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Abstract. This article reviews recent work on trans and intersex history in the European Middle Ages, locating it within the established historiography on
Probably, but it's a good excuse to reread the series! I've been feeling like reading some urban fantasy again, and it's been a long, long time xD
I really need to reread that series!
(Cross-post from The Bad Place) I suppose we're doing this again. This is incorrect: the Roman army relied heavily on non-citizens throughout nearly the whole of Roman history, including periods of its greatest success in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, when Rome came to dominate the Mediterranean.1/
A very interesting article about the earliest known battle in Europe and how recent archaeology has made people ask questions about received wisdom.
150ish found dead on the scene. The "other side" was hundreds of kilometers away from "home". Those bronze age forts were more than show. edition.cnn.com/2024/09/23/s...
A new analysis of arrowheads at a Bronze Age site in Germany shows that local warriors clashed with an army from the south 3,250 years ago.
It took me years and examples of academics not interrogating sources (usually because they trusted the secondary source citing it) to get where I am now. With AI to "help" me summarise arguments and documents, I'm pretty sure I'd be even further behind than I am now.
I've just learned about a site that allows you to upload documents and then ask AI for summaries, key points and any question you want to ask it based on that material. I'm glad I greatly pre-date AI, because a younger me would have trusted it way too much and not learned to think critically.
I've uploaded vols 1-3 of Statutes of the Realm to @archive.orgstatutes.org.uk/site/collect...#LegalHistory 🗃️
The ‘Statutes of the Realm’ series was commissioned by the newly unified British and Irish Government in the early 1800s, and is the most authoritative collection of pre-Georgian legisl…
As an Australian I feel obliged to say that the Schooner is the perfect size and the author is 100% correct, but I suspect that if I was used to pints I'd feel a bit short changed in an Australian pub.
When I visited Nottingham this year I was surprised to find that the Luddites were actually skilled machinery operators campaigning against exploitation rather than people against machinery in general. Amazing how their reputation is so badly wrong.