Brzycki, Melissa
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Steak, salmon, and servitude : the impact of Celtic women on early Icelandic cuisine
Item — Call number MU Thesis Med
Identifier: b7931982
Abstract
Celtic women, known as ambátts in the Old Norse language of Scandinavia, were taken to Iceland and ultimately became their Norse captors' wives, cooks, and servants. This thesis will analyze ambátts’ significant impact on Icelandic cuisine and include research on Celtic women who became the paterfamilias' handmaids, servants, and official wives. While previous research indicates little influence of ambátts on Icelandic cuisine, reading sources in new ways can complicate this reading....
Dates:
2024
The silent epidemic : women and opiate addiction in America, 1847-1914, 2025
Item — Call number MU Thesis Hom
Identifier: b7932427
Abstract
From the eighteenth century to the early-twentieth century, upper and middle-class American women were disproportionately likely to develop an opiate addiction. In an effort to understand the gendered legacy of addiction, this thesis examines women’s opiate addiction between the founding of the American Medical Association in 1847 and the passage of the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act in 1914. The formation of the American Medical Association represented a movement towards medical...
Dates:
2025