@GoingMedieval Been reading medieval etiquette manuals recently (as you do) and most of them have a bit about NOT befriending the local cats while taking part in a formal meal. Which suggests cats are both really common and have been jumping onto the dinner table mid meal for centuries. Tweet added by Kyle Glover @KyleGHistory

Kyle Glover

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@GoingMedieval Been reading medieval etiquette manuals recently (as you do) and most of them have a bit about NOT befriending the local cats while taking part in a formal meal. Which suggests cats are both really common and have been jumping onto the dinner table mid meal for centuries.

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Dr Eleanor Janega

@GoingMedieval

2 years

Was watching a nice documentary about cats on Netflix and enjoying myself until suddenly they come out with a *completely made up* thing about how medieval Europeans didn't have cats because they were "associated with cats" and that's why the Black Death happened????

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Marjorie Burghart @[email protected]

@medievalMB

2 years

@KyleGHistory @GoingMedieval @KyleGHistory if I may ask: could you recommend some refs about those etiquette manuals involving cattitude?

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Kyle Glover

@KyleGHistory

2 years

@medievalMB @GoingMedieval Theres a collection of them here:

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Dr Eleanor Janega

@GoingMedieval

2 years

@KyleGHistory Exactly.

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@darrelplant

2 years

@KyleGHistory @GoingMedieval As Willie Catsutton would have said: “That’s where the food is.”

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Gwen C. Katz

@gwenckatz

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@KyleGHistory @GoingMedieval Truly a universal sentiment.

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@PavelASamsonov

2 years

@KyleGHistory @GoingMedieval I'm glad we have evolved as a society in this respect and no longer look down upon befriending the host's cats, possibly to the exclusion of the host and other guests

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