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What kind of, if any, documentation was required for international travel before the First World War?

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Was there a lingua franca in Western European polite society during the Late Middle Ages/Renaissance?

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How old is the practice of psalm illustration?

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Can anyone recommend an accessible and lively history of Western art music in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance (roughly, quattrocento–William Byrd)?

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Wondering about a curious inscription from Norman-Arab-Byzantine Sicily

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Who coined the phrase "barbarians at the gate"?

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Were the 4th-century Phlyax plays in Magna Graecia an colonial outgrowth of Classical Athenian Satyr plays?

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Julius Caesar: Sightreader?

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Did other European aristocracies c. 1920 have an informal slang comparable to what you find in PG Wodehouse's stories and novels?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
What kind of, if any, documentation was required for international travel before the First World War?	31
Was there a lingua franca in Western European polite society during the Late Middle Ages/Renaissance?	9
How old is the practice of psalm illustration?	8
Can anyone recommend an accessible and lively history of Western art music in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance (roughly, quattrocento–William Byrd)?	5
Wondering about a curious inscription from Norman-Arab-Byzantine Sicily	5
Who coined the phrase "barbarians at the gate"?	5
Were the 4th-century Phlyax plays in Magna Graecia an colonial outgrowth of Classical Athenian Satyr plays?	4
Julius Caesar: Sightreader?	1
Did other European aristocracies c. 1920 have an informal slang comparable to what you find in PG Wodehouse's stories and novels?	1