Comments on: Quebec libre, 2011

By: rustonite

rustonite — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:52:05 +0000

there are cancers that can mimic scurvy if they go untreated. however, the link of starvation –> scurvy is pretty strong, so unless there’s an anomalous symptom in the description, I’d assume she was eine Hungerkünstlerin.

By: Selu

Selu — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:17:08 +0000

I will be in Quebec City for all of one day next week!

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:22:12 +0000

Mrs. Eduardo and I honeymooned in QC. Stayed at the Frontenac. Wonderful.

Drink lots of Canadian wine from the Niagara Peninsula … awesome. Inniskillan, Jackson Triggs, …

By: Matt_L

Matt_L — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:17:57 +0000

Historiann… I wish you joy in the archives!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:08:19 +0000

Quebec is high on my list of places to visit. I wish I needed to use archives there.

By: Shane in Utah

Shane in Utah — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:38:14 +0000

I love Quebec in the summertime. Cold places are always the most fun when the sun finally comes out of hiding…

By: Janice

Janice — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:20:23 +0000

Oh, I love Quebec City. Hope it’s not as cold as when I was last there in June (wish I’d brought a coat and gloves as well as my sweater and jackets)!

Glad you’re getting your research back on. I always feel stupid and slow the first few days I work with manuscripts of any sort. It takes a while to retrain the eye and brain to decode properly!

By: bookwormz

bookwormz — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:40:54 +0000

Oh, H-Ann, you make me long for my archives days! I loved summer, when “real” scholars would spend days doing “real” research (as opposed to genealogists who plunked their campers in the parking lot). NOT knocking the geneas, they brought the bread and butter, but the Ph.D.’s made me look at my collection in a whole new light…

Now I push codices on lowly undergrads, sigh….

By: Historiann

Historiann — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:27:45 +0000

KC–she died in 1750, but I think they were pretty clear on the causes of her death, as they also note that she refused for days at a time to eat or drink anything. Scurvy was a pretty common disease at this place and time (I have seen evidence of mission Indians suffering from it in the Jesuit Relations, and those Indians were starving.)

What other diseases were you thinking it could have been?

By: Knitting Clio

Knitting Clio — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:53:29 +0000

When did the nun die? That makes a difference since the symptoms of scurvy are similar to other diseases and definitive diagnoses were tricky prior to the era of bacteriology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.