RIBALDRY. Vulgar abusive language, such as was spoken by ribalds. Ribalds were originally mercenary soldiers who travelled about, serving any master far pay, but afterwards degenerated into a mere banditti.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
📖 In a paper published in the Journal of Ethnobiology, Marta Macedo examines "how cannabis was part and parcel of the lives of peoples from Angola recruited to São Tomé and, consequently, of the island's plantation worlds in the late nineteenth century." 🇸🇹
More than 400 formal balls are held in Vienna each winter carnival season in a tradition that dates back to 1814, with breaks only for the two world wars and the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly every profession holds its own dance — some, such as the Hunters' Ball, have outlived the imperial-era jobs they were created to celebrate. For the Dial, writer Jessi Jezewska Stevens attended three balls to try and determine: "On a continent that relishes golden-era traditions yet finds itself slipping in the geopolitical world order, how do you face the future without romanticizing the past?"
Im morgigen #DigitalHistoryOFK demonstrieren Torsten Hiltmann, Martin Dröge & Nicole Dresselhaus (HU Berlin, #4Memory) am Bsp. des Baedeker-Reiseführers von 1921 die Potenziale von #LargeLanguageModels & prompt-basierten Ansätzen für die #NamedEntityRecognition in historischen Textquellen.
"De la vie quotidienne à l'associationnisme politique, de la circulation d'imprimés à l'engagement armé, les objets et leurs usages ont en effet façonné la politisation, rendant tangible le politique."
Slavery was not a large part of Venetian culture or Venetian history, but it was a part. There were slaves in Venice for the entire history of the Republic of Venice.
When people in some form of bonded servitude appear in the records — at least in the city of Venice — they were almost always domestic servants.
These are some of the testimonies about slavery in Venice I have found doing other research. In most cases, the stories come from criminal records, but not always.
Book review #38 for 2024 CW Goodyear's President Garfield glad to see new treatments of Presidents during eras that have often been overlooked. This biography does both. Lots of what ifs in this story. It is also a snapshot, in my opinion, of a transitional period in American government as the boss system begins to crumb @histodons@books@bookstodon#books#bookreview#JamesAGarfield#bookstodon #history