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Strange History. A tour of Early Modern minds brought to life by Darren Oldridge. Fashion in the 1970’s. Did people really think they looked good in this stuff???. The ruins of Bury St. Edmunds Abby. Martin Luther. Ducking stool. Aristotle. St. Thomas Aquinas. Medieval authorities.
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Strange History A tour of Early Modern minds brought to life by Darren Oldridge
Fashion in the 1970’s. Did people really think they looked good in this stuff???
Aristotle St. Thomas Aquinas Medieval authorities
Hanging a horse (not real!) Gibbet Pillory
Werewolves- Aka, lycanthropes
Witch turned werewolf attacking travelers. Woodcut by Hans Weiditz. Strassburg, 1517.
Witches flying French, 1613 French, 1589 German, 1489
The Marquis de Sade (2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814) was a French aristocrat, revolutionary, politician, philosopher, and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle. His works include novels, short stories, plays, dialogues, and political tracts. He is best known for his erotic works, which combined philosophical discourse with pornography, depicting bizarre sexual fantasies with an emphasis on violence, criminality, and blasphemy against the Catholic Church. He was a proponent of extreme freedom, unrestrained by morality, religion or law
Page 147 “I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.” -Groucho Marx