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	<description>A Historical Blog Devoted to the Medieval and Renaissance Periods</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 00:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Skirt of Braveheart</title>
		<link>http://www.medievalsociety.org/2010/05/18/the-skirt-of-braveheart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 23:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madeline</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Most history haters (inconceivable, I know!) out there think of the word kilt and (after giggling about how it&#8217;s a skirt for men) are immediately reminded of the movie Braveheart and the man who made looking pasty and dirty with a toilet-bowl-blue face sexy.  As with all Hollywood made historical movies, there were obvious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Boleyn Inheritance</title>
		<link>http://www.medievalsociety.org/2008/05/06/book-review-the-boleyn-inheritance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.medievalsociety.org/2008/05/06/book-review-the-boleyn-inheritance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 14:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madeline</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I was on vacation last week, I actually got to read another book and I finished it in my week of vacation.  For most of you, this is probably not too terribly exciting, but for the over busy bookworm that I am who used to read two to three books a week and now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tale of the Sword</title>
		<link>http://www.medievalsociety.org/2008/04/23/the-tale-of-the-sword/</link>
		<comments>http://www.medievalsociety.org/2008/04/23/the-tale-of-the-sword/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Medieval Weaponry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the next few weeks, I’ll be briefly covering the histories of medieval weaponry; from their humble origins as tools to their implementations as weapons of war, I’m going to address one weapon type in each article.
This week, I’m going to cover the history of what is perhaps the most common and recognizable of all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Secret Bride</title>
		<link>http://www.medievalsociety.org/2008/04/21/book-review-the-secret-bride/</link>
		<comments>http://www.medievalsociety.org/2008/04/21/book-review-the-secret-bride/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madeline</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently finished reading The Secret Bride by Diane Haeger - a novel written about the terribly romantic relationship between Charles Brandon and Princess Mary, Henry VIII&#8217;s favorite sister and figured I&#8217;d write my first book review.  I do still have intentions to finish the Worst Jobs in Tudor History, but the illness of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Henry VIII&#8217;s Masturbation Scene</title>
		<link>http://www.medievalsociety.org/2008/04/10/henry-viiis-masturbation-scene/</link>
		<comments>http://www.medievalsociety.org/2008/04/10/henry-viiis-masturbation-scene/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madeline</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tudor Era]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We all know that infamous scene on the first season of the Tudors where Henry is whacking off in front of several servants - one unfortunate man, in particular, is set in front of him holding a silver bowl and a towel where Henry proceeds to alleviate himself of his overabundant &#8220;seminal&#8221; humors (those of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Throwing Rocks</title>
		<link>http://www.medievalsociety.org/2008/04/07/the-art-of-throwing-rocks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.medievalsociety.org/2008/04/07/the-art-of-throwing-rocks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Medieval Weaponry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.medievalsociety.org/?p=41</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps one of the more famous aspects of life in Medieval Europe was war. The Middle Ages was unable to pass even a decade without one bloody conflict or another raging throughout Europe. In fact, war permeated every aspect of medieval society so deeply that it affected everything from poetry and writing to the advance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worst Jobs During the Medieval Times</title>
		<link>http://www.medievalsociety.org/2008/04/02/worst-jobs-during-the-medieval-times/</link>
		<comments>http://www.medievalsociety.org/2008/04/02/worst-jobs-during-the-medieval-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madeline</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Medieval Era]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.medievalsociety.org/?p=39</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently read the article listed for Channel 4&#8217;s Worst Jobs in History and have my own input to add to this.  We&#8217;ll start with the Medieval one first.  Listed out, they are as follows: Fuller, arming squire, leech collector, barber-surgeon, stone worker, lime burner, treadmill worker, lance maker, chain-mail maker, royal falconer, purple maker, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Medieval on Your Teeth!</title>
		<link>http://www.medievalsociety.org/2008/03/28/getting-medieval-on-your-teeth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.medievalsociety.org/2008/03/28/getting-medieval-on-your-teeth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madeline</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Medieval Era]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry I have been slacking so bad and not posting a whole lot lately - even less than before and that was already infrequent as it was.  I&#8217;ve been crazy busy at work and at home.  Bleh… 
At any rate, my new topic - Dentistry in the Medieval Times.  Interestingly enough, there are many comparisons out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex and Marriage During Tudor Times</title>
		<link>http://www.medievalsociety.org/2008/03/20/sex-and-marriage-during-tudor-times/</link>
		<comments>http://www.medievalsociety.org/2008/03/20/sex-and-marriage-during-tudor-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madeline</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most breakthrough aspects of marriage during the Tudor era was the fight for clergy to wed.  In the past as I&#8217;ve detailed in previous articles, all clergy were to remain celibate.  However, time and time again, the clergy were driven to the point of sin by their overwhelming biological need for sex, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex and Marriage in the Mid to Late Medieval Times</title>
		<link>http://www.medievalsociety.org/2008/03/13/sex-and-marriage-in-the-mid-to-late-medieval-times/</link>
		<comments>http://www.medievalsociety.org/2008/03/13/sex-and-marriage-in-the-mid-to-late-medieval-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madeline</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Medieval Era]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After the sexual repression encouraged by the church in the early Medieval days, the people must have finally started to rebel as the mid to late Medieval times were rampant with sex, especially in the country where the people were free of the tight laced social rules prevalent in larger cities.  In fact, most boys [...]]]></description>
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