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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."
#Video #History #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #JamesJoyce #Novel #Fiction @bookstodon
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."
https://historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.uk/seeing-dantes-commedia-in-print-from-the-renaissance-to-today/
#Dante #Poetry #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #History #BookHistory #Renaissance @bookstodon
"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, https://www.thecollector.com/how-read-renaissance-map-tips/ (accessed April 22, 2024).
#Map #Maps #Mapstodon #Cartography #History #Histodon #Histodons #Renaissance #Tip #Tips @histodon @histodons
If #history teaches us anything, it is that things are alright until they are suddenly not and that by that time it is usually too late.
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."
#Video #History #Histodon #Histodons #Nazi #Germany #Europe @histodon @histodons
🇬🇧 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."
#Video #Film #Movie #Cinema #Remastered #Shakespeare #HenryV #LaurenceOlivier #History #GB #GreatBritain #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom @films
The History of Byzantium
Episode 1 - An Introduction
https://shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-46b5-875c-99d8b173ed52/ad172bfc-82c9-4445-bb7f-59069f1f1a2a
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Byzantium #Audio #Podcast @histodon @histodons
#Image attribution: Orion 8, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icon_announcer.svg
When the names won’t stick: the case of Galileo’s moons
https://biblonia.com/2024/04/17/when-the-names-wont-stick-the-case-of-galileos-moons/
🇬🇧 From a different age: "Dangers of Smoking 1957".
#Video #Smoking #Cigarette #Tobacco #Health #History #Vintage #C20th #20thCentury #Television #TV #GB #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #BritishPathe
🇺🇸 The US Foreign Assistance Map
"The Foreign Assistance Trends map provides a really interesting overview of the changing geo-political priorities of the United States over time."
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-us-foreign-assistance-map.html
#Cartography #Map #Maps #Mapstodon #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Aid #Politics #History @politics
WW2 Japan's White Soldiers
"In World War II, the Germans used some Asian soldiers, but did the Japanese employ any Caucasians in its army? Find out the full story here."
#Video #History #Histodon #Histodons #WW2 #WWII #Japan #White #Caucasian #Asia #War @histodon @histodons
Hitler's Asians - The Turkestan Legion
"The Germans recruited widely, but one of the most exotic units they created was the Turkestan Legion, made up Turkic-speaking men from Central Asia."
#Video #History #Histodon #Histodons #WW2 #WWII #Germany #CentralAsia #Asia #Europe #War @histodon @histodons
Hegel and History
"The lesson here for contemporary politics is clear and significant. Rather than disavowing our circumstances and dismissing our cultural and intellectual traditions as morally compromised or tainted by history, we ought to be examining the long-term historical processes that have led us to this conjuncture and employing the existing resources at our disposal to surmount its challenges."
https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2024/04/13/hegel-and-history/
#Politics #History #Histodon #Histodons #Culture #Ideas #PoliticalScience #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @politicalscience
#Image attribution: Jakob Schlesinger, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jakob_Schlesinger_-_Hegel_1831.jpg
"On this day in 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, died. Here is a British Movietone report with highlights of his life"
#Video #OTD #History #Histodon #Histodons #FDR #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #Politics @histodon @histodons
"Our analysis of 49 coins from the North Sea zone indicates that Byzantine silver plate was the source of silver for the initial minting of the first post-Roman silver coins in England, Frisia and parts of Francia. From c. AD 750, freshly mined silver from Melle, Aquitaine, was introduced to this North Sea zone, becoming the dominant source following the coinage reforms of AD 793."
Kershaw, J. et al. (2024) ‘Byzantine plate and Frankish mines: the provenance of silver in north-west European coinage during the Long Eighth Century (c. 660–820)’, Antiquity, 98(398), pp. 502–517. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.33. #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Europe #MiddleAges #Byzantine #Analysis #Coinage #Archaeology #History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeodons #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
How a brawl in 18th-century Constantinople changed what we know about the Vikings
"Ibn Fadlan’s first-hand account of the Rus and their funerary rituals has secured his reputation as an important source for the study of ritual and belief across the Viking world. Nowhere else do we encounter eyewitness insight into this kind of Viking funerary ritual."
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Vikings #Russia #C18th #18thCentury @histodon @histodons
Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Forster review – no place like home
"Quoting Michel Barnier, the EU chief negotiator, she sees the vote to leave Europe as a direct expression of Britain’s “nostalgia for the past”, alerting us to the way that Barnier’s tautologous phrasing suggests a doubling down – Britons really, really want to live in a once-upon-a-time land when foreigners knew their place."
#Reading #Read #History #Histodon #Histodons #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Psychology #Society #Brexit #EU #Reviews #BookReview @histodon @histodons @psychology @bookstodon
#Image attribution: TeroVesalainen, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Union_jack_and_eu_brexit.jpg
Who Was Buried in the Royal Tombs of Ur?
"One of the mysteries surrounding the Royal Cemetery of Ur is the identity of the occupants of the tombs, the sequence of their reigns, and their relationships with each other. Dr. Miano provides an overview of the issues involved."
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Ur #Mesopotamia #Sumer @histodon @histodons
The silent record
"The historian’s avowed mission is to reduce the layers and broker the optimal relationship with the distant recorded past. But ultimately, history becomes an asymptote, a line approaching but never quite touching the past."
https://biblonia.com/2024/04/10/the-silent-record/
#History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
#Image attribution: Ch. Maderthoner, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Books_02.JPG
"The Sumerians innovated with the world’s first written language, cuneiform, on clay tablets, facilitating record-keeping for food supplies and trade. This advancement, alongside their development of a numerical system, laid foundational aspects of modern society."
Uggerud, Kristoffer. "How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/mesopotamia-cradle-of-civilization/ (accessed April 9, 2024). #Ancient #History #Histodon #HIstodons #Mesopotamia @histodon @histodons
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph 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.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
Toots automatically delete after two weeks.
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Joined Nov 2022
