What exactly meant to them in this specific situation to become slaves? Did they become average middle eastern/northern African medieval slaves or were there treated differently for being noble Europeans? Do we know who bought them? Probably there is not a an answer to these questions but since i learnt this i have been intrigued by what was these knights' fate and it would be great to get any information you may know of

All I can find are articles and questions on whether they through it out the window, and it's quite annoying.

By directly intentional I mean throwing their chamber pots by hand, by indirectly intentional I mean they knew that their sewers were dumped upriver or what have you, by unintentional I mean that their containment didn't work how it was supposed to, and the last one is self explanatory. Thanks!

I'm sorry if this question has been asked to death or something and I missed it (did not see anything come up with the search function though).

I currently have the NIV "Archaeological Study Bible" from Zondervan publishing, and there is a lot about it that I like, but it is edited and published from a religious perspective and that colors the commentary and study aids, etc.

I wondered if anyone could provide a recommendation for a similar publication which is intended as a secular/non-religious study bible for the purpose of helping to understand the bible as a historical source. As it stands, I like the Zondervan archaeology bible, but I feel like every point where it says something about "Nearly all scholars agree that..." I need to investigate the specific debate further to get a more balanced understanding of the topics.

Additionally, I have considerable familiarity with Koine Greek, and a bit of familiarity with Aramaic/Syriac, but no Hebrew, though I am interested in study of that language at some point as well.

Thank you!

I have been looking all over and nothing is giving me a clear enough answer, I was wondering what type of influence did lynch mobs have on politics, or, politicians?

Hey there everyone.

I just started a graduate program and I realize while I have done an acceptable amount of reading on some topics there are other areas of interest I am just woefully unfamiliar with the scholarship on.

I guess I wanted to ask if anyone here had particular tips or insights into how they identify the key scholarship on any particular topic, both older and more recent without actually being explicitly told by somebody else what those works might be.

That is of course assuming there is a way to get a handle on that sort of thing in a particularly efficient or effective way.

I just recently was asked a professor for reading recommendations for a historiographic analysis regarding the Stalinist purges, and it occurred to me that I didn’t have a process for or much experience in identifying what those works might be myself without being explicitly directed to them by another.

I just have this vivid image in my mind of trying to get a handle on the scholarship surrounding a topic only to find I have somehow missed an important scholarly work in the area and end up looking like a fool.

I would very much like to avoid that happening. Which is why I’m asking if any of you fine folks have any insight or tips you might offer me.

Did they have any in the form of raiding of settlements or trading ships? Were there any Native Americans who committed Piracy against European ships? And what role did Native Peoples play in the golden age of Piracy. I appreciate your time and just wanted to say love all you historians who give great answers to our silly questions.

During WW2 the Carrier rose to dominance in naval warfare, eclipsing the Battleship which had previously been the focus of navies.

How much of this is because of objective advantages of Aircraft/Carriers and how much of this is because the US navy was forced to rely on it's carriers after the attack Pearl Harbor?

Was the rise of the Carrier an inevitability, or did circumstance simply force a shift in doctrine that coincidentally changed the paradigm? Were Carriers that good, or did they become that good because we needed them to be?

That might be the first time I've used the word "paradigm" literally.

Did ancient/medival, or basically any armies with hand to hand combat have dedicated lines of big/fat guys? Think linemen in football. Seems really usefull...

For example, I know that we don’t know a whole lot about what the Achaemenid Persians did in the east of their empire compared to anything they did near the Greeks. Do the Iranians or Pakistanis or Indians have a better idea of what happened in the eastern Persian Empire or what the Persian kings did because they have access to primary or secondary sources that haven’t been translated into English? Is this a significant issue for people doing history - that the sources may be there, but aren’t accessible because they would be either too expensive to translate or too difficult to locate without knowing the language? Or is there a lot of cooperation between historians in different countries?

I've been diving into the state of the Dutch Republic after the War of Spanish Succession and it's decline as a great power in Europe. And so I read that Simon van Slingelandt wrote a book called "Staatkundige Geschriften" (Political Discourses). However, I'm unable to read it due to the low quality on its website and the fact that it's written in 18th-century Dutch, quite different than modern Dutch. Any help is greatly appreciated!

As my title suggests, I'm looking to get into the Holy Roman Empire, which, to my understanding is a cluster heck of small governed city states

So, I'm looking for proper help on the subject. I would just Google it, but much like other things, Google isn't 100% an opinion based human. It's a search engine, and old pulls up topics.

Which is why I'm here asking you all's advice and suggestions on looking for books, YouTube videos, just about anything that you trust to be historically correct on the H.R.E

TD;RL: I need books on the Holy Roman Empire .w.

Also, as a side note. If there's any suggestions for Austrian History, that'd be great as well. Danke!

Also, what about the USSR? What was their policy? In the early days of either space program, did anybody try to smoke in space?

Hello!

I've always been interested in how the Allies were able to proclaim denazification after only four years of undertaking the project, as I've understood Denazification was declared "complete" at the founding of West Germany. What I don't know is how the Allies did it. Did they just imprison former Nazis? Who "qualified" as a Nazi worth "denazifying"/where did the Allies draw the line in determing who was a Nazi and who wasn't?

I've also heard that the Allies let many former Nazis back into positions of power and/or authority, while the Soviets basically imprisoned and/or "reeducated" almost every ranking Nazi official and judges in East Germany. Is this correct?

Thank you!

I’m watching Anne with an E, a story set on Prince Edward’s Island in 1899. The characters are 16 years old, and yet are still wearing knee-length skirts and aren’t wearing corsets yet. A character mentions that corsets start being worn at 17. This seems late to me. I was under the impression that girls started wearing longer and longer dresses starting at the onset of puberty, and were wearing corsets as soon as they started developing as well. Are there any sources on this subject?

Two weeks ago the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Sciences was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, mostly for their work applying and promoting the use of randomised controlled trials in economics.

These are well-known as the gold-standard for experiments in medicine and psychology, but the first published RCT in medicine was in 1948. They seem to have become common first in psychology and then agriculture.

So what’s the history of the RCT? What intellectual and organisational developments were necessary to establish the theory and the practice?

Can anyone enlighten me to the meaning of the word cuyler?

It’s amongst entries of an inventory of the royal treasure and these are pantry items. Here is the entry for context:

R 789 xj cuylers d'argent enorrez, du poys, xxiiijs.

Can these items be bowls/dishes as it’s similar to ecuelles. I’ve Googled and use both Middle English and Anglo-Norman dictionaries but I’m still none the wiser.

Many thanks in advance.

So I'm curious about this guy. But the only books I find on him are basically novels or fictional interpretations. Wikipedia doesn't really dig into how his reign was for the common man.

Any help here?

Taming of the Shrew, Two Gentleman of Verona, Merchant of Venice, Much Ado about Nothing, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Othello, Coriolanus, The Winter's Tale. Almost as many as were set in Great Britain. Was it simply the renaissance, or was there more to the popularity of Italian settings?

I’ve recently finished Red Dead Redemption 2, a linear narrative following a deteriorating band of outlaws constantly escaping the hands of the law and the ‘Pinkertons’ following a grand bank robbery that goes devastatingly wrong. How true is the idea of the law taming the West in the millennium transition into industrial America, did the Pinkertons actually ever exist (or a similar agency for that matter) - and how did they actually tackle the ruthlessness of the path of outlawed west America into its tamed, industrial beginning of the 20th century.

How did Switzerland become so wealthy despite being landlocked and with its lack of natural resources?