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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**Ancient humans took two routes to Australia 60,000 years ago**
📚 **Leonardo's Library: The World of a Renaissance Reader**
"_The exhibition draws on Stanford’s Special Collections and the collections of the David Rumsey Map Center and the Lane Medical Library to reveal the authors and texts that shaped Leonardo’s world and influenced his ideas, reading habits, and understanding of books in the age of Gutenberg._"
**Project to bring voices of enslaved people to life**
"_Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana will digitise, map and analyse the records which are here at Kew and allow researchers to examine how enslaved people used the courts to make complaints relating to family life, work, health, violence, and a host of other issues._"
🔗 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/project-to-bring-voices-of-enslaved-people-to-life/
**Travelling for your health**
"_In the mid-19th century a burgeoning literature on foreign climates and health resorts emerged, testament to the new specialism of medical climatology. The works generally included a detailed analysis of the climate in the region and general travel information about local attractions and facilities for invalids._"
📖 **‘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.
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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