And today we have... 13th-century cooks. What a miserable-looking lot they all are!

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There are mediaeval medical textbooks; this isn't one of them. This is just a random illustration showing a doctor treating someone's ear. Plus obligatory dragon... er... dinosaur... er... blue reptile sort of thing.

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Quite possibly the finest mediaeval high-five in my entire collection. I love the way the lion is just completely unfazed. "Oh, right, a foxdragon, yup, like you get."

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Here you go. Definitive proof that they knew exactly who Yoda was in the middle of the 14th century.

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#Serfdom was a condition of virtual slavery once common in #mediaeval Europe. By the time it was abolished with the #EmancipationManifesto of #AleksandrII on #ThisDayInHistory in 1861, #Russia was the last hold-out. It was another five years before state-owned #serfs were freed.