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Mortality And Meals: The Black Death’S Impact On Diet In England, Jessica Cordova
Mortality And Meals: The Black Death’S Impact On Diet In England, Jessica Cordova
History Undergraduate Theses
This paper investigates the role of the Black Death in developing England’s eating habits and culinary traditions. The mid-fourteenth century saw a marked change in English cuisine, change that traversed the classes. This change correlates with the timing of the Black Death, an episode of extreme mortality cause by bubonic plague. Notorious as the greatest single source of death across medieval Europe, the Black Death looms in modern minds as an unparalleled tragedy. Between 1348 to 1350, the Black Death swept across Europe and killed between one third and one half of the population. England endured an average of forty …
The Memetic Evolution Of Alchemy From Zosimos To Timothy Leary, Ryan J. Hutchinson
The Memetic Evolution Of Alchemy From Zosimos To Timothy Leary, Ryan J. Hutchinson
History Undergraduate Theses
The subject of alchemy is often only relegated to a footnote of the history of modern chemistry. When framed as a discussion of the history of ideas and mankind attempting to understand their position in the universe, the language of alchemy is seen present in the writings of ancient Greece to 20th century counterculture. But how did this obscure art survive such a long journey over time and space? This paper explores alchemy as a meme (as defined by Richard Dawkins) that changed over time to fit the needs of its proponents. We find that the ideas in alchemy had …