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I've read about graduate studies in historical theology. Are those who pursue such degrees theologians or historians? Are they both?
What are the benefits of doing a dissertation for a Ph.D. in historical theology on Medieval Christianity compared to doing a dissertation on it through a Ph.D. in history? Is a Ph.D. in historical theology from a divinity more or less worthwhile than a Ph.D. in history?
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Hey everyone, I've been seeing a lot of dumb antisemetic talking points all over the place since Kanye said you know what, and I wanted to get some hard facts to counter them.
It was easy to find data that demonstrates Jewish people don't control, or rather don't disproportionally control, contemporary international finance; their influence is laughably insignificant.
However I haven't had much luck finding data regarding Jewish control of finance in the 19th or 20th century. I expect that in the 19th century the data problem isn't in my favour, as it seems the Rothschilds had a pan-European monopoly on international finance, having innovated it.
However I did find a reference to Jewish people owning 45 percent of private banking during the Weimar period, but less than 1 percent of it's "more powerful" joint-stock banks and credit institutions. This is promising, but I haven't been able to find data regarding what percentages that these different sectors (private, joint-stock, credit) make up in the Weimar financial system, so I can do some simple math to spit out a "Jews only owned x% of the German financial system" statement. Any assistance would be appreciated :)
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I recently watched a talk by Dr. Raj Vedam where he discussed how the Aryan invasion theory is largely a colonial construct that isn't backed by scientific evidence. After watching I did some googling to figure out what the common consensus amongst scientists is and found a lot of contradicting sources. So I was just curious what the current schools of thought are, and if either is considered the consensus amongst historians. Thanks!
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Historically, what is the difference between a nazi and a neo-nazi?
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I am aware of the many casualties on the last day of the war, but I always assigned those to artillery/sniper casualties - did a full-blown charge as depicted in the movie occur in those final stages and if yes, to what extent across the entire front?
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Hello. I am looking for books about the preservation and copying of the works from Classical Antiquity that survive to this day. Basically, looking for a rundown of the rediscovering and retranslating of books from Classical Greece and Rome. Bonus points if it includes coverage of the preservation of these works during the so-called Dark Ages. Thanks!
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Hi everyone,
I'm researching different primary source propaganda outlets during different wars in American history in order to analyze them in the context of each other. During my research, I found an interesting NAACP publication(1) from 1918 commending the black soldiers fighting for the US, France, and Britain in Europe and Africa.
In one of the sections of the text, there is a sonnet called "A Sonnet to the Negro Soldiers". What strikes me as odd was the usage of 4 swastika symbols directly below the title of this sonnet. Is there any historical context behind this I should be aware of (obviously outside of Nazi usage. I think it's safe to say the NAACP were not Nazis especially 25 years-ish before Hitler's nazis.)? I had never heard of the NAACP using swastikas before, and never had I seen them connected to the fight for black Americans' civil rights.
(1) The Crisis: NAACP Journal . June 1918. Memorial Collection. Special Collections Department, Tampa Library, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.
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To be clear, I'm not asking about persons that were important in their own time but not very well remembered afterwards; naturally, every generation knows its current leaders and kings, but not all of them stay widely remembered hundreds of years later. Rather, I'm asking about figures who were already ancient, but extremely widely known - even to a layperson - but, for whatever reason, faded from memory and became just another historical detail, known only to specialists.
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It appears that basic wind, stringed and percussion instruments were used across cultures dating back to the Neolithic, if not earlier. Is this evidence of cultural drift as populations migrated across the globe or did similar musical instruments spontaneously develop independently?
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It seems odd for a Norman Prince to be apparently operating under a totally assumed name. No source I have seen offers much explanation for this situation. Does anyone here have any insight?
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Julius Pollux and Athenaeus Naucratita say that they were not slaves at all, but instead more akin to what we would call a serf, or something above a slave but below a free man, but they were also writing nearly 7 centuries after the era of the Peloponnesian War, so they might be even less worthy of trust than the aforementioned Athenians.
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Even when looking at the Wikipedia article there’s way, way more written about the first 200 years, then the next 300, by a lot. Most of that content is about Diocletian and Constantine. There’s hundreds of years of Roman history that are basically glossed over. For some reason everything after Marcus Aurelius is significantly abbreviated, even despite long serving emperors like Septimus Severus coming right after.
Is there any reason why most of the history after 180 ce is glossed over?
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Whenever you read about the fall of civilizations, frequently succession crises lead to the fall of dynasties, and massive civil wars were frequently nails in the imperial coffin.
Yet for most of Roman Imperial history, there were endless civil wars and usurping of imperial power by random generals.
How did the empire manage to not collapse? Who ran the day to day affairs of the empire? How were regular Roman citizens affected? Was it just centuries of barely hanging on by a thread? Was it centuries of utter chaos, starvation, and war?
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The systematic dispossession of Catholic Irish landowners for English Protestants began under Mary I in 1556, when County Laois became the Queen’s County, but the motives of this confuse me as the cornerstone of her domestic policy in England was the restoration of the Catholic Church; the Irish nobility and population writ large had remained Roman Catholic despite the establishment of the (Anglican) Church of Ireland by the Irish parliament in 1536, so it would seem to me that displacing them with English Protestants would run counter to everything that she wanted for her realm.
Was it just that she intended to replace the Irish with the English, but the fact was that by that point the English were already Protestant? This seems unlikely, as the Act of Supremacy was only 22 years prior, but it’s all that seems to make sense/
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My understanding is that the overwhelming majority of warheads belong(ed) to the Americans and Soviets, but what was the relationship to the smaller allied arsenals? Did Washington and Moscow have an itemized list of targets they expected/required their allies to hit or was the expectation that the two primary powers would do the heavy lifting and their allies were basically irrelevant?
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I'd assume it depends a lot on how close the source is to the present. But what is it like for the various eras? Do we ever find new written material about societies like Rome or the early caliphates? Or are there too many sources and not enough historians to read them all?
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Although the question is mainly addressed towards the territories of the western empire, I would also be interested in hearing about how much longer it lasted in ex byzantine lands
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Follow up question: Black Americans have also adopted Egyptian and Islamic iconography as well.
The Nation of Islam uses Christian, Jewish, Turkic symbols.
Black nationalist spiritual movements use phrases like Allah, Yahweh and Jehovah interchangeably. I’m very curious as to how all of this became amalgamated
Edit: I’m going to add this link because I think it’s a good example of what I’m talking about
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Greek gods are fairly well known through many myths involving them, but do Romans have some?
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This sub has a 20 years time limit, for example, but I'm wondering with the academic discipline itself. When does something become a subject of history and not of anthropology?
I see historians also employ theories used in anthropology and social science, e.g. postcolonial theories and theories on rituals like in David Mattingly's excellent Experiencing Roman Empire. So what are the delineators?
I hope I'm making sense. Thanks!
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