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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.
In honour of our most recent META thread, /u/Abrytan has gifted us with this most wonderful take on a popular comic.
Now let’s try something a bit different as well. In the interest of the sadly fallen META post, and not at all because I have a worrying obsession with bulking the digest, lets show some love for some interesting questions from the past week that didn’t get any answers. Perhaps some wandering expert will take notice, and try to take a crack at it.
/u/clydex was asking about What happend to the global anarchist movement that caused it to seemingly disappear in the early 20th century?
In a not at all shameful attempt at self-promotion, I asked the two following questions; How important was the Church for medieval peasants versus city residents?
/u/Zeuvembie wanted to know about Pejoratives Against Religious Women in the Middle Ages
Welcome one and all to another fun filled edition of the Sunday Digest. It’s been another great week, filled with some pretty amazing threads. We’ve had another Summer Campaign Mega thread, and a wide ranging spread of question topics! If you’ve ever thought about going for a flair, or even just want to take a crack at answering some fun questions, this is the perfect summer to go for it!
Media Monday saw the second part of the Age of Empires AMA. Huge props to everyone who contributed to it! If you’re a fan of the game its well worth checking out.
The Tuesday Trivia featured some badass women in Femme Fatales! Next week will be about Fakes, Frauds and Forgeries! I highly encourage as many people to participate as they can! Give me more to shout out here next week.
Then there’s the Thursday R&R for all your research and book recommendation needs.
Don’t forget the more casual Friday Free For All for all those banter needs.
The Saturday Showcase had some good activity, and we had posts from /u/aquatermain, /u/Zooasaurus and /u/Klesk_vs_Xaero.
And what’s that? Do you hear a great rushing on the horizon? Like a ~8000 voices cried out at once. Is it.. is it our usual massive monthly META thread? Yes! But also no. Because it turns out it was actually posted by a spam account trying to farm karma, which is against the rules and thus removed. So let me take this moment and remind anyone reading this that this Sunday Digest is for all of you. Everyone can post anything they feel is overlooked during the week. I just post answers because that’s what I do, but if you feel there’s a great question that could use a shout add, absolutely feel free to add it in! Maybe it’ll get that extra little attention it needs to get an answer.
That said, we did get a number of good suggestions from the thread while it lasted. Stay tuned in the coming weeks because we might have some new interesting ideas to share.
The third megathread in our glorious summer campaign was about the history of the Middle East! and also occasionally an discussion about Istanbul vis a vis the Middle East. There was 200+ comments so forgive me if I don’t list everyone. The next one will be the History of Asia on the 6th! I can’t wait to see everyone there!
As per our usual, I highly encourage you to check out the weekly discussion features. Upvote your favorite writers and questions and keep looking for those great answers. I hope everyone out there has yourself a fantastic week, and I’ll see you next Sunday!
We don't have too many questions that touched on deaf history so I decided to ask about the development of hearing technologies in the 20th century. Hasn't been answered yet, but the post is still young (for an AskHistorians question).
Hello you all! I posted just a few days ago a question regarding hygiene practices during the Roman Republic\Empire:
Traditions and Antiseptic
What made me interested is that many questions circled around the topic but none of them seemed to actually discuss how and why ancient civilizations had such good results in medical treatments without even knowing about antiseptics.
If somebody might have a valid answer and simply didn't see it I await to hear from you!