/u/ShitPostQuokkaRome's posts
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How would have slavery been different in England, Egypt, Northwestern Africa, Venice, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, etc in the 11th century or thereabouts ? How did they differ in scale, scope, "cruelty", social roles?
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What is the best book about Communal Italy (circa 1000-1300)? What is the best book about Frederick II Hohenstaufen?
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How much statistics do we have about surviving incunables, and pre-1500 printing output? Already searching for surviving incunables numbers got wildly varying
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What's the Oldest (Western Style) University? Considering that Oxford's 1096 and Bologna's 1088 dates are largely mythical. And most generally, how did the European style University arise?
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Basically Reddit, Tumblr, contain the only - tiny - overlap of "nerd" and "historian" (the other historians don't know what's a CPU) - do you guys have built fantasy worlds drawn from various real life locations, potentiating the worldbuilding with your historian expertise? Could you share them?
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Who were the most important mercenaries/condottieri in late medieval and renaissance Italy? Any literature you'd recommend on regard? And how did the figure of condottiero arise?
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By the turn of the year 1500, how many printing houses/printing capacity were estimatedly present across each different region of Europe?
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