Fr. Henry Daniel

14th C Dominican Friar, avid gardener, pee-gazer, book consumer, compendious writer, linguistic innovator. Tweets by members of the Henry Daniel Project,

[Fr. Henry Daniel @FrHenryDaniel]

Very exciting!!! The Henry Daniel Project's reading edition of Daniel's Liber Uricrisiarum is finally available for pre-order with UTP! https://t.co/9FjbubkFYZ

[Monica H Green, PhD #VaxTheWorld @monicaMedHist]

#MedievalTwitter A request. Could you share this "Mother of All Pandemics" Bibliography with the subject librarian at your institution? https://t.co/bUtp6hXhxL. (That goes for adjuncting folk, too.) It's likely that your libraries already have a core collection. Add to them now!

[Fr. Henry Daniel @FrHenryDaniel]

Thanks for including us in this awesome list!

[Medievalists.net @Medievalists]

New Medieval Books: 10 Open Access #Books in Medieval Studies - including books by @conor_kostick @Mediaevisten @PManafis @FrHenryDaniel @cameronmcnabb @clarealees and @katerudy1 https://t.co/5vSmcNSl95

[Fr. Henry Daniel @FrHenryDaniel]

We can't wait to hear what you think of the edition! For more info and details on project next steps, check out our project website: https://t.co/roHmMC76I1

[Fr. Henry Daniel @FrHenryDaniel]

The rumors are true--our reading edition of Daniel's Liber Uricrisiarum is now available for purchase! Pick up a cloth or ebook version here: https://t.co/F9HVjm6Zru

[Fr. Henry Daniel @FrHenryDaniel]

There's also an open access version available in the University of Toronto's TSpace repository: https://t.co/GoppjYI9Hd

[Fr. Henry Daniel @FrHenryDaniel]

Thank you @monicaMedHist!

[Monica H Green, PhD #VaxTheWorld @monicaMedHist]

Wonderful that @FrHenryDaniel's Liber Uricrisiarum (Book of Urinalysis) has appeared. e-book available now (https://t.co/iVypBE5hvg); hardback coming in May. Henry Daniel was a 14thC English friar (may have lived thru the Black Death). Urines were main diagnostic tool of his day.

[Fr. Henry Daniel @FrHenryDaniel]

Slightly less appealing is this alternative remedy for eye-gunk: "Also þe vryn [of a child] coct with [wyn canc.] hony in a vessel bras fordoth gowndyng of eyne."

[Fr. Henry Daniel @FrHenryDaniel]

This discussion of earwax prompted us to take a look at what Daniel has to say about it. He uses two words to refer to earwax: "sap" and "gound".

"sap" refers strictly to ear gunk
"gound" refers to both eye and ear gunk

[Fr. Henry Daniel @FrHenryDaniel]

To get rid of eye gunk: use milk of the wild endive, of course! "Melk of þe wilde endif fordoth gownde in þe eyʒyn."

[Fr. Henry Daniel @FrHenryDaniel]

@monicaMedHist Thanks for being one of our biggest fans, @monicaMedHist!

[Fr. Henry Daniel @FrHenryDaniel]

For further discussion and variations, see C. R. Cheney, ed., Handbook of Dates for Students of English History [1945], p. 75; also Peter Toth and Mary Wellesley, https://t.co/zHnfaDB1IP

[Fr. Henry Daniel @FrHenryDaniel]

Did you know that there was no Feb. 29 during leap year in the Middle Ages?

[Fr. Henry Daniel @FrHenryDaniel]

This is the same counting principle as “on the third day he rose again from the dead” – from Good Friday to Easter Sunday are three days inclusive.