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This website provides access to my academic publications on the history of premodern crime & punishment, the mendicant orders, public health and mining, as well as blog posts and other contributions to popular media about Open Access and why "the Middle Ages" matter. Enjoy and feel free to share!

The mining settlement of Rocca San Silvestro, Tuscany Animal-bone dice found at the cesspit of Het Steen, Mechlen’s premodern prison Mine shaft entrance, Thillot, France Miners’ traditional lamps, Piedmont Tin-mining lanscape, Devon Buddhist hospital at Mihitale, Sri Lanka Ancient urinal filters, Jetavana, Sri Lanka A prison register from fourteenth-century Bologna Mining landscape on a royal seal, 1536. TNA E 41 129