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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.
Welcome one and all to another edition of the Sunday Digest! Here’s my collection of great posts from the week, and if I’ve missed something you thought was good you should absolutely post it up here as well so everyone can see it. Share the great threads you enjoyed!
All you great post writers deserve far more upvotes.
The first of the fantastic AMA’s was I’m Dr. Rachel Herrmann. I’ll be back today (March 11th) at 1PM EST/5PM GMT to talk about my edited collection, To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic. It's time to start asking your questions about histories of cannibalism, food, and hunger. AMA! Really fill up on some tasty tidbits. Thanks to /u/raherrmann and /u/kellyleawatson for the AMA!
The second great AMA was I’m Brian Haara, here today (March 13) from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. EDT to discuss my book, Bourbon Justice: How Whiskey Law Shaped America, and to answer your questions about bourbon history and its interrelatedness with the history of American commercial law. AMA! with /u/SippnCorn. You should go have a look!
It’s the Friday Free For All! The best place for your random musings or questions on history.
The Saturday Showcase Currently featuring the ongoing story if Italian Fascism, if any of you budding writers have been waiting for a chance to answer a question on AH then you should visit the showcase.
I like META questions, even some of the most frequently asked questions, and I like including some of the interesting or important ones here so that maybe someone asking themselves the same question might find it here and have their question answered. Perhaps one of the most frequent questions is Bit of a different question, but why do so many responses end up getting removed? I very rarely see posts answered without a mod chiming in or something.
/u/400-Rabbits gave a thorough description of the Aztec game patolli in answer to https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/azgso5/do_we_know_of_any_pre_columbian_games_from_the/
I posted my first answer on the sub this week! /u/LeCapitaine93 asked I was recently watching 'Monty Python and Holy Grail' when that scene with the anarcho-syndicalist made me wonder: Is there any trace or reference to a "kinda" anarchist phylosophy or organisation during Europe's Middle Ages? In my response I talk turkey about conceptions of 'anarchism' in the medieval period, touching on works varying from Boccaccio to Ibn Battuta to Rabelais and featuring some devoutly radical monks!
Super late, as often is the case... but here we go!
/u/kingconani answered "What's the significance of the popularity of "Ripperology"?" as well as on "It's often said that the East India Trading Company was almost as powerful as a nation, how powerful did it get and what was put in place to stop it happening again?"
/u/y_sengaku answered "To what degree World the early church of Scandinavia be connected to the church of the continent and the papacy?" and on "Why is Norse mythology so well-known compared to other contemporaneous Germanic religions?"
/u/J-Force answered "How did the Persians lose the Byzantine-Sasanian War of the early 7th Century?"