"Focusing on classical philologists and biblical scholars in nineteenth-century Germany, it examines how Hyperkritik developed from a technical philological term into a pejorative label that was widely invoked to discredit the latest trends in classical philology and, especially, biblical scholarship."
Found at last: long-lost branch of the Nile that ran by the pyramids
"The highest concentration of pyramids in Egypt can be found in a stretch of desert between Giza and the village of Lisht. These sites are now several dozens of kilometres away from the Nile River. But Egyptologists have long suspected that the Nile might once have been closer to that stretch than it is today.
Satellite images and geological data now confirm that a tributary of the Nile — which researchers have named the Ahramat Branch — used to run near many of the major sites in the region several thousand years ago."
Found at last: long-lost branch of the Nile that ran by the pyramids
“Satellite images and geological data now confirm that a tributary of the Nile — which researchers have named the Ahramat Branch — used to run near many of the major sites in the region several thousand years ago.”
Congratulations to Canadian Public Policy on its special 50th volume Issue & to Professor Donn Feir who gives the CPP lecture May 30 at the CEA meeting in Toronto "Policies for Other People: Reflections from an Economist on Research & Federal Policy Regarding Indigenous Nations in Canada Post-1975"
Am Mittwoch (22.05.) startet unsere Tagung zum deutschen #Kolonialismus mit neuen Perspektiven auf Akteure, Grenzziehungen & transimperiale Beziehungen!
Veranstaltung mit Unterstützung der DFH (@DFHUFA) und in Kooperation mit dem IHMC, der Univ. Lothringen, dem CRULH, dem Collège doctoral franco-allemand »transferts culturels« und dem Ciera (@gipciera).
Saw THE BEEKEEPER (2024) last night. I, of course, loved this movie. I will watch anything with Jason Statham (I'm not the only one as it turned out after the movie was over last night. 😆).
I also got a kick out of the movie as a medievalist. Apparently, there is a secret society of assassins called Beekeepers, who protect human civilization based on the idea that it is like a beehive.
Next week, we'll be welcoming hundreds of historians from all over the world to Lisbon for the 5th conference of the International Network for Theory of History!
The final programme in now on our website: three keynotes, five round tables and dozens of parallel sessions.
“The first known calculation of the Earth’s circumference was made 2300 years ago by a man called Eratosthenes. I remember in school, how impressed I was by how accurately the Earth’s circumference was measured such long time ago. Today we’re going to take a closer look on how his calculation was made.”
One central problem that resulted from the federal nature of the #Dutch republic was secrecy: How could one keep a secret with so many actors involved? This was almost a mission impossible, although one tried several measures such as an oath of secrecy to deal with the problem.
When dealing with Dutch #emdiplomacy you inevitably come across two other big issues: the Protestant character of Dutch #earlymodern#diplomacy and the importance of trade and commercial interests. For @helmers_h and @NinaLamal these are not contradictory interests. However, they argue that “commerce, geopolitics, and protestantism were perfectly reconcilable”. (4/5)
Finally, @helmer and @NinaLamal argue that it is important to analyse #Dutch#emdiplomacy not only in its European context, but in its global dimension. The East India Company (#VOC) and its growing importance in #Asia played an important role in the rise of the Dutch republic. Unfortunately, both dimesions – the European and the global one – are far too often dealt seperately with by modern research. A problem that is generally true for research on #earlymodern diplomacy.
This leads to an overarching problem of how to competently connect national, European and global perspectives on diplomacy without blurring the focus. A question to be discussed elsewhere. (5/5)
Am Internationalen Tag der #Familie widmen auch wir uns der #Verwandtschaft, verstanden als soziales Gefüge, das in ökonom., politischen & sozialen Kontexten, nicht zuletzt bei der Übertragung von Herrschaft & Besitz, wirkmächtig, erfahrbar & beschreibbar wird - dazu der Thementeil (hg. v. Michaela Hohkamp) in #WerkstattGeschichte 46/2007 "tanten"
➡ https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/tanten
“Theodoros Doukas the leader of the Roman state of Epirus leads his people to ever greater heights in the 1220s. He captures Thessalonica and drives towards Constantinople itself. Doukas declares himself Emperor but does he have the resources necessary to reach the Hagia Sophia?”
“Theodoros Doukas the leader of the Roman state of Epirus leads his people to ever greater heights in the 1220s. He captures Thessalonica and drives towards Constantinople itself. Doukas declares himself Emperor but does he have the resources necessary to reach the Hagia Sophia?”
Deadline approaching: submit nominations for the AHA’s awards and prizes by May 15. The AHA recognizes outstanding historical work of many types, including exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring, film, and digital projects and resources. #histodons@histodonshttps://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/awards-and-prizes
5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today
“The Romans developed Roman Medicine by leaning on the knowledge of the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Etruscans, and others. Many of their medical practices are still in use today.”
🏆 Applications for the Amílcar Cabral Prize are open until 26 May.
The prize is intended to honour an article of historical research that deals with any topic or issue relating to the history of anti-colonial resistance and colonial empires.
I'm thinking about cross-field citation asymmetries in the discipline of #history.
What I mean is that I, as a historian of the #medieval#MiddleEast, am often encouraged to read and consider works in other fields for methodological and theoretical insights. And I do (some), because we all know that humans have a lot in common across regions and periods and I want to formulate the most insightful understandings of my field. And because most historians are Americanists and Europeanists, they recommend works in their own field. So I read and cite some European and American history.
The asymmetry is that I have never seen an Americanist or Europeanist cite a non-western historian for methodological or theoretical insights (occasionally some anthropologists do slip in). No doubt, given the number of scholars in those fields, they have enough to read already!
I'm not saying this asymmetry is conscious or ill-intentioned, but some of its effects are harmful to scholarship.
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