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  • Unburied

    The true story of Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy

    by Hannah Priest ...
    The macabre tale of an eighteenth-century woman immortalised in folklore as the ‘Manchester Mummy’.In 1835, the Manchester Natural History Society opened the doors of its museum. Taking pride of place in its collection were three mummies: one was Egyptian, one was Peruvian and one was a woman from Cheetham Hill.This is the first time the true story of Hannah Beswick, the so-called ‘Manchester ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain

    by Hannah Priest, Kristina Hildebrand, Megan G. Leitch, Robert Rouse, Samantha J. Rayner, Yvette Kisor, Cory Rushton, Dr. Aisling Byrne0, Amy N. Vines1, Amy S. Kaufman2, Anna Caughey3, Cynthea Masson4 ...
    It is often said that the past is a foreign country where they do things differently, and perhaps no type of "doing" is more fascinating than sexual desires and behaviours. Our modern view of medieval sexuality is characterised bya polarising dichotomy between the swooning love-struck knights and ladies of romance on one hand, and the darkly imagined and misogyny of an unenlightened "medieval" ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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  • Consuming Passions

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