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The English Hedge
Yes. BlackBerry jam is very popular, and BlackBerry wine is popular among amateur wine growers. Blackberry is popular when fermented with apple juicebto make blackberry and apple.
frankbeswick, on 09/17/2024
The English Hedge
Thank you for your comments below, in answer to my previous observations and questions.
Blackberry hedges appeal to some Unitedstatesians as functional and ornamental landscaping and as edible, potable homemade food.
Blackberry wine appears ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/17/2024
Hildegard of Bingen: a mediaeval female genius
The Channel Isles, e.g. Jersey, werebpartvof Normandy and fully integrated into its coin economy. The other isles, such asvthebOrkneys and Man were Norsebterritorybandbtook to cashbasvthe Norse did
frankbeswick, on 09/17/2024
Hildegard of Bingen: a mediaeval female genius
Thank you for your comments below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
Isles such as the Outer Hebrides lagging in cash-economizing what they once looked as barter-economics-able makes me mull why they might make that ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/16/2024
Hildegard of Bingen: a mediaeval female genius
I must say that bit was the North West of Scotland, around Loch Maree and in the region of Lochaber that still had a barter economy.
frankbeswick, on 09/15/2024
Hildegard of Bingen: a mediaeval female genius
Maybe the Outer Hebrides, but I am uncertain.
frankbeswick, on 09/15/2024
Hildegard of Bingen: a mediaeval female genius
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
That highland Scotland "did not have a cash economy until the early nineteenth century" intrigues me.
Might there have been other areas of what merged into ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/14/2024
Hildegard of Bingen: a mediaeval female genius
The payment would have varied. In some areas it would be in coin, but in others, e.g. highland Scotland, which did not have a cash economy until the early nineteenth century, payment was in kind, with food, other items such as cloth or services.
frankbeswick, on 09/14/2024
Hildegard of Bingen: a mediaeval female genius
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The "local wise women" charging intrigues me.
Their charging and the Church nuns not lets the former perhaps learn more easily about Church healing lore from ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/13/2024
Hildegard of Bingen: a mediaeval female genius
Some were church people, though their ministry was not within the church structure. But some were traditional healers. Some paid lip service to Christianity.
frankbeswick, on 09/13/2024
Hildegard of Bingen: a mediaeval female genius
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
The phrase "local wise women" intrigues me.
Might these wise women have been Church believers and practitioners or otherwise?
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/12/2024
Hildegard of Bingen: a mediaeval female genius
It depends on the area. Sometimes there was a choice of medical specialist, but often the choice was between the church and local wise women, but the church gave service for free,
frankbeswick, on 09/11/2024
Hildegard of Bingen: a mediaeval female genius
Thank you for your comment below, on Aug. 19, 2017, in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question.
Hildegard applying her herbal astuteness to fellow nuns and local people intrigues me.
Might the local people have only convent ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 09/11/2024
Turn Right at Land's End
There are basic facilities, such as a freezer and showers.
frankbeswick, on 09/08/2024
Eden
It sounds like a pleasant place in an otherwise wilderness
frankbeswick, on 09/08/2024