How the Tudors dealt with food waste
During the Tudor period, religious beliefs shaped people’s attitudes towards food and food waste.
Eleanor Barnett, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University
• conversation
March 14, 2024 • ~6 min
March 14, 2024 • ~6 min
The tools in a medieval Japanese healer’s toolkit: from fortunetelling and exorcism to herbal medicines
In medieval Japan, healing might mean taking medicine, undergoing an exorcism or sidestepping harm in the first place by avoiding inauspicious days.
Alessandro Poletto, Lecturer in East Asian Religions, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis •
conversation
March 1, 2024 • ~8 min
March 1, 2024 • ~8 min
Modern medicine has its scientific roots in the Middle Ages − how the logic of vulture brain remedies and bloodletting lives on today
Your doctor’s MD emerged from the Dark Ages, where practicing rational “human medicine” was seen as an expression of faith and maintaining one’s health a religious duty.
Meg Leja, Associate Professor of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York •
conversation
Nov. 2, 2023 • ~10 min
Nov. 2, 2023 • ~10 min
Kindness has persisted in a competitive world – cultural evolution can explain why
Ancient religious customs have accelerated the evolutionary process of humans becoming more cooperative.
Jonathan R Goodman, Researcher, Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge •
conversation
Sept. 25, 2023 • ~7 min
Sept. 25, 2023 • ~7 min
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