(DE) Update Aserbaidschan: Wir haben begonnen, die zu untersuchenden Kurgane zu vermessen. Einge davon werden zum ersten Mal erforscht. Wir sind gespannt, was sie über soziale #Ungleichheit zwischen dem 4. und 1. Jt. v. Chr. aussagen!
(EN)Update #Azerbaijan: We started to survey the #kurgans to be examined. Some of these are being explored for the first time. We are curious what they will tell us about social #inequality between the 4th and 1st millennium BC! #archaeology@histodons @archaeodons
Türck, Verena, Beherrschter Raum und anerkannte Herrschaft: Friedrich I. Barbarossa und das Königreich (BurgundMittelalter-Forschungen 42), Ostfildern 2013.
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Marble sculpture of #Hermes. After rediscovery in 1771 near #Rome, he was displayed at Lansdowne House in London. The sculpture's right leg and the palm tree originally came from a different ancient statue.
🏛️ Lansdowne Hermes, 2nd century CE Roman copy of a 4th century BCE Greek original, today in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
"‘BASTION OF THE SUPER-RICH’: INSIDE A NEW YORK BILLIONAIRE’S PRIVATE MUSEUM" by Francesca Carington.
"It was Fleet Week in New York City, and something unusual was taking place on Billionaires’ Row. At 9 West 57th Street, an elegant black sloping skyscraper towering over the Plaza hotel and the half-dozen sailors congregated outside, 20 people were ushered into a small, glass-fronted gallery on the ground floor. A ferocious crimson Basquiat greeted them, along with a monochrome Kline and a serene Henry Moore – works collected by the building’s late owner, the real estate mogul Sheldon Solow.
There are plenty of examples of art foundations that work well as private museums, such as Glenstone in Washington DC, the Broad in LA and the Rubell museums in Miami and DC."
#OnThisDay, July 11, in 1924, Scottish Olympian Eric Liddell won the gold medal in the 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favored distance, on a Sunday due to his religion (depicted in Chariots of Fire, 1981)
This Thursday, I have the great honour of presenting my book “The Power of Persuasion. Becoming a Merchant in the 18th Century” based on a forgotten merchant archive found in the Prize Papers (The National Archives, UK) as part of the Global History Lecture Series at Kyoto Sangyo University. 楽しみにしているよ。!
Please feel free to reach out to Professor Toshiaki Tamaki if you wish to attend.
Frieling, Kirsten O., Sehen und gesehen werden: Kleidung an Fürstenhöfen an der Schwelle vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit (ca. 1450-1530) (Mittelalter-Forschungen 41), Ostfildern 2013.
On this day in 1640, William Best of Co. Kilkenny died. His funeral entry details his two wives and father-in-law. See more 17th-century funeral entries in the Journals: https://bit.ly/best1640