The question is inspired by reading The Iron Cage by Rashid Khalidi. While the book provides many interesting insights, its arguments/findings essentially hinge on the claim that the British empire was staunchly committed to Zionism and creation of a Jewish state inn Palestine. Khalidi does littl...

Pardon the ghoulish subject, I am trying to find historical examples of famines during wartime to see how they evolved. when did people start dying? was the death rate constant during the whole event? I expect not, but what does the curve look like? Does it start slowly then accelerate? did ...

I assume they would not call it the "Bible". Would they say "Holy Scripture" or "The Word of God" when talking about the whole collection of OT NT (and apocrypha) or was there some other term in Middle English? I'm thinking particularly of a term that would communicate to those non Lollards to wh...