/u/Toen6's posts in /r/askhistorians
I just read a medieval text in which a man claims the human soul does not exist and that there is no afterlife. How common was such atheistic thought in the Middle-Ages?
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What happenend in Rome when someone convicted to death by a wild animal, actually managed to kill the animal?
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If Plato is the source of our knowledge about Socrates, and as he used Socrates as a means to further his own arguments, how much can we know for sure about Socrates, who he was and what his thoughts were? What is the general consensus among scholars about things we know for sure about Socrates?
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During the January 6 hearings, multiple people have called the U.S. constitution 'divinely inspired'. How old is this idea and where did it originate? Did any of the men who wrote the constitution ever call it 'divinely inspired'?
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Why hasn't Arabic split into different languages like Latin has split into the different Romance languages?
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In Ancient Rome, the seven-day week started to replace the eight-day week after the adoption of the Julian calendar in 45 BCE, Was there any relation to the Jewish, and later Christian, seven-day week or is this a mere coincidence?
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How prevalent was antisemitism in the Byzantine Empire? In what forms did it manifest? Was it different from antisemitism in the Latin christian world?
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