A Poisoned Past

2000 Electronic books

Author : Steven Bednarski
Release : 2000
Genre : Electronic books
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 780/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Poisoned Past written by Steven Bednarski. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the story of Margarida de Portu, a fourteenth-century French medieval woman accused of poisoning her husband to death. As Bednarski points out, the story is important not so much for what it tells us about Margarida but for how it illuminates a past world. Through the depositions and accusations made in court, the reader learns much about medieval women, female agency, kin networks, solidarity, sex, sickness, medicine, and law."--Publisher's website.

A Poisoned Past

2013-10-01 Fiction

Author : Steven Bednarski
Release : 2013-10-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 766/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Poisoned Past written by Steven Bednarski. This book was released on 2013-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Poisoned Past

2014-04-29 History

Author : Steven Bednarski
Release : 2014-04-29
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 778/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Poisoned Past written by Steven Bednarski. This book was released on 2014-04-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Margarida de Portu, a medieval French woman accused of poisoning her husband to death. Through the depositions and accusations made in court, the reader learns not only about Margarida herself, but also about medieval women, female agency, kin networks, solidarity, sex, sickness, medicine, and law. Unlike most histories, this compelling book does not remove the author from the analysis. Rather, it lays bare the working method of the historian, helping the reader learn how historians "do" history and discover the rewards and pitfalls of working with primary sources. The book opens with a chapter on microhistory as a genre, explaining its strengths, weaknesses, and inherent risks. It then tells the narrative of Margarida's criminal trial, including chapters on the civil suits, appeal, and Margarida's eventual fate. A map of late medieval Manosque is provided, as well as an example of a court notary's rough copy, a notarial act, a sample folio of a criminal inquest record. A timeline of Margarida?s life, list of characters, and two family trees provide useful information on key people in the story.

A Poisoned Past and Puppermints

2020-03-25 Fiction

Author : Aleksa Baxter
Release : 2020-03-25
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
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Download or read book A Poisoned Past and Puppermints written by Aleksa Baxter. This book was released on 2020-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie May Carver is a bit bored waiting for the new pet resort to open. So when she finds out that the daughter of one of her former barkery customers was murdered and the case was never solved, she decides to investigate. It's tricky enough to find a murderer but even trickier when her cop boyfriend is also pushing for the dreaded M word something Maggie is most definitely not ready for. But with her trusty Newfie, Miss Fancypants, at her side, she'll figure it all out, one way or another.

Poisons of the Past

1989-01-01 Medical

Author : Mary Allerton Kilbourne Matossian
Release : 1989-01-01
Genre : Medical
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Book Rating : 216/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Poisons of the Past written by Mary Allerton Kilbourne Matossian. This book was released on 1989-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did food poisoning cause the Black Plague, the Salem witch-hunts, and other significant events in human history? In this pathbreaking book, historian Mary Kilbourne Matossian argues that epidemics, sporadic outbursts of bizarre behavior, and low fertility and high death rates from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries may have been caused by food poisoning from microfungi in bread, the staple food in Europe and America during this period. "A bold book with a stimulating thesis. Matossian's claims for the role of food poisoning will need to be incorporated into any satisfactory account of past demographic trends."--John Walter, Nature "Matossian's work is innovative and original, modest and reasoned, and opens a door on our general human past that historians have not only ignored, but often did not even know existed."--William Richardson, Environmental History Review "This work demonstrates an impressive variety of cross-national sources. Its broad sweep also reveals the importance of the history of agriculture and food and strengthens the view that the shift from the consumption of mold-poisoned rye bread to the potato significantly contributed to an improvement in the mental and physical health of Europeans and Americans."--Naomi Rogers, Journal of American History "This work is a true botanical-historical tour de force."--Rudolf Schmid, Journal of the International Association of Plant Taxonomy "Intriguing and lucid."--William K. Beatty, Journal of the American Medical Association

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