From Nat Geog, via Cronaca, news that Philippe Aries was at least partly wrong:

Akaky over at The Passing Parade lives in fear of the perpetually extending penis promised him by the spammers. No need: we will resurrect The Mighty Thor to deal with this latter-day Midgard Serpent. Here is a taster from an August 1975 story entitled Night of the Troll!, in which Thor interrupts his battle with [...]

In an article on the Madrid bombings Michael Carlin (via HispaLibertas) proclaims the doom of a Spain trapped in fear and ignorance. No reason to get excited, I would have thought, since the British have known that this boat ain’t going nowhere for at least 416 years. Nevertheless, I did enjoy Mr Carlin getting all [...]

In the Middle Ages anyone of any commercial talent (and his/her mum) had visions and stored some human bones in the new toilet chapel extension of the pig shed nave of the temple next to that handy spring holy source on the hillside. Here, extracted by moderately cunning device from Amazon, is the relevant part of the ToC of Eileen Gardiner’s (not completely exhaustive) Medieval Visions of Heaven and Hell: A Sourcebook:

I believe that this is not the kind of thing that would go down well here.

There’s a sign outside Montgat’s C11th Ermita de Sant Martí (this walk) which lists people interred there between 1677 and 1814:

name
date
description

Patrici Aucana
1677-9-8
Irishman, soldier at Montgat Castle

Eduard Fuit
1689-7-29
Irishman, soldier at Montgat Castle

Altura Morfi
1695-12-15
Subaltern at Montgat Castle

 
1699-3-19
Pauper of the [...]