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I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but it's not "current events" so what the hell. I've seen it mentioned that Marx has had significant direct impact on various fields, in that his ideas in some shape or form are actually widely accepted. Is this true? Attempting to look him up only brings up answers on Quora with very obvious agendas one way or another. But have Marx's and Marxist concepts such as critical theory and historical materialism had any real impact on the modern mainstream?

I was looking at medieval bestiaries, and the veracity seems to very greatly, and they seem to largely be based on superstition. Of the actual existing animals, it is written that mice can always be found with gold in their stomach after death, and scorpions are drawn like mammals. Some things seem based on misunderstandings, like hive-building bees being described as coming from animal flesh, which could come from bee-mimic flies who lay eggs in decaying meat. And some are just facts that I wouldn't expect them to know given the quality of information, such as bats giving live birth and producing milk.

So what degree did they attempt research? Did they not care to get the anatomical or behavioral details correct? I know to some degree they were meant to be religious teachings, but it seems like they made no attempt to show reality. Even animals they would have been able to see commonly in Europe have wildly incorrect anatomy. Also, **were any European bestiaries done just for the love of nature, or had that concept not emerged yet? Did writers in other places of the world write more accurate depictions of animals? ** Thank you in advance, I apologize if my questions are too jumbled.

That is, in a castle of one hundred knights, for example, were there two hundred servants? More? High ranking staff would have dedicated servants for certain things, I presume, while there would be stablehands and cooks and all sorts of others

I read a brief mention (in Erik Larson's "Isaac's Storm") that it was considered one of the best places for an African-American to live in that period, especially considering the standard of living they could expect and general acceptance in society. Also that their worker's union essentially controlled the port.

Firstly, how true is this? And then, how did this come about?

What was life like for a freeman pre-Civil War in the region?

Was this status able to survive the destruction of the city in 1900?

I'm starting a Master's soon in the subject of the Crusader kingdoms, specifically the Fall of Jerusalem and the return of Muslim rule. I'm hoping to look at mainly Christian sources in order to study how Christians understood the events of the late 12th century.

The trouble is that I'm at a bit of a loss on how to find these chroniclers to begin with. I know that this is part of what I'll work on with my supervisor but I've been trying to get a head start as well.

Who do you think is really interesting to study? What chroniclers have interesting aspects to their works? Are there other primary sources that I should think to look at?

Thanks.

Can anyone provide a comparative analysis of American world war era classic history books from 20 years ago, 10 years ago, and from the last year or so?

There was a post about a set of amateur pictures of Dunkirk after the evacuation and the amount of vehicles and materials left behind was astonishing. My question is how and who did the clean up and were the materials left behind every integrated into the army for anything other than scrap?

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Would the price make them too expensive for the majority of the country?

Many thanks!

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​Basically the title, just wanna know how they affected medieval Europeans society and economy.

Hey guys

I'm going to write a paper about the OJ Simpson trial soon and i'm kind of struggling right now to find some good objective books about the case. I was wondering if some of you guys might be able to help me out.

Hello to everyone (first sorry if my english is not as sharp as it should be).

Celtic culture seems to be one of the most underrepresented cultures in the media, so it is really hard to find some good sources on them.

I am Portuguese, and since the portuguese gene pool has a vast majority of celtic genes in it, i have a keen interest in their past and culture.

So if you guys could help me out with:
- Deities;
- Warfare and Martial Arts/Techniques;
- Physical appearence;
- Religion (since it almost seems pantheistic);
- Tattoos (i can only find resources on the Pics);
- And finally Games/Like the celtic games still present today.

Kind regards,
Thank you to everyone (and once again sorry for the english).

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This would help me a lot in my exposition on the topic coming up in a few weeks time.

I’ve studied the topic of Suffragettes and I’m making a comparison on whether or not the film is an accurate depiction of what actually happened.

Any insight?

I'm not sure if this is more answerable by psychology or history but if historians have an answer I'm curious to hear it.

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We see civilizations with great levels of centralization and organization seem to pop up all over the world, in Mesoamerica, West Asia, China, and the Indian subcontinent. Why is it that they seem to have come about almost at the same time but probably had little contact with each other? (Especially Mesoamerica to the rest of them)

I ask as a Medievalist who’s well familiar with the amount that the legends surrounding missionary work get distorted, but how much does this play into even modern views of Catholicism in Japan? How many missionaries were successful, and how many were notably martyred? Were Catholic missionaries greeted similarly in Early Modern Japan as they were in other states?