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.”
#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)
📖 For centuries, Lorvão (Penacova) was the Portuguese capital of #toothpicks.
As the authors recount in this article, tradition of handmade white willow toothpicks began in the Monastery of Lorvão during the 17th century. From the monastery, the craft extended to the local population.
The paper provides an historical overview and shows how the famous and award-winning toothpicks are made.
#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)
Kennt ihr Fördermittellinien, die die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Hochschulen und Museen fördern? Länder wären Thüringen bzw. Bayern. Wäre für jeden Hinweis dankbar.
Heute vor 80 Jahren wurde der bedeutende französische #Historiker Marc Bloch wegen Beteiligung in der #Résistance von einem #Gestapo-Kommando bei #Lyon erschossen.
#OnThisDay, June 15, in 1215, overseen by a council of barons, King John of England put his seal to Magna Carta, a cornerstone of the idea of the liberty of citizens (depicted in Ironclad, 2011)
"Gesucht wird eine wissenschaftliche Persönlichkeit, die xxx in Forschung und Lehre in gesamter Breite vertritt..."
Immer wieder lese ich Ausschreibungen, die nach einer Persönlichkeit suchen. Damit wird ein Narrativ aus dem 19./frühen 20. Jh. bedient, das prekäre Beschäftigungsbedingungen als Teil der Persönlichkeitsbildung idealisiert.
Wie wäre es, einfach nach Historiker*innen zu suchen? (1/2)
@academicsunite
Passenderweise habe ich heute einen Aufsatz überarbeitet, der diese Idealisierung von Prekarität als konstituierende Phase im Werden zum Historiker (!) in der Autobiographie des Historikers Karl Brandi (1868-1946) untersucht. Persönlichkeit ist eines von Brandis Lieblingsworten. (2/2)
“The network of Silk Roads included both land and maritime routes. The Northern Route traversed through Central Asia, the Southern Route passed through what is now Iran and India. Major cities along these routes included Xi’an in China, Samarkand in Uzbekistan, and Ctesiphon, near modern-day Baghdad. The Maritime routes linked ports in China to Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian Peninsula, and East Africa. This was the vastest network the world had ever seen.”
How Queen Victoria’s Disabled Grandson Led Europe Into WW1 | The Crippled Kaiser
“At the end of the 19th century, much of Europe’s royalty was one big dysfunctional family. Discover how this slowly dissolving family partially led to the conflict that would consume and reshape Europe.”
#Video length: forty six minutes and fifty three seconds.
Did you miss us? We’re back again introducing our next author Güneş Işıksel to you!
Işıksel is Associate professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University. He is an expert in Ottoman #emdiplomacy and published not only in Turkish but also in French and English. (2/7)
Işıksel explains that Ottoman #emdiplomacy had to be in line with the precepts of the Hanafite school of Islamic law. However, these principles were regularly re-interpreted and adapted. Traditional European historiography sees the main shift in Ottoman #diplomacy in the 19th c. with the establishment of permanent embacys. However, Işıksel argues that this Eurocentric view ignores the many other diplomatic contacts and thus propose a different periodisation. (5/7)