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"The reading habits of medieval people have revealed details of their lifestyle, in research carried out at St Andrews University.
Researchers have found them to have many characteristics still found in modern readers.
They said medieval people feared illness, were selfish and often fell asleep while reading late at night.
The work used a technique developed by Dr Kathryn Rudy, which measures the dirt accumulated on medieval manuscripts."
The detailed service records of 250,000 medieval soldiers - including archers who served with Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt - have gone online.
He has an agreeably caustic and aggressive approach to outdated and erroneous ideas about the history of science. The book is a polemical essay, rather than a history, and welcome as such.
"An interesting clash of historiographic sensibilities has cropped up of late on the Wikipedia entry on the history of psychology." comments and article are good discussion of how Wikipedia works or doesn't work for historical topics.
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