November 5, 2024

What People Named Their Cats in the Middle Ages: Gyb, Mite, Méone, Pangur Bán & More

Author: Colin Marshall
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“The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,” declares the opening poem in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. But the possibilities are many and varied: “Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James”; “Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter”; “Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat.” Things must have been  less complicated in the Middle Ages, when you […]

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