The Medieval Magazine No. 106 / Vol 4 No 4 | Page 3

The medieval Magazine

Editor: Sandra Alvarez

Website: www.medievalists.net (This digital magazine is published bi-monthly.)

Cover Photo: The Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels in a Garden (1510–1520). Follower of Quinten Massys (1466–1530). National Portrait Gallery London. Photo: Medievalists.net

Table of Contents

4 Letter from the Editor

6 Eat Like a King: Dietary Advice to Theuderic I by Minjie Su

13 The Medieval Precinct of St. Paul's by Sandra Alvarez

19 Travel Tips: Back to the Romanesque – Dorchester Abbey

by Caroline Quintanar

27 Cannibalism in Medieval Icelandic Literature: a Bad Habit or

an Ancient Magical Practice? by Andrea Maraschi

35 Medieval Minded with Seamus O' Caellaigh

39 Children Aren’t Starting Puberty Younger, Medieval Skeletons

Reveal by Mary Lewis

44 What Medieval Artists Teach As About Animal Sex by Robert

Mills

50 Book Review: Edward II The Man – A Doomed Inheritance by

Stephen Spinks Reviewed by Sandra Alvarez

55 Our Cover