Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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🎥 **The Simplest Unsolved Ancient Problem**
"_Ancient Greek mathematicians wrestled for centuries with a seemingly pointless problem that led them to rich mathematical discoveries._"
🎥 **Modern Myths about the Age of Homer**
"_Archaeologist Bryan Burns surveys ancient finds from Troy and Mycenae and their connection to Homeric epics, addressing common misconceptions about the Late Bronze Age in scholarship and popular culture._"
📚 🇺🇸 **Buy University Press Books This Holiday Season**
"_It’s so incredibly important to support these publishers. They are still, in large part, responsible for pushing fields of study like history and specifically the Civil War era into new and exciting directions._"
🔗 https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/buy-university-press-books-this-holiday
#USA #UnitedStates #History #Histodons #UniversityPress #Books #Bookstodon
📖 **The Blood in Winter: England on the Brink of Civil War, 1642**
"_A brilliant account of how the seeds of battle were sown._"
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Review #Books #Bookstodon
#Image attribution: William Faithorne, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:King_Charles_I_Met_DP886208.jpg.
🇮🇹 **A Thousand and One Nights in Italy**
"_In mid-19th century Italy, two eccentric aristocrats set forth on parallel projects: constructing ostentatious castles in a Moorish Revival style._"
🔗 https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-thousand-and-one-nights-in-italy/.
#Essay #History #Histodons #Architecture #Orientalism #Art #Culture #Italy
#Image attribution: Vincenzo Paganori, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_by_Vincenzo_Paganori_of_Castello_di_Sammezzano_02.jpg.
🏴 📖 **Making Babies in Early Modern England**
"_Early modern English people were obsessed with making babies. In this fascinating new history, Leah Astbury traces this preoccupation through manuscript letters, diaries, recipe books and almanacs, revealing its centrality to family life._"
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009602846.
#OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodons #EarlyModern #England #Health #Medicine #Gender #Academia #Books #Bookstodon
⌛ 🏴 **Timekeeping in Early Modern England**
"_In early modern England the time and date was often an informal matter, which had the potential to pose problems._"
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/timekeeping-early-modern-england.
🇺🇸 📖 **The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding**
"_The author’s new book focuses on two “tragic contradictions”: the Founding Fathers’ failure to adopt measures to eliminate slavery in the new nation or to grant security for America’s native tribes."
🇺🇸 **More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation.**
"_The Washington Post has compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents_"
🔗 https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/.
#History #Histodons #Slavery #Archives #Database #USA #UnitedStates
🇳🇴 **Over a span of 150 years, a billion Islamic silver coins may have flowed into the Viking world**
_"Here you see part of the driving force behind the Viking Age," says a Norwegian coin expert._
#History #HIstodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Vikings #Numismatics #Silver #Coins #Norway #Scandinavia
**Climate-driven changes in Mediterranean grain trade mitigated famine but introduced the Black Death to medieval Europe**
"_Here, we argue that a post-volcanic climate downturn and trans-Mediterranean famine from 1345–1347 CE forced the Italian maritime republics of Venice, Genoa and Pisa to activate their well-established supply network and import grain from the Mongols of the Golden Horde around the Sea of Azov in 1347 CE. This climate-driven change in long-distance grain trade not only prevented large parts of Italy from starvation but also introduced the plague bacterium to Mediterranean harbours and fueled its rapid dispersal across much of Europe._"
Bauch, M., Büntgen, U. Climate-driven changes in Mediterranean grain trade mitigated famine but introduced the Black Death to medieval Europe. Commun Earth Environ 6, 986 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02964-0.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Medieval #Europe #Climate #ClimateChange #Ecology #Academia
**Strabo: The First Geographer**
"_As the father of descriptive geography, Strabo of Amasia provides a unique view of the early Roman Empire._"
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/strabo-first-geographer.
#History #Histodons #Geography #RomanEmpire #Ancient #Greece #Literature
🇩🇰 📖 🔭 **The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe**
"_The Lord of Uraniborg is a comprehensive biography of Tycho Brahe, father of modern astronomy, famed alchemist and littérateur of the sixteenth-century Danish Renaissance._"
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/lord-of-uraniborg/06D94F2184A543176965B1D026B41D31.
#History #Denmark #Science #Astronomy #HistSci #Nonfiction #Biography #TychoBrahe #Books #Bookstodon
#Image attribution: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacques_de_Gheyn_Ii_-_Portrait_of_Tycho_Brahe,_astronomer_(without_a_hat)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg.
📖 **History of the last survivors of the Atlantic slave trade named winner of Wolfson History Prize 2025**
📖 **The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World**
"_A landmark account of the origins of American slavery, revealing how ancient Roman ideas were used to defend the establishment of a slave empire in the English Atlantic world._"
🔗 https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674278370.
#Slavery #History #Histodons #Politics #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
**Roman-era ink reveals surprising chemical complexity**
"_University of Évora archaeologist César Oliveira, the lead author of the new study, says the ink’s basic ingredients were as expected, but ‘the surprising element is the intentional inclusion of iron-gall ink constituents, creating a hybrid of carbon-based and metal-based ingredients’. The tannin from oak galls combined with iron salts during the ink-making process to create an intense black or dark purple ink._"
**Explaining the Tides Before Newton**
"_Astronomical explanations for tides, usually credited to Isaac Newton, can be traced to thinkers like Strabo and Pliny in the Classical era._"
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/explaining-the-tides-before-newton/.
#History #Science #HistSci #Oceans #Physics
#Image attribution: Jebulon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Komos_site_baie_Cr%C3%A8te.jpg.
🏴 **We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals**
🇩🇪 🇵🇱 **Germany will return Teutonic archives looted in WWII to Poland, media reports**
"_The archives, seized by Nazi forces as part of a broad cultural plunder, contain manuscripts and documents tied to the medieval Teutonic Order of warrior monks—materials invaluable to understanding the order’s expansion, its conflicts with Poland and Lithuania, and the formation of regional borders._"
🔗 https://tvpworld.com/90298141/germany-to-return-medieval-teutonic-documents-stolen-in-wwii-report.
**How the first Bible to include a map helped spread the idea of countries with borders**
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