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Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Sunday Digest (formerly the Day of Reflection). Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.
Hi everyone. I got drawn into rather long-winded thread about Greek ethnicity in Southern Italy prior, during, and immediately following the Norman Conquest. This is the thread, you can jump to here where I get to the cusp of what it meant to an ethnic Greek living in Sicily in the late eleventh century, while this is the comment where I started the whole discussion.
Rundown:
/u/kimkonswu on "What do historians think of James C. Scott's "The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia"?"
/u/snowblinded on "Did the Nazis on trial at Nuremberg have crazy fans and supporters sending them fan mail, or protesting on their behalf?"
/u/mikedash on "After the Battle of Hastings, was there any attempt by the Celtic tribes/nations to re-conquer the lands from the Anglo-Saxons?"
/u/shlin28 provided a detailed and interesting response to my question, Although the year of the fall of Western Rome is attributed to 476 CE, it was not a sudden occurrence. When would the average person living in France, Spain, or Italy have realized that the [Western] Roman Empire no longer existed?
/u/llordlloyd gave a good answer on my question of Today is the 100th anniversary of the first use of tanks in battle. How did German soldiers and commanders view tanks in WW1?