{"id":38615,"date":"2025-02-02T12:22:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T11:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/?p=38615"},"modified":"2025-09-22T22:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:25:15","slug":"history-group-talk-february-medieval-pleasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/history-group-talk-february-medieval-pleasures\/","title":{"rendered":"History Group Talk February 11th – Medieval Pleasures!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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MEDIEVAL PLEASURES. SEX DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL IN THE MIDDLE AGES<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Presenter: Keith Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday 11th February at Javea Players Studio, Calle Cronista Figueras Pacheco 6 (near Mercadona Old Town where you can park easily). Doors open 10.30am for a start at 11.00 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a charge of 2 Euros per person to cover room hire. No need to book just come along!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is as slight change from our programme published earlier. Group Leader Keith Smith will present <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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What were attitudes to sex in the Middle Ages? When could you have it, and when not? Who decided this? What happened if you broke the rules?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Was it true that people drank beer and wine because the water was so bad? How much did people really drink?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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What were the popular games and pastimes? How did they originate and evolve?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was life really like in the Middle Ages?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is the word “medieval” often used in a negative context today?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the answers to these and many other questions, come along to this whimsical look at the Middle Ages in Europe.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sex, drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll wasn’t invented in the 60s despite what the youngsters say! Come and hear about what they got up to in Medieval times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 00:43:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}