In this 1671 painting from Hubert van Ravesteijn we see an exclusively designed paper packet leaning against a clay pipe, ready for consumption in a tavern.
In order to sell small units of tobacco, paper was needed: used papers and freshly printed papers. Zoom in:
@dbellingradt@histodons The #Neolatin poet Jacobus Balde SJ (1604-1668) wrote a satire against the abuse of tobacco in which you've also got a reference to paper as wrapping material for tobacco:
"Exin, membranâ positâ, vis magna Tabaci, / Nimirum niger atque ingens evolvitur anguis." (Tab. 10,26-27).
(Context: tobacco smokers unpack the tobacco and once the paper is taken off, black tobacco appears like a snake).
🔖 Most recent contribution on early modern tobacco literature probably is Kühlmann, Wilhelm. ‘Schreckensvision oder Drogenfreuden: Kontroverse Perspektiven der spätbarocken lateinischen und deutschen Tabaklyrik: Der Nordhauser Gymnasialrektor Johann Joachim Meier versus Johann Christian Günthers studentisches “Lob des Knaster-Tobacks” (1718)’. Daphnis 51, no. 4 (20 September 2023): 563–632. https://doi.org/10.1163/18796583-12340095.
📖 2023's second issue of #HoST — Journal of History of Science is now online. The theme is "Social History of Science and Historiography: Where are We in Brazil?".
One of the biggest mysteries I am having right now is the #mixtec#sabre
Every #mesoamerica or #aztec#history person I ask have either never seen this thing or only seen it shown in Mixtec codices and certain papers call it a sabre.
Mexicolore has a panel of experts and said they know nothing about it.
Codices often represent real weapons in them, but they can also be symbolic of something else.
Does anyone know more about this design of #sword ?
This is a recreation from a forum post that is now gone. The only image left is the page from Mexicolore, who do have experts but they have been wrong before.
I would love to have ballistic gel and test it out if I had the resources to make this.
@9Wind@histodons@academicchatter
You could experiment with a watermelon & glass chips affixed to straight & curved plywood 'swords.' My guess is you'd get a lot deeper cut with the curved blade & it would be less likely to get stuck.
What do you see as the pro's and con's of #documentaries? I'm often not a fan, but want to be. My issues with them, and mostly it comes from I love to learn and want docs to be a starting point, not the end:
Credentials of the experts can be spotty
No sources given
No way to ask follow-up questions
Too much theatrics / reenactment
Not as detailed as a book
Often don't cover the topics I want (social science, #religion, #history, etc)
@theotherotherone@histodons you’re right, you have to invest all your faith in the documentary editor. They have total control over the impression portrayed.
@peterbrown@histodons To be fair, the same can basically be said about a single book, too. But it just seems with books, especially scholarly or academic, we're more willing to put some time into researching the author, their biases, and criticisms of the book. With a documentary, people tend to just accept it without any verification.
@TheConversationUS@histodons
A great read and a reminder that colonial leaders were business and plantation owners and more importantly slave owners.
Private property and business interests were important to them. Actual democracy (as in rule by ordinary people) was never really in their plan.
I believe Winston Churchill speculated on how different history would have turned out if the British government had reached out and offered colonial aristocrats a role in shaping imperial policy and laws (perhaps representation in parliament).
What is the German word for the intense feeling of melancholy that hits when you should feel flattered by a request to write or speak on an area of your scholarly expertise, but instead end up depressed by the reminder that your career has veered off into wildly unfulfilling admin work and away from the things you really care about? Asking for a friend. @histodons#academicchatter
Christmas pudding is a relatively recent concoction of two classic medieval dishes: a runny porridge known as “plum pottage”, which featured any seasonal mixture of meats, dried fruits, and spices; and “figgy pudding” (yes, the one mentioned in the song), a mixture of sweet and savory ingredients bagged with flour and cooked by steaming.
@TheConversationUS@histodons Very informative review. The Haitian revolutionaries successful fight for freedom and independence came with centuries long debt repayment to France for loss of property (slaves).