(Pre-)Roman

Domain-based code-switching from Daniel Bomberg’s Jerusalem Talmud to Hieronymus Fabricius’ De locutione. Featuring the wit and wisdom of Rabbi Jonathan of Beth Gubrin, Padua’s medical school and Jewry, and the Polish utopian Jan Zamoyski. With excerpt…

Tags: code-switching, Early Middle, Empire, Empires, rulers and warfare, French, German, Heathen philosophers, horse, italian, Languages, Late Middle, Les bourgeois, The Church and the synagogue, translation
Posted in (Pre-)Roman, Fürstenspiegel, Geronimo Fabricius, God, diglossia, divine language, multilingualism | No Comments »

Separating egg yolks from whites

Saturday, August 6th, 2011

Tülin Özen’s shell technique in Semih Kaplanoğlu’s Bal, comparison with the palm technique, brief speculation re historical usage of both, and a Moorish honey-cookie recipe.

Tags: Birds, Food, Les bourgeois, Mediterranean Sea, recipe, Trees
Posted in (Pre-)Roman, Al-Andalus, Cinema of Turkey, Living history, Ottoman cuisine, Pastry, Pâtisserie, cookbook | No Comments »

Londoners pronouncing Barça

Sunday, May 29th, 2011

It’s Barker vs Barser, but you can’t blame the proto-Lebanese.

Tags: Barcelona, Catalan Language, Cities, English language, FC Barcelona, Languages, Late Middle, Latin, Les bourgeois, nationalism, phonetics, phonology, Spanish language, Valencia, Valencian
Posted in (Pre-)Roman, Association football | No Comments »

Gypsy madonna, madonna gypsy

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Who’s copying who?

Tags: Caganer, gypsy, Italy, Late Middle, Les bourgeois, Liberals & locals, Music, Pagans, Spanish Civil War, Theatre
Posted in (Pre-)Roman, Basilica di Santa Maria dei Servi, Bible, Bologna, Egypt, Flight into Egypt, George Borrow, Giorgione, Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli, Gospel of Matthew, Italian Renaissance, Magi, Mary (mother of Jesus), Provence, Titian | No Comments »

Eye of the sabre-toothed tiger in Horta, Barcelona?!

Friday, March 11th, 2011

Could extravagant and shameless extrapolation of the last glacial period put the fear of the woolly mammoth into the council?

Tags: Buildings, Cities, Wild beasts
Posted in (Pre-)Roman, Clota, Horta (Barcelona), Steppe horse, Woolly mammoth, urban renewal | No Comments »

Assaulted by a pine processionary caterpillar!

Saturday, February 5th, 2011

With chunks of Dioscorides and Andrés Laguna, including the wonderful story of what happened when an impotent bridegroom and a constipated friar involuntarily swapped medicines.

Tags: Acute diseases, Aleppo pine, Antwerp, Barcelona, catalonia, Dioscorides, dog, Empire, Empires, rulers and warfare, Heathen philosophers, Les bourgeois, pine tree, Pinus halepensis, Remedies and medicines, Spain, translation, Trees, Worms
Posted in (Pre-)Roman, Chemical warfare, Natural history, Pine Processionary, Venice, allergy, animal experiments, antidote, aphrodisiac, caterpillar, dermatitis, tree | No Comments »

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