books on the crusades, Christianity and other historical recommendations to read
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Christianity
-Christianity: A Very Short Introduction
-A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
Crusades - Diamond
>The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land - Thomas Asbridge
>The History of the Crusades Vol 1-3 - Steve Runciman
>The Crusades : A 30 lecture series by the Teaching Company (Taught by Kenneth Harl)
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Crusades bibliography:
http://pastebin.com/7h8fASgv
Chivalry bibliography:
http://pastebin.com/uB2cZDef
Jihad bibliography:
http://pastebin.com/6BhNAUYx
Muslim Spain bibliography:
http://pastebin.com/WzdNxB71
Charlemagne bibliography:
http://pastebin.com/QYMYkwq8
Papal Rome bibliography:
http://pastebin.com/HuhtJEVD
Papacy bibliography:
http://pastebin.com/acVMikB3
When God Spoke Greek is a recent book on the history of the Septuagint: the Greek Old Testament and the first translation of the Bible.
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>>1268223
Hey guy, do you have the bibliography for the Roman Republic?
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Is there a historic reason for why Germanic's keep trying to crash Europe with no survivors?
Are they eternally butt hurt about something?
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No, but it its Jews who are butthurt that they never had a nation with great culture and heritage other than what was recently created on Palestinian land.
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>>1272930
Autism is one hell of a disease.
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While Germans have often done much harm to Europe, I think it is important to remember the role that the eternal Swede played in dividing Europe in religious wars and how it is unyielding in its support of Germany's modern attempt at destroying Europe.
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I found it on /pol/
Red pill me /his/
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>>1272070
Yes, this is accurate.
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>sourcing wikipedia
cringe
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>>1272086
Wikipedia isn't ideal but it is a better source than your own ass, which most of the people moaning about Wikipedia think is just fine.
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Plan To Rebuild the Colossus of Rhodes
>A 500-foot bronze statue of the Greek god Helios, towering over the entryway to a port.
>A collective of European architects has proposed to build a 21st-century version of the Colossus of Rhodes, the ancient Greek statue erected on the island of Rhodes in the 3rd century B.C. The new statue would stand 500-feet tall and serve as a cultural center as well as a lighthouse.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a18877/architects-want-to-rebuild-colossus-of-rhodes/
Would this annoy you, /his/?
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Yes because I would be indirectly paying for that, being a citizen of the EU
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looks tacky as fuck, also pay denbts greekroach
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>>1272021
>a 21st-century version
Oh god, please no.
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Why did Latin stop being the main lingua franca? Did a bunch of hipsters in the late middle ages just decide "duuuude, fuck it, lets not learn the language of diplomacy, education, literature, and commerce, lets learn FRENCH HONHONHON!"
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Oh god it's really summer in here, for sure.
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>>1269997
Charlemagne became Holy Roman Emperor, shifting the focus of civilization towards France, while Italy slipped into poverty and chaos.
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DUDE LINGUISTIC SHIFT LMAO
DUDE ILLITERATE FARMERS TOTALLY NEED TO READ THE CLASSICS
Devas or Boddhisattvas?
Who's superior according to Mahayana theology?
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Bodhisattvas
The celestial realm of the Devas is still a conditioned existence
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Boddhisattvas are considered superior. They are beings who have reached enlightenment but who put off their Buddhahood (paranirvana) in order to assist all other life-forms in reaching enlightenment.
Devas are deities in the Heaven-realms, and are very much like the Olympian gods: they are powerful, but still flawed and unable to escape from the karmic cycle themselves.
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THE DEVAS/DAEVAS ARE REPTILIAN USURPERS FROM THE EAST; THE AHURA/ASURA ARE THE "GOOD" ONES; THE ARYANS THAT FOUNDED THE INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION.
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Ask a communist anything.
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How's it going
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>>1274285
Sad because non-revolutionary conditions.
Otherwise fine though.
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>>1274277
Would Lenin have killed Luxemburg?
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How do Catholics even justify their being on a board dedicated to historical matters yet continue to fervently defend the Catholic Church?
Putting their atrocities and abuses aside, let us look at it from the perspective of academia. In their persecution of various "heretics" (Cathars, Bogomils) in the Medieval period, the Church establishment destroyed all their documents and scriptures, and such was the extent that to this day, we cannot - with authority - claim to know exactly what the Cathars or Bogomils even believed in, which in turns makes it harder to study other lost belief-systems that seemingly contributed to the Cathar/Bogomilistic ideas (Paulicianism, Manicheanism, Valentianism, other Gnostic or dualist sects of which we also know little - if anything - due to their eradication by the mainstream Christian churches).
You're on a history board defending an institution which has a history of destroying and completely eradicating historical records and making the study of it muddier and harder.
>implying I'm a Protestant or Orthodox
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>>1269580
>You're on a history board defending an institution which has a history of destroying and completely eradicating historical records and making the study of it muddier and harder.
If it was possible for me to destroy the stupidity of the WE WUZ KANGZ movement, I would do it in seconds. Some knowledge is so fantastically retarded, that it doesn't deserve being preserved.
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>>1269662
All historical knowledge is valuable.
Even the WE WUZ movement is valuable in its own certain way, for it would show historians of the future the sociological conditions and trends among black Americans in the 21st century.
Just because it's factually incorrect does not mean it's not valuable in historical terms.
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>>1269580
They're godless pagans trying to deceive other people into joining their godless church.
Plus they get to vent their frustration and murderous rage against actual Christians.
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>1914
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>>1272700
>1929
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>>1272700
nobody...
*hrrrm*
...gared who i was dill i bud on da masg
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>>1272700
>1974
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I'm genuinely curious as to how the idea of the trinity in Christianity got started. Because I've read the Bible and even looked into the history of the church, and I don't see how anyone got the idea of the trinity.
To me it seems obvious that Jesus references god as someone distinct and separate from himself, and this would fit with prophecy that concerned the messiah as a distinct entity who wasn't god. So, it just seems like this idea of the trinity comes out of fucking nowhere and is stupid. But clearly there was lots of debate over it and people took the idea seriously.
So, how did that idea get to become so popular?
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It's really fucking obvious desu:
>Commandment clearly states that you shall have no other gods
>But we want to worship Christ and the Holy Spirit because they were holy n shit
>So let's just call God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit "God" that way it's not really polytheism it's actually monotheism :^)
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>>1271935
>I'm genuinely curious as to how the idea of the trinity in Christianity got started.
The Trinity has always existed, before time itself did
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>>1271935
Literally the first few lines of the Gospel of John. It is also the most authentically "Christian" gospel.
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What's the /his/ consensus on the Hamilton musical?
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>>1269948
They picked the wrong founding father.
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Kill whitey
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if you need watered down trendy garbage like this to digest history you shouldn't be here
if you're here to discuss the quality of acting, writing, or production, you also shouldn't be here as this is a history and humanities board
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Why is academia still so full of Marxists?
We have an entire century of proof that his ideas don't work, and are even harmful in the large sense.
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>>1265900
I have no idea.
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It all comes from bullshit disciplines like X studies, political "science," literature, or the lower dregs of philosophy. There evidence doesn't really matter, only feels.
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>>1265900
Marxism is an aesthetic movement of bourgeoisie values against aristocratic one, economic results don't matter
Is the existence of a fiery eternal hell justified? I believe so. We are all given a chance here to better ourselves. Don't let the worldly life deceive you. God has the best reward with him.
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>>1264230
if it wasn't justified there would be no hell
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>>1264335
Well, I guess that's why there is none :^)
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Well that's just fantastic, OP. Thank you for sharing this with us all today.
There's this really neat board you can discuss this on, it's called /x/. Have fun!
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How did prostitutes do their profession back in the day with such shitty anticonception?
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>>1273475
Infanticide.
Abortion.
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>>1273475
the Romans had some plant that was apparently basically foolproof but they used it to extinction
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>>1273475
How common were stds back in the day?
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Did the American internment of Japanese Americans during WW2 have any justification besides paranoia?
Like was there actual credible intelligence that there were enough Japanese on the west coast to actually create enough of a threat to warrant such a flagrant disregard of basic human rights?
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>>1272705
Honestly I don't think so, there was a Japan town in my hometown and in it was a Japanese temple and school. When they were detained they burned down the temple and confiscated their farms and homes then sold them.
Even though Japanese farmers introduced citrus cultivation in many parts of California and contributed to California's agriculture immensely looking at my region the deportations were an excuse for poorer whites to just take from such a thriving group.
Success breeds jealousy so to speak.
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>>1272705
Japs in America were caught actually helping Japan so I'd say there was something more than paranoia.
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>>1272771
>Even though Japanese farmers introduced citrus cultivation in many parts of California
This is bullshit btw and I doubt your other bit about burning down shrines.