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“Marckalada”

Posted on October 24, 2021 by jgood

An article published in the July issue of Terrae Incognitae, the journal of the Society of the History of Discoveries (of which former Reinhardt faculty member Anne Good is about to become president), has been getting a certain amount […] Continue Reading…

Posted in Expansion of Europe, Exploration and Discovery, Italy, Middle Ages, Primary Sources

Vikings in Newfoundland

Posted on October 20, 2021 by jgood

Announced today in various places: the Vikings founded L’Anse aux Meadows exactly one thousand years ago. The abstract from Nature, where the discovery was published:

Transatlantic exploration took place centuries before the crossing of Columbus. Physical evidence for early European […] Continue Reading…

Posted in Archaeology, Vikings

The Other Yorktown

Posted on October 19, 2021 by jgood

From Gregory Urwin at Journal of the American Revolution (hat tip: Dan Franke), notice of an event that is not what most Americans would like to remember about the Revolutionary War:
On October 19, 1781, Gen. George Washington attained his […] Continue Reading…

Posted in American Revolution, Controversies, Movies, Slavery

Medieval Ghosts

Posted on October 19, 2021 by jgood

From Kathryn Walton at Medievalists.net:
People have always been fascinated by ghosts. Tales of humans returned from the dead have appeared in folklore and literature from around the world for millennia. The medieval period was no different. Tales of actual […] Continue Reading…

Posted in Literature, Medieval Studies

Derek Pearsall, 1931-2021

Posted on October 17, 2021 by jgood

Sad news:
Professor Derek Pearsall, co-founder with the late Professor Elizabeth Salter of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, passed away on Thursday 14 October, aged 90. He was an enormous influence on many of us who flourished […] Continue Reading…

Posted in Medieval Studies, Obituaries

For Columbus Day

Posted on October 11, 2021 by jgood

In The American Spectator, Armando Simón defends Christopher Columbus, claiming that he was not as bad as his current reputation holds. This does not excuse what Spanish colonialism became, of course, and the idea that “the founder was good, […] Continue Reading…

Posted in Controversies, Early Modern Period, Expansion of Europe, Exploration and Discovery, Native America, Spain

Food, Facial Structure, and “F”

Posted on October 11, 2021 by jgood

From Science (hat tip: Funk Heritage Center):
When humans switched to processed foods after the spread of agriculture, they put less wear and tear on their teeth. That changed the growth of their jaws, giving adults the overbites normal in […] Continue Reading…

Posted in Linguistics, Neolithic, Paleolithic

Some Links

Posted on October 10, 2021 by jgood

• From Edward J. Watts on Yahoo News: “Rome Didn’t Fall When You Think it Did”:
In September of 476 AD, the barbarian commander Odoacer forced the teenaged Western Roman emperor Romulus Augustus to resign his office. The Constantinopolitan chronicler Marcellinus Comes would […] Continue Reading…

Posted in American West, Ancient History, Archaeology, Controversies, Crusades, Germany, Literature, Native America, Uses of History

The Battle of Lepanto

Posted on October 8, 2021 by jgood

Adjunct instructor Tim Furnish remembers the Battle of Lepanto, fought 450 years ago:
On this date, 450 years ago, the combined naval forces of Europe’s Catholic states, the “Holy League,” saved Western civilization. The Ottoman Empire, which ruled not just […] Continue Reading…

Posted in Anniversaries, Early Modern Period, Faculty scholarship, Mediterranean, Military History, Naval History, Ottomans

Pushin’ Back the Date

Posted on September 23, 2021 by jgood

From NBC News (hat tip: Funk Heritage Center):

David Bustos heard about the “ghost tracks” when he first went to White Sands National Park in New Mexico to work as a wildlife scientist in 2005. When the ground was wet […] Continue Reading…

Posted in Archaeology

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