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Sasha Handley
is Professor of early modern history at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Sleep in Early Modern England (Yale University Press, 2016) and Visions of an Unseen World: Ghost Stories and Ghost Beliefs in Eighteenth Century England (Pickering & Chatto, 2007).
Early modern sleep care: Recipes for restful sleep
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Thomas Sheppey devoted several densely written pages of his 17th-century manuscript to the topic of sleep — how to trigger it, how to interrupt it, how to influence its depth and length, and even how to stop people talking in…
"Lusty" sack possets, fertility, and the foodways of early modern weddings
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A guest post by Sasha Handley Take ye yolks of 14 Egs & six whites & boyle them very well strain them into a pewter Bason put a quarte of a pint of Sack to them a grated nutmeg a…
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