Show newer
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

Writing a History of Ignorance

"There are many kinds of ignorance—simply not knowing, being aware of not knowing (like Socrates), wanting not to know, and not wanting other people to know."

yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/04/30/

@histodon
@histodons @bookstodon

0
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

"Incense spheres discovered in Tang hoards, which are the earliest artefacts found to date, reveal multicultural origins upon close examination. Persian and Sogdian silversmith elements, Buddhist ideas and Syriac Christian liturgical practices, may all have left their traces on the making of the object."

Fang, F. X. (2024). Scent, Art and Astronomy: New Light on Tang Incense Spheres and Their Global Connections. The Medieval History Journal, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/09719458231226

@histodon @histodons @medievodons

1
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

"The text describes how Plato, suffering from a severe fever on his deathbed, listened to music played on a flute by an enslaved Thracian woman. According to a written dialogue in the text, Plato had just enough energy to critique the musician for her lack of rhythmic abilities."

Snow, Emily. "Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours" TheCollector.com, thecollector.com/ancient-papyr (accessed April 30, 2024).

@histodon @histodons

0
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

"How did Asia come to be represented on European World maps? When and how did Asian Countries adopt a continental system for understanding the world? How did countries with disparate mapping traditions come to share a basic understanding and vision of the globe? "

Hostetler, L. (eds) (31 Jan. 2024). Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/9789004684782 [Accessed 30 April 2024]

@histodon @histodons @earlymodern @bookstodon (80)

Show thread
1
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

"Studying texts from the cities and countryside and tracking developments over time, Alstola shows that there was notable diversity in the Judeans’ socio-economic status and integration into Babylonian society."

Alstola, T. (19 Dec. 2019). Judeans in Babylonia, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/9789004365421 [Accessed 29 April 2024]

@histodon @histodons @bookstodon (79)

Show thread
1
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

Genghis Khan vs the Shaman Teb Tengri

"In the early days of the Mongol Empire, Chinggis Khan relied on the support of an influential shaman named Teb Tengri. But the Shaman soon became a threat, undermining the rule of Chinggisids and seeking to turn Chinggis Khan's family against each other."

youtu.be/NuZ7UWLEdGo

@histodon @histodons

0
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

How Cambridge bred eugenics

"The term “eugenics” (from the Greek for ‘well born’) was birthed here in Cambridge by Trinity’s own Francis Galton in 1883. Galton was inspired by his cousin Charles Darwin and adapted the idea of natural selection to presuppose that the survival of the fittest had been distorted by social welfare policies."

varsity.co.uk/science/27401

@histodon @histodons

1
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

"In most work in the history of science, the approach is to show how a particular event or outcome was the result of various social and intellectual influences. Bayesian history of science, on the other hand, focuses on the lines of evidence relevant to the historical development to see if the direction taken by an individual or group of scientists was consistent or inconsistent with the evidence at hand."

Henry Small; Bayesian history of science: The case of Watson and Crick and the structure of DNA. Quantitative Science Studies 2023; 4 (1): 209–228. doi: doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00233

@science

0
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

"Our purpose is to demonstrate that the tropes usually today associated with the Corn and Poor Laws – pauperism, a clash between merchant, manufacturing and landlord interests, population and impoverishment – are absent from discussion during this period."

Lanot (Umeå), G. and Tribe (Tartu), K. (2024) ‘Before political economy: debate over grain markets, dearth and pauperism in England, 1794–96’, History of European Ideas, pp. 1–31. doi: doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2024..

@econhistory @economics

0
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

"Justin’s (third or fourth century CE) summary of Trogus’ story (first century BCE) is the most extensive legendary account we have about the migration of Tyrians to northern Libya (or Africa) and the founding of Carthage."

Philip A. Harland, 'Phoenician diasporas: Timaios of Tauromenion, Trogus, and Appian on the founding of Carthage and on child sacrifice (first century BCE),' Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World, last modified April 24, 2024, philipharland.com/Blog/?p=1990.

@histodon @histodons

0
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

"Ordnance Survey mapmakers filmed in 1965."

youtu.be/emVcfpnBY2E

0
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

"We present a set of large pedigrees, reconstructed using ancient DNA, spanning nine generations and comprising around 300 individuals. We uncover a strict patrilineal kinship system, in which patrilocality and female exogamy were the norm and multiple reproductive partnering and levirate unions were common. The absence of consanguinity indicates that this society maintained a detailed memory of ancestry over generations."

Gnecchi-Ruscone, G.A., Rácz, Z., Samu, L. et al. Network of large pedigrees reveals social practices of Avar communities. Nature (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-073

@science @histodon @histodons

0
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

The virtues of the historical mind

"Being historically minded is about having a certain orientation to history, being alive and alert to the fact that almost everything we take for granted in culture today, especially values, has its own roots and its own complex journey, a history of how it came to be."

biblonia.com/2024/04/24/the-vi

@histodon @histodons

0
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

Decoding Ulysses: How Joyce Published The Novel of the Century + How To Read It

"A brief history of the mess James Joyce had to put up with to publish Ulysses and how to read the text without losing your mind ft. Prof. Rónán McDonald, The Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies."

youtu.be/eHxDpwx9XBE

@bookstodon

0
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

Seeing Dante’s Commedia in Print from the Renaissance to Today

"An intensely envisioned journey through the three realms of the Christian afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise), Dante’s poem, written in the early 1300s, was the subject of vivid illustrations from its earliest circulation and, when book making transitioned into the new medium of print in the late 1400s, Dante’s poem became the source of inspiration for new visual traditions."

historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.uk/

@bookstodon

0
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

"Despite their seemingly factual nature, Renaissance maps are considered significant art objects. How can we best read them to understand more about this period?"

Romano, Daniella. "How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)" TheCollector.com, thecollector.com/how-read-rena (accessed April 22, 2024).

@histodon @histodons

0
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

If teaches us anything, it is that things are alright until they are suddenly not and that by that time it is usually too late.

1
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

The Kaiser's Nazi Funeral

"He gave express instructions that his funeral was not to include Nazi symbolism, as he had been a vocal critic of Hitler and particularly his anti-semitic policies. But, the Nazis ignored the Kaiser's wishes and he was given a funeral containing a lot of NSDAP symbolism. It was a final insult from Hitler, who despised the Kaiser and all he stood for."

youtu.be/TStueb045t4

@histodon @histodons

0
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🇬🇧 HENRY V - Laurence Olivier - 1944 - Remastered - 4K

"Fascinating not just for its approach to the text but also for its portrait of multiple facets of the British character, calibrated for explicitly propagandist purposes in the Second World War to be a call to arms as such formed a powerful reminder of what Britain was defending."

youtu.be/5BLBQIwZ_h4

@films

0
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

The History of Byzantium
Episode 1 - An Introduction

shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-

@histodon @histodons

attribution: Orion 8, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

0
Show older

history

1.32K

openaccess

886

oa

838

science

742

video

528

video

527

research

419
Qoto Mastodon

QOTO: Question Others to Teach Ourselves
An inclusive, Academic Freedom, instance
All cultures welcome.
Hate speech and harassment strictly forbidden.

Trending now

Resources

Developers

What is Mastodon?

qoto.org

More…

v3.5.19-qoto · Privacy policy