In this week's BBC history podcast, Adam Smith offers a historian's perspective on the new Lincoln film, while Paula Byrne explores the life of Jane Austen on the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice
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A look at what the American Historical Association is reading this week.
It features readings related to the 2013 inauguration, gender in higher education, and how nucleotides may hold the key to the future of archives.
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Two interesting articles from History Today
Byzantium and the Abbasids: Best of Enemies looks at Muslim-Christian relations during the Byzantine era, suggesting that there was perhaps more than just war between the two peoples.
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| from HistoryToday.com |
''Medieval Christians and Muslims had to find some way of living alongside each other, just as they do today. In the process they occasionally discovered things to admire as well as to despise in the faith and culture of their hereditary enemies. This point comes across very forcibly when we examine the interaction between the Christian Byzantine Empire, also known as Byzantium, and the Muslim Abbasid caliphate between about 750 and 1050 AD.''
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| From HistoryToday.com |
Mental Illness: A Curse and a Blessing
This article examines several famous and influential characters in history who had mental illnesses
''In 2009 Tony Blair’s former communications director, Alastair Campbell, and the writer Nigel Jones wrote a short paper for the Time to Change anti-stigma campaign entitled, ‘A World Without: The Fantastic Five’. They argued that, if Churchill, Nightingale, Darwin, Lincoln and Marie Curie had been alive today, the stigma and discrimination that exists towards the mentally ill would have prevented them achieving what they did and that as a consequence the world would have been a different and a poorer place.''
[unfortunately, you can only read part of these articles. Sorry -VB]
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| From LiveScience.com |
The final article is a little disturbing....
Archaeologists in Spain found this women in Spain who had a tumor which had four teeth embedded in it (see pic). The tumor came from germ cells, which form human eggs and can create hair, teeth and bone, among other structures. Yuck..
