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  • Abelard castrated
  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
  • Tristan & Isuet
  • Xanthippe & Socrates
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

industry structure

communications industry structure, including mass media, advertising, and telephone companies

how to earn a living writing poetry

Writing poems for drunk husbands trying to appease their angry wives is the best business plan for new poetry start-ups. … Read the post how to earn a living writing poetry

sea of ink: writing across Eurasia for millennia

A rhetorically complex “sea of ink” writing figure has been conserved in specificity across a wide expanse of Eurasia for at least 2000 years. … Read the post sea of ink: writing across Eurasia for millennia

illustrated books pervasive in 18th-century Japan

The Sackler exhibit, Hand-Held: Gerhard Pulverer’s Japanese Illustrated Books, shows woodblock-printed books (ehon) pervasive in Edo-period Japan. … Read the post illustrated books pervasive in 18th-century Japan

Bar Sauma and Rubruck’s experiences of learned religious debate

Bar Sauma, a Christian born in China, debated with cardinals in Rome. Franciscan Friar William of Rubruck debated in the Mongol court in central Eurasia. … Read the post Bar Sauma and Rubruck’s experiences of learned religious debate

Bābak and the Khurramī revolt according to Wāqid's account

Wāqid’s account of Bābak and the Khurramī uprising figuratively denigrated Bābak and his fellow Khurramīs’ pre-Islamic, non-Arabic culture. … Read the post Bābak and the Khurramī revolt according to Wāqid's account

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