I wrote some neat stuff this week, even if y'all were more interested in reading about Victor Hugo's sex life (not my finest hour on AskHistorians, LOL!):

• What role did women play in the Golden Age of Islam?
• How did Denmark react to Shakespeare's Hamlet?
• Did the concept of a "deal with the devil" exist before Faust?

I also really enjoyed reading:

• /u/khosikulu with Was architecture in medieval/early modern Kongo influenced by the Portuguese or Native American styles?
• /u/hillsonghoods returning to an old thread to discuss how "disco mutated into house music, basically, while no one was looking"
• /u/Gorrest-Fump with one of the utterly amazing questions that make AH what it is: Did Henry Ford really promote square dancing in order to destroy jazz?

I'm also going to tout my own petard, with my comments on the question of How was homosexuality generally viewed by native Americans, pre-colonization until American revolution?

I also enjoyed the responses from:

• /u/commiespaceinvader on Who were the female Auschwitz guards seen laughing and eating blueberries in the infamous Hoecker Album discovered in 2007?

• /u/useful_organ on Were there famous bands in ancient times?

• /u/the_chieftain_wg (and others!) in a discussion on "US radar operators detect a large formation of planes heading straight for Pearl Harbor. They are assured the aircraft are American." What happened to the men that stated this information?

u/Bentresh answered Why haven't we deciphered Indus Valley Civilization script yet or are we any closer?

u/Aurevir answered Operation Cottage: Allied troops land on an island with literally no enemies, and managed lose more than 30 troops with more wounded, due to friendly fire. What exactly went wrong?

u/OwlOfDerision answered In Poldark, 18th century lenders are able to call in debts at will and bankrupt debtors in short order. In reality, how did lending work in the 18th century and was the power lenders had over their debtors that significant? When did that change?

A bit late, but here we go:

• /u/grashnak on "Mohammed was a prophet of God, and as I understand it, Islam regards itself as a continuation upon the Old and New Testaments. Were the early Muslims continuing Judaic tradition in expecting a Messiah?"

• /u/manifestmidwest answered "What was Vichy rule like in the French colonies, especially distant ones like Indochina?"

• /u/brittneybyrd answered "Is it fair to characterize the English Civil War as a religious war?"