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This website provides accesss 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