writing

6 08, 2017

European writing – books, poetry, Bibles

By |2018-04-11T18:19:12-07:00August 6th, 2017|History, Modern Europe|Comments Off on European writing – books, poetry, Bibles

Reproduction of a press from Gutenberg's time The invention of the European printing press with moveable type in northern Europe in the late 1400s AD was no accident: publishers had set out to find [...]

2 08, 2017

The Lombards – Early Medieval Italy

By |2019-11-19T10:56:23-08:00August 2nd, 2017|History, Medieval|Comments Off on The Lombards – Early Medieval Italy

The Lombards: a Lombard Christian altar (700s AD) (University of Alabama) Where did the Lombards come from? In 568 AD, a Turkic people, the Avars, pushed the Indo-European Lombards out of their home in Central [...]

2 07, 2017

Listen to ancient Greek music

By |2018-04-22T10:37:37-07:00July 2nd, 2017|Art, Greeks|Comments Off on Listen to ancient Greek music

Ancient Greek music: an enslaved woman plays a lyre Some people have been trying to figure out what ancient Greek music might have sounded like.  But most of what we [...]

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