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21 Aug 2007, 11:27 pm
Latinos are killed at more than three times the rate of whites, while blacks succumb to homicide at three times the rate of Latinos, the Times analysis shows.Adult males are the eye of the storm. [read post]
14 Jan 2007, 6:45 pm
" It was a significant siege weapon of the Medieval Ages for many reasons. [read post]
23 Jun 2014, 6:56 am
The Law Library of Congress will kick off a series of lectures that will explore how Magna Carta has impacted both historical and contemporary topics such as legal representation, the status of women in medieval times, and the use of primary sources to illustrate history. [read post]
25 Sep 2017, 6:00 am
By MELISSA EDDY AUG. 7, 2017 – New York Times Cleaving to the Medieval, Journeymen Ply Their Trades in Europe They hitchhike across Europe, instantly recognizable in the wide-bottomed, corduroy trousers, white shirts and colored jackets that identify them as bricklayers, bakers, carpenters, stonemasons and roofers. [read post]
28 Aug 2015, 9:30 pm
Two historians of medieval law provided the substance for recent posts by Eric Grundhauser on Atlas Obscura. [read post]
22 Nov 2022, 6:36 am
Previously. . . trying to get at what local church law was in any one place in Medieval Europe, let alone compare it to other places, or try to track changes over time, was quite impossible. [read post]
4 Feb 2018, 9:30 pm
Historians typically associate minhagim books with the post–Black Death period and the desire to provide guidance during a time of decline for German Jewry. [read post]
14 Dec 2018, 8:23 am
Medieval bestiaries tell us this story. [read post]
14 Dec 2018, 8:23 am
Medieval bestiaries tell us this story. [read post]
10 Sep 2014, 9:30 pm
RESPONSIBILITIES: Under the direction of the Rare Book Librarian, the Rare Book Fellow will spend time learning special collections librarianship with an emphasis on law material. [read post]
6 Jan 2020, 9:30 pm
An era of civil war and imperial fracture, it also proved a time of intensive self-definition, as communities both lay and ecclesiastic used law to articulate collective identities. [read post]
4 Dec 2009, 3:57 am
 In some cases this involves something as simple as chanting the text in the style of the times with some improvised accompaniment - in one case they describe the result as "medieval rap music. [read post]
16 Apr 2019, 6:21 am
Let go of the medieval form of a great religion is something that non-Muslims say to Muslims all the time. [read post]
7 Jul 2021, 3:13 pm
The digital Exeter Book will be an exceptional resource and tool for researchers, teachers and students of English literature, and provides a chance for anyone to in close-up one of the rarest and most remarkable relics of the medieval past. [read post]
27 Feb 2010, 6:42 am
In the realm of "prior art," note the re-appearance of interest in the lost city of Z:"One archaeologist has found, in the very area where Fawcett believed he would find Z, 20 pre-Colombian settlements that had roads built at right angles, bridges, causeways, and that a cluster of these settlements that were interconnected had populations of between 2,500 to 5,000 people, which would have made them the size of many medieval European cities at the time As to Fawcett,… [read post]
13 Feb 2024, 9:05 pm
Beller notes that tipping—payments “to insure promptitude”—was once popular in medieval Europe. [read post]
1 Jul 2021, 7:16 pm
It’s free to sign up and take part in the tours, and if you enjoy your time, there’s an opportunity at the end to leave a tip for your guide. [read post]
13 Jul 2016, 9:00 am
The essays in this volume explore how the exploitation of the oceans changed the institution of slavery, long-distance trade, property crime, the environment, literature, and memory, from medieval times to the nineteenth century.The Table of Contents is available here, and here is further information about the book. [read post]
4 Apr 2013, 9:30 pm
It was full of good stuff (and the lead article, by Christopher Waldrep, now seems even more timely). [read post]
13 Aug 2022, 5:27 am
In 1993, the book’s Norwegian publisher was shot three times and survived.The book was banned in Iran, where the late leader Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a 1989 fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie’s death.... [read post]
