Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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🇺🇸 **More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation.**
"_The Washington Post has compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents_"
🔗 https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/.
#History #Histodons #Slavery #Archives #Database #USA #UnitedStates
🇳🇴 **Over a span of 150 years, a billion Islamic silver coins may have flowed into the Viking world**
_"Here you see part of the driving force behind the Viking Age," says a Norwegian coin expert._
#History #HIstodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Vikings #Numismatics #Silver #Coins #Norway #Scandinavia
**Climate-driven changes in Mediterranean grain trade mitigated famine but introduced the Black Death to medieval Europe**
"_Here, we argue that a post-volcanic climate downturn and trans-Mediterranean famine from 1345–1347 CE forced the Italian maritime republics of Venice, Genoa and Pisa to activate their well-established supply network and import grain from the Mongols of the Golden Horde around the Sea of Azov in 1347 CE. This climate-driven change in long-distance grain trade not only prevented large parts of Italy from starvation but also introduced the plague bacterium to Mediterranean harbours and fueled its rapid dispersal across much of Europe._"
Bauch, M., Büntgen, U. Climate-driven changes in Mediterranean grain trade mitigated famine but introduced the Black Death to medieval Europe. Commun Earth Environ 6, 986 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02964-0.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Medieval #Europe #Climate #ClimateChange #Ecology #Academia
**Strabo: The First Geographer**
"_As the father of descriptive geography, Strabo of Amasia provides a unique view of the early Roman Empire._"
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/strabo-first-geographer.
#History #Histodons #Geography #RomanEmpire #Ancient #Greece #Literature
🇩🇰 📖 🔭 **The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe**
"_The Lord of Uraniborg is a comprehensive biography of Tycho Brahe, father of modern astronomy, famed alchemist and littérateur of the sixteenth-century Danish Renaissance._"
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/lord-of-uraniborg/06D94F2184A543176965B1D026B41D31.
#History #Denmark #Science #Astronomy #HistSci #Nonfiction #Biography #TychoBrahe #Books #Bookstodon
#Image attribution: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacques_de_Gheyn_Ii_-_Portrait_of_Tycho_Brahe,_astronomer_(without_a_hat)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg.
📖 **History of the last survivors of the Atlantic slave trade named winner of Wolfson History Prize 2025**
📖 **The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World**
"_A landmark account of the origins of American slavery, revealing how ancient Roman ideas were used to defend the establishment of a slave empire in the English Atlantic world._"
🔗 https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674278370.
#Slavery #History #Histodons #Politics #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
**Roman-era ink reveals surprising chemical complexity**
"_University of Évora archaeologist César Oliveira, the lead author of the new study, says the ink’s basic ingredients were as expected, but ‘the surprising element is the intentional inclusion of iron-gall ink constituents, creating a hybrid of carbon-based and metal-based ingredients’. The tannin from oak galls combined with iron salts during the ink-making process to create an intense black or dark purple ink._"
**Explaining the Tides Before Newton**
"_Astronomical explanations for tides, usually credited to Isaac Newton, can be traced to thinkers like Strabo and Pliny in the Classical era._"
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/explaining-the-tides-before-newton/.
#History #Science #HistSci #Oceans #Physics
#Image attribution: Jebulon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Komos_site_baie_Cr%C3%A8te.jpg.
🏴 **We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals**
🇩🇪 🇵🇱 **Germany will return Teutonic archives looted in WWII to Poland, media reports**
"_The archives, seized by Nazi forces as part of a broad cultural plunder, contain manuscripts and documents tied to the medieval Teutonic Order of warrior monks—materials invaluable to understanding the order’s expansion, its conflicts with Poland and Lithuania, and the formation of regional borders._"
🔗 https://tvpworld.com/90298141/germany-to-return-medieval-teutonic-documents-stolen-in-wwii-report.
**How the first Bible to include a map helped spread the idea of countries with borders**
**Ancient humans took two routes to Australia 60,000 years ago**
📚 **Leonardo's Library: The World of a Renaissance Reader**
"_The exhibition draws on Stanford’s Special Collections and the collections of the David Rumsey Map Center and the Lane Medical Library to reveal the authors and texts that shaped Leonardo’s world and influenced his ideas, reading habits, and understanding of books in the age of Gutenberg._"
**Project to bring voices of enslaved people to life**
"_Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana will digitise, map and analyse the records which are here at Kew and allow researchers to examine how enslaved people used the courts to make complaints relating to family life, work, health, violence, and a host of other issues._"
🔗 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/project-to-bring-voices-of-enslaved-people-to-life/
**Travelling for your health**
"_In the mid-19th century a burgeoning literature on foreign climates and health resorts emerged, testament to the new specialism of medical climatology. The works generally included a detailed analysis of the climate in the region and general travel information about local attractions and facilities for invalids._"
📖 **‘Heiresses’ by Miranda Kaufman review**
"_Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery by Miranda Kaufman follows the money to reveal how Britain’s women of means profited from plantations._"
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/heiresses-miranda-kaufman-review.
📖 **Why the World Keeps Making New Joans of Arc and Why that Matters**
"_The Joans of Arc phenomenon is ultimately a story about how we use the medieval past to tell modern stories about gender, heroism, race, and nationhood._"
#Nonfiction #Medieval #History #Books
#Image attribution: Paul Dubois, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeanne_d%27Arc_Paris_Paul_Dubois.jpg.
🇬🇪 **Discovery of unknown script in Georgia: the Bashplemi Lake tablet**
"_This tablet, which bears 60 signs, 39 of them different, raises the question of the origin of the Georgian script, proto-Georgian. While the basalt on which it is based is known to be of local origin, its meaning is unknown and there remains a long way to go to decipher it._"
“DISCOVERY OF UNKNOWN SCRIPT CHARACTERS IN GEORGIA: THE BASHPLEMI LAKE TABLET” (2024) JOURNAL OF ANCIENT HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY, 11(3). doi: https://doi.org/10.14795/j.v11i3.1035.
#Archaeology #History #Language #Georgia #Research #Academia
**Map: Central Europe, 919-1125**
#History #Histodons #Europe #Maps #Cartopgraphy
#Image attribution: William R. Shepherd (died 1934), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Europe,_919-1125.jpg.
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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