In this documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XAFjy6Lda0 at 6m13s it is said that there is a mycenaean tablet which register that a priestess refuses to pay taxes to the palace. I'd like to have access to this source. Someone could indicate it to me?
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I am trying to write a paper on the history of math. Im focused on its spread and influence throughout the European, Islamic, and Jewish cultures across the Mediterranean. Particularly 1000-1400, but anything throughout the middle ages would be helpful.
I've found a few good articles and sources form wikipedia and books from my schools library, just curious if anyone has a specific book, author, or website they could recommend.
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I was reading this article on maternal mortality ( https://ourworldindata.org/maternal-mortality ) and, although I knew death during childbirth was far more common historically, I had never thought it could be as high as 1% of births. This has made me question how societies adapted without the mothers? I would appreciate any knowledge on the topic, but a few things that spring to mind are:
I have no preference on geographical area/time period, any information on the topic I'd love to hear about!
Thank you so much for your time.
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Before the rise of Al-Qaeda, and the exception of the Iranian hostage crises which helped create this perception of the Middle-East being a hostile place to live, excluding out all the intricate political motivations, how did everyday Americans and Europeans for example view Muslims and Islam?
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There's a million examples of this trope, the old man with the pushed up brim talking about there being 'gold in them there hills'. Where does that idea come from?
I would assume that most prospectors in the various gold rushes in the Americas in the 1800's would have been younger men who could handle the more physically demanding portions of the job. So why is the old prospector always, well, old?
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I apologize if this isn't the right sub for this. It's not a crosspost but it's similar to what I just posted in genetics, and I may not have the exact term right, but I'm pretty sure eccentricity is the right one. My folks always said it's an old catch-all medical term for someone who is robust and successful in life while clearly having a few screws loose, but not enough issues to force hospitalization.
My grandmother and her father had it, my grandmother's sister had something similar but not quite the same thing, and the reason this is relevant is because I got a milder version of it when I was a teenager, and two of my cousins now have the full blown version that my grandmother had. It's kind of like an unspecified learning disability. Doctors can't figure out what it is and are asking for a family medical history, but 'eccentricity' doesn't really tell them much.
I suppose it's worth pointing out that all of these people were very social and very brilliant. Definitely not the sort of people they'd be putting in a mental institution.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Turin_(1860)
"And yet, in view of all these most solemn assurances, what have we seen? Italian troops removed and French troops put in their places; all the important civil offices filled with Frenchmen, or men committed to the support of the French cause; official circulars and placards advocating annexation scattered everywhere, while no publication of an opposing sentiment was anywhere allowed; ballot-boxes in exclusive control of French officers; ballots in favor of annexation distributed everywhere by the police, while ballots opposed to annexation could be procured only by sending to Geneva; priests blessing the flags presented by the Emperor, and appealing to the consciences of their people in behalf of France; money, as well as general free living and drinking, furnished by the imperial agents; and, finally, the people, with French music sounding and French banners flying, marched up en masse to the ballot-box, with priest and mayor arm-in-arm at their head. Such was the boasted "free vote" with the sanction and help of which Nice and Savoy were annexed to France."
Obviously it wasn't wholly accepted as Mussolini hated it, but how "Free & Fair" was the vote? Is that as rigged as it sounds? Why was it accepted(not the trade of nice and savoy for support, that just seems like politics), but the plebiscite's legitimacy?
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Extending the question, how was the process to achieve this? I know it began with the Anglo-Spanish war, but what happened next? How did they overcome the Dutch navy and expand their commerce? What changed in the English government? How did the parliament gain power and which policies did they established to transform England in an empire? Did the arrival of William III of Orange produced any changes in the politics of England?
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Thursday Reading and Recommendations is intended as bookish free-for-all, for the discussion and recommendation of all books historical, or tangentially so. Suggested topics include, but are by no means limited to:
Asking for book recommendations on specific topics or periods of history
Newly published books and articles you're dying to read
Recent book releases, old book reviews, reading recommendations, or just talking about what you're reading now
Historiographical discussions, debates, and disputes
...And so on!
Regular participants in the Thursday threads should just keep doing what they've been doing; newcomers should take notice that this thread is meant for open discussion of history and books, not just anything you like -- we'll have a thread on Friday for that, as usual.
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The earlier the better but anything before modern times are super interesting!
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In the film we see that a black man in a noble in queen Elizabeth's court is it accurate that black people were given such high positions or is it just to diversify the caste of the movie
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I'm a teacher and we're doing a course at the moment of the history of childhood.
One of they key components is Philip Aries' famous book 'Centuries of Childhood'. I just read this article:
https://slate.com/culture/2002/03/the-fight-over-when-childhood-began.html
The writer concludes by saying 'Orme’s book is perhaps right, but it is not timely, and not, like Gibbon’s, Michelet’s, and arguably Aries’, a work of the imagination. Orme is patient, scholarly, useful; but Aries was visionary and utterly necessary.'
I'm struggling understand why Aries' book is so useful given that is ideas were successfully refuted by Orme and others. So my question is why is his contribution to the field appreciated if his ideas were mostly wrong? In a review of Orme's work it says that Aries' approach was theoretical, whereas Orme's was evidence based. What theories did Aries use exactly? And how can historical assertions based on a theory be useful if they are contradicted by evidence?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/new-noteworthy/302447/ Review that mentions Aries' theoretical approach and Orme's evidence based approach.
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What I understood (which I guess is wrong) is that Auschwitz II was made for extermination of every kind of person the Nazis didn't like. They arrived there, were selected on their health and the healthy were put on a train to the labour camps while the unhealthy ones were put into the gas chambers. Sometimes they had to wait for there to be enough prisoners to run the gas chambers, so I can imagine those prisoners being locked away for the time being.
Also they had prisoners working for them, are those put in the hundreds or camps? I cant imagine they need tens of thousands of prisoners doing the work, so why create the facilities to store tens of thousands of people when all they do is either put them in the gas chambers or send them off to different camps? Why not build more gas chambers if there are queues?
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