🇸🇪 Episode 312: Christina of Sweden, Minerva of the North
“In this week’s episode, get to know Christina of Sweden, the keenly intelligent and fiercely independent queen of Sweden, who is remembered today for her passion of learning and knowledge.”
Coin hoard from time of the Gallus Revolt unearthed in Lod
“The Gallus Revolt was an uprising by the Jews of Roman Palaestina against the rule of Constantius Gallus (brother-in-law of Emperor Constantius II) during the Roman civil war of AD 350–353.
The uprising was in response to the persecution of non-Christians by Constantius and the Christian clergy, who incited riots and destroyed Jewish synagogues and temples.”
Coin hoard from time of the Gallus Revolt unearthed in Lod
“_The Gallus Revolt was an uprising by the Jews of Roman Palaestina against the rule of Constantius Gallus (brother-in-law of Emperor Constantius II) during the Roman civil war of AD 350–353.
The uprising was in response to the persecution of non-Christians by Constantius and the Christian clergy, who incited riots and destroyed Jewish synagogues and temples._”
God’s Ghostwriters by Candida Moss review – did enslaved scribes write the New Testament?
“And if the Roman family that purchased them as a scribe had subsequently converted to Christianity, either openly or secretly as many did in the first and second centuries CE, they may well then have been drafted in to write down the words of the great Christian missionary preachers who criss-crossed the empire and came to its capital, including of course Paul.”
Five artworks will be removed from public view at the Kunsthaus Zurich museum in Switzerland in order to investigate whether they were looted by Nazis during World War II. The paintings are by Monet, van Gogh, Gauguin, Courbet and Toulouse-Lautrec, and come from the Bührle Foundation, which has been working with a provenance researcher for many years to determine the ownership history of the collection. Here's more from NPR.
#OnThisDay, June 17, in 1972, five burglars connected to senior figures in the Nixon administration were arrested in the office of the Democratic National Committee, in the Watergate complex of buildings in Washington, D.C. (depicted in All the President’s Men, 1976)
BERMUDAS. A cant name for certain places in London, privileged against arrests, like the Mint in Southwark, Ben. Jonson. These privileges are abolished.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
Actually, you packed more lies in that post that I could address.
For example, the idea of Israel as "European colonists" is a lie, and a rather antisemitic one at that.
Reminder: About half of the Jews in Israel trace their recent ancestry to the Middle East. Many were already in Israel, others were expunged from Arab states after Israel was formed. You know, ethnic cleansing.
#OnThisDay, June 16, in 1931, Al Capone pleaded guilty to income tax evasion & 5,000 prohibition violations in a trial at the Chicago Federal Building (depicted in The Untouchables, 1987)
A journey through the art and artifacts connected to Japan’s first contact with Christianity, with a bonus digression into the weird fate of Francis Xavier’s dead body — what more could you ask for on this Father’s Day?
Encyclopedia of Women in the Middle Ages by Jennifer Lawler, 2012
This encyclopedia contains several hundred entries on the culture, history and circumstances of women in the Middle Ages, from the years 500 to 1500 C.E. The geographical scope of this work is wide, with entries on women from England, France, Germany, Japan, and other nations around the world.
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline by Paul Cooper, 2024
Fall of #Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they collapsed.
Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in West Africa; from Byzantium to the Maya, Inca and Aztec empires of the Americas; from Roman Britain to Rapa Nui.
The Programming Historian
..novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows... https://programminghistorian.org/en/