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Vivian Yongewa
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Deaths At A Wedding: A Wolfsburg Adventure
Deaths At A Wedding: A Wolfsburg Adventure

Someone is poisoning people at Ritter, but Brynhild, Karl, Bigitte, and Alfred are going to put a stop to it.

2022

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Vivian Yongewa
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I’m Not Feeling the New Princes In The Tower Evidence

There’s been a kerfluffle in medieval studies: The Richard III Society has commissioned a whole bunch of people in various European countries to comb the archives for mentions of King Edward V and his little brother, Richard, Duke of York (also known as the princes in the tower.) …

History

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I’m Not Feeling the New Princes In The Tower Evidence
I’m Not Feeling the New Princes In The Tower Evidence
History

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Nov 26

Business Ethics: What Thou Sayeth?

Between the years of 1404 and 1407, Christine de Pizan wrote a book for Prince Louis called ‘The Book of the Body Politic.’ I know: she is more famous for her ‘The City of Ladies’ and getting into the medieval equivalent of a Twitter beef over the ‘The Romance of…

History

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History

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Nov 20

Medieval Zombie? Medieval Vampire? You Decide

This is a story recorded by William Parvus of Newburgh in Historia Rerum Anglicarium in 1198 AD: In Melrose Abbey, there was a priest known only as Hunderprest. …

History Of Culture

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Medieval Zombie? Medieval Vampire? You Decide
Medieval Zombie? Medieval Vampire? You Decide
History Of Culture

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Nov 12

Quilts: Fancy Sleepy Covers That Are Older Than You Think

If there is one type of historical detail we tend to ignore, it is the details involving basic human needs. Where did people pee? What tools do people use to cook? People who are looking to history for these kinds of details can find themselves wandering in a vast dessert. …

History Of Culture

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Quilts: Fancy Sleepy Covers That Are Older Than You Think
Quilts: Fancy Sleepy Covers That Are Older Than You Think
History Of Culture

3 min read


Nov 6

Disability in a Time of Low Tech

Or, What A Dead Hand Can Tell Us A construction company was doing pipeline work in Friesling, near Munich, when they dug up a very special skeleton this October. Or at least, I think it was. The Iron Hand The skeleton belonged to a man who had died sometime between 1450 and 1620…

History

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History

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Nov 2

Cesarean Sections In the Middle Ages: A History In Maternal Care

Obstetrics has a complicated history that everyone always, for obvious reasons, takes personally. One of those highly personal things is the c-section. When did they become an option? What We Are Talking About These days, when we say C-section or cesarean operation, we mean an incision made on the abdominal wall and then the uterine…

History

5 min read

History

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Oct 25

Dante’s Inferno

It is fast approaching Halloween around here, and also Dia De Los Muertos celebrations. That makes it great time to consider the existential fear of death. Both holidays, after all, have at their core something to say about the end of life. The Inferno lays out the afterlife as somewhere…

Books

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Books

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Oct 20

Thoughts On the book ‘Meditations’

This is a copy from my website’s blog from when I borrowed the classic work by the emperor Marcus Aurelius, ‘Meditations.’ As you can see, I was less than impressed. I think I’ll go write about Lady Bigitte chasing kobolds now. Classics ain’t what they’re cracked up to be: Not A Good Library Book The…

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Thoughts On the book ‘Meditations’
Thoughts On the book ‘Meditations’

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Oct 13

How To Perform An Autopsy in Medieval China

Or ‘How Bizarrely Violent Was 13th Century China?’ Yes! Finally a forensic book from roughly the time of my heroes’ life! Not from their country, however. The first European forensic manuscripts wouldn’t show up until 1595 when Battista Codronchi wrote ‘De Morbis Veneficiis.’ If you want a Medieval forensic manual…

History Of Science

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How To Perform An Autopsy in Medieval China
How To Perform An Autopsy in Medieval China
History Of Science

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Oct 4

Coming Soon: The First Book Of Forensics

It wasn’t as though using the physical sciences to solve crimes was unheard of before the late 1200’s. Surgeons and midwives regularly testified in court regarding the facts of case using their expertise well before this. …

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Vivian Yongewa

Vivian Yongewa

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Writes for content farms and fun. Has an AU historical mystery series on Kindle.

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