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The word "livery," from the French livrée , "dispensed, handed over," refers to some identifying mark or clothing that d...

The Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, "storehouse") became Latin apotheca  and gave us the English word apothecary, used for both ...

Christine de Pizan and her dog [ link ] In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales , the Prologue describes the Prioress as having small lapdogs...

Saluzzo, a town and principality in northern Italy, had some interesting connections to England. It was a simple tribal city-state in Roman...

When April, with her showers sweet, The drought of March has pierced to the roots... A poster for sale of Chaucer reading On this day...

Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote  The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote  DailyMedieval doesn't usually talk about...

The medical school in Salerno had on its staff the first well-known female physician and professor of medicine. Sadly, we know nothing of h...

With us there was a doctor of physic; In all this world was none like him to pick For talk of medicine and surgery; For he was gro...