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🌎 📖 **America, América: A New History of the New World**

“_America, América traverses half a millennium, from the Spanish Conquest—the greatest mortality event in human history—through the eighteenth-century wars for independence, the Monroe Doctrine, the coups and revolutions of the twentieth century, and beyond._”

🔗 history.yale.edu/publications/.

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**Vikings on the Silk Roads**

Neil Price

“_The viking presence in Europe is well known, extending east to Constantinople and the rivers of western Russia and Ukraine, alongside the settlement of the North Atlantic islands and ultimately a landfall on the coast of Newfoundland. But a key question remains: how far did that diaspora extend, especially to the south and east? How far did the vikings really travel?_”

🔗 aeon.co/essays/the-viking-age-.

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🇻🇦 🇪🇸 🇵🇹 **The Papal Bull Inter caetera**

On this day in 1493 Pope Alexander VI issued the papal bull 'Inter caetera' which granted Spain and Portugal exclusive rights to all the lands in the New World.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 **Viking brooch 'only silver one found in England'**

“_A rare 9th Century silver brooch has been linked to the greatest Viking silver treasure trove found outside Russia._”

🔗 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9142.

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📖 🇯🇵 🎙️ **The Historical Writing of the Mongol Invasions in Japan**

“_Although Japan was never conquered by the Mongol empire, the 1274 and 1281 Mongol invasions were commemorated, remembered, and imagined in Japanese historical writings. How did history books, genealogies, gazetteers, local histories, and artworks represent the Mongol invasions? What role did the idea of the invasions play in the creation of cultural identity?_”

🔗 newbooksnetwork.com/the-histor.

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📖 **A Rare 15th-Century Black Book of Hours Is Getting a Long-Awaited Restoration**

“_The Black Book of Hours is one of only seven known surviving black vellum illuminated manuscripts made by Flemish artists between 1455 and 1480.”_

🔗 news.artnet.com/art-world/tefa.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 **At the far end of everything: A likely Ahrensburgian presence in the far north of the Isle of Skye, Scotland**

“_ he people who made these artefacts originated in the mainland of northwest Europe, crossed Doggerland into what is now Britain, and eventually reached the far north of the Isle of Skye. Here, they adapted to live in a fragmented, fluctuating, and volatile environment amid melting glaciers, mountains, and oceans—vastly different from the low-lying environments of their homelands on the northwestern edge of the Great European Plain._”

Hardy, K., Barlow, N.L.M., Taylor, E., Bradley, S.L., McCarthy, J. and Rush, G. (2025), At the far end of everything: A likely Ahrensburgian presence in the far north of the Isle of Skye, Scotland. J. Quaternary Sci. doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3718.

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:youtube: **Did Vikings Really Wear Horned Helmets—or Was It All Just Opera?**

Gresham College

length: one minute and one second.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=w46Jw9yAM3.

📖 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🎙️ **Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England**

“_In his close analyses of English maps from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Asa Simon Mittman makes a valuable contribution to conversations about medieval Christian perceptions of Jews and Judaism._”

🔗 newbooksnetwork.com/cartograph.

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🇮🇸 :youtube: **What is left of the Viking Sagas in modern Iceland?**

Survive the Jive

_'Sagas of the Raven Land' is a a history documentary in which historian Tom Rowsell journeys to Iceland, immersing himself in the landscapes that inspired the Icelandic sagas of the Viking Age._

length: one hour and one minute.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=GKjAK8d17q

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