Today:
You know the drill: this is the thread for all your history-related outpourings that are not necessarily questions. Minor questions that you feel don't need or merit their own threads are welcome too. Discovered a great new book, documentary, article or blog? Has your Ph.D. application been successful? Have you made an archaeological discovery in your back yard? Did you find an anecdote about the Doge of Venice telling a joke to Michel Foucault? Tell us all about it.
As usual, moderation in this thread will be relatively non-existent -- jokes, anecdotes and light-hearted banter are welcome.
I’ve become obsessed with English agricultural history and am desperately seeking anything about the same in audiobook format. Any book recommendations? I’m especially interested in agricultural change between, say, the 12th and 15th century.
Hello,
I've had a recent bout of questions about how late antiquity and medieval era scholars/librarians, etc. collected, preserved, and disseminated classic works (for instance Aristotle's body of works, which seemed to have been important for movement such as scholasticism).
Would anyone have recommended readings on the topic? e.g., how antique manuscript could have been preserved, rediscovered, etc. Having an idea of how the views of possible conservators changed over time would be an awesome plus.
Thanks!
Hello all-
I recently posted the second video in my miniseries on Atlantis, which explores the origins of the modern notion that Atlantis was real. Short, but hopefully entertaining, edifying, etc.
Have a good weekend
Hello, I was wondering if the Geneva convention was to be applied to the sack of Carthage how many charges would be applicable to the Romans and to what extent would charges come against the Senate?
Do historians publish meta-analysis type papers? I'm curious as I have been on an old West binge, specifically the shoot out at the OK Corral and authors seem to allow bias to creep in, i.e. pro-Earp or anti-Earp, so to speak. How does one reconcile these opposing view points?
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Friday, July 24 - Thursday, July 30
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| 6,236 | 68 comments | I am a lady in Tudor England. I have enjoyed my "wifely duties" and wish to do them again, but my husband continually rejects me. What are my options? |
| 5,936 | 144 comments | How should I, a native Turkish citizen, educate myself on the Armenian Genocide? |
| 4,377 | 85 comments | Why is the legal adult age 18? like who came up with that and why |
| 4,094 | 143 comments | How did Richard I come to be so fondly lionized in British cultural memory given how marginal of a King he seems to have actually been? |
| 3,911 | 61 comments | I'm a medieval British peasant and I come home from the fields to find my wife shtuping the plowman from the next farm. Assuming it's a voluntary shtup, what remedies are available to me? |
| 3,799 | 105 comments | [Les Misérables] Was Jean Valjean's punishment of 19 years of prison and forced labor for stealing a loaf of bread (and his subsequent escape attempts) an accurate punishment for that crime in that time period? Or was it exaggerated in the book/play? |
| 3,461 | 57 comments | The list of rampage killers on Wikipedia says that the deadliest rampage killing in Europe occured in 1583, when a man in Beselick killed 41 people. However, nobody is sure where Beselick is. What do we know about Beselick's location, and is it common that entire medieval towns are lost in this way? |
| 3,277 | 92 comments | [Great Question!] Many small medieval European cities with populations under 7,000 built huge, resource-intensive cathedrals. How the Church compel the population to donate toward or work on these structures? Were the locals enthusiastic about helping bring them about? Were there outside benefactors paying the bills? |
| 3,115 | 78 comments | A 1752 map of Poland has an empty area south west of "Mohilow" (today Mogilev/Mahiliou, Belarus) labeled "déserts secs et arides", meaning "dry and arid deserts". That area looks green and fertile on satellite imagery, with both forest and farmland. Why it labeled desert? Did the climate change? |
| 2,833 | 52 comments | Did Jim Crow laws also apply to Hispanic and Asian-Americans? |
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