An agricultural scene from the 14th-century English Luttrell Psalter, with a woman milking sheep and two women carrying. / Photo via Wikimedia Commons Diving into the disparity between how women were viewed in Medieval society. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction Throughout the Medieval period, women were viewed as second class citizens, and their needs always were an a...
Wearing of the Veil Traditions Throughout History | Ancient OriginsAuthor: Ziad Shihab Wearing of the Veil Traditions Throughout History | Ancient Origins SourceURL: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/veil-wearing-tradition-0017535 Updated 16 November, 2022 - 21:59 Robbie Mitchell Wearing of the Veil Traditions Throughout History There is perhaps no piece of clothing in history that has caused more controversy than the veil. Currently, protests to raise awareness of ...
Analysis of the Technological Thought in the "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844" and Its Enlightenment to Digitalization Humanities and Social SciencesPhilosophical ProgressVol. 11 No. 5 (October 2022)Journal Menu Analysis of the Technological Thought in the "Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844" and Its Enlightenment to Digitalization DOI: 10.12677/ACPP.2022.115228, PDF, HTML, XML, Downloads: 35 Views: 113 Supported by the National Social Science Foundation Autho...
Typographic Firsts: Adventures in Early Printing ( attr(href) ) How were the first fonts made? Who invented italics? When did we work out how to print in color? John Boardley’s ( attr(href) ) award-winning book, Typographic Firsts, charts the formative early history of the printed or typographic book. Many of the standard features of the printed book were designed by pioneering typographers and printers in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Although Johannes Gutenberg is credited wi...
How many books were there in the golden age of ancient Greece? What percentage of the population could read them? We have only shreds of information preserved by chance, blades of grass that float along on the breeze but don’t allow us to calculate the size of the meadow from which they came. And most of them refer to an exceptional place, the city of Athens. The rest remains in shadow.Seeking traces of this invisible literacy, we turn to images of readers represented in ceramic paintings. Fr...
Did the Trojan Horse exist? Classicist tests Greek 'myths' Oxford News blog The story of the Trojan Horse is well-known. First mentioned in the Odyssey, it describes how Greek soldiers were able to take the city of Troy after a fruitless ten-year siege by hiding in a giant horse supposedly left as an offering to the goddess Athena.But was it just a myth? Probably, says Oxford University classicist Dr Armand D'Angour: 'Archaeological evidence shows t...
The Rollright Ritual William G. Gray 0 / 0 0 comments In the early 1970s the redoubtable old occultist William G. Gray bic...
The Charters in the Margin of Matthew Paris’s Chronica Maiora By Meghan WoolleyMatthew Paris’s Chronica maiora is famous for its illustrations: maps of Great Britain, the murder of an archbishop, and an elephant gifted to England’s King Henry III. But as I sat in the archive, reading Matthew’s own copy of the Chronica, something else caught my eye: small charters drawn in the margins, reproduced in meticulous detail down to their colorful seals.It’s common for English chronicles to include ma...
Festival of the Federation Definition Listen to this article Festival of the Federation Isidore Stanislas Helman (Public Domain) The Festival of the Federation (Fête de la Fédération) was a celebration that occurred on the Champ de Mars outside Paris on 14 July 1790, the first anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille. With over 300,000 people in attendance, the event honored the achievements of the French Revolution (1789-99) and the unity of the French people. ...
Fomenko’s New Chronology Links The History: https://ctruth.today/2019/05/26/the-history-of-fomenkos-new-chronology/ The Bibliography: https://ctruth.today/2019/02/03/bibliography-of-fomenkos-new-chronology/ The Examination: https://ctruth.today/2020/10/01/examining-fomenkos-new-chronology/ Horoscopes: https://ctruth.today/2019/01/18/new-chronology-zodiac-list/ Critiques: https://ctruth.today/2020/01/23/arguments-against-fomenkos-new-chronology/ Miscellaneous: https:...
"Natural Disasters" & Houdini Escaping DeathKubrick: Clockwork OrangeHalloween 1978/DallasStar Trek Gen: "Sauron"Roots, RainbowChrono TriggerLOTR:EternalsBrontosaurusUpdates 1: GrimesCurse of the ColonelUpdate 2: Musk + Monarchy TransitionAs a child I was shepherded into believing many things I no longer believe in. Trying to ascertain who to trust is hard as I’ve learned the common accepted answer is rarely the accurate one.Do you trust the News media? Scientists? Can you even trust the ...
Download PDF lleged by their publisher, Nilus, that the documents were stolen by a woman and were given to Russians, who first published them. No one has ever personally identified the woman. 3. The Russians, who first published the "Protocols," admitted that they did not see the original manuscript, but came into possession only of copies of the original. 4. The first publisher in book form, Nilus, a Russian, admitted that he could not prove the authenticity of the document. PROTOCOLS OF TH...
Reaching the Pitchfork Ranch in the 1920s wasn’t easy. In fact, it was arduous. Imagine yourself on the trek. After transferring at the Billings, Montana, branch line to the end of the rails in Cody, Wyoming, a light horse-drawn stage drives you over rutted dirt roads to Meeteetse, a little town some forty miles to the southeast. The delights of Meeteetse entail a hotel room shared with two to three other guests, a barber shop with a wood burning stove boiling hot water for the town’s only pu...
Glass ionomer cement (thing) See all of Glass ionomer cement, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by lignocaine (15.2 y) Rep: 15 ( +17 / -2 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Mon Mar 26 2001 at 7:59:01 A tooth-coloured material used in the restoration of teeth. GICs were first developed in the early 1970s by Wilson and Kent. It is the product of an acid-base reaction between basic fluoroaluminosilicate glass powder and polycarboxylic acid in the presence of water. fluoroaluminosili...
The Slave Ship Clotilda Arrives In Alabama Clotilda's remains *On this date in 1860, the last American slave ship (on record) docked in Mobile Alabama. Called the Clotilda, the ship was a two-massed schooner...
The Children's Homer Homer was a staple of the schoolroom in antiquity, used to teach reading, grammar, and rhetoric. Despite concerns on the part of early Christians about teaching the works of pagan authors, allegorical interpretations made it possible to extract moral and ethical lessons from Homeric myth and assured survi...
Contemporary English Homers During the second half of the twentieth century and continuing into the twenty-first, poets, classicists, and others have produced an astounding number of distinguished English translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey. This may be surprising at first, since the study of Greek and of the Homeric te...
Homer and the Arts of the Book The Iliad and the Odyssey have inspired artists in all periods and mediums. The dramatic scenes and detailed descriptions invite visual representation and stimulate creative interpretation. Ancient artists depicted scenes from the Homeric epics on vases, wall paintings at Pompeii, and miniature ...
1437: The Year the Women Became Witches Friday, April 15, 2022 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm Memorial Union Building Theater I The association of witchcraft with women is paradigmatic, both in modern usage and in many historical periods. During the period of the major European witch-hunts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, fully 75 percent of those executed as witches were wom...
In Terrors of the Flesh: The Philosophy of Body Horror in Film, David Huckvale traces body horror in cinema back to the writings of the Marquis de Sade, who states that a human takes pleasure and suffers pain only by means of the senses or the organs of the body (p. 1). Such a corporeal philosophy, Huckvale continues, strongly anticipates Friedrich Nietzsche, who was eager to have a positive attitude towards life despite its horrors. This book, then, aims to explore the profound anxieties we ...
Sycamore Tree Symbolism And Facts That Will Surprise YouHome » Tree SymbolismSycamore tree symbolism originates in Egypt and the Middle East. However, with the rise of Christianity in the western world and the tree’s introduction to Europe either by the Romans or the Crusaders, a rich set of meanings has arisen around the world. The primary symbolism surrounding the Sycamore relates to love, protection, and fertility. Free Numerology Reading Get your free Numerology Video Report. We will expl...
The Boiler in Williamsburg, Brooklyn opened during the pandemic in 2020 as an extension of the ELM Foundation’s programming, and invites contemporary artists to create installations and exhibitions in its space, previously run by Pierogi Gallery from 2009–2015. The current show, The Man Who Fell to Earth 76|22, by artist Tomas Vu, is his first solo show in New York since 2008. The raw industrial space exudes an extraterrestrial feeling, perfect for a show whose title recalls David Bowie’s cen...
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