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1 hour ago

Averil Cameron passes away - Medievalists.net

Cameron was best known for her work on late antiquity, early Byzantium, and the cultural and religious transformations of the eastern Roman Empire. Her books, including Procopius and the Sixth Century, Byzantine Matters, and Byzantine Christianity: A Very Brief History, were widely read both within academia and beyond.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
4 weeks ago

Walid Khalidi, historian of the Palestinian cause, dies aged 100

Walid Khalidi, a leading Palestinian historian who documented the Nakba and co-founded the Institute for Palestine Studies, died at age 100 in Massachusetts.
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Ken Burns on his American Revolution documentary: We won't work on a more important film'

Burns has done more fucking podcasts than I ever thought possible, he says, nearing the end of nine-month promotional tour that included 40 cities, 80 screenings and hundreds of interviews. I think there are 340.1m podcasts, one for every American, and I've done half of them. Fortunately Burns is a force of nature, as loquacious behind the mic as he is prolific in the editing room.
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fromAxios
7 months ago

Fresh discoveries are rewriting U.S. history amid backlash from conservatives

Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL
US politics
History
fromMedievalists.net
8 months ago

Translating a Medieval Giant: Global Project to Bring Alfonso X's General estoria to New Audiences - Medievalists.net

A global collaboration is translating and making the General estoria, a unique medieval text, widely available.
fromMedievalists.net
9 months ago

New Medieval Books: Documenting Warfare - Medievalists.net

On the whole, Documenting Warfare is an excellent book, both as a testament to the influence of Anne Curry and in its own right as a volume on the Hundred Years War.
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