So, were there any instances in which this strict hierachy is true and translated into actual feudal hierachies?

I am trying to look for cited source who is said to have been written by Tulle. The text that Tulle is cited is about the death of Romulus when he disappeared and made to a god. Any hints?

I really like Gothic architecture and found it interesting that it made a return with the Gothic Revival, which made me pretty curious about why it returned.

So which trends and/or events led up to the return of gothic architecture? And is there any noticeable ways it differs or evolved from earlier gothic architecture? (E.g. Carpenter Gothic/Rural Gothic being a substyle there developed)

In a lot of the heraldry of big cities in Brittany there are white ermines, a lot of restaurants and other places are named Blanche Hermine and the Breton flag has ermine in it. How, why and when did the white ermine become this symbol for Brittany?

Hey, can anybody recommend any books about ww1? I don't know where to look!

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I know in many Muslim countries, they take Friday off as their religious day, and in Israel it’s Saturday. So clearly, the day of rest doesn’t have to be Sunday, Sunday is just the day specified by Christianity.

So why would a country like China, whose government is actively anti-religion, or a country like Japan, which has never been colonized, choose to take Sundays off? There must have been some point in history when weekends were not a set thing.

The American War of Independence was fought against Britain and won with significant support from the French. Yet relations between the US and Britain ended up often so close that we've even got the phrase "the Special Relationship". I know that has all sorts of debates of its own, but for this question I'm wondering why that didn't end up being with France instead?

After the conversion of Hagia Sophia from museum to a mosque a lot of Islamic and Pro-Erdogan news outlets claimed that Sultan Mehmed bought Hagia Sophia after he conquered Constantinople with photos of the supposed contract.

But in neutral sources (like Wikipedia) there is no mention of him purchasing Aya Sopha

Excerpt from Wikipedia: When Sultan Mehmed and his entourage entered the church, he ordered that it be converted into a mosque at once. One of the ʿulamāʾ (Islamic scholars) present climbed onto the church's ambo and recited the shahada ("There is no god but God, and Muhammed is his messenger"), thus marking the beginning of the conversion of the church into a mosque.Mehmed is reported to have taken a sword to a soldier who tried to prise up one of the paving slabs of the Proconnesian marble floor.

There is no mention of a purchase. So did he or did he not purchase Hagia Sophia before converting it into a mosque? If so what are the proofs to back it up?

Just a quick question, most Japanese headwear, from the Edo period and before, that isn't ceremonial, military, or fashionable, seems to be most concerned with keeping sun and rain off the wearer. What about cold? We all know that Japan, even parts that aren't Hokkaido, can get damn cold in the winter. So where are the winter hats? The only hats I've seen from the pre-Meiji era and before, even in drawings, that cover the sides and back of the head are helmets. What gives? Did they have something I've missed? Did they just suck it up? Or were their cold weather hats made out of materials that didn't preserve well and considered too banal to be worth depicting or writing about?

Thanks in advance!

For example France is much closer to England and Germany in art style, economic system, politics, and a whole bunch of other things than Southern Europe. Yet because French is a romance language, the culture a the core is considered Latin and in turn one of the direct descendants of Roman civilizations.

The Philippines is basically adopted Spaniard culture in all but the tongue on the surface. Architecture, religions, social customs, traditional clothing, music, and so on are indistinguishable from Latin America. Even the main language has a lot of loan words from Portuguese and Spanish. Yet Philippines is classified under SouthEast Asian culture despite outsiders often mistaking pictures of the country as being Mexico or Cuba or some other Latin American place. The biggest arguments about why Filipinos are not Hispanic or even Latino is primarily because Spanish is not the tongue of the country and Tagalog is not romance either in the way Portugal is which is why Brazil is classified as a Latin country. Tagalog is far closer to Austronesian, the family language of Indonesia and Malaysia along with much of SouthEast Asia so Philippines is not considered Hispanic or Latino but within the Austronesian cultural grouping even with the major amount of Spanish in various Filipino tongues.

So it makes me wonder. Why to be considered in the "same culture" language is almost the sole thing to qualify and stuff like architecture is disregarded?

Its easy to look at the life of a peasant and imagine it would be miserable. Did peasants see their own lives as miserable?

While it seems strategically sound, how did they all gather once they landed? It just seems like it would be incredibly difficult to try stay hidden from the enemy and still find your company. And if they did do the drop offs at night, how exactly was it that they all gathered without being detected?

Mount Olympus isn't too high in elevation so it wouldn't be too hard for an ancient greek to climb it if they wanted to. Are there stories of anyone climbing it, was it an off limits zone or anything like that?

I hope anyone knows, as history is interesting. Tips about any books that is relevant to the question is also welcome.

Hey guys, I hope you’re all well. I’m currently feeling like Tom Hanks in the Green Mile, hunched over in bed with a heating pad, and all of the sudden it hit me: Did we just die from this before antibiotics? This has happened to me so many times in the past year, I can’t imagine what it’d be like to be in the dark on it. How did we manage the pain, and how did we treat it? If a woman had a UTI did she know what it was? Thank you for your time, have a nice night. :)

Background info: I am writing a paper on sex workers in early 19th c. urban America (NY), and there are very few primary sources that deal directly with the lives of these women in their everyday practice. I am looking to write a paper on the experiences of these women "from the ground up" and am having trouble since what I can find is reform societies documenting anonymous cases. These societies try to sensationalize their accounts and write with the intention of fundraising, so I am having trouble separating fact from fiction. I am using the secondary literature to ground me in what we can expect is realistic in these stories, and I am looking for similarities among the stories as to lend them credibility... however, I am having trouble since there is really no way to verify stories about people so very on the margin. If this were a different subject, I could verify these stories through records, but 19th c. sex workers are elusive, to say the least.

Are there any other books (doesn't have to be same subject) or articles that explore methodology related to extrapolating stories out of very biased anonymous sources? I would like a solid methodological groundwork when I go to write my paper.

tldr: how to extract the truth out of biased sources dealing w/ anonymous subjects?