year were killed in the service of the Crown s political needs. (New Yorker)

    Alternatives to Halloween Candy  Oct 9, 2009
    The tradition of dressing up in costumes and going door to door on holidays to beg for treats dates back to the Middle Ages. Today, most children in the United States carry on the tradition by going trick or treating on Halloween. (Suite101.com)

    Shroud re-created  Oct 8, 2009
    Carbon dating in the 1990s suggested it dates from the Middle Ages. But John Paul II insisted it is important to learn lessons from the relic, whether or not it is genuine. (CNN -- World)

    Scientists Try to Debunk Shroud of Turin  Oct 7, 2009
    Some researchers claim that patches used in the Middle Ages to repair the cloth after a fire altered the carbon-dating results. Another study, by the Hebrew University, concluded that pollen and plant images on the shroud showed it originated in the area around Jerusalem sometime before the eighth century. (CBS News -- Sci/Tech)

    How Maurice Sendak made the world safe for monsters  Oct 4, 2009
    The Middle Ages had its Wild Things, too, but by then they were called demons. If you look closely at the phantasmagoric canvases of the Netherlandish master Hieronymous Bosch, who worked during the Renaissance but dreamt back to the medieval world, you can see them cavorting around: enormous man-eating fish, bird-headed men, and giant mice and rabbits that hopped and crawled the earth to terrify hapless mortals. (Boston Globe)

    From Junk to Giants: Berlin Hosts a Massive Puppet Show  Oct 2, 2009
    Courcoult likens it to the wandering minstrels of the Middle Ages -- except, instead of moving from village to village, his troupe travels from metropolis to metropolis. The giant puppets have danced in Nantes, France, Santiago, Chile, and London. (ABC News)

    Will the Manhattan Project Always Exist? by Sam Kean, 3 Quarks Daily  Oct 1, 2009
    Just think of the hundreds of books written in ancient Greece and Rome, and how few of those were copied down during the Middle Ages - heck, even great works by great authors were lost. And in less than 50 years, all DVDs, CDs, hard drives, tapes, etc. (Harper's Magazine)

    Dan Cruickshank  Sep 30, 2009
    In the Middle Ages, tombs were occasionally made during the lifetime of their future occupants and so were intended to act as a tool in the preparation for death ... In the Middle Ages it was only necessary to contemplate an image of one's corpse but I was now to have to sit and listen to a detached and no doubt horribly fair assessment of my life. (BBC News -- UK)

    Sustainability: It's Not About Light Bulbs  Sep 23, 2009
    In the land-based economy of the middle ages, the more land people owned, the more rent they could charge. In the capital-based economy spawned by the industrial age, the more capital people had, the more interest they could charge. (BusinessWeek)

    Labrynth at Pontiac church to help people find their way  Aug 31, 2009
    PONTIAC -- A Pontiac church is offering something popularized in the Middle Ages to enhance the spirituality of people ... Labyrinths rose to popularity during the Middle Ages, Bavaro said, when people could no longer make a religious pilgrimage to Jerusalem. (The Pantagraph newspaper)

    Whatever happened to housewives?  Aug 28, 2009
    Unbiased Male wrote on Aug 24, 2009 4:14 AM:" Nowadays we have permanent press shirts, microwave ovens, dishwashing machines, clothes washing machines, clothes dryers, and instant meals sold at markets. Housewives just sit around the house playing on their computers, getting fat, and complaining about their husbands. If they get a job it is usually writing articles about how lazy men are. The reason Archeologists find so many "artifacts" in caves is simply because women have never been good at... (Bismarck Tribune, ND)

    UAA professor traces jazz dance from Ghana to Cuba  Aug 16, 2009
    Anchorage Daily News. Find out where the fish are biting, and share your knowledge. (Anchorage Daily News)

    Cheesy Collateral Keeps Credit Flowing as Recession Bites Parmesan Makers  Aug 12, 2009
    Parmesan cheese has been used for financial operations since the Middle Ages, said Leo Bertozzi, head of Italys Parmigiano-Reggiano Producers Association. This is both due to its value, since each compact wheel holds the equivalent of 550 liters of milk, and the fact that aging takes years, making financing necessary until the product can be sold. (Bloomberg)

    4,000-year-old dye found on Egyptian artifact  Aug 11, 2009
    The find is some 700 years earlier than any previously known use of madder, which became highly popular in the Middle Ages and provides many of the red shades and glazes in the work of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. "Tracing the use of organic colorants offers a way to follow trade routes, identify relations among archaeological objects, detect forgeries and attribute works of art," Leona wrote. (MSNBC -- Environment)

    King's tower of 'bling' recreated  Jul 31, 2009
    People who thought the Middle Ages were drab and grey will be astonished by the tower's opulence, and richly-furnished and shockingly-coloured chambers, English Heritage said. Light projections of moving figures, costumed re-enactors and audio-visual technology are being used to add to the sense of stepping back in time. (BBC News -- UK)

    Top Ten Museums in Paris  Jul 31, 2009
    This museum is devoted to art from the Middle Ages and is housed in the beautiful Cluny Abbey that was built in the fifteenth century and the Roman Baths that were built in the 3rd century AD. The highlights of the collections include the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries and the frescos, including one named Love Riding a Dolphin in the Roman Baths ... There is a Unicorn Forest, a re-creation of a typical garden from the Middle Ages and a Mille Fleurs or Thousand Flowers garden that uses the... (Suite101.com)

    Restore the noble purpose of libraries  Jul 19, 2009
    In focusing on access in all its forms and hoping for the best librarians have slowly stepped away from being readers or scholars, like their forebears in the Middle Ages who could recite whole books from memory. You cannot defend what you do not know. (Yahoo News)

    Art.view: Renaissance for the Renaissance  Jul 19, 2009
    The Mus;e de Cluny in Paris, for example, which is France s National Museum of the Middle Ages, had almost 400,000 last year ... (Its partner at the Cluny focuses on cosmetics in the Middle Ages. (The Economist)

    Jacques: The plural you  Jul 9, 2009
    In the Middle Ages and through the time of Shakespeare and the King James Bible, ye was often used as the plural form of the singular, personal thou. Unlike today, thou was widely and deliberately used in familiar conversation. (Stoneham Sun, MA)

    Delamina's Ian Saude Blends Elements of Ancient Art and Culture Into His Distinctive Fine Jewelry Designs  Jul 8, 2009
    While in Katmandu, Ian began learning about the art of jewelry making from local craftsmen, many of whom still relied on ancient tools and techniques that had not changed much since the middle ages. It was this experience that served as the inspiration for his first collection, and continues to have a heavy influence on his designs. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)

    Computer Recognizes Archaeological Material And Fake Van Goghs  Jul 4, 2009
    The proof of the pudding' of his technique for automatic image analysis is a system for the automatic analysis and recognition of archaeological material such as pottery, Roman coins and glass from the Middle Ages. Van der Maaten has also successfully used the technique to distinguish forgeries and paintings by contemporaries of Van Gogh from paintings by Van Gogh himself. (Science Daily)

    UNESCO names 16 World Heritage sites, removes Dresden  Jun 29, 2009
    Brine has been extracted from the area since the Middle Ages, "if not earlier," UNESCO said. The Wadden Sea in Germany and the Netherlands was listed, with what UNESCO described as "one of the last remaining natural, large-scale, intertidal ecosystems where natural processes continue to function largely undisturbed.". (Yahoo! Asia News)

    Spain's Hercules Tower enters World Heritage List  Jun 28, 2009
    Many legends from the Middle Ages to the 19th century surround the unique Tower of Hercules as it is the only lighthouse of Greco-Roman antiquity to have retained a measure of structural integrity and functional continuity. The Swiss site of La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle watch-making town-planning consists of two towns situated close to one another in a remote environment in the Jura mountains, on land ill-suited to farming. (Xinhuanet, China)

    UNESCO adds more European sites to heritage list  Jun 28, 2009
    The Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains in eastern France, where brine has been extracted since at least the Middle Ages, was added to the World Heritage List as an extension to the site of the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senan. The committee, which continues meeting until Tuesday, has been naming new sites across the globe to the list since it began meeting last Monday. (Yahoo! Asia News)

    An interview with Caroline Moorehead, author of ‘Dancing to the Precipice’  Jun 28, 2009
    A. She was born at a time, the 1770s, that might as well have been the Middle Ages in France. Yet by the time she died, her world is one we would recognize; it had trains, telegraph. (Boston Globe)

    • Fine tenors, innovative strings  Jun 26, 2009
    The result: an astonishing palette of sounds as they play music ranging from that of the Middle Ages and Renaissance to the music of the modern masters. For her effort, Hutchins received an Honorary Fellowship from the Acoustical Society of America, an award given only 17 times since it was first presented in 1929 to Thomas Alva Edison. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)

    Blacksmith shop part of Kalona's history for almost a century  Jun 25, 2009
    By the Middle Ages, the metal working had become an art. From hinges, chains and knives to pots, locks, rivets and nails, the iron items were hammered into shape over a hot fire. (Kalona News, IA)

    Medieval Religious Art as Education  Jun 17, 2009
    The art of the Middle Ages was subordinated to the Christian experience on an everyday level and helped to educate illiterate peasants about their faith and cosmology ... Throughout the Middle Ages, it was Mary who defeated the devil, as seen in the classic story of Theophilus, who had sold his soul to the devil early in life but was rescued from hell by Mary. (Suite101.com)

    Medieval art: Images to delight  Jun 16, 2009
    The Middle Ages started around 500AD and lasted for 1,000 years. The period had no Giorgio Vasari, the Renaissance artist who publicised the magnificent achievements of his contemporaries; his book, The Lives of the Artists , is still widely read. (The Economist)

    Wilmington Memorial Library spirals through time  Jun 1, 2009
    From the Middle Ages to the 1960s and everywhere in between isn t it about time you joined in. School s almost out and the summer program starts that same day, Monday, June 15. (Wilmington Advocate, MA)

    A Case for Poetic Justice  May 30, 2009
    The classical period, similarly to the Renaissance, was strongly influenced by humanism and stood in rather sharp contrast with the Middle Ages where concern of spiritual matters overshadowed all earthly and human endeavors. Justice and Morality in the Classical Literary Period. (Suite101.com)

    Which Portugal is right for you?  May 22, 2009
    About 150 miles north, in the mountainous Beira region, is the village of Pinhel, famous for its red wines and vanilla-flavored cavaca candies -- invented by nuns from the local convents in the Middle Ages. Pinhel is a delightful maze of winding streets and makes a great base for hiking in the nearby park land, Serra da Estrela, or for visiting the C a Valley, where rock faces are inscribed with Paleolithic art. (CNN -- Travel)

    CCISD trustees approve summer programs, building repairs  May 21, 2009
    Fourth graders are into the Middle Ages and decorations on their hallway included elaborate suits of armor. The fifth graders haven t had much time for artwork, what with taking TAKS tests and getting ready to move on to junior high at Travis. (Port Lavaca Wave, TX)

    Algarve Region of Portugal's Summer...  May 2, 2009
    The Castro Marim Medieval Fair is Middle Ages-style festival, replicating the medieval era in Portugal ... The activities and sights of the Castro Marim Medieval Fair here include banquets with live, authentic Middle Ages music, street theater, and best of all, real jousting tournaments ... There are local crafts and merchandise sold that reflect both modern and Middle Ages artistic styles. (Suite101.com)

    Rick Steves: Stepping back in Vernazza  Apr 28, 2009
    ETBD staffThis small round tower was another part of Vernazza's fortifications during the Middle Ages ... In the Middle Ages, there was no beach or square. (MSNBC -- Travel)

    Becoming a Knight  Apr 28, 2009
    The knight was one of the most romanticized figures to emerge from the middle ages ... R.W. Southern, The Making of the Middle Ages ... The story of human ingenuity through the middle ages. (Suite101.com)

    Warhol to Galileo to Glyndebourne  Apr 19, 2009
    "Medievalism: Fashion's Romance with the Middle Ages": It's a paradox. Nothing's so up-to-the-minute as fashion, yet few things draw such inspiration from the past. (Boston Globe)

    St. John's handwritten Bible project nearly done  Apr 18, 2009
    In the Middle Ages, monasteries helped preserve knowledge and culture for future generations an undertaking now continued in part by the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library at St. John's ... By commissioning a handwritten Bible, St. John's revives the tradition from the Middle Ages and affirms its commitment to the study of Scripture and the book arts, according to Tim Ternes, director of The St. John's Bible. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)

    The Collection of the Muse Carnava...  Apr 11, 2009
    Paris in the Middle Ages. At the time of the author s visit to the museum in March 2009, this section was closed for refurbishment. (Suite101.com)

    Italy's churches and castles crumble in earthquake  Apr 7, 2009
    L'AQUILA, Italy - Built as a mountain stronghold during the Middle Ages, this cultural gem in central Italy has withstood sieges and battles - but its architectural treasures suffered severe damage in yesterday's quake. The city's historic center boasts buildings that represent some of the great stages of Western architecture - Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque: and much of it was turned to rubble by the predawn jolt. (Boston Globe)

    ITALY:  Across region, historic buildings seriously damaged  Apr 7, 2009
    L'Aquila, which means eagle in Italian, was built around 1240 by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II as a mountain stronghold during the Middle Ages and has many prized Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance buildings. The eagle was Frederick's emblem and reflects the city's altitude of 2,300 feet. (USA Today)

    Is Social Security a Ponzi scam?  Mar 28, 2009
    "-- Don't know if you are serious or not, but if you are, welcome back to the middle ages if this were to be the case. You know, when those born into families without money were doomed to remain poor all their lives, live in squalor and have no opportunity to improve their lot in life. ". Independent wrote on Mar 27, 2009 7:19 PM:" rooster, it doesn't even matter if they are passing the 7% on the employees. Every employer pays the 7%, there is no make believe widget company that the ones who pay... (Waterloo Courier, IO)

    A flower-veggie combo garden  Mar 25, 2009
    Rooted in the Middle Ages, this all-in-one approach enjoyed Renaissance renown at the grand French chateaux and now resonates through our own era of gloom and recession. Good that it's only March; still plenty of time to plan a garden to feed the family and nourish the soul this summer. (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)

    Polish documentary shows prewar Jewish life  Mar 21, 2009
    The word "Po-lin" in the title is Hebrew for "You will rest here" or a "Place of safe refuge," but it also means "Poland." It was Poland where Jews expelled from other parts of Europe settled during the Middle Ages, making it indeed a place of refuge for 1,000 years. But the specter of the Holocaust to come haunts the film. (Yahoo News -- Politics)

    Medieval Treasures from Cleveland M...  Mar 20, 2009
    1150-1477); and Italian and German art of the Late Middle Ages (ca ... Marriage in the Late Middle Ages ... Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, despite the absence of armor, presents an informed and valuable portrait of art and culture during the European Middle Ages, the likes of which will not be reprised anytime soon on the American East Coast. (Suite101.com)

    Hood not so good? Ancient Brits questioned outlaw  Mar 16, 2009
    Luxford said Robin Hood stories from the Middle Ages paint him as an ally of "good knights and yeomen -- salt-of-the-earth type people. But they are not so positive about his relationship with the clergy." ... "This is another piece of evidence from the Middle Ages showing he was from Sherwood," Luxford said. (Albany Times Union)

    Medieval British monks weren't Robin Hood fans  Mar 15, 2009
    Luxford said Robin Hood stories from the Middle Ages paint him as an ally of "good knights and yeomen - salt-of-the-earth type people. But they are not so positive about his relationship with the clergy.". Luxford said the note, uncovered in the margin of the "Polychronicon," a popular history book that dates from the late 1340s, is the earliest known reference to the outlaw from an English source. (AZCentral -- News)

    Inside Games: Creative Assembly  Mar 11, 2009
    Set just after the middle ages, the game puts you in charge of one of the emerging European nations as they strive to expand their empire using a combination of diplomacy, politic, and brute force. At your disposal are your subjects, who can be press-ganged into the navy, conscripted to the army, or put to work in the cities helping to fill the nation's coffers. (BBC News -- Technology)

    » Plagues erupt  Mar 7, 2009
    Brandush and Werling said their goal was to make students aware of how serious disease was in the Middle Ages and how quickly it could be transmitted. They told students those diseases are now curable. (Munster Times, IN)

    A World Lit Only by Fire by William...  Mar 6, 2009
    A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester: Tales of The Middle Ages ... Tales of The Middle Ages ... A World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester is a fascinating tale detailing the Middle Ages. (Suite101.com)

    Church columnists: March 4, 2009  Mar 4, 2009
    In the Middle Ages, Saint Francis of Assisi encouraged the popular devotion of the Stations of the Cross in churches in Europe. By using paintings or sculptures of the events of each Station, Christians could make a "virtual" pilgrimmage to the Holy Land and prayerfully reenact Christ's journey to the Cross. (Catoosa County News, GA)

    ETSU, museum present lectures on Mongolian deer stones  Mar 2, 2009
    Following Fitzhugh, Jamsranjav will speak on "New Discoveries in Mongolian Archaeology: Paleolithic to Middle Ages." Deer stones are characterized by low-relief carvings of deer with large, flowing antlers. More than 500 specimens have been found in Mongolia's grassy steppe region. (East Tennessean, TN)

    Coats of Arms for United States Cit...  Feb 16, 2009
    Heraldry is a method of identification rooted in the Middle Ages. Knights were identified by the arms displayed on their shields or the crest on their helmets. (Suite101.com)

    Vendors play big part of Olustee festival  Feb 14, 2009
    Another vendor in downtown mixes the stylish weaponry of the middle ages and days of swashbuckling with a history lesson. Samhaim Ostara and his Shop of Legends specializes in various wooden swords and fairy wings. (Lake City Reporter, FL)

    FROM THE PASTOR: Prayers a Year After  Feb 14, 2009
    Because so many children died very young, mothers in the Middle Ages rarely grew old without holding more than one lifeless child in their arms. This depiction of the Pieta was for them more moving than any scene of Christ upon the cross, because it said, ;Here is something you know about. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)

    Hedda, Get Your Gun  Feb 9, 2009
    He is decent but absorbed in his writing a tome on domestic crafts in Belgium and Holland in the Middle Ages and emotionally clueless, completely unaware of the subversive cruelty that Hedda dishes out. (His credulity is part of what she despises about him. (New Yorker)

    Jaume Queralt  Feb 9, 2009
    Perhaps the beautiful thing about the art of the Middle Ages, for example which was mostly religious, is that it really served a purpose. There is no doubt (I think) that they are primitive, and there is no doubt that utilizing different solutions and revelations from the course of art along the ages might assist in conveying messages in a more articulate, advanced, attractive, credible, authentic and diverse manner. (AbsoluteArts.com)


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