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Why is it that written accounts of people who question or reject religion exist in the medieval Muslim World but seem to be non-existent in Europe?	20
What was the understanding of 16th and 17th century Western Europeans of homosexuality? How would an LGBT have understood their own sexuality and identity through the lens of their time?	19
What did the average 16th century commoner in the Germanies, Low Countries, Bohemia, Austria or another land answerable to the Emperor, know about their own religion and how did they think of spiritual matters?	19
Were there witch panics in any of the other European countries' settlements in Northeast North America (Dutch, Swedish, French)?	18
What social conditions allowed for the rise of so many great and prolific painters of the 16th and 17th centuries in the low countries?	18
What do we know about the religion and folk beliefs of the Taino people and has this had an effect on the development of later afro-caribbean traditions like Voodoo and Santeria?	18
The Netherlandish master painters of the 16th and 17th centuries give us an intimate picture of how life looked in the low countries of this time, but do we know how it would have smelled or sounded?	18
Any recommendations for books on Ancient Greek colonies, particularly the ones established furthest from Greece? (along the coast of modern France and Spain, in the black sea, North Africa, etc.)	17
How far back in history can we trace proto-marxist ideologies and ways of living? Would it be appropriate to apply this to peasants living communally in the middle ages?	16
I have been having much difficulty finding information on the Dithmarschen Peasants' Republic and the way in which it functioned does anyone know of a good source(s) for good information on this curious polity?	16

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