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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📖 **‘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.
**From the 16th-century to men’s rights activists, why ‘cuckold’ is the worst thing you can call a man**
"_This infidelity would cause the poor husband to grow invisible horns, the ultimate symbol of cuckoldry, and the comic figure of the horned cuckold made its way into fictional songs, engravings, and theatre._"
**Frankish Dominions (486-768)**
#History #Histodons #Europe #Maps #Cartography
#Image attribution: Alexander Keith Johnston, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C._768_Frankish_Dominions_(486-768).jpg.
📖 ** On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All**
"_A lively and entertaining cultural history of a supremely annoying intellectual vice_"
🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691257563/on-pedantry.
**Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records**
"_The library’s collection, the most complete set of Nuremberg Trials documents outside that of the United States National Archives, offers more than 750,000 pages of transcripts, briefs, and evidence exhibits from the 13 cases brought against Nazi military and political leaders from 1945 to 1949._"
#History #Histodon #NurembergTrials #Nazis #Harvard #Archives #Library #Digital #Documents
#Image attribution: English: Work of the United States Government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Defendants_in_the_dock_at_the_Nuremberg_Trials.jpg.
🎥 **The first Nuremburg trial**
"_The Nuremberg trials started 80 years ago and marked a milestone in the establishment of international law. The images of high-ranking Nazis in the dock are seared into our collective memory._"
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCEX7jV2cx8.
#Video #Documentary #History #Histodons #NuremburgTrial #Nazism #ThirdReich
🏴 **Medieval peasants enjoyed a surprising range of sick, annual and bereavement leave benefits**
"_By comparison – as our new paper shows – peasants on the estate of Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire, England, were entitled to up to a year and a day of leave from working on the lord’s lands if they were sick. Meanwhile widows were granted leave upon the death of their husbands and workers enjoyed plenty of religious feast days and festivals every year._"
#History #Histodons #Medieval #Peasants #England
#Image attribution: See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medievalplowingwoodcut.jpg.
🇺🇸 ⚖️ **Reintroducing Justice Robert Jackson**
"_More than seventy years after Jackson issued it, his Youngstown concurrence remains the most authoritative statement of the scope of executive power under the Constitution._"
🔗 https://blog.oup.com/2025/11/reintroducing-justice-robert-jackson/.
#History #Histodons #Legal #SCOTUS #USA #US
#Image attribution: Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Service-pnp-hec-21600-21656v_(cropped).jpg.
🇺🇸 **How Have Cults Shaped American History?**
"_From a cult’s rogue personalities to its foundational ideologies, how have fringe beliefs guided the direction of the American dream?_"
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/how-have-cults-shaped-american-history.
**"What if... Charlemagne's other sons had survived?" Charlemagne's sons and the problems of royal succession**
"_The article is concerned with the problem of Early and Medieval royal succession in different circumstances: the death of two of Charlemagne's designated heirs in 810 and 811, the succession of Louis the Pious in 814 and the conflicts between Louis and his sons resulting in Louis's deposition in 833 and the division of the Carolingian Empire._"
Ohnacker, E. (2009). "What if... Charlemagne's other sons had survived?" Charlemagne's sons and the problems of royal succession. Historical Social Research, 34(2), 184-202. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.34.2009.2.184-202
#OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodons #Medieval #Europe #Analysis #Research #Academia
🇰🇿 **A major city of the Kazakh Steppe? Investigating Semiyarka’s Bronze Age legacy**
"_Occupied from around 1600 BC and linked to the Cherkaskul and Alekseevka-Sargary cultures, Semiyarka is a newly identified 140ha Late Bronze Age settlement in north-eastern Kazakhstan._"
Radivojević, M. et al. (2025) ‘A major city of the Kazakh Steppe? Investigating Semiyarka’s Bronze Age legacy’, Antiquity, pp. 1–9. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.10244.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Asia #Kazakhstan #BronzeAge #Research #Academia
** Pepin of Herstal after the battle of Tertry in 687**
#Image attribution: Jean-Michel Moreau, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean_Michel_Moreau_-_Pepin_of_Herstal_after_the_battle_of_Tertry_in_687.jpg.
🏴 📖 🎙️ **The First King of England**
"_Set against the backdrop of warring powers in early medieval Europe, The First King of England sheds new light on Æthelstan’s early life, his spectacular military victories and the innovative way he governed his kingdom, his fostering of the church, the deft political alliances he forged with Europe’s royal houses, and his death and enduring legacy._"
🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/ideas-podcast-the-first-king-of-england
#Audio #Podcast #Nonfiction #England #Medieval #History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon
#Image attribution: rafabendo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Music-technology-guitar-microphone-studio-amplifier-846852-pxhere_(cropped).jpg
**Four Theses on the Hoplite Wars**
🔗 https://www.bookandsword.com/2025/11/16/four-theses-on-the-hoplite-wars/.
#Ancient #Wars #History #Histodons
#Image attribution: George E. Koronaios, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_hoplite_reenactor_on_the_Areopagus,_24_October_2018.jpg
**What to know about how Florida will teach McCarthyism and the Cold War**
"_McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities are painted as champions of anti-communism, rather than the more commonly accepted interpretation that they fomented one of the most repressive chapters in modern American history._"
#History #Histodons #McCarthyism #Education #Learning #Florida
#Image attribution: U.S. Government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_McCarthy_studio_portrait.jpg.
🇺🇸 **The Monroe doctrine - let Sam do it / Kep.**
_Illustration shows a resolute Uncle Sam as a soldier with rifle standing on a pile of money bags labeled "Financial Interests in South & Central America"; sleeping on the ground, using the bags as pillows, are men labeled "St. Petersburg, Wall St., Lombard St., Paris Bourse, Berlin, [and] Vienna"._
Keppler, U. J. (1911) The Monroe doctrine - let Sam do it / Kep. United States, 1911. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, Puck Building, April 5. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2011648881/.
#Cartoon #Illustration #Commentary #History #Histodons #UncleSam #MonroeDoctrine #LatinAmerica #USA #US #Archives
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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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