Medieval history, according to my students
The three most common punishments for crimes in the Middle Ages were hanging and mutilation.
It was not inconceivable for a monastic house to increase the number of sheep farming in this period.
The earliest recorded human dissections in Europe date from the fourth century B.Sc.
Collette of Corbie's biographer stresses that ... both in life and death her body gave off only sweat odors.*
Sadly, these may be the last additions to my student blooper collection. Next year I'm not going to TA.
*I'm aware that this last line is a direct (if mangled) quote from Caroline Walker Bynum's Holy Feast and Holy Fast
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