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		<title>Childhood in Medieval England, c.500-1500</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Medieval children played with a variety of toys.]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=950</link>
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		<title>Late Medieval Female Authors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In fourteenth and fifteenth-century Europe, only a few women wrote books of any kind.]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=934</link>
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		<title>The Man Who Believed He Was King of France: A True Medieval Tale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The demagogic dictator of Rome tells Giannino di Guccio that he is in fact the lost heir to Louis X, allegedly switched at birth with the son of a Tuscan merchant.]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=903</link>
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		<title>The Cathedral Stirs to the Sounds of Monks at Worship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This favorite album of background sounds has several tracks that offer an aural reproduction of noises from medieval daily life. (Partial track below. Allow a moment for player to load.)]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=820</link>
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		<title>Chicken Husbandry in Late-Medieval England:  c.1250-1400</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paper: Chicken Husbandry in Late-Medieval England: c. 1250-1400, by Philip Slaven of Yale University.]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=882</link>
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		<title>Medieval Pipe Organs Large and Small</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Medieval organs were an important part of cathedral and state events, and smaller organs became popular for private chapels and aristocratic homes.]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=826</link>
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		<title>The History of the British Coal Industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Additional information on medieval British coal and coal mining is found in the comprehensive  book by John Hatcher, The History of the British Coal Industry, Vol. I, Before 1700 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=773</link>
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		<title>English Coal and Medieval Urban Fuel Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Archeological evidence suggests that ancient Britons were harvesting coal even before the Roman occupation.[1] England’s avant-garde use of coal resulted from its easy accessibility in natural outcroppings. When the demand for coal surpassed this convenient supply, miners expanded their industry to hole mining and quarrying.
Metal smiths used coal with charcoal in the production of wrought iron, but its use naturally expanded to domestic fuel. Coal was first used in English monasteries for cooking and heat. Extant written records appear from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=534</link>
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		<title>The Middle English Literary Tradition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By the fourteenth century, literature in England finally began appearing in the English language (rather than only Old French or Anglo-Norman).]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=668</link>
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		<title>Monasteries: The Land and Community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Monasteries become one of the most important institutions in Europe, playing a key role in land and community organization.]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=477</link>
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		<title>SUBVERSIVE IMAGES OF WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE: A SELECTIVE READING</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This study shows that even within the domestic private sphere, women exert considerable amount of power to influence men’s actions]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=556</link>
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		<title>Peasants and Serfs: Freemen or Villeins?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Within the medieval European peasant culture, people differentiated between themselves based on their own social and economic status. Most peasants were serfs; but not all surfs were equal. The villeins and freemen described here represent the most common type of surfs.]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=608</link>
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		<title>Walking Through the Palace Cloisters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This favorite album of background sounds has several tracks that offer an aural reproduction of noises from medieval daily life.]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=676</link>
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		<title>Medieval English Woodlands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There were far fewer species of trees in Medieval England than there are today.]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=504</link>
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		<title>Disease and Divine Judgment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the Middle Ages, people visualized diseases as the direct punishments of God visited on the sufferer for his or her sins.]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=489</link>
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		<title>Catholic Church: The Common Denominator in Medieval Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The common denominator of medieval Europe became was the Catholic Church.]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=470</link>
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		<title>Review of Historical Earthquakes in the Lower Middle Ages: Earthquakes of the XIV and XV Centuries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This  monograph provides a compilation of all the documentation concerning the earthquakes of the late medieval period in Catalonia.]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=431</link>
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		<title>Augustine’s City of God and Benedict’s Rule: Innovative Worldview and Preserved Paradigm (Part I)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Augustine’s City of God and Benedict’s Rule also demonstrate the crucial role played by the Church as the only continuous institution linking the Late Roman Empire to the Middle Ages.]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=164</link>
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		<title>Augustine’s City of God and Benedict’s Rule: Innovative Worldview and Preserved Paradigm (Part II)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Augustine expanded the idea of the other-worldliness of Christian human beings in his City of God.]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=170</link>
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		<title>Augustine’s City of God and Benedict’s Rule: Innovative Worldview and Preserved Paradigm (Part III)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christian theologians both in the East and West had to grapple with why God had allowed the sack of Rome and the decline of the empire from its zenith, if Christianity was indeed the true religion.]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=182</link>
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		<title>Augustine’s City of God and Benedict’s Rule: Innovative Worldview and Preserved Paradigm (Part IV)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Augustine confronted the philosophically challenging questions facing the Christian world in an effort to explain the demise of the Western Empire.]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=186</link>
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		<title>Augustine’s City of God and Benedict’s Rule: Innovative Worldview and Preserved Paradigm (Part V)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Augustine used his innovative Christian philosophy to provide a solution to the spiritual dilemma facing the empire.]]></description>
		<link>http://medievalminds.com/?p=195</link>
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