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Lydgate’s Troy Book – Book and Sword
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Author: John LydgateOriginal Language: EnglishPlace of Composition: EnglandDate of Composition: 1412-1420 according to statements by the author in the poemSource of Text: Henry Bergen...
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Wikipedia Culture, Journalistic Culture, and Academic Culture – Book and Sword
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The Wikipedia {{primary sources}} cleanup template, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_index/Cleanup#Verifiability_and_sources Cleanup templates are for articles which should be improved. A good feature of Wikipedia is that...
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Publishers Preserve Websites, Readers Preserve Books – Book and Sword
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If you come from book culture, the Internet and social media often work the opposite of the way you expect. One of these differences...
on Dec 10
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Xenophon is Still Sad – Book and Sword
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An anonymous Tumblr account called Xenophon is Sad used to collect quotes where researchers disrespected or erased Xenophon the Athenian adventurer. Although Xenophon was...
on Dec 7
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The Timeless Value of Hardback Books – Book and Sword
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One of the stacks at Munro's Books, Victoria BC, in May 2016 In my home office I am packed between what feels like half...
on Dec 4
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Things in Society Change Very Quickly Nowadays – Book and Sword
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Barkerville (est. 1862) in 2012. After the Second World War a few people made a bare living panning gold from under the wooden sidewalks...
on Nov 23
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The Case of the Five Hitmen and Ten Oligarchs – Book and Sword
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News outlets such as the BBC have been retelling a story about a failed business hit in Nanning, China. A group of hitmen have...
on Oct 26
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How to Grip Bronze Age Swords (Response to Dimicator and Matt Easton) – Book and Sword
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An ordinary Late Bronze Age European sword of the so-called Naue type II. It has a bronze hilt of hollow scales riveted to the...
on Oct 19
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How the Greeks Got Battering Rams – Book and Sword
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This may have been part of the first battering ram deployed in Greece. It was made sometime in the 5th century BCE, around the...
on Sep 29
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Science Fiction with Egyptian Themes – Book and Sword
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For Dr. Leire Olabarria and Dr. Eleanor Dobson's conference "Do Ancient Egyptians Dream of Electric Sheep?" I have been trying to think of science...
on Sep 24
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Saint Hippolytus the Skeptic – Book and Sword
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Albrecht Dürer's print "The Witch" from around 1500. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number 17.37.31 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/391138 I visited Dürer's house, it was saved from...
on Sep 21
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Thanks to the University of Victoria – Book and Sword
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This summer, my plan is to publish two posts a month while I enjoy the weather and the slowdown in the pandemic and get...
on Sep 20
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A Third of a Metre of Linen, Some Thread, and a Few Spare Hours – Book and Sword
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Two test patches, eight layers of linen quilted with thick white cotton thread (left) and seven layers quilted with thin silk thread (right). Photo...
on Sep 19
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The Paraskeuastikon of Peter the Son of Jack – Book and Sword
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Since I start this post by talking about an imaginary fortress designed by ignorant people, how about a real fortress designed by people skilled...
on Sep 14
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Greek Soldiers in the Achaemenid Empire – Book and Sword
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Three Salish Sea ferries in one shoot! The photo is from one, another from Vancouver is coming behind, and a third is hidden behind...
on Sep 7
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Cross-Post: Book on Early Germanic Clothing Fundraising – Book and Sword
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Thirty years ago, Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood gave us a book of Patterns for Ancient Egyptian Clothing. Now a researcher in the UK wants to do...
on Sep 1
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Early Greek Texts Speak to the Reader – Book and Sword
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The Greeks invented scripts for their own language based on Phoenician writing during the eighth century BCE. From the eighth century BCE we have...
on Aug 24
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Trying Hard to Show it Wrong – Book and Sword
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People, especially people who are most interested in material culture, often find it hard to accept that ancient art does not directly and literally...
on Aug 1
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Cross-Post: The Creature on the Persepolis Staircase – Book and Sword
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In early June I wrote a guest post for the L. Sprague de Camp Fan Blog about the wild animal which one of the...
on Jul 27
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What Am I Doing Here? – Book and Sword
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Well, on Canada Day I was attending "As You Like It" at Craigdarroch Castle but lets not be too literal! The blessing and curse...
on Jul 13
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Two Ways of Looking at the Russo-Ukrainian War – Book and Sword
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The city-side entrance to fortress Hohensalzburg was designed in the 17th century, but many aspects of a 17th century siege would be familiar to...
on Jun 29
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Armies, Mobs, and Peoples – Book and Sword
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The spokesman of a committee of conscripts (mobiks) in Svetly, Omsk, Russia (a town on the Trans-Siberian Railroad) In my post we the people...
on Jun 27
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Hellenistic Diplomacy – Book and Sword
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This Ptolemaic queen of Egypt is decked in a naval crown, an anchor brooch, and a military cloak fastened at the right shoulder. One...
on Jun 26
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Are 80% of Patreon Pledges Hidden? – Book and Sword
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Graphtreon is awesome! Patreon is awesome! But Patreon is also another giant institution which we are are asked to trust but don't have a...
on Jun 25
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A Cornice from Pompeii – Book and Sword
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Some architectural terracotta moulding from the House of the Black Room, Pompeii c/o BBC There are many things to talk about the excavations at...
on Jun 23
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Editing and Translation Services – Book and Sword
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Do you need a second pair of eyes on that book, paper, or project report? I have been editing business and academic writing since...
on Jun 2
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From Syria to Iberia – Book and Sword
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One of the sculptures of warriors from Cerrillo Blanco near Porcuna, Spain. These were probably carved around 450 BCE. Photo from Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guerrero_ibero_de_Porcuna.jpg...
on May 25
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An Unusual Obstetic Technique – Book and Sword
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My interest in linen armour lead me to texts from around the year 1000. Chrétien de Troyes died leaving one of his works incomplete,...
on May 18
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Keegan’s Challenge – Book and Sword
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I hope that everyone reading a blog like this has read the late John Keegan's Face of Battle. In 1976, Keegan interrupted the quiet...
on May 7
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How To Track Down a Manuscript of a Classical Text – Book and Sword
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The first page of the manuscript of Herodotus in Florence, courtesy of https://tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/plutei/id/1358114/rec/4 Over on another site, Anoneuoid asked how to track down the...
on Apr 27
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Baumwolle is an Old Word – Book and Sword
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The building one street up, at Government and Fort, reminds me of architecture from the last days of the Austro-Hungarian empire! Cotton is an...
on Apr 13
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Forecasting Future Wars is Hard – Book and Sword
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The book that launched a thousand raids and burned the topless towers of Minas Tirith! H.G. Wells' "Little Wars" the first modern wargame for...
on Apr 6
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Too Many Maiden Castles – Book and Sword
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Dokhtar castle alias Firuzabad in Iran. Photo by Hadi Karimi from Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. I miss Iran. Fans of...
on Mar 23
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Coiled Shields and Helmets – Book and Sword
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A little bowl like this was all my budget could afford, but its still handy for holding my sewing things! One weekend in May...
on Mar 16
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Antioch was a Great City – Book and Sword
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The city of Antioch on the Peutinger Table as reproduced by M. Weber on https://www.tabula-peutingeriana.de/ On the late Roman map called the Peutinger Tables,...
on Mar 9
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Just Another Grunt – Book and Sword
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A Statue of the Egyptian god Reshef from the Third Intermediate Period in the Metropolitan Museum of Art care of https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/553738 Early on, the...
on Mar 3
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From h-antiquity: International Conference on Alexander the Great: Alexander and MacedonSouth Dakota State University - Sioux Falls, SD - September 4-7, 2024Announcing the next...
on Mar 3
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What Did the Persians Do For Us? – Book and Sword
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Younger me would have been even more excited, his David Macaulay books are coming to life! Repairing the piers of the foot bridge downstream...
on Mar 1
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Were Hessians Really Mercenaries? – Book and Sword
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On these plains above Jena in 1806, the Prussian army was having a really bad day. Photo by Sean Manning, October 2016 In my...
on Feb 17
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Cross-Post: Zerjadtke on Linen Armour – Book and Sword
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Professor Michael Zerjadtke of https://www.linothorax.de/ has dealt with the problems with publishing by self-publishing a book on his and his students' experiments reproducing ancient...
on Feb 12
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How Much Did a Garment Cost in the Bronze Age? – Book and Sword
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Egypt gave the US a temple from the reign of Augustus and it is glorious https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/547802 There is now a video about the Temple...
on Feb 10
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The Triumph and the Tragedy of Atrocitology – Book and Sword
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To be honest, though, I'm sometimes embarrassed by where I have been forced to find my statistics, but beggars can't be choosers. Very few...
on Jan 23
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Paradoxes of Sword Design – Book and Sword
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Cross-sections of six swords near the hilt. From Peter Johnson's talk "Paradoxes of Sword Design" at Arctic Fire 2012 https://youtu.be/nyAc5HbUuqw?t=2630 In February, I started...
on Jan 23
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Battles and Sieges – Book and Sword
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Eannatum of Lagaš's Stele of the Vultures in the Louvre, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stele_of_Vultures_detail_01-transparent.png Academic histories sometimes get very narrowly focused. There are some good reasons...
on Jan 21
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Who Said “Technology Makes the World Smaller”? – Book and Sword
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An antefix (cap for the end of the peak of a tiled roof) with a gorgon's head from around 580/570 BCE in the Metropolitan...
on Dec 23
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Whitening Shields and Panels – Book and Sword
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Model shield from the 'Tomb of the Erotes' on Eretria (c. 350-250 BCE, not from a documented excavation). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession...
on Dec 16, 2023
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Lendering’s Law on Experts and Misconceptions – Book and Sword
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Graffito from an underpass near Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck The 2010s were a difficult decade which destroyed our ability to believe in some solutions to...
on Nov 25, 2023
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Why Do Armies March through Gaza? – Book and Sword
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The roads of Palestine in the Achaemenid period, after Graf 1994: figure 1 On another site, someone asked why armies have been marching through...
on Oct 28, 2023
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From Graham Wrightson graham.wrightson@sdstate.edu Dear all,I would like to put together a panel on Polybius for the Celtic Classics Conference in Cardiff, Wales, 9-12...
on Oct 23, 2023
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Short Swords and Arming Swords – Book and Sword
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In an earlier post I talked about how some people in 15th and 16th century England and France thought that a sword for war...
on Oct 21, 2023