Posted in Archaeology, Egypt, History on July 16, 2007 | No Comments »
From the Theban Mapping Project website.
Update: There’s been a significant update to the Theban Mapping Project.
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Modern technology? Eh. It’s poetry I’m after. But there are times, rare certainly, when the meshing of computer technology and the humanities is nothing less than elegant. The most recent example of this is in Egyptology. It’s worth [...]
Posted in Egypt, History on June 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, always made me a bit uneasy. That he was a camera-whore was obvious. I’m no Egyptologist, but I wasn’t sure how reliable his scholarship was considering most of his time seemed to be spent as a talking head for National Geographic Channel, Discovery Times Channel, [...]
Posted in History, Jacksonville, Oregon, Outdoors on May 24, 2007 | No Comments »
While I was hiking in Rich Gulch, in the Jacksonville Woodlands in Southern Oregon, I walked a little ways above the former mining works to the area called Frenchman’s Gulch. It got that name due to the numbers of French families who made their way into the area in the 19th and very early 20th [...]
Posted in History on April 14, 2006 | No Comments »
From the last chapter of The Civil War in Spain, “Envoi—Of Legendary Time” by Ralph Bates.
“I felt the past as a living thing, the pastness of which I regretted.”
“I felt then that the sense of the passing of time and of past time was one of the principal sources of poetry.”
“The melancholy of past time [...]
Posted in Gypsies, History on March 19, 2006 | No Comments »
After reading “Summer Snow,” by Rebecca Pawel, the fourth and latest in a series of novels set in the years after the Spanish Civil War, I realized that I had never read a history of that war. I had read plenty about the supposed causes of it, I had read memoirs and biographies of lives [...]
Posted in History, Spain, Writers on September 21, 2005 | 3 Comments »
I finished reading L.P. Harvey’s book, Muslims in Spain: 1500-1614, a book which addresses in depth the survival of Muslims in Spain after the Peninsula was completely in the hands of Christian rulers. This is a story with a surprising amount of nuance. Once the conquest of Granada was complete in 1492, the story of [...]
Posted in History, Human rights on September 21, 2005 | 1 Comment »
This machine kills fascists
Simon Wiesenthal 1908-2005
Nie wieder
Simon_Wiesenthal, fascism, nazi, genocide
Posted in History, Spain on September 7, 2005 | No Comments »
Maria Rosa Menocal is a professor of Spanish history at Yale and the author of the beautiful book on Arabic Spain, The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain. Wanting to learn more about what happened to the Muslims in Spain after the Reconquest, I [...]
Posted in History on February 5, 2005 | No Comments »
There’s a beautiful story on Max Schmeling, the German boxer who died today in BBC News and a much more ambivalent one in the New York Times.
Posted in History on January 15, 2005 | No Comments »
I am searching for the actual text to the philosophic questionnaire Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, King of Sicily and Jerusalem, sent out in1240 which was answered by Ibn Sabin of Ceuta, originally of Murcia.
It concerns the immortality of the soul, the eternity of matter and other issues, apparently of Aristotelian origin.
I can find only references [...]
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