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Cockaigne
Wikipedia, : “Cockaigne or Cockayne is a medieval mythical land of plenty, an imaginary place of extreme luxury and ease where physical comforts and pleasures are always immediately at hand and where the harshness of medieval peasant life does not … Continue reading
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Rabelais, pantagruelion & utopia
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: “This thesis addresses the problems of intoxication and utopia in Gargantua and Le Tiers Livre…. Next, a survey of sources contemporary to Rabelais demonstrates his knowledge of both cannabis intoxication and the plant’s widespread use and … Continue reading
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Lost knowledge: ropes and knots
Low-tech Magazine: “Ropes and knots are among the most ancient and useful technologies ever developed by man, predating the wheel, the axe and probably also the use of fire. Today, they are fast on their way to become an obsolete … Continue reading
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Trolinger’s history of Cannabis
420 Magazine: ” Before the egregiously malignant nature of the modern cannabis prohibition can be fully understood, one must first have a grasp of the relationship between humankind and the hemp plant. Man’s complex history with the hemp plant is … Continue reading
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Trower Botanical Illustrations
BibliOdyssey: “Georgina Trower (1855-1928) produced over eighteen hundred delicate and faithful sketches of (predominantly) British plants in the first couple of decades of the 20th century. She was helped by her sister Alice who wrote to the leading amateur botanist … Continue reading
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Dictionnaire du Moyen Français
Dictionnaire du Moyen Français ATILF – Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française:
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Etymologists at War with a Flower: Foxglove
OUPblog: “The origin of plant names is one of the most interesting areas of etymology. I have dealt with henbane, hemlock, horehound, and mistletoe and know how thorny the gentlest flowers may be for a language historian. It is certain … Continue reading
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Cotgrave’s 1611 French/English Dictionary
Play by Mail: Greg Lindahl: Assembled from two scans in the French National Library by Greg Lindahl. Search for a particular French word.
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Robbe d’argent brodée de merde
Randle Cotgrave’s 1611 French-English Dictionary: “Robbe d’argent brodée de merde: A learned text unlearnedly commented on.”
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Dictionnaires d’ancien français et de latin
DicFro Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXème au XVème siècle, Frédéric Godefroy, 1880-1895 Complément du dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXème au XVème siècle, Frédéric Godefroy, 1895-1902 Lexique … Continue reading
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