First I will put the question succinctly: What critiques and support is there for the analogy: "Homer is to Plato as The Hebrew Bible is to the Talmud?" Now for some exposition: I would be embarrassed to call myself an "amateur historian" I am more of an interested reader who would like to be...

i've literally looked everywhere,, all over the Internet and I can't find anything all I can find is facts about his dumb brothers

While Hapsburg is correct in English (especially American, I think), academic works seem to prefer "Habsburg", which is the original form in German. Looking up the term on Google books, all results include the b variant. Here's a screen-shot of what I'm writing: And searching "Hapsburg" on G...

This poster shows a hopping European party of a few centuries back. Unfortunately there's no attribution or date on this old print. The text resembles German and refers to the second chapter of the gospel of John, which is when Jesus changed water into wine, and drove the moneychangers out of th...

Art Theory For Beginners, p. 29 Bottom. Gothic architecture is all big cathedrals, with pointed arches, and flying buttresses, supporting intricate sculptures and beautiful decoration. Based on sophisticated engineering, the building's skeleton could house huge stained glass windows...

I just need one example because its rather difficult to find any on the internet. Maybe the search term "different interpretations same data in history"I am using is incorrect?

Why does this question is removed? The gods who promised to return Why do ancient gods have to promise to return? Has the return of the gods been a deception of public opinion? Or have there really been gods who have promised to return? Can the gods return to Earth and be mistakenly ov...

Wikipedia’s take on the topic is roughly this: On January 3, 1941, the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or more precisely Martin Bormann, issued a circular to all public offices which declared Fraktur to be Jewish letters and prohibited their further use. German historian Albert Kapr...

Do we have any record of the reaction of the average British person to the Boston Tea Party? Would the proverbial man on the street have been aware of the event? If so, what was their perception of it immediately following news of the event reaching Britain? I have found a lot of material about t...

As if being called 'Lackland' and 'Softsword' was not bad enough, King John also acquired the very unflattering-sounding name 'Dollheart'. This is mentioned on this University of Sheffield page, in this blog and also in this article Royal Nicknames. None of them, though, give any further informa...

In which estate did the soldiers come during the French revolution? In my book it is written "peasants had to serve in the army..." and "army was not open as I was not a noble by birth"

An example of a nonspecific reason is "native Americans didn't have animals/weren't exposed to smallpox earlier. " An example of a specific reason is a specific biological pathway and evidence that Africans and other nongenocided ethnicities also had this pathway. If the claim originated from his...

I have a number of badges on a leather pouch. Can someone identify these?

I am having trouble retrieving this information. A duke or king of Burgundy took custody of, I'm pretty sure, Odo and Robert, sons of Robert the Strong. It's possible that it was some later Robertians, but I remember it being two sons. Which King of Burgundy was this?

I was looking for interesting books on French Revolution, when I stumbled across this history of British espionage in the late 1700s. The book is several hundred dollars, so I won't be able to procure it unless I take the trouble to hike out to a university library. What caught my eye is that the...