The best Fancy is named Hussein

The 'Cadaver Synod' of 897 and its aftermath are underappreciated elements of the development of the papacy and the relationship between church, urban aristocracy, and regional leadership.

That's a rather glib assessment of a post-Roman Britain in which people were reduced to emptying urns of human remains to use them as cookpots.

Hah - I remember being surprised by that Texas history course around 2003. Most of my Texas history knowledge before that was grade school, Alamo visits, and Fehrenbach.

Sacculus, actually

The writing is hard to make out in places, but the full translation is absolutely real. You can easily see, for example, the final three words "saccus est [v]acuus" - "[my] purse is empty"

The love letter formula is amazing - thanks for this!

Hard to believe they buried the worst of it at the end of the article. I would have led with "Nah, all men aren't created equal. White men should rule."

If they want to go to prison, sure. It is hilarious to see MAGA bluster collapse when forced to either tell the truth or suffer actual consequences.

As usual the answer is "its complicated and it depends on where/when we are." Can go read Wickham's "Framing the Early Middle Ages" if you reaaaaally want to know.

Sure. But how can we access it?

Thanks for sharing! And the book-monster grows, another volume added to its heaving bulk...

Lots of historically relevant people do not have federal holidays celebrating them. We choose a very few to single out in that way. What are the criteria? What should they be? "Our world would not exist as we know it without them" is the lowest bar to clear, not the final one.

Germanic tribal migrations caused...