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Hi all
From what I under stand from mostly posts from here, roman citizens (males) could have sex with basically any slaves they had, and did, though there was a social shame of being the penetrated.
However, these explanations are often taking only the male population into account. What of the Roman women from proper Roman families ?
Was it frowned upon / accepted for women to have sex with slaves, was the social acceptance the same regarding the gender of the partner ?
I imagine that in this male dominated society, women would be less free to dispose of their bodies, except for maybe upper classes, and that this was only aggravated by the social stigma associated with being penetrated.
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Both Henry II and Edward I built castles to cement their control over disputed territory. What I'm wondering is how these castles allowed them to control land beyond the immediate vicinity of the castle. It couldn't have been that hard for an invading or rebellious army to find a way to not walk directly be a castle, right?
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I am extremely interested in Norse culture during the Viking Age and was doing some reading about Norse laws of the era. According to what I read there wasn’t a formal executive branch, if you will, in typical Viking culture to mete our justice.
But, for a select few transgressions (e.g. murder and rape) they employed a system known as ‘outlawry’. Instead of arresting and executing someone who’d committed one of these heinous acts they would deem them an outlaw. The implications being the person was outside of the law and thus stripped of all legal rights and possessions, while outside of the law a person could then be lawfully killed by any other legal citizen. (https://norse-mythology.org/outlawry-viking-age/)
My question is basically why did this system take place instead of a tribunal or more formal criminal punishment system?
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I just listened to Sabaton's Union which is about the battle of Monte Cassino and this made me wonder: Were there any major battles where the Allies (and germans) considered the Italians to be extremely fierce and stubborn?
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To my great surprise, I recently learned that Britain uses classical music playing in public areas as a way to discourage anti-social youths from congregating in bus stops, supermarkets, metro, etc.: Music to deter yobs by, BBC News Magazine
How did classical music earn a reputation like this? An article criticizing the practice says,
Classical music has thus been seized upon by Transport for London and a host of other business and government leaders, not as a positive moralising force, but rather as a marker of space: a kind of “aural fence” or sonic wall, signalling “inclusion to some and exclusion to others” through its culturally conditioned associations: white, old, rich, elite.
But... why? One does not to be white to listen to music, or compose and perform it. At least, I'm not aware there are any racial differences in hearing. Old? Hearing range declines with age, so young people can, theoretically, have a better experience. Rich? Symphony and opera tickets are cheaper than pop/rock/hip-trip-trap-squaredance-hop performances. Moreover, there is a history of working classes appropriating "luxury" practices - say, Burberry and football hooligans. I doubt that Aston Martin expo would be expected to have this repulsive effect on troublemakers - but music does?
What is the history of these social labels?
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Hello,
Currently trying to translate a royal treasure inventory from 1399. It’s in medieval French and a phrase keeps popping up and I need to know what its significance is.
The phrase is pois’ de Troie and it directly translates as peas of Troy! Either I’m doing a bad translating job (likely!) or it means something I don’t understand.
Here’s an entry with it in:
Item, iiij chargeours d’or faitz de mesme l’or, pois de troie CCxxv marcz, summa, MMiiij li.
Any help gratefully received.
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Apart from the Greeks and the Thracians, what other tribes lived in the area before the slavic migrations? Thanks in advance.
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The stark reality of infant mortality in the pre-modern world paints a tragic picture of the loss which must have been unavoidable in the lives of families and, in particular, mothers. Were there commonplace funerary rights & religious, cultural and social practices regarding infant and child death that we can find in Medieval Islam or Christendom? What might have provided solace, support and celebration for mothers and families mourning the deaths of their infants or children? Can we make broad observations about the way Medieval Christian and Islamic societies interpreted and processed infant mortality, and the lenses through which they did so?
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The late Roman military is often-ignored as the less liked younger brother of the popular image of principate second-century Roman soldiers. In trying to find easily accessible information about said army you often get conflicting information. Today I just want to ask on the general rank structure of said army especially around the time of Theodosius and heavily pertaining to the Navy as well. thanks in advance
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The House approved an amendment proposed by a Republican congressman from New Jersey, Chris Smith, instructing the defence department’s inspector general to conduct a review of whether the US “experimented with ticks and other insects regarding use as a biological weapon between the years of 1950 and 1975”.
The review would have to assess the scope of the experiment and “whether any ticks or insects used in such experiment were released outside of any laboratory by accident or experiment design”.
Also interested in the biography and claims of William Burgdorfer, who discovered the bacterium that causes Lyme (now named after him), and who too has implied the proliferation if Lyme-carrying ticks in the U.S (now found in half of all U.S counties) vould have been due to military action.
With the explosion of Lyme's disease in the past decades, and with it awareness, fear and sometimes even paranoia regarding it, this topic seems to need some historical clarification.
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Any particular books cover this topic extensively and unbiasedly? What about documentaries, podcasts or blogs/articles?
I know all the major events during this period; from the reign of As-Salih Ayyub up intil Baibars, the revolts from regional lords in the levant and upper-nile, tensions with crusaders, Luis XI's failed egyptian crusade, Mamluk usurption of power and all the entailing political assasinations, sack of baghdad and battle of Ain Jalut.
What i hope to find out is more in-depth explanation of all these major events, how the economy was managed during this time, political alliances that were formed in this state, more about the personalities of these rulers, and so on. Any help would be very deeply appreciated.
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Hey guys,
When asking ML blokes for info on Soviet history(to see why they adore it and all) I often got recommended to check out Grover Furr, so I decided to check out this essay for starters.
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/research/mlg09/did_ussr_invade_poland.html
I found it to be quite interesting, but due to these takes being so unusual, I decided to remain on the bench for now.
When looking up on opinions on him I found 3 opinions that are prevalent
You can see how awkward this is. Any help with navigating around this would be appreciated!
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Starting in the late 1200s there are some very significant advances in armor technology (coat of plates), but also evidence of what must have been an absolutely massive industry:
As an example in 1295 Frederic the Lombard assembled for the fleet of Philip the Fair in Bruges 2,853 helmets, 6,309 round shields, 4,511 mail shirts, 751 pairs of gauntlets, 1,374 gorgets and 5,067 coats of plates.7 Even with conservative estimates, this equals thousands and thousands of hours in labor and would need an impressive “industrial complex” to produce and deliver such a large order in a efficient way.
Another example is the armor store of Francesco Datini who imported armor to France from Milan. An inventory in 1367 showed 45 bascinets, 3 chape de fer (iron hats), 10 cervelles, 60 breastplates, 20 cuirasses, and 12 mail shirts in stock.7 If this equates to any type of average for an armor seller to have in house, we are contemplating a huge production capacity for the industry of armor making and one that points to wide spread sources of production, not just a few great centers which supplied the entire need for armor.
This continues into the 1300s:
The merchants would also check all product for quality before allowing the Nuremberg mark to be placed on it and allowing export and sale of the item.6 Such tight control sometimes limited the amount that could be made, as in 1362-3 when an order from Emperor Charles IV strained the resources to complete 1,816 armors.
And into the 1400s:
In preparation for the Battle of Maclodio, 1427, Milan was able to supply 4000 armors for cavalry and 2000 for infantry within just a few days.7
http://oakeshott.org/some-aspects-of-the-metallurgy-and-production-of-european-armor/
In the mid 1300s we start to see the coat of plates replaced by the breastplate, and after that point no other part of the world is able to match European armor technology. So what happened that allowed this massive growth in arms technology/production, and why didn't the rest of the world catch up?
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Let's say I get pressed into serving as the French Revolutionary War is starting and survive long enough to see the end of the war with Napoleon 23 years later.
Apart from the year gap between the two wars, and knowing that sailors typically spent months at sea, how many different ships would I (or an average seaman) typically serve on?
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As in the title. I'm Pole and this is heavily politicised topic. Some people claim that we were totally clean, some that we were worse monsters than Germans. I don't trust any of Polish books to give truth about that topic, so could you, please, help me? :P
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