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the count of Chinchón receives the febrifuge from his native servant.
Drugs

The Sacred Bark: A History of Quinine

Quinine, the alkaline derived from the bark of the quina-quina tree, would prove the most effective treatment for malarial fever and infection in human history. In the decades after the bark of the tree was exported to Europe, every state with imperialist aspirations wanted access to quinine. The Spanish Crown, Read more…

By Averill Earls, 3 months3 months ago
chocolate
Food

Hot for Chocolate: Aphrodisiacs, Imperialism, and Cacao in the Early Modern Atlantic

When the Spanish conquered Mesoamerica, they conquered cacao. Mixing the bitter cacao seeds with sugar and other spices – spices that were often also obtained through European conquest – the Spanish created a commodity that stimulated the European comestible market. Its luxuriousness grew first out of its expensiveness and rarity Read more…

By Averill Earls, 6 months6 months ago
Recogimiento
Sex

Recogimiento: Virginity, Enclosure, and Female Virtue in Colonial Latin America

Listen, download, watch on YouTube, or scroll down for the transcript. Related Episodes: Coverture: Married Women and Legal Personhood in Britain Marriage in America: A Brief History What’s in a Name? North American Naming Conventions and the “Death” of Patrilineal Lines Transcript for “Recogimiento: Virginity, Enclosure, and Female Virtue in Colonial Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 8 months8 months ago
a 14th century era painting depicting two lepers being denied entrance into a town
Bodies

“Walking Corpses”: Life as a Leper in Medieval Eurasia

Conventional narratives tell us that medieval lepers were pariahs who lived out their days as rejected invalids, rotting away in decrepit asylums, quarantined from society. Some of this is true. The disease became so common in Europe, however, that medieval society was compelled to adapt to the presence of the chronically ill.

By Marissa Rhodes, 2 years2 years ago
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