the things you find when you look up "renaissance skulls"*

Jul 05, 2013 15:43

Skeletons Show Rickets Struck the Medici Family
http://www.nature.com/news/skeletons-show-rickets-struck-the-medici-family-1.13156

*No, that's not weird, I promise! It's just that so far, all the things I've read about skulls in Renaissance tragedy seem to be startlingly uncurious about where these skulls actually came from. This bothers me at intervals.

fun with keywords, strange eventful history, keeps death his court, early modern grab bag, the renaissance is not for wimps

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