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Rats, Walls, and Needlemakers: Welcome to Late Medieval Cities

Thomas Hobbes’s famously depress­ing descrip­tion of life in a “state of nature” as “soli­tary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” has often been applied to describe life in the Mid­dle Ages. From our van­tage point, sit­ting on sofas in climate-controlled homes … Con­tinue read­ing →