🏴 📚 **Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601–1698**
"_Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas government and various models of religious governance across England's emerging colonial empire._"
https://www.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70131-4
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #EarlyModern #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Colonialism #Imperialism #Empire #Religion #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @religion @bookstodon (86)
🏴 **Revealed: How mass tourism helped England after the Black Death**
"_The new investigations into the management and economics of the medieval pilgrimage industry has revealed that each major pilgrimage centre (often cathedrals) would seek to market their ‘pilgrimage offer’ only around four times a year - so as to deliberately concentrate mass tourism in their specific town into a manageable series of very short seasons._
_This maximised efficiency and profit, while minimising mass tourism’s impact on normal ecclesiastical life._"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/black-death-tourism-middle-ages-b2578715.html
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #England #Europe #Tourism #Plague @histodon @histodons @medievodons
**Archaeologists find site of epic clash between Spartacus and Roman army**
"_Archaeologists have uncovered a stone wall in an Italian forest that was used by the Roman army during an epic “clash” against slave revolt leader and gladiator Spartacus and his men._"
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Roman #Romans #Empire #Spartacus @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
**Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers**
"_These results demonstrate that the Neolithic plague was prevalent and potentially lethal. Together with the fact that these plague cases are found in one of the last populations with Neolithic Farmer ancestry observed in Scandinavia, we believe that plague could have been a contributing factor to the Neolithic decline._"
Seersholm, F.V., Sjögren, KG., Koelman, J. et al. Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07651-2
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**The Danelaw: The Scandinavian Influence on English Identity**
"_Perhaps it is a possibility that these English noblemen and clergymen and some portion of the common people felt a certain fear of these foreigners, not just because of the invading force that the Great Armies were comprised of, but because these men and women from across the sea were so different yet so similar and perhaps it was because of these similarities that these two cultures were able to form a cultural hybrid in the eastern half of England where even today we can still find faint traces of Scandinavian influence._"
https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/honorscollege_mrsp/1/
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**A Romano-Sarmatian soldier in circa 2nd c. AD Britain**
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=64941
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**Diverting the Gulf Stream**
"_A brief look at a US senator's proposal to divert the Gulf Stream away from Europe._"
🎥 #Video length: fifty three seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2li3AGjiEo
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**Split Infinitives in Early Middle English**
"_The split infinitive is one of seven syntactic properties that English is said to share with Old Norse, and I will show that, on the basis of the area and date of its first occurrence, Norse origin is unlikely._"
van Gelderen, E. (2016). Split Infinitives in Early Middle English. Language Dynamics and Change 6, 1, 18-20, Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/22105832-00601003 [Accessed 07 July 2024]
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**The slave markets of the Viking world: comparative perspectives on an ‘invisible archaeology’**
"_....this study explores the comparative archaeologies and histories of slave markets in order to examine the potential form and function of these sites, and how they might have operated as part of the wider, interconnected Viking world._"
Raffield, B. (2019) ‘The slave markets of the Viking world: comparative perspectives on an ‘invisible archaeology’’, Slavery & Abolition, 40(4), pp. 682–705. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2019.1592976.
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**Identification and measurement of intensive economic growth in a Roman imperial province**
"_Here, we examine evidence for three different socioeconomic rates that are available from the archaeological record for Roman Britain. We find that all three measures show increasing returns to scale with settlement population, with a common elasticity that is consistent with the expectation from settlement scaling theory._"
Scott G. Ortman et al., Identification and measurement of intensive economic growth in a Roman imperial province. Sci. Adv. 10, eadk5517 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk5517
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**Indo-European Interfaces: Integrating Linguistics, Mythology and Archaeology**
"_With this book, we want to apply a multidisciplinary approach that combines historical linguistics, archaeology, and comparative religion in order to improve our understanding of the early speakers of Indo-European._"
Larsson, J., Olander, T. and Jørgensen, A.R., 2024. Indo-European Interfaces: Integrating Linguistics, Mythology and Archaeology. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/bcn
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**The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae**
"_200 years after the Persian Wars, Greece faced another massive assault. This time, the threat came not from the east but from a Celtic invasion._"
Middleton, Neil. "The Celtic Invasion of Greece & The Unknown Battle of Thermopylae" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/celtic-invasion-greece-thermopylae/ (accessed July 2, 2024).
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Greece #Europe @histodon @histodons
**Discovering the North: Francesco Negri’s and Giuseppe Acerbi’s journeys to Norway in the 17th and 18th centuries**
"_Their narratives provide valuable insights into the cultural and societal landscape of the North during their time, illuminating a region largely undiscovered by other European travellers. By documenting their experiences and observations, Negri and Acerbi contribute to a broader understanding of Northern Europe, challenging prevailing narratives._"
Miscali, M. (2024) ‘Discovering the North: Francesco Negri’s and Giuseppe Acerbi’s journeys to Norway in the 17th and 18th centuries’, Scandinavian Journal of History, pp. 1–25. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2024.2368554.
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**2,000 years of German history in 200 pages**
"_Before the dawn of the Common Era two thousand years ago, Julius Caesar gave the land its name, Germania. But it was nineteen hundred years before the land became a country. That happened only in 1871 when the ruthless and brilliant Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck united twenty-five independent kingdoms, grand duchies, duchies, principalities, and free cities in a new German Empire._"
https://malwarwickonbooks.com/german-history-in-a-nutshell/
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**Anglo-Saxons may have fought in northern Syrian wars, say experts**
"_These finds put the Anglo-Saxon princes and their followers centre-stage in one of the last great wars of late antiquity. It takes them out of insular England into the plains of Syria and Iraq in a world of conflict and competition between the Byzantines and the Sasanians and gave those Anglo-Saxons literally a taste for something much more global than they probably could have imagined._"
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #AngloSaxons #England #Europe #Asia #Levant #MiddleEast #Syria #News @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
**Independence Day Reading List 2024**
"_Our Independence Day Reading List highlights the important role of Indigenous Peoples in the evolution of modern America, forgotten stories from America’s past, and revelatory biographies of the country’s founders._"
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/07/04/independence-day-reading-list-2024/
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**Every meteorite we saw falling down to earth**
<strong>Five common English words we don’t know the origins of – including ‘boy’ and ‘dog’</strong>
"_The English lexicon includes some terms known as “proper words”, which today apparently exist only in English. Cognates for them cannot be found in any other language._
_These are very simple and common words but being unique, we cannot apply the comparative method to them and therefore cannot reconstruct their origins._"
#History #English #Language #Linguistics #OldEnglish @linguistics
**Evidence of Large Vessels and Sail in Bronze Age Scandinavia**
"_This study suggests that the Bronze Age boat imagery in southern Scandinavia depicts plank-built vessels of a type that belonged to the same boatbuilding tradition as the c. 350 BC Hjortspring boat. More importantly, aspects of this boat imagery can be directly related to the contemporary ship-settings, suggesting use of sail and the existence of boats that from stem to stem (excluding horn projections) might have been in the region of up 20–30 metres or perhaps even larger._"
Bengtsson, B., Artursson, M. and Wehlin, J. (2024) ‘Evidence of Large Vessels and Sail in Bronze Age Scandinavia’, Norwegian Archaeological Review, pp. 1–26. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2024.2357135.
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<strong>What is Fascism and Where does it Come From?</strong>
"_Fascism prospered from a paralysis of the state’s capacity for dispatching its key organizing functions, whether in the economy or for the larger tasks of keeping cohesion in society. At the worst points of the crisis, that paralysis encompassed the entire institutional machinery of politics, including the parliamentary and party-political frameworks of representation._"
Geoff Eley, What is Fascism and Where does it Come From?, History Workshop Journal, Volume 91, Issue 1, Spring 2021, Pages 1–28, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbab003
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