Weekly
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This announcement speaks for itself: Dear Colleagues, After two decades teaching medieval art history and doing photography for my own use,...
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I have always loved maps and history. Growing up in the USA in the early 60s, the Southeast Asian war gave me the opportunity to learn geog...
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From the Guardian: Leading foreign academics from the LSE acting as expert advisers to the UK government were told they would not be asked ...
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A new translation of this fascinating treatise on horsemanship by a fifteenth-century king. This interview with Jeffrey Forgeng comes from...
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...if you are very, very rich. (Most mss. of this age and quality are in national or university libraries and are not for sale at any price... -
I am in the middle of this very interesting book. You might expect that the book would have a lot to say about the history of dividing blac...
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In 1388, the Good Duke (Louis of Bourbon) was campaigning on the German frontier. As he besieged a castle, one of the duke's servants, ...
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Mcleans reports : And then there’s Patrick McGovern, an archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania who, after analyzing the residue tha...
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I was reading one of Uncle John's trivia books -- which are designed with bathroom readers in mind -- about harmonicas. It listed Ameri...
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Two experts in the Middle East have been more useful to me than most of the more prominent ones. They are Juan Cole and Joshua Landis. If yo...