Episode 42: Candy Is Dandy
Ask a Medievalist
English - November 17, 2021 01:48 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBHistory Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Summary Do you want some candy, little girl? Of course you do, it’s delicious. But what was candy a thousand years ago? Turns out at least some of it was kind of similar to what we get today. Annotations Some book recommendations: Steven Epstein, An Economic and Social History of Later Medieval Europe, 1000–1500. Sidney …