Hildegard’s plant names are a rabbit hole that spans the whole continent and even has wormholes to distant galaxies.
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History of Medicine/Pharmacy ● Medicinal plants in Europe ● Herbal anti-infectives ● Coordinating the Forschergruppe Klostermedizin (Research Group Monastic Medicine), Würzburg (Germany) -> klostermedizin.de
Schwester Leandra Ulsamer aus dem Kloster Oberzell bei Würzburg ist am 18. Juli verstorben. www.oberzell.de/nachrichten/...
Wir trauern um Sr. Leandra Ulsamer - Kloster Oberzell
Am 18. Juli 2026 verstarb Schwester M. Leandra Ulsamer. Am 20. September 1932 wurde Elisabeth als drittes von neun Kindern in eine religiöse Würzburger Kaufmannsfamilie geboren. Am 16. März 1945 wurde...
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Botanical illustrations from ‘The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Greenhouse Plants’ by Jane Loudon. Published in London by William S. Orr & Co., 1849. UW-Madison Special Collections @uwmadspec. #JaneLoudon #hernaturalhistory #botanicalart #flowers
Cichorium intybus. Kerner: Abbildungen aller ökonomischen Pflanzen, 1792.
Lamium album. Les Fleurs des moissons, des cultures, des bords des routes et des décombres, 1914.
Sideritis syriaca. Reichenbach: Iconographia botanica exotica, 1827/30.
Tanacetum parthenium as 'arthemisia leptaphilos' in Arsenal Ms-2888, early to mid 1400s.
In der aktuellen "Zeitschrift für Phytotherapie" (Heft 3/2026): Was räuchert Uta-napišti nach der Sintflut? Warum im Gilgamesch-Epos keine Myrrhe verbrannt wird DOI: 10.1055/a-2664-4131 www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejo...
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Had to laugh at a documentary that began with "The Iron Age, a time of brutal rituals and bizarre beliefs." Oh yeah, what a great description of that era, so you're telling me the Iron Age was pretty much the same as every other age ever? Good to know.
Leontopodium nivale. BL Add MS 41623, fol. 35v, c. 1420. Erlangen MS 2386, fol. 157v, c. 1560.
Valeriana celtica. Atlas der Alpenflora, 1882. Die Alpenpflanzen nach der Natur gemalt, 1879.
So I went and wrote a thing, then talked a bit about charters and monasteries and now I got habilitated.
Andrea Shaw, the woman who was just indicted on 2 accounts of murder for the deaths of her toddlers, claims vaccines killed them. She's the key plaintiff for Children's Health Defense in their lawsuit against AAP. And it was clear from the first day that investigators thought she killed her kids.
A gray birb gazes up from the bottom margin of Ms. Codex 724 f. 327r, a 13th century illuminated Bible. #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/4deNkzU
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Hey Bayeux Tapestry fans have I made the platform game for you? I’m sure someone else will have done this before but well now I have too… bayeuxgo.live
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Since I am unmoored from any single university (and since academia./edu went full dystopia), I’ve put together a site where all my academic ‘stuff’ can live for the foreseeable future. Books, articles, blog posts, some slideshows and lectures - all in one place and freely accessible. nickposegay.com
Nick Posegay – Itinerant Scholar
Archives • Manuscripts • Interfaith History
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In 890, an army led by Gaelegher brothers beat an invading French force at the coastal town of Wanderwell. Over the centuries misspellings cast this as Wanderwall and then Wonderwall.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last mo.can someone explain the cultural significance of "Wonderwall" to the English to me?
Profiles of seven well-established medicinal plants: • Artichoke • Valerian • Ivy • St. John’s wort • Chamomile • Lavender • Thyme www.koop-phyto.org/wp-content/u...
Bitte auf keinen Fall diesen Kommentar lesen. Dieter Nuhr möchte das nicht.
DER STANDARD@derstandard.at · last mo.Dieter Nuhr droht übrigens mit rechtlichen Schritten, sollte der Meinungsartikel nicht gelöscht werden. Der STANDARD hat ihn nicht gelöscht, hier könnt ihr ihn lesen: https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000328281/bei-dieter-nuhr-muessen-selbst-femizide-fuer-eine-pointe-herhalten
Es gibt so Formulierungen, die würde man am liebsten mal als Titel für eine Publikation verwenden. Aus: www.jstor.org/stable/26580...
You've godsped your last black emperor.
Rutger K. 🟥@anotheraspirin.bsky.social · last mo.You knelt your last diamond
🧠🪱 Brain worms Yes, Beth Mole’s latest 😊 This is a “60-year-old man in Spain”, but you can’t help being reminded of RFK Jr, who claimed “a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” (according to NYT).
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · last mo.Harald Blauzahn genießt 960 en erfrischendes Bad, nachdem er die Bluetooth-Technologie erfunden hat. Ein Mönch stört ihn dabei, das war ein echter Poppo. (Ja, ansonsten geht es mir ganz gut.)
